PERIODICAL DEPA&TMEMT ACCESSION 48 f636,l R74 — I 147843 NOT TO BE TAKEN FROM THE LIBRARY FORM NO. 37 2M-2-20 Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2012 with funding from California State Library Califa/LSTA Grant http://www.archive.org/details/breedersportsma481906sanf r*«ai ...,fimiiii„ T.-i«S?^ ,T^btU«,5Z£. 147842 SAN FRANC,SC0> SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 19C6. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR BUDD DOBLE AND KINNEY LOU 2:07 3-4 (She gvseitev axxb gtjxortsmon [January 6, 1900 Payments Due February 1P1906 ON YEARLINGS IN Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes No. 5— S70CO Guaranteed Nothing More to Pay Before 1907. For Foals of Mares coverei in 1904. To trot or pica at two and three year3 old. Entries closed October 15,1904. Nothing More to Pay Betore 1907, when your Foal cm start in the Two-Year-Old Division. Stakes divided as follows: $3250 for Trotting Foals, S1750 f j- Pacing Foals, SSOO to Nominators of Dams of Winners and $200 for Owners of Stallions. A Chance for Those Who Failed to Enter. ^iKstt+iTtif\n« A few of the original nominators of Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes for Foals of 1905 have advised ouusuiuuuiij. u. tha(.] be(J1U3e of barrenness of the mare or death of the foal, they wish to dispose of their entries. If you own one or more whose dams you neglected tc name when entries closed, send $22, with Color, Sex and Breeding of the Foal, on or before February 1st next, which covers payments to February 1, 1907, and the few substitutions to be dis- posed of will be awarded in the order in which remittances are received. Prompt attention will secure for you this rich engagement. KELLEY, Sec'y, 36 Geary St., S. F E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. i^-T H E- HQb -» ^m ffW^I 1^»T Registered Trade JIark % ^^k ^P^i i€y* SPAVIN CURE < Deposit Your Idle Funds Running Horse Owners and Trainers (tSave-the-HorseM has proven absolutely- unfailing on Bucked Shins. One bottle will cure from five to twenty cases. For strained, injured and broken down tendons, it is marvelously effective. W. A. Redmond, Attorney, McGill Building. Washington, D. C., December 27, 1904. Troy Chemical Company, Binghamtor, New York. Gentleman— I flrst tried the remedy on a thoroughbred, which had bowed b3th tendons and which had beeL 8red once and blistered a numbe< or times, but every time he was trained onR or the other of the legs would All. This happened three years in succession. Last Spring I bought a bottle of "Save-ihe-Hjrse," and used it according to directions wiih the result that he started 7 times, at all distances in uly last, and won 3 times second 3 times and third once — an Rxcellent record — and he appears to be perfectly sound to-day, and will be raced next monih. I am firmly convinced without your remedy he wouldnot have beea worth a dollar as a race horse. I hive a roadster which stepped in a hole at pasture at-d wrenched a hind ankle— so badly that he could not put his foot on the ground. I was advised to sho >t him, as it was claimed that he had injured his hip. Instead. I blistered him and he became serviceably sound, but limped at every step. Upon close examination I found a growth between ine coronary band and the ankle which developed Into ring bone. I used one bottle of 'Save the Horse" on the growth, and it entirely disappeared. He has not taken a lame step since- Knowing ihe value of the remedy I do not hesitate to recommend it to all horse owners of my acquaintance. Very truly. W. A. REDMOND. The fire iron La uncertain; blistering is less effective, and both necessitate layiDg up the horse from four weeks to two months; mercurial and poisonous compounds produce irreparable injury. "Save-the-Horse" eliminates all these factors. POSITIVELY AND PERMANENTLY CURES BoDeand Bog Spavin, R"iDgboDe(excppt Low Ringbone), Curb, Tborcughpin, Splint, Capped Hock, Shoe Boil, Wind puff, Weak and Sprained Tendonsand all Lameness. Horse can be worked as usual, it cures witbour scar, blemish or loss of hair. Per bottle, written guarantee with every bottle, constructed solelv to satisfy and protect you fully. We know positively "Save-ttae-Horse ' will absolutely and permanently cure, and for that reason guarantee is made all your way. The need of second bottle is improbable except in rarest cases. Send for copy of guarantee and booklet. All druggists and dealers or sent exprass prepaid. $5.00 TROY CHEMICAL COMPANY, Formerly TROY, N.T, BINGHAMPTON, NEW YORK, D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St , San Francisco. FAIRBANKS, MORSE &CO. STANDARD SCALES, RAILWAY SUPPLIES. GASOLINE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS, ETC. Have JR-eimo-veci ! From 168-174 First Street, to Corner Natoma, between Mission and Howard Sts. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. DEXTER PRINCE STABLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Grove and Baker Streets, jast at the Panhandle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devlsadero Street Cars) t located and healthiest Stable in San Francisco Always a good roadster on haDd for Careful and experienced men to care for and eierctso park roadsters and prepare horses for :k use. Lai3te3can go and return to stable d not have their horseB frightened by automobiles or cars. VICTOR VERILHAC Proprietor JAMES M. Med RATH Manager WITH THE Central Trust Company of California 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sum large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-4% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Send for Booklet, "THE SURE WAY TO WEALTH." McMURRAY and LOW PRICES. McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGQINQiCARTS STAN DARD THE WORLD OYER ■&5*Address for printed matter and prices W. J. KENNEY 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. DIVIDEND NOTICE. (CALIFORNIA SAFE DEPOSIT AND TRUST ^ Co., corner Calffomia and Montgomery Sts — For the bIx months ending December 31. 1905. dividends have beeo declared on the deposits In the savings department of this company as fol- lows: On term deposits at the rate of 3 6-10 per cent per annum, aod on ordiDarv deposits at the rate of 3''3 per cent per annum, free of taxes and payable on and after Tuesdav. January 2, 1906. J. DALZELL BROWN, Manager. RACING! M California Jockey Cli OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S P. Ferry, foot of Market Street— leave at 12, thereafter every twenty minutes. NosmDking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. PHENOL S0DIQUE heals SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast, Keep Handy for Accidents. Cures MANCE& SCRATCHES on Dogs. For Sale By All Druggists. Recomm uaed by this publication. HANcE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical CheralstB PHILADELPHIA. THE HORSEMAN'S HANDBOOK 'CONTENTS: CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF STALL IONS -The Stall— Pad- dock— Food — Diseases — Exercise— i.1 rooming —Serving Mares— Ami, jot of Service. CJRZANDMANAGEMENTOF BROOD MARES-GettingMar^s in Foal —Care During Pregnane v— Abortion— Foaling— Time When Mare is Due— lu Season Again— Weaning Colt. BREAKING AND DEVELOPING OF COLTS— Care of Colt-Ed- ucating— Feeding— Care of Growing Feet — Breaking to Drive— Developing, Shoeing and Hooting. MANAGEMENT OF CAMRAIGNERS-How to Keep the Race Horse in Condition and Keyed Up for a Race. CARE OF THE FEET— Booting and Shoeing— Bonner's and Berry's Views. CARE OF THE HORSE IN SICKNESS-Some Brief, Simple Utiles and Remedies. GAITING AND BALANCING— Correction of Faulty Gaits, etc. ANIMAL TAMING AND TRAINING-Methods Employed by Gentry in Overcoming Wild Instincts of the Horse and Teaching Him to Learn. STATISTICS— Championship Records of every class —Leading Sires of 2:30 speed— Time of Fastest Miles by Quarters— List of High Priced Horses —List of Hor^e Associations and Registers- List of llor^e Journals -List of Books on the Horse— Period of Gestation-Table, etc. AMERICAN TROTTING RULES-The Complete Rules gov- ernirg Harness Racing with Index, officially Signed by Secretary W. H. Knight. USEFUL INFORMATION-Rnles for Admission to Stand- aid Registers - Rules-for Laying out Tracks— T reatment of Horse's Teeth— How to Groom a Horse— About Clipping Horses— To Start a Balky Horse -Where to Buy Specialties for Horsemen, etc. PBir*C" f aP**r Cover 50c r*rf llrb ( Leatherette Cover SI Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 36 GEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. DIVIDEND NOTICE. SAVINGS AND LOAN SOCIETY, 101 Mont- *- gomery Street, corner of Sutter, has declared a dividend for the term ending December 31, 1905, at the rate of three and one-half (3J6) per cent per annum, on all deposits, free of taxes, and pay- able on and after January 2. 1906. Dividends not ■ailed for are added to and bear the same rate of nterest a« principal. EDWIX BONNELL, Cashier. January 6 1906 j (frtt*? -§ve&bsv anXn grjttJrtemcm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOB. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. office — ■ 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 447. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Tear 83, Six Months $1.75 Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Francisco, California. ._ Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name ana address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guar- antee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, January 6, 1906 CALIFORNIA STAKE PAYMENTS DUE IN 1905. Pacific Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903— $10 due April 1, 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 4, $6000, foals of 1904 — $10 due March 1, 1906, and starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No 5, $7000, foals of 1905— $10 due February 1, 1906. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. THE POSSIBILITIES OF HARNESS RACING in California during the present year are far beyond the expectations of a majority of horsemen, for could there be, by some means not yet discovered, a little enthusiasm and energy infused into the veins of the managers of the many excellent mile tracks in tola State, a circuit could be arranged that would attract the patronage of horse owners and the public and result in meetings that would be profitable to the associations and the horsemen. The start of the Cali- fornia circuit this year will be at Los Angeles, where there are as many game and enthusiastic horsemen as can be found in any city of the same size in the United States. The Los Angeles Harness Horse As- sociation gave two high class meetings last year, which did not pay a financial profit but, nothing daunted, they are ready to open the circuit again in June this year, and have already so announced. From Los Angeles horsemen could make short shipments to San Bernardino and Santa Ana if meetings were given in those towns. Coming north, Fresno would prob- ably be the next point on the circuit. It has an excellent mile track, is a prosperous city of 25,000 inhabitants, and a horse center. The Breeders* Asso- ciation has held two successful meetings at Fresno, and a local association could do even better. From Fresno it is not a far cry to Stockton, which has been off the racing map for a few years, but could be made one of the best. Then should come Pleasanton, the real horse center of California, where the first two-minute trotter was developed and the first two-minute pacer is now kept in the stud. Pleasan- ton, if her people would all pull together, could give a meeting that would be second to none. From Pleas- anton the line of march would be to San Jose, where one of the finest tracks in the world is located and where a great meeting could be given every year under proper management. The next place on the circuit should be Santa Rosa, the birthplace of Lou Dillon and the location of the celebrated Santa Rosa Stock Farm, which has as fine and well appointed a race track as can be found on the Pacific Slope. The Santa Rosa meeting over, Woodland would be the next racing point, and whenever Woodland announces a meeting every California horseman arranges to be there. After the Woodland meeting the State Fair would be, the center of attraction, and then those de- sirous of racing on the North Pacific Circuit could ship direct to the Oregon State Fair at Salem, while those who wanted to take in the smaller meetings during September and October in California would have opportunities at Marysville, Salinas, Hollister, Ukiah, Concord, and many other places where the purses range from $400 to $100. There can be a circuit of ten weeks harness racing arranged as above suggested. All that is necessary is for some enter- prising person in each of the towns mentioned to take the matter in hand and start work on the same. AMONG THE VISITORS to the office of the Breeder and Sportsman this week was Mr. C..R. Bentley, vice- president and manager of the corporation which pub- lishes that excellent trotting horse journal "The Horse World," of Buffalo, New York. Mr. Bentley is also secretary of the Buffalo Driving Club, an organization that gives cne of the best of the Grand Circuit meet- ings every year Mr. Bentley is making a flying trip to California, but has found time to visit Los An- geles, Pleasanton, Santa Rosa and other important horse centers, and is enjoying his visit. He is a strong advocate of the three-heat plan for all harness races, holding that the old three-in-five system is not adapted to modern racing where heats are trotted and paced below 2:15. That his opinions are shared by the majority of owners and trainers who race on the Grand Circuit is evident by their published state- ments in the turf journals. Mr. Bentley states that Buffalo will be in line as usual this year with a pro- gram of large purses and stakes and hopes to hold the banner meeting of its history. A $10 PAYMENT IS DUE on the first of next month on all yearlings entered in the Pacific Breeders' Futur- ity Stakes No. 5, for foals of 1905.* This stake is guaranteed to be worth $7000 and will probably be worth much more, as there were 3SS original entries. Remember, it is for the foals of 1905, which are now yearlings, and when this payment of $10 is made there is nothing more to pay until 1907. Keep your colts paid up in all stakes in which they are entered This, is the last chance to substitute in this stake. If your mare failed to foal in 1905, or the foal died, you can name another foal on February 1st without regard to ownership, but not after that date. A few of those owning foals of 1905 that were not entered in this stake can secure substitutions by applying to Secretary Kelley, 36 Geary street, on or before Feb- ruary "1st. The cost of these substitutions is $22 each, which amount is paid back to the original nominator. Mr. STERLING R. HOLT, owner of the Maywood Stock Farm, near Indianapolis, home of Sidney Dillon, is making a short visit to California He spent Thurs- day of this week at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, where Proprietor Frank Turner showed him over twenty head of young Sidney Dillons that confirmed Mr. Holt in his belief that he owns the greatest sire of speed the world has yet seen. Sidney Dillon's book was filled last year and many mares were turned away, after he had returned to his owner more than his purchase price. This year his fee will be increased but the bookings are already so numerous that the limit will be reached early in the season. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. D. C. T. — The chestnut filly, Nancy Starr, was bred at Palo Alto but foaled the property of Monroe Salis- bury. At the sale of colts, fillies and brood mares from Palo Alto Farm, held at the salesyard of Fred H. Chase & Co., January 14th, 1904, a four-year old bay filly by Dexter Prince, out of Lady Agnes by Electioneer, was knocked down to Monroe Salisbury for $325. The filly was in foal to Mendocino at the time. We understand she foaled a chestnut filly a few months later, which was called Nancy Starr. As to the breeding it is correctly stated in the catalogue. E. P. Y. H., Arroyo Grande. — We cannot find either the stallion or the mare you name registered in the American Stud Book. If you can give sire and dam of each, we will be able to tell you whether they are thoroughbreds and entitled to registration as such. Wm. Mead, Santa Maria. — Flacon is a chestnut horse foaled 1895, and was bred by August Belmont. He is by imported Rayon d'Or, dam Flavia by imp St. Blaise. He won a five furlong race as a four- year-old in 1:02. B. L. Elliott. Mendocino, Cal. — Flit Madison is reg- istered in Volume 15, American Trotting Register. She is a bay mare foaled 1899, sired by James Madi- son 17,909, dam Clear the Way by Steinway 1S08, second dam Clara by Bucaneer 2656, third dam Rachael by Wayland Forest, etc. She was bred by John F. Boyd, Oakwood Park Stock Farm, Danville, Cal. W. B., Campbell, Cal. — California Lambert's record is 2:27. His register number is 10,936. He was bred in Vermont, and owned by the late L. U. Shippee of Stockton. His sire was Ben Franklin, a son of Dan- iel Lambert, and his dam was Maud, a daughter of Daniel Lambert, and his grandam Columbia by Co- lumbus, son of Black Hawk 5. He was a bay horse with a dash of white in his face and foaled in 1883. o ARIZONA TERRITORIAL FAIR. From partial files of the Phoenix, Arizona, papers kindly sent the Breeder and Sportsman by Mr. Geo. T. Beckers, owner of Zombro, we are able to present the following incomplete report of the races held at Phoenix during Christmas week. The fair was a big success and the racing first class in every particular. The results of the harness races were as follows: First Day. Trotting, 2:27 class; purse $400. Jessie Mac x 1 1 Billy H 2 2 3 Peggy Arnett 3 3 2 Helen Dare dis Time— 2.21%, 2:26%, 2:21%. Trotting 2:14 class: purse $400. Zombowyette 2 2 1 1 1 Boralma's Brother 1 1 2 2 3 Leunmetta 3 3 3 3 2 Time— 2:18%, 2:16%, 2:16%, 2:17%. 2:19. Pacing, 2:13 class; purse $400. Seldon Wilkes 1 1 1 Victor Platte 2 2 2 Byron Lace 4 3 3 Florence Wilton 3 4 4 Time— 2:12%, 2:15y2, 2:15%. Second Day. Pacing, free for all, purse $1000. Zolock won the first and fastest heat in 2.07. Hazel Patch took the next three in 2:08, 2:07%, and 2:11%. Custer, by Sidney Dillon, was third, and Daedalion fourth. The 2:22 pace was won by W. C. Greene's Billings. Third Day. Pacing, special, purse $400. Fearnot, by Lynmont 1 l l Billy A 6 2 2 Byron Lace by Lovelace 2 6 5 Monkey Mac 3 3 3 Surprise 4 4 4 Col. Greene 5 5 6 Time— 2:14%, 2:14%, 2:13%. Trotting, 2:24 class; purse $400. Boralma's Brother 1 1 1 Helen Dare, by Zombro 2' 3 2 Leunmetta 3 2 3 Billy H 4 4 4 Time— 2:17, 2:16%., 2:16%. Fourth Day. Pacing, 2:09 class; purse $400. Stranger O l l l Daedaiion 2 2 2 Seldon Wilkes 3 3 3 Byron Lace 4 4 4 Time— 2:09%, 2.10%, 2:10%. Pacing, two-year-olds, half mile. Pickels 1 1 1 Gipsy Queen 2 2 2 Lad 3 3 3 Winnie . 4 4 4 Time— 1:44, 1:25. 1:22. Fifth Day. Pacing, three-year-olds — Helena Morgan won third, fourth and fifth. Billings won first and second. Lil- lian Zolock was third. Time, 2:11V,, 2:14%, 2:15, 2:22%, 2:19y2. The free-for-ali trot resulted: Boralma's Brother won first, third and fourth heats. Briney K. won second heat. Time, 2.12%, 2:14%, 2:13%, 2:16%. Only two starters. The two-year-old trot was won by George Slotto Sarony, Oakes Murphy, Rachella and Willie Amber, finishing in the order named. Sixth Day. Pacing, 2:17 class; purse $400. Paul D. Kelly (2) 1 1 4 4 4 Fearnot 2 2 3 1 2 Billy A 3 4 2 3 1 Seldon Wilkes 4 3 1 2 3 Time— 2:15%, 2:17, 2:13%, 2:13%, 2:14%. . Pacing, 2:22 class; purse $400. Surprise 3 1 1 3 1 Victor Platte 1 2 2 1 3 Clara F 2 3 3 2 2 Florence Wilton 5 dr Sullivan 4 dis Time— 2:16%, 2:17%, 2:20. 2.22, 2:22%. Pacing, 2:03 class; purse $500. Hazel Patch 1 1 1 Zolock 2 2 2 Time— 2:05%, 2:05%. 2:11%. o American bred trotters have finished first and sec- ond in the annual race for the championship of Europe ever year since the event was established, at Baden, in 1895. Following is a list of the winners, with the best time made: 1895— Spofford 2:16 1S96— Mattie H 2:18 1S97 — Bravado iMTU 1S9S— Que Allen 2:17% 1899— iQue Allen 2:08% 1900— Caid 2.10 1901— Athanio 2:10 1902 — Greenbrino 2:10 1903— Wig-Wag ■ 2:13% 1904— Contralto 2:11% 1905— Axworthy 2:16% i— o Paul D. Kelly 2:20, the champion yearling pacer that took his record in 1904. started against a I i| of aged pacers at Phoenix, Arizona, last week 2: 17 pace. The two-year-old was dead won two heats in 2:15% and 2.17, which the race, although Fearnot, Billy A. . Wilkes each took a heat in faster time. iglxc gvesbev rtt^^ *ffp0vt&man [January e, 1906 ■ ANOTHER CLAIMANT. NEWS FROM DENVER. A FASHIONABLE TYPE. -> & Sportsman appeared an Hem in which it that Mr. Gus Lin of this city, believed his trottei . 2:14%, was -:est fifteen-year-old trotter. We have re- ter from Mr. T. H. Fogarty of Bake .-.-." Richmond Chii who stale.- that his h - is nti ■ the crowo in this ecord "in the fall of 191 2 when he was past fifteen years of age. Richmond 7. and in the fall of 1902 started in v.'-- nning three and being second in the other two. llf met and defeated such horses as AUa Vela 2:11V Cozad 2:11%, Vic Schillar 2.11% and others. He made his record at Fresno October 2d. The race was a hot one from start to flnsh of the four heats. Richmond Chief v. on the first and sec- ond h^-ats in . 2:11. Cozad just beat him the third in 2:11% and then Richmond Chief won the h in 2: 1^. W Know Mr. Limlauer, owner of Homeway 2:14-%, will cheerfully :icknoultLge that Richmond Chief has hi- horse badly beaten for the fifteen-year-old record, but as his trainer. Dan Misner, said the only way to find out whether Homeway was entitled to the record or not was to claim it. knowing that if the owner of the fifteen-year-old champion was. alive he would make the horsi 's i n sence and title known. Richmond Chief will soon be nineteen years old, but he is still a great trctter. He would have been campaigned last year in his eighteen-year-old form had there been a 2:11 class for trotters. Mr. Fogarty worked him miles over the Bakersfield track last year in 2:19V and all horsemen know that track is from five to seven seconds slow. Until some other county is heard from Mr. Fogarty is certainly justified in claiming the title of champion fifteen-year-old trot- ting stallion for his horse Richmond Chief whose rec- ord was made in the second heat of a winning race. GOOD PURSES AT BUTTE. Editor Breeder and Sportsman — At a meeting of the directors of the Butte Racing and Fair Associa- tion it was decided to give a two weeks' race meet- ing in Butte this coming summer. The meeting, ac- cording to present arrangements, will take place in the early part of August, and a circuit is now being formed in the state so that horses can go from ont town to the other without losing more than one or two days, and the towns will be arranged so as to make the shipments as short as possible. Butte will offer six stakes of one thousand dollars apiece and none of the harness races will be for a purse of less than five hundred dollars. The com- plete announcement will follow later, in all proba- bility in the form of a circuit announcement, which will be arranged at a meeting of the secretaries of the different Racing and Fair Associations in the state to be held January 5th. This meeting will not be exclusively a harness meeting, as two running events will be placed on the program each day. Great enthusiasm is being shown along harness lines throughout the state, and the Montana circuit promises to be one of the best of the western circuits this coming year. Mr. W. A. Clark. Jr.. who is president of our Butte Racing As- sociation, has promised to bring a number of his horses to Montana this year, and in probability a great number of other good horses will be brought in from the outside. Respectfully yours, A. D. GALBRAITH. Secretary. NEW TRACK AT EXETER. • Visalia, Jan. 1.. 1906. Editor Bleeder and Sportsman — It is my pleasure i-i chronicle what is to me a happy new year mes- sage. 'I'll' citizens of the prosperous little citrus town <-f Kx-'ter. located en the Porterville branch of the Southern Pacific Railroad. ten miles east of Vi- salia. are organizing themselves into an agricultural i, inn for tht- purpose of holding an annual fair and race meeting. An attorney has been employed to make an application for a ten thousand dollar cor- p oration permit, money has been collected anil a 40- acn I if land purchased and a stockholders' called for Wednesday to elect a perma- M. Hi a | .I officers. A regulation half mile track will once. The soil of this tract of land is of uniform texture of tough yellow clay that will not cup 'ir break away and a strenuous effort will be ifest and fastest hair mile track on the coast. A > mpi tenl civil engineer will be in luring iis construction, and every a and email c blending t«>- etches In the grading are >mn found in the : of half mile trai I s. .1. BRi iLLIAR. Racing men at Denver have been considerably exer- isi 1 over reports that the "Western Jockey Club and the American Turf Association, the rival running Izations, were trying to secure Overland Park and track. Negotiations were entered into by C. J->hn Condon of Chicago through Ed Chase of Denver for the purchase of Overland Park, which to Henry R. Wolcott, brother of the late Edward < >. Wolcott. Henry Hanington. who is the Denver agent for the Wolcott properties, place 1 a pi ice of $150,000 on the plant, which is more than either Mr. Condon or the agents of the Ameri- can Turf Association care to pay for breaking into a doubtful country. So just at this time the out- look is that the Overland Park will remain in the " hands that have handled it for several years. What had stirred up harness racing men was that the run- ning horse associations had stated that they pur- posed using the track for running meetings only. Had they secured possession the trotters would have been left clear out in the cold. At that there is some doubt concerning what man- agement will be in control of Overand Park during the coming summer. For the past four years racing has been conducted by a Denver Overland Racing As- sociation, of which E. A. Colburn is president and G. A. Wahlgreen secretary. The owner of the park had advanced the rental from $6000 to $7500, which is greater, the secretary thinks, than his association can afford to pay. Experience has shown that Denver will spend only about so much each year on racing, and that amount is not enough to warrant the renting of the park at the figure asked. Certain other parties are figuring on giving racing, and have asked the agent of Overland not to make agreements with any until they are ready *to state whether they will pay the higher rental demanded. If they decline to accept the terms, the racing will likely be in the same hands as during the past few years. Another matter that has entered into calculations for the June meeting has been the attitude of one of the judges en the district bench in Denver County. Though he has been a judge for almost two full terms, he had not discovered that he could interfere with gambling, or the saloons, until it became al- most time for his third effort for election. During the past two months he has stirred up all kinds of trouble in Denver. It is even hinted that he wdll carry his campaign for re-election so far that he will prevent pool selling at the track next summer. If he does take that stand, with the power that he can. in- voke to carry out his orders, racing may be doomed. Better things are hoped for, as the sentiment of the community has been several times shown to be strongly in favor of allowing racing to be conducted without interference. J. F. McGuire. driver for G. H. Estabrook, has given Rightway. full brother to Winfield Stratton 2:051,i. a careful working this fall, with the intention of mak- ing him the successor of his famous brother when the "grasshopper pacer" shall be ready to retire. Last week he sent Rightway a half mile in 1:07. The track was not at its best, being hard and dry. Mr. McGuire is very much pleased with the improvement sliown by the youngster. During the early part of last month a number of the colts from the Gumaer stock farm, near Florence, were sold at auction in Denver. Most of the colts sold were youngsters sired by Saraway and Rex Den- mark, Jr. The foals of 1904 brought prices ranging from $S0 to $100, and those of 1903 from $100 to $400. The Saraway colts were all rather small but wiry, active fellows, full of life. Their conformation gen- erally was very good, one of the older ones having already captured prizes at horse shows. Mr. Gumear was not closing out his stock, merely selling some of his surplus. During the past year he added a fine line of brood mares to his farm. He will continue his efforts to produce another Saraway colt that will be the equal to Winfield Stratton. BOGUS PEDIGREE REGISTERS. The introduction of the new strain of Hackney blood by Mr. Stephen T. Britten of Menlo Park is an acquisition to the breeding interests that will be ap- preciated by all lovers of this class of carriage horses so much in favor with the rich and fashionable. There seems to be a lack in California of what in the East is called "Finish in Carriage Turnouts," and we have very few teams of high stepping carriage horses of the Hackney type that have the education de- manded in a stylish carriage team of this descrip- tion. Mr. Britten, realizing this, has taken to the breeding of Hackneys purely from the standpoint of an amateur breeder who is in it for the pleasure to be derived from the knowledge that he is improving the Hackney horses in California and breeding and selling a few teams here that would be a credit to any part of the world. The bringing out of Mr. Britten's new stock should have a very marked ef- fect on Hackney horses here, as it will present a chance of cross breeding that should improve the stock. The premier stallion of the Toghill Stud is the Squire of Chester. He is by Squire Rickell out of Danish Lady. This horse is a handsome blue roan ' and is of the breed of prize winners from away back. On his sire's side he traces four times to Denmark, while the same celebrated stud served three times in the breeding of his dam. Mr. Britton purchased his stock in Canada from one of the best known breed- ers and importers in the Dominion. The Hackneys from this farm* have a world wide reputation, and the show winners that it has sent out caused Mr. Britten to seek from that stock for his California farm. Squire of Chester is a beautifully built ani- mal; with a fine balance that speaks of power in every line. He is intelligent, gentle and controllable beyond a degree that is expected of a stallion. When in motion, he has a gait that is characteristic of the Hackney type. Stepping well out in front with a high lift that gives the action desired by the fashion- able in horses of this description. His haunches are well muscled and well cut showing a wonderful powder of speed and endurance. He is a three-year-old and a horse of great promise. Of the mares on the farm. Danish Lady, a bay roan, nine years old, is most interesting. She is broken both to saddle and har- ness and walks, trots and canters in the most ap- proved style. She has also won several jumping competitions in Canada before she came to this Coast. A stable mate of Danish Lady is Lady Minto, foaled in 1S98. She is by Barthorpe Performer, out of Lady Lynn, and a prettier gaited Hackney will be hard to find. She, like Danish Lady, has been broken to saddle as well as harness and challenges her stable mate for admiration in high stepping qualities. Another of Mr. Britten's mares worthy of special mention is Lady Lynn, who is by a noted English Hackney, and although well along in years, she still retains her Hackney type to perfection. All the stock in Mr. Britten's string are registered in the English or American Stud Books and have pedigrees without a break. Mr. Britten has housed his stock in one of the most up to date establishments on the Coast, and one visiting the farm cannot help notic- ing that all the details have been considered in mak- ing it perfect, and when his horses are brought out for review, they show the extreme care with which they are handled. As will be seen by the advertise- ment of the Toghill Stud, a few engagements may be booked to Squire of Chester by owners of well bred mares. Particulars may. be obtained by ad- dressing Wm. Walker, manager Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. ADMIRES AMERICAN HORSES. i ■ iys that Dan Pat h silver cup for breaking thi n ,i over thi Le: igton track las er given by the associa tion in honor of ■< | bo and on owing: Kentucky Trol - : Lo Dan Patch Lexlngb ] 7. 1905. Thi to M i . W. W. M 1 1 ■ ' rter of thi n — - — *— o I in i rganlza- d racing ass trill I old ' mei ting al Poi tland, late! ■' 'ii be ..> North i'.'- Ifli i Ircull ol I I Brei i!pvs' Gazette: A number of so-called registers or stud bunks have come into existence the past few years for the registry of grade animals Some of them will record any pedigree, whether it contains a l .ii of I'Ui'.* blood or not. Others claim that they re- ,(ll i,. a certain number of top crosses of registered Ires before they will accept, an animal. We call all such roisters bogus because they issue certificates of pedigrees which will deceive the ignorant into be- lieving that they represent pure breerling. It is dlffi- cul! !«» fathom the motive which would lead any hon- esi man or nun to establish books of records for grades. In some cases there can be no manner of doubt ib.. i the work is planned deliberately to promote fraud. Ii is designed to issue a certificate of registry, ornamented with a large gilt seal, with which an un- scrupulous salesman may lie able to palm off on an unsuspecting or ignorant buyer a grade animal as ;i ;.,,, bred. Language fails i«i characterize adequately thi i ntemptible character of this low form of fraud. i i, season is rapidly approaching when salesmen will be placing stallions all over the country and forming companies for their purchase. Let no man be deceived. No horse should be bought without a pedi- gree thai corres] Is in age and markings with the animal t" which ii is said w belong. In ease of any doubt ib.- secretary of the stud book should be con- sulted ii the name and address of ibis official is not known, we will be glad to supply it. Especial care must hr i'Xi'1 vised l<> a vi ibi deee pi ion that may be practiced by certificates issued Cor grades. Such cer- tificates are Issued by men in Iowa, Minnesota, Kan- i New STork, and a recent addition to the list is a register for grade Percherons operated near Chi- cago, i lev* ari ol such snares. Edwin Howdett, the "Father of Coaching in France," sailed' recently from New York on his way to Paris, after his first visit to the United States. Mr. Howlett thinks that the horses to be seen in New York and vicinity are much better than those of Paris. i ' ! | * i *t "I have enjoyed every minute of my stay." said the veteran driver. The residences of the wealthy over here are far more sumptuous than I have ever seen abroad, the theaters are more wonderful — in fact, everything seems to be on a grand scale. "And the horses. I cannot say I have seen a lame horse since I came here. All the animals at the Horse Show, which I attended, were wonderful. I have been out driving several times with society women wdio were my pupils in Paris, and on the roads the horses I saw were, on the whole, excellent and speak well for American breeding. •tine thing that astonished me was the luxury in which horses are kept. I have been out to Georgian Court. Mr. George Gould's place, and I have seen the stables of Mr. H. McK. Twombly at Morristown and those of Mr. C. K. G Billings I never dreamed of such luxury fur horses as that in which Mr. Twom- bly's are kept. There is nothing in Europe_.that can be compared with it. I hope to get over here again." When F. W. Gooch, the English dealer, employed by the National Horse Show Association of America to judge saddle burses at the recent show in Madison Square Garden, returned i«i London he took with him :i few show horses purchased in New York. Among them was a thoroughbred saddle horse entered at the Garden show by W. A. McGibbon, and sold by him to Mr Gooch; also the thoroughbred gelding St. Bluff by St. Blaise, that won second prize as a cavalry horse ;it the Garden show, when exhibited by Mr. McGibbon. From Tichenor & Co. of Chicago Mr. Gooch bought a handsome trotting bred carriage horse of the brougham type, which he may, it is said, show in England. . Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. January 6, 1916: <£4tv Qxec&ev un£> ^yovttmuu. THE TROTTER IN THE SHOW RING. American Horse Shows are different in some re- spects from those of any other country, and as an educator in the field o£ improving the different types of horses all fair minded critics must concede that the system in vogue in this country is superior to that of any other. In the heavy harness classes in England the only competitors as a rule are pure bred hackneys, while in our shows we have trotting bred horses, hackneys, and occasionally French coach horses competing in the same classes. By the performances of these dif- ferent types our breeders- are able to fGrm a judg- ment as to which of the respective breeds is best adapted to our use. That a great majority of our people are prejudiced to some extent at least in fr.voi of the home product is but natural. When it is considered that the hackney has been bred for more than one hundred years with a view to perfecting his dualities as a carriage and fancy driving horse, and that the trotter which has been his principal opponent in our shows during the past few years has been produced by accident, rather than by the process of scientific breeding, the showing made by the trotter during the past year in the different contests where these two breeds have been the ac- tors has been most gratifying to the admirers of the American bred horse. Progress in the breeding and development of the trotting bred h i-Se as a .-nlgn stepper has not been of sufficient duration to justity the expectation that in contests of this nature he can successfully compete with the hackney. And yet, notwithstanding this handicap, the victories he has won during the past season are scarcely less than marvelous. The great show stables of the country in which the trotting bred horse alone is relied upon to carry their colors to victory in the heavy harness classes are these of J. Hobart Moore of Chicago. Alfred G. and Reginald C. Vanderbilt of New York, and C. W. Watson of Baltimore. The only exclusive hackney stable of any considerable importance now being ex- hibited is that of Eben D. Jordan of Boston. Both Judge W. H. Moore and Mrs. John Gerken o£ New York own and exhibit both breeds, and as the battle for show ring honors at the large shows during the past season has been largely between the entries from these stables a brief review of some ot the prin- cipal contests may prove of interest in showing the progress the trotter has made in this comparatively new field as well as the important part he is likely to plav in future show ring contests. The"fir=t great show of the year where the above mentioned stables with the exception of Mr. Wat- son's came in competition was at Philadelphia. In an important high stepping- -class, at that show were entered among others Judge Moore's peerless, hack- ney gelding Forest King J. Hobart Moore s ^-ell known and popular prize winning trotting bred . Bur- lingham, Mr. Jordan's great hackney mare Hildred. and Reginald C. Vanderbilfs splendid young trotting bred gelding The Dictator. This class is selected for the reason that in it was some of the highest class specimens of these two breeds owned in this country. In some respects the- contest was hardly fair to the American bred horse for the reason that Forest King is not only a phenomenal show ring horse, but in all the years that English breeders have been engaged in perfecting the highest type of high steppers it is not believed that they have ever produced but one Forest King. And it may also be said that every- thing considered it is doubtful if they have ever pro- duced another mare that was the superior of Hildred. Both Burlingham and The Dictator are the products of accidental breeding. Watching the performances of these grand horses presented an object lesson full of instruction to those interested in the product.on and development of the trotting bred high stepper. Forest King is gifted with an ability to fold his knees to a greater extent than any other horse evei seen in this country, and in this respect it is not be- lieved that he has an equal living. He also flecks his hocks to a degree seldom seen in a high stepping show horse. While therefore as a horse for fancy work before a gig or other vehicle where the element of speed is not a necessary factor he is in a class by himself vet it must be remembered that his excessive action calls into play all of his progressive machinery and if he expends his power in high stepping it ne- cessarily follows that he has no reserve force to pro- pel him forward when much speed is required. Bur- lingham is a horse of quite a different type and .s bum upon more rugged lines than the celebrated hackney. His knee action while remarkably good, lacks much of being equal to that of Forest King, while his hock action is so comparatively inferior as to mar the beauty which a perfectly balanced gait presents While therefore Burlingham was not ab.e to step as high as his hackney competitor yet it was plain that he had not used up his propelling power in the effort, and was able to trot faster than either of the hackneys. Balanced and unbalanced gaits are among the dis- tinguished characteristics which separate the two breeds as finished show ring performers. The beauti- fully turned Hildred is an excellent example of the strides made in England towards perfecting the best type of horse for fancy and serviceable purposes. Perhaps no horse now before the public has a more evenly balanced gait than this superb animal pos- sesses, and when viewed from the side none is more attractive. The superior qualities of Forest King ano Hildred spoken of are the results of study and the application of intelligent methods to the subjeet of breeding for a specific purpose. With this advantage in favor of the hackney it could hardly be expected that the trotting bred horses in this -lass would make much of a showing, and yet while the judges placed Forest King first, they placed Burlingham over Hil- dred who in turn defeated The Dictator tor third place. The limits of this article will not permit a review Of any considerable number of contests between the hackney and trotter for show ring honors the past season. It is however desirable to consider to some extent the important classes at the National show in which the two breeds participated. The first class was for novice horses not under 15.1 and not exceeding 15.3. There were twenty-nine en- tries the most of which were trotting bred. Among the hackneys were Mr. Jordan's grand mare Lao- damia and Irvington Farm's Queen Welcome and Bally Prince. The best of the trotting bred animals were Mr. Watson's Lord Baltimore, Alfred G. Van- derbilfs The Youngster. J. Hot-art Moore's Bur- lingame and Edward Kinerien's Kissing. The rib- bons were given to the trotting bred animals above named, and for once in a large class of high step- pers the hackneys were clearly beaten and left the ring without an award of any kind. In a class for middle-weight pairs there were six contestants, of which Mr. Jordan's well known Lord Burleigh and Lord Belfast, and William Carr's mag- nilii-nt roans. Roan King and Fakenham Princess, were the hackney representatives. This class was won by the trotting bred mares Wilpen Belle and Wilpen Beauty, second prize was awarded to J. Ho- bart Moore's trotting bred geldings Harold H. and Lord Roberts and third prize was the only one the hackneys secured, that going to the Jordan entry. The middle weight class for single horses had eigh- teen contestants all of which with four exceptions were trotting bred. The hackneys were Lord Bur- leigh. Electric Light. Roan King and Eakenham Prin- cess. The judges placed Lawrence Jones' trotting bred Gallant Lad first, and Lord Burleigh second. The other prize winners were both trotting bred. In another class, which was won by Forest King, the trotting bred mare Laughing Water defeated Mr. Jordan's hackney mare Laodamia for second place, and the other hackneys did not get a ribbon. The class for small pairs of high steppers was won by the trotting bred Newsboy and Shopgirl, Kitty Grey and Norina the only hackneys in the class were placed second. In the class for light weight single horses there were twenty-four entries, of which the only hack- neys were Mr. Jordan's Norina and Miss Emily Bed- ford's Fandango Rufus. This class was won by Mrs. Qerken's trotting bred Shopgirl. The only ribbon given to the hackneys was the yellow which went to Norina. The class for single brougham horses was won by the trotting bred Operator, and the other ribbon winners were all trotting bred. Mr. Jordan's Electric Light, the only hackney in the class, being left entirely outside the awards. The two breeds competed in, three tandem classes and another vic- tory for the -trotting bred animals resulted. The small class was won by the hackneys Kitty Grey and Norina. The middle weight by the trotting bred Laughing "Water and Indian Chief, and the large class by the trotting bred The Youngster and Rustl- ing Silk. The championship classes in which the hackneys and trotting bred horses competed resulted in a prac- tically drawn battle. In the two important gig classes Forest King was invincible, Hildred was placed reserve in one class, and Lord Baltimore in the other. This general summary of results in the principal heavy harness classes furnishes much encourage- ment to the admirers of the American type of car- riage horse and is an indication of what can be ac- complished by persistent efforts along correct lines of breeding. This showing, however, is somewhat mis- leading, and in justice to the hackneys it should be said that the entry of trotting bred animals out- numbered the hackneys as many as ten to one. and that two of the three judges are what is known as "trotting horsemen." While it is not probable that this fact would consciously effect their decisions, yet where, as in many cases, the contest was exceedingly close, it is but human to believe that they would favor the American product. In the lighter classes such as the runabout, the roadster, the hackney- makes no pretense of being the equal of his trotting bred cousin, and it is exceedingly rare that anything but the trotting bred is entered in those classes. As both breeds sprang from the same ancestry, there is no apparent reason why. if American breed- ers pursue the same methods as those that produced the hackney, they can not in time evolve a type of horse that will be as successful in the show ring as he has been upon the race track. The difference in the methods adopted by English and American breed- ers is strikingly illustrated in the types of horses exhibite 1 each year in American show rings. In England there has never been any interest taken in the sport of light harness racing and the aim of the pio-lu-'i-r has been to produce a highly finished horse with plenty of bone and substance for heavy harness work without reference to extreme speed, while in this country the exact reverse has been true and the object sought has been ability to win ra- gardless of conformation, bone. size, or high step- lint; qualities. One system has produced the hack- ney of which Hildred is a sample, and the .-titer has evolved the trotting bred race horse - t which the champion roadster show mar-. Alii.- Nunn is a prom- inent specimen. The hackney l-l 1 of Imp. Bellfounder that coursed through th.- veins of Hambletonian 10 occasionally crops out in his descendants and it is from this foun- tain head that most of the successful trotting bred show horses have come. It is therefore within the range of probability Unit if the tendency to show- ring qualities in heavy harness classes which many of the descendants of George Wilkes i-.-ss.-.-.- !,.■ .-iil- tivated and prorerly developed, the trotting bred horse will be a more prominent show ring figure in future years than he was in 1905.— P. M. Babcock, in Christmas Horseman, ESSENTIALLY A PRACTICAL ANIMAL. The American trotting-bred hois, is practical animal, especially adapted, to adding to the comfort and pleasure of his owner. While qu number are used each, season for purposes of racing, by long odds the greater proportion of trotting- bri i horses are used for purposes of business or pleasure, says the Western Horseman. This being true, why is it that so few breeders of light harness horses pay so little attention to ultimate use of the products of their farms? Unless the foals are thought good enough to race, or good enough to partially develop and then sell to those looking for racing prospects, the trot- ting-bred foals on too many farms are never thor- oughly broken and pass from them in an unfinished condition. It is a lamentable fact, but nevertheless a true one, that on many farms devoted largely or in whole to the breeding of the light harness horse the visitor will note the absence of suitable driving horses. At many farms the owner must resort to a public stable whenever he wishes to make a drive for business or pleasure. Men with thousands of dollars Invested in the breeding of trotters will patronize the livery sta- ble when they have occasion to drive a patron or visitor to the farm. This is no fanciful tale. The writer has seen it demonstrated in by far too many instances, not alone in the west, but in Ohio. Ken- tucky. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and other states located east of the Mississippi river. Every foal bred ia trotting lines will not mature into a stake winner, or even a horse good enough to race through the "short grass circuit." A majority of the foals must be sold for other uses. This being true, why not make it a point to thoroughly break the horses that must find an outlet through the general channels of trade and prepare them for some par- ticular business? Every few days it is stated by some one connected with the breeding of light harness horses that deal- ers make too large profits on the horses that pass through their stables. There is a reason for this, and the cause rests with the breeder. The colts and fillies are not broken at home as they should be. are not especially prepared for market, and must naturally be put through o course of education after passing into the dealer's hands. The party looking for a pair of coach or carriage horses will not purchase the average trotting-bred horse as he comes from the breeding farm The horse is not a finished product, is not ready for the work desired to place him at, and is not at all desir- able as a coach, carriage, surrey, trap or coupe ani- mal. The dealer is prepared to furnish the buyer with a finished horse, one that has been thoroughly schooled in the ways of heavy harness horses, hence is always able to secure a handsome profit on each animal sold. Breeders of light harness horses should always be able to turn out, at a moment's notice, a handsome, stylish, clever-acting single driver, or a pair of at- tractive and thoroughly broken carriage horses, and this thing of owners being compelled to patronize a public stable whenever they have occasion to drive, either for pleasure or business, should come to an end. When this condition of affairs becomes general among breeders of trotting-bred horses, we will hear less of the dealer reaping all the profits of the in- dustry. It will also enable owners to more thoroughly appreciate and enjoy the fruits of their breeding, which of itself will be equal to a reasonable per cent of profit on their investments in lands, im- provements, stock, etc. London society is to pay a tardy homage to the horse. At last they are to hold a horse show there. Not one of the dull, old-fashioned horse fairs, so long popular with the English, but a genuine American horse show, or rather, an international one, conducted after the American methods. It is to be held in the vast auditorium of the London Olympia. which, for the occasion, is to be modeled as closely as possible aftet the Madison Square Garden Horse Show, in the early part of next year, and is to be patronized by the King and Queen and most of all London's smart set. The social aspect of the show, however, is perhaps not the most interesting. That will be a picturesque tour- nament between American and English breeders. At this show, for the first time, the English and Ameri- can show horses will be brought into direct rivalry. There will be a battle royal between the American standard bred trotting and coach horses and the fa- mous English hackney, commencing with exhibiting what is considered the American gentlemen's trotting horse, known as the speedy roadster (long tall), many of which are already owned in Europe. The fast four-year-old colt Casco, by Moko, -lam Hattle Case, -lam .-r Fereno I!:--:-1;, by Simmons, 2:28, has been purchased i-> Lawrence lones of Louisville, Ky. from John B. Stewart of Lexington and will be prepared for the show ring. - is one of the mis! promising colts in training at Lexington. F. H. del Carroll. New Orleans, La.. Is the present owner of the M. * M. winner of 1904, Stanley Dil- lon, and is using him on the road. Purses amounting to $5,000 will I- given at the Ice meeting at Montreal January :r;--7 Harold D. iMl'i by Dexter Prince is snow i acii i '•< Philadelphia Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle 6 @;jto $?«***? crni* &p0xt*tn*ti [January 6, 19C6 Sol Shockley of Merced had the misfortune to lose his stallion, Loyalty, last week. The horse was play- ing in his paddock and slipped, injuring himself in- ternally so that he died in a very short time. A five-year-old colt, standing 14.2, weighing 900 pounds, a bright bay in color and suitable for a polo pony, as he can run a quarter in 23 second or better, is offered for sale or the owner will trade for a draft stallion. See advertisement. Los Angeles, Woodland, Santa Rosa and Sacra- .mento can be depended on as places where good har- ness meetings will be held this year. Fresno, San Jose. Pleasanton, Stockton and several other places where good mile tracks are located should declare themselves in early in the season. April 1st is the date of the next payment on colts and fillies entered in the Breeders' Futurity for three- year-olds of 1906. Due notice will be sent to ail nom- inators by the secretary. "When one looks over the list of 2:15 performers under their sires, it is very easy to understand why- breeders are enthusiastic over the great McKinney. No other stallion living or dead can approach him as a sire of 2:15 performers. A large number of new stalls will be erected imme- diately at the Concord race track as the demand for stall room is much greater than the supply. The Concord track is one of the best training tracks in California. A first-class county fair and race meet- ing will be held there this year. Stranger O. 2.08% won the 2:09 pace at Phoenix, with Daedalion second in each heat. The time was 2:09%, 2:10%, 2:10%. There were never three handsomer full brothers than the McKinney stallions Tom Smith 2:13%, Constructor and Gen. J. B. Frisbie. They will all be in the stud in California this year. At the Kenney Manufacturing Company's shops at 531 Valencia street, there is now 'a second-hand Mc- Murray cart that is a good one, and for sale at a bar- gain price. Mr. Kenney invites horsemen to call and see a beautiful new light speed cart just in from the eastern factory. It is about the neatest thing in the cart line yet made. Star Pointer 1:59% continues to be the great attrac- tion at Pleasanton track and all visitors want to take a look at the first two-minute horse. Mr. DeRyder reports that the prospects are excellent for a good season and many high class mares. "Shorty" Roberts reports his fast stallion Eden Vale 2:16 by Eros, son of Electioneer, as looking fine and fit for the season of 1906, which he will make at Mr. Roberts' Sea Breeze Resort on the ocean beach in this city. Few stallions that have stood in California have sired as uniform size, style and speed as Seymour Wilkes. Every colt he gets is a $300 horse as soon as he is three years old. That's the sort to raise. There is a good profit in raising the get of this horse as one always has a salable colt. They all have speed, too, and are from Missouri as soon as they are broke to harness. The breeders of San Benito county are very lucky in having such a horse as Dictatus Medium in their midst. His sire is the sire of two 2:10 performers and his dam : is the dam of Stam B. 2:11%, one of the best trotters ever seen in this State. There is no better breeding than that of Dictatus Medium. He is siring speed, all of his colts old enough to train being good gaited and naturally fast. Breeders should not overlook Dictatus Medium when looking for a sire that will pay to breed to. The blood of the old campaigner Director 2.17 is good to have on any stock farm. There is at Hay- wards, Cal., a very handsome son of Director called Educator. He is owned by Mr. M. Henry and gets as handsome foals as any sire in California. The most profitable way to breed is to try to get a. hand- some roadster. If it trots or paces fast enough to race, so much the better and the profit is greater. But get your handsome horse first and you can al- ii. The sons and daughters of Educator never linger on the market. A word to the wise is suffi- cient. W. S. Clark, the well known horseman of Concord, Contra Costa county, will have the Red Wilkes stal- lion Dictatus 2:17 in the stud at the Concord track this year. Dictatus is coming rapidly to the front as a sire of speed. He has two in the 2:10 list — Fun- ston 2:0S% and Dictatress 2:08%, and another, Oma A. 2:10%, that is knocking at the door. Dictatus is being wintered at the Brentwood Stock Farm and looks like a two-year-old. Fearnot by Lynmont won a good race at the Phoe- nix, Arizona, meeting Christmas week, pacing his threi winning heats in 2:14%, 2:14% and 2:13%. iiiii A. was second and Byron Lace third. Boralmas Brother won a hotly contested race from Hi Ally H.-len Dare by Zombro at Phoenix, Arizona, last week. The time of the three heats was 2:20%, ! i.;\ a ii 2:16%. fflcially announced that the Memphis ssoi latlon will not apply for dates in the ill Cor L906, and that there will be no other ; .it. that (rack til! the anti-betting laws e at*:- repealed. Dr. J. C. McCoy, the former owner of Boralma 2:07 and Ethel's Pride 2:07%, says the practice of doping trotters and pacers is becoming very common, despite the rule made at the last Turf Congress to stamp it out. He gives it as his opinion that stimulating dope caused the death last season of several prominent trotters, whose sudden taking off was attributed to dilation of the heart. It was dilation of the heart which caused the death of Sadie Mac 2:06%. Mr. C. C. Crippen, one of the best posted horse- men in California, has associated himself with Budd Doble, owner of the great trotting stallion Kinney Lou 2:07%, and will assist the prince of reinsmen in the management of this horse during the coming season. It was due in a great measure to Mr. Crip- pen's energetic work that Searchlight and Lecco were so well patronized during the time they were in Cali- fornia, as he was at that time in the employ of their owners. Few men in California have made a closer study of harness horse breeding than Mr. Crippen, who is not only a deep student of pedigrees and blood lines, but also a practical horseman, having been for years connected with the training depart- ment of the Palo Alto Stock Farm. Mr. Doble has secured a very valuable man in Mr. Crippen and the latter is already at work getting out Kinney Lou literature for the season of 1906, which promises to be a record breaker for this, the greatest trotting son of McKinney. The yearlings and weanlings by Kinney Lou are such handsome, natural trotters that their owners are already predicting that his list of standard performers will begin growing as soon as his foals' are old enough to start, and will contain many very high class performers. Zolock set the Arizona pacing record at 2:07 on the opening day of the Territorial Fair at Phoenix, and a few days later, when Hazel Patch and Zolock met in a race there, the association offered $50 for every half second this mark was reduced. Hazel Patch paced a heat in 2:05% and was awarded $175 in addi- tion to the regular purse. An advertiser desires to purchase a good surrey horse. See advertisement for description of horse wanted. Alta McDonald denies the story that is going the rounds of the Eastern horse papers to the effect that Sweet Marie 2.04% recently figured in a runaway. He says nothing of the sort ever happened, that the McKinney mare is all right and ready to meet all comers during 1906. The stallion, Lord Russell, full brother to Maud S. 2:08%, died at Newark, Ohio, Tuesday night, Decem- ber 26. He died the property of Mr. H. V. Hardway, of that city. Lord Russell, because of his breeding, his dam being the famous Miss Russell, enjoyed con- siderable fame during the early part of his life. He was foaled in 1881,, and was bred by A. J. Alexander, Spring Station, Ky. He was the sire of thirty-five standard perforemrs. Among them the following: Kremlin 2:07%, Hustler Russell 2:12%. Russellmont 2:12%, Sea Bird 2:13%, Lee Russell 2:16%, and oth- ers. Twenty-two of his sons are sires of standard performers. He has beeen owned at Newark for several years. Horsemen have read with thrilling interest the graphic description of the taming of Pommers, by Sir Conan Doyle, in his first chapter of "Sir Nigel Lor- ing." According to Sir Conan, the famous Pommers was by a Spanish sire, his dam being an Arab. Also, according to Sir Conan, the famous yellow horse was seventeen hands high. The novelist, like the poet, is accorded wide latitude, but, as a matter of fact, it is doubtful whether there ever lived in real life a horse of the height named possessed of the blood lines described. To begin with, the Spanish horse was, and is, of Saracen blood and kin to the Arabian, if not of pure Arabian blood; probably a Barb, which is a half-breed Arabian. The pure Spanish horse was, and is to-day, a small animal — scant fifteen hands — while the average Arabian is about 14.2. Each breed is noted for its weight-carrying qualities, but, at best, fitted only for light cavalry. When the Sara- cens invaded the South of France along in the eighth century, though splendidly mounted and the best horsemen the world had ever seen, it was the heavy Flanders horses ridden by Charles Martel and his followers that overcame the invaders and drove them back, and not the superior bravery of the French. There is so much of poetry and romance connected with the Spanish horse and his congener, the Arab- ian, that Sir Conan doubtless felt justified in mount- ing Sir Nigel on an animal that could trace his lineage to the stud of King Solomon. Possibly Pommers was a freak. — Ex. The Mikado 2:19% is being talked about as one of the "low down" trotters of 1906. He is credited with a mile better than 2:15 over a half mile track. The Mikado is by Russia out of Lea 2.1S%, own sister to Sidney Dillon and Cupid 2:18. Trainer John Howell has Tiverton 2:04% looking as good and strong as- he ever did in his career, says Trotter and Pacer. He is going sound and it is his opinion that he will be as good or better than he was in the spring of 1904. It only goes to show what care will do, especially by a man of intelligence and pa- tience. Senator Mills 2:12% is big and strong, and it will surprise but a few if he lowers his record quite a little next season. They will both be shipped to Poughkeepsie early in the spring to be prepared to meet all comers in their respective classes. Onward 2:25% now heads the list of trotting sires, with 146 trotters and 40 pacers to his credit in the 2:30 list. The great son of George Wilkes died the property of W. E D. Stokes a few years ago. If living he would now he thirty years old. More than two thousand trotters and pacers entered the 2:30 list in the harness racing campaign of 1905. About as many more previously in the list lowered their records. J. M. Johnson is now president of the New England Horse Breeders' Association. The directors made an excellent selection. Dr. J. C. Mewhinney of Spring City, Pa., claims the distinction of owning the largest pacing horse in the world — Frank Marriott, who got a mark of 2:12% in a seven-heat race at Tiffin, O., July 11, 1902, for a $1,000 purse. He is 17 hands high, weighs 1,200 pounds, is of symmetrical form, and with a tail that touches the ground. He went in a race for a $2,000 purse at Cleveland, O., July 29, 1901, finishing second to Dan Patch and beating out Pauling Boy, Legal Hal and Barolitta. He can go a half in one minute flat, and wears only quarter boots. Dr. Mewhinney uses his famous pacer in his daily calls on patients, and says that he is not for sale. Mr. Nathan Straus has a couple at the Empire track, says Trotter and Pacer, that will bear watching the coming year. A bay filly by Handspring 2:18%, out of the champion of her day, Alix 2:03%. She is four years old, about 15.3 hands, and has been worked but very little, as she was thought to be with foal, but proved not to be. She looks as though she would learn to trot very fast. The other is a bay colt by the same sire out of Semi-Tropic 2.24, by Sultan 2:24, second dam Lady Mackey (dam of Oakland Baron 2:09%, by Silverthreads. He is five years old, 15.3 hands and has been a mile this fall in 2:16%. The speedway string, Ida Highwood 2:09%, Ted 2:15%, Malacca 2:18%, and last but not least the old warrior Cobwebs, now nearly eighteen years old, are all in the best of condition. Mr. Straus is indeed fortunate to have as reliable and painstaking a trainer and man- ager as he has in Tim Sullivan. Dispatches from Cleveland, O., which may or may not be authoritative, state that instructions have been received from Mr. C. K. G. Billings for Major Delmar and Lou Dillon to remain in that city during Mr. Bil- lings' sojourn abroad, and that Major Delmar will be trained and driven against his record in the matinees next season, while Lou Dillon is to be turned out for a year's rest. It is stated further that Mr. Billings contemplates breeding the queen next season, and that if he does she will be mated with John A. McKerron. The dispatch further says: "Recently the millionaire horseman of Chicago has written to several prominent horsemen asking advice as to whether it would be advisable to breed the champion mare, and the an- swers have been uniformly in the affirmative, so that the mating of the great performers in the spring is practically assured. Major Delmar will be put on edge during the matinees of the Cleveland Matinee Club, and later in the season will be given a campaign against speed records. Mr. Billings is expected to in- terrupt his European trip for a month or six weeks during September and October, and will drive the champion pacing gelding in his trials against records." John H.Shults bought several of the Haggin thor- oughbred mares to breed to Axworthy. John Quinn, the well known Santa Rosa trainer, reached Pleasanton on Wednesday of this week with eight head of trotters and Joe Cuicello followed the next day with his string. The new stalls recently erected by Mr. Ronan, owner of the Pleasanton track, are now about filled and there is demand for more. S. K. Trefry hooked up Kenneth C. 2:17 at Pleas- anton last Wednesday for the first time since the State Fair last year. The son of McKinney is grow- ing right along, and moved out like the great young trotter he is. It is said 500,000 people attended the Live Stock Show at Chicago last week, and the Horseman says the development of the live stock exposition is only one of the signs of the fact that the farmer has ar- rived and now commands the attention and respect which rightfully belongs to him. For" his use the largest exposition building in the country has been reconstructed at an expense of $200,000, and it is in- adequate. Already plans are being drawn to make it still larger. And with each succeeding year the far- mer will be more and more" in evidence as an impor- tant factor in the business and financial world. The prosperity of the country depends on him more than any one class, and fortunately for prosperity and the country he is not a hard task master. He gives more than he receives and the abundance of the earth is his. The management of the Libertyville. Ill,, track has decided to give a meeting the week preceding the opening of the Grand Circuit. January 6, 19(6 ©in; gtceitw emo Sports man THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. m m Walter Jenning's luck changed from bad to good on the first day of 1906, and his big horse, Proper, an- nexed the New Year's Handicap, first money in which amounted to $2420. It was nothing short of a ' fluke" that enabled the Prestonpans horse to get home three parts of a length in front of Gregor K., who beat Lubin (by long odds the best horse in the race) for place honors. Lubin was virtually left at the post, Treubel seeming to be in a hypnotic state at barrier- raise. "The dope" shows him sixteen lengths behind Gregor K., at the quarter pole, or three furlongs after the start had been effected. That Elliott's flyer was but a head behind the pace-setter, Gregor K.. at the finish, shows what a horse Lubin was on January 1, 1906. Making up ten lengths in the last seven fur- longs on such a horse as Proper italicizes his worth, and, as said in last week's issue. Lubin can beat Proper s.t even weights and probably could give Jen- ning's horse a couple of pounds and a beating. At any rate, with 123 pounds and a wide-awake rider on Lubin to 122 pounds on Proper, at a mile and a quar- ter, we would see a sure enough horse race. Dr. Leggo's poor showing in the New Year's Handicap was a big disappointment to his friends, who are legion. Callaghan apparently did not like the heavy going, and was next to Dr. Leggo, the last horse at the finish. By the way, the practice of giving iwo-year-old races on the first of January cannot be too strongly criticized. The jockey clubs that put them on the program are guilty of doing great harm to the breed of horses of this country, when the object of the association is always given, "the improvement of the breed of race horses." It's a safe bet that of the ten star.ters in the alleged two-year-old race, not one was over twenty-three months of age, while perhaps fifty per cent were not twenty-two months old and some not even twenty-one months old. The racing of the little 'baby-class" gallopers that should be out in the field acquiring bone and muscle through the stomach route uiil'ir at least two-years old before even know- ing what a race track looks like or feeling the touch of a "breaking' 'outfit, are "broken" at eighteen months of age or less and put to racing, often when not over twenty months old. This can be likened to asking a thirteen-year old boy to do a stevedore's work six days per week and expecting him to grow up as straight as an Indian and as strong as the proverbial ox. It's against Nature, and the old lady will have her way. The jockey clubs that give races for horses of the tender age spoken of are catering only to a class of greedy owners who have nothing of the welfare of the turf at heart when they will race their "realy" baby racers on the first day of January. "Quick action" is all right in this com- mercial age, but horsemen should not be allowed to get it at the expense of the breed of race horses. The right thing for all jockey clubs to do is to improve the breed, and in order to do this there should be no two- year-old races on a racing program until July, and then they would be sure enough two-year-olds. The watchword of turfmen the past twenty years has been "quick action and speed at the expense of stamina and soundness." If foals did not come along until May and June, when the mother had had a run of eight or ten weeks on the best of green feed, don't you think she would be better prepared to give you a sturdy racer than if the foal came in January or February, when there is no green feed to be had? And if there were no two-year-old races until July of each year would not there "be a better chance for development of the young racers and more soundness of limb and wind before putting them at their life's work? This is something for the jockey clubs to ponder over carefully. \V. O'B. Macdonough had his great old mare Lib- bertiflibbet chloroformed the other day to put her out rf the miseries attendant upon extreme old age. Lib- bertiflibbet, a daughter of Bullion (by War Dance) from a daughter of Kingfisher (like War Dance, alsp a son of Lexington) was one of the best producers on this Coast, being the mother of Flibbetigibbet, Valencienne, Gold Lace, Hainault, Honiton, and last not least, the famous George C. Bennett, which died died recently at Louisville and for which Fred Cook had refused $30,000. The late August Belmont bred Libbertiflibbet, also her dam, and imported her grand dam from England. Ed Hayes, who rode the first winner here of 1906, viz.: Lucrece, was taken to France by Johnny Camp- bell in 1904 after having ridden several times at Butte, Mont., in 1903, when a 60-pounder. In France he piloted several winners. Butte and Anaconda should be eager for a race meet- ing, none being held there for nearly three years, while Salt Lake should support a meeting of ten days or two weeks in good style. Denver was always a good racing city. — ' 1 Quinlan & Wilson secured Escamado for $S25 by the claiming route January 1st. The first race of 1906 in this part of the world was won by Lucrece at odds of 20 to 1. Owner Coffey ap- parently loves long odds, Cloche d'Or winning at odds of 13 to 1 at Ingleside just a few days previously. Barney Schreiber's Sain horses, Pinkerton, Bu- chanan and Tom McGrath, made a good showing on the initial day of the new year, out of three starts winning three, while the Balgowan fillyi Marion Rose, ran third in the two-year-old race. W. P. Fine "boosted" Distributor $300 on Wednes- day after he had won the first race, and upon Jim Neil making an insulting remark over the "boost" Fine struck at Neil The men were then separated before damage was done. Neil was fined $100 for provoking the row and Fine $50 for striking at Neil. Will Applegate of Louisville is here after a trip around the world, and will doubtless book at Emery- ville the balance of the season. The ten leading winning owners of America during the year 1905 were as follows, according to the Daily Racing Form of Chicago: Owners. 1st, 2d. 3d. Amount J. R. Keene 28 22 36 $22S,724 H. P. Whitney 33 17 16 170,447 S. Paget 55 40 36 137,572 S. S. Brown 80 56 35 113,572 A. Belmont 27 19 20 85,154 E. E Smathers 62 47 40 70.58S J. Sanford S 9 4 56,615 B. Schreiber 99 94 S7 46,020 T. Hitchcock Jr IS 13 7 45,995 E. Corrigan 100 58 49 41.4S6 Edward Corrigan holds the record for the number of races won by any owner. Barney Schreiber. who is only one behind him, was in the money oftener than any other owner. He heads the list of owners racing exclusively in the West. Elmer D. Lawrence is making an effort to estab- lish a racing circuit between Denver and Butte for the summer of 1906. and it looks as if he should succeed. CUBED IN TEN DAYS. Mr. C. A. Farley of Craig. Neb., writes as follows: "I have used Quinn's Ointment for over ten years with the best of results: cured a bad case of curt) in 10 days. If more of your valuable remedy were used the suf- fering of the noble animal would be less. It is far su- perior to anything I have tried for curbs, splints, spav- ins and bunches. No horseman can be without it." This is the general expression of horsemen all over the country. If in need of an remedy of tills kind, try Quinn's Ointment. Price One Dollar per bottle. Ad- dress W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N. Y., if you cannot obtain from druggist. OCTOGENARIAN DRIVER. Sam Hildreth has lost $41,000 booking at New Or- leans, and announces that his slate will never again be seen in any betting ring. In his opinion, Western players are much wiser than those of the effete East. The New California Jockey Club has substituted a five-furlong sprint for a $1500 purse for the mile and a sixteenth $2500 special the latter part of this month. Bearcatcher, Cruzados. San Nicholas and Neva Lee are named as eligibles. George H. Keene left early this week for Memphis, Tenn., going to the Tennessee metropolis to prepare a number of two-year-olds for the coming fray. Harry Stover's stable is furnishing more long-shot winner& than any in the country. On the 1st of January a filly at 100 to 1 won for him at Ascot, and on Tuesday Ray Egan won at the same place at odds of 30 to 1, and The Lieutenant at 12 to 1 at Emeryville. Barney Schreiber heads the list of winning owners at the local tracks, and Proper's win of the New Year's Handicap will put Jennings in close proximity to the genial German. Enoch Wishard thinks Ort Welles sure to stand training this season. Chicago, January 2. — Nicol leads all jockeys for last year with 857 mounts, 221 wins, 143 seconds, 136 thirds. W. Knapp is second with 1021 mounts, 186 win&, 158 seconds, 139 thirds. Radtke is third with 693 mounts, 177 wins. 129 seconds, 97 thirds. It was Radlke's first year on the track. Barney Schreiber heads the list of owners who raced exclusively in the West with §46,030. Ninety-nine winners carried his colors. He was ninety-four times second and eighty-seven times third. Corrigan holds the record for the year of races won with exactly 100. * The English racing public is supposed to be an easygoing one," said a gentleman who has been abroad recently, "but they would tear the fence down and kill the starter and his assistants in quicker time than it take?' to tell it if an assistant was to hold a heavily-played favorite at the start until the field was well on its way. It would never be tried twice there, but since the racing began here last Novem- ber I've seen seven or eight horses played for a kill- ing that were held hard and fast by the 'Hold-on- Jimmies,' as they are called. The first time an as- sistant takes a horse by the head some good shot ought to lop off one of his fingers for him. You could beat Ormonde. Hindoo or any other racing celebrity in the world with a bunch of bow-wows if you can get a man to hold on long enough to the public idol. Booking looks like a good proposition under the existing conditions." Daniel Bodine of Mer«hantville X j is ela'med to be the oldest light-harness' horse trainer and driver now in active service in the United States. He is pasl SI years of age, and just as efficient as he was a half century ago, when he branched out as a driver and trainer. -He claims that he is as well and hearty a.,.! can eat a square meal as good as when a bov and has never had a day's sickness or an ache or a pain during his life time. He attributes his remarkable longevity to never having smoked or chewed tol co never drmking spirituous or malt liquors or losing any sleep in card playing, but claims he can beat anybods pitching quoits in Jersey. He was born on September 15, 1S24. in his father's (James Bodine) tavern at Lycoming, now Berlin. N J-. 15 miles Horn Camden. At the age of 11 years' his parents died and he was compelled to hus*tle for a live- lihood. He went to live with a Thomas Wri-ht a lover of a good horse, at Berlin, and after driving a four-mule team for two years became horse-proud and yearned for the time when he could own his own trotter. He drifted to Philadelphia and for six vears sold charcoal in the city and drove a ferry wagon, hauling goods from the West Jersey ferry. In those days no wagons were allowed to cross the river on the boats. He finally was appointed ticket seller at the ferry, and worked for the company for thirty-one years, his duties being usually at night. While in the employ of the company he purchased his first horse, a 3-min- ute trotter, which he imagined could beat anything on earth. His hopes were soon blasted. He entered the animal at the Old Powelton Fair and drove in his first race (1S53). He claims that when he got to the half-mile pole he drove off the track, as the other horses had finished the mile. In his day he has owned a large number' of horses. Among the old timers were Rambo 2:50. the boss of the old Plank Road; American Jackson and Victor Patchen, a great pole team that he drove together in 2:3S, a remarkable performance in those davs. He afterward sold them for $4000. Then he got May Queen, selling her to John Turner for §1600. Turner got $10,000 for the mare. He also had Garwood Patch - en. Lady Collier, who could step in 2:20, and in later days owned Major S. 2:14, and Irene, trial 2.17^. He marked Major for Fred Walton; Palace Girl and others for Charles McFadden, and Socrates and Gen- eral Russell for Joseph Butterworth. Next season he will be again in harness. He is wintering a three-year-old pacer, Aroon, b. m. by Vol- man, dam Leo 2:12%. He thinks he has his first 2:10 performer in the mare. Helen Hill, black mare, pacer, by Mahogany, a half sister to Miss Mills, is also in his stable. Bodine has a remarkable memory, and can relate stories by the dozen of the old-time races and men of the bygone days.— Philadelphia Record. TWO FOALS IN ONE YEAR. Wednesday last will long be remembered by the layers of odd at Emeryville, for "the ring" suffered to the extent of at least $50,000 over the day's racing. "Plunger" McManus' book dropped $4,000, Joe Har- lan's $2,700. Barney Schreiber's $2,000, others to the extent of from $700 to $2,000. Editor Breeder and Sportsman — In my copy of the •Breeder" for December 30th, I noticed that Whisper. the Fall River, Mass., mare, had two foals in one year. To show that California is hard to beat I will inform you that my mare/ Cheta (trral 2:24*4). has one two-year-old and two yearlings at the present time. The two-year-old, sired by Azmoor 2:20^, was foaled January 27, 1904. The first yearling, sire~d by Marvin Wilkes 2: IS, was foaled January 7th. 1905. and the second yearling, also sired by Marvin Wilkes, was foaled December 25th, 1905. When the clock struck for the new year of 1906 I had two yearling and one two-year-old from the same dam. The first two are entered in Breeders' Futurity Stakes Nos. 4 and 5 respectively. Hoping this equals the Fall River record and wish- ing you many happy and prosperous New Years, I •am. Yours very truly. PAUL R. SIMS. Union House, Sacramento Co. A FOPULAE DISTEMPER BEMEDY. Every horseman should not the advertisement of Crafts Distemper Cure, manufactured and sold through- out the world for many years by the well known chem- ists, the Wells Medicine Co.. Lafayette, Iml. This rem- edy is not only an excellent preventive of all germ dis- eases among horses, sheep and dogs, but It is a guar- anteed cure for distemper, epizootic, pinkeye, and all similar troubles, which makes it the most popular of remedies among stockmen. Many of tit- best known and most successful trainers of trotters and pacers have used the preparation for many vears, and without ex- ception endorse it. It is sold in liquid form, put up in 50c and $1.00 bottles, and is obtained at drug ston will he sent prepaid. by the manufacturers. Get in line with Craft's Distemper Cure by sending at once to the Wells Medicine Co., 13 Third st Lafay- ette, Ind.. Cor their new ::i page booklet, "Veterinary Pointers." It contains much valuable information con- cerning the most dreaded diseases of horses and colts Pat Foley owns two good McKinney stallions that he will place in the stud at Alameda race track dur- ing the season of 1906. They are Montesol and Pole Star. The first named is out of a mare by Antevolo and the other out of a mare by Young Venture. Both are bred in great produriu- lines. Secretary Moone of Providence and some of the stewards of the Grand Circuit wore in conferen.o in New York last week with President D. J. Carnpau. It is said that the annual meeting of the steward be held on January 9 at the Hoffman House, New York Qity, when the Grand Circuit tor 1906 decided upon. Jackson's Napa Soda cleanses the ston renders the eye clear. 8 &ttc giceebev axxb gpovtsnta** [January G, 19C6 S n^is5 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Condncted by J. X. D« WITT. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan 1-June 1-Closed season for black bass. April 1-Sept. Iu. Oct. 18-Feb. 1-Open season lor taking a.co.- head In tidewater. Sept. 10-Oot. 18-Close season In tidewater tor steelbead. Sept. 10-Oct. I6-Close season lor oatchlng salmon. Sept. 15-April 1-Open season ror lobsters and erawflah. Oct. 16-N07.11,- Close season tor taking salmon above tide, water. Nov. 1-Aprll I— Trout season closed. Nov. 1-April 1-Closed season tor taking steelhead above the water. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season tor crabs. Nov. I5-Sept. 10-Season open tor taking salmon above tide vaster. Gun. grouse and July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season tor mountain quail age hen. Oot. 15-Feb. 15— Open season tor quull, ducks, etc. Oct 15-Aprll 1-Open season tor English snipe. Oot. 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. Jan 4 6-Soulhern Ohio Kennel Club. Hamilton, O. Jan 10 ll-Bay State Co-operative Bench Show Association. Fall River. Mass. Walter E. Stone, Clerk. Jan. 17. 20-Cincinnati Kennel Association. Cincinnati, o. John C. Schoroaker. Secretary. Feb. 12. 15— Westminster Kennel Club. New York. Robt. \ . McKim, Secretary. Feb 20, 23— New England Kennel Club Boston. Win. a. Emery, Secretary. Entries close Jan 20. Feo 28-March3-Washington Kennel Club. Washington, Pa. F. C. Thomas. Secretary. March 7, 10-Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburg, Pa Steadman. Secretary. March 13, I6-Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N. Y Secretary. March 14. 17-Passalc County Fi.b and Game Frotectlve Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas Matthews, Secretary. March 21. 24- Wolverine Kenrel Club. Detroit, Mich. K. G, Smith, Secretary. May 29, 30-Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary. June 1 2-Ladles Kennel Association ot Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed. Secretary. June 9-Wlssahlckon Kennel Club. Wissahickon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary Sept. 3. 6-Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. Secretary. Sept. 8— Cedarhurst Kennel Club. Cedarhurst, L. I. Bates, Secretary. Field Trials. Jan 8-Paciflc Coast Field Trials Club, 23d annual trials. Bakersfleld, Cal. Albert Betz, Secretary, 201 Parrott Bldg., San Francisco. Jan 8-Teias Field Trial Club. 4th annual trials. Kansas City, Tex. Jan 9-Georgia Field Trial Association. 4th annual trials. Waynesboro, Ga. P. M. Esslg. Secretary, Atlanta, Ga. Jan 15-Unlted States Field Trial Club. 17th annual trials. Grand Junction, Tenn. W. B Stafford, Secretary. Jan National Championship Field Trial Club lOih annual trials. Followlni D. S. All Age Stake. W. B. Stafford, Secre- tary, Trenton, Tenn. F. S S. P. White, A. J. Lee Jno G. A CHRISTMAS IN THE ANTARCTIC—HUNTING SEA ELEPHANTS. Formerly very plentiful in the Antarctic regions and also to some extent plentiful on the California coast, the sea elephant (macrorhinus proboscideus) is now. in this locality, a past memory and the species became practically extinct in the Antarctic. The herds were incessantly hunted for years until the scarcity of the huge animals made it unprofitable to lit out vessels for a trip to the sea elephants' domain. r nn.-i'y cessation from pursuit enabled the herds to increase in the Antarctic. Another variety of the species, smaller in size (M. augustirostris), is found ■n.naUy on the coast of Lower California, but is now almost extinct. A decade ago the hunting and killing of the sea elephant was revived at Kerguelen Island by a New London. Conn., sealer, and again in 1897. a Boston vessel visited the island and secured some 4000 of the animals lor the skins and oil. Mr. Robert Hall, a naturalist, who in the summer ,i 1897 and 1S98 (winter time in the temperate zone) trip to the island in the brig Edward, which been one of the vessels above referred to. Mr! Hall gives :in interesting account of the sea he observed it— the bulk and habits of i ii i ixtraordinary inertia and the diffl- langer: of this butchery. The sea ele- bablj nearei absolute extinction . mi.] in the world to-day. Mr. itea. • Kergui li I ' '-* island of about ninety i. , miles wide (South Indian Ocean, .nih. longitude 70 degrees east. I, and mil nt fiords, on the coasts of which the sen elephants congregate In numbers, merely disturb one or two for a moment. These hot- blooded creatures vary in size from six feet to twenty feet six inches, and we found a skeleton of a young one about four feet in length. The largest were ex- ceedingly difficult to handle; but as the enterprise of our ship was principally a commercial one, the business faculty was quickly brought to bear upon any awkward and unwilling customer. Many of the animals would weigh approximately two to six tons. No five men could turn a large bull over without special levers, and it needed seven seal- ers to haul half a skin along the sand to the boat in waiting. As for dragging a whole skin, that was quite out of the question under the circumstances. For museum purposes we made a preparation of one, and this we feared would break the tackle while being drawn on board from the end of a towline. Its length was only fourteen feet nine inches, with a girth o£ ten feet ten inches about the pectoral girdle. From shoulder to shoulder it measured five feet six inches. The circumference at the base of the flippers was three feet six inches. To the great bulk there was a moj breadth at the angle of nine inches only, arid a tongue (which we found later to be excellent eating) that quite filled it. Dr. Stirling has this specimen mounted in the South Australian Museum. While the blubber ranges from two to six inches in depth, it varies in weight. Six men were employed in changing the position of one fatty skin while on the skinning board. This is a fair example of a male, which is always larger than the female. The congregation in harbors was generally systematic. The bulls oc- cupied one part of the beach and the cows formed a colony in another. There were always several col- onies in a harbor, and they seldom appeared to inter- mingle. The young were not numerous. They had probably set out on their southerly migration before our arrival on December 27, or were scattered pro- miscuously along the beaches. It is the general impression that these mammals lie in their rookeries for days or weeks together and do not feed otherwise than on their fatty tissue. With this view I do not altogether agree, for most of the seals are daily to be seen in the water either coming in with the full flood or going out with the early part of an ebb tide. That a young sea elephant six feet in length can live a month on its own fat was proved by one we brought to Melbourne, and which was lodged in the Aquarium, but died a few months later. One day as many as eighty may be counted: the next day the same beach may only contain ten, with other heads poking above the floating weed, and showing glassy, round, black eyes, quite wide awake. Our men have often shot as many as- sixty at one time and found next day another twenty had corne up among the dead, simply because it was thefr eflosen lair This species dislikes expending energy on land, and they will lie in a group of twenty to sixty in some grassy spot with a sandy landing. Some few will ascend to an inclined distance of 150 yards, and there they are not so active as those below, and probably do not go out daily. The energy would be , ,._„ .. .... tuax7 ovo Qlnw crawlers, using than Hall's too much for them, as they are slow crawlers, using only two flippers and the snake-like action of verte- brae and muscles. The first anchorage of the brig was at Royal Sound, and before we removed from a beach of four miles in extent we had collected 426 skins. Our two an- chors were lifted for a second harbor on January 17 (Greenland Harbor). During the first day sixty to seventy were killed, and similar results often followed. To shoot more at one time was inadvisable. An average of forty per day was considered good, and this allowed time to ship and 'speck.' i. e., take the blubber from the skin. , . ,. The finest herd we visited just before leaving the island In all, there were twenty-four magnificent animals, roughly averaging nineteen feet in length. Before introducing ourselves, I noticed one great ele- phant take a short cut "over another and a quarrel arose Both growled and stood partly supported by their 'shoulder flippers. Another disagreement arose elsewhere, but it seems to me there is more bark than bite as animosity is quickly lost in sleep. One un- fortunate animal had a badly torn nose, in all prob- ability a dental evidence of past troubles. One of the crew gave me a tooth some seven inches in length, the greater portion of which lies within the gum (e. g 4 9 inches). When disturbed the belching of each of those old bulls was objectionably strong, for it can scarcely be called a roar. So great is the ; exer- tion that blood appears in the pharynx, and this oc- I was engaged near its head, measuring which it lay. This lair along the con- length, the breadth ering toward each end. The depth of these, mostly dry mud holes placed among the anges to about two curred when the trough in •_r:i^s,'S ciallj on the weal coast, where they are _■ i.. h ruggedness, dangerous winds and vex ,,.,,-t «as thirty-two feet [I i : 'in they arrive to rear a family n observations lead us to believe bruary and March. Dur- nil iin.'. an : ■ n tless, and remain no lorger the llstli creatures of December. A sea Is contrai iature to a 1 1 a lion, for while ou and Is iioclle and languid, the , actlvi and savage. The mii observing a stranger, Bhows a restless to slei p agi Vim may then in ough ii I" i A ol i i 1 1 > sleeping animals and feet, seldom deeper; butThey are placed in natural depressions— i. e., extra to the artificial ones. Many of the troughs are con- tinuous and intersect each other, so that a large lan- may appear netted, which is uncommon. In one trough there ar !ten two bulls or two cows, the broad part Of one and the tapering part of another at one end. and the corresponding parts towards the opposite pole. This insures the trough being well filled. This place soon showed an unfortunate change. Rifles were presented within six feet of each bull, and the bullet sped through the brain box, partly flatten- ing on the blubber of the opposite side. Now, slits with sharp knives aa-e run dorsally in the long direc- tion, and out rushes venous-like blood to stain the little bay in a few minutes. From one seal some sixty fountains of blood rose in oblique directions to a height of two feet, and all from the single cut on the back. Against the skyline this miniature double line of fountains looked strange, and the spray of a city corporation van is not to be compared to its deli- cate and i colored sprayings. In the viscera I was surprised at the length of the small intestine, which I found to be 255 feet in length and capable of rough haulage. It stood the pulling over the grass from the carcass with only a small distension. The methods of procuring elephants is a simple, though not an easy one. Three boats, each with a crew of five men, row from the anchorage to the shore, haul up their boats, prospect the field, and with four loaded rifles drive the animals down to within a few yards of high water mark and shoot them. There they lie for the coming of the tide, and get anchored temporarily in a few feet of water. Some of the seals give considerable trouble before they will leave the high lands (100 yards from the beach on a medium incline), and as many as three hours may be spent in annoying them with the lance before they decide to go. If the seals carry their own skins down it saves more labor and time of the men. The boating is quite enough trouble to bear, as the with u harbor winds are treacherous and strong; so power- ful are they, that I have observed half the body of a '"waterfall" blown back many yards before it could leave the ledge where gravity was strongest. Should a gale prohibit the boats from leaving the ship, the crew will sleep in during the day, and with the lull toward midnight leave for the scene of operations. Many a time they have had to row miles against a tempest to save being out all night, and many hours it has taken. Under such conditions, boats have been swamped, the skins floated overboard, and a landing arranged for fresh efforts. I shall not be likely to forget one cold night while going on board with my birds and cameras. The helmsman got a renewed at- tack of tropical fever, and, almost collapsing, I was given charge of the helm. For three hours mittens and oilskins seemed like miserable calico, and then I fully sympathized with the men who had their Wel- lingtons partly filed with icy water. Daily the boats wend their way in much the same manner, and in exactly the same way the skins are taken from the bodies. Roughly speaking, each skill- ful man can skin the smaller seals — ten in two hours and a half, or fifteen minutes for each. This time is for animals which are not too large for a man to handle. The carcasses in our takings were generally of large size. The following is a case of quick work; After a 1 o'clock dinner (of plum duff) the boats were rowed three miles. Seventy-two seals were killed, and all but fourteen skinned. Twenty-three of the largest were taken on board, and the last was upon the windlass at 9:30 p. m. Two skins of fair size are enough for a small boat, or one of a large bull. The last trip in the above raid took two hours and a half i in rowing three miles; this wasted time and much more was spent in endeavoring to get around a cer- tain point. We agreed without a dissenting voice to call this headland Cape Horn of Royal Sound. This uncharitable point is- the type of many an- other. To leave a harbor for a second one is the event most trying to the constitution, for one never knows until the anchor is safely dropped where the howling wind will drive you. Altogether we tried six harbors, of which four were well worked. The fifth (Swain's Bay) took us three days to enter, and after being ten minutes inside trying to get up the chan- nel, our clever captain put his ship about, and thanked his lucky star he had got safely out of the treacherous "hole." Down this fiord the wind with- out notice struck the foresails, while the wind astern drove her forward. Here the trouble' started, but for- tunately quickly ended by good management and good fortune. Had we touched the entrance island the ship would at once have been broken into match- wood. From this place I carried pleasant recollections, more on account of the bold contour and strangeness of the island than because it pleased my friends to chart it as a tribute to myself. Strange as it may read, among the finding of shipwreck remains there were letters and bottles from a sealing captain men- tioned in Prof. Moseley's "Challenger Notes" twenty years ago. Captain Fuller is an old hand at the bus- iness, and evidently has the indomitable pluck of the American in the making and losing of fortunes in rough waters! As for ourselves, we managed to quit the land safely on February IS, although for a few hours we could not get over a severe loss we made at the last moment. Having on the 17th killed, skin- ned and anchored a batch of skins io the value of $1250, all hands on board heaved anchors next morn- ing to stand into a near bay to take them off. Two storms now showed their effects; one in driving all the skins ashore and burying them in the sand; the other in driving us off the bay altogether. With a threatening sky our tight and dry little brig, the Edward, now headed for Melbourne, and we started a direct homeward course of 3.400 miles. This was duly accomplished in twenty-two days, and we experienced a phenomenal wind for the last four- teen days, which was. from the north instead of the prevailing one from the west, a circumstance of ex- ceedingly rare occurrence. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda— plain or in a lemonade. January 6, liCti] (lei I ti i dogs are planned by the ,, , , nd hi fi lends for this w inter season. bunch, and as likely a lot ., is evei came out of their ni the Bluegrass State. The dogs are I oi Willi ,,, i : Burns, of No 727 South . Grove a enue. I,, thi p i an three bitches and four dogs — their v,., . redolenl of the chase and Its accom- , | and oul -ol ooi 'Ladj Jean," "Hi ro, -I uiqui ' Brut." oi Harry," "Bartender," "< mi - rider" ind ' Tall ho ii ire of thi W llllams strain and lefl i heir Lex- . over two months ago. To gl-vi tne pack would be a task but suffice i n .,1 ,,:,, i of the bunch n ei i sire i by ' I lotii bon," ,vho on flrsl pi In the Bruns« Ick i 'ur club i trials In Old Kentucky last October. I Idiitlon to this Hi ■ si I [ero" and "Doctor . bench show prize winner. The by "Champion Rangei ," u hosi pedl ■ ■ i:i mi i lie ■ "i i ihamplons r p*ox Hound in a merlca. ., cludi a ' number of his Wesl Side It is not often that the waters nestling under the lee of the Solano hills become so rough that hunters are prevented from putting out to the blinds or are driven ashore by stress of weather. Such, however, was the experience of William C. Swain and Fred S. Johnson, two well-known trigger pullers of this city, who essayed to put a limit crimp in fat mallards and canvasbacks that were seeking shelter in the ponds and open waters behind the levees of the Mon- tezuma Gun Club preserve last Sunday. A howling norther sw"ept down from over the foothills, lashing the open waters of the river conjunction and Suisun bay into hummocks of muddy colored seas that drove thousands of ducks to the lee shore ponds. Setting out in tule splitters the two hunters soon found that navigation was hazardous and extremely laborious. Running the frail craft into the first nearby point of tules, they tried to get a shoot, after putting oul the decoys after a fashion Ducks were plentiful and the shooting was steady and fast. Efforts to re- trieve the birds were futile, for after one or two at- tempts at getting the boats out of the blinds to pick up fallen birds the work was found so difficult that the shoot was given up. On the return trip the gale had increased to such a boisterous extent that the hunters found it ex- pedient and safe to make the nearest shore point as quickly as possible. Abandoning the boats they had to ride shank's mare several miles back to the clubhouse. The water where they were shooting was not more than four feet deep at any place, but the seas kicked up would soon have sunk any skiff or tule-splitter. I fthe hunters had been lucky enough to have kept afloat the fierce wind would have driven them across the open water into the tules, where they would have been involuntary prisoners out in the keen and cutting cold wind until the subsidence of the gale. Mr. and Mrs W. W. Richards, Channing Mansfield and Walter D. Mansfield were also at the Montezuma ponds on Sunday. Shooting in more shel- tered positions they were enabled to bag good strings of ducks in a more comfortable manner. Mr. Rich- ards also bagged on a nearby snipe patch a fine string of the dainty longbills. Reports from the vicinity of Davisville state that wild ducks in thousands are resorting to the alfalfa fields thereabouts for food Hunters in that section have no difficulty in making many limit bags. Otto M. Feudner. Ed Feudner, H. Lorber and W. G. Hoffman bagged enough geese at the Feudner ranch at Dixon last Sunday to fill half a dozen sacks. Geese are now plentiful in Solano. Yolo, Colusa and Glenn counties' — they are to be found in some localities by the tens of thousands. A H. Ashley, a Stockton sportsman, recently shot a honker goose that weighed 18 ^ pounds, a pretty heavy goose indeed, if the report is correct. AL. M CUMMING and FRED BUSHNELL Field and Tule Club that the tide was running more to his advantage. That is, he had an outgoing tide with which to carry him to the hunting grounds in his ducking boat and a flood tide to easily work back home on. On the Alviso marshes the birds are plentiful, many limit bags having been shot at the bridges. Reports from George Wade and John Chisholm, of Alviso, who have the renting of duck boats, state that this season has seen a larger exodus of hunters on the marshes surrounding that town than any pre- vious year. They also report that many who have previously done land shooting have been taking to boats and are meeting with much better success. The boat hunting is done mostly with sneak boats, which are propelled by the use of a sculling oar. An expert can push this small craft to within ten yards of a flock of ducks without disturbing them. Many parties of Santa Clara Valley hunters will take advantage of the closing days of the season, and even a greater number of huntsmen than have gone gunning during the past few weeks will find their way to the foothills and marshes before February 15. Duck hunting in the vicinity, of Moss Landing is good enough and of sufficient variety to tempt Santa Cruz sportsmen to make frequent trips to that locality. On Elkhom slough the Empire Gun Club members get limit bags enough to maintain the reputation of the preserve as one of the best in that part of the State. With quite a number the impression prevails that both rain and stormy weather are necessary to bring about good duck shooting conditions. Generally speaking such is the requirement for the enjoyment ot this particular sport by local shotgun sharps, but the prevailing cold weather and northerly winds have induced conditions for the powder burners that in in inn sections are almost ideal, particularly so on the in iln in bay shore salt marshes and the upriver nh sections Of the Sacramento and San Joaquin. Members of the Field and Tule Club who shoot ,. i Cordelia station, have recently shot many limit bags Of ducks, Vallejo and Napa sportsmen have also bad their share of feathered game, particularly can- \ sl.i. k ducks. Last Sunday Harry C. Golcher shot as the guest of Hermann Oelrichs at the latter's A case of great interest to the hunters of Napa and Sonoma counties particularly and to the sports- men at large was instituted in the Superior Court of Sonoma county last week. The Santa Rosa Gun Club, composed of prominent residents of Santa Rosa, obtained a temporary injunction against John Ken- nedy and I. J. Flanagan, well-known duck hunters of Napa, to restrain them from hunting and fishing on their property in the marshes about San Pablo bay The Santa Rosa Club has reserved a large amount of properly in the marshes, comprising por- tions of the Filippini and Smith places, for hunting. The injunction, if granted and made permanent, would restrain Napa hunters and others as well from hunting or fishing in tide water. They claim they have a right to hunt and have employed counsel from Napa to defend them. The two men will appear in the Superior Court at Santa Rosa to show cause why they should not be restrained from hunting and fish- ing in the territory mentioned. Striped Bass Angling, San Antonio slough is yet producing a fair amount of sport for the clam casters. f The cold north winds, however, are not conducive to a comfortable day on the marsh waters. Among the numerous anglers at the creek last Sunday was Al M. Cumming, whose largest fish was a beauty, weighing 23 pounds. Emil Aceret's two fish were S% and 9% pounds respectively. Nat Mead landed a 0 pounder. Marked Salmon in Columbia River. What is believed to be the best evidence of the effi- ciency of artificial propagation of salmon that has ever been secured was recently obtained by Fish Com- January 6 1 900 j ©lie ■gveebev aim gf-pwt&tnan 11 missioned Kershaw of Oregon relative to the opera- lion or hatcheries on the Columbia river. Mr. Ker- shaw received tails and tins ot 100 salmon from a single trap owner on the Columbia river that were plainly marked hatchery fish. When the hatcheries were placed in operation on the Columbian river a system of marking was adopt- ed for the purpose of ascertaining if any of the sal- mon turned out in the river returned to their native spawning grounds, and in what length of time. The marked fins and tails received by Mr. Ker- shaw were found to be salmon that were turned out of the Kalama and Chinook hatcheries four years ago. The spawn of these fish was taken in 1900. and the young salmon turned out in 1901. The fish were marked in a manner that leaves no doubt of this fact- The small bones in the fins were cut down and a hole punched in the tail. The cutting of the bones in the fin is just the same as a man losing a part of his finger — it never grows out again. The Columbia river was practically depleted of salmon when the artificial propagtaion of the fish was commenced on that stream, and the past several years has demonstrated that it has been restocked by some means. While only a part of the fish were marked when released from the hatcheries, the fact that one trap owner on the river found at least 100 of these salmon during the past season is conclusive evidence that artificial propagation is the only solution of the prob- lem to prevent the depletion of the salmon fisheries. Mr. Kershaw asked a number of the Columbia river cannerymen and trap owners to watch for the marked salmon, but during the rush of the season it was ap- parently overlooked, as only one response has been received. TRADE MOTES. Averages Reported. St. Mary's, Pa., December 4th. — Fred Gilbert, first general average, 144 out of 150. shooting DuPont. L. J. Squier, second general average. 139 out of 150. shooting 'DuPont." Lancaster, Pa., December 6th. — Fred Gilbert, first general average, 190 out of 200, shooting "DuPont." Bridgeton. X. J., December 7th.— Fred Gilbert, first general average, IIS out of 150, shooting "DuPont." J. A. R. Elliott, second general average, 142 out of 150, shooting "New Schultze." H. B. Fisher of Phila- delphia, Pa., shooting "Infallible," won first amateur and tied with W. H. Heer, shooting DuPont, for third general average, 141 out of 150. T. D. Hackett, second amateur average, 139 out of 150, shooting "DuPont " F. J. Pratt, third amateur average, 134 out of 150, shooting "Infallible." Fred Gilbert made a run of 144 straight. Atglen, December Sth — W. H. Heer. shooting "New Schultze," and Neaf Apgar, shooting "DuPont," tied for first general average. 131 out of 140. J. A R. Elliott, second general average, 130 out of 140, shoot- ing "New Schultze." Fred Gilbert and L. J. Squier, tied for third general average, 129 out of 140, shooting "DuPont." Sewickley. Pa., December 9th. — G. E Kelsey of Pitts- burg, Pa., first general and first amateur average, 187 out of 200, shooting "DuPont." H. C. Watson of Sewickley, Pa.. 178 out of 200, shooting "DuPont." Wallace Boyer, Sewickley, Pa , third amateur average, 177 out of 200, shooting "DuPont." L. Z. Lawrence, of Pittsburg, second general average, 18 5out of 200, shooting "Infallible."- Omaha. Neb., December 12th and 13th. — The threu highest averages were all won by amateurs, shooting "DuPont": William Veach of Falls City, Neb., first average, 387 out of 400; Geo. W. Maxwell of Holstein, Xeb . third average. 379 out of 400. York, Pa., December 13th. — Fred Gilbert, first gen- eral average, 192 out of 200. shooting "DuPont." Neaf Apgar. third general average. 176 out of 200. shooting "DuPont." N. M. McSherry of York. Pa., second amateur average, 167 out of 200, shooting "DuPont." Andy Somers of Delta, Pa„ third amateur average, 166 out of 200, shooting "DuPont " Lebanon, Pa., December 14th. — Fred Gilbert, first general average, 132 out of 140. shooting 'DuPont." E. M. Ludwick of Honeybrook. Pa., first amateur and second general average, shooting "DuPont." Neaf Apgar. third general average, shooting "DuPont." Geo. S Trafford of Lebanon, Pa., tied for third ama- teur average, shooting "New Schultze." U. M. C. Banner Record at Phoenix. A successful blue rock tournament was held at Phoenix. Arizona, by the Phoenix Gun Club, on De- cember 2Sth, 29th, 30th and' 31st, 1905. Excellent management, good feeling and sportsmanlike methods marked the entire tournament. The attendance was highly satisfactory and the scores likewise. The visit- ing sportsmen were unanimous in the verdict as to the reception and tournament, all pronouncing the meet a most enjoyable occasion from every point of view. Mr. J. M. Aitken was winner of the high average for the first day's shoot, using U. M. C. shells. The Gwynn trophy was won by Messrs. Aitken, Tanner and Morrell, all using TJ. M. C. shells. The Copper Queen trophy was won by Mr. Aitken, using TJ. M. C. shells with a score of 25 straight. Mr. Aitken also made the longest run on the first day of 68 straight. On the second day the winning contestants were Messrs. K L. Hart and W. D. Tanner, shooting for the individual championship of Arizona, both shooters using U. M_. C. shells. The score was a tie — 47 out of 50 — on the shoot-off. Mr. Tanner won. Among the professional shooters in the above event, was Mr. R C. Reed, who distinguished himself with a score of 49 out of 50, using TJ. M. C. ammunition. At the end of the second day's shoot. Mr. Tanner had the high average, breaking 182 out of a possible 190, and the longest run of 73 straight, using TJ. M. C. shells Mr. J. M. Aitken's phenomenal run of 94 straight was one of the events of the entire tourna- ment, he using TJ. M. C. shells. The first prize in the merchandise shoot was won by Mr. W. D. Tanner, using TJ. M. C ammunition. The Associated Diamond Medal Team Championship was won by Messrs. Hart, Morrell, Aitken and Tanner, all users of the products of the Union Metallic Car- tridge Company. The Two-Man Team Medal was won by W. D. Purcell and A A. Jones, both using TJ. M. C. shells. The "Miss and Out" event for a purse of $80.00, was won by Mr. D E. Morrell, using TJ. M. C. "Acme" shells. The second high average for the entire tournament was won by Mr. W. D. Tanner with 94 1-5 per cent, using TJ. M. C. ammu- nition. It is an established fact that in all countries, not- ably in shooting, nerve and skill are prime requisites and those qualities must be backed by accuracy and reliability in ammunition used; consequently, little further than the statement of name or make of the successful shooter's choice of ammunition i to establish those qualities that serve the shooter best in his time of need. On the Pacific Coast in Arizona, in the remote places in the interior, the record has been a proud one for the ever-reliable U. M. C. shells. Of course such matters have usually only local bearing, but in regard to U. M. C. goods it has been a repetition of successful championships, notably high scores and averages throughout the entire country wherever sportsmen could come to enjoy the fine sport of trap shooting From the north, east, west and south comes the same constant story of t". M. C. goods always to the fore. Winchester Goods on Top at Phoenix Tournament. The shooting stars at the thirteenth annual inani- mate target tournament of the Arizona's Sportsmen's Association, which was held at Phoenix. Arizona, De- cember 28-29-30-31. 1905, were the ones that used Winchester products. The high professional average for the tournament was made by Mr. W. H. Seaver, of San Francisco, Cal , with a Winchester "pump" gun and Wnichester "Leader" shells. Mr. Seaver scored but 19 lost out of the 345 targets that counted on average 94 5-10 per cent, and but 26 lost out of the 450 shot at during the entire four days shooting 94 2-10 per cent, making straight runs of 5S, 62 and 71 respectively, and also five different straight scores of 25 during the shoot. At one place during the tournament he scored 9S out of 100, and at another 97 out of 100. Mr. W. J. Rand, of El Paso, Texas, an amateur, tied Mr. Seaver on the high average with a total of 326 out of his allotted 345. and thus walked off with the high amateur average. It was necessary for Mr. Rand to score 97 out of his last 100 to tie Mr. Seaver's scores, and he did it. The gentleman, it is needless to state, always shoots a Winchester "pump" gun and Winchester "Leader" shells. Mr. W. D. Tanner, of Phoenix, Arizona, another shooter that always uses the Winchester "pump" gun, captured the second high amateur average for the tournament with the splendid score of 325 out of his 345, while Mr. C. Bulwer, of El Paso, Texas, shooting the time tried and reliable Winchester "Leader" shells, capetured the third high amateur average with the score of 323. The Individual' Championship Medal, emblematic of the champion wing shot of Arizona, was captured by Mr W. D. Tanner, of Phoenix, after shooting off a tie with Mr. K. L. Hart of the same city. Mr. Tanner, as stated before, always shoots a 'Winchester "pump" gun. The only straight score of 25 in the Wellington Event, which was shot off in a high wind storm, was made by Mr. Seaver, shooting a Winchester "pump" gun and the "Leader" shells. The McVeagh Handicap Medal was captured by Mr. Geo Julian, of Tucson. Arizona, after shooting off a tie with Mr. D. D. Mc- Donald, of Prescott, Arizona. Both Mr. Julian and Mr. McDonald shot Winchester "pump" guns and the Winchester "Leader" shells. The Two-Man Cham- pionship Trophy was won by Mr. W. B. Purcell, of Tucson, Arizona, and Mr. A. A. Jones, of Mesa, Ari- zona. Both gentlemen shot Winchester "pump" guns, and in connection Mr. Jones used "Leader" shells. Mr. Seaver's and Mr. Rand's scores day by day. were: First day, Seaver 90 out of 95, Rand 90 out of 95; second day, Seaver 88 out of 95, Rand 86 out of 95; third day, Seaver 81 out of 85, Rand S2 out of 85; fourth day, Seaver 67 out of 70, Rand 68 out of 70; grand total, Seaver 325 out of 345, Rand 326 out of 345- o N & N On a hot day drink Jackson's 7^apa Soda lemonades and be refreshed. AGE LIMITS OF DAIRY COWS. A bulletin from the Wisconsin Sta- tion states that a cow- is at her best during her fifth and sixth years, up to which time the production of milk anu butter fat by cows in normal condi- tion increases each year. The length of time the cow will maintain her max- imum production depends on her con- stitutional strength and the care with which she is fed and managed. A good dairy cow should not show any marked falling off until after ten years of age. Many excellent records have been made by cows older than this. The quality of the milk produced by heifers is somewhat better than that of older cows, for a decrease has been noted of one to two-tenths of one per cent in the average fat content for each year till the cows have reached the full age. This is caused by the increase in the weight of the cows with advancing age. At any rate, there seems to be a parallelism between the two sets of figures for the same cows Y'oung ani- mals use a portion of their food for the formation of body tissue, and it is to be expected, therefore, that heifers will require a larger proportion of nutrients for the production of milk or butter fat than do other cows. Af- ter a certain age has been reached, on the average seven years of age, the food required for the production of a unit of milk or butter fat again in- creases both as regards dry matter and the digestible components of the food. A good milk cow of exceptional strength, kept under favorable condi- tions, whose digestive system has not been impaired by overfeeding or crowding for high results, should con- tinue to be a profitable producer till her twelfth year, although the economy of her production is apt to he some what reduced before this age i; reached. POULTRY NOTES. Eggs are more marketable than fowls. Fowls need to be sold by the dozen or half dozen, amounting to two or three dollars. A merchant does not like to handle one fowl, but few per- sons will not use a dozen fresh eggs. While oats and wheat may be fed in the bundle, it is doubtful if corn should be fed in the ear. Hens seem to en- joy thrashing their own wheat and oats, and it may be good for them, but corn is too hard to shell for them to have to peck it off. A man can shell it a good deal easier. Winter eggs are the ones most de- sired. A wideawake breed, comfortable scratching pens, plenty of food deep in the straw in the morning, with a warm mash at night, and warm quar- ters to roost in, is almost a sure re- cipe to obtain them. It is worth try- ing. Chickens are fond of dandelions and will eat them in preference to many kinds of grass. It is practicably impos- sible to start a grass plot of any kind where poultry feed, as they will pick off every sprig as soon as it appears. Grass plots need to be fenced off to themselves in order to get a good start before the fowls are allowed on them. In raising fowls they should be tame, they should have range, should have a I good place in which to roost, should be protected from storms, lice and thieves. White fowls are more easily dressed, and present a good appearance, with less work, than the dark feathered ones, as they are not discolored by pin feathers. I Toghill Stud HVZiESIIXnLjO (Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager. Menlo Park. Cal. Crabbet Arabian Stud -SUSSEX, EliGIAKD. CRABBET PARK. THREE BRIDGES, and NEWBUILDINGS, SOUTH WATER. J The largest breeding stud of Arabian horses in the world. The conditions under which these horses are bred at Newbulldings produce a type unrivalled for quality and hardiness The knowledge of the breed gained by the owners in Arabia enables them to guarantee purity of bloc.- the choicest strains, soma of which are now extinct in the East. Stallions and mares const s supplied to breeders throughout the Colonies and on the Continent. A few mares suitable for hacks and quiet In harness generally for sale. For further particulars address GUY CARLETON, Man ger, Carpenters, Southwafer, Susses, En 12 ®*te gxeebvv anc> *&p&vi&txtan LJanuary 6, 1906 WRINKLES ON MERINOS. Pl-of. Thomas Shaw, in American Sheep Breeder.) Fashion is one of the most exacting and inconsider- ate tyrants of the world. Men are accustomed to say I women is omnipotent, particularly In m rtainlng to dress. But it may well be m whether fashion is stronger in its n women in these matters, than it is upon in hard matters of fact that pertain to certain lines of business. Among the many and varied in- stances which may be chosen to illustrate the potency of fashion over men, in matters pertaining to business, ie is more opposite to the purpose of such illustra- tion than that which pertains to the crowding upon American Merino sheep as many wrinkles or folds in the skin as tin- body may be able to carry. This fashion Is to pome extent apparently in decadence at present time, but its power is still strong with some breeders of Merino sheep. Some thirty or forty i :-■ ago, its prevalence was almost universal among the breeders of th's class as witnessed by the pic- tures of typical Merinos of those days. But even then practical American breeders have set up a standard of revolt ;is witnessed in the types and sub-types of I >elaines that were then being evolved. The fewer wrinkles in the American Merinos of today bear testimony to decadence in this fashion, but even now individual animals, laden down with wrinkles, are frequently in evidence. The story of the influence that led to the develop- ment of wrinkles would be interesting could it be known. Who is able to tell it? Such peculiarities of development have usually a stratum of utility on which to rest as an excuse for their existence. The large surface covered by wool on the Shropshire was encouraged, it is said, for the better protection of the sheep from flies. In time breeders lost sight of this original intent and soon came to wrorship at the shrine of abundant wool covering, as an evidence of very much that was good in the animal. Likewise, it is probable that some wrinkles were tolerated at first, as an evidence of some quality or qualities, and that in time wrinkles drew forth the homage of breed- ers as an evidence of the same. "When did wrinkles first appear? Did they" charac- terize Spanish Merinos in the days of Moorish sway in Spain? AVere they borne by the Merinos of Taren- tum in Sicily? Did they characterize the ancestors of the Spanish Merinos in Italy in the days of Pliny? Were they inherent in the race or are they the out- come of spontaneous variation perpetuated by man through selection in breeding? Who can go back through the mists of those vanished years and dig up some information with reference to these questions from out the buried centuries? "Whatever led to the fostering of the wrinkles on American Merinos, are there any good reasons why they should be perpetuated? If there has been some recession from extreme wrinkly form during recent years, how far should such decadence be allowed, to go? Should it go to the extent of entire obliteration, or should some wrinkles be retained, and if so how many? Partial obliteration has taken place in the breeding of Ranibouillets, the direct descendants of the Spanish Merino, and also in the various types of Delaines. But if partial removal be a good thing. Why not entire removal be a good thing? In some of the Delaine families wrinkles have been entirely removed, why should they not be entirely removed in all of these? These are pertinent questions and they are reasonable. Will not some of the admirers of the wrinkles lift up the curtain and let in a flood of light upon this question? It would certainly be to their interest as breeders to do so, as many, like the writer, look upon the wrinkles as an unnecessary and troublesome appendage. I have put the question to individual breeders of the American Merino and also to breeders in convoca- tion, as to why they encouraged wrinkles, and never yet gained but one answer that was satisfactory. That answer was, that wrinkles increased the shearing surface, and consequently the animal furnished a heavier wool clip. This answer will be considered presently. Breeders have defended wrinkles on the ground that their presence indicated much vigor and stamina. Is that true? I will not question the fact that many sheep with abundant wrinkles have shown marked vigor, but I do not question the inference that abundant wrinkles were the cause of such vigor or were in any way inherently associated with it. I can readily trace the relation between a strong heart girth and abundant vigor, but I cannot trace any re- lation between amplitude of skin to the extent of pro- ducing many folds and wrinkles and abundant vigor. If any can reason out clearly such a relation I, at least, will be grateful for the information. What is the value of the argument that folds and wrinkles increase the weight of fleece? Iney do in- crease it, but is the increase worth the cost? In- crease in wrinkles is attended first with less of uni- formity in the fibres of the wool, second with in- creased difficulty in shearing, and third with decrease in mutton value. Every one who has judged Merinos has noticed the character of the wool fiber on the crest of the wrinkles as compared with the "wool in the depressions between the wrinkles. Uniformity in wool fibres is one of the most valuable characteristics if a fleece. No one will deny the greatly increased i- 'k*Mi In the horse department. Receipts of sheep were the largest on record by a large majority, yet prices during the year averaged from $1@2 higher than in 1904. It was a great year for the man with the sheep. About 75 per cent of the ovine stock shipped out for breeding purposes this year consisted of lambs. An unprecedented number of ewes were shipped out for breeding purposes this year. The year's receipts of horses at Chi- cago will total close to 127 000 head, which shows that the automobiles have not yet put the horse raisers out of business. There were 18,448 horses received in March, which smashed the previous record. The largest receipts of cattle in one day during the year was December 11, when arrivals' were 35,153. Not as many feeding cattle were sent out this year as last. Prices of sheep at this end of the line were too high to admit of much busi- ness being done in the export line dur- ing the year. All kinds of live stock show a higher average than last year. Hog prices were about 25 cents high- er than last year. Combined receipts of live stock at Chicago for the year were close to 16,- 337,000 head and there were 5,000,000 head shipped out. Inasmuch as all kinds of live stock show higher average prices for the year and there has been so much increase in total volume of receipts, the year's valuation will show an increase of around ?20.000.000 compared with 1904. TWIN BORN LAMBS. The twin lambs in an ordinary flock are usually smaller than single lambs. Whether the smaller size is due pri- marily to the lack of proper nutrition after birth or to the small size at birth or io iicih these conditions has not be'eri clearly determined. The difference between the birth weights of twin lambs and single lambs is smaller than is usually sup- posed. The birth weight of the twin male lambs is greater than the birth weight of the single female lambs. The average birth rate of all twin born lambs is about one-half pound below the general average for all lambs. The Ingle female lambs weighed at birth only eight-tenths of :i pound more than the twin-barn females. The smaller size of twin lambs ob- served mi M1M--I (locks is undoubtedly "■ the result of insufficient nutri- tion wail.- suckling than the inferior size al birth. Very few ewes yield sufficient milk to properly nourish two thrifty, early maturing lambs. If such lambs are early taught to eat grain and hay the twin lambs will in most cases thrive equally as well as the single lambs of the same birth weight. With a little attention lambs may be taught to eat at a very early age, and grain fed at this time while the lamb is suckling will produce larger gains than at any later time. If the twin lambs begin early to supplement the milk of the mother by eating corn, oats, clover hay and possibly a little oil meal, they will thrive and in the end become as thrifty as single lambs. A flock of ewes that has been bred for the production of twins may thus be- come considerably more profitable than a flock producing single lambs only. On the other hand, if the breeder fails to supply the extra feed and care nec- essary for the twin lambs, it may be, as often stated, that one good single lamb is better than two puny ones. — F. B. Mumford. TREATMENT OF DISEASES. The treatment of poultry diseases seldom should concern the farmer. It the healthiest and most vigorous breed- ing fowls are kept, the chickens reared under satisfactory conditions, fed on wholesome food and not over crowded, and the building kept thoroughly clean and disinfected, there rarely will be disease among them. When disease does appear, it usually will be found more satisfactory to kill and bury the sick birds than to treat the disease. The poultry houses should be thor- oughly cleaned out and disinfected by the use of a spray pump. A good spray mixture may be made from a 2 pet- cent solution of chloride of lime or creolin or carbolic acid. Spray every square inch of everything inside, roof, walls, roosts, nests, etc. Close up and allow the fumes to act a few hours, then open and ventilate. The poultry yard if situated so that it cannot be plowed and cropped, should be treated with unslaked lime dust. Scrape the yards clean of man- ure and refuse, scatter the lime thick on the ground, then sprinkle the lime with water from the spray pump. This will slake the lime and cause it to destroy any germs of parasites in the soil. Leghorns reach maturity by the con- sumption of as lillle fond as any breed "that produces marketable eggs. But while they are hustlers they are easily affected by draught, and need warm houses, in order to do well. This can be said of any breed Warm quarters do not necessarily mean expensive ones. Cheap material may be use!. WHY NOT RAISE POULTRY? The greatest opportunity exists for special development of the poultry and dairy industries in California, says a recent bulletin of the California Promo- tion Committee. It is urged upon the farming people of the Stale to look into these industries for profit to be ob- tained therefrom. California is spend- ing millions of dollars every year for poultry and eggs and Eastern States are reaping the benefit nf the laxity of California's citizen*. In "the past twelve months more than $3,000,000 were sent East for eggs alone, while the money expended in the Middle West for chickens and turkeys to sup- ply the California market probably ex- ceeded that spent for eggs. California is especially adapted for poultry rais- ing in all parts of the State, and as an adjunct to the income from farms of all kinds, and especially fruit farms, there is nothing that brings in more ready money than chickens. It takes little capital to start when the farm is already going- and the profits are cer- tain and constant. Hundreds of peo- ple who are now living on small farms of ten acres or less could make a good living if they would turn their atten- tion to the raising of poultry. Warranted to Olve Satisfaction, GombauM's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hook, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Pull's, 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, Ab a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc, it is invaluable. Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is Warrnnted to prlve satisfaction. Price $1 50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- f>ress, charges paid, With Cull directions for ts use. 63TSend for descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc. Address •The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 January 6, 19. 6J cfritc $vjeeb&c mxir &pfrct$rmim 13 To PREVENT TOE DRAGGING. Alexander Corcoran discusses in the Horseshoers' Journal a serious defect in many horses and explains the reme- dies: How frequently we find a horse com- ing into our shop with the toe of his hind foot worn completely off or square. Sometimes both feet are af- fected, and I have seen one hind and one fore foot come in, in the same way. We must do something with it, or else the foot is ruined. What is to be done? Our first impulse is to place a thick, heavy clip on the toe. filling out the worn off parts with steel or iron, and thus giving the foot double wear on these parts affected. All's good, but watch the ending. In two weeks, per- haps less, we will find the horse back again with the foot in exactly the same condition as before, and he is shod over again in the same way, to again wear off the toe calk, clip and all. Look over the shoe as it comes off; see the heel calks, how high they are; scarcely worn a particle; it's the toe that's gone, and bad, too. What's the cause? Many. Place a perfect legged horse in the hands of a lady to drive, and unless she is an expert, that horse gets lazy, and the cure in this case is a good driver with a good whip. Again, we find horses driven along at a good rate, that may be affected with the same trouble? What's the cause in this case? In travel, watch such a horse and see if there is not a stiff action of the muscles above the hock joint ai ** be- low the hip. Veterinary surgeons know the location by its proper name; we know the muscles are stiff and do not perform their natural work. So the horse finds a tremendous task be- fore him in making up for the loss of their power, and with the weight on the extreme end of the limb additional labor devolves on him. The result is, that he has not sufficient power to do his work in a clear way. and he will drag his toe in doing it. Remedy: First, see a veterinary surveon and have the limb examined, and let him prescribe; bu€ should he insist on the horse being perfect, just apply a slight blister to the affected parts described above. Use a little blister, too, on the lower tendons, and in a few days, or when the horse is strong, do your shoeing. First — Have the shoe light Second — Have the toe calk well set back on the web, and the shoe very full to the toe. Third — Have the shoe fitted only the length of the foot. Fourth — And a little lower on the heels. Fifth — In a plain shoe, have the heels some thinner, and the roll begin one- half inch from the toe. Sixth — Don't weight the toe with a heavy clip; it's an invitation for the horse to begin dragging again. Seventh — Keep the heels of the foot low in dressing, and nurse a long toe. Follow these directions, and in nine out of ten cases a cure will be worked for the toe dragging horse. o TUBERCULOSIS IN CATTLE. Dr. Frederick A. Spafford of the Da- kota Board of Regents, a distinguished physician, believes that the State could stamp out tuberculosis in cattle in a few years. He would have every patient, as soon as symptoms of the disease were dis- covered, removed to a camp where it would not come in contact with the healthy community, and there, with proper treatment, particularly from the hygienic standpoint, he thinks a sur- prisingly large number would be re- stored to health. He says that the popular impression that tuberculosis is necessarily fatal is entirely mistaken and that there are thousands of recoveries every year. The trouble being entirely a germ dis- ease, the recovery from it depends upon the ability of the white corpuscles ot the blood to surround, fight back, eat up and destroy the tubercular bacilli. If the general condition of the patient is good and his hygienic surroundings what they should be, the chances for recovery are very large. There was a time when farmers were looking for thin animals for feeding purposes. They seemed to think the gap between the "skin and bones" stage and a finished condition must be bridged by the feeder if any profit were to be made, says the Detroit News-Tribune. All of this has been changed, however, and now the ex- perienced feeder no longer looks for thin feeding stock, but prefers- that which has been well conditioned in advance of the time when a full grain raiion is to be fed. That more grain is required to make the first hundred pounds of gain on a bullock than the last has been repeatedly demonstrated, and experienced feeders prefr to buy steers that are in fair killing condi- tion. There are now many cattle feeders in Michigan who make it a rule to fill their feed yards in February or March with cattle that have been well started by others. The type of the cow has just as much to do with milk giving capacity in proportion to feed consumed as the form of the horse does in making* of him a wasteful or an economical feed- der. We have all seen slab-sided, leggy horses that required a barn full of hay and 50 ears of corn a day to fill up. There is the same difference in cows. It pays the farmer to be able to judge of the value of cows by the animal's form — dairy form. Sponges— S. Adderley, 307 Market St. Veterinary Experience Infallible guide to horse health. 100 page book, free. Symptoms of all diseases and treatment, by eminent veterinary, com- pounder of TUTTLE'S ELIXIR. Sure cure for curb, colic, splint, recent shoe boils, most horse ailments. $100. reward for failure where we say it willcure. Tuttle's American Worm Powders never fail. Tuttles Family Elixir, greatest of all household liniments. Write for th« book. TUTTLE'S ELIXIR CO., 52 Beverly St, Boston. Mass. Mack & Co.. San Francisco and F. "W.'Eraun, Loa Angeles, California Agents. TO TRADE. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD COLT, 1-1.2 hands high; Ji weighs 900 pounds; bright sorrel in color; perfectly sound and can run a quarter of a mile in 23 seconds or better. Suitable for a polo pony Will trade for a draft stallion. Will sell at a reasonable price. Address SOL SHOCKLEY, Merced, Cal. SURREY HORSE WANTED. A HIGH-CLASS HORSE SUITABLE FOR J v surrey Must be over 16 hands high, stylish, thoroughly broken for city driving, have good action and a good disposition. Give particulars where horse can be seen, price, etc. Address J. W , care of Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street. San Francisco. FOR SALE-MUST BE SOLD, Bay Fllly.foaled May 9, 1904, bv Alta Vela2:liw and out of Grace Lowry by Diablo 209Ji Chestnut Colt foaled 1902, by Nutwood Wilkes 2:1614 and out of Lily Lang try, dam of Dudley 2:14. of Ed. B Young 2:liy2t of Lily Direct 2:21!4 andofEsteile2:24H Bay Colt, foaled May 31, 1904, by Bonnie Direct 2:05M and out of Alis B. 2:24^ by Nutwood Wiikes 2:16i4- Bay Filly f thoroughbred), Reg. No 32793, foaled May. 1902. bv Abalanzar and out of Flam- beauette by Flambeau. Address all communications to CARLTON W. GREENE, Sixth Floor, Union Trust Building, San Francisco, Cal. Are "hard to cure, yet SHOE BOILS Mbsorbine Will Tcmnve them and leave no blemish. Does not blister or remove the hair. Cures anv puff or swelling. §2.00 per bottle, delivered. Book 7-B Free. ABSORBINE, JR., for Mankind, Sl.OOper Bottle. Cures Boils, Bruises, Old Sores, Swellings, Etc. Mfd. only by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F.( 54 Monmouth Street. SprlngBeld, Mass. For sale by Mack&Co Langiey &MiohaeIaCo aldington & Co., J. O'Kane and J. A. McKerron, all of San Francisco FOR EXCHANGE ONE ^OOD LOOKING SOUND YOUNG ROAD HORSE, good actor, thoroughly city broken— and ONE CHE^TN UT G kL I > l N G sound and a good roader; both guarauteed every way. I want to trade the above horses for a well matched thoroughly broken team something that will do to use for park driving. Address, H. R. RAND. Fashion Stables, San Francisco. JACK FOR SALE. A BLACK JACK WITH LIGHT POINTS; •**■ large, heavy boned prompt and a gooa han- dler. Is a good foal gett-r and hla foals are excellent Individuals. Price very reasonable for prompt sale. Address for further particulars, S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa. F*or Sale Inquire of H. R. RAND, Fashion Sta- bles, Ellis Street, BAY GKLD1NG. Five years old. stands 17 hands, weighs 1200. By St. Whips. 1st dam bv Daly, 2d dam by Milton Medium. Tnorou"hi'v broken sint'le or double. A (Treat actor, a grand road horse and warranted SOUND. CHESTNUT GRIDING, 8yearsold, 16hands high, weighs 1200 lbs. A grand surry or trap horse. Has been driven by a lady in the Park all winter \\ itliout a doubt, this is the best family horse in the country. Guaranteed Sound. One New Side Bar stivers for N VlBagey Pneumatic tires, Carmine gear, black body. One Side Spring, High Hack, Business or Kun- About Buggy. One New Chicago Road or BreakingCart. Long shafts. Best one in the city. One Set New Coach Harness. One Set New Surrv Harness Ten Set New Single Harness. Two Sets of Run-about Harness. Also Light Road and Track Harness. Some Fancy Halters, Pads, Etc. FOR SALE OR LEASE. Two Prince Airlie Stallions. PORTOLA 37413. a handsome golden bay 7 years old, ]6 hands, weighs 1190 lbs. MENLO BOY 37401, a magnificent brown with white points, Gj ears old, 16.1 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. These t »y Piedmont 2:17. (: second 'J't1'*?3' Lowell (dam of Ladvw.-ll 2-i.° ' and Lorlta 2:18!i) by St. Clair; third dan? Laura, dam of Doc, sire of Occident 2:18'/ ' ANDdSPORriMA^Tr!.CBtl0nS to BREEDER and bPORrSMAN,36 Geary St., San Franclsoo. The Standard Bred Stallion ODANROC FOR SALE. QDANHOC 13 A COAL BLACK STALLION- soml H»U.«y«aH £ld !.a,t SePten>ber; Is band! IJS -,r?ls styll*.hand sonnu as a new dollar and with less tnan four months' work has shown a trial mile In 2:28 and quarters at a S:S0 clip £?a£r°nHS by f°ronado 2:12(4. he by McKinney ?», ^ j,,0danr00 sdam ls tbe standard and regis £»?Cn ' , e b,,",L,"e'. oe »y Harold Bessie Rex s i flr.-t dam is the black mare Klatta. stand- ard and registered. Odanroc Is In every resoect ?.50°b, .n'r,"'.41""- StaDds ,53« "anolwellns "SO lbs. and is a square and level headed trotter Wears no boots, is as kind as a kitten, fears nothing, and any chl d can drivehim with safety For price and further particulars address a"",• &• VV DEFORD, *"• O. Box 305, National City, Cal. McKINNEY STALLION FOR SALE. QNE OF THE GRANDEST LOOKING AND w best bred McKlnney stallions ever foaled is offered for sale He is five years old, sired by the great McKinney 2:11*, dam by Dexter Prince, that sired the dam of Nora McKlnney 2- 12M (trial to wagon 2:09): second dam by a son of Election- eer; third dam by McDonald Chief, sire of the dams of Tom Smith 2:13* ana Stella 2-15W Thlsstalllon hasnevtr raced and has not been trained, but has trotted miles better than 2-30 and quarters in 35 seoonds Stands 15 3 weighs 1050pounds. is a beautiful bay with black points and without a pimple. Is bd exceptionally hand- some horse fine disposition and has marvelous endurance. No horse living has cleaner straighteror more perfect legs A grand pros- pect to train, and a sure money-maker in the stud Would make one of the grandest roadsters in America. For further pa ticulars address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 38 Geary St., San Francisco 673-680 11th Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE ZIBBELL & SON, Proprietors. San Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Bundling all kinds Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand T i ■ any car going to the Chutes. Tel.: West 259 TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Fnlton Street) Horses Called For, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR HIRE. I have opened a new Boarding and Training Slable near the above corner, and will board and train for racing road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horees at reasonable rates Have good location, brand-new stable and everything first-class All horses In my care will receive the best of attention. Plione: Park S73. T. C C«BNEV. THE HORSES of the celebrated ROSE DALE STOCK FARM, belonging to the late Dr. William Feslaw of Santa Rosa, are being sold at private sale by the administratrix of his estate. These comprise the well-known stallions, WASHINGTON McKIN- NEY and ST. WHIPS, and two three-year-old Stal- lions, Colts, Yearlings and Brood Mares, mostly of the McKinney and St. Whips stock. Address ANNA L. FINLAW, Santa Rosa, Cal. mm mimic: TakmltlnJime ft If you have the remedy on hand, and are ready to act promptly, you will find that, there is nothing in the form of Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Windpuffs and Bunches which will not yield promptly and perma- nently to Qu inn's Ointment , It has saved thousands of pood horses from the peddler's cart and the broken-down borne market. Mr. C, U. Dtck- lena. ofMlnneapoUs, Minn., who conducts one of the largest livery stables in the Northwest, I Writes nc follows; I have been using Qulnn's Ointment for some time and with tbe great em I success, I take pleasure In recommending it to my rriends. No horseman should be with- I out it in his stable. For curbs, splints, spavins, wind fluffs and all bunches It has no equal." Price SI. 00 por bottle. Sold by all druggists or sent by mail. Write us for circulars* [ frleTorfifi^l',^5 """ W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N. Y. Pedigrees Tabulated and typewritten ready for frtmi Write for prices. 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Kenney 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. VICTOR VERILHAC I ..„ Proprietor,' JAMES M. McGRATH Manager DEXTER PRINCE STABLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Itor. of Grove and Baker Street., ]n»t at the Paoli.ndle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Dovlsadoro Street Cars) | Best located ^and healthiest Stable In San Franolsoo. care lor and oxerofs > stable d not ha,e their horTe'slJrghtTned bTauioSlle Fine Pasturage. No Wire Fencing. Good Box Stalls and Best of Care Always a good roadster on hand tnr glven hors the entire trip in an hour and a half. One thing is certain — he is either a poor mathematician or a good prevaricator. WHAT ABOUT A CALIFORNIA CIRCUIT? Are things to be allowed to drift along as they have for the past three years, when after lots of hot air about a circuit of eight or ten weeks being assured- it has dwindled to three or four meetings? We hope not. There can be a good circuit arranged, but some one must take the lead in the matter and bring the man- agers of the different tracks together. Dates will have to be arranged and purses announced. This all takes time and there is no time to lose. The sooner the track managers get together the better for all concerned. Quite a large number of the horse owners in California have stated that this year they propose to wait until a circuit is arranged before they place their horses in actual training. They want to have something in sight before they begin spending their money to get it It therefore behooves all track managers and all associations intending to hold meet- ings this year to get a move on and let the horsemen know what to expect. At the combination sale of trotters and pacers held in the new Coliseum at the Union Si.ock Yards, Chi- cago, the week after the close of the International Live Stock Exposition, the highest price was $3,500 paid for the trotter Axcyell 2:10%, which was pur- chased by a New England fancier. Chas. Whitehead is jogging Mr. J. B. Iverson's great gelding North Star 2:13% at the Salinas track. The son of Nutwood Wilkes has been turned out since the close of his three-year-old campaign last year, during which he won all the three-year-old trotting stakes in California and earned over $5000 for his owner. Star Pointer 1:59%, besides being the first two- minute horse is the holder of many best records in races. He has the fastest race record, 2 : 00 % ; the fastest third heat. 2:00%, and the fastest three-heat race. 2:02%, 2:03%. 2:03%, all to his credit, which shows that his title of champion race horse is well founded. And he is producing speed from all sorts of mares. He now has four in the 2:10 list, headed by Morning Star 2:06%, that next to Cresceus brought the highest price at the recent Old Glory sale — $10,500. There was not a handsomer horse in all that 1000 sold than Morning Star. . The Fasig-Tipton Co , who have their offices in the great tower of Madison Square Garden, and who practically sell all the trotters and thoroughbreds whkh go under the hammer in New York, report the greatest year in the history of the firm. The fig- ures tell the story. At their various sales 5000 horses were sold for a total of $2,775-000, as against 1904 with $2,710,000. Their phenomenal time was in November and December, when in thirty days they turned over $997,980. Their Old Glory sale of trot- ters and the Rancho del Paso sale of thoroughbreds were both record breakers. Representatives from every driving club of New Jersey attended a meeting at Newark recently upon the invitation of Adam H. Groel, president of the Road Horse Association of New Jersey. The object of the gathering was to form a state organization of road drivers, and about a dozen different clubs sent delegates. A committee was appointed to draft a constitution and by-laws, the object being to pro_- tect their rights upon the highways of the stale, and much interest is being manifested for the final out- come. Barney Demarest has sold York Boy 2:08% to J. Boyd Thatcher. ex-Mayor of Albany. N. Y.. for $700. Sidney Dillon, is beyond the reach of most Cali- fornia breeders, but they should remember that his full brother, Cupid 2:18, is still here, and for his opportunities is a great sire of speed. He h;>- Venus II 2.11V Zambia 2:14%, Psyche 2:16* Lottie Parks 2:16%, and these are about the only ones of his get that have started in races Mr. A. B. Spreckels has consigned a number of young Cupids '" the sale of Aptos Ranch horses which Fred H. Chase & Co. will hold in this city some time in February. There will also be offered at this sale young trotters and pacers by Dexter Prince and Aptos Wilkes, the latter an own brother to the famous mare Hulda 2:08%. Over a dozen horsemen inspect el this week the new McMurray Speed Cart just received, by the Ken- ney Manufacturing Company at 531 Valencia street and without exception every one pronounced it •the best yet" It has a low seat, is very light and is so adjusted that all the weight comes on the wheels and not on the horse. Go out and look it over. When, a year ago, Frank Turner purchased from the estate of Henry Pierce all the mares, stallions, colts and fillies located at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, he paid $10,000 for them and took a lease of the farm. He has jusf sold to Sterling Holt of Indiana, twenty- two head of colts and fillies, getting over $12,000 for them, and has all the brood mares and several stal- lions and youngsters le!t. He has made a nice profit on the deal and every horseman in California will be glad to know that he has done so well. On the first of January all colts and fillies took on another year in reckoning their age. no matter at what season of the year they were born. Frank Wire of Davisville has a pair of fine large black driving horses for sale. See advertisement. Bonnie Steinway, son of Steinway. and the great brood mare Bon Bon 2:26. dam of Bonnie Direct 2:05% and Bonsilene 2:14%, by Simmons, has filled out into one of the grandest looking stallions ever seen at the Pleasantcn track His owner. Mr. C. L. Griffith, ex- pects this horse to take low record this year. He has speel enough to pace a mile below 2:10 and worked miles below 2:12 last summer. Many horses are being jogged at the different Cali- fornia training tracks, and many colts and fillies are •being broken, but none of the trainers are trying to make any speed, and will not until the middle of February. Geo. A. Kellv of Pleasanton. owner of Bonnie McK , sold a foal of 1S05 by him last week for $200. an I $500 was refused fcr another foal by the same sire. C. X Larrabee is fitting up several carloads of horses bred on his Brook-Nook Ranch. Montana, for the eastern market. Mr. Larrabee breeds about 200 mares every year to his own stallions and last ye-*r raised 135 foals. Members of the Pasadena Toirnament of Roses Association, headed by E. D. NefC. are the promoters of the horse show which will be given in Pasadena March S, 9 and 10 The name of E. A. Ashbrook. the eastern horse show expert, who has announced his willingness to aid in establishing an annual show in Los Angeles, is being considered for the position of manager. With the stables of the 200 millionaire fam- ilies of Paradena and the many fine animals in Los Angeles to draw from, the success of the entry list should be complete. Josie 2:08%, a member of the 1905 string of the East View Farm, is now in the stable of James Burns, Toronto. Ont. She is a sister to Billv Red 2:10. Only four stallions have each sired thirty or more performers with records of 2:15 or better. McKinney 2:11% by Alcyone 2:27. thirty-nine: Gambetta Wilkes 2:19%, thirty, three: Alcantara 2:23. thirty-one. and Baron Wilkes 1; IS, thirty. A! these stallions were got by George Wilkes 2:22 McKinney is the youngest, having been foaled in 1SS7, Baron Wilkes foaled in 1882. next: Gambetta Wilkes, foaled in 1881, next, and Alcantara, foaled in 1876, the oldest. HEARD ON THE TELEPHONE. It is said that Samuel E. Hyde. Fall River, Mass., has refused an offer of $15,000 for the three-year-old colt Silence by Chimes, out of Whisper 2.08%. "Hello, Breeder & Sportsman!" "Hello: " "This is Sandy, down at Aptos Ranch. Sa I would like to state through your columns that the 2" horses to be sold by Fred Chase & Co. for Mr. A. B. Spreckels early in February are all looking rii; doing well." "All right. Sandy, we wilt so slate." "And say: there is a full sister to Verms II 2 ll1;. that is coming six years old. among them, and she is as good or better than Venus; she is a line trotter and has shown quarters in 36 seconds over this half- mile track, which you know is not a fast one. say! That three-year-old gelding by Dexter Prince out of the Stamboul mare, dam of Zambia 2:14%. is a sure enough trotter and in good hands can whole lot of money I think the fellow is lucky who goes to the sale and get these two. as he a stable that can win money on an] cir« all. just now. Good bye." "Good bye. Sandy." •*. i al tain the top mak< u : ■ i i i ■ i ■ d i < i w - i ou 2:01 ■ tl popular son of tl i hampion coi Ition. E-Ie w as never so ■ i. . i oi tid healthy as al thi pres nl time. ii» Lo LS mil '' ■ gets every day are hardly to keep him from pi r forming I he ai les , , ,-; ■ ir-old. When the millionaire horseman. Mr. Sterling R. Holt of Indianapolis, paid $9000 at auction in 1904 for Sidney Dillon he made about the best bargain in horse flesh that has been recorded for some time. Before the season of 1905 was over the horse had earned his purchase price for Mr. Holt and his* book for 1906 will be filled at an increased fee before the season really opens. Mr. Holt came to California on a business trip last week and visited Frank Turn- er's Santa Ro?a Stock Farm, where he became so enamored of the youngsters by his horse that he pur- chased twenty-five head of them, or nearly all that were in Sonoma county. He made the purchase with the assistance of Millard Sanders, the well known trainer, who gave Lou Dillon and Dolly Dillon their records and Mr. Sanders will have them all in charge at Pleasanton during the winter and spring and will probably take them to Indianapolis about May 1st. Among those purchased from Mr. Turner are eight yearlings out of the farm's best mares and the fol- lowing two, three and four year olds: Carrie Dillon 3. Carlocita 4, Clay Dillon 3, Lottie Dillon 3, Adioo Dillon 3 Sonoma Dillon 2, Santa Rosa Dillon 2, Ruth Dillon 2, Martha Dillon 2, Sadie Dillon 2, Kate Dillon 2. Miss Sidney Dillon 5, and Rose Dillon 4. Mr. Holt also purchased three Sidney Dillons from Mr. S. B. Wright, and one from Joe Cuicello. The aggregate amount paid for the entire lot was in the neighbor- hood Of $16,000. There are many of these colts and fillies with speed enough to trot or pace closo lo 2:10 this year. Carlo- cita took a time record last year of 2:24%, and Carrie Dillon one of 2:24%. They could have paced much faster, but were held back so as to just enter the standard list, and not get records that would bar them from class racing. Both worked miles below 2:20 during1 the season. Mir. Holt has shown excellent judgment in purchas- ing these young Sidney Dillons, and under Mr. San- der's tutelage they will doubtless add much fame to Sidney Dillon' as a sire. While there are seven or eight of Sidney Dillon's older foals scattered through- out the State, these youngsters comprise about all the youngsters by him that there are in the State. Frank Turner still owns three royally bred young stallions by Sidney Dillon, having refused an offer of $6000 for them made by Mr. Holt. They will be in the stud this year at the Santa Rosa Stock Farm. Besides Sidney Dillon, Mr. Holt owns the young Cali- fornia stallion Sterling McKinney, and the stallion Rex Americus. His farm is known as Maple wood Farm and is one of the show places of Indianapolis. Since the death of Dr William Finlaw at Santa Rosa, a number of the horses owned by him at the time of his death have been sold by Mrs. Finlaw, and the sales confirmed by the , Superior Court. The sales included a number of yearlings and ether horses owned by the estate. Among the sales confirmed were the following: Ten colts to Sam Morris for $500, one span work horses to Frank Steele for $155, one yearling to W. H. Sutherland for $75, two horses to Mrs. C. R. Farmer for $450, yearling to White for $60, yearling and colt to W. Dryden for $65, one horse to Dr Fay for $75, one mare to C. H. Durand for $100, yearling to C. W. Jessup for $65, yearling to John Lavall for $60. horse to Mrs. E. B. Miller for $300, six brood mares and one colt to Mrs. Miller for $825. THE HORGAN FUTURITY STAKE. The Futurity Stake for yearlings which was in- augurated by Mr. P. J. Horgan of Concord closed January 1st with twelve entries. The entrance money to this stake is $15. of which $5 accompanied nominations January 1st. The race is for foals of 1905, bred in Contra Costa county, and will be de- cided at the Concord track in September, at which time it is hoped a county fair and race meeting will be given, but if not the race will come off anyway. The money is to be divided 50, 25 and 15 per cent, and $50 is to be added to the stake by Mr. John Ott of Pacheco. The entries for the Hcrgan Futurity are as follows: Captain -J. E. Durham of Concord — Colt by Dictatus; dam Conductor. Ray McDonald of Concord — Colt by Dictatus; dam by Jim Mulvaney. Mr. Lewis of Martinez — Colt by Dictatus; dam by Sidmoor. George Whitman of Concord— Colt by Dictatus; dam by Steinway. R. C. Caven of Concord — Colt by Sidmoor; dam by Abbottsford Jr. H. H. El worthy of Concord — Colt by Dictatus; dam ay Conductor. J. T. Flemming of Concord — Colt by Sidmoor; dam by Sidney. H. C. Keller of Concord— Colt by Sidmoor; dam by . Jesse Morgan of Clayton— Colt by Sidmoor; dam by son of Direct. John Ott of Pacheco— Colt by Sidmoor; dam by Alcona. J. M. Christopher of Pacheco — Colt by Sidmoor; dam by Nevada Chief. L. R. Palmer of Walnut Creek— Colt by Stam B.; dam by Delwin. AUCTION SALE AT PHOENIX. During the recent Arizona Territorial Fair, held at Phoenix, Mr. J. C. Adams, the well known horse breeder, held a sale. A few of the prices paid were as follows: Boydello 2:14%, bay stallion by Boydell. to Louis Melczer for $450. Yedrel Russell, two-year-old by L. W. Russell, dam Yedrel by Nutwood, to Mr. Ooebel for $225. .Miss Russell, by L. W. Russell, to S. Easterling for Miss MicDello, by Boydello. to Ralph Quinn for $475. <;. .Il.n u.i-c in Dr. J. C. Norton for $325. Black Bird, to Mr. Abrams for $230. Miss Nyru, to Mr. Stetson, Los Angeles, for $300. A i. u years alter people gits too old to believe in Santy Clau's," said Uncle Eben, "deys apt to stadt in ,,: Hi v in' in race-hoss tips." *— o Of the six horses that won $10,000 or over during the raring season of 1905 three of them were three year ilds. Capt. C H. Williams of Palo Alto owns a sixteen- months-old Searchlight colt that is one oZ the grand- est natural trotters ever seen. He has never been on a track, but to a long shaft breaking cart on the road steps out like a future champion. The captain says he aims to break Cresceus* record with thi:; fellow. Capt. C. H. "Williams of Palo Alto is very enthusi- astic over a Searchlight colt he owns out of Twenty- third , dam of Sterling McKinney, trial 2:16) by Director 2:17, second dam Nettie Nutwood, dam ol Hillsdale 2:15, by Nutwood 2:18%, and will soon place him in "Jack" Phippen's stable at San Jose. On account of being foaled in September the captain did not enter him in any stakes but intends to give him a little work each year and develop him slowly and safely, hoping and believing he will have a great horse when fully matured. The individuality and breeding of the colt certainly justify his hopes He is a blocky, strong made fellow, the counterpart of his great sire and while only seventeen months old looks a well developed two-year-old now and is al- ways on a trot, showing no inclination to pace. The five-year-old mare Helen Keyes by Sidney Dillon, owned by Harry D. Brown of Pleasanton. is one of the good prospects for a fast performer during the present year. She was taken east by Chas. De Ryder last year but was not started. She has trotted a trial in 2:12 and looks a 2:10 per former sure. Mr. Brown recently refused an offer for her made by Millard Sanders. , Mr. Geo Reed, manager of the Anderson Fruit Company of Suisun, has recently purchased the chest- nut pacing stallion Comet Wilkes 2:21 and is driving him on the road. Mr. Reed is one of the best amateur drivers in the state and is very much pleased with his new purchase. Comet Wilkes was bred by the late William Corbitt and is by Guy Wilkes, dam Mamie Comet 2:23% by Nutwood. A lawyer owned a horse that always stopped and refused to cross a certain bridge leading out of. the town. Neither whipping nor coaxing would move the horse when he approached this bridge. The disciple of Blackstone therefore advertised him for sale in this manner: "Horse for sale; to be sold for no other reason than that the owner wants to get out of town." That the United States Government is finding the supply of horses short is evidenced by the bids for cavalry and artillery horses which were opened at Seattle on the 5th inst. The Quartermaster's De- partment advertised for horses suitable for the Philip- pine service, and the lowest bid was that of Chas. H. Frey of Seattle, who offered to supply 200 head at $129 each. Lord Alwin, the pacing three-year-old stallion, own brother to .John A. McKerron 2:04%, is in Chas. DeRyder's string at Pleasanton. He is owned by Martin Carter and is not only a very handsome but a very fast colt. An eighth in 15 seconds seemed easy for him. Mr. Carter bred him to two or three of his best mares last year and expects to make a sire of him. Mr. E. A. Servis of Durham, Butte county, owner of that fast pacer Edwin S. 2:08, is now at Pleasanton and will probably remain there during the rest of the winter season. His time will be occupied with his horses until after the rainy season, when they will be turned over to a regular trainer. A Shetland pony mare named Belle, owned at the historic Woodburn Farm in Kentucky, produced a living foal when she was thirty years old. The young- ster was a mere pigmy when born, but lived about 30 days. Many cases of Shetland mares remaining productive far beyond the usual equine limit are re- corded, but this one is among the fhost remarkable. Lupe Carillo was at Pleasanton last week and states that Mr. A. W. Shippee will probably send down a string of colts from his Butte county ranch to be worked if stall room for them can be had." A good stiff price was recently refused by A. Morris Fosdick of Los Angeles for a weanling filly by Kinney Lou. dam Athene by Dexter Prince, second dam Athena 2:15% by Electioneer, third dam Ashby, dam of two better than 2:17 by Gen. Benton. Mr. Fosdick is so pleased with the filly that he has booked the dam again to the greatest son of McKinney. "Jack" Phippen is now jogging Athene and she will be fitted to take a record this coming season; as she has lots of speed a very fast mark is expected. January 13 19tb j ®4u- 0&ttitoex imD &f*oxi8mtm THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. By Ralph H. Tozer. The bad showing of Bearcatcher last Saturday at Emeryville in the Follansbee Handicap and the ex- tra good performance of the winner, Barney Schreib- er's bay three-year-old co:t. Dr. Gardner, with 116 pounds up. are the principal topics discussed in turf circles. It seems that Garnett Ferguson had done little with "the Bear" since he won his three-cornered ?25O0 race at Ascot Park, and when he stumbled after going about a quarter it was all og — the horse drop- ped further and further to the rear and refused to try a yard. As to Dr. Gardner, he took up 116 pounds and ran seven furlongs in the same notch as when carrying SS pounds, viz., 1:25%, and apparently did it just about as easily with the big weight up as with the feather. Dr. Gardner is a product of Missouri, but his sire and dam (Bannockburn and Uarda) both raced considerably in California. Bannockburn held the mile record at both Emeryville and Tanforan (1:39) for years. Uarda was campaigned here by a tall Tennesseean named Brownlow. Previous to com- ing here Uarda had beaten Martha II (dam of the great Artful) for the Oaks at Oakley (Cincinnati) and had besides won the Kentucky Oaks at Louisville. In California Uarda was a pronounced cripple, and we saw her at her worst, though she was a magnificent bay mare over 16 hands in height and exceedingly ''racy-looking." I remember offering the peppery Brownlow $900 or $1000 for Urada (I forget which) on oehalf of Prince Poniatowski, "provided she was sound enough to train on." Brownlow would not guarantee that Uarda would stand training, and waxed very wroth over the matter, declaring that "no one could get her for $5000 if she was sound." Just how much Schreiber paid for her I never heard, but it is safe betting he did not give more than $1000 for the daughter of Strathmore and Zuhlan that has given to the world the speed marvel. Dr. Gardner. Speaking of Uarda makes me think what a magnifi- cent collection of stud matrons Schreiber has and how very reasonable in price was each and every one. I can't call to mind a single high priced mare on the place, and yet he has good-lcokers bred on the most fashionable lines that produce stake horses right off the reel. He has far and awray the best string of race horses at Emeryville. There are two young mares in this state not owned by breeders that cught to prove wonderful in the producing line when put to the stud. One is Melodius, the big black four-year-old mare by Sir Dixon (leading sire of America a few seasons ago) out of Kentucky Belle (latter an own sister to Han- over (leading sire of America for four successive sea- sons). More great brood mares figure in the first five generations of Melodius' pedigree than perhaps any mare on this continent, and a host of champion sires as well The other mare is also bred on "taking" lines. being by the unbeaten Meddler (champion sire of America in 1904 and third in 1905) out cf a mare by Russell (winner of $83,192 and a great sire), .he by Eolus (sire of Morello, Diablo, Eole, St. Saviour, Eon, Knight of Ellerslie, etc.) As Meddler's daughters are superior in the racing line to his sons, doubtless they will also be in the producing line, and therefore breeders should aim to secure the sort of mares spoken of above. Dr. Leggo's easy victory at seven furlongs in 1 : 26^4 last Monday makes one believe he is himself again, and that being the case he should prove troublesome in any company from this time forth. Last Monday was the anniversary tand or other i'1'.: From 3ii to 35 acres are usually required for : mxe gxeeitzv anb Qpovtzntan [Januaey ]3, 19(6 half mile track, but if built on a farm for private use, room for buildings, etc., would not be needed. There are many half mile tracks in this country that have been in use for a great many years with satisfactory results. PAYMENTS IN OCCIDENT STAKES. R. Hlckingbottom, Seattle.— Glenelg, register num- ber 3183, was by Baymont, 1027, dam Miss Cole by Milwaukee 603, gran dam Lady Cole by Williams' Magna Charta, son of Magna Charta 105. We do not know the breeding of Grey Hal. Our Dick 2:10% is by Gibraltar 11S5. Do not know his exact age but lie took his record in 1892 and had then been racing three years. Subscriber. Walla Walla —Minnie Princess, a' chest- nut mare, owned for several years by William Cor- bltt, was foaled in 1S79. She was bred by Robert Syer of San Jose. Her sire was Nutwood 600, her dam Belle by Paul's Abdullah, her second dam Kate Crockett by Langford, son of Williamson's Belmont, her third dam Fanny by American Boy, Jr., and her fourth dam Puss, said to be by Lance, son of Modoc. Minnie Princess is the dam of Leonora, that trotted in 2:25 at four years, and of Mignonette, that trotted in 2:34 at two years. F. S. Dashiell, Geyserville — There is a trotting stallion and also a thoroughbred stallion by the name of Red Wing. If you can give us a little further information about the horse in question, as to whether he is a trotter, pacer or runner, and the name of his sire, we may be able to furnish you with his pedi- gree. X. p. — There is no son of Mambrino Patchen 58 that is registered as Mason Chief. The stallion Mason Chief 65S3 is by Hull 1239 (son of Belmont 64) ana his dam is Mag by Saturn 2605, second dam by Hugh Smith, a son of Sir Charles Mason Chief has no standard record. He was owned by Samuel D. Mason. Saegertown, Pa. We have no record of either The Baer Horse or Sconchin. BONNIE DIRECT AT STUD IN PLEASANTON. In the advertising columns of the Breeder and Sportsman this week Mr. Chas. D. Griffith of Pleasan- ton announces that his stallion, Bonnie Direct 2.05%, will make the season of 1906 at that place at the same fee as last year— $100. Bonnie Direct was never looking better than he does at the'present time and his popularity as a sire, although thoroughly estab- lished, is certain to increase every year. The oldest of his foals in 1905 were three years old, and just two of them were trained. One. the Ally Bonalet, won the three-year-old pacing division of the Ken- tucky Futurity and took the world's record for three- year-old pacing fillies in that race, her fastest heat being 2:09% and the other two 2:10% and 2:10%, proving her a great race filly and dead game. The other three-year-old daughter of Bonnie Direct was Bonnie Me, a trotter, and while she got off decidedly and did not win, she trotted a trial mile in 2:11% and is without doubt one of the fastest green trotters in California Every one of the foals of Bonnie Direct that has been handled at all shows speed and race horse qualities. The time to breed to a great horse with the most profit is just before he reaches his greatest popularity, and if the opinions of the best posted trainers and horsemen are worth anything Bonnie Direct is destined to be one of the greatest sires of speed and one of the most popular stallions in California, so that the present year is the time to patronize him, as breeders who send their mares this year will have Bonnie Direct foals for sale when everybody wants them. That Bonnie Direct is producing a very high rate of speed and doing it uniformly is not in the least surprising. On his sire's side he comes from a line of champion race horses, being sired by the champion Direct 2:05%, that was a son of the champion race horse Director 2:17, and he by the great Dictator, own brother to the mighty Dexter. The dam of Bonnie Direct is Bon Bon 2:26, dam also of Bonsilene 2:14% ar)d the magnificent stallion Bonnie Steinway that worked a mile in 2:11% last summer and will be raced this year. Bon Bon is by Simmons, one of the best sons of George Wilkes, and in Bonnie Direct are thus united two great race winning and record holding strains. Dictator and Geo. Wilkes. The second dam of Bonnie Direct is Bonnie Wilkes 2:29^ by George Wilkes, giving him another cross of Wilkes blood, while his third dam was by Bob Johnson, a son of the great Boston and his fourth dam a daugh- ter of American Eclipse. As Direct had a cross of Boston blood in his veins " through Jack Hawkins, i his second dam, it will be seen that Bonnie Direct gels two crosses each of the blood of the great- est American trotting and running sires — George Wilkes ami Boston. Mr. Griffith has recently leased 250 acres of fine rolling land just cast of and adjoining Pleasanton and has Eenced it into paddocks, erected new barns and shells and made it an ideal place to care tor man and their Coals. He will have lots of green teed, i as the paddocks are all well watered stock should keep In line condition. Thosi desirous of patronizing o high class stallion this year should correspond with Mr. Griffith and secure bool Ings al once, o Work horses are high. A New York brewery has just placed $45,000 contract Cor 100 head of Perch- erons ':.!.. has i n? n favorite wintering place >rs and ail the available stabling room at that > been taken up. Occident Stake of 1908. Sixty-six entries were made in the Occident Stake of 190S, which closed for entry of yearlings on January 1st. at $10 each The following made entries: John Arnett's blk. c. Sidney Wood by Sidney Ar- nett-Nellie. Geo. H. Bixby's b. c. Banquero by Neernut-Alice McKinney. W, O. Bower's ch. f. Betty Direct by I Direct- Betsy B. I. L. Borden's ch. f. Juliet B. by Monterey-Le Belle Altamont. I. L Borden's ch. c Belvoir by Monterey-Alice Bell. I. L. Borden's b. f. Ramona by Prince Robert-Allie Cresco. Alex. Brown's br. c by Nushagak-Addie B. Alex. Brown's gr. c. by Nushagak-Serpolo. Alex. Brown's b. c. by Prince Ansel-Bonny Derby. Alex. Brown's b. f. by Prince Ansel-Mayella B. La Siesta Ranch's b. c. Siesta by Iran Alto-Wanda. Martin Carter's ch. c. by Kinney Lou-Queen C. Martin Carter's b. c. by Directum II-Muriel P. Martin Carter's b. c. by Nutwood Wilkes-Bessie C. S. Christenson's b. f. by Stam B.-Perza. James Coffin's b. c. Mercury by Zombro-Ella J. James Coffin's br. f. Fritzi Scheff by Cassian-Carrie Malone. _ James Coffin's blk. f. Miss Ethel by Decco-Rose Mc- Kinney. S. T. Coram's ch. f. Kesrina by Nutwood Wilkes- Petrina. Geo. A. Cressey's b. c. by Chas. Derby-Elsie. C. A Durfee's blk. c. Dr. Lecco by Lecco-Bessie D. W. G. Durfee's b. c. by Coronado-Lulu Wilkes. Byron Erkenbrecher's b. f. by Electro McKinney- Wilhelmina. Ernest A. Gammon's b. f. Cleo Dillon by Sidney Dillon-Cleo G. Henry Hahn's b. f. Alameda by Lecco-Henrietta. Fritz Hahn's blk. c. by Chas. Derby-Nellie Emoline. Ted Hayes' b. f. by Nutwood Wilkes-Ruth Mary. Mrs. L. J H. Hastings' br. c. California Boy by Coronado-Lady Gosslper. C. Z. Herbert's br. c. by Delphi-Altoonita. S. H. Hoy's b. f. Julia by Jules Verne-Beatrice W. H. Hoy's blk. c. Jules by Jules Verne-Camilla. J. B. Iverson's b. c Ernest S. by Scott's McKin- ney-Amy I. J. B. Iverson's b. c. Star Light by Searchlight- Anita I. R. Jordan, Jr.'s b. c El Pronto by Stam B.-Con- stancia. J. A. Jones' blk. f. Sacajawea by Capt. Jones-Lady Beach'. J. A Jones' blk. c. General Jones by Captain Jones- Daisy Q. Hill. J. A. Jones' blk. f. Alta Jones by Capt. Jones-Alta Norte. J. A. Jones' blk c. by Capt. Jones-Amy May. E. C. Beyt's br. f. Sadie Seal by Red Seal by Scar- let Letter. ■ Geo. A. Kelly's br. c. by Bonnie McK.-Vantrim T. F. Kiernan's ch. f. Dorothy Wilkeswood by Pa- checo W. -Daisy Nutwood. J. W. Marshall's b. c. Julius V. by Jules Verne- Sophia. W. S. Maben's blk. c. Admiral Togo by Petigru- Dixie W. H. W. Meek's b. or br. c. by Kinney Lou-Cricket. H. W. Meek's b. f. by Stam B.-IsabeL S. U Mitchell's b. c by Peter J.-Elsi. I. C. Mosher's ch. c. Ocean Wave by Tidal Wave- Bessie L. R. C. McCormick's b. f. by Petigru-Julie Madison. P. H. Perkins' br. c. Mirvin W. by Wayland W.- Miss Leah. G. W. Prescott's blk. c. Sun Lock by Zolock- Blondie. E. D. Roberts' b. c. Arrow Stanley by On Stanley- Emaline. John H. Sanders' b c. John S. by Monterey-Zetta. John J. Sangster's ch. f. Miss Jennie by Mono- chrome-Jennie S. E. E. Sherwood's b. f. Daisy Z. by Zombro-Queen Woolsy. Chas. F Silva's b. c. by Stam B.-Swift Bird. H. P. Smith's b. f. Finona McKinney by Montesol- Bessie Norfolk. G. E. Stickle's b. c. Ringgold by Stickle by Diablo. Sutherland & Chadbourne's ch. f Queen Ena by Lecco-Bertie. J. H. Torrey's br. f. Bessie T. by Zombro-Manilla. Valencia Stock Farm's br. c. by Direct -Heir-La Belle. Valencia Stock Farm's b. f. by Direct Heir-Rose- drop. Valencia Stock Farm's blk. c. by Direct Heir-Glen- doveer. Geo. L. Warlow's b. c. by Athablo-Lustrine. Mrs. Chas. Whitehead's br f. Miss Delphi by Del- phi-The Mrs. R. P. Wilson's blk. c. Benton Boul by Peter J.-Lit- tle Dot. J. W. Zibbell's b. f by Tom Smith-Kate Lumry. Occident Stake of 1907. In the Occident Stake of 1907 second payment of $15 has been made on thirty-eight foals, now two years old. Those making second payment are the following: John Arnett's b. c. Chas. Schweizer by Sidney Ar- ia n -Miss Bruner. Thos. H Brent's b. f. Reina del Norte by Del Norte-Laurelia. Mrs. S. V. Barstow's br. f. Miss Allright by Greco- Maud J. Alex. Brown's b. f. Nocha by Nushagak-Pioche. Alex. Brown's b. f. The Bloom by Nushagak-Red- llower. Alex. Brown's b. c. Harold M. by Prince Ansel- Mamie Martin. W. O. Bowers' ch. c. W. O. B by Silver Bee-Sadie Benton. j -| I j !| >j ] Martin Carter's b. f. by Nutwood Wilkes-Bonny Derby. Christenson & Thompson's br. f. Beauty Patch by Bonnie Direct-Perza. W. G. Durfee's b. c. by Petigru-Ida Direct. W. G. Durfee's ch. f. by Petigru-Johanna Treat. W. G. Durfee's blk c. by Coronado-Ashwood. Mrs. L. J. H. Hastings' blk. f. Lady H. by Coro- nado-Lady Gossiper. Martin Carter's b. f. Stambia by Stam B -Mora Mae. Jas. E. Berryman's b. c. Monte McKinney by Mon- terey-Dot McKinney. H. P. Smith's b. c. Monte Norfolk by Montesol - Bessie Norfolk. C L. Griffith's br. or blk. f. by Bonnie Direct-Vic- toria S. E. A . Gammon's b. c. Ed Geers by Bayswater Wilkes-Urana. J. M. Hackett's blk. f. Silver Slipper by Suomi- Lottie H. E. P. Heald's blk. c. Tommy Murphy by Monte- rey-Honor. F. Hahn's blk. f. Gold Leaf by Chas. Derby-Nellie Emmoline. J. B. Iverson's b. c. Baron Wilhelm by Barondale- Wilhelmina II. T F. Kiernan's ch. c. Guywood by Pacheco W.- Daisy Nutwood. . La Siesta Ranch's b. c Mogolore by Iran Alto-Lady Belle Isle. M. L. Lusk's b. c. Zeloso by Zombro-Sallie Brooks. • Mrs. C. F. Bunch's b f. Maytime by Stam B. -Elsie Downs. Thos. Smith's b. f. Marguerite Hunt by Nutwood Wilkes-Daisy S. S. Siljan's b. f. Martha H. by Iran Alto-Idabelle Dr. J. J. Summerneld's b. c. Lord Dillon by Sidney Dillon-Roblet. Valencia Stock Farm's b. c. Captain by Direct Heir- Rosedrop. Geo. L. Warlow's b. c. Gen. Nogi by Athablo-Cora Wickersham. Geo. L. Warlow's b. c. Soisette by Guy McKinney- Narcola. R. G. White's blk. c. Gen. -Nogi by Strathway-Snow Flake. Fred Wadham's b. c. Alone Hastings by Petigru- Juliet D. J. A. Jones' blk. c. Chehalem by Capt. Jones-Daisy Q. Hill. J. A. Jones' blk. f. Chehalem Maid by Capt. Jones- Amy May. J. A. Jones' br. c. Admiral Togo - by Capt. Jones- Maggie Caution L. H. Todhunter's b. c. by Zombro-The Silver Bell. Occident Stake of 1906. Third payment of $25 has been made on twenty- five colts and fillies entered in the Occident Stake for three-year-olds to be trotted at the California State Fair this year. Four of these three-year-olds are by McKinney 2.11% and four by Sidney Dillon. Five are by sons of McKinney, Zombro 2:11 being represented by two. and Kinney Lou 2:07%, Guy McKinney and Montesol by one each. Nutwood Wilkes 2: 16% is represented by two, while there is one each to the crdit of Chas. Derby, Nushagak, Del Norte, L. W. Barondale, Sutter, and Stam B The list of those on Russell, Senator, Vesto, Baron Brett o, Barondale, Sutter, and Stam B. The list of those on which third payment has been made follows: J. N. Anderson's blk. f. Delia Derby by Chas. Derby-Nora D. V Alex Brown's b. f. Kinocha by McKinney-PiocrW Alex Brown's b f. Red Blossom by Nushagak-Red- flower. T. W. Barstow's br. c. Nearest McKinney by Mc- Kinney-Maud J. Thos. H. Brent's br. f. Magladi by Del Norte-Lau- relia. Geo. A Cressey's ch. c. by L. W. Russell-Elsie. Martin Carter's b. f. by Nutwood Wilkes-Lew G. T. J. Drais' b. c. Drais McKinney by Guy McKin- ney-BIanche Ward. Peter Fryatt's b. f Easter Maid by Senator- Maud B. Josie S. Frary's ch. c. Roy Dillon by Sidney Dillon - Lisette. M. G. Gill's br. c. Kinney G. by Linney Lou-Mat- tie G. T. F. Kiernan's ch. c. Vasnut by Vasto-Daisy Nut- wood. Wm. Leech's b. f. Hiawatha by Baron Bretto-Sil- ver Bells. Geo. C. Need's b. c. Golden Baron by Barondale- Mary B. E. C. Peart's b c. Electro by Sutter-Buchu. Thos. Smith's ch. c. Professor Heald by Nutwood WHkes^Daisy S. Sutherland & Chadbourne's b. c. Sam G. by Stam B.-Bertie. Santa Rosa Stock Farm's ch. f Lottie Dillon by Sidney Dillon'-Charlotta Wilkes. Santa Rosa Stock Farm's ch. c. 'Bravo Dillon by Sidney Dillon-Russie Russell. L. H. Todhunter's b. c. Silver Hunter by Zombro- The Silver Bell. L. H. Todhunter's b c. Gerald G. by Zombro- Itella. Mrs. L. J. H. Hastings' ch. c. Judge Dillon by Sid- ney Dillon-Eveleen. Vendome Stock Farm's b. c. Alto Kinney by Mc- Kinney-Irantilla. Vendome Stock Farm's b. f. Mrs. Weller by Mc- Kinney-Much Better. Pat Foley's br. c. Major Montesol by Montesol- Lady Galindo. -o- Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. mi a kk r January 13, 19 6 ©lw g vector cut© gpovx&nxaw REVOLUTION IN ROAD MAKING. The Louisville & Nashville Railroad has recently issued for general free distribution a neat pamphlet embodying the split-log idea of road building and road repairing. No movement of the present day having for its object the material advancement of the agricultural resources and general prosperity of the country, holds so fair a promise of permanent and quick results as the "good roads movement." The need for good wagon roads in rural districts is il- lustrated by statistics which show that 99 per cent of all farm products must be carried over common roads to reach railroads That we have so long suffered from inferior roads is to be accounted for by the fact that the question of road improvement has not had a sufficient place in the public mind. This article shows that it is possible to have better roads without any, or at least but small, additional ex- pense. It deals exclusively with dirt roads, not be- cause of any belief that a good dirt road is equal to a macadam road, but because of the fact that a good dirt road is superior to a bad one; and the improve- ment of dirt roads will be a step in the right direc- tion. Take care of the dirt roads arid the macadam will come in time. It is usually the case that the community that will not attempt to keep up a poor road will never keep up a good one. The split-log idea originated with D. Ward King He writes of it as follows; Col G. W. Waters, sec- retary of the Missouri Good Roads Association, said to me: "If the road commissioners of the state of Mis- souri could stand here and see what I see, the result would be worth a hundred thousand dollars a year to this commonwealth ! " It is impossible to express in figures even the most general estimate of the value of such a revolution in road making as must result from the general use of this new and "absurdly simple" method. However, it is well to keep in mind the fact that in almost all states the mileage of common dirt roads is many times double that of macadamized, or other expensive loads intended to be permanent. In a state so long settled, so progressive and pros- perous as Ohio, for example, more than fifty per cent of the roads are of earth, and the interest shown by Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, New York and other Eastern states in the work of the split-log drag in- dicates that the dirt roads of these commonwealths still constitute a very imporant and perplexing ele- ment in the problem of transportation by team. Full ninety-nine per cent of the highways of Missouri and Iowa are earth roads, and a state official of Iowa once said to me that to have fiftene per cent of the main traveled roads of his state macadamized would be to realize the most ambitious dreams of those men of the state especially interested in improving the con- dition of its highways. My interests demanded frequent travel over the road between my farmhouse and the village, and I al- ways felt a keen resentment when bad roads made it difficult or Impossible to drive to town — a state of things that was altogether too frequent A little investigation and experience demonstrated to me that this was by no means the result of indif- ference or inactivity on the part of our road com- missioners. Then I reached the conviction that it was the fate of the farmer to spend $1500 to $3000 a mile for macadamized road or else travel in the mud in all periods of continued wet weather — which is to say a very large proportion of the year. This con- viction is almost universal among farmers who have really wrestled with the road problem and know from experience its difficulties. However, this state of doubt and discouragement did not long continue, and I began to investigate and experiment in an irregular sort of a way. Acting under the persistent impulse to experiment, I one day hitched my team to a drag made of a frost- spoiled wooden pump stock and an old post, held parallel to each other by three pieces of fence boards about three feet long. Smooth wire served in place of a chain, and a strip of plank laid between the post and the pump stock gave me a rough platform upon which to stand. The horses were attached at such a point of the wire as to give the drag a slant of about forty-five degrees in the direction required to force the earth that it would gather from the side of the road up into the center. We had just had a soaking rain, and the earth was in a plastic condition I had driven this drag but a few rods when I was fully aware that it was serving at least the initial purpose for which it was intended — that of leveling down the wheel rut and pushing the surface dirt into the center of the road. At my neighbor's gate, toward town, I turned around and took the other side of the road back to my home. The result was simply astonishing. More rain fell upon this road, but it "ran off like water from a duck's back." Prom that time forward, after every rain or wet spell. I dragged the half mile of the road covered by my original experiment. At the end of three months the road was better than when it had been dragged for three weeks, and at the end of three years it was immensely improved over its condition at the end of the first year's work. I studied the result of each step in my experiment, and finally learned that three elements are required to make a perfect earth road, and that the lack of one of them is fatal to the result. To be perfect, an earth road must be at one and the same time oval, hard and smooth All of these indispensables are acquired by the use of the split-log drag in any soil that I have ever come in contact with — and I have worked in the various kinds of clay soil, in the gumbo of the swampy lowlands, and in the- black mud of the prai- ries. Observation of my experiment taught me that two weeks o>: rain would not put this bit of road in bad condition at a trine when the highway at either end of ii was impassable for a wagon. Of course, it was plain that the reason the road was not bad was that there was no mud in it. But why mud would not collect in it was not clear to me until I was taught my lesson by the very humble means of tin- hog wallow. One day I chanced to notice that water was standing in one of these wallows long after the ground about it had become dry. Probably I had many times before observed this fact, hut not until now had it occurred to me to inquire into, its cause. Examining the edges of the wallow, I was impressed with the fact that it was almost as hard as a piece of earthenware Clearly this was because the wal- lowing of the hogs had mixed or "puddled" the earth and the water together, forming a kind of cement which dried into a hard and practically waterproof surface. The next important lesson in my understanding of the real elements of road-making was taught me by studying what we farmers call a "spouty spot" in the side of a clay hill. All who live in a clay coun- try know the unspeakable stickiness of one of these spouty places, and are familiar with the fact that after ten days or two weeks of bright, hot sunshine, you can take an ax and break from one of these spots a clod so hard that with it you can almost drive a tenpenny nail into a pine plank. Naturally, it oc- curred to me that if this puddled clay soil would stay hard for three months when left in a rough condi- tion, it would surely stay longer if moulded into the form of a smooth roof, so that the water which fell upon it would easily run off. This original half-mile of road was dragged stead- ily for four years before I had a single active re- cruit in my new crusade. At first my neighbors poked good-natured fun at me, probably because the thing was so new and so absurdly simple — and, perhaps, also, because I did the work without pay or any expectation of it. From the outset of this work, so many questions have been poured in upon me indicating points con- cerning which the public is prone to go astray in its understanding of how to build and use the split-log drag that I have prepared the following road-drag- ging "catchism" as covering, with fair completeness, the main working facts in the problem: Would it not be better to plow the read before dragging? No. Plowing gives a soft foundation Plowing the middle of the road is a relic of the old dump-scraper days. What do you do when there are deep ruts in the road? Drag them. If you drag when the surlace is quite loose and soft, you will be surprised how soon the ruts disappear. How do you get the dirt to the middle of the road? By hauling the drag slantwise with the end that is toward the center of the read a little to the rear of the other end. But suppose the road is too narrow? First drag the wheel tracks. After three or four rail - or wet spells plow a shallow furrow just outside the dragged part. Spread this over the road with a drag. Only plow one furrow. You may plow an- other furrow after the next rain. At each plowing you widen the roadbed two feet. How many horses do you use? Two, generally: three if it is just as handy; four when breaking colts — a good solid team in the cen- ter and a colt on each side; two men on the drag — one to drive, the other to control the colts. How do you drain the road? If the earth is pushed to the middle of the road contiirjally. the road will drain itself. Why not make the drag out of plank? You can, and do good work. But the split log is best. The plank drag is not so stiff. Why not make the drag of heavy sawed timber? Because drags so made have a tendency to slip over the bumps Don't you grade up the road first? No. The grading is done with the drag, gradually. By so doing., the road is solid all the time and is built on a solid foundation. What does it cost to drag a mile of road a year? The cost is variously estimated at from one to three dollars. How do you keep the drag from dodging around sidewise? By not loading it too heavily. If a drag dodges around the earth you are moving, it is because It is overloaded. Will the dragged road stand heavy hauling? Yes and no. A dragged road will stand more at avy hauling than an undragged road, but not so much as a macadamized or well-kept gravel road. Will a drag help a sand road? A sand road is a very different proposition from the black soil, clay or gumbo An entirely different method must be adopted. Three things may be done to a sand road to make it better. First, keep it wet: second, haul clay to it; third, sprinkle it with crude nil. as they do in California and in some parts of Southern Kansas and Texas. The drag will be bene- ficial in keeping the sand road perfectly Hat so that it will absorb moisture and retain it a long time. To this catechism I would add the following "Don'ts:" Don't drive too fast. Don't walk: get on the drag and ride. Don't be particular about ma- terial: almost any log will do. Don't try to drag with only one piece; use two. NEWS FROM THE NORTH. ' Poi tlan I Rural Spirit, Jan. 5.) Senator Helman and wifi left here hist Saturday for their former home in San Jose, Cal. The Senator will be located at Pleasanton. where he has a stable of horses in training, including Mack Mack 2:12%, which he Intends to race East this year. The Senator ship- ped down from here three of the best youngsters in the State, all sired by.Capt Junes as follows: Ver- non Jones, junior champion at the Lewis and Clark fair: Chehalem reserve junior champion, and Che- halem Maid, second prize winner in yearling filly class. The get of Capt. Jones are attracting a great deal of attention now and they are fast coming to the ' speed prospects. W. n. Linn, local agent for J. Crouch & Son. naa on the way from the Lafayette farm twelve head of imported stallions for jthis market. The shipment con- sists of four Belgians, four Percherons and four Ger- man Coach. These stallions were selected especially for this market and are the best in their class. It is reported that Tom Talbot has sold his good green trotters Ounita by Phallamont Boy, out of Beulah to Jasper Reeves. R. H. Jenkins on J. H. Bennett won the paper chase of the Portland Hunt Club New Years day hands down. E. B. Tongue on Oregon Kid was sec- ond. Dr. J. D. Shaw has purchased a fine three-year-old Zombro filly that he is having wintered at the fair grounds and is a promising one for next year. Aug. Erickson has registered his fine colt by Search- light 2:03%, out of Altalena (the dam of speedy Sunny Jim) by Altamont, as The ArchlighL" No. J. A Jones has sold to Henry Helman the second prize yearling filly, Chehalem Maid, at the Lewis ana Clark fair. She is by Capt. Jones, dam Amy May by Alexis 2: IS. Second dam Beulah by Altamont; third dam Tecora by C. M. Clay 22, etc. William Clark of Medford writes he has sold the ihiee-year-old' tlack filly, Fair Maid, to Archie Mc- Gill of Medford. an old time race horseman, for $350. Fair Maid is by Tybault. dam Yreka. by Mt Vernon by Nutwood; second dam by Director. J. Crouch & Son of Lafayette, Ind.. through their agent here, W. B. Linn, purchased this week from J. A. Jones of Springbrook, Ore., the good two-year-old colt Vernon Jones by Capt Jones, dam May Belle Vernon (dam of Col. Mayberry, trial 2:16) by Mt. Vernon, son of Nutwood, etc. Vernon Jones is with- out question the best individual in the state and was pronounced by the judge in the Lewis and Clark show ring as being one of the best two-year-olds he ever saw. Vernon Jones, together with the full broth- er to his sire, Kinney Mc. will be shipped to Lafay- ette. Ind.. their future home. The directors of the Walla Walla Fair Association, under a called meeting, elected a new board of di- rectors a few weeks ago, and since their induction into office have gone to work with a determination of putting the affairs of the association on a good sound footing. Mr. William Hogoboom, the veteran trainer and driver, is still one of us, with his son, Elmer, the boy with the best disposition in the county, his assistant, and some of the wise ones say Elmer can give the "old man" pointers. Billy don't talk very much about what he has that is good in the winter time, but I am going to say this much for him. that he has a great horse in Caution by Electioneer. This horse is the greatest broodmare sire that this country has ever seen. Remember that he is the sire of the dam of Helen Norte 2.09%, trotting, this year. She was only beaten a neck the other day by John Caldwell in 2:08% at Los Angeles. Cal. Billy is also training a few colts by his young stallion Teddy by Diablo. Strange to say a few of these colts show fast at the trot; they all have good legs and in conformation are beauties. The Matinee Club of Pittsburg is one of the strongest in the United States, and Pittsburg is today one of the best horse towns in this country. GOOD BECAUSE IT DOES GOOD. That is the brief but significant comment made in a recent testimonial about Kendalls Spavin Cure. The writer of it put much in little. He express..] tin new ideas; lie did not concern himself with the way, the how. or the why, but in expressive form the great fact that is testified to by so many thousands of people, namely: Thar Kendall's Spavin Cure is the standard dependable remedy for the commonest ailments of hoi ses The common ailments of horses ire not many. But While few. they are liable to come at any time. The b-jsi kept horses and the ones with least care are alike sub- jecl to these common ailments, among which might bo mentioned spavins, ring-hone, lameness, splints and curbs, it is ;. happy circumstance that these ailments on all horse ilesh. no matter in what country, require im variation in (he treatment. And it is also ■> happj circumstance for horse owners thai they may have always ai hand so inexpensive and so dependable a remedy for just these characteristic ailments as is Kendall's Spavin Cure. Even the mosl stubborn cases yit Id o it. It is worthy of note that everyone who has ever used it commends it. At any rate, we have yet to hear of a user in all the years Kendall's Spa1 has been in use who win contend that it is not all it is ted to be ii is to be had at any drug - and we certainly think horse owners who do not have it always on hand ready for lameness, or ans other emergency that may con.- onsulting their own besi Inten Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet. Strike — if they don't give you Jackson- when you ask for it. 8 &he gvee&cv axxb gqwu-ismtm [January 13, 19C6 >j3iS3 [5&S1S3 L*»<£iE3 _-is3iE3 LsSs^SS & ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. COMING EVENTS. Rod, J&n. t-Iune I— Closed season for black bass- April l-Sept. lo. On, 10-Feb. I— Open aca-sun tor talcing h:cz\- h :ad In tidewater. Sept. 10-Oct IS -Close season In tidewater Tor steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season foroatcuing salmon. Sept. la-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawOsb Oct. iS-Nov. lb • Close season Tor taking salmon above tide, water. Nov. 1-April I—Trout season closed. Nov. I-April 1— Closed season for taking steelhead above the water. Nov. l-Sept. 1 — Open reason lor crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide ( iter. Gun. July ]-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season lor mountain quail, grouse and age hen. Oct. I5-Feb. 15— Open season for quail, ducks, etc. Oct I5-Aprll 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. Jan. 4. 6— Southern Ohio Kennel Club. Ham! Hod, O. Jan 10, II— Bay State Co-operative Bench Snow Association. Fall River. Mass. Walter E. ritone, Clerk Jan. 17. 20— Cincinnati Kennel Association. Cincinnati, O. John C. SijhomaUer, Secretary. Feb. 12. 15— Westminster Kennel Club New York. Robt. V. McKim, Secretary. Feb. 20, 23— New England Kennel Club Boston. Wm. B. Emery, Secretary. Entries close Jan 20 Feb -48-March3-Washington Kennel Club. Washington, Pa. F. C. Tnomas, Secretary. March 7. 10— Duquesne Kennel Club Pittsburg, Pa. P. S Steadman Secretary March 13. 16— Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N. Y. S P. Whtir, Secretary. March 14. 17— Passaic County Fi-h and Game Frotective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. J as Matthews, Secretary. Marco 21. 24— Wolverine Kennel Club- Detroit, MIcb. K. G, Smith, Secretary. May 29, SO— Long Island Kennel Club. Jo*. M. Dale, Secretary. June 1 2— Lidies Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed. Secretary. June9— Wissahickon Kennel Club. Wis^ahickon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary Sapt. 3 6-Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J. Lee Secretary. Sept. 8— CeJarhurst Kennel Club Cedarhurst, L I. Jno G. Bates, Secretary. Field Trials. Jan 8— Pacific Coast Field Trials Club, 23d anDual trials. B ik-r>fleld, Cal. Albert Betz, Secretary, aOl Pcirrott Bidg.. San Francisco. Jan 8— Teias Field Trial Club. 4ih annual trials. Kansas City, Tex. Jan. 9— Georgia Fie'd Trial \s««ociation. 4th annual trials. Waynesboro, Ga. P. M. Es>ig. Secretary, Atlanta, Ga. J"an 15-Uoited States Field Trial Club. ]"Lh annual trials. Grand Junction, Tenn. W. B Stafford, Secretary. Jan National Championship Field Trial Club 10 h annual trials Folio win: U. S All Age Stane. W. B StaSjrd, Secre- tary, Trenton, Tenn. BEARS IN THE YELLOWSTONE PARK. "I would advise you not to go into the woods," said a corporal of cavalry to a ruddy faced English- man who was about to explore a piece of heavily timbered forest just back of the Lake Hotel in the Yellowstone Park. A party had just arrived from tli>- i Hi] Faithful Inn in which were this venturesome subject cf King Edward and the writer. "What's the "arm?" he asked in some surprise. "There are two bear colonies not far from the edge of the clearing, and they might make it unpleas- ant for you if you happened to get too near them," replied the corporal. ly '.' '< »w exciting! Shall we 'ave a shot at them before leaving?" and the visitor from the other lied attention to a 7x0 kodak that swung from his lefl shoulder. "No trouble about that," replied L'ncle Sam's guardian. 'Be at the dump near sunset and you'll .1 herd of them." The eyes of the Englishman snapped with delight arefully inspected his picture taking plant to himself that it was in good working order. Nexl to the thermic '(.'-plays and the canyon of the Yellowstone come the bears, in point of interest, to nine-tenths of the visitors to the park. Immedi- ately after registering the visitor asks if there are any bears in the neighborhood. He has seen speci- nlmals in menageries and zoological ■ he has an Intense interest to have a i Bruin in his native environment. If told hotel is n-imerously in- • : runs i i h delight and be- h ni. Not less interested omen. est exhibition of these wild beasts Hotel Thej are to be seen at i i ■ .i her points in the pa rk, but tii- and the largest number visit :i. I Ideal Ion. II lr custom to come out >3f the pine woo Is and ay, their firsl appearance bein& oon I half an hour before indred teet back of the Lake Hotel is r- i of which i l!1 thi rel use from the epos) ted. II Is taken away , y. o tip cai ( being usei ] iurpose. the I< evei s guesl at the hotel Kodaks and Held glasses are numerous. Owners of the former are desirous of^ taking away indusputable evidence of their near asso- ciation with the wild beasts of the park in order to give a thrilling flavor to their experiences when re- cited to friends at home. It establishes the fact that the taker of the picture saw a number of real live bears, and that he or she. in order to get the snap shot, must have been in their near vicinity. After Bruin's evening meal has been loaded into the tip cart its coining is impatiently waited by the assembled guests. The driver starts his horse on an easy trot, and the load is rattled out to the dump. The clatter has been heard by the shaggy denizens of the forest, and before the cart has been emptied they may be seen slowly emerging from the shadowy depths of the great trees and the clumps of bushes to the right and to the left of the open space. "There they come!" whisper the excited and in- terested spectators, as with straining eyes they be- hold the handsome beasts come into the clearing. Their movements are slow and graceful, and occa- sionally they lift their heads and look from right to left as if inspecting the semi-circular line of in- vaders of their domain. Seated with the tourists are always two cavalrymen, with revolvers loaded and ready for use in case the animals should take It into their heads to attack the curious crowd. The bolder of the animals come straight to their meal, and the more timid ones can be seen poking their heads out from behind the trees and the bushes. Those first at the banquet begin operations without the loss of time, and the fact that they have the pick of all the "good things" makes them a little particular as to what they shall select. The first movement is an inspection of what has been offered. Their great, broad forepaws are em- ployed to reveal the various ingredients of the con- glomerate mass, and carefully they turn it over and over until they discover some toothsome morsel, which is pulled out by their sharp claws and con- veyed to their mouths. While in the act of mastica- tion they ease their bodies upon their hindquarters, and. with every evidence of supreme satisfaction, leisurely dispose of the tidbit. The first comers on the occasion in question were three with coats of glossy black, and all were of enormous size. Shortly after their appearance came one with a coat of brown. He also wras of mammoth proportions. After this quartet had feasted for ten minutes they appear disturbed by a noise that came out of the woods over to the left of the clearing. All suspended operations and turned their heads in the direction from whence came the sound. Presently there came into view a procession of five silver tips, the handsomest specimens of the bear species to be found in the park. Leading the line was an enormous female, with two beautiful cubs, one on each side of their ponderous mother. In this latter exhibition the spectators became deeply interested, and gave frequent vent to their delight. The ladies said: "Look at those dear little things," while the men, with more robustness, exclaimed, 'By George, are they not dandies?" The so-called silver lip has a mixture of gray in his coat and a line, nearly white, running the entire length of his back, while his head is decidedly gray. The group in question was sleek, and gave evidence of having been well fed. They were in possession of all their activities and natural beauties, which were in strong contradistinction to the kind that live in captivity. When this last aggregation reached the scene of the banquet the first comers turned about and re- treated slowly to the edge of the woods. This was interpreted as meaning that differences existed be- tween the colonies, and that in a test of strength the silver tips had shown themselves superior to both the blacks and the browns. The cubs were given the right to go where they pleased, and in their wander- ings found many a tender morsel that was just to their liking. The old fellows who had fallen back showed that they did not intend to return, as they finally disappeared in the deepening shadows of the forest. After the silver tips had been feeding for fifteen minutes or more, the mother of the cubs, either from seme movement that she interpreted as threatening danger to her offspring or from annoyance at seeing so many strangers present made a sudden dash at the left wing of the circle. The stampede that fol- lowed defies description. Skirts fluttered and female voices screamed at their top notch. All of the men became panic-stricken, and hurried as fast as their legs could carry them toward the hotel. One of the sterner sex, evidently blinded with fear, ran against a small pine tree and fell senseless from the contact. Worst of all. the two cavalrymen, who were supposed to be present for the protection of the guests, joined in the retreat. It was afterward explained in extenuation of their action that their revolvers were not loaded on this pai ticular occasion. A report followed the tourists the next day that the pugnacious old beast had been killed when next she came to the dump to appease her hunger. Many stories have been told about the cunning tricks played by the hears at the Lake Hotel. Some Of th.se are highly flavored with imagination and others may be set down as pine fiction; but there was an incident which occurred on the night the writer was at the hotel that gives substantial evidence that bruin is posse.-sed of no little perspicacity and down- right cleverness. A display of these qualities was brought out by the arrival of a box of hams at the hotel, after dark, the hour being so late that it was decided not to place them in the storage-room until morning. This was an oversight, as, when the box was seen the next day, it was found to have been ripped open during the night and i.s contents more or les3 disturbed. Two of the hams, partly consumed, were picked up near the splintered top, while a census of the con- signment showed that five others had disappeared entirely. The question arose as to how the purloiners had managed to carry off their spoils, but this was later explained by cne who was acquainted with the tricks and the habits of these sagacious beasts. He affirmed that after the hams had been released the shaggy thieves had taken a prize under each forepaw, and, rising upon their hind legs, had walked off with the smoked viand. Even a weak imagination could picture the humor of this scene, and the fact that the inci- dent was frequently referred to during the remainder of the journey showed that the grotesqueness of the situation had made a deep impression. There is another colony of bears in the wooded hills back of the Canyon Hotel, and they exhibit exactly the same characteristics as do those at the Lake Hotel. They come down a rather steep incline to the feeding ground, which is in a slight depression and affords an excellent opportunity for seeing the bears when at their meals. - — o WONDERFUL COURAGE OF A MOOSE COW. One of the most remarkable moose hunts ever re- ported terminated last fall at Talbot Station, on the line of the Quebec and Lake St. John railway, about sixty-five miles north of this city. P. McCall and J. Carter of Grand Mere discovered a bull moose recently, after following his tracks for a considerable distance. Then they saw that he was accompanied by a female almost as large as himself Often, before getting within good safe rifle shot of the bull the hunters could have easily killed the cow. It would almost have seemed that she was aware of the fact that she was protected by the law of the land, which imposes a fine of §100 upon anyone k.lling a female moose, so dangerously close did she remain to the hunters and so constantly did she harass them during the chase. After following the pair for a considerable distance the hunters succeeded in placing a bullet in the body of the bull, but without striking any vital part of the animal's anatomy, though for some time his course was marked by a stream of blood. Probably because he was not alone, but had the safety of his mate to consider, as well as his own, or it may be because he did not care to face two assailants at the same time, the wounded moose did not turn upon his foes, as so many of these animals do when wounded at close quarters. Both moose made off at first at a very rapid rate, but finally came upon a locality where the snow was so deep that their course was greatly impeded. The hunters found no difficulty whatever in following the two moose, but whenever they approached them tht cow. as if fully understanding the wounded condition of her mate, would turn upon the hunters and keep them at a safe distance until the weakened bull had been able to gain another start. She simply stood in their path and barred the way. This happened not once or twice, but was several times repeated. Many miles were covered in this manner, the chase lasting all day. At nightfall, when the hunters were no longer able to maintain it for want of ability to follow the trail In the dark, they were obliged to camp out in the open air. Fearing to make a fire lest the moose should be driven away, the hunters suffered so much from the extreme cold that they had but little sleep, and had to keep moving about to maintain circulation. As soon as the first glimmer of daylight enabled them to see the tracks of the moose they were onr again in hot pursuit. At one time the trail led them across the Batiscan river, but they were fortunate enough to pick it up again near the opposite shore, and shortly before nightfall on the following day they had the satisfaction of having their persistency re- warded by a glimpse of the animals still traveling together, the bull evidently very much exhausted from loss of blood. As they lessened the distance between them and their quarry the plucky cow again placed herself in the breach to save her lord and master. The hunters separated so that the cow could not cover the fire from both of them, and one more shot brought the handsomely antlered moose lifeless to the ground. Then, and not till then, did the courageous survivor of the pair plunge into the woods and beat a hasty retreat. The hunters estimate that the moose must have led a chase of at least from thirty to forty miles. A meeting of the active spirits who. have been en- gaged for some time past in the formation of a club. the object of which is to provide its membership with facilities for hunting bear in the high Sierra Nevada mountains, was held at Hanford recently. At that time preliminary steps were taken to perfect perma- nent organization A committee was appointed to draft the necessary constitution and by-laws. Cap- tain Brown left for Plumas county to perfect ar- rangements for holding club bear hunts in the future. The club already has excellent preserves in Plumas county and surrounding country. The membership will embrace a number of San Francisco sportsmen, who will co-operate with the Nevada and Northern California members of the club in making the hunting meets of the members notable in the annals of sport- ing events In the United States. JAKOARY 13, Vi± &] die $vce©« nufc gtporiBimiu 9 THE SCENTING POWERS OF SPORTING DOGS. < iccasionally. apparently in the most inexplicable way. a dog seems to lose the greater part of its smelling powers, and without searching further those in charge at once say that scent is bad. ascribing the cause to some mysterious state of the ground, its dryness, soaked slate, etc. And thus they are con- tent to leave the matter. It is an undoubted fact that the scent of game does appear to lie better on a warm, light soil than on a cold, clay one, and if the latter becomes dry scent is sure to be very faint in- deed. Why this should be is hard to explain, but the truth of it cannot be denied Those who are about to purchase Retrievers. Pointers cr Setters should profit by this knowledge and always endeavor to pro- cure such dogs from a district noted for its heavy soil. These animals have been accustomed to dealing with a much fainter scent, and consequently succeed splen- didly when transferred to a district noted for its warm, light staple. To obtain dogs frcm a light soil and expect them to work as well en clay as animals ac- customed to it is utter felly, and bound to end in disappointment. They may get used to the fainter scent in time, but during that period are likely to be condemned as more or less useless. Therefore it is wise to make an effort to procure all sporting dogs for use with the gun frcm a locality known to pos- sess a heavy soil. Even with the cleverest of dogs, and under the most favorable conditions, the mystery of a sudden failing of scent is hard to fathom, and as this is a puzzle which perplexes many sportsmen during every shooting season it is proposed to offer a few explana- tions which may be of assistance in solving the secret. The nostrils of a dog are very delicate organs, and this is especially the case with reference to dogs kept in a total or partial state of domestication. It is probable, from what we hear, that the smelling powers of wolves and dingoes, which are asserted to be the wild congeners of our present dogs, never de- teriorate, and they always seem able to hunt and run down their prey by scent. If this is the case it is only reasonable to suppose that a lack of usual scent- ing powers in our dogs is in some degree attributable to the conditions under which they live And it can be proved easily that this is actually the case. I should be the last to decry the use of disinfectants in kennels, for the employment of one or other of these well known preparations is often the only means of keeping such places healthy and in a proper sani- tary state; but they should be used with due discre- tion. Too often a kennelman will scatter a disin- fectant freely for the sole purpose of concealing un- pleasant evidence of his own negllect. and where this occurs he should be at once forbidden to use it at all. A disinfectant should be employed to assist cleanli- ness, and not as an apology for it. The knowledge that all bad smells may be drowned by the free use of powerful disinfectant often causes a kennelman to be neglectful of removing the cau=e of those smells. It is the usual thing to cleanse kennels early in the morning, and immediately operations are complete to sprinkle every part liberally with disinfectant. The result is the place is reeking with the smell of this disinfectant^for several hours. This all-pervading odor has serious effect on the olfactory senses of the dogs, and when they leave the kennel to work a little later their noses for a time are absolutely useless. This is the true explanation of the reason dogs often work very badly during the early part of the day and afterward perform more brilliantly; although the ordi- nary doggy man will tell one that the improvement is owing to the ground getting warmer. It is perfectly correct to clean out a kennel as early as possible in the day, but a disinfectant should not be used directly afterward till it is known whether the dogs will be required. Should they be wanted a little later defer the disinfecting till they have left the kennel, for its effects will have disappeared by the time the dogs return, and if the services of the animals are not needed use the disinfectant sparingly Personally, I prefer to see it used for flushing the drains of ken- nels only. A dirty kennel impregnated with filth and bad smells acts just as harmfully on a dog's olfactory pow- ers as a place reeking with the smell of a strong disinfectant. For this reason a kennel should be main- tained in as cleanly a state as possible. There are other reasons besides these already ex- plained for a dog's nose being at fault. Scent is gen- erally expected to be very faint on a dry soil — that is. a harsh, dry soil — and this fact admits of easy explanation. As the dog progresses over the surface of the ground a certain amount of dust is raised, and it is this which interferes with the animal's nose. No dog can work accurately when dust is flying, as Norfolk keepers, who have had experience in the dust storms so often blowing on the light lands of that county, will be able to testify. Another thing which seriously handicaps a Retriever especially is the smell of flowers. Such a dog may be seen to follow a running partridge beaut fully to a fence, and then be at an utter loss owing to the bot- tom of that fence being a mass of flowers. Pointers and Setters may also be observed in like difficulty in a field of seeding clover, which is always a mass of flowers during September It is never safe to trust to the dogs having found every head of game In such a crop, as a careful and close walk through after they have passed over it will often prove. The same re- marks apply to dogs working in heather, although they are not often at serious fault in this except on very dry days, when the pollen is flying freely in the air. Dressings of manure upon land also greatly handi- cap dogs, although game is not fond of resorting to fields recently treated, unless it be partridges seeking food in winter. I have noticed that superphosphate of lime, which is about th° strongest smelling of all artificial manures, is one of the worst for affecting dogs. The smell Eeems to linger on the ground for weeks after the manure has been distributed thai length of time, and is lost to human detection, and directly dogs get upon an area treated with it they are at fault. .^ The extreme variation so oJten remarked in the scent left by tunning birds is somet.mes attributable to_ the extent of their injuries. It stands to reason that a bird badly wzunded leaves a stronger scent behind than one which is only slightly hurt: and the speed with which a dog follows some of its game and the certainty with which it sticks to the trail are fre- quently explained by the fact that a spot of blood is left on he ground here and here. A tired Retriever can never follow game with ac- curacy, for a little exercise sets it panting badly, and then the animal is not. making proper use of its nose. Should it be breathing heavily through the mouth to cocl itself and get its wind, only an occasional sniff takes place through the nose, and this is hardly sufficient to form a correct guide. Some people assert that dogs, especially Pointers and Setters, can taste the scent on the air. but this Is open to doubt. Readers will be able to gather from this that there are other reasons for the failure of a dog's scenting powers than the state of the atmosphere and condi- tion of the soil. Generally a little research will solve the mystery, and in the majority of cases it will be discovered that the clog itself is not to blame. — Dalton. COURSING NOTES. COMMENDABLE ACTION OF THE PACIFIC AD- VISORY COMMITTEE. At a meeting of the Pacific Advisory Committee on the 2nd inst., a resolut.on was adopted annulling the disqualification of a number of northern fanciers. The right course was adopted as has been the general belief would be followed, tor eradicating the last smouldering sparks of jurisdictional antagonism. Sec- retary Norman states: "It is believed that an end has now been achieved to all dlsension in kennel mat- ters on the Coast, and this committee congratulates the members of the American Kennel Club in its juris- diction on the unprecedented prospects for a harmo- nious and successful show season " The resolation adopted is the following: "Pacific Advisory Committee of the American Ken- nel Club. January 2nd. 1906. Whereas, all organizations other than the Ameri- can Kennel Club claiming jurisdiction in kennel mat- ters on the Pacific Coast have ceased to exist by rea- son of the action of the officers and members of the Seattle Kennel Club and of the "Western Kennel League in applying for membership in the Seattle Dcg Fanciers' Association, a member of the Ameri- can Kennel Club, and ther consequent election to membership therein, and Whereas, such action marks the end of dissension en the Pacific Coast in matters affecting kennel in- terests, and Whereas, the Seattle Dog "Fanciers' Association has petitioned this committee for the reinstatement of all individuals disqualified for participation in shows held on the Pacific Coast under rules other than those of the American Kennel Club: therefore be it . Resolved, That this committee, in order to promote harmony and the best interests of dogdom on the Pacific Coast, do hereby assent to the petition of the Seattle Dog Fanciers' Association, and be it there- fore Resolved. That all persons disqualified for partici- pation in shows held on the Pacific Coast under rules other than those of the American Kennel Club, in accordance with the resolutions of this committee, passed respectively on July 23, 190, March IS and 27, and June 9. 1905, te and hereby are reinstated to good standing in the American Kennel Club. Attest: J. P. NORMAN, Secretary Pacific Advisory Committee, American Ken- nel Club." Pneumonia in Dogs. The ncrmal temperature of a dog (and this applies to the ox and the goat — all three being the same) is 101.4 degrees F. If the clinical thermometer shows the temperature as being lower than this, it indicates that the dog is in a low. weak state, and needs stimulants; if. on the other hand, the temperature is in excess of 101.4 degrees, that points to feverlshnejs. and any considerable excess, such, for instance, as a tempera- ture cf 104 or 106 degrees, must be regarded as very serious, indeed. Now, coming to the subject of pneumonia — when a dog breathes heavily and has a high degree cf temperature, it will be pretty sa_'e to conclude that there is serious lung trouble, and it will be wise to call in the aid of a qualified veteri- nary surgeon. Pending the arrival of that gentleman, treatment may te proceeded with as l'olows: Remove the ani- mal to a warm apartment, the air in ft blch is ren- dered humid by the agency of a bronchitis kettle. Moist warmth is absolutely essential to the treatment of all cases of lung complaints. Moisl warmth should also te applied externally on flannel to the region of the lungs, and will be found of great benefit. Flannel dipped in hot water and rung out. and then sprinkled with a few drops of turpentine is the best possible thing to apply For medicine, a little of the following mixture may te given. Take a solution of acet tte Ol ammonia, two drachms: camphor water, two ounces. Dose: A teaspoonful for a twenty pound dog every three hours. More or less in propoi l i.ai ,,,r .!ogs of other sizes. The important thing we wish to em- phasize, however, is that a veterinary surgeon should be ca lied in. The offii ials i £ th< Vmeri. an i : -ursing i: ard have looked a long ■ .,i and hav< illottea next year's American Waterloo and also the Missis- sippi Valley Futurity! These two important events . .:i i-e run al Hoi Springs. South Dakota, a summi r resortin tl H.lls. The club ai that place bid $1000 foi event. The Futurity has been growing in popularity from year to year. There was a record entry of 1-14 this year when D K. Cartter, formerly of Kansas hut who is .lain,..: ... .. California'n by his friends here. had the last three dogs in thi stake. The-. Great Northern, Bartagus and The Flight. These three won $SO0. the first prize bi ing The Christmas number of the outdoor News has a profusely illustrated article on 'The Greyhi Proud Place in En-lish Sport." The opening para- graph says: '"Coursing in England is so ancient and honorable a Sport that its traditions fill books, and its present high place in popularity is impressively demonstrated b\ the vast interest shown in the running of the Water- loo Cuji and other prominent fixtures of the season. A winner of this 'blue ribbon* of the coursing world is worth, if not his weight in gold, at least very near It. when more than $5000 has been paid for a champion, and when his stake winnings have more than once passed the $5000 mark dining his coursing career." This article should prove interesting reading to the coursing officials on this Coast who are charged with keeping the sport honorable and on a high plane. Some day they wil realize that running it vear in. yen- out, without giving its followers a breathing spell, is not the wisest policy. Union Coursing Park, which is located at Colma. in San Mateo county, has been closed indefinitely. Early last month a delegation of citizens of Colma appearen before the County Board of Supervisors of San Ma- teo, backing a petition that the board reconsider the action taken at its last meeting, when an ordinance was passed that prohibits the selling of pools and betting on the racing of dogs within the countv lim- its. The petitioners were represented by Herbert I. Choynski. a San Francisco attorney, who made a lengthy argument in favor of the petition, contend- ing that the sport was legitimate and clean, and that many citizens cf the county made a living through caring for the dogs and doing other work in con- nection with the sport. After listening to the arguments advanced by Choynski. the board took immediate action, denying the petition by a unanimous vote. The Menlo Park improvement Association, having heard of the peti- tion to be presented, was represented at the hearing, and its representatives had a counter-petition with them. The Supervisors denied the petition for re- eration without reference to the Menlo Park people, but afterwards heard them in reference to the question. The association, in its petition, com- mended the board for its recent action. The coursing people based their plea for reconsid- eration of the ordinance passed against them on the double ground that they have large sums of money ir.vestel here an:: that many citizens of the county make their living through the sport. They attribute the responsibility for the adverse ordinance to Su- pervisor Elkenhotter: but. as a matter of fact, he was in no wise more responsible for the action than any ether Supervisor. The Supervisors and the le- gitimate residents cf the county are practically a unit in condemning the coursing game as inhuman, crooked and highly brutal, and so far as the matter of earn- ing of livelihoods is concerned they contend that the men who take care of the dogs and work about the coursing parks are not legitimate citizens of the county and are here only because the sj.oit is per- mitted here. It was maintained that the minute the sport is stopped they will migrate back to Sun Fran- cisco county, whence they came Enclosed courting is now conducted at Ingleside Park, .m Saturdays and Sundays. There is always a large attendance of visitors and leashmen. Divers attempts I lvc been made to stop the sport in San Francisco county, but without avail. The allegations cf cruelty and brutality hive been usually made by well meaning, but over enthusiastic and uninformed \ eo] I Where the particular colored Individual is located in the Colma W [pile we arc not at present ad- vised: it is probable that some time in the future he will be located and sent his ■<■■ which trie w ell appointed i fnion Park will he reopei Th is Decision Is Porous. A case in Tezwell county, 111., wilt attract wide at- tention. It settled the n g is not property, and i -■■..■ ept as to ownership Is n levy and cannot be class< I as tn ass I [n estates, ii is neither a wild nor a domestic animal, and yet partakes of the quality of both It is not an . making its owner liable for trespass, as in th of swiii-'. horses or cows, and, In fact, dard < t • onsequi i ■■•• in coui i . William King ol B Ii - ' n p i irrested cl with the theft of a bull log. His i ouns< i i a Isi I thi point that a di g not beastolen. He i as the statutes, and Judge Worthlngton order i Kings' release. Jackson's Napa Soda cleanses the stomach and renders the eye clear. Lots of Ducks. Ten members cf the Del . That means 5< I 10 <&4u? 4&vvsiwv atth gtportsmmu I'January 13. 19C6 GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Fair Sex Are Crack Shots. Signs of the times indicate that another held ot sportsman's supremacy is threatened by woman. There has been much talk of fine shooting by members of the gentler sex. but the genuine nature of the ri- valry has not been hitherto realized. \mong the ladies of this city who may be mentioned as skillful with the modern breechloader are: Mrs. W W Richards. Mrs A. N. Shields. Mrs. C. L. Griffith's, Mrs H. P. Jacobson, Mrs. John B. Hauer. Mrs Bert Wyman, Mrs. Al. M. Gumming and nu- merous other Dianas who can bring down a good bag of either ducks or quail. \-,u long since a woman duck hunter. Mrs. Nellie Bennett, astonished some of the Portland. Or., sports- men by going out on the marsh with them and bag- gin- the limit in workmanlike style, with her shotgun. which is of the repeating type. The achievement was heralded as remarkable, and without a parallel, which is in no sense true. Minneapolis boasts of two splendid women shots, Mrs W P- Shattuck and Mrs. Sumner S. Johnston, both of whom accompany their husbands each fall, and generally manage to hold up their end of the trigger work very ably. Both ladies are accomplished trapshots as well. Any woman of good eye and plenty of nerve can learn to handle a light shotgun almost as quickly as a man. It is a noteworthy fact there are women, when at all proficient in the use of firearms, who are apt to become very good shots if given practice. A glance at the shooting record of the Duchess of Bedford would be a surprise to many men who feel themselves secure from feminine competition. Her grace's record of 3427 head of game in a single sea- son shows that the supremacy of man at the sport is no longer a thing undisputed. Wild duck shooting in February is no childish sport. Patience, endurance, and skill are needed to bring down twenty-nine birds with fifty-six shots, as the duchess has done. Of all forms of shooting, this sportswoman prefers that at driven grouse She shoots with a sixteen bore gun. and of course dispenses with the services of a loader. Indeed, there is nothing of the modern "me- chanical" shot about the Duchess of Bedford. She claims, without enthusiasm, to have brought down more than 200 "tame" pheasants in a day, and seventy at one stand, while her predilection for snipe shooting by herself, which she places only second to grouse driving, shows that she shoots for the sport rather than the bag. Nevertheless, she has shot as many as 115 partridges in a single day's driving. Until her marriage and return to England the duchess had never fired a shot in her life, but that tlO instinct for sport was born in her is proved by her rapid advance to a proficiency as that to which the figures bear witness. Another noblewoman whose prowess with the gun is well known is Lady Vivian. Although her record cannot be said to rival that of the Duchess of Bed- ford, her shooting is far better than that of many male experts. Slaughter of Caribou. Probably never again in Alaska, and certainly not in Tanana, will there be a repetition of the scenes that accompanied the biggest run of caribou ever seen in Alaska during October. Several thousand of the animals passed through the heart of the settled por- tion of Tanana valley. Miners shot from their cabin doors. They were killed from decks of steamers and for days the surrounding hills reverberated with the sound of firearms. Frightened by the shots of the hunters, the caribou stampeded across the creek in bands of hundreds, trampling over sluice boxes and getting tangled in the works. In view of the many hunters and the fact that the hills have been alive with game, it would naturally be supposed that the mortality would be great, but there is only one in- stance recorded where one man has killed more than twenty. The greatest number were slaughtered by miners and will serve for their winter's meat. Very few of those who flocked from the town to the hills secured any game, and at no time has caribou meat sold in Fairbanks for less than 25 cents a pound. An Ingenious Angler. W. C. Swain is an enthusiastic duck hunter and member of the Montezuma Gun Club. As to being an angler, he has never made any claim, until last Saturday, when Black Jack Lemmer and the Dook of Ayden proudly displayed 15 fine steelhead to the ad- miring gaze of students at the "symposium." Lem- :i- i remark. "Why don't you go up to Russian river, Bill?" elicited the following answer: "My first trip into the mountains was made with mosl .ni\ purpose other than fishing in view, for that lethlng which held no interest whatever for me I even listened lm lifferently to the wonderful tales of fishing luck and misfortune told b> the other fellows while we sat around a blazing fire of spruce boughs during the cool evenings. Our camp was on i rv o many littli streams flowing into the Bear rj er, n« Steambo I Springs, and the trout were very plentiful. i had strolled up the creek much further than usua l and had gol to a Kttle canyon Lhat i had ei hi ira" oi before, where the i is were so small and clear thai the fish could be plainly seen In great numbers darting to and fro, but not when they saw you, Cor then thea \ ould lie perfectly quiet, close to th< bottoi id blending with the sand and rocks so ' I could hardly be distinguished. Having a ol string ■ "■ i < i 1 thought l would h.-i\ e run with the fish, so, catching :i nice grass- and tleing ii to the end of the line with a 'un- knots, ami cutting a branch, I went up behind a rock and threw the hopper into a pool in which there were several trout. Then they all made a move for it, the largest caught it and made off, trying to swallow it. but I gave a quick jerk and succeeded in jerking him out of the water onto the bank and caught him before he flopped back. Cutting a V- shaped branch I strung him on it and then went back to try again, but only succeeded in scaring the rest, as my bait was- torn and not much more than a knot. So, catching another hopper, I tried the next pool and after several attempts jerked another nice fish out. It was only when the fish wTas headed from me and the bait would catch in the corner of the fish's mouth that they could be jerked out, half the time they be- ing merely jerked above the water, but by keeping at it I got my branch full and then went back to camp to show my first string of trout and to try to explain tow it happened, but the fellows declared that I de- served the medal for fish stories. After that there were none mere enthusiastic for fishing and fish sto- ries than I." Verdi Hatchery Abandoned. The State of California will hatch no more fish in the State of Nevada The California Fish Commis- sion recently informed the Nevada Commissioners that the hatchery at Verdi would be abandoned and that the troughs there would be presented to Washoe county for similar use. The Commission has pro- cured a supply of Nevada rainbow trout sufficient for its use for the present. For three years the California Commission has been taking half a million to a million rainbow trout from the Truckee every year. Ten per cent of these have been turned back into the river after they have reached the swimming stage in return for the privi- lege. The Washoe county commissioners figured that under natural conditions no greater per cent of the spawn would hatch and grow to the swimming stage, tunity. if so willed, to damage the article out of spite against the maker. The barrel is then passed on to a man who ascertains the bore of same, and stamps it with a number, so the next man. who is a loader, knows exactly what charge to put in it. The bar- rels are then passed on to the loading-room. Here everything is done to prevent fraud and insure safety, the floors being kept well dampened and clean. The loading-room is divided into three compartments. In the first the barrels are loaded; in the second the charges are rammed home with special rods kept for the purpose; in the third they are primed and "made ready" for firing, and then sent to the firing-room. The firing-room is a large building made of sheet- iron, and arranged like a Venetian blind. The lathes, as it were, are closed when ready for fifing, and opened to allow for ventilation after. The barrels are laid along grooved racks and fired with a train of gunpowder which connects the breech vents with each other. There are heaps of sand both before and behind the barrels, to catch the charge in front and barrels behind. The force of the explosion, of course, shoots them backwards. Any barrels which may have missed fire are reprimed and put back on the racks again. Then comes the hot-water test. This means that the barrels are filled with hot water and cov- ered with a plug, and then struck heavily on top; so that if there happens to be any flaw or pinhole, the water at once escapes. When common barrels are proved, they have to stand for a day before un- dergoing the hot-water test, so that the acid in the powder will eat into any flaw and make it more read- ily observed. Now the process of "provisional proof" is done, they are made ready for "definite proof." The breech ac- tions are now fitted, and the barrels are proved with cartridges. This prevents cheap and dangerous breech actions being used. In some cases the breech actions are blown to pieces or bulged by the force of the ex- J. B. COLEMAN AND DAVE HAREPIELD Field and Tule Club owing to the alleged poisonous condition of the water caused by the paper mills at Floriston. Morrill & Elliott, who operate a large trout pre- serve in the Sierras, southwest of Reno, asked for the contract of the California Commission and it was extended to them. Their hatchery is in Ne- vada. plosion, and then have to be rehardened and reproved until found to be sound. If a man's gun bursts, let him ask himself why, as he certainly cannot blame the proof -house authorities. Geese Are Plentiful. Reports from many sections note the presence of thousands upon thousands of wild geese. In the vi- cinity of Willows, Frank Burgi, a well-known trap shot, has established his headquarters and has been doing a land office business in pulling off successful goose hunts. The season for his kind of sport has now com- menced in earnest ; and many prominent sportsmen from different points along the Pacific Coast, as well as in the East, will be guests of Mr. Burgi, who has every facility to give them the shoot of their lives. Mr. Burgi is thoroughly familiar with the favorite feeding grounds of the birds; he uses live decoys, and he and assistants know how to call the geese to them. This expert goose calling is quite an art in itself. For two shooters to bring down over 300 birds is not considered at all extraordinary for a morning shoot — and yet the visiting sportsmen hardly believe it until it is proved to them. Frank takes his guests to the grounds in his com- fortable, large automobile; the live decoys are there ready Eor business; the "calls" go out to the wild birds — and the "men behind the guns" do the rest. ii is sport with a big S, and enthusiastic sportsmen come again. How Gun Barrels Are Proved. The method of proving gun barrels at the Bir- mingham and London proof- houses are exacl ly the same Each barrel is handed in with a label bearing a number only; this prevents the workmen knowing from whom the barrel came, and they have no oppor- Large Take of Salmon Eggs. Tehama county is deeply interested in the suc- cess of the government fishery at Tehama, and the record-breaking catch of salmon eggs means much to that section. The fishing industry is still in its in- fancy, and facts and figures relating to this govern- ment "enterprise should prove interesting reading. The United States Fish Commission and the Cali- fornia Fish Commission act in conjunction in this work, the first named securing the eggs and prepar- ing them for shipment, and the latter hatching ,and distributing them. Under the management of the present State Board, consisting of W. W. Van Arsdale, W. E. Gerber and J W. Birmingham, with their efficient Chief Deputy, Charles A. Vogelsang, the work has been more suc- cessfully prosecuted than heretofore, and it is today one of the most valuable industries on the Coast. The work has now reached such proportions and proved of such value that additional facilities will be necessary at the Sisson station in order to accommo- date the demands made to successfully handle the constantly increasing supply of eggs and their proper distribution. Captain G. H. Uamhson. who is employed by the government, has liberal alowances of money to suc- cessfully prosecute his "work, and the Sisson station of the California State Commission, under the man- agement of Superintendent W. H Shebley, should not lie hampered, it is argued, for a lack of facilities to successfully hatch and distribute the fish furnished by the government stations: besides keeping up and improving the hatch of game fish for the lakes and streams of the state. Mr. Shebley has been engaged in fish culture for the past twenty-three years. He is a conscientious, hard-working man, with heart and soul in his duties. January 13 I90(ij ffijic grceDcr alto gtpoct&mcm 11 and it is much to his credit that the California State Commission, at least the Stsson station, has reacheu the importance it now sustains in fish culture on the Coast. Reduction of Bag Limits. Quite an agitation is being- stirred up among South- ern California sportsmen relative to reducing the bag limit on ducks to twenty-five" birds a day. No attempt at securing a state law to this effect is likely to be made for some time at least, as the San Francisco clubmen are united against it, and their bad example has injured the cause of game protec- tion elsewhere. Locally several of the clubs, notably the Eolsa Chica, have settled the thing for them- selves by making twenty-five bird limits It is generally conceded by far-seeing sportsmen that protection of ducks during the breeding season, both in the United States and in Alaska, is the sanest scheme of saving the waterfowl, but the twen- ty-five bird limit, if made general throughout the country, would be of great service. The clubs.- which of their own volition limit their bags to twenty-five, which after all is all any man wants — enough for himself and half a dozen friends — give proof conclusive of their sportsmanship and are wholly to be commended by all, but at present the matter seems to be one for individual regulation. Coyote Hunting. After several sheep had been killed belonging to Senator B. F. Rush and Claire Morrill in the Potrero hills, near Suisun, a reward of $5 each from the above two gentlemen and Peter Mor tense n was offered for the coyote that was suposed to be in that neighbor- hood. Sherman Reams was asked to bring his three deer hounds to the Rush ranch to make a chase He started out Wednesday morning, accompanied by Ben Reams and John Oliver, and later was joined by Mr. Morrill. A large coyote was started at the east end of the ranch and after a chase of several miles was killed by Ben Reams. In addition to the amount subscribed above, $20 will be paid by the Solano County Sheepmen's Association. Messrs. Reams and Oliver received $35 for their day's work. Sherman Reams has run down two coyotes in upper Suisun valley during the past two weeks. Can Fish Hear? In a German scientific paper the often-discussed question has been raised: Can fish hear? and the ■ answer seems, as usual, to be in the negative. It is believed that "many fish are conscious of rapid vibrations communicating with the water; but it is not thought probable that this is perceived by the auditory organs. Single loud explosions in water are found to be totally disregarded by fish. It is, there- fore, not finally proved that all fish cannot hear; but the concensus of the opinion of the zoologists seems to favor the idea that fish, like bees, are deaf. Bulk Powders Win the High Averages. At the tournament held at Phoenix, Arizona, De- cember 2S, 29. 30, 31, 1905. the three highest profes- sional averages were made with DuPont Smokeless; also the first and third amateur averages. Second amateur average was made with Hazard Smokeless. o PACIFIC COAST TRIALS. Quite a large attendance of club members and visit- ing sportsmen are in Bakersfield this week watching the progress of the twenty-third annual trials of the Pacific Coast Field Trials Club. The Derby was finished this forenoon, the winners were: Jos E. Terry's English Setter bitch Bessie Mortimer (Kilgarif -Maggie F.) first; Hugh Hop- kins' English Setter bitch Aunt Marie (Uncle B.- Sport's Belle) second, and Frank Schumacher's Poin- ter bitch Lady Belle (Teddy Kent- Jack's Fashion) third. With W. J. Baughn were associate judges Henry L. Betten and J. H. Schumacher There were 22 starters in the Derby. 11 English Setters and 11 Pointers. Much was expected of the Derby puppies, particularly so, because last year's Derby was run over practically the same ground upon which there were enough birds to, it was hoped, give the dogs a chance to show some of the brilliant work remem- bered by many who were present last year. . In this there was something of a disappointment, lor two reasons; the class of the dogs ivas not of the high standard of the previous year, with of course some exceptions, and weather and ground conditions were such as to preclude, except at odd times, any- thing like bird work. The weather was warm and the ground dry and dusty, in many places the alkali was as thick on the surface of the ground as if the field had been whitewashed. Nose work was out of the question. On the first day dogs repeatedly ran over birds and flushed small bevies. In one heat, that between Aunt Marie and Hickorywood, the dogs' worked in low cover on scattered birds. For ten min- utes the dogs failed to locate a single bird. Birds, however, were Hushed from the tumble weed that the dogs had gone over twenty times. On Tuesday Don and Senator Jack got into a large bevy, Jack finally Hushing them, to the surprise of everybody who witnessed the occurrence. The dogs were finally given credit for working under most disadvantageous conditions. The first five braces of the All-Age were started today in different cover, open ground and sparse willow thickets on section 25 of the Stockdale ranch. Jose E. Terry's Kilgariff was put down on open ground and after making two wide casts and working the ground grandly, made a bee line for cover near the railroad track. When the handler came up he was on point. Here he was credited with six singles and a bevy points. McCloud Boy was a bit un- steady. The heat between Belle Fontaine and Policy Girl was full of action and work. Many birds were found. Belle made two bevy points and several singles. Girl located a bevy and was credited with several points. The class of the All-Age dogs is good and on the new ground it is not going too far to say that some splendid results will develop before the final heat of the stake. The All-Age will probably be concluded on Friday morning. The championship stake will follow and the members' stake will close the running. J. X. DeWITT. Bakersfield, January 10. TO PREVENT DEGENERATION. Dr. A. S. Alexander says: "There it. a tendency in all pure bred animals to degenerate or retrogress towards orig- inal and less perfect types and noth- ing will more surely and speedily stim- ulate this tendency than the lack of nutritious food. "In the absence of sufficient nutri- tion, or complete nutrition, the possi- bilities of perfection"-" inherited from pure bred sires or dams but partially materialize or wholly fail to assert themselves. The well born, but in- completely nourished colt fails to de- velop and at maturity is no less a "weed" than the ordinary scrub or na- tive animal. On the other hand, if the dam is adequately nourished on com- plete rations during pregnancy and when nursing, and the colt, from wean- ing time forward, is as perfectly and fully fed, it will, in all probability, de- velop to the high standard of size, power, quality and character made possible by its breeding. "In addition to proper feeding it is likewise necessary to protect the young developing animal against every possible cause of debility, dis- comfort and unhealth that would tend to retard its growth. Shelter must therefore be sufficient, disease must be fought against, vermin must be pre- vented from sapping the constitution, and fresh air, sunlight adequate exer- cise and kindly care must take a full part in perfecting the development of the animal." VITAL, FERTILE EGGS. The most important problem in hatching is that of securing fertile eggs; in fact they are the one thing absolutely required. The percentage hatched will depend upon the fertility and vitality of the eggs placed in the incubator or under hens, and the fer- tility of the eggs will depend chiefly upon the vigor of the parent stock. The conditions necessary to the ferti- lization of eggs are simply those which will secure good health to the parent stock from which the eggs are secured. There are a number of conditions which will determine the health and vigor of the parent stock, and the per- centage of eggs that will hatch. Free range for laying stock will conduce health and vigor, as it develops a strong muscular system. Eggs from such stock will hatch exceptionally well and will hatch strong, healthy and vigorous chicks. The percentage of such eggs hatched will often run as high as ninety. In order to secure the best condi- tions of laying stock, wholesome food and good, clean houses are absolutely essential. Every poultry man under- stands this perfectly. No matter how good the incubator is, the results will be disappointing if the houses are reek- ing with filth, or if the fowls are im- properly fed. Eggs also, as is well known become lower in vitality with age and after a time become worthless for hatching purposes. Eggs will often hatch after they are a month old, but the chicks will be less vigorous and many of them utterly worthless. Such weak chicks are often attributed to the failure of the incubator, but there could be no greater injustice. — E. G. Wyckoff in American Fancier. o TEETH OF SWINE. The hog has more teeth than any other farm animal. When it has its set complete it possesses in all forty- four teeth. The horse has forty teeth, while cattle and sheep have thirty-two each. The forty-four teeth of the pig consists of six incisors, two canine, eight remolar and six molar teeth in each jaw. Another peculiar fact about the dentition of the pig is that while the incissors or front teeth in the up- per jaw bear a close resemblance to those of the horse, the corresponding teeth in the lower jaw closely resemble those of a dog. It is also worthy of note that the molars of the pig gradu- ally increase in size from the front to the rear, the most backward of these grinders being several times larger than those in front. Good milkers are reported' in all the English and Scotch beef breeds just as they are bred to improve the milk yields or the reverse. The English papers tell us of good milkers and milking families in the Herefords, An- gus and Galloways. Some cows give more milk than the calf wants and some have good records in the dairy. The Shorthorn in England is the lead- ing beef and dairy breed: a Shorthorn cow 15 years old took the champion prize at the recent London Dairy Show. Breed and handle your cows for milk. They raise better calves and make better cattle. When you find an animal is unprofit- able to keep, whether it is a steer that will not fatten or a dairy cow that fattens too easily,' you cannot sell it too soon. The butcher should get all such animals, not your neighbor, who raises breeding stock. The sooner cattle, hogs and sheep that are not just right are slaughtered, the better it is for the country. Now is an excellent time to get a general culling of studs of either pure bn 'Is or grades, says Breeder's Ga- zette. If two can be matched up in a pair they may be sold as such and will probably return a better figure than If sold singly. The young and unworthy males there is more question about. Whether to sell or to hold in the hope of future improvement is always a matter of the gravest moment. In gen- eral, however, it will be found to be good reasoning that the first cost is al- ways the least, and if the material is not promising to work on there are in- deed few men who can take cull colts and make great horses of them. There is notwithstanding a place for every horse foaled, and if properly placed he will fulfill his destiny in life. Over forty different sorts of Babcock testers are manufactured but the es- sential principle is the same in all. It was invented by Dr. Babcock ana given without price to the public, there- fore none of the forty or more can be patented In their eagerness to get something that would sell, a number of manufacturers have gotten up cheap testers which are inaccurate and un- safe, to the serious detriment of the tester. Properly made and rightly handled, this instrument is of infinite value. In buying a tester — and every owner of a herd should have one — go to a trustworthy house, pay a fair price and not be put off with some cheap Christmas toy. It is possible to raise calves profit- ably on warm separator milk by sub- stituting whole oats for the cream re- moved. One of the advantages of hand raising is that after the calf is grown sufficiently to go on dry feed it does better than a calf raised by the cow. Early maturity no doubt is hin- dered by the hand feeding, but it made up fully or nearly so by educating the calf to hustle for itself to a certain extent. The dairy cow is rarely a mortgage lifter in this section. Why? Be- cause the man who has wrestled long with a burdensome mortgage is not the type of farmer to call on the cow for help. He hopes "'to get out" next year by planting more cotton. Charcoal is an excellent thing for fowls whether in confinement or run- ning at large. It is inexpensive and so easily provided that no flock should be permitted to be without it. Let if be granulated and placed where the birds can readily have access to it. The top notch of quality in the de- mand for good poultry has never been reached. The demand for the best has never been supplied. There is no danger of g.iting it too good, but it often suffers from being off in qual- ity. Probably in no country in the world has farming reached greater perfection than in Denmark, where almost every available foot of land is precious and well utilized, but where consumption and production are more evenly bal- anced. Co-operation among farmers is said to be the key to their successful operations. There is a co-operative dairy at Esbjerg which has a mem- bership of 230 farmers, milking 1,500 cows, almost the entire output of the milk being turned into butter and ship- ped to England. The milk is paid for by weight and quality. The dairyman who caters to city trade knows better than any other how often complaint is made about cream that will not whip. The richness of per cent of fat and the temperature have more to do with this quality in cream than any other factor. It Is well to remember that cream contain- ing 35 to 40 per cent fat will whip at 55 to 60 degrees; 30 per cent fat at 45 degrees; 20 per cent fat at about 33 degrees. Cream sold to city trade usually contains IS to 25 per cent fat, and therefore must be cooled to a lower temperature than it is customary to whip cream. The best estimate as to possible pro- fit from poultry can be gained from the actual results attained by careful peo- ple. A man in New Hampshire shows from carefully kept records that he made from 450 hens during 1904, $747,- 67. These same hens consumed $779.91 worth of all kinds of grain supplies. This is a very good showing, and the same results can be gained by every careful person. The poultry man re- ferred to started in 1SS7 with ninety- not necessary to have summer weather, four hens, and now keeps -about 500. Those who succeed best in handling poultry begin in a small way and work up. — Country Gentleman. The story comes from the Philippine Islands of the untimely end of a prize .l> rsey cow valued at over $1000. The cow was to be shipped to the interior together with another cow of no spe- cial value intended for beef. When the time came for fresh meat the cook of the transport ship went to slaughter the ordinary cow. He looked both beasts over, the prize winner was the bi i looking, and the cook killed the prize Jersey before those who knew which was which could enter, and the ordinary cow is still alive and happy. Young fowls are the ones that f bad habits, it they a re not forn that time, they never will be< blesome. They car be kept fro ■ by clipping both wings, if cli will not do it- 12 &tw ;yvev&cr mio &p0vt&ttttm l January 13 ivt 6 THE NEW GUERNSEY CHAMPION. HOGS AND SHEEP AS MORTGAGE LIFTERS. FEEDING LAMBS. GOOD DRAFT HORSES. The Guei - > Sunbeam Rietbrock, Athens. Wis., has d of any coin in the made under public supervision that of an Advan I ultural [•his ] i i is a? r i ncluslve, I i er cent, butter fat, butter fat. ... !■ the rules .in 1 A Ivaheed Register and su ised by the Wisconsin Experiment Station. Adding one-sixth to the butter fat to . ight of suit and water found in butter in addition to the but- ter fat, we have one thousand pounds of butler for the year's work of this i Yeksa Sunbeam 15439 was bred by the late W. D. Richardson of Garden City, Minn. She was dropped April :, 1895, making her about nine and one-half years old when commencing her record. She calved Sept. 11, 1904. and was not in calf at the end of the year's record. 1 of Yeksa Sunbeam during the test was as follows: October, silage and hay 25 pounds, with 15 pounds grain mixture composed of one part oilmeal. two parts ground nats. two parts g'.uten feed and four parts bran. November, corn silage 30 pounds with grain mixture the same as ' '< tober. December, same as November. Janu- ary, silage 30 pounds, rutabagas 10 pounds. 15 pounds grain mixture com- posed of one part ground oats, 10 parts gluten feed, two parts bran one part oilmeal, and alfalfa, hay, ad. lib. Feb- ruary, silage 30 pounds, rutabagas 10 pounds. 14 pounds grain mixture com- posed of four parts wheat bran, two parts gluten feed, one part corn meal and as much alfalfa as she would eat. March, April and May, same as Feb- ruary. June, pasture, mixed clover hay and 6 pounds above grain mixture. July. 10 pounds mixed grain ration composed of 300 pounds bran, 1200 pounds oats, 200 pounds gluten feed and 100 pounds oilmeal. Pasture. August, 10 pounds above grain mixture, S pounds green clover at noon and pasture. Septem- ber, clover pasture, green corn, clover hay. and 2 pounds gluten, 6 pounds bran, 4 pounds ground oats, 2 pounds oilmeal. If you will figure the matter over and care to make a statement, you will find that her largest milk production for one day was August 19, 1905. upon the basis of our composite three-day test, her butter fat production for that day. based upon 5.9 per cent fat and 52 pounds milk, was 3.07 pounds fat. H i best week was from August IT to August 23, inclusive. during which period she made 352 pounds of milk. our home test reported, having been ; upon her production of Aug. 17. IS and 19 5.09 per cent., would make 20.77 pounds fat in that week. Her largest monthly pn ductii n of butter fat was August. 1905. when she made s fat, while her largest milk ai tion for one month was August, when she made 1463 pounds milk. During the first 120 days, com- mencing October, 1904. she made 300.53 pounds fat, while during the first 187 days she made 451.49 pounds i i per cent of butter fat during the twelve months in question was June. 1905, when the perci was 5.25; while her highest pel i en 6.08, was in December. In , . i i months, to-wit D< try and March, her per cent over six. while dur- ing il line months, the per cent five ai inder six. Her aver- w has been our '■'■■■ besl worfe during ; ■ ■ ■ he been i as- suring thi ho ■ For 1 he , ., . ■ i, I think U ration had This record is n t<> Mr. RJel i I hei ble value i ■■ In an i M Ploug iges— S. A i M-ket St. It requires a comparatively small amount i f capital to start in the busi- of raising either sheep or hogs. W'ho lias not seen a single ewe lamb lay the foundation of a profitable flock,, or one eld sow become the progenitor of a herd able to lift the mortgage off a farm? The second point we make in favor i i choosing sheep and hogs as the ani- mals to be kept is the fact that ex- Jive buildings are not essential. A straw stack, some rails or poles, and a little work and ingenuity will supply the rest. Hogs and sheep are desirable be- cause of quick returns. It takes five years to grow a horse to maturity, and he needs some education before he is marketable. The mortgage might mature and be foreclosed during that period. On the other hand, pigs and lambs can be brought to a marketable age in as many months — and no edu- cation is needed. We recommend these animals as mortgage lifters because both ex- perience and observation have shown them to be (in proper hands) admira- bly adapted to that purpose. A few common mistakes of the in- experienced with sheep and hogs are: 1. Starting on a large scale on a booming market; e. g., sheep at the present time. 2. Lack of proper care in the selec- tion of foundation stock. Good breed- ing is not enough. Must have good individuality. 3. Careless handling likely to en- gender and promote diseases. 4. Feeding beyond the profitable period. Among the things much desired are: First, high-class foundation stock; second, vigorous growth; third, con- tinuous growth; fourth, early matu- rity; fifth, prompt marketing; sixth, get stock ready for market a month in advance of the general supply. METHODS OF SKIMMING MILK. Professor Farrington of the Wiscon- sin Dairy School, sums up the differ- ent methods of skimming in the fol- lowing brief manner; "These methods are the shallow pans, the deep setting of cans of milk in cold water, the water or equatic separator and the centrifugal separa- tor. J*The water separator is so inferior a method that it is not used by the best dairymen at the present time; the other three methods are still in use but the centrifugal separator is the most efficient of them all. The losses of butter-fat in the skim-milk are greatest when milk is set in shallow- pans. Deep setting in cold water is a little better, but the centrifugal sep- arator may be run so as to leave only one-tenth per cent butterfat in the skim-milk. "It has been estimated that the losses of butter- fat by the different methods of skimming the milk of 20 cows in a year amounting to $120 by the shallow* pan setting. $60 by the deep setting and $15 by centrifugal separator. This is based on a price of 20 cents per pound for butter and an average loss of fat in the skim -milk by each method." In their natural slate fowls are heavy consumers of vegetable matter and insects. Thi? teaches that under artificial conditions fowls should have substitutes for their natural food. In the way of vegetable matter cabbage leaves or a whole head suspended tvhi !■ the fowls can get at it at will, by reai hing w< II up for it are hard to get; though finely cut clover hay is lent, and beet tops, or whole beets, are beneficial. Meat scraps sub- stitute the insects nicely, and cut bone much needed material in win- ter that fowls get out of the earth in summer. Imitate nature clocely as ble in feeding. in selecting hens to be kept for bn lers ts ke i hose w Ith small, srr th h i ■ n ell .ie\ elope I i ombs, and nice tapering necks, and deep bodies, active move- \ Igorous in constitution, and ■'■!'. Is* - N J. s lephi rd In [< .iMi. r. ontesl the White Leghoi i laid i ■■-.■>. on less feed, ■ "' othei bi ee I, although they 1 1 ■ i t all ind fow i . Everything that is raised on the farm should be marketed in its fully developed form when possible. There is no reason why a middleman should have the profits that he requires if he handles the stock. This applies to the sheep business. Many farmers have conveniences for raising" a carlcad of lambs, but they raise some short of that number and sell them to the dealer, who resells them to the feeder who finishes them for market, says the Wisconsin Agri- culturist. Then the farmer who sold the lambs sometimes sells his corn to the same feeder who bought his lambs. The dealer expects to make a profit or he would not have bought the lambs, and the feeder would not have bought them, or the corn, if he had not ex- pected to make a profit on both. The original producer may make money on the lambs, but he has let three possible profits slip by that he might as well have had. The lamb should' be started on feed while young, and the feeding con- tinued and gradually increased during the fall. This should prevent any of the setbacks that might occur in Aug- ust or later in the fall when grass gets short. A young lamb will make larger gains for the feed consumed than older ones hence the advisability of start- ing early. The bunch of lambs should be as even as possible for the best results in feeding and the highest price on the market. Any planning to feed a car- load of lambs or more next year can arrange this to a certain extent this fall, by using a sl/rcng, vigorous ram and sesing that all the ewes are bred at as near the same lime as possible. The farmer should consider himself a manufacturer, and make the most money out of his works by marketing a finished product instead of the raw- material. The farmer is better able to do this than many manufacturers because he can use the waste product — the manure — to better advantage than most manufacturers the waste from their factories. Every load of manure put back on the land is like putting capital stock into the busi- ness. POULTRY POINTERS. The lime which goes into the shells of the eggs will not be lacking if the food is varied, as nearly all foods con- tain lime in some form. Experiments in that direction show that the use of oyster shells doe's not insure a suffi- ciency of lime, though oyster shells will serve the purpose to a limited ex- tent if the food does not provide the necessary lime. It is claimed that a hen may be con- fined on a board floor, allowed only flint gravel for the gizzard, fed liber- ally on plenty of green food, with a small allowance of grain, having ample opportunity for scratching in litter of some kind, and she will lay perfect eggs with proper shells, without even the least proportion of oyster shells or lime near by her. The lime- will be derived from the food, and in a proper condition so as to be easily 'digested and assimilated and in a state in which it becomes immediately available as a constituency of the egg. There are hens in some sections that are far from the sources of supply or* oyster shells, yet they equal those in other localities as egg producers. Na- ture prompts the fowls to select the food best adapted for their purpose. and if given a variety, they will bal- ance the supply so necessary for the production of eggs as well as provide for their bodily wants.— Farm and Fireside. When the weather is coll a good feed late in the afternoon is plenty of corn. so that the fowls may go to roost with a full crop of beat -giving food. No more should be given than will be picked up clean. Where fowls are confined and grass is scarce, it is well to let part on the grass Eor a half day or a few hours, and let the others on for a few hours In this way all gel some green stuff. No fence has proven so good and so economical as woven wire for poultry fences. It is sometimes necessary to put wide boards at the bottom to keep the fowls from lighting through the i n Is exceedingly difficult to maintain grass in a j a rd w here i here a re many fowls, ii is besl managed by fencing off one portion, and keeping the Cowls off it until the grass grows. By means of about 2.000 measure- ments in Columbus. O., of draft horses classed as extra heavy, medium good heavy, extra good light and medium good light. A. H. Snyder reached these conclusions among others: The extra gcod heavy draft horse compared with his less valuable broth- er is not so high for his weight, is deeper in the chest, shorter from the che?t to the ground, larger in the chest girth, but slightly smaller in bone. Compared with the length of the head, the shoulder is longer, the back shorter, and the hock closer to the ground; the chest and hips are slightly wider, while the length of the croup is slightly less. Regarding the fifty-five horses con- sidered extra good heavy draft, their weight in working condition varied from 1.3S5 to 1.930 pounds", the height varied from 15y2 to 17 hands 1% inches; the girth varied from 84 to 99 16 inches, . while the circumference of the cannon midway between the knee and the fetlock varied from S% to 10% inches. Of the 101 horses measured only two measured more than 98 inches around the girth and only five measured over 94 inches. The composite of an extra good draft horse as found in use on the streets of Cclujnbus was a hor=e weighing a little more than 1600 pounds, 16% hands high, measuring 90 inches around the girth and 9% inches around the cannon at its center. The annual question concerning the disposition of the stable-made manure comes up as the pile begins to assume formidable proportions. By far the best way of taking care of it is to spread it on the fields where it will go down into the soil and be in readiness for the crop which is to be sown in the spring. If it is to be stored the ideal place is the pit with cement bottom, which will hold the liquid ecrement. If this cannot be done then store it under a shed, placing it in layers, and let the hogs root it over. If even this is not feasible, put it in piles not very high and cover with any old rough boards — almost anything that will keep out the rain which causes the liquid portions to leach away. An excellent plan is to choose a place where the soil is of a clay nature, and dig a trench all around the space where the pile is to be and in this way save some of the liquid, which may be scooped up and poured back on the pile. Use the pile as a receiver for the slop from the house, and see that it is forked over several times during the winter. But the main thing is to see that it is protected from the elements as much as possible. The best of foods do not give the best results when fed in excess. Live stock and the human family are alike in this. We tire of the food we like the best if we have too much of it too often. It is economy to feed most of the feeds nroduced the cheapest and the best for the purpose, as corn for fattening hogs, but something must be fed for variety. The more different feeds that can be used in this way the better. Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombauflt's Gausiic Balsam t Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint, Sweeny, Gapped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffa, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheri". Removes all Bunches from Horseo or Cattle. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, 3ore Throat, etc., it is invaluable, livery bottle of Caustic Balsam sold Is Warranted to trivi> satisfaction. Price $1 50 per bottle. Sold by drucfrists, or sent by ex- press, charges p»ld. with full directions for Its use. tSTSend lor descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc. Address ■The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 January 13 19i 6j <&hc ^veciiev axxft gtjxca-temim 18 CASEIN THE NEW PRODUCT. One of the by-products of the dairy which is Less common than feme of the rest is dry casein, a granular, yellow- ish-white substance, derived from the casein of milk by a process resemblms cheese making :n several respects. Casein is a vegetable substance which is lo.nd in both the vegetable and ani- mal kingdoms. In the vegetable king- dom it is found more or less abundantly in the see3s cf certain plants. In the animal kingdom it is chiefly found in milk and constitutes the main part of the curd. In the dry fl rm it is use I in considerable quantities in manufac- tured goods, for the arts, in making glue for furniture dealers and in a number of other ways. It promises to be a commercial product cf some im- portance. The process o. manufacturing casein is briefly described as follows: The separator milk is run into a number of cheese vats; a "starter" of whey, saved from the previous day. is added, and the milk is raised to a tem- I erature of 90 degrees F. By the t ms the milk has been in the vats a couple of hours, usually about 11 a m.. a small quantity of rennet is added— about 1% ounces per 6000-pound vat of milk. The renneted milk is cooked for a couple of hours to 102 degrees, the curd being thoroughly raked meantime. The whey is then run off. leaving the casein curd in matted cakes. Any frothy stuff which may have gathered is rejected. and the curd is then pressed, remain'ng in the hoops Os-er night. Next morning it is removed and ground into pieces. varying frcm powder to bits as big as a grain of corn. In this form it is taken to the drying room, which is a separate apartment, specially designed for the purpose. On each side of a initial passage is a tier of metal pans, shelf fashion. Blasts of hot air from the pipes along the walls pour over the pans, on which the casein is spread. The drying requires some four hours, after which the product is conveyed to the store room floor and bagged. — Farm Folks Whenever a warm spell comes in the winter it can be noticed that more eggs are obtained and that as soon as the weather becomes cold again the supply falls off. This shows that warmth Is a factor in the production of eggs. It is not necessary to have summer weather. It is when the hens escape the extreme cold of winter that they begin to lay. If the change' of weather make a dif- ference in laying, then a warm poultry house should also have an influence. When poultry must resort to the tree- tops, and be exposed to snow, rain, hail and wind they can only keep alive, be- ing unable to assist the farmer by pro- ducing eggs. If you want eggs in win- ter, you must provide a good, warm house for them, as well as provide pure, nourishing food. Idle hcrses can subsist largely on good bright straw, as they have ample lime for mastication and digestion, while hard worked animals or those which are required to move rapidly can make use of only little. It is a nota- ble fact that horses are often fed on costly hay for roughage when cheaper straw or corn fodder could be used to advantage. — Farm Journal. FOR SALE. Fine Span of Black Driving Horses \'E8Y STYLISH STAND 16-1 AND 16-114 * weight 1 155 arid ! 175; Ave and seven years old well bred and sound. Apply or address FRANK WIRE, Davisville, Cal. WANTED. VETER5TVARY ADVICE Or. S. A. Tattle, a veterinary sa peon of long experience bag wri ten a bouk entitled "Veterinary Experience" on the diseases of horses, giving svmptoms otid treatment! in plain terms. It la fully illustrated with diagram* showing the skeleton and circu- latory anddi^i.t;tive 6ynteras with (references that make them plain. -Tells how to buy a horse and 1 now whetheriC is ?ound or not. Every horse owner tLould have one. It is sent to any one. TUTTLE'S ELIXIR 13 the only guaranteed cure for Colic, Curb, recent Shoo Bolls an I Callous. It locates lameness, relieves ai) by Piedmont 2:17^; second dam, Lady Lowell (dam of Lady well 2:16^ and Lorita 2:18^) by St. Clair; third dam, Laura, dam of Doc, sire of Occident 2:16%. Address all communications to BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. FOR SALE-MUST BE SOLD. Bay Filly, foaled May 9, 1904, by Alta Vela2:ll!-f and out of Grace Lowry by Diab:o 2:09M- Chestnut C>.It foaled 1902, by Nutwocd Wilkes S:16H and out of Lily Laogtry.dam of Dudley 2:14, of Ed. B. Young 2:tl}£, of Lily Direct 3:21}4 aodof Esteile 2:24!^ Bay Colt, foaied May 31. 19U4, by Bonnie Direct 2:05H and out of Alls B. 2:24 ^ by Nutwood Wilkes 2:I6l/2- Bay Filly (thoroughbred), Reg. No 32793 foaled May, 1902, by Abalanzar and out of Flam- beauette by Flambeau. Address all communications to CARLTON W. GREENE. Sixth Floor. Uaion Trust Building, San Francisco, Cal. McKINNEY-SIDNEY FILLY FOR SALE i YEARS OLD; SOUND AND A GOOD INDI "* vidual. Sired by McKinney; dam by Cjunt Valensln's Sidney; second dam by Anderson's Abdallah or. as he was better known, Paul's Abdallah.he bs Rysdyk's Hamblelonlan, dam by imported Roebuck, grandam by the great thoroughbred Henry. I am not prepared io keep thlsmareand will sell herright- Address Bos 447, Breeder and Sportsman, San Francisco, Cal. FOB SALE, \ FIVE-YEAR-OLD COLT, 14.2 hands high; -*1 weighs 900 pouDds; bright sorrel in color; perfectly sound and can run a quarter of a mile in 23 seconds or better. He is one of the most beautiful and b^st bred sprinters In the State. Suitable for a polo pony. Will sell at a reason- able price. Address SOL SHOCKLEY, Merced, Cal. SURREY HORSE WANTED. V HIGH-CLASS HORSE SUITABLE FOR -v surrey- Must be over 16 bands high, stylish, thoroughly broken for city driving, have good action and a good disposition. Give particulars where horse can be seen, price, etc. Address J. W , care of Breeder and Sportsman, 33 Geary Street, San Francisco, TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Fulton Street) Horses Called For, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR l.'IKK I have opened a new Boarding and Training Si able near the above oorner, and will board and train for racing, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates. Have good location, brand-new stable and everything first-class AH horses in my oare will receive tbe best of attention. Phone: Park 673. T. C. CABNEY. IUEESTXTXjO 'Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A iew engagements may be booked for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager, Menlo Park, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:051 SIRE OF BONALETO) 2:091, World's Record for 3-year-old Pacing Fillies BONNIE ME (3), Trial (Trotting) 2:lli Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 WITH RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horie die or be sold the service fee for m^res not proving in foal wilt be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton. Cal. THE HORSES of the celebrated ROSE DALE STOCK FARM, belonging to the late Dr. William Finlaw of Santa Rosa, are being sold at private sale by the administratrix of his estate. These comprise the well-known stallions, WASHINGTON McKIN- NEY and ST. WHIPS, and two three-year-old Stal- lions, Colts, Yearlings and Brood Mares, mostly of the McKinney and St. Whips stock. Address ANNA L. F1NLAW, Santa Rosa, Cal. \ThmLeggea Uoisef lk. not curiosities ty any meats. The covntry is full cf them. Tlie fourth let; is there ail rifht I it it is not worth arjlhire because of a curb, bpiibt, spavin or other l.i.e ti.nch. "\ ■ u can cure the h< rse of any of these aim c uts and put ere l he i sound Icr under him t y the use of HMPFJ& Quints 's Ointment, It is time tried and reliable. When a horse is oared withQuinn'sOiiitiiierit hestavBcared. Mr. I" I'.Uurke oiSpnnnlield,Mo.,\M- te^asiullon-s- "1 have been using: Qulnn'sOlntmonf i r ■ reral years and have ef- fected many marvel sc i; It will go deep t and* cau.-elesspaliitlianan-biUriT lever n^ed. Tiiineht it my duty lor tlioi<' eflt I I orres t ■< recommend your Ointment, lam nt\ erwithoctlt " Tl> is is the central v< rdictbvoll who (."vcQu'nn's Ointment a trial- For curbs, srtl'fn is, spavins, wiml [mil's, and aJ. buncuesit is unequalcd. Prlco 3 1 per bottle at all drugirists 9 oreentby mail- Sunl for circulars, testimonials, &a 1 W. B. Eddy & Go.9 Whitehall. N. Y. distemper Bfi Mer .{ fcB jjSeases> GRIPPE EPIZOOTIC COUGHS, E'c. WELLS MEDICINE CO, , Chemists & Germologisls, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, InrJ D E NEWELL., General Agent for Pacific Coast 510 Ml us lor. St., San FrancUco, Cal Not a case of these ailments In horses, sheep or dogs that any one cannot promptly cure with Dn CRAFT'S DISTEMPER & COUGH CURE. If your druggist can't supply It. order direct— 50c and 81— money back If It falls. Send a postal todav for our valuable booklet, "Veterinary Pointers " It Is free. FOR EXCHANGE ONE GOOD LOOKING SOUND YOUNG ROAD HORSE, good actor, thoroughly oltj broken— and ONE CHESTNUT GKLDING sound and a good roader; both guaranteed every way. I want to trade the above horses for 3 wt.ll matched thoroughly broken team something that will do to use for park driving. Address. H. R. RAND. Fashion Stables, San Francisco. JACK FOR SALE. A BLACK JACK WITH LIGHT POINTS; -^ large, heavy boned, prompt and a gooo. han- dler. Is a good foal getter and his foals are excellent Individuals. Price very reasonable for prompt sale. Address for further particulars, S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa. Keiistrt Shire Stallion FOR SALE. TET BLACK STALLION': WEIGHT 1750; 'J seven years old. Is a blocky built, big boned horse and a sure foal getter, and his colts will be shown. Price reasonable. For furiher particu- lars apply io onice of Breeder and Sportsman. 67a-680 Uth Ave. Bock of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE Z1BBELL & SON, Proprietor* San Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Bundling all kf Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on . any car going to the Chutes. Tel.: v. 14 <&ht> gveebzv anif ^poxtevnan [January 13, 19CC THE BAYWOOD STUDj THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Paerott, Esq.) Devoted Exclusively to the Breeding and Training of High Stepping" Hackney Bred Harness Horses WALTER SEALS, Manager. Bon Voyage Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Two-year-old Record 2:15 Three-year-old Record. . .2 :12?i Trial in a Race S:10J£ WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (SS500) FOR 1905. BON" VOYAGE (3) 2:123£ is by Expedition 2:15% by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erin2:24?i; second dam Farce 2:29^ by Princeps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150. For breeding, individu- ality and racing qualities be is unsurpassed. Season of 1906 at AGRICULTURAL PARK. LOS ANGELES, where he will serve a limited number of mares. CSft it\r iUo CAQcnn USUAL RETURN" PRIVILEGES, or money refunded should mare j)d\J 1UT 11IC OCaSUU. not prove in foal. A rare chance tb breed good mares to an excep- tionally high-class and highly bred young stallion. For further information address J. O. GERRITS, 4607 Agricn" tural Ave., LoS Angeles, Cal. O73a.o MoBLinney Stallion KENNETH C. 2:17 ("THREE "I J TEAK I 1 OLD I RECORD J Sired bv MtKINSEY: dam MOUNTAIN MAID (dam of Tom Carneal 2:08M) by Creseo4908 (sire of Allie Cresco2:13, etc ); nest dam by Cloud. Will make the Season ot 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. KENNETH C. was one of the fastest of an exceptionally good lo of three-year-olds that raced in California in 1905. He is a splendid individual, has size, style aDd quality, and the grandsons and granddaughters of McKin- ney throush Kenneth C. will be equal to any in the land. Tarmc (S>30 for the Season. Icllllo . S15 for blngle Service. Address S. K TREFRY, Pleasftn'on. WAYLAND W. 22516. Record 2:12*. One of the leading sires of 2:10 performers of 1905. Sire of Bolivar 2:06*4, leading money earning pacer of season 1905. Sire of Morosco 2.12, highest class trotter on California circuit in 1904. "Wayland "W. is by Arthur Wilkes 2:2S, dam Lettie (dam of Wayland W. 2:12%, Welcome 2:10%, Maud Singleton 2:2S) by Wayland Forrest. Although Wayland W. has never been mated with mares by Electioneer, Director, Nutwood. Sultan, Stamboul, Anteeo or any of our great sires, he is the sire of Bolivar 2:06J,i, Nellie R. 2:10. Arthur W. 2:11%, Morosco 2:12. John A. 2.12%, Forrest W. 2:14*4 . Leland W. 2:16, Al Sandy 2:1914, Maud Sears 2:21, Bonita Wilkes 2:26%. Wayland W. will make the Season of 1906 at SANTA ROSA, at McGregor & Hockins' Stables. W. C HELHAN. Owner. Terms $4-0 for the Season. Pasture $3.00 per month. f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT Into whion for twenty-fi e years carriages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an aore 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. JtHONE PARK 162 A. J. MARTIN, rop, A BOARDING AND LIVERY X530 FELL BEST OF ACCOMMODATIONS. CALL AND SEE FOR YOURSELF. STREfjT BET. LYON AND CENTRAL AVE. Hayes St Care Pass the Door THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in California. Owners c]esirir,g to nave horses handlea and put In condition for sale or racing are Invited to correspond with the unaersfgned. JAS. THOMPSON. Plensanton, Cal. c Kinney, 2.11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, S500.00 CJFees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2. per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 1 0 miles from Cuba. Mention this journal when writing. ©1)? lEmntre (Uttu SfartttB, CUBA, NEW YORK. 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Stakes divided as follows: $3250 for Trotting Foals, $1750 fo- Pacing Foals, $800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners and $200 for Owners of Stallioas. A Chance for Those Who Failed to Enter. Substitutions A few of the original nominators of Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes for Foals of 1905 have advised us that, because of barrenness of the mare or death of the foal, they wish to dispose of their entries. If you owuoneor more whose dams you neglected to name when entries closed, send $22, with Color, Sex and Breeding of the Foal, on or before February 1st next, which covers payments to February 1, 1907, and the few substitutions to be dis- posed of will be awarded in the order in which remittances are received. Prompt attention will secure for you this rich engagement. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Sec'y. 36 Geary St., S. F. iKLiiNnvrE^sr jl.<3xj im the RACING! New California May cinn OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP c- ISr Special Trains stopping at the Track take 5. P. Ferry, loot iMarMt Street— leave at 12 thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PEROT W. TREAT, Secretary. HAWTHORNE 3:06 1-4 BILL! BUCK 2:07 1-4 KINNEY LOU 2:07 3-4 KINNEY LOU 2:07 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON OF THE CHAMPION SIRE TERMS Will mike the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. SIOO. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal, For farther Information, pedigree and description address PHONE: JOHN 2481. BUDD DOBLE, San Jose, Cal. PHENOL S0DIQUE hoals SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast. Keep Handy for Cures | MANCE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. For Sale By All Drag;glsts. Recomm naed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. Mc Kinney, 2:11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 •JFees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2. per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 10 miles from Cuba. Mention this journal when writing. oTl|p iEmutr? (Utig iFarma, CUBA, NEW YORK. MoKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD TBE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION UNIMAK 40936 By McKinney 2:11}; dam Twenty-Third by Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15}) by Nutwood 600. Will Maka the Season of 1906 at PALO ALTO, Cal. Usual return privileges or money refunded at the option of the owner oi the mare. Terms, $40 for the Season, r To C'loge Juno 1st Address or apply to CAPT. C. H. WILLIAMS. Box 101, PALO ALTO, CAL WAYLAND W. 22516. Record 2:12^. ONE OF THE LEADING SIRES OF 2:10 PERFORMERS OF 1905. Sir- of Bolh leading money earning pacer of season 1905 sire of : 1904S WayfanflW. li V. Vci I "' "' Vavaml W. 1' I ' ' .. Welcome "-10K. '< ■ -i VUhoueh WaylanflW has never hean nh, , sultan" si ml 'ml V, i .,. • I Bolh .,,■ ■• !.,,., Nellie iH 2-10 'iXrW ' ' ' ' '!' Eolaifd W 216 Al sLidv Bonlla Wllki Wayland w will make th« bandy m of 1906 at SANTA BOSA, at' McGregor ft T HockinL' Stables? 540 for the Season. Pasture «.00; per month. w. c. eelmak. Omer. Excellent Pasturage at Reasonable Rates. No barbed wire Bast of care takeu of Mares, in any manner Owners may desire. Bon Voyage Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Two-year-old Record. ...2:15 Three-year-old Record. . 2:125£ Trial In a Race 2:10% WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (S8500) FOR 1905. BON VOYAGE (3) 2M2X is by Expedition 2:1534 by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erin 2:S4«- second dam Farce 2:39y by Princeps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150 For breeding. Individu- ality and racing qualities he is unsurpassed. Season of 1906 at AGRICULTURAL PARK. LOS ANGELES, where he will serve a limited number of mares. S50 for the Season USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGES, or money refunded should mare * ' * " , " " ', net prove in foal. A rare chance tb breed good mares to an excep- tionally high-olass and highly bred young stallion. For further information address traps and skipped out of to-wn., but it is said that he came back again last night. There have been rumors of 'ringers' at both tracks this winter, and a close watch is being kept to prevent them from going through. It is known that the Chilson, outfit shipped the mare Useful Lady from New York to Charlestown by boat and from Charles- town to New Orleans by train. She is here some- . where, but as yet has not been located. o i FULLY AS HONEST. I have always believed that the impression that has prevailed among a certain class of people that to be a dealer in horseflesh is proof positive of a lack of appreciation of the high standard of moral ethics which the same class believes prevails in many other walks of life, and after a good many years' exper- ience, I have come to the conclusion that the average horseman is fully as honest, much more generous, and equally as truthful as the average merchant, banker or farmer, equally as jealous of his reputation as the lawyer, physician, and infinitely superior in each of these to the average politician. Horsemen in general have the reputation among a certain class of people of being ever ready to disguise the fact that the horse which they are trying to dispose of is blemished or unsound, and yet I think if one of these somewhat bigoted and narrow minded critics would take the trouble to attend a sale of horses conducted by a reputable firm, visit any one of the well known stock farms throughout America, or deal directly with the owners who are to be met at any first-class trotting meeting, he would change his opinion and instead of belittling the horse business, would give it prece- dence over many of the callings, which he now con- siders preferable. The code of laws governing the horse business deals more harshly with offenders than does that which controls the conduct of insurance companies or the many corporations which have come into disrepute quite recently. The American republic is indeed jealous of its rights as far as the horse business is concerned, and eagerly demands that the man who has attempted to defraud it in a race should meet with the fullest punishment, and yet the public calmly and patiently allows itself to be robbed by the greedy wolves who infest the great speculative marts of this country and rushes confidently into the arms of promoters who offer untold wealth from an invest- ment in their industrial enterprises. — Exchange. (Chicago Horseman.) Handicapping the trotter has been more or less discussed for several years and- practically all the critics agree that the present system is far from ideal. The fact is forcibly brought to public attention by the record made in Europe the last year by the Amer- ican trotting stallion Kirkwood, Jr. This horse was purchased at the last Memphis meeting and was im- mediately shipped to Bologne, Italy. Since then he has been raced at the important meetings in Italy, Germany, Austria and France, and very successfully, too, having won nineteen out of thirty races in which he started. His owner, in a recent letter to John Splan. who purchased the horse, says that there is no horse in Europe capable of defeating him and he doubts if there is one in all America. This of itself is sur- prising, as there were not many who had an exalted idea of Kirkwood's ability to defeat the American bred horses already owned on the European conti- nent. The horse proved to be all that the veteran American trainer had predicted, "a better horse than most people give him credit for being and peculiarly well adapted to the European tracks." The fact that Kirkwood, Jr., has been so successful has not so much to do with the question of handi- capping as the fact that has enabled one trotter to start in thirty races in one season. The best horses in America start nowhere near that number of times. If in this country a horse starts at the commence- ment of the Grand Circuit and races at every meet- ing down the line he has done all that any one would expect of him. In fact the majority of the horses In training are not able to do this. If the horse is suc- cessful it means that he has started ten or a dozen times during the season. A racing system that allows of a horse starting thirty times in a season, or twice or thrice as mans times as it would be possible for the horse to do ir this country, must have elements of merit which should not be overlooked. Under present conditions campaigning a stable of trotters and pacers is not a remunerative pursuit. Even although the horses win a goodly percentage of the races the average owner will find that instead of being in receipt of money from his trainer at the end of the season he really has to make out a good sized check for the purpose of squaring the account. Now if it were possible to race a horse as frequently as was Kirkwood, Jr.. there would be two or three times as many chances to make the campaign a profit- able one. Under the present three-in-five system the average horse receives work enough which if utilized in racing would make a creditable showing before our present racing season really commences. The Grand Circuit trainers in the middle of last season awoke to the fact that the present system kills the horses physically and the patience of the average spectator. They declared for shorter races, but it is doubtful if they accomplish their purpose unless they adopt dif- ferent methods. The fact that when a good horse reaches the zenith of his power he is of no value as a race horse is an- other indictment aginast the present system. The last season that Dan Patch was trained for the races he was good for nothing but an exhibition horse after two races. Having won those two events his record barred him from all the classes. Major Delmar was never so good a horse as when his record was such as to render him ineligible to any class event". Under a proper system of handicapping he should have been worth twenty -five thousand dollars as a race horse, as it was he was worth just what a rich man was willing to pay for him as a fun horse. These are but two striking instances of a large num- ber. Under present conditions the best American trot- ters are handicapped out of all class races when at their best; the earning capacity of all horses is cur- tailed to one-half of their value because of the ina- bility of trainers to get them ready for twenty-five or thirty races a year; the system is such that horses are too frequently broken down before the racing season arrives; the long drawn out contests pro- hibits racing from being as popular as it should be. These are indictments enough against the present system and are so glaring that the best thought in the country should seek to remedy existing conditions. Owners of horses and secretaries of racing associa- tions should seek some mutual ground whereby race horses would be made more valuable and racing more attractive. The supreme court of Missouri has declared consti- tutional the law passed in that state a year ago against "pool-selling." It is expected that the de- cision will lead to the Delmar Jockey Club losing its franchise. Governor Folk of Missouri is quoted as being in favor of a law permitting racing if it be car- ried on in a similar manner to that in New York State, and the breeders of the harness horse in Mis- souri will aim to secure a law with the aid of the Governor. The present anti-pool law was aimed at the runners. The track being built by R J. Mackenzie, Winni- peg. Manitoba, owner of Harold H. 2:03%, etc., is the only track a mile in circumference in the entire Cana- dian Northwest. Frank Howe, the brother of Murray Howe, died week before last at Memphis, from Bright's disease. Frank Work of New York, who has loved driving horses ever since he was a boy in Ohio, and who la now close to the ninety mark, has for more than thirty years provided in his will for the disposition of his roadsters after he dies, says an exchange. Mr. Work has a magnificent stable, with a glass dome in the roof, so that his horses may have all the sunlight there Is going, and alongside of the main structure there is a ninety-foot covered runway with tanbark footing for exercise on winter days when no driving is done. As soon as Mr. Work has tried a horse suf- ficiently to know that it will suit him he adds a co- dicil to his will, naming the horse and providing that in case of his death the animal shall be taken to his Long Island farm and given the best of care for the balance of its days, never being harnessed Mr. Work never, in the days when his stable was filled with champion road horses, invited anybody to go driving with him. "It's no pleasure," he said to me, "to have another man in the wagon— I just want myself and the horses. I keep a good trott- for the use of my friends when they call. 1 horses I drive are for no one else, now oi Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. mis $r*jei>jei? anb gpovtstnan [January 20, 19(6 NOTES AND NEWS. Some of -the largest draying firms in San Francisco are advertising in the country papers for horses suit- able for their business. This shows how scarce heavy horses are in California. Millard Sanders reached Pleasanton last week with two car loads of young Sidney Dillons that Mr. Ster- ling R. Holt of Indianapolis had purchased the week previous from Santa Rosa parties. Mr. Sanders will begin work on them as soon as the weather permits and will have them in fine shape to ship east about May 1st. Kinney Lou 2:07% has ledthe list of stallions whose get were nominated in the Breeders' Futurity for the past two years, and is starting out to keep the lead another year. Mr. Doble states that more mares have been booked to this great trotter up to this time than in any previous season. In the article about Bonnie Direct which appeared in the Breeder and Sportsman last week, his dam Bon Bon by Simmons was not given credit for all that is her due. It stated that Bon Bon was the sire of Bonnie Direct 2:05Mi and Bonsilene 2:14%, but failed to give the fact that she is also the dam of Rector 2.10%, that took his record in 1905 at the pacing gait. This gives Bon Bon three in the 2:15 list. Her son Bonnie Steinway actually worked a mile in 2:08% and a half in 1:02% last year at Pleasanton, conse- quently the statement in the same article that he had paced a- mile in 2: 11% lacked three seconds of being a correct one. The writer of the article was present when he worked the mile in 2:11% and had forgotten about the faster trial. Can any of our readers give us the pedigree or any other information about a stallion called Red Wings, now supposed to be 16 or 18 years old, that was shipped from Kentucky about twelve years ago to some person in Humboldt county, California. The stallion is said to be trotting bred and is a bay with black points. Any information that will lead to the identification of this horse will be thankfully received. The three yearlings by Sidney Dillon sold by Mr. S. B. Wright of Santa Rosa to Sterling R. Holt of Indianapolis, and now in Millard Sanders' charge at Pleasanton, are bred in producing lines. One is a bay filly out of the great brood mare Eveline by Nut- wood, dam of Ole 2:10%. Roblet 2:12 (dam of Bona- let (3) 2:09%),Tietam 2:19 and Maud Fowler 2:21%, another is a bay filly out of Maud Fowler by Anteeo, dam of Dumont S. 2:20, Sonoma May 2:29%, Sonoma Queen (3) 2:26, and Sonoma Girl, trial 2:15, and the third is a chestnut colt out of the un- tried mare Hattie Fowler by Robin 28370, out of Maud Fowler 2:21%. These are three royally bred youngsters and have been named Eveline Dillon, Maud Dillon and Fowler Dillon, respectively. Mr. Wright still ownes another Sidney Dillon filly that he calls Olive Dillon. This filly was foaled in 1904 and has been- registered as Sonoma Lady, but he has made application for a change of name. She is a large, beautifully gaited filly and has trotted a quarter in 48 seconds. She has been turned out for some time, however, and will not be handled for speed until fall. Peralta, the son of Nutwood Wilkes and Rose Mc- Kinney that is now owned by Mr. H. J. Tasker of Christchurch. New Zealand, is reported in fine con- dition. He is doing stud duty at the present time and is getting some well bred mares. The New Zea- landers should not miss the opportunity to breed to this grandly bred horse. Geers has a green pacing mare in his stable that he Is counting a great deal on. She is a five-year- old by The Earl 2:17 trotting. 2:14% pacing, the fast son of Mambrino King now owned by J. N. Compton of Augusta, 111., and out of Bessie Hal, the dam of the famous unbeaten Direct Hal 2:04%. In her work at Memphis she stepped a half in 1:03% some time ago, and did It like the real thing. She is so "old fash- ioned." both in looks and manners, that the rail- birds have dubbed her "Grandma." The mare Ronie G., owned by Mr. D. S. Matthews of Ryde, foaled January 8th a fine colt sired by Ed- ward B., son of Slam B. 2:11%. The colt has been named Socoro M. He is 41 inches high and well pro- porl ioned. Secretary Gocher announces that a biennial meet- ing or congress of members will be held at the Mur- ray Hill Hotel. New York, at noon, Wednesday, Feb- ruary 14, 1906, in accordance with Article 7, Section ( ord of i\£j ■_'-*• .mil mile record of 4:55. In the Colonies he sired Rfb- bonwood 2:09. the champion harness norst of Aus- tralasia, and several other good winners. Electioneer was bred at Rancho del Paso and was by Albert W. 2:20 (son of Eli Silica by Ali-ona. sectfnd dam Galena He won several important rai Strike— if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda Antipodes, and in the stud' when you ask for It. Member 2:19 and many other good winners. 8 ©Ire gveebzv anit gtipavi&nxan [January 20, 19C6 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. I Conducted by J. X. De WITT. P3^2jg U^^gl^gjSJ C^^gg COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. I- June 1— Closed season for black bass. April !-Sept. lo. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season (or taking steal- head In tidewater. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close reason in tidewater forsteelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close beason for catching salmon. Sept. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oct. 16-Nov. lb -Close season for taking salmon above tide, water. Nov. 1-Aprll 1 — Tront season closed. Nov. l-April I— Closed season for taking steelhead above the water. Nov. l-Sept. 1 — Open season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide rater. Gun. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and age hen. Oct. I5-Feb. 15— Open season for quail, duoks. etc. Oct. 15-April 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug I— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. Jan. 10, 11— Bay State Co-operative Bench Show Associaticn Fall River, Mass. Walter E. Stone, Clerk. Jan. 17. 20— Cincinnati Kennel Association. Cincinnati, O. John C. Schomaker, Secretary. Jan. 18, 19— Lynn Kennel Club. Lynn, Mass. Tom B. Midd?<- brooke. Superintendent Entries closed Jan. 6. Jan. 24, 27— Southern Kennel Club. Memphis, Tenn. Harry VT. Clapham, Secretary. Entries closed Jan. 10. Feb. 12, 15— Westminster Kennel Club. New York. Robt. V. McKim, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 25. Feb. 20, 23— New England Kennel Club. Boston. Wm. B. Emery, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 30. Feb. 2S-March 3— Washington Kennel Club. Washington, Pa. F. C. Thomas, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 22. March 1, 3— Southern Ohio Kennel Club. Hamilton, Oho. Taos. Boll, Secretary. March 7, 10— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburfe, Pa. F. S. Steadman. Secretary. Entries close Feb. 25. March 8, 10— Colorado Kennel Club. Denver, Col. T. W. Bar- tels, Secretary. March 13, 16— Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N.Y. S.P.White, Secretary. March 14, 17— Passale County Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas. Matthews, Secretary. March 21, 24— Wolverine Kennel Club. Detroit, Mich. K. G. Smith, Secretary. May San Francisco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench s>h„w, Fred P. Butler, Secretary. May 29,30 — Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L I. June 1 2— Ladies Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed, Secretary. June 9— Wissahickon Kennel Club. Wissahickon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary. Sept. 3, 6— Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J Leo, Secretary. Sept. 8— Cedarhurst Kennel Club. Cedarhurst, L I. Jno G. Bates, Secretary. Field Trials. Jan 8— Pacific Coast Field Trials Club, 23d annual trials Bakersfleld, Cal. Albert Betz. Secretary, a01 Parrott Bldg., San Francisco. Jan. 8— Texas Field Trial Club. 4th annual trials. Kansas City, Tex. Jan. 9— Georgia Field Trial Association. 4th annual trials. Waynesboro, Ga. P. M. Essig, Secretary, Atlanta, Ga. Jan. 15— United States Field Trial Club. 17th annual trials. Grand Junction, Tenn. W. B. Stafford, Secretary. Jan. National Championship Field Trial Club. 10th annual trials. Following U. S. All Age State. W. B. Stafford, becre- tary, Trenton, Tenn. PACIFIC COAST FIELD TRIALS. The twenty-third annual trial of the Pacific Field Trials Club -were run near Bakersfleld, Kern county, commencing- Monday, January 8th and cocluded on Saturday, the 13 th. Taken as a whole the trials were successful in most respects. The Derby, to the regret of many present, did not begin to compare with the stake of 1905. The dry conditions of the grounds and unfavorable weather prevailing the first two days of the meeting was a handicap which the young dogs could not over- come. Towards the end of the week weather condi- tions were a bit more favorable. Mr. J. W. Eaughn of Ridgeville, Indiana, judged each stake, his decisions being favorably received. In the Derby the associate judges were Henry L. Bet- ten and John H Schumacher. Mr. Schumacher gave way to Mr. W. Dormer in the All Age as he had his dog, Sir Roderick, among the starters. le Mootimer, the Derby winner, is a stylish and merry worker and a remarkably good looking English Setter. The daughter of Kilgarif, out of Lady F-, showed the cl :ted of her, notwithstanding the limited opportunities offered. Aunt Marie, winner of second in the Derby, is a well built medium sized liver and white English Setter a painstaking and persistent worker. It .ion of a number of sportsmen who saw tier heat in the first series that had ground and B( i^ns been right a most interesting would have been put up. Lady Belle, a clean, racy built white and liver tkked i bitch, showed class to a degree. Frank Schu- r, came up from Los Angeles with a broken arm in a sling. He had faith in his dog and his gam-ness in following the cavalcade each day n to win." as one of the enthusiasts put it. ike was of a more pleasing texture, ing in this stake being more or less i trial workers. ..,,.. |i3 sustained his reputa- ; .insistent performer. He is a stylish, strong- ly built, upstanding white, black and tan dog. He has endurance and speed, is a wide goer and is en- dowed with lots of bird sense Orion, his sire, was a winner at one of the Coast trials. Kilgarif's field trial career began with the Coast Derby in 1903, which he won. He also won second in the Coast All- Age event in 1904, third in the Independent trials All- Age in 1905. Policy Girl is a handsome little bitch, whose stature belies* her classy qualities, for she possesses speed and stamina that is surprising. She is a bird hunter and field trial worker that, consider- ing her size, is rather surprising. She won third in the Pacific Northwest All-Age in 1904, first in the British Columbia All-Age in 1905 (beating Kilgarif) and second in the Pacific Northwest All- Age in 1905. Avalon is a good type of a Setter and is a promis- ing dog. He ran unplaced last year in the All-Age. His work in the second series of the All-Age and later in the Championship stake stamps him as a class dog. Raffles, winner of the Members' Stake, notwith- standing the lamentable showing he made in the Derby, when he found birds, on Friday redeemed the promise of his breeding. Elsie second, was not in the best condition for the long heat she had, but she proved herself a game one and is a painstaking and stylish bird finder. Betsey, third, is a handsomely built liver and white bitch full of class. The Champion Stake was clearly Policy Girls' until the last 15 minutes of the two hour heat when she stopped. Cuba Jr. showTed far better form in this race than in the All-Age. Avalon, the runner up, h.ad also got into better going. At the annual meeting of the club Wednesday the following officers were elected: Hon. H. W. Keller, Santa Monica, President; John H. Schumacher, Los Angeles, First Vice-President; Joseph E. Terry, Sac- ramento, Second Vice-President; Albert Betz, San Francisco, Secretary-treasurer; Messrs. Elmer E Cox, Madera; W. W. Van Arsdale, Frank W. Jermyn, San Francisco; W. S. Tevis, Bakersfleld, and Charles N. Post, Sacramento, Executive Committee. The Executive Committee were authorized to select the grounds for the next annual trials of the club wrhich will be held in the last full week of January, 1907. The Committee of "Ways and Means, composed of Messrs. W. W. Van Arsdale, Joseph E. Terry, H. W. Keller, Elmer C. Cox, Dr. C. W. Hibbard and F. H. Jermyn, were invested with power to acquire a club preserve either by lease or purchase. The following new members were elected: J. G. Roberts, Madera; John Erikson, Seattle; Lloyd Tevis, Bakersfleld, Rube Louis, San Francisco; Dr. J. M. Dunn, San Francisco; A. B. Spreckels, San Francisco; Victor Caglieri, San Francisco; F. D. Ross, Hanford; William Teadon, Eldorado; Judge W. J. Baughn was elected an honorary member of the club. A note of thanks was extended by the club to Mr. W. S. Tevis for many courtesies extended. Among those present during the trials were W. W. Van Arsdale, Clinton E. Worden, E. N. Briggs, Dr. J. M. Dunn, Andrew Jackson, Dr. C. W. Hibbard, H. T. Payne, Frank Mayer, J. X. DeWitt, Victor Caglieri, S. Christenson, Frank H. Jermyn, Rube Louis, R. A. Smyth, J. W. Flynn of San Francisco; John Erikson, Seattle; Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Tevis, Mr. and Mrs. Captain Taylor, Masters Lloyd, Willie, Gordon and Lansing Tevis, Mr. T. Hopkins, H. EL Packard, Clem Wilson and Ed. King. Bakersfleld; A. F. Jilson, Jas. E. Terry and Hon. Chas. N. Post, Sacramento; Elmer E. Cox and J. G. Roberts, Madera; J. M. McDaniels, Paso Robles; Hon. H. W. Keller, Santa Monica; John H. Schumacher, Frank G. Schumacher, Percy Schu- macher and Gen. C. F. A. Last, Los Angeles; Dr. C. E. Wilson, Albert Betz, H. L. Betten, Alameda, Wm. Dormer, Oakland; R. E. Galloway, Bakersfleld; Wm. Teaden, El Dorado county; W. L. Whelpley, F. D. Rocq Hanford; Milton Donley, Fresno; Manager R. M Dodge and Handler S. N. Carlile, Stockdale Ken- nels; W. B. Coults, Chas. and Fred Coults, Kenwood Kennels; Chas. H. Babcock and Mrs. Babcock, Del Rey Kennels; John E. Lucas, Mount Clemente Kennels; THE DERBY. The drawing for the Derby took place Sunday even- ing January 7th. twenty-two entries paying the start- ing fee— 11 English Setters and 11 Pointers. The starters and detailed order of running in the first series being as follows: Monday, January S, 1906— A cool, fairly bracing morning tempered by a light frost the night before promised well for the day's running. The sanguine expectations of those in attendance were not realized except in a few instances, for the results during the first day of the trials were disappointing, particularly so to those who had been present during the Derby of 1905, which event was from start to finish a proces- sion of stylish performances. The general quality of the eight braces of young dogs running to-day was not up to the standard looked for, not that they were a bad lot by any means. Nearly all of the heats in the first series were blank on birds. The impression prevailed with some sports- men present that it was the intention to run the dogs in open ground as a trial of speed and endurance, hunting and ranging qualities and attention to the course, and that consequently no particular efforts would be made to get among birds. This impression was erroneous, for while the tryout of the qualities mentioned was much desired, when birds were located every opportunity was given the puppies to show their abilities. There were, now and then, some neat bits of work, but almost every dog in the sixteen smirched the bright colors in his heat with a veneer- ing of subsequent faulty work that ordinarily should have put him out of the running. The general opirion finally prevailed that the dry condition of the ground, particularly so on several fields where the alkali dust was alike disagreeable to man and dog, wras the principal reason for many in- stances of apparently wretched nose work. Dogs ran close by birds a number of times, finally flushing the quail when they galloped almost over them. The birds favored by the weather, were enabled to hold scent apparently to a baffling degree. Tod Sloan— Misfit — At 9:30 a. m. the first brace were put down at the northeast corner of Section 16, 7 miles from Bakersfleld, in open ground covered with low dry weeds. The course was southwest. Tod Sloan, Chas. Coutts, handler, and Misfit in charge of Lucas, set off at a merry clip but did not range far enough out to locate a small bevy, which was seen in some dry weeds to the left. Shortly after- wards Misfit found fur chasing to her liking and failed to show up for ten minutes. The circuit of the field was made, but no birds were found. Ordered up at 10 o'clock. All heats in the first series were not less than 30 minutes duration. Merry Duchess-Sonoma — The next brace down at 10:15. Merry Duchess, Fred Coutts handler, with Sonoma, Chas. B. Babcock handler. This pair were cast off art: the starting point and drew a blank after the second trip around the mile square section. So- noma has speed and good ranging qualities and show- ed a bird hunting disposition that won the good opin- ion of the spectators. Madera-Goliath — Were cast off at 11:03. Madera in charge of Babcock, and Goliath with Coutts Sr. as handler. The two Setters started in a field in section 17, west of the first ground, drew blank and were again put down in a field further west, beoynd a wide irrigation ditch. The course was north and shortly birds were located in a patch of sparse low cover studded with cottonwoods. Goliath shortly found and made the first point of the day. Both dogs showed a fancy for rabbit running at times. In fact, this pen- chant, varied by flushing and chasing back, was of too frequent occurrence. This heat was the best of the- forenoon, both dogs were speedy, ranged wide and hunted well. Goliath, for a large dog is an easy paced, quick mover and covers a deal of ground well. Up at 11:33. Mishap-Navajo — At 11:50 Mishap, Lucas handler, and Navajo, Chas. Coutts, were put down in a field further wTest and tarted on a southerly course, dogs' handlers, judges and the cavalcade of spectators fol- lowed across the road on to a pasture field of the Eraser ranch. Birds were seen flying into the trees ahead, a few shots were fired to scatter them when suddenly a large bevy flushed, scattering in every direction, principally to the tree tops. The dogs re- peatedly ran by birds, bird scent was a hard problem for young dogs working over ground rooted up by hogs. Finally in the southeast corner of the field little Mishap, a merry worker all throughout the heat, located and pointed nicely after flushing a bird. Lucas claimed the point, followed up, flushed and fired a blank cartridge. Mishap was staunch to wing and shot. Up at 12:30. Birds were so plentiful any time during the heat that they were pelted out of the tree tops by the spectators. Many were marked down afterwards, but when the spot was worked it was found the birds had sprinted to different localities for the time being. After luncheon at the Gosford ranch house the fifth brace was cast off "wo miles away on what is known as> the "mule field," west of the Canfield schoolhouse, eleven miles from Bakersfleld. Aunt Marie-Hickorywood — iAt 1:55 p. m., in a north- erly direction, Aunt Marie, Coutts Sr. handler, and Hickorywood, handled by Dodge, were cast off. Marie proved to be a swift, wide going ranger and merry worker. Her style elicited the favorable comment of many. Hickorywood seemed to like to linger near his- handler. The pair finally located a bunch of scattered birds, but neither seemed to use the nose, for not a point w7as made. A n umber of birds were flushed by both dogs. Up at 2:37. Senator Don-Senator Jack — Two sons of ch. Senator P., were put down at 2:43 in an adjoining alfalfa field. Don with W. B. Coutts, and Jack in charge of Chas. Coutts. Both dogs ran by birds. Jack pointed and then flushed two birds, dropping to wing. Don seemed to be unable to find. Both dogs were working a patch of dry weeds, Jack distinguished himself by gallop- ing into and flushing a large bevy. Up at 3:15. Oakwood-Dollie — Cast off at 3:30 in Section 25, op- posite the schoolhouse. Dodge handled Oakwood and W. B. Coutts handled Dollie. Both dogs were fast wide goers. Dollie made the first find near the road. Oakwood honored just as the bird flushed. Dollie again pointed, backed nicely by Oakwood, no bird was found, probably a runner. Oakwood had a fancy for fur chasing in this heat. Up at 4. Uncle Dudley-Raffles— Cast off at 4:10 in the same field and on a similar course. Chas. Coutts handled Raffles, Lucas handled Uncle D. This pair was con- sidered the class of the day and much was expected of them. Over the same, ground as the preceding brace they drew blank. The judges then ordered the dogs put down, across the road, in the field north of the schoolhouse, where birds were known to be lying. Birds were soon located. Both dogs were speedy and stylish workers. Each made wide casts and quartered in well. Nose work and scent would not assimilate for numerous birds were flushed. Dud- ley finally settled on a point and was steady to gun- fire and flush. Up at 4:52. Tuesday. January 10th — Morning cool, with a slight southerly breeze. The character of the heats run January 20, 1906] <£lic i^vccocr alio ^fipct&iuau lo-day, while showing at odd times, some excellent individual exhibitions, was practically colorless, for almost every heat was barren of bird work. The general failure of the young dogs to discover birds was no doubt caused by the dry and dusty state of the ground gone over. The rather warm day and lack of scent wafting wind also militated against the de- sired showing on. birds. Most of the grounds gone over were the same as were worked the day before, save a vineyard on the Canfield ranch, opposite the schoolhouse. Birds were fairly plentiful, but it was very difficult to get them in favorable cover. Several times the quail were routed out of trees with clods and sticks, efforts were made to scatter bevies and to drive the birds into open ground, these attempts proved futile in most cases. Encinal-Baywood— Cast off at 9:15, in Section 16, practically the same ground and course over which the initial brace of the Derby started. Baywood, handled by Dodge, found first, a small scattered bevy in open cover, the Pointer was steady and nicely backed by Encinal. After this there was several flushes, both should have done more work. The Setter also had a fancy for fur. Up at 9:55. Senator-Montauk J.— Cast off at 10, in same field. Senator, in charge of W. B. Coutts, here showed pace and range that took him into the second series. The field drew blank and the pair were taken into Section 17, to the west, going south after a large bevy had been flushed by -a rider. Senator found twice 0nd was steady to shot and wing. Both dogs were off in nose. Up at 10:45. Bessie Mortimer-Lady Belle— Cast off at 10:55, westerly over good ground in Section 17. A large bevy was discovered an eighth of a mile away in the open These birds- were flushed by a rider, who vainly tried to turn them to advantageous cover. Enough single birds were left for the dogs to hunt after. Both dogs were stylish and classy workers. The heat was the only errorless one of the series. The single opportunity for a point was taken advantage of by Bessie, in charge of Fred Coutts, who was steady to wing when the bird flushed. Belle had no chance on birds, she was handled by W. B. Coutts. Up at 11:25. This ended the first series, during which there were no bevy points. After lunch at the Gosford ranch, the judges an- nounced the following dogs carried into the second series: Senator with Mishap, Goliath with Sonoma, Lady Belle with Encinal, Bessie Mortimer with Aunt Marie, Uncle Dudley with Baywood were the reserve brace. Senator-Mishap— Cast off at 2:32 in a vineyard on the Canfield ranch. Birds were seen shortly after, but they were wild and took to the trees. Senator's nose was not up to expectations; several points were claimed, but no birds were found. Mishap failed to honor on one occasion. Goliath-Sonoma — This brace was run on the install- ment' plan. Sonoma and Handler Babcock were ab- sent. Goliath was put down at 3:15 in a field north of the schoolhouse and ran fifteen minutes with Tod Sloan as a work mate. Babcock drove up shortly afterward and then ran his charge for fifteen minutes, after which both dogs ran together for about twenty minutes. Scattered birds were discovered several times, but neither dogs located birds nor made any points. Up at 4:28. Mr. Van Arsdale afterwards withdrew Sonoma, deciding to abide by the rules. This action was in accordance with the ethics of srort, for Babcock's absence was unavoidable and the abeyance of the rule was satisfactory to all. So- noma was looked upon as having an excellent chance for a place. Encinal-Lady Belle — Down at 4:52, south of the last field worked, in Section 17. Birds were marked out in alkali woods cover, to which they had flown from the high cottonwoods alongside the county road. En- cinal pointed once and showed good bird hunting qual- ities. The brace were called in at 5:30. Wednesday, January 10 — The ground selected for the Derby finals was near Gosford Station, six miles southwest of Bakersfield. Bessie Mortimer- Aunt Marie — Cast off at 9:25 in Section 20. Birds were soon found in scattered wil- lows and a wide bottom swale. Marie scored a single and was steady to flush, Bessie backing stanchly. Both dogs did satisfactory bird work during the ten min- utes1 they were down. Goliath-Encinal— Cast off at 10, on the same ground. After ten minutes work on a few scattered birds they were taken up. Goliath chased a rabbit in this heat. Encinal did not show up as strong as prev- iously. Lady Belle, a bye — Put down at 10:30, on the same ground. Belle cut out a merry clip and covered ground closely in search of birds, but drew blank. Up at 10:40. The judges then announced the winners as follows: Bessie Mortimer first, Aunt Marie second. Lady Belle third. ALL-AGE STAKE. The All-Age Stake was started WeGnesciay morning, after the Derby. The route taken was towards the Gosford ranch. The drawing took place Tuesday night, with 21 starters named, run in the following order: Kilgarif-McCloud Boy— Put down at 10:50, in open, weedy country. Kilgarif, handled by W. B. Coutts, McCloud Boy handled by Babcock. Kilgarif swept away in a wide cast and worked ground closely and with great speed. He seemed to intuitively understand that birds were not in that locality. Then, making another cast, he brought up in cover across the rail- road track, where he was found dropped to a bevy point. Following this up, he quickly pointed six singles in a snappy manner that was an exhibition of work on quail that was1 believed would not be ex- celled or possibly approached by any other dog in the stake. This episode was the first showing of the kind of work .the enthusiasts were so anxious to see, and was a rift in the clouds of prior disappointment. MuCloud Boy backed Kilgarif steadily, but did not get a point credit, he failing to locate a bird. Both dogs have pace, range, and are merry workers. The heat, however, was Kilgarif's by a wide margin. Kenwood-Count's Gift — .Cast off at 11:25 in the same field, no opportunity for bird work offered, ordered up after a run of 30 minutes. After lunch at the Gosford ranch a drive of three miles southeast to Section 21, where birds were known to be. Cuba Jr.-Chiquita — Chiquita, Lucas handler, was substituted in this heat for Uncle Jimmie Whitestone, withdrawn by Lucas, because he was too sick to run. Chiquita had drawn a bye. Cast off in the southeast corner of Section .21 at 2:20. The course was over an open dry-weed covered field. After a wide cast northerly a lot of birds were flushed from trees. Cuba pointed several of the high perching birds and was steady both to shot and wing. Chiquita came to a stanch point just as the birds flushed. Both dogs showed good speed, range and endurance. Up at 2:53. Belle Fontaine-Policy Girl— Cast off at 2:5S, they worked over open ground to scattered cottonwoods and willows1 in the western section of the field. Belle, Chas. Coutts handler, found twg bevies and made four singles. Girl, in charge of Lucas, did some good work off to the south while on a long cast. She lo- cated a bevy and made several singles, she seemed to be a little unsteady in backing at times. She showed a shade greater range and speed than Belle. Both dogs were stanch to shot and wing. Up at 3:16. Checkmate-Romp — Put down at 3:40. Checkmate in charge of Dodge found twice, as did Romp, who was handled by Fred Coutts. Both were steady to shot and wing. The Pointer, however, refused to honor Romp's point. Up at 4:15. Thursday, January 11th — A blustering sandstorm with all the up-to-date discomforts for man and beast such as only the Mojave desert can produce, put a quietus1 on the sport to-day. "Weather conditions were very unfavorable when the start was made early in the morning for the locality the judges had selected for the opening heat, Section 16, a district that had been gone over by the Derby dogs A southeast wind was working up and the air was laden with infinites- mal particles of sand. The weather prophets present were kind enough to outline what was in store for man, horse and dog. nor were they, as after events proved, wrong in their forecast. As the day advanced the wind grew stronger and the irritation from the alkali dust increased. The dogs sent away over the fields were all apparently willing to work honestly, but the best of them were repeatedly at fault. Nose was secondary to sight, and the latter quality was handicapped by burning par- ticles of alkali dust. Birds were found rather plenti- fully. Notwithstanding the dogs often ran over ground where birds were lying close without locating them. Many birds were afterwards flushed by those following the dogs. In several instances birds held so close to cover that they were approached almost within reaching distance before flushing. Nose was at a discount and scent was a tradition. Every time birds and rabbits were disturbed it was noticeable that they left a lee side shelter. Calaveras- Star's Rod — Cast off at 9:09, the route was west over an open field full of bunches of tumble weed and alkali spots. Both dogs were speedy rangers and showed bird hunting qualities to a degree. After a run of forty-three minutes, during which birds wrere an unknown quantity, the dogs were taken up. Bab- cock handled Calaveras, Dr. Wilson looked after Star's Rod. Del Rey Belle-Ivy wood— Cast off at 10:07, Dodge handling Ivywood and Chas. Coutts in charge of Belle, in the same field. After a ten-minute run they were sent off in promising ground on Section 15. After a run through scattered willows and cottonwoods some pretty bird work took place in open ground south. Belle received credit for a bevy point and three singles. She was steady under gunfire and to wing. Ivywood did the proper honors in backing. This brace ran thirty minutes. Sabine'sMollie-Cuba's Japan — Cast off in the same section at 10:31. This heat was an eye-sore and heart-breaker to those following the dogs. Single birds were often flushed after the Pointers had work- ed over the ground and several small bevies were stirred up. The wind and dust was too strong a factor for any dog, no matter how classy. A num- ber of points were claimed, but not allowed. Birds were nowhere on investigation. The dogs worked as well as they knew how, but they were up against a hard proposition. Avalon -Countess Lou — A change of ground was taken to the northwest corner of Section 17, fairly open country with scattered cottonwood trees. Here at 11:35 Avalon, Babcock handler, and Countess Lou, W. B. Coutts handler, were sent away at a merry clip. Both dogs soon struck open country. Countess making an especially wide cast. A large bevy of quail flushed some distance ahead of the advancing horse- men. When the dogs came to the same ground they failed to locate birds. Single birds were repeatedly flushed afterwards. It was conceded by everybody present that under the conditions the dogs were not at fault. After lunch at the Gosford ranch, the whole party drove to Section 21, three miles southeast, where birds could be found. Sir Roderick-Keepsake — Cast off at 2>, in open ground skirted by poplars and cottonwoods Babcock handled Keepsake, W. B. Coutts handled Sir Roderick. Two minutes after the dogs started a bevy of at least 100 quail was flushed by the riders. The dogs were working well out to each side. Here birds were found in plenty and the ground was quartered back and forth. Many birds were flushed by people after ill- dogs had gone over. The wind was blowing so fiercely at this time that it was often difficult to tell whether a running object in the open was one of tie dogs or a bunch of tumble weed. Keepsake finally came to a staunch point and was steady to the flush and shot. Rod was not within distance to honor. At 2:35 the dogs were ordered up and it was de- cided to start a-fresh on Friday morning. Indica- tions for rain during the night raised hopes with the sportsmen for the possibiliity of observing better work during the running of the second series. Friday, January 12th— The dogs selected by the judges for the second series were Countess Lou with Calaveras, Star's Rod with Avalon, Keepsake with Policy Girl, Belle Fontaine with Kilgarif. The overcast sky promised rain and the storm of Thursday served to clear and cool the atmosphere, thus making weather conditions somewhat more fav- orable. Countess Lou -Calaveras— Cast off at 9:20 in the northeast corner of Section 21. The dogs made a straightaway cast to the south and in a very short time a large number of birds were located, but neither dog made a point. They were clearly off in nose, and from this it was thought that the experience of the prior two days was to be repeated. Up at 9:40. Star's Rod-Avalon — Cast off at 9:45 on the same ground. In a very short time Avalon located a bevy, following with two singles, Star's Rod failed to find, but he backed prettily. Both dogs developed fine pace and range. Keepsake-Policy Girl — Birds being plentiful here and the cover being all that could be desired, it was decided to complete the series on the same ground, and the next brace. Keepsake (Babcock) and Policy Girl (Lucas), were cast off from the south side of the field at 10:15. A northerly course was taken along the knoll, on which was some likely cover. The dogs worked the ground rapidly and thoroughly, both show- ing remarkable speed and range, but they failed to locate any birds. The heat clearly belonged to Policy Girl. She was on the outside all the time. Kilgarif-Belle Fontaine — The next and final heat of the second series was between Kilgarif (Charles Coutts) and Belle Fontaine (W. B. Coutts). Down fifteen minutes to a blank. Kilgarif-Policy Girl — lAfter the dogs were ordered up the judges caled for Kilgarif and Policy Girl to run a heat together to determine the respective merits of the two favorites. They were down about thirty minutes, but again failed to locate any birds and, after being taken up. Judge Baughn announced the winners as follows: Kilgarif first, Policy Girl second, and Avalon third. MEMBERS" STAKE. After the usual appetizing lunch provided by the club and served daily at the Gosford ranch, under the supervision of Fred Tegeler, of the Southern Hotel, Bakersfield, who was most painstaking during the week to make everybody comfortable and well pro- vided for, the Members' Stake was drawn with eight starters — two English Setters and six Pointers. This event was not without several comedy flashes, for among the spectators were a number of quick-witted geniuses who were not averse to offering the aijiateur handlers more os less pertinent advice at critical times. How palatable this may have been can easily be understood when several of the gentlemen in charge of their shooting dogs were well supplied with adipose tissue and the going was not as smooth as body Brussels. Taken altogether the event was of much interest. The weather conditions, ground and birds were all favorable to an excellent showing. The entries and order of running were as follows: Lloyd Tevis' Pointer Elsie with W. S. Tevis' Pointer Stella. J. McDaniels* English Setter Cloudlight with S. Christenson's Pointer Raffles. J. M. Donley's English Setter Monterey with Clin- ton E. Worden's Pointer Betsey. F. D. Ross' Pointer Swede with Howard B. Smith's Pointer Lottie Ripstone. Elsie-Stella— Cast off at 1:25 in the field east of the Canfield schoolhouse. Dry weeds, cornstalks and open alfalfa stubble was the variety of cover worked through. The heat was a pleasing exhibition between two superior hunting dogs. Elsie, in charge of Master Lloyd Tevis, had a shade in pace and range over Stella. No birds were found. Up at 1:35. Raffles-Cloudlight — Cast off at 1:38, over the same ground. Cloudlight (McDaniels) came to a point fif- teen feet from the starting point. The find was not given credit and a bird was flushed by the advancing handlers and judges. A bevy was shortly flushed. Raffles cut away on a long cast to the left through the cornfield. He found and was steady on his singles. Cloudlight also located several singles. Up at 2." Monterey-Betsey — Put down at 2:10, for thirty min- utes. Off in open ground on east side near a large haystack. Betsey made one bevy point and three singles. Monterey found a bevy and came to point on a single bird. Both dogs worked nicely. The Pointer, in charge of Mr. Worden. and H. W. Keller handled the Setter. This was clearly an individual heat, the dogs were too far apart to honor each other on point. Both were steady to wing. Lottie Ripstone-Swede — Down for twenty minutes in the same field. Both had fair range and speed. Swede worked out a find on a single bird in close cover. Opportunity for extended work did not arise. Raffles-Elsie — The final heat of the stake was of one hour and eight minutes duration. Cast off at 3: 15 in the field opposite the schoolhouse on open ground, the brace worked westerly into the vineyard. Birds wrere plentiful. Both dogs found single birds, each honored the other consistently and were - to shot and wing. Raffles was the fast' the most range. The judges announced the winners as follows Raffles: second, Elsie: third, Betsey. 10 ©ii«r Qvscitsv cms gtportamcm [January 20. 1906 CHAMPIONSHIP STAKE. Saturday, January 13th— A cool morning with a light southeast breeze and the atmosphere faintly humid, overhanging heavy clouds and a downpour of rain in the distant southwest were all more pleasing features for the running of the Championship Stake than had ensued during any of the previous days. There were four starters. Stockdale Kennels Pointer Cuba Jr. (Dodge, handler), W>. V7. Van Arsdale's Eng- lish Setter McCloud Boy (Babcock), TV. W\ Van Ars- dale's English Setter Policy Girl (Lucas), and W. W. Van Arsdale's English Setter Avalon. Cuba Jr.-MeCloud Boy— Cast off at 9:10 at the northeast corner of Section 16. down for a two-hour heat. The course was southwest. Both dogs went away at a lively pace. From the start the range and speed were clearly Cuba's, and this pa-ce he maintained throughout the entire two-hour heat and also in the final half-hour heat. Cuba cut away on several wide ranging casts and in fifteen minutes located birds in the low weedy covvr of the open field. He made a bevy point following with a snappy nose to a single. Shortly afterwards he located birds in dry willows and was steady to gun fire and wing. McCloud Boy was by no means idle; several points and backs were made by him. Both dogs did some pretty work in heavy brush after which they were taken eastward into Section 15. A detour of the field drew blank. Both again found birds in Section 16. Cuba was busy after birds all the time and never let up in speed or quartering his ground. Up at 11:10. During this run Mrs. Tevis was an interested spectator. She arrived on the field driving a handsome pair of matched ponies to a phaeton. Polk-y Girl-Avalon — Cast off at 11:35 in the north- east corner of Section IT. The route was west and south in an open pasture field with scraggy cotton- woods here and there. A slight drizzle at this time helped matters considerably. Both dogs shot away with the speed of coursing hounds. Birds were soon found close to the west fence line, and then the fun began. Girl located the bevy and had a shade in speed and range. Both dogs were classy and cov- ered their ground in the merry fashion so dear to the hearts of sportsmen. Scattered birds gave oppor- tunity for each dog to score points. Each honored the other in backing and both were steady to gun- flash and the birds' flight. A pretty double back then took place in the open field half a mile to the south- east. Girl came to a point after a wide cast off to the south, McCloud was a quarter of a mile away and came sailing down the line into steady position, while Girl wheeled into a back to the visiting Setter. Further on, beyond a wide ditch, a large bevy was flushed by the following rigs. The birds laid so close that the wragons* approached within ten feet before they flushed. Here both dogs worked merrily ,each found birds and every phase of a dog's performance with a scattered covey was vividly shown to the greatly pleased spectators. These two half-hours com- pensated for all the previous blanks and mediocre work of the trials. The course led away to the north- east into heavy ground, interspersed with alkali patches. This locality was the Waterloo for Policy Girl. She had so far shown the class, speed, range, attention to course, nose and bird work that put the race to her credit, but the clever little Seter here suc- cumbed to the pace that was too strong a test for her endurance and within fifteen minutes of victory she came to heel and refused to face the finishing touches of the race. Gallant as was her work throughout,' she quit and was counted out, for dogs, like horses, must finish under the wire. The fact that she was in season, had been served by Avalon the day before, and scoured repeatedly during the heat may be taken into consideration as strong factors in inducing her to let up. Cuba Jr. - Avalon — This unexpected situation prompted the anonuncement by the judges, after consultation, that Cuba Jr. and Avalon would be put down at three o'clock for a thirty minute heat to try for first and second places. The brace were put down at the center post on section 21. The heat was not of an, overly exciting nature, for but few birds were f"und. Cuba showed that he had a reserve found of endurance throughout the run. Avalon kept up to his performance in the previous heat. The dogs were orered up at 3:33 p. m. and the judges announced the winners: Cuba Jr. first, Avalon runner up. Summaries. Bakersfield, January 8, 1906 — Pacific Coast Field Trials Club's twenty-third annual trials. Derby, for Setters and Pointers whelped on or after January 1st, 1904. Purse ?640, 3 moneys. 50, 30 and 20 per cent and troph.3 to each winner. $5 to nominate, $5 second forfeit, J1Q additional to start. 46 nominations, 38 paid second forfeit, 22 starters (11 English Setters, 1 Pointers), W. J, Baughn, RidgevlHe, Ind.; H. L. &< ttei Uameda, Cal., and John H. Schumacher, Los ,,. . , First Series. W. B. Cou 0 en^ 1, Cal - liver and white Pointer ■I i Bo In Duke- Whisper), whelped July i 'i L904. Owner, breeder; P"red Coutts, liar idler. Willi Lie) white and black English i 111 fi ! it Rowdj -Roxane), whelped i 90 l ' 'v. ii' i . bi eedei ; J. E. Lucas, i,.. .. , . 1 i ■ Cei . ito) wiuie and orange English 1 ■ ■ err: ihesa [Pah land i >udi Herrj i tean i ■■■ helnj d Jul; ::" I! !has. \ Post, Sacra o breeder; Fred Coutts, ha ml ler \v. W, Vai h "i liver Pointer bitch So- ro i, '.v helped January 13, ■!■ ' ; C ii. Babcock, handler. l i" and orange ter b i .i. , i i [ ,,. le B i Jountfs Gift) ■ ■ nei breeder,; C ii Bab ndli r. ■ in Fi ■'■• r,: o) ijlai k white and tar i«h etti Golla i ! il-..nl Macule K.l. whelped t, i'l"i- P i K i." Illo, breed, i . u i: Coutts, ndlor. J W. Considine's blue belton English Setter bitch Mis- hap (Count Rowdy-Roxane). whelped September 23, 1904 Owner, breeder; J. E. Lucas, handler. With . , ■ W J Morris" (Los Angeles) white, liver and ticked Pointer bitch Navajo (Teddy Kent-Jack's Fashion), whelped May 20, 1904. Owner, breeder; Chas. Coutts, handler. Stockdale Kennels' (Bakersfield) white and liver Pointer dbg Hfckorvwood (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Petronella), whelped May 1,-1904. Owner, breeder; R. M. Dodge, handler. With Hugh Hopkins' (Minturn. Cal.) chestnut and white Eng- lish Setter bitch Aunt Marie (Uncle B.-Sport s Belle), whelped January 3, 1904. H. R. Edwards, breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. John Erikson's (Seattle) white and black Pointer dog Senator Jack (Ch. Senator P -Miss Rap), whelped July 23 L904 J W Flynn, breeder; Chas. Coutts, handlei. With „ . , J w Flvnn's (San Francisco) white and orange Pointer dog Senator Don (Ch. Senator P -Flvnn's Dolly Jingo), whelped May 13, 1904. Owner, breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. Stockdale Kennels* liver and tan Pointer dog Oakwood ?Ch Cuba of ■Kenwood-Petronella). whelped May 1, 1904. Owner, breeder; R. M. Dodge, handler. j W Flvnn's white and lemon Pointer bitch Dollie (Ch Senator P.-Flynn's Dolly Jingo). Owner, breeder, w B. Coutts, handler. t -f Lucas' (San Rafael, Cal.) black, white and tan J-EEnglVsUhCaSetteradog Uncle Dudley (Count Wlutes^one- Count's May Belle), whelped May h, 1904. White and Peebles (Seattle), breeders; Lucis, handler. F. H. Jermyn's (Scranton^a.) white and black Pointer dog Raffles (Ch. Senator P -Miss Rap). J. W. Fls nn, breeder; Chas. Coutts, handler. ivLajr j., with breeder and handler. . T -m mWn;« Pointer dog Senator (Ch. Senator P.- J-4nSyW; "helped May 13, 1904. Owner. breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. Coutts, handler. ^ Frank G. Schumacher's (Los g^jg^JSSiSS F2h?onr«d%ya^. !$M ™ J. Morris (Ms Angel™).' breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. Second Series. Senator with Mishap. Goliath with Sonoma. Lady Belle with Encinal. . Bessie Mortimer wi&Aunt^Ma™. Goliath with Encinal. Lady Belle, a bye. ,. First, Bessie Mortimer; second, Aunt Marie; third. Lady Belle. Bakersfield, January 10, 1906-Pacific Coast Field Trials Cub's 'twenty-third annual All-Age , Stake Open to all Pointers and Setters not winners of fi.st in any prior All-Age Stake. Purse $440, 3 moneys 60, S .and 20 per cent and trophy to each winner B ntra nee ?1U, &^^^£%&^^- IZ° Tl: Baughn, H.L. Betten and William Dor- mer, judges. Pirst Series. Jos. E. Terry's (Sacramentol I white .,"«* andean whflpe'd fulTls. !§fl. ^^erf breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. With w. w. van A-j^ *t^« a-s^^S w\%rea0DeYeCmb°era2!.0yi90To' H. Hopkins, breeder; C. H. Babcock, handler. Jos F Terry's white, black and tan English Setter dog Kenwood (Kilgarif-Iona SO, whelped June -, 190J. Owne?. breeder; Fred Coutts, handler. cock, handler. JK»l£«FH¥lS:;'S?S2 handler. tJ) ' S^rTiS^W &&'&%& WS?S E, Lucas, handler. Stockdale Kennels' white and liver Pointer dog Check- mate (Cuba Jr.-Bow's Daughter), whelped August 1, 1903 Owner, breeder; R. M. Dodge, handler. With Jos. E. Terry-'s white and orange English Setter do Romp (Orion-Terry's Lady), whelped July 25, 1903. Owner, breeder: Fred Coutts, handler. W W Van Arsdale's white, black and tan English s.ihr dog Calaveras (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom). "Whelped August 22, 1002. Owner, breeder, C. ii. Babcock. handler. With T, J. Wattson's (San Francisco) orange and whi te Eng- lish Setter <\<->x Star's Rod (Starlight \\ .-Rod s Silvia), wh.*J|..-l \|-ril 1-. 1 !"H'. '•■ -T- Bautn. San Francisco. breedei . I >r, C E. Wilstm, handler. Stockdale Kennels' liver and white and tan Pointer bitch [vywood (Ch. Cuba of Kenwond-Pe tronella >. whelped January 22. 190-3. Owner, breeder; R. M. BO, handler. With W II. Estabrook's white, black and tan English Setter bitch Del Rey Belle ("California Hell liny-Countess Mark), whelped n.l.iber 21. 1003. \V. W. Van Ars- dale, breeder; '"has, Coutts, handler. J. TV. Flynn's (San Francisco) liver and white Pointer bitch, Sabine's Molly (Sabine's Rip Rap-Fannie Coin), whelped April 26, 1903. George Demers, breeder: W. B. Coutts, handler. With Stockdale Kennels' black and white Pointer dog Cuba's Japan (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Winnipeg Fly), whelped May 13, 1903. Owner, breeder; R. M- Dodge, handler. W. W. "Van Arsdale's white, black and tan English Set- ter dog Avalon (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom), whelped August 22, 1902. Owner, breeder; C. H. Bab- cock, hnadler. With E. H. Cox's (Madera, Cal.) white, black and tan English Setter bitch Countess Lou (Count's Mark-Mary Lou), whelped September 4, 1902. J. E. Terry, Sacramento,, breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. John H. Schumacher's (Los Angeles) black and white English Setter dog Sir Roderick (Detroit Joe-Dolores), whelped May 19, 1903. Owner, breeder; W. B. Coutts, handler. With W. W. Van Asdale's white, black and tan English Setter bitch Keepsake (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom), whelped August 22, 1902. Owner, breeder; C. H. Bab- cock, handler. Second Series. Countess Lou with Calaveras. Star's Rod with Avalon. Keepsake with Policy Girl. Belle Fontaine with Kilgarif. Third Series. Kilgarif with Policy Girl. Be suit. First. Kilgarif; second, Policy Girl; third, Avalon. Bakersfield, January 12, 1906 — Pacific Coast Field Trials Club Members' Stake. No dog eligible that was placed in any event other than the Pacific Coast Members' Stake or that was a starter in any open stake of this meeting. Trophy to each winner. En- trance $10. 8 starters (2 English Setters, 6 Pointers). Messrs. Baughn and Betten, judges. Pirst Series. Lloyd Tevis (Stockdale) black, white and ticked Pointer bitch Elsie (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Jingo's Bagpipe). Stockdale Kennels, breeder, owner, handler. With W. S. Tevis' (Stockdale) Pointer bitch Stella (Cuba Jr.- Winnipeg Fly). Stockdale Kennels, breeder, owner. handler. J. McDaniels' (Paso Robles) white and liver English Setter Cloudlight (Bonner N. -White Wings). W. W. Van Arsdale, breeder, owner, handler. With S. Christenson's white and black Pointer dog Raffles Ch. Senator P.-Miss Rap), whelped July 23, 1904. J. W. Flynn, San Francisco, breeder, owner,' handler. J. M. Donley's (Fresno) white and orange belton Eng- lish Setter Monterey (Llewellyn Drake-Shadow). W. W. Van Arsdale, breeder; H. W. Keller, handler. With Clinton E. Worden's (San Francisco) white and liver Pointer bitch Betsey (Dr. Daniels-Nellie Bang). Owner, handler. F. D. Ross' (Hanford) black, white and ticked Pointer dog Swede (Fitz ). Owner, handler. With Howard B. Smith's (Col ton) white and liver Pointer bitch Lottie Ripstone. Owner, handler. , - . - i ■■ Second Series. Raffles with Elsie. Result. First, Raffles; second, Elsie; third Betsey. Bakersfield, January 13, 1906 — Pacific Coast Field Trials Club Championship Stake, open to all. $10 to start. 50 per cent to first, 25 per cent to runner up.l trophy to each. Two-hour heats. 4 starters (3 Eng- lish Setters, 1 Pointer). J. W. Baughn, judge. First Series. W. W. Van Arstdale's white, black and tan dog McCloud Boy (Tony Bojr-Sadie Hopkins), whelped December 25, 1900. Hugh Hopkins, Minturn, Cal., breeder; C. H. Babcock, handler. With Stockdale Kennels' (Bakersfield, Cal.) liver and white dog Cuba Jr. (Ch. Cuba of Kenwood-Florida), whelped March 13, 1899. Owner, breeder; R. M. Dodge, handler. W. W. Van Arsdale's white! black and tin English Set- ter bitch Policy Girl ( Dave Earl-Top's Queen). J. E. Lucas, handler. With W. W. Van Arsdale's white, black and tan dog Avalon (California Bell Boy-Peach Blossom). Owner, breeder; C. H. Babcock, handler. Second Series. Cuba Jr. with Avalon. Result. First. Cuba Jr.; runner up Avalon. Points. The prizes for the winners in each of the events were donated by various members of the elub, and were elegant in design. It is an observed custom that the intrinsic value of trophies shall not be more than an understood nominal sum, in this the selec- tions were of substantial value. The prizes were taken by selection, the winner of first place having first choice, etc. A list of the donors and trophies follows: Derby — W. S. Tevis, Bakersfield, beautifully de- signed silver goblet; Joseph E. Terry, Sacramento, large silver ornamented beaten copper cup; Charles N. Post, Sacramento, silver mounted 4eather stein. All-Age — Howard B. Smith, Colton, antique silver ornamented oak cigar box; W. W. Van Arsdaie, San Francisco, heavy silver mounted cut-glass decanter; Frank H. Jermyn, Scranton, Pa., silver covered de- canter, demijohn design. Members' Stake— Tudor J. A. Tiedemann, San Francisco, elegant silver mounted leather cup, fash- ioned after the old-time "Black Jack ale mugs"; Bohm Bristol Company, San Francisco, silver mount- ed black jack mug; Southern Hotel, Bakersfield, sil- ver mounted cut-glass loving cup. Champion Stake— W. S. Tevis challenge cup to winner; J. B. Kerckhoff, Los Angeles, silver cup to runner-up. Handlers" Prize — Western Field silver cup trophy. Judge Baughn reached Bakersfield a few days prior January 20 1906 . <24nr breeder mxD jStparismcm 11 to the trials. During- this time he inspected the trial grounds and also tried out the style and mettle of the California valley quail, a bird heretofore some- what unfamiliar to him. both with younger dogs and some of the veteran field trial workers of the Stock- dale Kennels. The judge is a good field shot, but the birds baffled his aim at first. He soon acquired the proper eye and showed the members of the sur- veying party some pretty singles and doubles over point work by the dogs. Stockdale Kennels were unfortunate in the loss of Combination Boy, a Derby entry, that died recently. Midget, entered in the All- Age, was withdrawn: a badly cut foot was the reason. W. W-. Van Arsdale purchased Policy Girl on Wed- nesday. The next day she was served by Avalon. It is expected the nick will be a good one, it being de- sired to bring together several crosses represented by the two. P. D. Linville, we regret to note, was unable to attend the trials by reason of illness. He had made his headquarters at Ashe ranch and had a string of dogs there for a month or more. Ill health confined him to bed nearly all of this time. Our latest reports are that he is somewhat better. trophy would be retired to an honored place in a cabinet at Stockdale. Mr. Tevis. instead, has gen- erously returned the cup to the club for future com- petition in the stake. Jos. E. Terry presented to W. W. Van Arsdale a handsome puppy by Kilgarif-Terry's Lady. The young Setter was named Judge Baughn in honor of the presiding judge. The puppy was chosen because he most resembled his sire, by Judge Baughn, from two, the choice of which was offered Mr. Van Arsdale. Absentees were remembered in various ways by those in attendance last week. When Section 17 was first visited "one of the boys" remarked: "This is the place where Richards fell in the ditch." HENRY E. SKINNER. S. Christenson's win with Raffles was a popular one. His becoming the owner of the dag is, to a certain extent, amusing. By reason of his unsatis- factory Derby debut Mr. Jermyn felt indifferent to Mr. Raffles. Tuesday evening a jolly crowd were at dinner, joking and bantering each other about their • respective dogs. Mr. Erickson's dog was equally in disgrace. Jermyn picked up a hnadful of nuts from a dish and suggested to Erickson that they should go "odd or even" for both dogs. Erikson won and afterwards presented the Pointer to Christenson. who now thinks highly of him, for he is far from being an ordinary dog. On Thursday, January 11th. Mr. Henry E. Skinner passed away at his late residence in Berkeley. Mr. Skinner was known to and esteemed by hun- dreds of sportsmen, during the past thirty years, for many genial qualities prompted by a generous dispo- sition and a sterling character. Among sportsmen he was recognized as a whole- Ducks and quail were daily on the menu served at the club tables in the hotel. Hon. H. W. Keller, Frank Mayer, Dr. C. W, Hibbard and others provided the game. Shooting parties had fine sport in the quail coverts and along the irrigation ditches after ducks, towards the end of the week. Master Lloyd Tevis was awarded the handlers' prize by unanimous vote. Master Tevis is a graceful youth behind a bird dog in the field and won many compliments for the skillful manner in which he handled his charge dur- ing a run of one hour and eight minutes. Last Saturday Jermyn, Erikson and Christenson each bagged the quail limit in a very short time. Dr. Daniels was with the party. He is a grand dog with the gun. Henry Betten also enjoyed the quail shooting avail- able. Mr. W. S. Tevis has won the championship cup three times now. Under the original conditions the THE LATE HENRY E. SKINNER souled fellow sportsman. With the angling fraternity, latterly with the Shreve-Barber Company, in particular, he stood high as an authority and as a practical and skillful angler. For over a quarter of a century Mr. Skinner was identified with the sporting goods trade, being suc- cessively connected with Liddle and Kaeding, the E. T. Allen Company, the H. E. Skinner Company, and Coast anglers are much indebted to Mr. Skinner for many innovations in tackle. Through his extensive experience and knowledge of the art he was for years the introducer, to local and Coast anglers, of many articles and fashions in up-to-date tackle. Mr. Skinner had been in failing health for a year and several weeks ago he was compelled to give up active attention to business. The effort for regain- ing health was unavailing, and after an illness of several weeks' duration he succumbed to the inevit- able. His demise was a sorrowful shock to a large circle of friends and business associates. TRADE NOTES. A Grand Showing for Winchester Shells. Sporting Life's trap shooting review for 1906 tells the same old story, only in different language, that it has told for the last six consecutive years. That is. that the Winchester "Leader" and Winchester "Re- peater" shells stand first in records, first in popularity and first in shooting qualities. The two leaders for 1905, Mr. Fred Gilbert and Mr. W. R. Crosbv. shot Winchester "Leader" shells exclusively last year The former's average for the year was 95.6 per cent and the latter's 95.5 per cent, both gentlemen having shot at over 16,000 inanimate targets during the year There were forty-six professionals and amateurs that shot at least 3,000 targets during the year of 1905 and made over 90 per cent averages, and of this number more used Winchester shells than all other makes combined. Of the first fifteen leaders, ten used Win- chester shells exclusively. Such an array of facts is indisputable evidence as to which shells are the first choice among the shooters throughout the United States and Canada, and further is a testimonial bv the masters of the art as to the superior qualities of the Winchester shells. In 1900, 1901, 1902 1903 1904 and 1905 Winchester "Leader" and Winchester "Re- peater' shot gun shells won the highest averages of the world for- the year, an unbroken chain of evi- dence of merit and popularity that speaks for itself Last year the shooters that used Winchester shells carried off every honor, and captured the Grand Amer- ican Handicap, the Grand Canadian Handicap the Grand Preliminary Handicap at Indianapolis the Amateur Championship of the United States, the longest straight run on record, all the championship trophies of any importance, as well as all the state championships, the Grand Pacific Coast Interstate Championship Trophy, and any number of other prizes, which to numerate would fill a good sized book. When such stars as W. R. Crosby, Fred Gil- bert, C. G. Spencer, J. W. Akard, R. R. Barber, H. C Hirschy, C. M. Powers, J. M. Hawkins, John W Gar- rett. John S. Boa. Jack Fanning. J. A. R Elliott Harold Money, Frank Faurote, Neaf ^pgar J L D Morrison, W. F. Sheard. David Elliott. C. F Confarr" E. E. Ellis, W. J. Rand, C. Bulwer and other notable trap shots shoot the Winchester make of shells mak- ing and breaking records, winning the highest hon- ors obtamable. it is indisputable evidence that these stars know that the Winchester shells are the only shells to shoot. If you have choice dairy products, dispose of them to select consumers. The proper search will find those who are willing to pay good prices for good goods. Avoid dirt in the dairy just as much as you would avoid failure. The one will cause the other. DARE DEVIL Thos. W. Lawson's Trotting Bred StiUlion There is at least one good advantage in keeping cows, and that is if the milk cannot be turned into butter or cheese profitably it can in nearly .ill cases be fed to pigs and calves with profit. Ten hens will eat an ounce of bone daily. There Is no doubt about poultry be- ing a source of profit if it is intelli- gently handled. If it is not intelligently handled, it is likely to be a source of disappointment and loss. Don't throw away any sour milk; the chicks are fond of it. and it is good for them. STOCK POINTS. There is a difference of opinion in regard to using blinders on horses. Some think that they shy without them, others believe that they are more easily frightened with them. If stockmen only would remember that every time they neglect or abuse their stock, it is injurious to them- selves, it may be that they would be more kind. If a combine can be made with the cow. the hen and the horse, almost any- one can pay debts, lift mortgages and lay up money in the bank. Skim milk fed to can-es should have a temperature of 95 degrees. There should be no variation. Lack of cue in this is very detrimental The no-purpose farmer with no-pur- pose poultry and live stock turns out to be a no-profit farmer. Definite aims are essential to success. All kinds of stock should have their salt within easy reach where thej get it whenever they desire to do SO, In breaking horses, inn much should not be attempted at once. Go slow. teach one thing at a time. o Oats is the best feed for cotts at meaning time No other teed will do as well. Norman Stallion For Sale 1 )ARIv IRON GRAY NORMAN STALi 1 weighs about 1000: 16 hands high; 4 yen Is blocklly built and a sure foal getter, can be seen at Ssd Jose. For further part t address W. H. WILLIAMS. 1120 Alameda Ave., San Jose, Cal. 1.3 ifftte yri'cCui* iind gjjnrtamtm [January 20 iv 6 HOW TO HAVE HEALTHY HOGS. FOOD FOR POULTRY IN CHINA. CALIFORNIA DAIRY STATISTICS. One of the first essentials to obtain a healthy, vigorous offspring is the lecess ing strong-, active par- entage, and if this is a hereditary trait Intensified through several generations, UCh the better. Not long ago the writer was visiting a farm, and was , the owner to examine the n - ] give some esti- mates of the price of certain animals. This farmer had several very good brood sows, which were undoubtedly hardy and vigorous, as the large litters they had farrowed distinctly showed. The young pigs were also in excellent condition and growing rapidly. The farmer semed to have a high apprecia- tion of these brood sows, and said they were valuable animals, and that he dis- liked to part with any of them. It is true they were only grades, but never- theless they were possessed of those Qualities valuable in the brood sow. Imagine what a surprise it was to see the male kept on this farm. He was a veritable scrub, long and lanky, and without any of the qualities one would seek in an animal, at least half of which are supposed to be transmitted to the offspring. This sire was nar- row in the chest and tucked up in the quarter, and certainly did not show any evidence of being a healthy animal, possessed of a good constitution. The example quoted is too often met with and is one of the contributing causes to the outbreaks of hog cholera which frequently occur. It is of the utmost importance that the parents, both male and female, possess every evidence of health, for they are bound to transmit their qualities to the offspring, and if naturally weak and lacking in consti- tution disease will take hold of them easier and its ravages will be more complete. The management of the parent is another matter of great concern. Too often they are confined in narrow lots, which prevent their taking the exer- cise necessary to the proper develop- ment of the lungs and al the other or- gans of the body. The hog naturally is of a roving disposition, and if given his liberty he hunts around over the fields and through the forest growth, gathering various leaves and herbs that suit his taste. At the same time be is taking exercise which is vital to his well being; and if the breeding ani- mals, whether pure-bred or grade, were given more liberty they would keep in better health at all times, reproduce more freely, and the offspring would be hardier and possessed of better con- stitutions. It is often a wonder that hog cholera is not a more frequent visitor than proves to be the case, for the hog is frequently expected to live in a filthy, wet pen, cleaned out as a matter of convenience two or three times a year, and rarely; if ever, prop- erly supplied with bedding, and even disinfected so as to ward off disease. This is an old. old story, and it is a condition too commonly met with, even in this enlightened dayy when proper -an Ration for farm animals is recog- nized as a matter of the utmost impor- tance and one of the surest ways of keeping the animals healthy and pre- venting disease. Another reason why hogs are so sub- ject to attacks of cholera and other troubles is due to the fact that the males used at the head of the grade herds are generally purchased from men who deem it advisable to keep their animals in show condition, so they will sell to better advantage. It is truly an interesting sight to visit one of these breeding establishments, where the animals me kept so fat they can scarcely walk, and are thus perfect model: a hog should be. But it is need]-- y thai animals so I from the time they ■ : constitutions un- dermined, and hav< it vigor and tiro ls< ■ rhlch ani- allowed i" rough it a little more I \. M. Soule in National ■ man. i> ;■ 1| by setting in 1 ■ lis on ice. The more rapidly it is ■ Always churn J there Lm enough and • tfficl nl ■"-. tl i i I this Consul-General Rodgers, of Shang- hai, in reply to inquiries as to whether China offered a market for the sale of food for poultry, responds in the nega- tive, and furnishes interesting informa- tion in regard to the raising of poultry by the Chinese. He writes: While the Chinese are perhaps the most success- ful poultry raisers in the world, accord- ing to natural methods, they are also undoubtedly the most economical in the business. The foreigner, seeing the im- mense numbers of ducks, chickens, and geese of the countryside, naturally as- sumes that large amounts of grain or other poultry food must be consumed. Yet investigation reveals the fact that the Chinese consider the fowl perfectly able to pick up a living without much assistance on their part, and as a con- sequence herding is practiced, each flock being kept on the move, as sheep are on a range. It is £3 FOIl ANY QUN Winchester WERE AWARDED 1 HE ONLY GRAND PRIZE BY THE SUPERIOR JURY AT THE ST. LOUIS EXPOSITION, 1904. DU PONT SMOKELESS Id the lead as usual. The Official Records show that High Average for the year of 1905 THE REAL WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP was won by Mr. Fred Gilbert who broke 95.e per ceDt of the 17.065 targets he shot at. Mr. Gilbert, of course, used DU PONT SMOKELESS C. P. W. BRANDS. SMOKELESS SHOTGUN SHELLS. PATTERN PERFECTION INVINCIBLE Loaded -with Any Standard Brand of Smokeless Powder. When ordering from your dealer mention OUR BRANDS and kind of Powder wanted. We guarantee our loading. California Powder Works Wells-Fargo Bldg,, 49 Second St. SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. I — ■ — >/\r- ■■ LAFLIN&RAND BRANDS in 1905. HIGH AMATEUR AVERAGE for the Entire Season of 1905 was won by Mr. J. W. Akard, Fairplay, Mo., who used "NEW SCHULTZE" and broke 94 psr cent of all targets shot at in tournaments. LAFLIN & RAND BRANDS "INFALLIBLE" "NEW E, C. (IMPROVED)" and "NEW SCHULTZE" also won THREE out of the FIRST FOUR HIGH AVERAGES for the Season of 1905 LAFJ,1\ A KAN D FOWDEB CO. 170 Broadway, New lork City. Glabrough, GUNS Gun Goods r»Bend for CatalorwA Golcher & Go, FISHING Tackle 638 MARKET STREET, S. F. ^ These are the Brands of FACTORY . . . O I— I C" ■ I C^ LOADED ..OnLL LO PACIFIC CHALLENGE SUPERIOR EXCELSIOR VOL. XLYI1I. No. 4. 36 GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, JANUARY 27, 1906. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A YEAR f&he gveebev mtfr gkp&vt&xnan [January 27, 19fr6 $10 Payments Due February1,19Q6 ON YEARLINGS IN Pacific Breeders Futurity Slakes No. 5 — $7000 Guaranteed Nothing More to Pay Before 1907. For Foals of Mares covered in 1904. To trot or pace at two and three years old. Entries closed October 15, 1904. Nothing More to Pay Before 1907, when your Foal can Btart in the Two-Year-Old Division. Stakes divided as follows: $3250 for Trotting Foals, $1750 fo- Pacing Foals, $800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners and $200 for Owners of Stallions. A Chance for Those Who Failed to Enter. Substitutions. A few of the original nominators of Pacific Breeders Futurity StakeB for Foals of 1905 have advised us that, because of barrenness of the mare or death of the foal, they wish to dispose of their entries. If you own one or more whose dams you neglected tc name when entries closed, send $22, with Color, Sex and Breeding of the Foal, on or before February 1st next, which covers payments to February 1, 1907, and the few substitutions to be dis- posed of will be awarded in the order in which remittances are received. Prompt attention will secure for you this rich engagement. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Sec'y, 36 Geary St., S. F. KLIlXri^E'Sr LOTJ IKT THE] LEAD RACING! New California Jockey Club OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S. P. Ferry, foot of Market Street— leave at IS thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladles and their escorts. Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. PHENOL S0DIQUE lieals SORES, CUTS and BITES Man and Beast. KINNEY LOU 2:07 HAWTHORNE 2:06 1-4 SILLY BUCK 2:07 1-4 KINNEY LOU 2:07 3-4 •3 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON 4 OF THE CHAMPION SIRE Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st-, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. TERMS S10O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. BUDD DOBLE, San Jose, Cal. For farther Information, pedigree and description address PHONE: JOHN 2481. warded sy^aafyrssjirvn . w STTOE NSSX FRANCE IBS gBENOLSDmOP 2^;nc; antiseptic ANgu£JS!!ri2S ..^^^ISEASES OF ANIMAIS. m-— B"'CE BROTHERS & WHITE. Keep Handy for Accidents. Cure* MANGE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. For Sale By All Druggists. Recomm naed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. Mc Kinney, 2.11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 mile to his real limit, consigned him tr. Pasig-Tipton Co-'s New York sale that fall and I Lire based by Mr. White of Cleveland, ■ ber for $15,000. Mr. White placed him in the stud at his farm and now the sire of fourteen standard performers, of which four have records below 2:09. the fastest orning Star that has a regular race record of 2:04%, and a matinee wagon record of in 1905. M tr was sold for 510.- 500 at the Old Gl' a sir.- i hat will give the California pacing families the ability to the great speed to the end of the mile and the end of the race no matter how long drawn out it may be. Star Pointer will fill the bill. The Hal family of which he is the greatest member, is filled with thoroughbred blood and has wonderful speed, great power and extreme endurance. He vll] bi bri of tin besl bred mares in California ■ he is to lie kept in 'ate. THEY ARE ALIVE UP NORTH. The members of the North Pacific Fair Circuit are very much alive. They are not sitting down and Availing for something to turn up, but are doing the . turning themselves. From the Rural Spirit of last week we take the following: At the annual meeting of the North Pacific Fair As- sociation held in the Rural Spirit office, Portland. Ore., on Wednesday, January 10th, 1906, the following members were represented: Oregon State Fair by W. H. Downing; King County Fair, A. T. Van De Van- ter; Snohomist Agricultural Association, Dan Currie; Washington State Fair, G. A. Graham; Spokane In- terstate Fair, Robert H. Cosgrove; Lewiston-Clarks- ton Fair, C. W. Mounts; Walla Walla County Fair, A. C. Vandevanter. A. T. Van De Vunter called the meeting to order in the absence of the president. W, H. Wehrung, who came in later, t'pon motion the following commit- tees were appointed upon dates: Downing. Van De Vanter, Currie, Graham, Cosgrove, Mounts and Van- devanter. After the usual arguments the following dates were agreed upon: Seattle, September 3d to Sth; Salem, September 10th to 15th: North Yakima, September 17th to 22d; Spokane, September 24th to 29th; Walla Wralla, Octo- ber 1st to 6th; Lewiston, October Sth to 13th. Spo- kane was given the privilege to continue their fair and running races one week longer, but without har- ness events and live stock. Everett v^as granted the right to select such dates as they see fit without vio- lating any rules of the association. The committee appointed on early closing stakes reported the following list, which were authorized by the representatives present and confirmed by the meeting as a whole: Salem. Two-year-old pace $ 400 . 00 Three-year-old pace 500.00 2:25 pace 1000.00 2.15 pace ; 2000 . 00 2:10 pace 700.00 2-year trot : 400 . 00 3-year trot 500 . 00 2:27 trot 1000.00 2:17 trot -. 2000.00 2:12 trot 700.00 Seattle. 2:20 trol $1000.00 2:20 pace 1000.00 North Yakima. 2:15 trot 51000.00 2:10 pace 1000.00 Spokane. 2:16 trot §1000.00 2:10 pace 1000.00 Walla Walla. 2.17 trot " $1000.00 2:15 pace 1000.00 Lewiston. 2:15 trot $500.00 2:10 pace 500.00 Everett. 2 : 40 trot $ 500 . 00 2:25 trot 500.00 2:25 pace 500.00 2:10 pace 800.00 The secretary was authorized to advertise the above stakes to close May 15th. 19U6, and to publish the same in pamphlet form as "A Stake Book;" to use his best efforts to secure entries for same. He was fur- ther ordered to visit training stables in California in the interest of this circuit, and to pro rata the ex- pense of such advertising and traveling expense among the present members. The rule barring hobbles on colts that race on this circuit was abolished. The secretary was authorized to appoint a judge for the entire circuit, and W. E. Wood of Norborne, Mo., was recommended, if terms are right. The following amendments were made to the by- laws: That no member of this association shall be allotted dates for a longer period than one wreek for harness events and live stock shows without the con- sent of a two-thirds vote of the members present at the regular annual meeting. That every member of this association shall adver- tise at least two harness events for each day's racing. ZOLOCK 2:05l4 AT SAN JOSE. JOHN BRADBURN'S BOOK COMPLETED. Mr. John Bradburn, superintendent at Village Farm. East Aurora, N. 1"., for the last twenty-five years of its existence, and now superintendent of the Ideal Stock Farm of the same place, has completed his" long-promised book — "Breeding and Developing the Trotter." Mr. Bradburn commenced writing his book several years ago, but had to cease wrork owing to ill health. Because of the wide and varied experience of its author, Mr. Bradburn's work will doubtless be- come an authority on its subject. The book will be published in March or April. Arthur Caton Thomas. New York representative of the American Horse Breeder, was selected by Mr. Bradburn to edit his volume. The subjects treated are.' "The Village Fum Theory of Breeding." "Founding a Stock Farm." i' ase and Care of Stallion." "Purchase and Care I i: 1 Mare." 'breaking and Training Colts," "De- veloping Speed." "Care of Feet." "Management of a St. irk rami." etc. a sur- er S t ■ 000 ii! the I reasury. Aim! [ov i hall ■ ■;aers to the Carmi rs and b _ State and not to the bookmakers. The long shaft, low seat, pneumatic speed cart that has been designed especially for track use by S. Too- mey & Co., the world renowned sulky and cart build- ers, can be seen at O'Brien & Sons, Golden Gate ave- nue > "i Polk street, who are Coast agents for these ■-•:. ellent \ '-hides. Jackson's Napa Soda cleanses the stomach and renders the eye clear. The beautiful Agricultural Park, San Jose, is to have the distinction of being the headquarters during the breeding season of 1906, of the two fastest entire sons of the great McKinney. Kinney Lou 2:07%. the fastest trotting son of MfcKinney, is at home there, Budd Doble having located his champion there over two years ago, and now Henry Delaney announces that the pacing stallion Zolock 2:05% will be located there during the season of 1906. Zolock is as well known to the breeders of the Pacific Coast as any stallion in the country and is admired by one and all not only for his grand con- formation and great speed, but also for his blood lines and he is one of the best bred McKinneys living rtord^s Vl^I grea/ ^^ °aZelle' Wh0Se ^""i record is 2,11%, and who has not only produced X 70°^ bUt iS the dam of that grea? trotter Zephyi 2.0,% winner of ?8000 on the Grand Circuit last season. Gazelle is by Gossiper 2:14% and her dam is Gipsey, dam of Gazelle 2:11%. the ?nVe^year- Dixie ^ 9.9- £■ nmeUs 2-17 matinee record, and nf^iIrT J^ PSey 1S by Gen- Booth 2:30% son ££!£*»«-*««» ter of the Oregon running horse Lummox and The next a daughter of old Gray Eagle. Anyone who will ™ iTtVT o£ ?loek cannot he *™»* £? ?n h?™ ,h v. ne3 °f P™au«ng blood that come dnr^L °Ugrh„ChannelS n°ted for sameness and en- IZri inV Wf "" fr°m famiIies that are "°'ed for good looks and great race horse qualities Zolock has six in the list. Ambush (3) 214« De- '!l2^' Bystander 2.14%, Sherlock Holrrl 2.15%, Dixie S. 2:27 and Conchita 2:29. In addition these three-year-olds by him have made tne follow- ing - ne in trials: Lillian Zolock 2:14, Kinney WoM 2.1o Cleopatra 2:15, Red Lock 2:18, Zollie 2: IS Inaug- Zoc\ 2:/2,'-Hy'°Ck 2:25' MaJelIa 2:25- Adalante 2^6, Bolock 2:27. Two-year-olds that have been given trials are Wenja 2:24, Bonnie June 2.27, Isalco 2:30. and twelve others now in training that can step quar- ters from 33 to 36 seconds. All his colts are good headed and there has never been one that went lame Every colt by him that has been trained has shown speed without one exception. Zolock stands 16 hands high and is a grand individual in every way. Those who attended the meetings at Fresno, Santa Rosa and Sacramento last summer know how he could play with the high class field of pacers he met at the-e meetings. His two heats at Fresno in 2:05M are proof that he has sameness as well as speed His service fee will be $75 for the season. Mr. Delaney will also have Isalco, a son of Zolock in the stud at ?25. This colt is a full brother to thai great three-year-old filly Delilah 2:14 V-. He is now three years old and the picture of his sire in every way except he is not as large. His dam is Gipsey. referred to above, who has five standard performers to her credit, three of which have records of 2-15 or better. Gipsey is also the grandam of that wonder- fully fast colt Col. Green that has a trial record of 2:10%. Mr. Delaney's address will be at the Race Track. San Jose, where he invites breeders to call and see his horses. 1 — o INTERESTING ITEMS FROM MONTANA. The Montana Circuit, as announced in the Breeder and Sportsman last week, appeals directly to the har- ness horse owners and trainers of California, and many of them have already expressed the intention of visiting the copper country during the coming sum- mer and starting their horses for the many big purses that will be offered. From the Stockman and Farmer, published at Helena, we take the following items of interest in regard to this circuit of ten weeks and other matters of news to horsemen: Every association represented at the conference of secretaries pledged at least two stakes of $1000 each, and the larger ones. Butte, Helena, Bozeman and Mis- soula, will give one each day. Butte has promised eight at least, and possibly ten in the harness division alone. The classes adopted will be uniform, so far as possible. Butte, Bozeman and the State Fair have decided upon 2:14 and 2: IS pacing stakes, 2:16 and 2:20 trotting stakes, and these three tracks and prob- ably some others will give stakes for three-year-old trotters and pacers. Miles City w^ants a date, although their fair has not as yet been organized. If possible they will get one, when they get further along. Havre is also making arrangements for a summer meeting. The early closing stakes for the Montana Circuit will be announced February 1st. or before. Dr. Galbraith says Butte is ready for a big meet- ing and that the business men are taking much in- terest in the matter. A number of Butte men are buy- ing harness horses, and the summer's matinee meet- ings will be interesting. There will be a spring sale of young standard-bred horses in Butte in April, in which several Montana breeding plants will be represented. W. B. George says Billings will have the greatest fair in her history. Farmers, stockmen and the en- tire business interests of the valley are taking an interest, and a great showing will be made of products. Lewistown people are planning a fair this year, for the reason that there is greater inquiry about the possibilities of the Judith Basin than ever before. Great Falls people are closing arrangements for the mile track belonging to the Couch estate, and Mr. Jensen says the matter has been practically closed. It is claimed that Great Falls was not able to offer good racing for the lack of a good track. January 27, 191 6 i ;Wtt£, ^tr^JCJ>cc unD gpttcX^mmt THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. (By Ralph H. Tozer.) Walter Jennings certainly did change his brand of luck on the 1st day of January. 1906. putting that labeled "bad" away back in the darkest part of the store-room and taking out a bright, brand-new pack- age marked "good," and using it right away. The result need not he told. He won the New Year's Handicap with Proper and follows January 20th with a win by the same horse in the Lissak Handicap, worth J2S20 to the youthful turfman from "Show Me" State. That Proper was a good horse last Sat- urday was shown by his glossy coat, his coltish and kickish ways and his evident desire to break all pre- vious running records. He landed a solar plexus blow on Bearcatcher at the post, and "the Bear" didn't look any too good anyhow. Well, Proper got away "on the fly," Red Leaf flatfooted, Bearcatcher tangled up, Jake Sanders came pretty close to not getting off at all, and Proper won by a Fitzsimmons head in the hardesl kind w? a drive with Red Leaf, while Jake Sanders, clearly the best horse in the race, was third, about half a length further away. Bearcatcher needs a rest or a claw-sharpening, winding up a poor fourth. The track was deep and at about its heaviest stage, and Lubin ought to have made a better show- ing, even though he likes a lengthier journew ■ - ■, Up to last Monday Barney Schreiber fed the wl ning owners with $21,650 on the right "side of the ledger, W. B. Jennings was second with $11,331. then came W. W. Elliott with $7,518. the Keene Brothers with §6,730, T. G. Ferguson with $6,436 and P. Ryan with $5,012. These were the only owners that had reached or gone over the $5,000 mark. * * * Jockey Herman Radtke remained over to ride Red Leaf in the Lissak Handicap last Saturday, and piloted six winners during the week, Robinson leading with seven winners in the six days, Bill Knapp tying with six. The record up to last Monday of those boys with ten or more wins to their record, was: Un- Jockey — Radtke Knapp 43 an equitable handicap indeed, and as a good field is certain to contest for the $10,000 hung up. an inter- esting race is sure to result. * * i Starter "Dick" Dwyer ought to be a very proud man over the reception accorded him upon his return to Emeryville. His popularity, as a man as well as racing official, seems to be unbounded, and I believe he richly merits it. Dwyer was a good jockey, and when he became too heavy to ride came to be" regarded as a clever trainer of race horses. In fact, he has tried to excel in any branch of the race horse business in which he was engaged, and has the entire confi- dence of the public, his employers and the riders that come up to the barrier. May the genial "Dick" live to lift the webbing for many years to come. * * * Seattle is to have a new race track, the cost of which will be $500,000, 'tis said. The owners of the fine plant in use for the past four or five years have offered the principal owners of the new place a hand- some sum not to build, but they won't "come off the perch." .It is. claimed. the new track will have unsur- passed transportation facilities and can be reached by several lines of cars in much less time than can the King County course. * * * Elmer Laurence writes the Chronicle that there is v chance of holding a meeting for the gallopers only $£" Butte. It seems the driving club folks have a lease on the Daly track at Butte and are not disposed to give up the course to the runners for any length of time. Butte's most successful meetings in the past were of the "mixed" order, so that it might be well to give a meeting that would suit all the factions. Laurence seems to believe it "no cinch" that Denver will have a meeting in 1906, but she generally has a mixed one. . . A UNIFORM RACING SYSTE M. MEDIUM SIZED SADDLE HORSE IS BEST. iVon. Second. Third. placed. 59 37 3S 115 43 33 27 9? 39 27 20 99 30 33 32 88 23 14 21 IIS 20 19 17 77 20 26 24 123 16 23 25 99 10 4 4 53 Mr. S. M. Yager, one of the leading saddle horse breeders and experts of Paris, Missouri, recently wrote as follows in regard to this breed of horses for the Kentucky Farmer and Breeder: The ideal saddle horse, the kind that has been bred up to the art of perfection, possessing a smooth, neat form and fine features, nice, trim- set of limbs, well muscled, good feet, fine head and iieck, mane and tail, fine coat of hair, "pleasant, kind disposition and noble countenance, with the style he puts on in the show ring and the pride he takes in "showing his airy, graceful movements and his bold, dashing rack, is the grandest performer and the most beautiful horse that walks the face of the earth. The saddle horse, like all other breeds of horses, has its established size and type. The most successful show horse, as a rule, is the medium sized, medium boned horse. He pos- sesses more quality .style, action and stamina, which makes him the best &f show horses. The medium ^izeji saddle horse ranges in height from 15.1 to 15.3 high. __" There are very few extra show horses over 15.3 hands high, the large majority ranging from 15.1 to 15. 2$£ hands high. Though some few reach 16 hands, they are overgrown saddle horses and very few of them ever carry the fine features and form, style and action with that height. On the other hand, they generally become big, coarse, rough, big-boned fellows, gross and beefy, which knocks out their action and unfits them for the show ring. Other horses, 16 The weights for the Burns Handicap, io be run trarrds or over .are narrow, contracted, their front McBride . . Fountain . T. Clark . . L. Williams Robinson . Loague . . . Schade . . . The Trojan, a recent purchase by Barney Schreiber, broke a leg in the last race on Monday last, and had to be destroyed. He was by the excellent Bend Or horse. Golden Garter, out of Troyene. and would prob- ably have been used at the stud by Mr. S., Bend Or blood being close to the top in both this country ai, ;l England just now. Radtke was badly shaken «p h> the fall, but proved not to have been seriously in- jured. Goodchild also had a narrow eswfcpe on Ebel Thatcher. - * * * C. T. Henshall's horses won twice on Monday and en Tuesday also, and as Mr. H. is quite a bettor, the book'es had very unpleasant afternoons of it. this afternoon, were given out last Monday^by Handi- capper Egbert, and are asf follows, only the ones con- sidered to have a chance of winning being included in this list: : Andrew Mack 10S Ginette . 10S Neva Lee 107 D'Arkle 107 Lord Badge 106 Corn Blossom 106 Sir Brillar 106 Beknighted . 106 Lady Goodrich 106 JElie 105 Good Luck 105 Gorgalette 105 Red Leaf 100 Geranium 100 Memories 100 W. H. Carey 100 Proper 122 Eugenia Burch 120 Lubin 119 W. R. Condon 117 Bearcatcher 116 Dr. Leggo 114 San Nicolas 114 Reservation Ill Orchan 110 Dr. Gardner 110 Gregor K 109 Rubric 109 Graziallo 109 Jake Sanders 109 Soufriere 10S True Wing 108 Bragg 108 Should the weather and track be fast it should be a great race between Eugenia Burch. Proper. Dr. Leggo. Rubric, Soufriere. True "Wing. Ginette. Neva Lee, Lord Badge. Corn Blossom. Lady Goodrich. Good Luck and Memories. . If the track is heavy Lubin, Jake Sanders, Orchan. Tregor K. and Red Leaf would have a good chance of mining, while Eugenia -Burch is not a "mudder," neither is San Nicolas. "W. R. Condcn has not started this season, and may cut quite a figure in the stake, which he won last year. Bear- catcher appears to have completely lost his form, and Graziallo's last few races were anything but impres- sive. The distance seems a little far for Dr. Gardner. who is just about thirty-six months old now. Dr. Leggo and Soufriere can "go the route." and can be counted upon to give a good account of ti.emselves. Neva Lee is an extremely fleet mare. Corn Blossom is very speedy, Beknighted is a much improved horse. Lady Goodrich is fast and game, Elie was good enough a year ago to beat Dr. Leggo in record time, Good Luck won "five straights" at Los Angeles, Red Leaf ran a winning race last Saturday with Proper, while Memories, at 100 pounds, should be a keen contender, no matter what the condition of the track may be. Andrew Mack was a sweet horse over a soft track last season, and Sir Brillar, who has now rounded into hif best form, was good enough to finish fourth in the Brooklyn Handicap of 1905. when he was a three-year-old. All in all, it looks, "on paper," to be legs nearly together at the breast, no room for lungs, weak constitution, body a little larger around than a half bushel measure, and not a model or a uniform .saddle horse by any menas. Some may think that all of my horses are medium- boned horses, but I have both the medium and the large boned, both" of which won more premiums last season than any other horses of their respective ages in the State of Missouri. Still I say there are very few big" horses that will measure up to the proper standards of excellence. An over-grown horse is like an overgrown man — he generally grows all out of shape and loses his beauty of form and action. The medium sized horse is generally healthier, tougher and is not subject to the many ailments that the overgrown horse is. He is big enough to do any or- dinary farm work, can go over more roads in less time and with less fatigue, either in the harness or under the saddle, than the overgrown horse. He is handier for man. woman or child to harness or saddle, to mount or dismount, and the average sized man looks better on a medium sized horse. Imagine the looks of a law, chubby man on a big 16-hand horse. Any breed of horses, from the Shetland pony to the draft horse, will lose the desired qualities after they reach the extreme height of their respective breds. The thoroughbreds, the trotters and the pacers are ail medium sized breeds, apd the most prominent horses of each breed scarcely ever go above the average height of their respective breed. These three breeds constitute the foundation of our American saddle horses, which, like 'their ancestors, are not extra large horses. Thus it is that road mares generally make good crosses with the saddle horse, but the more good top crosses one can get combined in one animal. from horses of show ring quality, the better prospects are_ for future success. The medium sized horse is plenty large, and if people would drop the idea that they must breed to the inferior, big-boned, overgrown horse, and put their best efforts forth to breed to the horse of show ring quality, with style, action and conformation, there would be hundreds of saddle horses of show ring quality where there is not one as it is. The management of Chartei I tk Park. Hartford, Conn., proposes opening a futurity for three-year-olds, foals of 1906, to be raced in 1909, nominating fee one dollar per mare. Conditions and date of closing will be announced later. ,.Jh;. ' l '" 1»e committ appointed bv the Grand Circuit stewards, to devise and recom- mend a uniform system of racing, is a great disan pomtment to trotting horsemen. The Grand Circuit fhe° matter' IT SCaS0" wera s° «"<"* at variance n the matter ot some distinct racing plan that the question of forcing a uniform system on the track managers became absolutely necessary. Consequently he prominent trainers, drivers and owners affixed Compact l° What WaS kn°Wn as the Syracuse They are now on record as opposed to any plan which calls for longer racing than best two in three and m conformity, with that agreement will make no entries to long-drawn-out contests. While it was signed and made public during the State Fair \Zes cLf yraCUS^ y6t the Sisners declded to ™ke an ex! cept.on m the case of the Oakley Park meeting where the Purses had already been announced. It was un derstood then that the agreement will be in force "he coming season and thereafter The action of the Grand Circuit stewards at their meeting showed that the track managers had deemed Dlv with ,h T'06 ?e dTiVeTS' "dement and com- ply TMth their demands in some suitable form There is some plausible reason to believe that the majority of the tracks will adopt the heat plan of racing, which was the system at Buffalo. Detroit and partly at Columbus. The immediate announcement of the future plans of the Readville track, the secretary of which was a member of the committee, gives this idea some good foundation. The system received the approval of horsemen with the exception of the un- just method of deducting the regulation five per cent from winners, which was required by the Buffalo plan. Secretary Jewetfs plan as formulated for Readville modifies this, much to the satisfaction of racing men and appears to be upon a fair basis. The cry among trotting horsemen will from now on be either the Readville system of no live per cent deduction or if any. then on the basis of each division of the purse The "Jewell plan,- which the system will hereafter be called, calls for a straight five per cent entrance fee and nothing more, while at Buffalo last year, some of the winners paid back to the association as high as thirty-seven and one-half per cent, which was a di- rect imposition on horsemen who raced at that Hack- but who are much wiser now. The important question now is wheth;: the rest of the Grand Circuit members will adopt this plan, giv- ing what horsemen have wished, asked and, as a last resort, demanded, namely, a uniform system of racing throughout the season. Even if the East did adopt the heat plan for their meetings, the question will still be, how many of them will be generous enough to offer the same liberal terms as the Readville man- agement has done. Each association appears to have its own favorite system, as was evidenced from the varied programs of last season -when every system known to harness rac- ing was in vogue with the exception of the dash racing. The mixup was general each week. As has been stated, Detroit and Buffalo adhered strictly to the "heat system" and no race required more than three heats to decide the result. The Poughkeepsie system, which is still heartily- endorsed, not only by Secretary Bain of that track, but by many other prominent horsemen, called for either two-in-three or three-in-f.ve, with the provision that horses not standing for any portion of the purse at the finish of the second and third heats, respective- ly, were ruled out, with the result that of the fifteen races on the card only one was a four and another a five-heat event. Hartford had the straight best three-in-flve with the exception of both divisions of the futurity and the free-for-all trot and pace, consequently the com- petition of the sixteen races required sixty-two heats. The stakes and purses at Providence were almost equally divided, and the eighteen events were finished in fifty-eight heats. The result at Syracuse was about the same as that at Poughkeepsie. while at Colum- bus there was a general mix-up cf heat racing, two- in-three, three-in-five and in every race three or more heats were trotted or paced. The system at Oakley Park. Cincinnati, was straight three-in-live — with one exception, the free-for-all trot, and it took sixty-five heats to finish the eighteen races. It is not surprising, therefore, that this ques- tion is considered of vital importance. Whatever disagreement the circuit managers may have in the matter, it looks almost certain that there will be either none of the "1S12" system of elongated racing, or, if any, very few in number. When the "Syracuse Compact" was made public, A. J. Welch. owner and manager of the Hartford and Cincinnati tracks, announced his Intention of doing away with the old-style of three'-in-five and shorten the races, if others did the Fame. It was on this declaration mainly that horsemen made concessions in favor of ' lakley Park track and entered their horses in spite of the agreement already signed. The only obstacle now apparently in the way of shorter racing is the abolishment of the comparative- ly few events on other tracks, which call for the Svi - heat plan. Even if these few be allowed, under the distinct condition that they be raced on the Pough- keepsie plan, they will *** no harm, provided horse- men wpill agree to make eniiries for such events. With Detroit, Buffalo, Readville, Hartford and Cincinnati in favor of either the three-heat or shorter plan, and horsemen firm in their signed agreement, the old sys- tem looks practically doomed. — Kentucky SI i ' o Chas. Marvin, who has been very ill with ; n'a. is repoi ■ better, bul h - ened condition that it is doubtful if he will to train any horses this year. f&Us Qv&ebev anb gftwrterottro [January 27, 1906 bSSE3[SS3s3,5!Selb}aE3t3^a>s3ISv^E3tSSSs3S^E3b5SE3 II NOTES AND NEWS. || It is rumored that Tom Sharkey will have a string of horses on the Grand Circuit this year. Coney 2:02 by McKinney is to be sold at the Splan auction sale at Chicago. Stewards of the Great "Western Circuit will meet in Chicago next month to arrange dates and an- nounce early closing stakes. Strathway 2:19 has two trotters with records bet- ter than 2::10. Every mare bred to him last year is said to be in foal. James Marchall of Dixon visited Pleasanton last week and made arrangements to breed his mare Trix by Nutwood Wilkes to Star Pointer 1:59 M. Trix is the dam of Mona Wilkes 2:1114, winner of the three- year-old pacing division of the Breeders' Futurity of 1905. Mr. Marshall has as fine a collection of young brood mares as there is in California. They are not numerous, but they are bred in producing lines. J. G. Thomas, of Eau Claire, Wisconsin, has sent a string of eleven trotters and pacers to Denver to be trained by Al Russell. The fastest one in the string is Castlewood 2:09%, a pacer by Birchwood. H. S. Hogoboom of Woodland, Cal., has heard of the pacing stallion Prank Marriott 2:12%, owned by a Pennsylvania doctor, who claims him to be the largest pacing horse in the world, Frank Mariott being 17 hands high and weighing 1200 pounds. Mr. Hogo- boom thinks his stallion Arthur W. beats the horse from the Keystone State a little, as his record is a full second faster and he weighs 1400 pounds. Information comes from Cleveland, O., that the well-known trainer, Vance Nuckols, has sold to Thomas W. Murphy of Glen Cove, L. L, the thirteen- year-old trotting mare Miss Brock 2:13% by Stranger, dam Brooch (dam of Broomal 2:15) by Jay Gould 2.12%, at a reported price of $2500. The deal was closed on the 3d inst., and it is stated that Mr. Mur- phy's purpose in buying Miss Brock was to breed her to Laconda 2:02. In the four years that Vance Nuck- ols and "Doc" Tanner have owned the mare she has started in forty-eight races, finishing. . first twenty- seven times, taking second money once, and was only unplaced twice, a very creditable record- Miss Brock is bred just like Boodle 2:12%, although not a full sister, as she is by Stranger, dam by Jay Gould and grandam by Ethan Allen 43. Charles A. Durfee came into the office of this jour- nal last Tuesday, and hunting up the editor implored him to make an item to the effect that all the Mc- Kinney mares he advertised have been sold, and he has nothing left but the two young stallions, Galindo and Almaden 2:22%, the former by McKinney and the latter by Direct 2:05%. Although he has sold the mares, nearly every mail brings him in letters from persons who want to buy, and as Mr. Durfee does not take to letter writing with as much pleasure as he does driving a trotter, he wants the public to know that his supply of McKinney mares is ex- hausted. In this connection he stated, however, that his neighbor, Mr. R. P. M. Greeley of Oakland, has a threeyear-okl filly by McKinney out of Winnie Wilkes 2:17%, that is such a sweet going one he is almost tempted to break his resolution and get back into the horse business every time he sees her. Mr. Gree- ley's filly is for sale, too, and Durfee says he don't know what people arc thinking of who want a good prospect for the track or the breeding ranks, in al- lowing Mr. Greeley to retain possession of her. Mr. Du fee is confident that McKinney will be the great- 1 brood mare sire in the world, as everything out 'laughters that has been trained shows racing I. Very few of the McKinney mares have produce enough to race, yet tltey have produced Irish Tidal Wave 2:09. Silver Coin 2:10, Sally 2:11 and Eagletta 2 : 1 1 Vi , besides several oth- ers. The Kansas State Breeders' Association will offer a $1000 purse for two-year-old trotters and one of the same size for three-year-olds to be trotted at the Topeka Fair next September. State Veterinarian Charles Keane announces that the season for shipping cattle on inspection from points below the quarantine line of the State to points outside will close January 31, 1906. Monroe Salisbury is superintending the training of about twenty-five head of horses at Pleasanton track that are owned by James Butler of New York. Mr. Salisbury was confined to the house with a severe cold two weeks ago, but we are pleased to state that -he is himself again, and able to be at the track every day. Bert Webster has entered the employ of Chas. De Ryder and has Star Pointer 1:59% and the McKinney stallion Greco in charge at Pleasanton. There will be two $2000 stakes at the Oregon State Fair this year — one for 2.15 pacers, the other for 2:17 ti otters. This is good news to California owners. The Treka News of January 18th says: Frank Adams, a horse breeder of Siskiyou and Klamath counties, who lives just over the line, was in Yreka Tuesday on business, having shipped 150 head of horses and 30 head of mules from Montague to San Francisco. He was accompanied by E. Stewart, the San Francisco dealer, who paid him good prices for the animals— $104 a head for 100 of the horses, $125 a head for 50, and $75 a head for the mules. Mr. Adams reports that the horse market is better for the breeder than it has been for years. He deals only in draft horses and has 500 head on his farm which he is breaking for the market. While the boom is on with the Sidney Dillons it is just as well to remember that Cupid 2:18, trotting, still owned in this State, is a full brother to the sire of Lou Dillon. He is owned by Mr. A. B. Spreckels and has been kept as a private stallion, yet he has sired four trotters with records below 2:17. There will be several of his get offered at the sale of horses from Aptos Farm, to be held in this city soon. A western writer, in commenting on the frequently made statement that carriage and other classes of light harness horses are too high in the country to admit of their being bought for eastern trade at a profit says: "The trouble largely rests with buyers of horses suitable for drivers, carriage animals, heavy harness horses and high actors. Prices offered in the country are generally lower than the same grade of horses are selling right at home to neighbors and local dealers. Horses are much higher throughout the agricultural portions of the west than at central markets, and local consumption has made a market right at home for a majority of the horses bred in the Missouri valley. At a number of places the past year the writer has found driving horses selling at $200 per head, when, from experience, it was known that the same horses would not bring over $150 per head if sold to a shipper. We have in mind several sales made within the past four months where horses brought from $500 to $1500, and we are in a po- One of the most admired horses at Pleasanton is Barney Simpson's brown stallion Arner 2:17*4, own brother to Diablo. Arner weighs very close to 1200 pounds and is one of the best bodied stallions in California, while his legs and feet are about perfec- tion. He is siring speed, too, as all his colts that are old enough to break are moving out like race horses. Mr. Simpson has been importuned to stand Arner at several points in California, but will take him back to Chico on the first of February. Arner served over forty mares there last year and all but three are in foal. The North Pacific Circuit and the Montana Circuit deserve big entry lists. We hope Californians will visit them in large numbers. Waiter Cummings of Denver purchased the trotter Bonner 2:11% by Jayhawker at a recent Chicago sale. We are pleased to state that while the plans and other particulars are not ready for publication, ar- rangements are under way for the erection in this city of a large pavilion or Tattersall, where horse shows and sales can be conducted as they should be. Fred H. Chase & Co. will be the managers, and the new pavilion will contain a tan bark ring of such dimensions that horses can be shown in harness as they are at the leading sales in the Eastern cities, and spectators will be provided with all the comforts of a theater. The first sale to be held in this pro- Those who know of the horses bred by Mr. C. X. Larrabee at his celebrated Brook Nook Stock Ranch, in Montana, are aware of the fact that his mares and stallions carry the Morgan blood in their veins, combined with the best Hambletonian strains, and that he raises very handsome and stylish horses that are endowed with speed. In this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman Mr. Larrabee advertises three fine animals for sale that are now located at Pasadena. Particulars as to their breeding, etc., are given in the advertisement/which will be found on another page. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY'S TRACK AT SACRAMENTO Secretary Al Lindley reports that the day after the recent heavy rains this track was in fine condition to work horses on. Owing to its perfect drainage it bids fair to be a very popular track for winter training. Both Dan Patch and Cresceus are to have an op- portunity next fall of making new world's records at Lexington, Ky. M. W. Savage, owner of this sensa- tional pair, has written a letter to Secretary H. W. Wilson, of the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' As- sociation, saying that he expected to give both Cres- ceus and Dan Patch the best of training this season and try to lower their present records. He said he believed the feat could be accomplished over the Lex- ington track, and Secretary Wilson has promised to have the track put in the best of condition, with this end in view. There are many horsemen here who believe that Cresceus will be able to reduce his pres- ent mark considerably. sition to know that several buyers from eastern mar- kets had looked at the same horses and that their of- fers were far below the prices obtained. * * * Dealers tell you that they cannot afford to pay more for horses suitable for drivers, carriage, coupe, tan- dem, four-in-hand or show purposes than $200 to $250 per head. They affirm that it requires great expense in preparing these horses for market. The fact is, that it does not cost one-tenth as much to prepare a horse for market, as it does to educate one for the track. If eastern dealers are to continue buying western bred horses, they must jar loose from their old ideas and leave more of their money in the country." In view of this statement from a man who is in position to know absolutely what he is talking about, it would be interesting to hear what some of the buyers for the eastern markets have to say about his observations. posed new pavilion will be the horses from Mr. A. B. Spreckels* Aptos Farm, one of the choicest col- lections of trotting bred horses ever offered in San Francisco. The date of the sale cannot be definitely fixed as yet, but will be very close to the first of March. Mr. J. B. Iverson of Salinas, spent a couple of days in the city this week. He reports fine prospects for the Salinas Valley, the recent rains putting a fine as- pect on the entire country. His good gelding North Star 2:13%, winner of all the principal trotting stakes for three-year-olds in California last year, is being jogged by Trainer Charles Whitehead, and is in fine shape. Mr. Iverson does not intend to race North Star this year, but will have him out in 1907 if he still owns him. Princess 2:13% is better and faster than ever, and Mr. Whitehead thinks she will beat 2:10 this year. Mr. Iverson's trotter Prince Gift 2:12 has been running out for some time and will probably be taken up and raced again, as his owner believes he can lower his record when he is in condition. Whitehead has eight of Mr. Iverson's horses in training, besides quite a number of his own. Salinas will give a good fair and race meeting this fall. The Breeders' meeting will probably be held in San Jose this year. Frank S. Turner of the Santa Rosa Stock Farm, who recently sold twenty-one head of young Sidney Dillons to Sterling R. Holt of Indianapolis, says he predicts that three of them will soon be in the 2:10 list under Millard Sanders' instruction. The three he marks for this early distinction are Carlocita, that he thinks will pace in 2:04; Carrie Dillon that will shade 2:09, and Kate Dillon, that should take a mark of 2:07 or 2:08. He expects Sanders to mark all these fillies this year. Mr. Holt evidently thinks mighty well of Carlocita, as he has stated that he intends changing her name to Mary Dillon, the Mary in honor of his wife. Santa Rosa horsemen will organize and give a meet- ing this year. Dates and purses will be announced soon, it is said. EXPRESSIVE MAC AT SACRAMENTO. Mr. Philip C. Byrne of Grass Valley will stand the McKinney- Wilkes-Electioneer stallion, Expressive Mac 41523, at Sacramento this year. He expects to be located there by February 1st. Expressive Mac is sired by McKinney 2:11%, dam Expressive 2:12^4 (at three years old) by Electioneer 125. He is a fine in- dividual, stands over 16 hands high and weighs about 1200 pounds. In color he is a dark bay. With very little training he has shown that he inherits the speed that he is entitled to by his breeding. He is a horse of good disposition, a'nd his presence in Sacramento will be a chance for owners of good brood mares to patronize one of the best young McKinneys in the state. Mr. Byrne has made a good selection in secur- ing this young stallion. It is his intention to enter him in this season's races and as he is perfectly sound and shows great speed he expects to give him a low mark. The well bred sons of McKinney will be in big demand this year and those who wish to breed mares to Ex- pressive Mac will do well to make arrangements with Mr. Byrne without delay. Address Philip C. Byrne, care Willard Gardiner, 41S J St., Sacramento, Cal. * January 27, 1916, ®4u? gvee&ev cmfc gtpjjrtsmcm THE DEMAND FOR HARNESS HORSES. A TOUT STORY. BEST RECORDS. Henry T- White of the Chicago Inter-Ocean, who is one of the closest observers of conditions in the horse breeding industry, says: "I cannot see where the supply is to come from to meet the demand of the next Ave or six years at least. No one will deny the fact that prices and demand are better than at any time in the past ten years, and it would appear as though, if the horses are in the country, owners would be anxious to take advantage of the situation and realize the high dollar on their holdings. "In conversation with the head of the leading auc- tion sale business in Kentucky the past week he in- formed me that, in spite of their best efforts, the number of horses consigned to their coming sale was far less than he had a right to expect, considering the favorable conditions of the market and that the low average of three horses to a consignor told the story. He also called attention to the significant fact that there were but three or four of the big stock farms left in the blue grass region, farms where they bred twenty-five mares or more per year, and that the smaller breeders had curtailed their operations in proportion. "Looking over a copy of a leading turf journal pub- lished the past week I find a total of thirteen pages of advertising, seven and three-quarters of which was used by individuals or firms who make a specialty of selling horses, and six pages of this in the interest of combination auction sales, events of this character being held at regular intervals. The list embraces at least one sale a week from the last of January to the first of May, and in some cases several sales conflict. These firms are scouring the country for stock, and having a hard time to make a showing. Of course, there are a few well established firms having their regular following that will continue to send their of- ferings, although the number of horses may be less than in the past. The balance, in their efforts to se- cure business, will offer inducements in the way of cutting commissions, taking conditional entries, and permitting by-bidding that will lose them the sup- port of the buyers, and as their consignors gradually realize they are suffering in consequence, and these firms must drop by the wayside. Certain it is there never was a more favorable opportunity for a man to realize on good horses if he has any to sell than by consigning to a first class combination sale, and the man who has money to invest, who desires to en- gage in business for the future, would have a hard job to figure out a safer, surer way of realizing on his time, labor, and money than by purchasing foun- dation stock of the right kind and engaging in the breeding of the light harness horse." FROM A GREAT BROOD MARE LINE. James A. Smith of Vallejo, announces that his grandly bred and handsome McKinney stallion Con- structor 39,569 will make the season of 1906 at the above named town. Constructor is an own brother to that fast stallion Tom Smith 2:13%, and like him is a good gaited trotter. He stands 15.2% hands over the withers and 15:3% over the loins. He weighs 1100 pounds and is the model of a modern, high class trotting sire. There are many McKinneys in the stud in California, but outside of his full brothers there are none bred like Constructor. His dam, Daisy S., dam of four in the list, is by Mc- Donald Chief 35S3, a horse that did much to improve the size, style and endurance of the trotting bred stock of Solano and adjoining counties. McDonald Chief was a son of Clark Chief 89, out of a mare by thoroughbred Berthune. The dam of Daisy S. was also a great brood mare — Fanny Rose by Ethan Allen Jr. She produced Columbus S. 2.17, and George "Washington 2:16%, both large handsome trotters and the latter the sire of Stella 2:15% and several others in the list. Fanny Rose also produced Fanny, dam of Scotty 2:19% and Trilby 2:21%, showing that on his dam's side Constructor inherits blood that pro- duces speed uniformly. With the McKinney cross Constructor can be said to be "as well bred as any- body's horse," and a prospective sire of speed from all classes of mares. At the low service fee of $25 he should receive an extensive patronage, as such a fee is paid readily for services of the most ordinary stallions. A perusal of Constructor's advertisement on another page is worth your time. HOW THE NEWS WAS RECEIVED AT HOME. [Western Horseman, Jan. 12.] For some time The Western Horseman has been "next" to a proposed business venture of Hon. Ster- ling R. Holt, owner of Sidney Dillon. A couple of weeks ago Mr. Holt left for California, and the fol- lowing telegram received from him at Santa Rosa, Cal., January 6, tells a lot in a few words: "Have bought twenty-five Sidney Dillons, the best ones in California, and they will be trained at the Indian- apolis track by Millard Sanders." Whe-ew! Twenty- five Sidney Dillons, the best in the land, to be "trained out" by Millard Sanders! And Millard San- ders trained and marked Lou Dillon 1:58%, the fast- est trotter in the world, and Lou Dillon is by Sidney Dillon! But Mr. Holt "does things" — and the Sidney Dillons "do things" — and there will be "great doings" at the Indianapolis track the coming season, for there will be other great things there besides the Sidney Dillons. "Marque" of the Horse Review tells the following good one: I was in the betting ring at Columbus, last fall, when I saw a stylishly dressed young man tackle an elderly gentleman who was evidently a local horse admirer. Feeling certain that it was a case of tout- ing, I drew near, so as to catch as much of the con- versation as possible. Sure enough, it was the stereo- typed song and dance about having seen the wisest man on the ground stringing several thousand along in the various books on Wentworth for the last heat. The black gelding had just won his memorable sec- ond heat in 2:04%, Dr. Strong being a close second. There was a strong feeling among the talent that Dr. Strong would take the final and his price was 2 to 1, while Wentworth was quoted at 4 to 1. The tout soon had his man interested, and I finally saw the gentle- man unbelt his roll. He skinned off a couple of twenties and a ten, while the tout's eyes glistened with anticipation. However, the gentleman upon be- ing importuned to let the tout bet the money for him, refused and, advancing to the bookmaker, bet it him- self on Wentworth. A look of disappointment flashed over the tout's face, but he came back with a plea that he was broke and thought it only right, since he had given his "extra special," that he be presented with a five to put on for himself. The gentleman loos- ened and an instant later I saw the tout bet the money on Dr. Strong. Well, Wentworth won the heat handily and while I didn't see him afterwards, I'll bet that if ever there was a tout who felt whip-sawed and double-crossed it was this one who had marked the cards on himself. STALLION LAW IN CALIFORNIA. The stallion service law; of this State was amended at the last session of the Legislature and is now as follows: Every owner or person having in charge any stal- lion, jack or bull used for propagating purposes has a lien for the agreed price of its service upon any mare or cow and upon the offspring of such service, unless some wilfully false representation concerning the breeding or pedigree of such stallion, jack or bull has been made or published by the owner or person' in charge thereof, or by some other person, at the re- quest or instigation of such owner or person in charge. Every claimant of a lien provided for in the pre- ceding section must within 90 days after the service on account of which the lien is claimed, file in the office of the county recorder of the county where the mare or cow subject thereto is left, a verified claim containing a particular description of the mare or cow, the date and place of service, the name of the owner or reputed owner of such mare or cow, a de- scription by name, or otherwise, of the stallion, jack or bull performing the service, the name of the owner or person in charge thereof, and the amount of lien claimed. Such claim, so filed, is notice to subsequent purchasers and incumbrancers of such mare or cow and of the offspring of such service for one year after such filing. Action to enforce this lien may be brought in any county wherein any property subject to the lien may be found. R. AMBUSH 2.1414 AT STUD AT REDLANDS. That slashing young trotter Aumbush 2:14%, whose name for registration purchases has been changed to R. Ambush, will make the season of 1906 at the ranch of his owner, Mr. G. W. Bonnell of Redlands, at the low fee of $30. R. Ambush made a two-year-old record of 2:20 in 1904 and last year reduced it to 2:14% in a winning race at San Jose. He is a royally bred colt, his sire being Zolock 2:05%, his dam May Kinney by Silkwood 2:07, and his grandam Satinette by Mc- Kinney 2:11%. As an individual Ambush is about all that one could wish, and he has a fine disposition and has proven himself a good race horse. He is now four years old and will sire early and extreme speed to a certainty. JUDGES FOR PASADENA HORSE SHOW. Officials for the Pasadena horse show, to be held March 18th, 19th and 20th, have been appointed and from now on preparations for the show will be rushed to completion. The judges are among the best-known horsemen in the country. W. D. Woolwine, Los Angeles: Robert Lee Bettner, Riverside, and Walter S. Newhall, Los Angeles, will judge the saddle classes. Milo M. Potter of Santa Barbara, Walter S. New- hall and Captain J. C. Newton of South Pasadena will judge the roadster classes. Francis C. Underhill of New York has consented to take charge of the heavy harness classes. Another wanderer that has come back to the fold is Crit Davis, who after a long time with the bang- tails will train for the Cecils of Danville, Ky. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonades and be refreshed. BE ABLE TO CURE THESE DISEASES. The stock owner who has gone through an epidemic of distemper, epizootic, pinkeye, etc.. is in position to know the value of a remedy that will positively cure these ailments. Still better is it to be able to prevent them. There is no question that Dr. Craft's Distem- per & Cough Cure, advertised in another column, is effective both as a preventive and a cure. It has been on the market many years. It is invariably sold un- der a guarantee to refund the money if it fails. It has been used by two hundred thousand horsemen and stockmen. It is equally effective on horses, sheep and dogs. It is worth while to be familiar with the merits of such a remedy and we advise our readers to at once send to the manufacturers. The Wells Medicine Co., 13 Third St., Lafayette, Ind., for a copy of their valuable pamphlet, "Veterinary Pointers." It is free. 16% 14% 19% :12% The racing season of 1905 now being at an end the presentation of a table of the best records of the year is in order, and it is herewith appended. Trotters. Two-year-olds — Colt — Ed Custer by Baronmore 2:14%, dam Marble 2:14 by Clay King 2: Filly— Lightsome by Constantine 2:12%, dam Bourbonlight 2:1S% by Bourbon Wilkes 2 Gelding— Bud Bonner by Prodigal 2:16, dam by Bourbon Wilkes 2 Three-year-olds — Colt— Bon Voyage by Expedition 2:15%, dam Bon Mot by Erin 2 : Filly— Susie N. by Moko, dam Gipsey Dark by Wiltwood 2:09% Gelding— North Star by Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, dam by Eugeneer 2:13% Four-year-olds — Colt— Fatty Felix by Constantine 2:12%, dam by Ponce de Leon 2 : 13 2 : 14 Mare— Gramattan by Grattan 2:13, dam Zyl- pha 2:13%, by Greystone 2:11% Aged — Stallion — Admiral Dewey by Bingen 2.06%, dam Nancy Hanks 2:04 by Happy Medium. .2.04% Mare — Sweet Marie by McKinney 2:11%, dam Lady Rivers by Carr's Mambrino 2:04% Green — Stallion— Boreazelle by Boreal 2:15%, dam Luzelle 2:15% by Patron 2:09% Mare — Deloree by Delmarch 2:11%, dam Hin- dee by Allerton . . . .• 2:09% Gelding— Albert C. by Bellini 2:13%, dam Libby Sweet by Highland Gray 2:09% Pacers. Two-year-olds — Colt — Manager H. by Manager 2:06% 2 Colt— Rockaway by Stoneway 2:23%, dam unknown 2 McFayden by Diablo 2:09%, dam Bee. by Gelding— Kelly by Baronmore 2:14%, dam Miss Van Tassell 2:29% by Don Wilkes Three-year-olds — Filly— Bonalet by Bonnie Direct 2:05%, dam Roblet 2:12 by Robin 2 Matilda 2:30 by Nutwood 2 Four-year-olds — Stallion — Echo Jr. by Echo, dam Sis Havoc by Havoc 2 Mare — Doris B. by Grattan 2:13, dam Edith Zell by Strathroy 2 Colt— John Kirby by Allerton 2:09%, dam Sterling 2 Gelding — Directwood by Direct 2:06%, dam Dolly Fon 2:2S% by Lee Wood 2 Aged — Stallion — Dan Patch by Joe Patchen 2:01%, dam Zelica by Wilkesberry 1 Mare — The Broncho by Stormcliffe, dam Lux- ora by Autocrat Jr 2 Gelding — Nathan Straus by Director 2:17, dam Mary Marshall 2:12% by Billy Wilkes. 2 Green — Stallion — Walter Direct by Direct Hal 2:04%. dam Ella Brown 2:11% by Prince Pulaski Jr.2 Mare — Lillian by Adrian Wilkes, dam Ab- dallah Lightfoot by Mambrino Abdallah...2 Gelding — Bolivar by Wayland W. 2:12%, dam by Harry Wilkes 2 20 15% 2:19% 09% 13% 07% 07% 15% 08% 55% 03% 03% 05% 08% 06% THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. T., Aug. 13-18. Readville, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. An eastern exchange says: "The New England Trotting Horse Breeders' Association has decided that the entire program for the Grand Circuit meeting at Readville will be made up of dash races. This is a surprise to the horsemen, as the association has been inclined to be conservative in the matter of adopting new ideas. It is the idea of the directors that every- thing possible should be done to attract the sport- loving public to their races. It has been claimed that the public demands shorter races and also racing upon a plan that will do away with postponed races. To illustrate the new Readville plan, the following sam- ple race is given: The Massachusetts, for 2:10 trot- ters. An event of three races of one mile, $3000 each race, divided as follows: First horse, $2000; second horse. $600; third horse, $300; fourth horse, $100. Nothing to be deducted from money winners; horses to be named at the time of closing of entries. Forfeits of $40, $65, $90, $120, $135 would be due in sequence on April 10th, May 10th, June 9th, July 10th, and August Sth. Additional horses in the same stable may be named and a forfeit of $9 will be due on each of the above-named dates. Nominators will not be held for forfeit after they have been declared out in writing. In this event horses will draw for posi- tions in the first heat, but will start in the second heat as they finished in the first, and in the third as they finished in the second. By this plan the problem of long drawn out races will be solved. Any that secures a record will be recompensed the first division of the purse, and every race will be called upon to race to his limit 1 When the plan is tried some objections to it 1 developed, but it is certainly worthy of a i.i ©he gvee&ev attft gtp&vi&nxaxt [January 27, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. 1-June I— Closed season lor black basa. April I-Sept. 1^. Or.t. 16-Feb. 1— Open season for taking steal- head In tidewater. Sept. 10-Oct. 16 -Close season In tidewater for steelfaead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season for catching salmon. Sept. 15-Aprll 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oct. 16-Nov. lb - Close season for taking salmon above tide, water. Nov. l-April 1— Trout season closed. Nov. l-April t— Closed season for taking steelhead above the water. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10 — Season open for taking salmon above tide crater. Gun. July l-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Sept. l-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and age hen. Oct. 15-Feb. 15— Open season for quail, ducks, etc. Oct.l5-AprIl 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. Jan. 18, 19— Lynn Kennel Club. Lynn, Mass. Tom B. Middle- brooke, Superintendent Entries closed Jan. 6. Jan. 24, 27— Southern Kennel Club. Memphis, Tenn. Harry W. Clapnam, Secretary. Entries closed Jan. 10. Feb. 12, 15— Westminster Kennel Club New York. Root. V. McKim, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 25. Feb. 20, 23— New England Kennel Club. Boston. Wm. B. Emery, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 30. Feb 28-March 3— Washington Kennel Club. Washington, Pa. F. C. Thomas, Secretary. Entries olose Feb. 22. March 1, 3-Southern Ohio Kennel Club. Hamilton, Ohio. Thos. Boli, Secretary. Maroh 7, 10— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburfe, Pa. F. S. Steadman. Secretary. Entries close Feb. 25. March 8, 10-Colorado Kennel Club. Denver, Col. T. W. Bar- tels, Secretary. March 13, 16— Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N. Y. S. P. White, Secretary. March 14, 17— Passaic County Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas Matthews, Secretary. March 21, 24— Wolverine Kennel Club. Detroit, Mich. K. G. Smith, Secretary. May San Francisco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench show, Fred P Butler, Secretary. May 29, 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L I. June 1 2— Ladies Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed. Secretary. June 9— WIssahickon Kennel Club. Wissahickon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary. Sept. 3.6— Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J.Leo, Secretary. Sept. 8— Cedarhurst Kennel Club. Cedarhurst, L I. Jno G. Bates, Secretary. Field Trials. Jan. 15— United States Field Trial Club. 17th annual trials. Grand Junction, Tenn. W. B Stafford, Secretary. Jan. National Championship Field Trial Club 10th annual trials. Following U. S- All Age Stake. W. B. Stafford, Secre- tary, Trenton, Tenn. THE DENNY PHEASANT. Twenty years ago the late Judge Denny imported from China eighteen China ring-neck or Torquatus pheasants and gave them their liberty in the "Willam- ette valley some fifteen mile from Corvalis. Shortly after state laws were enacted protecting these birds and they are today the game bird of. Oregon. The grouse and native pheasant, once so plentiful in that section, are a thing of the past, at least so far as the Willamette valley is concerned. The latter no doubt have been driven back to "tall timber" in the foothills by the pugnacious China cock birds, who are always on the war path against anything that wears feathers. A few years ago the State Legislature in recogni- tion of Judge Denny's generous act gave these birds the name of "Denny pheasants," but they are most commonly known as the China pheasant. They are, beyond a doubt, the most prolific game bird in ex- istence today. Thousands have been killed by "pot hunters" and others every year, both in and out of season; eggs and young destroyed by ground vermin, and in many seasons the late rains totally destroy the early broods. The pheasant hen frequently selects the open field or meadow for a nesting place, and will often stick to the nest until run over and invariably crippled by the mower. When plowing summer fallow, nests are frequently run into, and the farmer, not wishing to plow the eggs under, sets nest and all out" onto the plowed ground, ■ nly *_o be devoured by the hungry crow. The crow- is one of their worst enemies, and, strangely enough, they seldom molest the pheasants* nests until the eggs are almost ready to hatch, at which time they will attack a nest in great numbers. The pheasant will make a brave effort to protect her property, but while one or two crows manage to engage her in a combat a few feet from the nest, the others dive down and destroy the eggs. However, In the face of all this, h hen will bring off three or four broods of from thirteen to seventeen young in a season, and they have sprea I stat" and increased in numbers al- mosl M. f. it is no uncommon thing to see them mingle with the domestic fowls around the barn- yard. This Is true, however, more with the male birds, be< n known to mate with Leghorn or Ban- ning a hybrid that neither crows, 3, lays eggs or takes any apparent Interest In ever. When a China male and the common "cock of I ' ■ walk" meet in mortal com- they frequently do on the country farms, the invariably gets worsted. The great cartoonist, Homer Davenport, whose old home is at Silverton, Ore., is a devoted pheasant fan- cier and has a collection exceeding that of the largest zoological garden in the world. He is the authority for the statement that Oregon now contains more China pheasants than their native country, China, re- gardless of the fact that 50,000 were killed in one day last season in that state. The destructive forest fires that caused the dense smoke to hang over the Willamette Valley for so long a time last summer served the illegal hunters a double purpose. It enabled them to come nearer their game, and at the same time shield them from the farmers, who are, for the most part, trying to protect the game. As the pheasants feed principally upon insects, the farmer does not begrudge the little grain they eat, most of which would otherwise be wasted. Some claim that they will rid a garden of cut- worms with- out doing any material damage. It is a safe estimate to say that four-fifths of the farmers in the part of the valley where these birds were first liberated, have at some time attempted to rear and domesticate them. Several instances are au- thoritatively noted where good-sized broods have been hatched out and allowed to run around the barnyard with a common hen for a mother, but as soon as they were of- any age they would disappear to the fields. A recent article on pheasant-rearing in an eastern journal says they cannot be reared in captivity unless fed on maggots. This is a mistake, according to Gene Simpson, who states: "I find that young pheasants do remarkably well on hard-boiled eggs chopped fine, and fresh ground meat, crumbled with corn meal. I keep them in tight, covered runs, in a dry place, with plenty of sunlight, and have this season lost fewer pheasants than young chicks, in proportion to the number hatch- ed. Among the poultry fanciers there are those who are continually striving to create new breeds, and the wonder is that more do not take up pheasants. There is certainly no bird living more beautiful than a male pheasant in full plumage. They can be raised at about the same cost as the smaller varieties of chickens, and a financial point in their favor is that there will be no culls. With proper care and close attention they are even hardier than young chicks and, strange to say, stand close confinement better." Mr. Simpson has been a breeder of fancy poultry for several years, but owing to the great demand for China pheasants for breeding purposes, the latter will take up his entire attention and be raised exclusively. The possibilities of the pheasant industry are unlimited and may be- come one of the industries of the Willamette. Adult China pheasants need no roosting house, for the lightest and most open portion of the yard will be selected for a roosting place, their wild nature thus placing them on guard against any approach of in- truders. One section of yards on Mr. Simpson's place is divided into runs, 12 by 28 feet, covered overhead and boarded up full hight around the entire outside to avoid the possibilty of the birds being disturbed during the laying season. Pheasants rarely ever set in captivity, and when they do they make very poor mothers. In fact, they seldom make a nest at all, laying their eggs promiscuously around the runs. Ban- tam hens make the best mothers for pheasants. Each run is planted with shrubbery as a protection against the rays of the hot sun, and at the same time affording a hiding place when suddenly approached by stran- gers. If extra male birds and separate runs are not available, one male may be mated with about three hens with good results, but where birds are liberated for stocking purposes an equal number of males and females should be liberated together. In their wild state these birds mate off in pairs and the male has been known to take the first brood, at a few weeks old, while the female prepares for another, and in this way it is claimed that a single pair of pheasants have been watched and known to have reared two and three broods, all flocking together at the end of the season. In the State of Washington hunters are required to pay a license and the money thus obtained is turned over to the County Commissioners of the various counties, who, the law states, are to expend the same toward protecting and propagating game birds. The County Commissioners of Yakima County have placed an order, through Game Warden S. H. Dills, for fifty- three Chinese pheasants, which will be liberated in the Yakima Valley. China pheasants were imported into that valley last year and are reported greatly increased in number this season in some localities. Commis- sioners of other counties have signified their inten- tions of doing likewise. Of all the pheasant family the China is the best species for stocking this country for game purposes and private reserves, and is the game bird of them all. With them, the male wears all the finery, a bril- liant plumage, comprising nil the colors of the rain- bow. While the plumage of the female is very dull, it is a graceful bird nevertheless. The general make- up of its color is such that when approached by the hunter it is enabled to apparently turn into a clod or rock, and one might walk within a few feet without observing it. but once your back is turned the bird is up and gone before you have time to realize what has happened. Another dodge is when in the open field to make for a dead furrow and run so close to the ground as to be completely obscured from sight until oul oif range. Again they will get a tree, bush or fence post between themselves and the hunter, get up and keep so accurately behind the obstruction that a shi it u ill be Impossible. The English ring-neck pheasant, a hibrid between the Torquatus and the old English black-neck pheas- ant, and the China pheasant are distinct and different, although they resemble each other very much. The English ring-neck is a short, chunky bird, while the China tapers off more gracefully at either extremity, and the latter has the distinct half-moon in gray over the eyes. The English ring-neck, is the standard sporting pheasant of England. Many attempts have been made to introduce this grand game bird in California, with the exception of a few favored localities each experiment has failed, the birds would be liberated and would rarely be seen again. Generally speaking, favorable environment for protection and propagation of the Denny pheasant, is not available for any great showing in introducing the birds throughout our State. Noted Trap Shot a Hermit. Capt. John L. Brewer, who suddenly disappeared from public view with the honor of the world's cham- pion wing shot, is living a hermit's life at Hammon- ton, N. J. Capt. Brewer, when he was in the field, made some of the greatest of the world's records, and became especially celebrated for his record in shoot- ing blue rock pigeons in England. Brewer is now living in a small house on the Ham- monton and Batsto road, thirty miles from Camden, and is ekeing a livelihood by trapping and shooting game birds and animals. When visited recently by an old-time friend. Capt. Brewer was found in a modest, plainly furnished cot- tage enjoying a dinner of fresh fish. A dozen hounds and field dogs kept guard outside the cottage and barked with eagerness for the hunt when their master appeared, though the hounds had had a twelve hours* chase the day before. "The best dogs in the country, but noisy ones," the old-time wing shot declared. "Trapping pays when you know how to do it, but you must be an expert to make the business a suc- cess," he said. "Have I been successful? Well, there's a statement from New York for my last shipment," and he exhibited an account of more than a hundred dollars, forty of which was paid for four otter hides recently trapped. ' The biggest otter ever captured in South Jersey and the cutest little baby otter were among those/' he said. "That big otter was 6 feet 9 inches in length and as jet black as any you ever saw. I captured him just as he was biting off the last toe that held him in the trap. Fight? Well. I guess he did. I had to shoot him in the head to prevent his escape and save the pelt. "When I got him the chain that held the trap was severed, and had he known this he could have easily escaped. I caught those four otters in three days, and half a dozen others escaped by leaving their toes in the traps. The puppy otter was so tame after I had scratched his back and throat that he allowed me to carry him under my arm, and 'snugged up' against my breast, but I had to kill him to get the big fellow out of the trap 'One of the escaped otters had had a fight with a coon that was in a trap beside it. I usually set two or three traps close together, so that if the game escapes' one it is likely to be caught in another. One of these otters had each of its hind legs in separate traps when I found it. Near an old log that lay across a creek I found a great pile of brush over a spot where I had planted my traps. Upon investigation I found a coon in one of the traps. The animal was more dead than alive. Its ears were sliced like a shredded tobacco leaf, and it was cut badly about the body. 'Tn a nearby trap lay half an otter's foot, and ottei fur covered the brush pile that had been gathered by th~ trap chains, thus showing what a desperate strug- gle had been the result of the double trapping." Capt. Brewer said he had captured ten otters last winter and trapped and shot over fifty foxes, besides a large number of minks, raccoons, and other fur ani- mals. He has lost the surplus flesh that was his when he carried the championship belt, but he is very wiry and muscular, while his flesh is as hard as leather and his eyes are as' bright and penerating as in the days' when he wrested the belt from Dr. Carver and Capt. Bogardus in this country and showed shots across the sea that they weren't in it with a Jersey- man. Washington's Birthday Trap Shoot. Following the usual custom, the initial trap shoot for the local season of 1906 will take place at Ingleside on February 22nd, under the combined auspices of the Goiden Gate and Union Gun Clubs. An attractive program will be arranged. s — o Englewood Kennels' New Stud Dog. Glen Tana Bounder (ch. Parabold Piccolo-Braehead Beauty II) has been leased to Mr. W. C. Bogen by Glen Tana Kennels of Spokane, Wash., and is now lo- cated in his new home at Campbells, Santa Clara county. Bounder has a record of seventy-five prizes won and has been a producing sire of winners. He is a full litter brother to Ch. Anfield Model, who is said to be the greatest living Collie sire of the present day. San Jose Show. At a recent meeting 'of the Santa Clara Kennel Club the proposition of holding a bench show during April or May received much encouragement. A sentiment favoring Harry Lacy for judge, should the club be able to secure the Boston gentleman's services, was strong with those present at the meeting. The officers of the club are: President, W. H. Car- michael; vice-president. Norman J. Stewart; secre- tary, Charles Harker: treasurer, M. Perry. In hot weather there is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. Jandary 27, iyt.6] iftiic igvve&zx have been the case in the past, the nervous shock which the dog has suffered will have affected the con- fidence which it held in its master or owner. It is necessary to cause it to understand, as far as pos- sible, that the owner of the dog is not responsible for the cause which originated the nervous shock, and by continually making much of it re-secure its entire confidence. The dog must also be placed under conditions which will prevent any repetition of that cause in the shape of sudden fright or alarm. The dog should be kennelled in company with a single and steady companion not likely to quarrel with it. be exercised with it, and kept as far as possible from mixing with other dogs for the time being. The dog when at exercise should be kept under close observation, and be offered every encouragement to enjoy itself in unrestricted freedom. Of course, any- thing likely to alarm or scare the dog must be avoided, but should it show signs of fear or nervousness, then every endeavor must be made to bring the dog's un- derstanding to the fct that there is no valid reason for its fearsomehess. In endeavoring to do this the entire confidence of the dog must be sought to be maintained, and should it evince any signs of ex- treme shyness and a tendency to slink off and bolt, every means must, be employed to coax and encourage it. Any attempt to 'compel the dog to remain or return is sure to lead to failure. Peremptory orders, threats, or the like, are here entirely out of place and ineffective, and unless the dog can be coaxed into obedience and restraint it is useless to attempt other means. Extreme patience and the expenditure of a great deal of time and trouble are required before the nervousness of the dog can be overcome. Even then, however, it may not be possible to suc- ceed, and in that case the dog must be put on the lead, but the means in question must not be em- ployed in any forcible manner, but only as a means to restrain the dog from bolting away and retain it within the limits necessary for exercising influence oyer it. Under no. circumstances should it be coupled to another dog, a supposed .remedy frequently rec- ommended, but entirely ineffective, and usually pro- vocative of increased fear. As soon as the extreme nervousness will be partly overcome, and the dog's confidence thoroughly and effectually regained, steps must be taken to accustom it to what may have been the cause of its nervous breakdown, and to other happenings of a like nature. Amongst ordinary dogs, other than gun-dogs, there is no more fruitful cause of nervousness than gate- slamming and no more frequent cause for a con- tinuance of the weakness in dogs so afflicted. And I know no more easy and effective means of curing them of the failing than by accustoming them to the working and slamming of a large and loosely-con- structed and loosely-hung field gate. It will be easily ascertained from the behavior of the dog if it betrays fear of the subject in question, and if- so, the mode of overcoming its aversion and timidity would be as fol- lows: In the first instance, take or coax the dog up to the gate, induce it to follow through, and close it gently. Repeat the process until the dog understands that o far there is nothing to fear. Then take the dog to some little distance, fifteen yards or so, and get some one to open and then gently slam the gat«. Keep on repeating the process, bringing the dog a little nearer each time, and increasing the force and consequent noise with which the gate is closed, until you have succeeded in bringing the dog close to the gate and letting it understand that there is nothing to fear from the noise caused. Then commence to :>ass the dog to and fro, re- peating the performance of gently, and then roughly, closing the gate beh'nd you, until such time when the dog no longer shows signs of fear, and has be- come to regard the nuise made as being quite in the natural order of things, and devoid of (fancied) dan- ger to itself. It is not advisable to give the dog too severe a lesson upon the first occasion, and it may be extended, and must be repeated upon successive days. Then miss a day and try the dog again. If it appears all right, then miss two or three days, and again repeat the experiment. Following upon this try the dog with other gates, and if all goes well the battle is won. From the foregoing will be learned how one must go to work to overcome this dreadful nervousness. As the slamming of a gate has been got over, so can, and must, other irritant causes be dealt with, until the dog's nerves have been once more thoroughly re- habilitated. It is a vexing and tiresome process, in- volving an unlimited amount of patience. There is, however, no other mode of accomplishing the end in view, and anything in the way of harshness or com- pulsion is entirely out of the -question. The same process applied to_ gun-shyness or any other form of acute nervousness and will overcome and cure it. The principle is the same; it is only the application of it which varies. The only other point necessary of note is a careful observance of the nervous dog's behavior in connec- tion with other dogs in the kennel, and. in fact, with dogs generally. As a rule, the ultra-nervous dog seems to be aware of its weakness, and tends to dis- play "he fact when in company. This may. however, equally well be overcome by working the dog in and out in the company of others by putting them to- gether and then withdrawing the patient, by making much of each and all together, and by coaxing the nervous subject into play and into obedience along with its companions. It must be remembered, too, that even when yoi> have cured a dog of ultra-nervousness it will forever afterwards be more liable to further attacks, and that in handling, training, and the ordering of the dog. an eye must always be given to = sibility. and a mon suavi and equable f< be meted out to it than to others kennel. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle 10 ©j*i? <$xeeit€V ani* &p&vt&mavt [January 27, 19C6 FITTING THE MAN TO THE GUN. The sporting works of the day, and many of the more particular sportsmen who read them, are elo- quent on the subject of the "fit of guns/' ; and there is vouchsafed a continual assurance that a gun should fit its user as his boots his g oves or Jus coat fit him." The gunmaker catering to the desire of the very particular sportsman aforesaid is as : anx- Isas hfsPpatron to emphasize the ^esirabihty if not the absolute necessity, of an excellent fit. Thus by constant reiteration it has come to be believed that a gun must fit its user or he can not shoot with it That in this belief there is a certain grain of truth cannot be gainsaid. But carry it to its logical conclusion and the idea is encouraged that if the gun does fit, its user must be able to use it to good effect. As a matter of fact, there is no "must about it and hence arises a vexatious misapprehension like- ly to cause disappointment and give a good gun a ^fTourse, one's gun should fit, but if the shooter is a fair shot and has no physical deformity or ab- normality, he does not depend for his accuracy upon an exact fit. If, on the other hand, he is a poor shot, the best fitting available will not, alone, transform him into a good one. Nothing can be more erroneous than the idea that it will, for the bad shot, if ever he is to become a good shot, must do what all good shots consciously or unconsciously do and adapt himself to the gun. If he is led to believe that gun-fitting will produce for him a weapon that will hold straight whichever way he points it, he will be grieviously disappointed. When the shooter gets a try-gun adjusted to suit him to the best advantage, the gun built to the model so produced will not handle like the try-gun, which in all probability is just as well, because the try-gun is only a gunmaker's fitting appliance, and not a sportsman's weapon. In a well stocked gunstore it is probable that any man, who is neither abnormally big nor small and is free from deformity, could pick out a gun from stock that would suit him very well. With a little alteration it might suit him better, but the weapon being at first well chosen he will prob- abily be able to adapt himself to the gun quite as well as the gunsmith could adapt the gun to him. As a matter of fact, a good shot can shoot well with almost any gun. Trap shots have won great events with guns of widely different weights and measurements. Many professional shooters do not bother very much about the exact fit of the gun, being usually more concerned to uphold the reputa- tion of the name it bears, and the majority of these guns are used just as they are received from the factory. An instance, in this respect, is cited in the case of Dr Carver. His shooting in this country was done with a Parker gun of the usual factory measurements. In England he bought a gun in the first gunshop he visited— again a factory made gun. In Germany he shot a gun made in Suhl, and in Spain he used a Belgian made gun; shooting up to his average with each change of guns. Returning to the United States he went back again to his former make — with a 2% inch drop, and alternated with the double-barreled 12-gauge, such widely differing weapons as a repeat- ing shotgun and a double 10 gauge hammerless with a straight stock. Dr. Carver's case, like his shooting, was doubtless exceptional, but there are always plenty of, excellent game and trap shots who do not depend upon the extreme shooting fit of their guns to produce results. Some of the finest shots, whose repute is international, are invariably fitted when buying new guns, but others who possibly shoot equally well, although their opportunities for the display of skill may be more limited, never use, and never have the chance to use, other than the guns made to factory dimensions. SINGLE TRIGGERS IN COLD WEATHER. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. In late season upland or blind shooting, when the fingers are benumbed with cold they became rather too stiff for the finest work in trigger-pulling, and to avoid this many shooters have recourse to shoot- ing gloves. It is here that the full benefit of the single trigger gun comes into play. The elimination of the second trigger gives more room to the gloved trigger-finger, and it also dispenses with the neces- sity of changing from one trigger to the other, as must be the case with double triggered guns. It be- comes, therefore, so much easier for the gloved finger to press the second time, without removal, on exactly the same spot, than to change triggers in the small space enclosed by the trigger-guard, that one can quite well understand the meaning of those sports- men who describe the single trigger mechanism as a shooting luxury. But it is more than a luxury, it is a great aid, in such circumstances, to good shooting with both bar- rels, particularly so with the left. The difficulty, with a gloved finger, of getting back to the second trigger, after the first has been pulled, is very great. That difficulty is only thoroughly realized after one has shot for a few days with a single-trigger gun. Many crack wing shots have followed the practice of pulling the left trigger first, in field or marsh, because, as it has been explained, it was found much easier to get forward to the right trigger — the jar of the discharge "jumping" the finger forward, for the second barrel, than to get back to pull the left trigger. It was also argued that the forward movement of the hand and trigger-finger for the second shot tended to set the gun tighter to the shoulder and consequently give in- creased control of it, whereas, the loosening of the grip in the backward movement to the left trigger, whether consciously or unconsciously, loosened the hold on the gun and also took up a fraction of valu- able time which could be better utilized in making certain the aim with the second shot. The abolition, however, of the double trigger, it is* claimed, now rids the shooter of all of these troubles entirely, in addition to giving much more room to the trigger-finger, gloved or ungloved. It is just as easy, of course, to shoot with the right barrel as with the left of a single-triggered gun, and the fact makes a great difference in the shooting of many, who can shoot more accurately with the left barrel than with the right — a very common thing with those who use double-triggers. The single-trigger brings up the shooting of both barrels to the same level exactly, and the luxury of its use is doubly appreciated by those who feel the cold while inactive in blind or boat or on the hillside and prefer to wear gloves when shooting during chilly weather. Empire Gun Club. In a recent communication Secretary J. B. Hauer gives the following most favorable report of a suc- cessful season and the intimation that this year is full of promise for the club's career during 1906. On account of the entire satisfaction given during the past year and for several years prior all the present officers of the Empire Gun Club have been re-elected. The same committees have again been appointed, which assures the same aggressive move- ment that the club has been noted for in the past and which has brought the club up to its present high standing. The officers are : President, James P. Sweeney; vice-president, Dr. George G. Gere; secre- tary-treasurer, J. B. Hauer; captain, A. J. Webb; lieutenant, W. O. Cullen; sergeant-at-arms, C. A. Bennett. The executive committee is composed of the following: Dr. Geo. G. Gore, J. B. Hauer, F. S. Judah, J. Peltier and Con Roman. The club's finances are in first-class shape. Much work has been planned for the coming season in the shape of more and larger ponds. The- new ponds put in last year have proven to be exceptionally good this winter and duck shooting so far has been away ahead of last year or any previous year in the history of the club. Quail shooting has also been very good and a large number of snipe have been bagged on the club's extensive preserves at Elkhorn, Monterey county. The new clubhouse, recently built, has proven to be a valuable addition and the club's quarters throughout are now up to date in every respect and are excelled by none In this State. An electric light plant to illuminate the building and the grounds about the clubhouse is being seriousiy considered, e the acquisition of a speedy launch Is being i of as an addition for the near future to run waters of Monterey bay during the summer when salmon fishing affords such great sport. . program for the club's trap-shooting section will . lie arranged. ■ o- Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Trap Shooting at Catalina. The Avalon Gun Club of Catalina Island, California, will hold several live bird shoots at Catalina Island during February and March. There will be team and individual matches. Two of the events will be of championship charcater. One of these will be for in- dividual honors and the other for team prizes. The cup for the individual championship will be do- nated by the Pilgrim Club of Catalina Island. Rules of the Interstate Association will govern all compe- titions. In addition to the championship events there will be several handicap shoots. Entries for all the events will close with L. B. Woods, president of the Avalon Gun Club, Catalina Island, California, on January 30th, 1906, The mem- bers of the tournament committee are L. B. Woods, Albert Rau, J. B. Colman and Max Blumenthal. New Gun Club. The Donahue Gun Club is the name of a new club recently organized. The club has erected a new cot- tage at Donahue and has the same comfortablly fur- nished. The members of the club are Joseph Rodgers, Frank and Joseph Joseph, and F. F. Santos. Excellent Scores Made by the Parker Gun. The following is a record of J. F. Hurt, Tazewell, Va., for 1905. Mr. Hurt is an amateur shooting the Parker gun, with which these scores were made: Total number of targets shot at, 7125; total number broken, 6621. Average for entire season over 92 per cent. In the five successive days' shoot at local grounds at Tazewell, Va., in August, Mr. Hurt made the following score: Saturday, August 26, shot at 100, broke 95; Monday, August 28, shot at 100, broke 97; Tuesday, August 29, shot at 100, broke 99; Wednes- day, August 30, shot at 100, broke 86; Thursday, August 31, shot at 100, broke 94; total shot at 500, broke 481. Average of over 96 per cent. At the shoot at Tazewell Fair, September 12, Mr. Hurt broke 94 out of 100, winning first prize and high gun. Second day at Tazewell Fair he broke 189 out of 200. winning high gun and first money and first prize in all ten events participated in during the day, in which contest over thirty shooters participated. At the 13th annual tournament of the Arizona Sportsmen's Association held at Phoenix, Ariz., De- cember 28-31, Mr. J. M. Aitken, shooting a Parker gun, was high man on the first day with a score of 170 out of 174. Mr. Aitken was also high man the second day and made a run of 94 straight. The entire program called for 550 targets, of which only 345 counted on general average. Mr. Aitken's average for the 345 was 93 1-3 per cent. He also won the Copper Queen Trophy,, a silver cup, with a straight 25, and the Gwynn Trophy with 29 out of 30, which was a tie with another, and on shooting it off in the next two events, made 39 to the other's 38 out of 40. Mr. Aitken is an amateur, and among others at this shoot were six professionals. Mr. Aitken's work is certainly very creditable, and ail of these scores speak well for the "Old Reliable" Parker gun. Duck Hunting Notes. The recent stormy weather has practically put an end to the sport of duck shooting for local sports- men. The birds for the time being have scattered to the interior puddles and overflowed sections miles away from the bay counties marsh shooting districts. Some varieties, the canvasbacks, bluebills and the few other deep water ducks are still with us. But the open water stretches afford the birds safe abiding places, where they pass the time leisurely resting in flocks, estimated in some districts, of thousands. There is of course a certain amount of sport to be had by experienced hunters, but generally speaking the game of duck hunting is over for the season for the local shooters. In various localities of the interior, the sportsmen now have an inning. To the south in various sections of the San Joaquin Valley, duck shooting has muchly improved. In the overflowed sections of the Sacra- mento and Tolo basins the birds may now be seen in countless flocks. Throughout the season it has been most notice- able that the northern birds have been in better con- dition than for years past. Home bred birds have hardly had a look in so far as table condition was concerned. Canvasback ducks particularly have been very much off in condition recently. In this respect Mr. AI. M. Cumming, a well known sportsman, is quoted: "The canvasback duck prefers the wide waters of San Pablo and San Francisco bays to the smaller bodies of water in the marshes. The canvasback would rather be in salt water, if he can, and the only thing that will drive him inland to fresh water is a storm. Usually we have two or three good blows from the southeast before this time of year, and when the ducks are driven inland shortly after their ar- rival from the north they remain in the same fine condition which characterizes them on their first ap- pearance here. "As long as the ducks stay in fresh water they keep their plump condition and their flesh is sweet and good to eat, but after they have been on the bay for three or four weeks, living on the food they find in the salt water, then they lose their fat and soon ac- quire the 'fishy' taste that makes them disagreeable to the palate, if it does not entirely unfit them for serving as food. The other breeds of duck are more easily driven from salt water, the canvasback being generally the last to go to fresh water and the first to come back when the weather gets fine again. This season there has been no storm violent enough to drive the canvasback from the bay, although the storm a week ago made all the other ducks take to the fresh, inland waters, and considerably thinned the flocks of canvasbacks on the bay. "To show you that what I say is right, I can men- tion the gadwell, commonly called the gray duck, which is very rarely found on salt water. These ducks are always fat and juicy, and I have shot them at the beginning of the season and also at the end of the season, and have invariably found that their condition was not changed a whit. From October to February the gadwell is always the same. The can- vasback and the other species would keep the condi- tion they bring from the north if they kept to fresh water, but, as I say, most of them prefer the salt water, especially the canvasback and the redhead, which is a very similar duck." The southerly storm last Sunday made shooting conditions better for hunters who were out on the lower sections of San Francisco bay. Hunters returning from the day's shoot about the lower bay reported that the water was alive with canvasbacks, bluebills and small birds. Sport was great, and every gunner came home with big bags of game, eager to again scull forth down the slough and float about the bay. Guns were popping from Alviso to Alameda, with no interruption of the volleys. De- coy shooting along the bay shore was pronounced fine and successful sport by many San Jose hunters. The weather was just right for a good outing, and that most of the local hunters took advantage of the day goes without saying. Gun Club Takes Protective Measures. The Farmers' Hunting and Fishing Club of Marys- ville held a meeting recently and arrangements were made for funds, etc., to defend any suits that might be brought to oust the club members from the pre- serves. The following compose the Board of Direct- ors: J. A. Littlejohn, Walter Eager, M. S. Peters, W. R. Carpenter and Charley Best. A. L. Holling's Gordon Setter bitch Flora B. (Dick- Vic) whelped on January 23rd six puppies (4 dogs) to A. Stuart's Doc (Sport-Trix). A Fitting Finale for a Year of Triumphs. The amateur trap shooting championship of Amer- ica for the year of 1905 was won with the time tried and reliable Winchester "Leader" shells. Mr. J. H. Hendrickson of the Queens County Gun Club, Long Island City, N. T., captured the Amateur Trap Shoot- ing Championship of America at the New York Ath- letic Club grounds on December 14th, breaking 94 out of 100 targets. Mr., John W. Garrett of Colorado Springs was second with a score of 93. Messrs. Hendrickson and Garrett both shot Winchester "Leader" shells, thereby displaying great wisdom as well as great skill. If you would shoot to win, you must shoot the shells the winners shoot, and they are the Winchester make of shells. Their invariable uni- formity and reliability, which make them the choice of the greater majority of intelligent shooters, are not equalled by any other brand of shot gun shells. Strike — if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for it. January 27 1906. ®tte $$vzei*ev axix* gtpovi&man 11 GLANDERS AND FARCY. The veterinary editor of the Breed- ers' Gazette of Chicago has written for that journal the following1 very com- plete article in regard to these dis- eases. When we speak of glanders it should be clearly understood that there is another form of this dread disease — farcy — affecting the skin and lym- phatics and always accompanied by in- ternal lesions indicative of glanders. Glanders proper affects internal or- gans— lungs, air passages, nostrils. Both forms are due to the same germ (Bacillus mallei), both are contagious to horses, mules and asses and com- municable and fatal to man by inoc- ulation of a cut or scratch. Both forms may either be acute or chronic, are more or less virulent in either form and recognized as incurable when thor- oughly established. The disease is spread by the dis- charges of the affected animal. The germs do not float about in the air of stables, but are found in the discharge which is sneezed onto woodwork, walls, partitions, mangers, harness, neck- yokes, water troughs, feeding troughs or hitching posts. Susceptible horses coming in contact with such sources of infection are liable to become infected, develop the acute form of the disease and in turn spread the contagion to other horses. In a typical case of chronic glanders the horse may be little if any reduced in flesh or apparently unaffected in health. A thin, sticky, whitish or yel- lowish discharge comes from his nose, adheres about the orifice of the nostrils and is blown out upon such articles as have already been mentioned. Be- tween the jaw, feeling from below, will be found grape-like clusters of little hard tumors which adhere to the bone and are not as a rule sensitive nor do they form abecesses and dis- charge pus. Letting the sunlight s'ream into the horse's nostrils, the lining membrane of the cavities and of the partition between the nostrils (septum nasi) will be seen of a dull, bluish cast and covered with ulcers, giving the parts a mouse-bitten ap- pearance. In addition to ulcers (chancres), having ragged, inflamed edges _and depressed centers, healed ulcers will be seen in the form of scars. Generally one finds in addition to these visible lesions small tumors under the skin (enlarged lymphatics) in the arm pit and in the groin. In many in- stances the patient is emaciated, woe- begone, fevered, coughs, is lame in a hind leg or has a permanently en- larged hind leg, and harsh, staring coat. The latter symptoms are more likely to be seen In acute glanders, whieh-comes on suddenly, is character- ized by painful swelling and lameness of a hind leg, fever, possibly cough, discharge from the nostrils and finally by the appearance of ulcers as men- tioned. In farcy ulcers are not seen in the nostrils; cough may be present but no discharge; hind legs are swollen and covered with small "buttons" or "buds," which rupture and discharge yellowish, sticky matter like raw lin- seed oil, but sometimes streaked or dis- colored with blood. These character- Warranted to Give Satisfaction, Gombautit's Caustic Balsam i Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lamenesB from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. 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Also suspect this disease when a horse is thriftless, emaciated and shows a tendency to form boils or small abscesses on sides of neck, about hip, about face or elsewhere on body. Suspect glanders when horse has fre- quent attacks of nose-bleed, fails to thrive although fed nutritious food, has chronic discharge from one or both nostrils which does not flow from the nostrils but sticks about orifice, shows sores, scars, ulcers or little bunches on lining of nostrils and partition un- der jaws, chronic cough and tendency to periodic swelling of the hind legs. Bleeding from the nostrils, sudden swelling of the hind legs, and swelling of the testicles are often seen in ad- vance of a sudden acute attack of glanders. In differentiating between the dis- charge of glanders and that of in- fluenza, distemper, strangles or chronic catarrh, remember that in these troubles ulcers are absent from the lining membranes of the nostrils and small tumors are not found under the jaws which location may, however, show large swellings distended with pus (abscesses of strangles.) Dis- charge from one nostril or both nos- trils characterized by an offensive odor usually indicates the presence of a diseased molar tooth in upper jaw anu is often accompanied by bulging of the bones of the face under the eye. Where distortion of the bones of the nose is observed in connection with odorless discharge, glanders is to be suspected and other symptoms should be looked for. It is not always trute that glanders discharge sinks' in water while that of other diseases floats. As it is possible to decide by the hypodermic injection of tuberculin whether a cow has tuberculosis or not, in the same way one readily can de- cide whether a horse has glanders or farcy by using mallein, which is a sterilized extract from a culture of glanders bacilli and to be obtained from the Bureau of Animal Industry, Washington, D. C, State Agricultural Experiment stations or any firm handl- ing veterinary supplies. It is best used by a qualified veterinarian, who at the same time will be able to conduct necessary quarantine and disinfection operations, The mode of using mallein follows. Temperature of horse is taken at rec- tum, by means of a clinical thermom- eter, three or four times in one day. By this means the average or normal temperature of the horse is discovered prior to injection of mallein. Mallein is injected under the skin of neck of horse late on the night of the day when the preliminary temperatures were taken. Early next morning the temperature is taken and this is re- peated every two hours until after- noon. A marked rise in temperature over normal, accompanied by a flat, painful swelling at point where needle of syringe was inserted in skin, and which continues for several days, may be considered surely indicative of the presence of glanders or farcy. According to the law of a number of States all reacting horses have to be destroyed provided there are other ap- parent symptoms of the disease. Some States pay a partial reimbursement to the owner of the horse destroyed. All necessitate thorough disinfection of the premises occupied by the diseased ani- mal, a quarantine and frequent exam- ination of horses that have been ex- posed. Instances are on record where horses showing no visible symptoms of glanders or farcy have reacted to the mallein test, been quarantined and after repeated testing with mallein have failed to react and been pro- nounced cured. No cases are on rec- ord, so far as the writer is aware, where horses showing typical lesion-* of glanders or farcy have been cured by the use of mallein. Under the circumstances we would urgently dissuade owners of horses from experimenting with mallein as an alleged cure for glanders. The dis- ease cannot safely be handled on a farm or ranch. The owner endangers his own life and surely exposes all of his horses to the contagion. He shouh at least destroy every horse showinj plain lesions of glanders and then havi the exposed horses examined every twt weeks by a qualified veterinarian 01 deputy veterinarian. The latter may ' if they see fit, make necessary tests with mallein, and by this means and thorough disinfection of the premises will soon stamp out the disease at a minimum loss1 to the owner and for the protection of the horses of the neigh- borhood. It is doubtless a fact that annually hundreds of horses are destroyed as glandered or affected with farcy, yet are free from those diseases. Glanders is properly feared and through ignor- ance of its characteristic lesions horses afflicted with chronic catarrh, lym- phangitis, skin disease or diseased molar teeth are sacrificed. Evidently the condemning of horses should be left to the qualified veterinarian and he also should be consulted in seeking to stay the spread of the disease in a center where it has appeared. SEC. WILSON ON SHEEP SCAB. In his annual report Secretary Wil- son has the following on sheep scab:- "Sheep scab has been one of • the greatest obstacles to successful sheep raising and the department has ex- perienced a great deal of difficulty in fighting it. Even after the order of June 18, 1897, was issued diseased sheep continued to arrive in large numbers at the principal markets. In 1898 a bulletin, entitled 'Sheep Scab; Its Nature and Treatment,' was issued giving full information upon this sub- ject and specifying the treatment by which the disease might be eradicated. This bulletin had remarkable influ- ence in educating sheep raisers in checking the disease and in informing the public as to a possibility of curing infected animals. In July, 1899, an important order was issued describing the manner in which affected sheep should be dipped, instead of leaving this to the discretion of the owners and commission merchants. This or- der approved of the tobacco and sul- phur and the lime and sulphur dips; formulas were given for their prepara- tion, and the animals had to be dipped in one or the other before they were allowed shipment in interstate com- merce. 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WILLIAM HAROLD 2:131 FOR SALE rpHE MEEK ESTATE HAVING BEEN PAR- x titloned, and the breeding of horses discon- tinued, the stallion WILLIAM HAROLD 2:13M Is offered for sale or lease to a responsible party. William Harold Is by Sidney 2:19?^, and his dam is Cricket 2:10 by Stelnway. Cricket is one of the great producing mares of California, being already the dam of five in the list and has three more foals that will be glvenrecorda. William Harold has had the most limited opportunities *n the stud, yet is the sire of Janice 2:08Ji trotting, Dan Hums 2:15 and Judith 2:25 and several others in the list He is in excellent condition, and as his get are all large, well made and nicely turned horses he should be a good money earner in the stud if in good hands. Apply to or address H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. Sponges— S. Adderley, 307 Market St. A GOOD MARE FOR SALE. By CLIPPER 3:06, dam by ANTEEO JR. 7 YEARS OLD, TROTS OR PACES; HAND- ' some, sound and a high-class animal in every respect An Al roadster and will make a race horse or a valuable brood mare. Reason for sell- ing is that I have no time todevotb to handling ter. Call or address Phone: GEO. C. PETERMAN, Oakland 6501. 779 Twelfth St., Oakland, Cal. Norman Stallion For Sale. T )ARK IRON GRAY NORMAN STALLION; -*- weighs about 1600; 16 hands high; 4 years old. Is blockily built and a sure foal getter. ColtB can be seen at San Jose. For further particulars address W. H. WILLIAMS, 1120 Alameda Ave., San Jose, Cal. MoKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05 Great Race Horse and Producing Sire, SIRE OF Ambush(3) 2:I4| Delilah (3) 2:I4| Bystander 2:14f Sherlock Holmes 2:15| Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 Has 10 Throe-Tear-Olds that worked trials In 1905 as follows: LILIAN ZOLOCK 3:14, KINNEY WOOD 3:15, CLEOPATRA 3:15, RED LOOK 3:18, ZOLLIE 3:18, INACGCJRETTA 3:33, HYLOCK 3:35,MAJELLA 3:35, ADA- LANTE 3:36, BOLOCK 3:37. and 3 Two-Year-Olds a» follows: WENZA 3:34, BONNIE JUNE 3:37, ISALCO 3:30, and 12 others now In training that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. ZOLOCK'S Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (by Gossiper 2:14?4), damof ZOLOCK 2:05^, Zephyr 2:07M; second dam the great broodmare GIpsey (by Gen. Booth 2:30H). dam of Gazelle 2:I1K, Delilah (3) 2:1-1!.;, Ed Wlnshlp 2'15, Wi lets (mat.) 2:17, utile S 2:27, and grandam of Col. Green (trial) 2:10'S. third dam Eobo Belle (grandam of Conn 2:I5H) by Echo 463; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, la a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. All his oolts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at SAN JOSE, CAL. Terras for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes Season starts February 1st and ends Jane 1st. Mares will be cared for In any manner desired, but Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion ISALCO by ZOLOCK 8:05!i; dam GIPSKY. dam of Gazelle 2:11H. Delilah 2:14^ and three more in the list. Isalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14V*. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track. San Jose. Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IRAN ALTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produced a oolt that was a world's record breaker, and his grarjdsire has sired several trotters that broke world's records No other horse with a record as fast as IRAN ALTO'S can claim this. At nine years he had sired ten colts, four of them with records as follows: D 2:13(4- TbomiB R. 2:15. Veadome2:17, Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25— all at four yearsold. Who ce a horse whose first ten oolts oan beat that? Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, OAL FEE $40 For further particulars addres- $20 due when mare Is bred and H. 8. BOGOi: $20 payable when mare Is known to be in foal. Wooo ; 12 ®tte gvze&sv cmo ^portswttm I January 27 i»i 6 (Trial quarters 33 sec); brown mare; 15.2; foaled 1900; ver> handsome and stylish, with fine action 2 and should trot in 2:15 next season. Winner of the blue ribbon and championship at Montana State SPEED, GAIT, QUALITY AND BREEDING ALAMA 2:27 Fair in 1901, and four blus ribbins, champion and grand champion prizes at the Lewis and Clark Live Stock Show. Sire, Alfonso 2:29|, dam a performer and producer; second and third dams great brood mares. p. (trial quarters 32 sec); bay gelding; 15.3; foaled 1900; a clean, easy pacer; trots up to a forty clip; equal to the best; a premium winner at the Lewis and Clark Live Stock Show. Sire, Alcone 2:31J, 6780, sire of 20 in the list, soa of Alcyone 2:27, the greatest Wilkes sire. Dam, Mistral, dam of two others with records better than 2:20. TiiryD 17 A (Trial quarters 37 sec); brown gelding; 15.2; foaled 1901; very stylish, extra action, will be very fast; winner of a IVA. JL f&)£-k £X biUe ribbon at the Lewis and Clark Live Stock Show. Sire, Alfonso 2:29|, 9700, sire of 23 in the list, son of Baron Wilkes 2:18, the great sire of race winners. Dam, Mistral, above, dam of 3 in list. These horses belong to O. X. LABBABEE, Brook-Nook Stock Ranch, Home Park, Madison Co., Montana. MANDOLIN 2:25 MONTANA PRODUCES THE BEST HORSES IN THE WORLD, everything considered, jogged and kept in condition for a year and are in fine shape to train, and can be seen at The above horses have been THE PALACE LIVERY CO., 51-53 Dayton St., PASADENA, CAL. BUILDING THE DAIRY HERD. A recent bulletin from the Ithaca College of Agriculture is about the dairy herd, with these among the in- troductory words: "We may call the milk the main product and the calves, beef and ma- 1 ure the by-products of the dairy cow. It has been asserted that the milk pro- duct is the only thing that should be taken into consideration in estimating the value of a dairy cow, and that the calves and beef should be entirely ig- nored by a successful dairyman; but in these days of strong competition it is not possible to ignore the by-pro- ducts, and in any scheme of success- ful dairying the calves and beef must at least be taken into consideration. This does not mean that in any case milk-producing qualities are to be sacrificed for the sake of the by-pro- ducts. It simply means that of two animals of equal value for the produc- tion of milk, the one that will give the rreater return in production of calves and value of carcass is more profit- able." The bulletin truthfully says that 'there is no best breed of dairy cows." One of the first questions in the for- mation of a dairy herd is the choice of a breed and whether the herd shall be made up of pure bred or grade animals. A pure bred animal is commonly re- garded as one recorded in the herd books of the respective breeds. A grade animal is a pure bred sire upon a common or grade dam and there are crosses with less and less of the pure bred blood. The offspring of pure bred animals are more valuable then the offspring of grades. But by the grading-up pro- cess continually selecting the cows that are the best producers, it is not difficult to establish a herd of grade cows that will equal in the production of milk any herd of pure bred animals, although the by-products will not be so valuable. A dairy herd may be maintained in two ways: First, by continued pur- chase of mature animals to replace those whose period of usefulness has passed. There are many conditions under which this may be a wise prac- tice. If it is desirable to have the whole herd composed of cows in their full productive capacity: if there is abundanl opportunity for selection and purchase near at hand: if there Is a 1 ionably good market for cows that are undesirable, and if one has reason- able skill in selecting and good ability in bargaining, a herd of high produc- tive capacity may be more easily am; more cheaply maintained in this way than by attempting to rai?e young animals to replace those that are worn out, The other method of maintaining the is by raising calves to supply the place of old cows that are no longer profitable Such a herd will always contain a considerable number of young animals that have nol yc t iment and there- tori such a herd will seldom equal in average production per animal a hern that is maintained wholly by pur- 1 ha ■. At itic sai i-:- 1 a greater a' uniformity of type may be "1 where the animals m nd tbundanl and cheap nl' raising a calf, up to the I she 1 Mm'-' a i nil jei eloped bi less than that nf purchas- ing a similar animal outright. Through force of circumstances by far the greater number of dairymen must rely on raising the calves neces- sary to maintain the herd. This being the case the ordinary dairyman will need to provide himself with .the ser- vice of a bull suitable to produce use- ful dairy cows. In most cases he will need to own this bull, so that the ques. tion of the selection and care of the breeding bull has an important bear- ing upon the maintenance of the dairj herd. Such a bull should be purely bred. The progeny that a bull has already produced is by far the best index of his usefulness; and he should not be very old. He should have character- istics that indicate vigor of constitu- tion and vital activities, such as a loose, mellow hide, a bold, bright eye, an active gait and disposition. In all cases where it is possible it Is beter that the bull should run with the herd, lest his temper and breeding powers become impaired from lack of exercise. When this is not feasible his powers and temper may be safe- guarded by giving him exercise on a tread-power or hitching him by a long rope or chain to a wire between two upright posts. Occasionally he may be utilized upon a tread-power for cut- ting feed, pumping water, .etc., and even be broken to work to harness or in a cart. In order to determine which are the good cows for breeding a record of the production of each cow must be kept; this is much surer than any outward signs; also the milk should he tested to ascertain the comparative amounts of fat. To obtain a complete record of a cow it is necessary that the milk be weighed and the fat determined at regular intervals. The regular use of scales and the Babcock test is an in- dispensable part of the labor of a pro- gressive dairyman. But there are certain characteristics of form which more or less indicate the capacity of a dairy cow. She should be wedged-shaped, that is, the skeleton of the hinder portion of the body should be distinctly more largely- developed than those of the forward portions. She should stand from half an inch to an inch and a half higher at the hips than at the shoulders. The width, as viewed from the front, should be distinctly wider behind than before, and the depth of the body as viewed from the side should be distinctly greater behind than before. She should also have vigorous powers of respiration and circulation. The for- mer are indicated by a large, deep, full chest, and by large, clean, open- air passages, and the latter by prom- inent exterior blood vessels, and pink complexion of the thinner portion of the skin and visible mucous mem- 1, vanes. She should also have large digestive organs. She should have a large udder, which is sometimes so close to the abdomen and hidden by the legs that it is larger than It ap- 1 1 us. But it should not be fleshy, a condition indicated by its appearing to be about the same size when empty as when full of milk. sur¥y1orse wanted. A HIGH-CLASS HORSR SUITABLE FOR -**- surrey. Must be over 16 hands high, stylish, thoroughly broken for city driving, have good action and a good disposition. Give particulars wb^re horse oan be seen, price, etc. Address . W , care of Breeder and Sportsman, :i6 Geary treet, San Franolsco. TOOMEY TWO-WHEELERS Give Best Results For Racing and Training Purposes. 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I have tested it thor- oughly at different times, and say without hesitancy thp.t it is the only reliable reme- — I dy of the kind I have ever tried.'' Price 31.00 per bottle. Sold by all druggists orvfc W. B. Eddy & Go., Whitehall. H.Y. FAIRBANKS, MORSE &CO. STANDARD SCALES, RAILWAY SUPPLIES. GASOLINE ENGINES, STEAM PUMPS, ETC. Have Removed from 3IO Market Street To 168-174 First Street CORNER NATOMA, BETWEEN MISSION AND HOWARD STS., SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. QRIPPE EPIZOOTIC COUGHS, Elc. Not a ease of these ailments In horses, sheep or dogs that any one oannot promptly cure with Dr CRAFT'S DISTEMPER & COUGH CURE. If your druggist oan't supply it, order direct— 50c and $1— moDey back if it falls. Send a postal today for our valuable booklet, "Veterinary Pointers." It is free. WELLS MEDICINE GO. , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind D K NEWELL,, General Agent for Pacific Coast, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal STALLION TO LEASE To some competent horsemen that oan furnish himself and take In charge EDWARD B. by STAM B. dam by Dexter Prince, to take the route between Rio Vista and Courtiand arid vicinity of D S. Mathews' home ranch on Grand Island. The horse is in good condition and ready for work IT the route Isn't satisfactory another can be chosen. For further particulars write to D. S. MATTHEWS, Ryde, Cal. FOB SALE. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD COLT, 1-1.2 hands high: lV weighs 900 pounds; bright sorrel in color; perfectly sound and can run a quarter of a mile in 23 seoonds or better. He is one of the most beautiful and best bred sprinters in the State. Suitable for a polo pony. Will sell at a reason- able price. Address SOL SHOCKLEY, Merced, CaV ) At the TongueMndl JOCK GET JUST ENOUGH AT THE RIGHT TIME. C0MPRE55ED PURE-SALT BRICK5. AND PATENT FEEDER! No waste.no neglect.all convenience. Your dealer has it. Write as for the booh. BELMONT STABLE SUPPLY CO. PATENTEES ■ MANUFACTURERS Brooklyn. IM.Y. January 27, 1906J j£he xgveebev crnii *frp0vt&mavi 18 AROUND THE DAIRY. To go from the fresh air into the milk room is a good way to detect ob- jectionable odors. The cultivated nose is invaluable for such purposes. There are times when one strain of cows are more popular than others. With the Jerseys, the Flying Foxes, the Golden Lads, the Comassies ana the St. Lamberts have each had their day All were good, and there are oth- ers just as good, and better, to follow. Too much liberty is believed by some to make poor milkers. This is certainly the case where there is not plenty of feed. Cows with too much liberty are not good milkers. When confined in close quarters and well fed they often do their best. It still continues to be a wonder that men bestow more time and feed upon their horses than they do upon their cows. They curry and feed the horse for appearance. If the cow was treat- ed with the same care, not only would her appearance be improved, but she would give more milk. Cows seem to be naturally mischief- makers. They are inquisitive, prowl- ing around, seeking what they can find. This leads them over the fences, and through the fence into the neigh- bor's fields. This is one of the strong- est arguments for good fences and plenty of feed in her pasture Many things interefere with the making of good butter. Buter should be churned at a temperature from 40 to 70 degrees according to the season and the nature of the food. There is more danger of churning at too high a temperature than at too low. The butter is often soft and" the reason is that it is too warm. It is a wrong calculation that ex- pects the butter to be better than the conditions which produce them. No crop is better than the seed, no cow is better than the feed, and no butter is better than the milk and the manage- ment. He miscalculates who expects it to be so. When churning, if the cream foams it is too cold, and should be set into hot water until it is warmer. If the butter comes at all it will be crumbly. When the churn is set into the water it should be as high on the outside as the cream is on the inside. The water should not be poured into the churn, whether it be warm or cold, until aftei the churning is finished. When the butter begins to come a little cold water should be thrown into the churn. It will hasten the coming, and assist in its gathering. The milk may be poured through a strainer, then pour in water and wash the but- ter. To prepare the churn properly, it should be rinsed first with cold water, then with hot water, then cooled off with cold water. When the butter la to be first class there can be no hap- hazzard methods; the cream should be weighed, so that the proper amount of salt and coloring matter can be put in without guess work — Texas Far- Deposit Your Idle Funds WITH THE Central TrustCompany of California 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. Toghill Stud You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sum large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-4% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Send for Booklet, "THE SUKE WAT TO WEALTH." Sale. The Perfectly Gaited Trotting Stallion ALTA VELA 2:11 14 (Reg. No. 22449) Sire, ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 In 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar 1:593k . Dam, LOKITA 2:18yi (dam of Alta Vela 2: II M and Palorl2:24M) by Piedmont 2:1?^; second c"am Lady Lowell (dam of Ladywell 2:16^ and Lorlta 2:1814) by St. Clair; third dam, Laura, dam of Doe, sire of Occident 2:i6?i. AddresB all communications to BREEDER AND SPORrSMAN,36 Geary St., San Francisco. FOR SALE OR LEASE. Two Prince Airlie Stallions. FOBTOLA 37413, a handsome golden bay. 7 years old, 16 hands, weighs 1190 lbs. MENLO BOY 37401, a magnificent brown with white points, Bjearsold, 16.1 hands, weighs 1200 lbb. These t»vo horses are full brothers, being sired by Prince Airlie 28015; he by Guy Wilkes 2:15^, aire of Fred Khol 2:07&, Hulda 2:0B<4. Seymour Wilkes 2:08!4: first dam Signal by Del Sur 2:24; second dam Lady Signal 2;3b% by Signal 3327. Both of these horses are very fast for the amount of worn, beingonly a few months last year, show- ing quarters around :34 and :35. For further Information apply to P. H. McEVOY, MenloPark, Cal. JACK FOR SALE. A BLACK JACK WITH LIGHT POINTS •"- large, heavy boned, prompt and a goon han; dler. Is a good foal getter and his foals are. excellent individuals. Price very reasonable for prompt sale. Address for further particulars, S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa. McMURRAY JOG CART Especially Adapted for Jogging, Training | /and Matinee Driving. Price Low. McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS Standard the World Over -83-Address for printed matter and prices W. J. Eenney 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Ca ;es A a,. J A BAD HITTER. His Bunches and Bruises can be re- moved quickly without stopping work with Absorbine This remedy cures Lameness, kills Paii^lU-inuvL-s any Soft Bunch with- out blistering or removing the hair, 6==^?^ and pleasant to use. $2.00 per ~=^ bottle, delivered, or at dealer's ABSORBINE, JR., for mankind, gl.00 Bottle! Allays intiamniation rapidly. Cures strains. W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 54 Monmouth Street. Springfield, Mass. For sale by Mack&Co • Langiey & Michaels Co. e^dlngton &Co., J. O'Kane and J. A. MoKerron, all of San Franolsco TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON ST8. (1408 Fulton Sireet) Horses Called For, Clipped aod Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR LUKE. I have opened a new Boarding and Training Stable near the above corner, and will board and train for racing, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates. Have good location, brand-newstable and everything first-class All horses in my care will receive the best of attention. Phone: Park 573. T. C. CABNEY. 672-680 11th Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE ZLBBELL & SON, Proprietors. Sab Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Bundling all kinds Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand. Ta'JJ any car going to the Chutes. Tel.: West 259 I^CE3TXrH.O (Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements raa.y be booked for higTi-cl&ss, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager, Menlo Park, Cal. More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. Wi List W 1 1 IBM iMmM^f .1 or and 106 m I Hnfil ! Em? MM I M *» ,n 2:30 llst and si™ Sidney %l I MM 9 [K WU»m 1 Dillon, sire LOU DILLON ■ Jal Li Imlllll W I 1 ZL .1:SM = '.U'orkrs Champion); Sire or ENOCH 2:12^, GENERAL 2:14J^. TEDDY THE HOAS 2:17"4, LITTLE MISS 2:17k. MARCHIONESS 2:29. LILLIAN MDMORK 3:24ys and TIP OQCANDO (trial) 2:09%. SID ABBOTT (trial) 2:18, JAKE F. (trial half mile) 1:05. dam Mamie Harney by Tne Grand Moor; nest dam Sarpy Mare by Echo 162. SIDMOOR 2:175£ is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual in every respect. He is one of the best produoing sods of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Add"S9 „„„ „-_„.,, Usual Return Privileges. JUHN UI I, PaClieCO, Cal. R. AMBUSH Rec.(3)214 SEASON 1906. FEE $30. 1 At ASSOCIATION PARK, 2 miles east 4 of San Bernardino. Address g. W. BONNELL, Redlands. ^| IV^I ^^ Registered Trade Mark % ^^ Jlk, ^^ SPAVIN CURE < Tuscola, Ills., Nov. 15, 1905. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Binghamton, N. Y. 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MENDOCINO 22607|McMuERAY RECORD (THREE-YEAR-OLD) 2:19^ (3 y.o.) 2:1 (a) 2:09«, Leonora Sire of Monte Carlo 2:07tf (to wagon 2:08H); Idolita (8y. o.) 2:21^, 2:12H, Polka Dot 2:14^, etc Bay Stallion, 15.3*4 bands; weight 1190 pounds; hind feet and ankles white; foaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 125. son of Hambletonlan 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO {3)2:191-4, Eteotant 2:19^ Morocco (3 y.o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904,2:17^; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie W. (3) 2:17^, Hyperion 2:21^, Memento 2:251-4, Mithra (p) 2:14^) by Hamble- tonlan Jr. 1882; third dam, Gilda (thoroughbred) by imp. Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Electioneers youngest and best sons With very limited opportunities in the stud he has proven his worth by producing such racehorses as Monte Carlo and Idolita. Three new additions to his 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performers. His foals are good size, fine lookers, bold and pure gaited and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, $75; nsaal return privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 10.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11. 1900. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, MoKINNEY 8818 (record 2:11H)- First dam, HELENA 2:llhi (damof Wildnutling 2:11^; Dobbel2;22, Hyita (trial 2:12) by Electioneer 125; seoond dam, Lady Ellen 2:29% (dam of six iu list, looluding Helena 2:11^, Ellen Wood 2:14^) by Mambrino 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont (Williamson's). McKENA has proven a remarkably sure f jal getter. He should make a great sire as he is a floe individual and bred right. His sire, McKlnney, a game and fast racehorse and sire of game and fast racehorses. His dam, Helena, one of the fastest and gamest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters the world has yet known. His second dam, Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as well as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. I SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, 840; nsaal return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Ma>ei may run on pasture at 85 per month. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for Injury or escapes. Address all communications to , PALO ALTO STOCK FARM, Stanford University* Santa Clara Co , Cal. , and LOW PRICES, McMURRAY SULKIES and J0QQINQ CARTS STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. -^-Address for printed matter and prices W. J. KENNEY 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. RACING! lew California Jockey Clio OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AX 2 P. M. SHARP For Special Trains stopping at the Traok take S. P. Perry, foot of Market Street— leave at 12, thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY w. TREAT, Secretary. PHENOL SODIQUE liealB SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast. "THE >^SSX FRANCE 1551 PHENOL SOBIOJI 2£^na antiseptic aud oisi|^w| DISEASES Of I Keep Handy for Accidents. Cures MANGE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. For Sale By All Druggists. Recomm naedbytbis publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. Mc Kinney, 2'AV/4 World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 rare goers as one of the gamest of trotters. These horses will stand at San Lorenzo and at Alameda. Mr. Williams having leased the Sherman street stables in the latter town, where he has fourteen nice box stalls and will take a few horses to train. — I— 0 N. I. McKaughan of Anaheim h;i Angeles, where he will turn his atti and training harness horses. ®he £k^i>£r ani* J&pwtemtm [February 3, 1906 FROM STAM B'S HOME. Rocklin, Cal., January 29, 1906. Dear Editor: I have been living here since last July and nmong the many things I miss are the visits tc the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. nnot call on you here goes for a visit on paper. Last year was one of the lean kind to the Cali- fornia horsemen, but there were many experiences Idents I shall not forget. Let me name a few: The drive Rev. "Williams and I had behind Sadie Moore which you got wind of and wrote up. In 1902 Landon Hunt of Eureka showed me a healthy chunk of horsellesh he was breaking, which proved to be our famous Bolivar 2 : 06^4 . Ben Davis invited myself and family out to the old San Bernardino track to see his colt Zolock move in 1S9S and as he came down the stretch my wit'? An engine!" I expected much from him but did not expect him to serve 75 mares and take a mark of 2:05^ the same year. Had he been kept out of the stud and been tested upon a fast track my impression is his mark would have been a few seconds lower. I shall always remember with pleasure the trips from Oakland to Pleasanton on workout days when Judge Green, whose face was a benediction, would give me descriptions of sires and dam and contests as we returned after a feast of fat things, before the famous ones went East. It makes us all sad to think that we shall meet that princely gentleman here no more. A special visit to San Jose to see Lou Dillon gave me great satisfaction, because of the courtesy of that bishop of horsemen, Mr. Budd Doble, who was more patient than a country pastor while he exercised that beautiful, powerful volume of sensativeness bound in nerves. Imagine my feelings when he said, "Stay a little while, Mr. Speers, and I'll step her up a little." He did. That was my only chance. You won't expect me to forget July 21st. That day I took my filly for a five mile drive to protect her box stall. "When within 100 feet of the ham a boy shot her with an air gun. It appeared to me that sixteen hind feet were trying to get on the cart seat at the same time. I am fat and not as active as I was in 1875 but I dismounted rapidly after the manner a young man enters a plunge tank — my pants were on top: there seemed a smell of sulphur, and by the time I rolled off myself the filly was out of sight. I concluded she was a greater success than I in the breaking business. This act lasted about 15 seconds. The footlights were turned on at 5:05 P. M.; at 6:30 I had a surgeon set my broken arm; at 7 I led the filly to Dr. Archibald's Hospital, where she re- mained 46 days. (His services were high class and his charges very moderate.) Next day I sold the pieces of my cart. The entire affair was a great surprise to me but I suppose she is not the first standard bred filly that has broken the owner. There is a good half mile track here and a great many choice young horses. Tuttle Bros, and Mr. Delano deserve great credit for the interest they have aroused in the fancy harness horse. If every town this size (2,000) in the State were as much alive to this pleasure as Rocklin there would be less unnecessary alai*m among horse- ment who falsely believe that the destiny of the harness horse depends on pool selling. | When Stam B. cause to this town April, 1895 (I am ' told) there was only one horse within ten miles of the town that could trot a three-minute gait. There are to-day perhaps twenty horses within the town limits that can show from- three minutes to a 2:30 gait. Today about one hundred people visited the track while seven different horses entertained the crowd for about two hours. I have not seen more promising colts anywhere than are owned here, except, of course, at some of the horse centers, such as Pleasanton or San Jose. This week Tuttle Bros, will send a string of beau- ties to Pleasanton to Dr. Boucher, namely: Bay pacer Hattie T. by Stam B. 2.11*4, dam Klickitat Maid 2:18 by Altamont; bay filly Ramona by Stam B., dam by Albert W.; bay filly by Stam B., dam by Silver Bow 2:16, owned by A. J. De Ryder; bay filly by Mendocino, dam by Electioneer; brown filly by Men- docino, dam by Geo. Wilkes; black filly (3) by Mc- Kinney. dam by Palo Alto 2:08%. second dam by Arion 2:07%; bay yearling colt by Bert Logan 2:16*4, dam by Altamont. I'll name some nice prospects owned here which lots ot -peed: A Eour'-year-old pacer by Falrose, owned by Mr. rty; a four-year-old pacer by Suomi out of Kllckltal Maid, owned by Jas. Petch, thai is a very chol "H; 0 handsome four-year-old by Stam B. owned by Mi Hebuck; a H-ven-year-old by Stam B. .owneH hich trotted this track this year 1 in ill, a three-year-old by William ui of a mare by Direct 2:05V.., that I 1] eedy looking and n Cour-year-old stallion by Stam i i<-. .i 'r. Whitney; a bay Stam B. flve-year-old that weighs 1100 pounds and can road ;> i vned bj E i Ineer Noble; i.- Prince, owned by J. M.' 1 ' ■ ■ ■ ■ in form, ] rs and gait. Mr.' 1 1 M,... .mi coi hei ■ i 'Mm.- hei e, J. Pfosl drlvei i i' ■ horse that is flA e Id thai '■" il ' I tilt brei ding; fie Is bj Stam B. out o I m ■'■ ! .'■ iii. i I tenti n ha -old ■■ tan i - that is i i , . , ... i hri e-yea r- fi il--. prom- pt that Is most talked of in Rocklin today, ■ ■"I. | Stam B . dam a b1 rong 2 mare from Oregon, whose breeding is mi- nds colt is called Doc Frazler. He is owned by Mr. Frazier, a rancher near here, and has sur- prised all the horsemen, even his owner. You are very likely to receive a report from him again, as Mr. Frazier is receiving propositions from different W. J. , SPEERS. A STALLION WITH CLASS. FROM NORTHERN SOLANO. Dixon, January 2S, 1906. The casual observer, be he a lover of good horse- flesh, will readily appreciate the fact that Dixon and its vicinity is becoming more and more important as a factor in producing good horses. Not only is this true in regard to drivers, but equally so as affecting draft stock. During the last year renewed interest has taken hold of the horse lovers of this section and the farmers as well as the light harness men have begun to realize that draft horses are a factor of Solano county farms. Last year imported Percheron stallions were bought in Vallejo, Suisun, Rio Vista and Dixon, and an imported Belgian draft stallion is also owned in Suisun Valley. Since then Dixon has added a fine coach stallion at a value upward of $3,000 and with this infusion of new blood Dixon and vicinity may easily hold its rank as one of the foremost horse breeding sections of the State. Horses, thoroughbred and standard bred, have been raised in Solano county, since Theo. Winters estab- lished his famous stud on Putah Creek. Today there are several noted breeding farms here. The Hoy breeding and training farm in this county opposite Winter's has Bayswater Wilkes at the head of the stud. The Suisun Stock Farm in the Potrero Hills has for its premier stallion Demonio 2:liyit a full brother to Diablo 2:09%. At the Dixon track Mr. Lou Mativia has the good horse Alton by Altamont. On visiting the fine stock farm of Mr. Delmar Dudley, commencing at the limits of Dixon and ex- tending several miles north we find an ideal estab- listment consisting of 1000 acres of the finest land in the county. Mr. Dudley takes great pride in showing visitors his stock and well might he be for who can beat such promising ones as are quartered here. McFadyen, the game colt that paced in 2:15% last summer when he won the two-year-old division of the Breeders' Futurity at Santa Rosa, and proved the fastest colt of his age of the year, will be at the head of Mr. Dudley's breeding farm. At present he is being jogged by Sam Hoy at his track at Winters. Der Teufel is now a three-year-old and was worked a mile by Fred Chadbourne at Pleasanton on the 15th of June last as a two-year-old in 2.27. Mr. Dudley is jogging him on the road at 'present and expects to put him in the stud by the first of Febru- ary. Another very promising one is Truth, a two- year-old by Searchlight, dam Bee by Sterling. She is entered in the Western Horseman Stake as a three- year-old. A two-year-old chestnut colt by Diablo, dam Babe by Dawnlight, entered in the Breeders' Futurity and the Western Horseman, ;is also a fine prospect. Lookout, a brown yearling by Searchlight, dam Bee, is another one of great promise, and entered in the Breeders* Futurity for next year. Mr. Dudley just traded a nice yearling by Demonio out of Babe to Dr. J. H. Haile of Dixon for a fine bred Bradtmoor mare which he has added to the list of brood mares on his farm. Entered in the Stanford Stake is Palite, by Nut- wood Wilkes, dam Palita by Palo Alto, second dam Elsie by Gen. Benton, third dam Elaine, fourth dam Green Mountain Maid, dam of TDlectioneer. This colt was wrorked a little last year and showed very fast. Paprika is still another good one; she is a chestnut mare by Ora Belmont 2:15%, dam Auntie by Dawn. The dam of this mare is dam of the sire of Mamie R., recently sold last year by Mannie Reams to Mr. Butler of New York. Ima Jones is a fine four-year-old bay filly by Cap- tain Jones out of Babe. She is a good solid color, has much style and quality. The brown filly Friskarina 2: 13%. won second money in the first Breeders' Futurity and first money in the three-year-old division. Lorna Doone is a brown filly, full sister to Frisk- ! arina, and worked a trial mile in 2:18. Still another good one is Miss Valentine, a full sister to Friskarina and Lorna Doon. She is a four- year-old and a big fine mare of mai'velous strength, good bone and plenty of quality, but has never been worked for speed. To conclude this list of promising horses without mentioning the grand old mares Babe and Bee, aged respectively twelve and twenty years, would be gross negligence nn the part of any writer. They are both with foal to Palite. M. One of -the "best posted horsemen in" California, a gentleman who bred one of the best stake winners of last year, remarked to the "writer recently: "There is no doubt in my mind but Martin Carter's horse Nutwood Wilkes is at the present time the highest class troting bred stallion in California." And if any- one will lo.ok over the list. of -stallions- standing for service, and take into consideration breeding indi- viduality, racing qualities and success in the stud he will probably come to the same conclusion. Nut- wood Wilkes is, so well known to all the readers- of this journal that the mere announcement that he will be in the stud again this year at Nutwood Stock *arm at the usual fee of $50 is sufficient, but in this connection we desire to call the attention of breeders to a few facts: Nutwood Wilkes is by Guy Wilkes 2:15%, son of Geo. Wilkes 2:22. His dam is Liaa W. 2 18% by Nutwood 2:18%, greatest sire of brood mares that ever lived. Lida W. is herself a member of the Great Brood Mare Table. The second dam of Nutwood Wilkes is Belle by Geo. M. Patchen. Jr. 31, whose blood has given pure trotting gait -and great staving powers to a very large number of California bred horses The third dam of Nutwood Wilkes was Rebel Daughter, winner of many running races, and she was by Williamson's Belmont, the best thoroughbred strain ever introduced into the trotting strains of -this coast feo much for his breeding. As an individual he cannot be surpassed. He is smooth, round, with lofty -carriage, fine head and neck, good feet and legs and with great vigor As a sire he has the distinction of siring the fastest trotting stallion of all the Wilkes tribe— John A McKerron 2:04%. In addition to this, however he has ten in the 2:15 list, six of which have records below 2:11. The get of Nutwood Wilkes have the racing instinct, and they seem to know the game as soon as they are broke to harness. They come to their speed early and stay with it late in life and have excellent road as well as track qualities The largest winner in California last' year was North Star 2:1314, as a three-year-old, winner of the Breeders' Futurity, Occident and Stanford Trotting Stakes. The fastest three-year-old pacing filly on the California circuit last year was Mona Wilkes 2:liy2, who was out of a daughter of Nutwood Wilkes. The sons and daughters of Nutwood Wilkes breed on. He has two eons that have sired horses with records below 2:10 and five daughters that have pro- duced horses with record below 2.15. Those breeding good mares to Nutwood Wilkes can depend on getting foals that will have good looks, good size, excellent feet and legs, speed, gameness and race horse qualities. If the foal is a colt and is kept for a stallion he will be certain to produce speed. If it is a filly she will do the same. What more could one ask for the money. A correspondent at Visalia. writes: The proposed new race track for Exeter is now assured. This after- noon articles of incorporation of the Exeter Stock Breeders' Association were filed, under which name the company has been formed with the principal place of business at Exeter. The directors are L,. F. Brown, George W. Kirkmnn. C. E. Mackey, T. M. Dungan, and C. F. Balaam. The company is capitalized for $10,000. of which $1 r,fiO has been actually subscribed. A forty-acre piece southwest of Exeter has been se- cured, on which a regulation half mile track will bo constructed and nil the necessary buildings constitut- ing .1 f :i ir grounds, including pavilion, grand stand, exhibition sheds, etc., will be erected. STRATHWAY FOR SALE. As Mr. Graham E. Babcock of.zSan Diego 'is sell- ing all his trotting bred -horses and retiring from breeding he advertises his good producing stallion Strathway 2:19 for sale. Strathway is not a young horse, but he is one of the most vigorous and best preserved stallions in California and during the past two years (the first time he has had good opportu- nities in the stud) he has not had a mare fail to get in foal. Strathway was a very fast horse himself and comes from speedy families on, .both sides, his sire being Steinway and his dam Couritess.. the dam of Dawn 2:18% by Whipple's Hambletonian. Strathway with the most limited opportunities has sired no less than seven with records better thani2:15, among them John Caldwell 2:0S%, Toggles 2:-08%. two of the best gaited trotters ever hooked to a sulky. Strathway also sired Homeward 2.13, sire of the sensational trotter George G., that sold for $15,000 and took a record of 2:05%. Stoneway, an- other son of Strathway, is producing great speed, a two-year-old taking a record last season of 2:1514, and a three-year-old one of 2:15%. Strathway's get are all good gaited and come to their speed nat- urally and quickly. He will be a good Investment for some one. Write to his owner for price asked and full particulars. BON VOYAGE IS AT PLEASANTON. Mr. T. T,. Davidson. Jr., writes from Salem. Oregon, thai owing In the fact that he has all the mnres 1 ked in TTnl D. that he wishes to breed this year, he cannot bring Ihls son of Brown Hal to California as he Intended. He states that he will be with us next year sure, however. J. O. Gerrity, who trained the horses owned by Mr. W. A. Clark, Jr., last year, and is now located at Los Angeles with them, shipped the famous young stallion Bon Voyage 2:12% to Ted Hayes at Pleas- anton this week, and the fastest three-year-old trot- ting colt of 1905 will be in the stud at Pleasanton this season under Mr. Hayes' care. Bon Voyage is a grand individual and one of the best bred ones in America. He should be a great horse to breed mares of the Wilkes blood to, as he is by Expedition 2:15%, one of Electioneer's greatest sons. The cross of Electioneer and Wilkes blood is proving such a great success, and there being so many high-class mares of the Wilkes strain in California, great results should certainly follow thef bringing of such a high- class young stallion to this' State by Mr. Clark. Bon Voyage was a great stake winner as a two-year-old and took a record of 2:15 that year in a winning race, and reduced it to 2:12% in a winning race last season as a three-year-old, being the champion trotter of his age and sex both years. Mr. Clark has a small collection of high-class brood mares at Pleasanton, most of which will be bred to this splendid son of Expedition. The saddle stallion Star McDonald by Rex McDon- ald recently changed hands in Kentucky, the consider- ation being S2600. February , 1906, ©He ^xvziigv tmt» 'gppxx&nttfn 5 -THOF JUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. (By Ralph H. Tozer.) The Burns Handicap, the far West's most impor- tant stake race, was won in hollow fashion by Dr. Leggo last Saturday, the Puryear D. horse carrying 114 pounds in track record time, 2:05%. Red Leaf (100 pounds) was second, two and one-half lengths away, and a neck before the favorite,. Proper (122 pounds). Sir Brillar set the pace for over a mile, closely attended by Red Leaf. . Prior kept Leggo close up, and -making the last-turn was third. When he set the Doctor down he ran past. the. leaders as if they were tied and won. in a big gallop. The winner could have gone the route in about 2:04% if it had been necessary. Owner. Ci,C McCafferty is certainly a fox. Through the defeat. of Dr.. Leggo by mediocre performers at Ascot Park, Handicapper Egbert was fooled into allotting but 114,„.pounds to the horse, when the race proved he could have won with 125 pounds. The lesson taught is that a horse should be handicapped on his very best performance, unless the galloper shows by a long series, of bad races that it has gone away back, and an owner who schemes to "get weight off," in short, practices fraud, should be punished severely. The Ascot, performances of Dr. Leggo were "bogus," in the opinion of nearly every one, and it is not too late for the Los Angeles officials to take action in the matter, if the Emeryville, stew- ards do not believe they have jurisdiction, for botli associations are working under the same rules and are members of the Pacific Jockey Club. . • * * But forgetting the ante-post features of Dr. Leggo's running, he is a grand race horse, and as. I wrote, in these columns nearly a year ago, is the best colt pro- duced in California in many years, if, indeed, his equal was ever foaled within the borders, of. -the Golden State. It must be a pleasant matter for. A. B. Spreckels to contemplate — that within the first, ten years of his breeding operations he should send from his Napa Stock Farm to do turf battle the champion race horse of his day, as far as the middle and far West is concerned — and I am not at all sure, that Dr. Leggo would be very badly beaten by Sysonby should the pair meet on equal terms at a mile and a quarter just at this moment. I have seen both race, and both generally win their races easily. Sysonby . goes out in front, Dr. Leggo comes from behind. Both are plain-looking bay horses, Sysonby the larger of the duo, and a darker bay. No performance of Sysonby in 1905, considering the "fastness" of the various tracks, excels Dr. Leggo's Emeryville race very much, and if you want to hark back to Leggo's races of ten and eleven months ago they would not suffer by com- parison. It might not be amiss to give the best per- formances of each, from a time and weight stand- point, so that they can be compared: Sysonby. Dr. leggo. 2% miles in 3:54, 115 lbs., 3 miles - in 5:22 (beaten galloping. Coney Island, about half a length), S5 Sept. 2. Track record, lbs.. Emeryville,, April 3:53 3-5. S. World's record. 5:22. \Vz miles in 2:33 1-5, 126 13-16 miles in 1:5-9%, 108 lbs., 3-year-olds, gallop- lbs., easily, Emeryville, ing, Brighton Beach, April 5. Track record July 29. Track record, 1:59%. 2:32 1-5. 1% miles in 2:05*4, 115 1% miles in 2:06 2-5, 126 lbs., galloping, Emery- lbs., 3-year-olds, easily, ville, January 27, 1906. Brighton Beach, July 20. Track record, 2:05*4. Track record, 2:04 4-5. 1 mile and 50 yards in 1% miles in 2:47, 126 lbs., 1:42%, 110 lbs., easily. 3-year-olds, galloping, Emeryville, April 12. Coney Island, July 4. Track record, 1:42. Track record. 2:47. (?) About 1*4 miles in 2:03%, 1*4 miles in 2.07, 111 lbs., 122 lbs., easily, Los An- easily, Coney Island. geles, Feb. IS, track July 1. Track record, slow. Track record, 2:04 3-5. 2.02%. 1*4 miles in 2:05. 126 lbs., 1 mile in 1:39, 103 lbs., 3-year-olds, easily. Con- handily, Emeryville, ey ' Island, July 17. February 25. Then track Track record, 2:04 3-5. record, 1:39. Sysonby (111 pounds) beat Proper (114 pounds) by four lengths, easily, in the Commonwealth, at Coney Island, mile and a quarter, July 1, 1905, time 2:07, but Proper later on ran faster than this, as did Sysonby, so that it is hardly a test race. Judging o> the above records, Sysonby is perhaps a six-pound better horse than Dr. Leggo, but not a bit better, if, indeed, that much superior to the Californian. Much better care has been taken of Sysonby, too. He was .not raced at three miles as a three-year-old in the month of April, as was Dr. Leggo, neither was the Melton colt sent along a mile in 1:39 in a race as early as February, or a mile and fifty yards and a mile and three-sixteenths in fast time in April.. Had the Napa colt been handled as carefully as was Sys- onby there would have been some question as to which was the superior racer, and I am not so sure -that the verdict would have been in favor of the Eng- lish racer. Dr. Leggo is a racing marvel, and con- sidering his treatment, as much of a phenomenon as is Sysonby. The breeding of Dr. Leggo is upon the lines that I have been talking of for a long time past — unbroken links of success on both sides of the house. Puryear D., his sire, was not a great race horse, but he Is a success at the stud, as was Deceiver, his sire, then Wenlock, Lord Clifden, Newminster, Touchstone and down to the unbeaten Eclipse. On the dam's side of Dr. Leggo's house I find Sevens, a stake winner by the great sire, imp. Watercress, then Folly (sister to the great race horse Sinfax, a winner herself and a dam of several good winners), then Folly was from a stake winner that threw stake winners, and thus the pedigree continues on the mother's side — the first six or seven dams by tried sires and themselves mothers of stake horses. It only emphasizes the truth of the old saying, "Nothing succeeds like success." Breed to good sires with no breaks in the success chain and if on the mother's side the first five or six dams have produced stake- winners, as in the case of Dr. Leggo, you are quite likely to breed horses of the stamp of the California champion and one of the most remarkable racers that ever saw the light. Manager Brooks and Starter Holtman are at log- gerheads at Ascot, and It was over the question of an assistant starter's right to hold or not to hold a horse at the post.. I applaud Manager Brooks' stand in the matter and believe, with him, that if assistants are allowed- to hold horses as their own sweet will dictates it will kill off all the popularity racing pos- sesses in shorter order than anything that could, be devised. If a starter were unscrupulous and wanted to get rick quick all he would need to do would be to give orders to hold every well-played horse in a race until those not well-played were on their way fifty or 100 yards. A starter with this power and no one to say, "Hold, enough of this holding," could beat Sysonby or Dr. Leggo with Swagger or Bearskin. It is high time the governing turf body took a hand in the game and forbade the holding of any horse at the post under penalty of a heavy fine or loss of position for the "assistant bookmaker," or "hold-on Jimmy." I have not observed that Dick Dwyer's assistants have to take horses by the head as did Holtman's — no, not one-twentieth part as much. * * * To dissolve a partnership, the following horses in W. II. Murry's hands will be sold to-day in the pad- dock at Emeryville: St. Francis, Mazel. Bakersfield, Marie H., Edelweiss and a chestnut four-year-old gelding by imp. Prestonpans-Queen Kapiolani. GOOD BLOOD AT LOW FEES. POLO AND PONY RACING AT CORONADO. Preparations are being made for the entertainment of the crowds that are expected at Coronado for the polo tournament to be held March 3 and 5, when the Mackay team from England will compete with local teams for the Spreckels challenge cup. . The meeting will be held under the direction of the Southern California Polo and Racing Association. All. ponies will be raced under the rules of the asso- ciation, entries must be in before February 19, and only ponies of three years old and upward and not exceeding 14.2 in height will be admitted to the vari- ous events. The program for the two days' racing is: First Day. Selling pony race, one-half mile, $50. Galloway race, gentlemen riders only, five-eighths mile, $75. Polo pony race, gentlemen riders only, three-six- teenths mile, cup valued at $80. The Spreckels challenge cup, to be won three times by same owner, owner of winner on each occasion to receive a duplicate of cup in miniature. Gentle- men riders only, one and one-half miles. Race for horses, three-quarters mile, $75. Pony hurdle race, one mile over six hurdles, three feet timber, six inches brush, cup, $50. Second Day. Polo pony race, gentlemen riders only, three-eighths mile, cup $50. Horse race, for horses owned in San Diego county, half mile and repeat, $50. Breeders' stakes, for ponies, three-year-olds and under, weight for inches; subscription of $15, second to save stake, three-eighths mile, cup added $50. Horse race, weight for age scaling down from top weight, one mile, $75. Pony race, gentlemen riders only, three-quarters mile, cup $600. Pony race for ponies, gentlemen riders only, one- quarter mile, cup $50. NUSHAGAK AND PRINCE ANSEL. Woodland Stock Farm presents Its advertisement this week of those two excellent stallions, Nushagak and Prince Ansel. The first named has already sired a trotter that is known all over the country — Aristo, winner of the Occident Stake and Stanford Stakes of 1902, and earner of &■ race record of 2:08% the following year at the New York meeting of the Grand Circuit. There is quite a bunch of colts and fillies by Nushagak now in training at Woodland Stock Farm track that will still further add to Nushagak's reputation as a sire of fast trotters that have size and good looks. Nush- agak is a royally bred stallion. His sire is Sable Wilkes, whose three-year-old record was 2:18, and his dam is the great brood mare Fidelia by Director 2:17, founder of one of the greatest racing families ever known to the harness racing turf. The second dam of Nushagak was by Reavis Blackbird, and the third dam by McCracken's Blackhawk. Nushagak will make the season at a fee of $50. Prince Ansel, two-year-old record 2:20%, Is a son of Dexter Prince and the great brood mare Wood- flower by Electioneer. He was one of the greatest two-year-old trotters ever produced on the coast, and but for an accident would have had a much lower record. He has the distinction of having beaten that great trotter John A. McKerron In his two-year-old form. The Dexter Prince-Electioneer cross proved a speedy one at Palo Alto Farm, and Prince Ansel Is one of its best representatives. He Is a very fine individual and his colts are showing great speed. His fee will be $30, which Is certainly a bargain in stallion fees. DISTEMPER PREVALENT. There Is a great deal of distemper about just now in some sections of the country. More than usual at this time of the year, and the cause is perhaps to be found in the damp, wet weather which prevailed in most parts of the country during the summer and fall. This damp unfavorable weather predisposes horses and colts to lung and throat troubles, and there is always a greater likelihood of distemper Innoculatfng animals when suf- fering from a cold or chill. It will be useful for every horse owner to have on hand in readiness a bottle of Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure and give an occa- sional dose to prevent the possibility of any infectious disease, such as distemper, pinkeye, influenza, epizootic, catarrhal or shipping fever taking hold of your stock. It is just as effectual for sheep and dogs as for horses. It is made by the Wells Medicine Co., 13 Third St.. Lafayette, Ind., and is sold by druggists generally, or will be sent direct prepaid on receipt of prjce, 50c and" $1.00. r The veteran horseman Thos. Smlrh of Vallejo, has two stallions in the stud at that town this year whose services have been put so low that they are within the reach of every breeder. We do not remember of ever hearing of such richly bred stallions standing for such low fees anywhere on this coast. The services of the registered horse Gen. J. B. Frls- bie. No. 41637, are offered for $25 for the season. This horse is a full brother to that handsome and fast trotter Tom Smith 2:13% and is one of the most perfect models of a trotting stallion. He is good gai ted and fast. His sire is McKInney 2:11%, his dam the great brood mare Daisy S., dam of four in the list by McDonald Chief 3583, second dam Fanny Rose, dam of Geo. Washington 2:16%, Columbus 2:17, etc., by Ethan Allen Jr. 2903. The McKInney, Clark Chief and Morgan crosses can be expected to produce handsome horses when united, and it has been real- ized in Gen. J. B. Frisbie, certainly one of the hand- somest stallions in California. The other stallion which Mr. Smith advertises' Is Mambrino Chief Jr. 11622, the sire of Dolllcan 2:15%, Geo. Washington 2:16%, and many others. This horse is by McDonald Chief 3583, out of Venus by Mam- brino Patchen. Mambrino Chief Jr. Is a uniform sire of large handsome horses of solid color and with the best of feet and legs. His get have generally been owned by persons who have not trained them, yet he has quite a respectable list of standard performers, and has sons and daughters that are producers. His service fee will be but $20 for the season. Look over the advertisement of these two stallions. PALO ALTO STALLIONS AT STUD. The advertisement of Mendocino and McKena, the only two stallions remaining at Palo Alto Stock Farm appears in our issue this week. Mendocino, whose record of 2:19% was made when he was three years old, is a son of Electioneer, and a well-bred one, as his dam is the great brood mare Mano by Piedmont. Mendocino is most powerfully muscled and a grandly proportioned horse whose reputation as a sire of game race winners is estab- lished. He has sired Monte Carlo 2:07%, Idolita 2:09%, Leonora 2:12%, Polka Dot 2:14% and many others with fast records. Mendocino carries the blood of Electioneer, Piedmont and Whipples Ham- bletonian backed up by the strong thoroughbred strain of imported Mango. His service fee this year will be $75. McKena 39460 is a son of McKInney 2:11%, that is out of that great race mare Helena 2:11%, dam of three in the list, by Electioneer, second dam Lady Ellen, dam of six in the list, by Carr's Mambrino, third dam by Owen Dale and fourth dam by William- son's Belmont. McKena is a magnificent large horse, weighing over 1300 pounds and finely formed. He was injured as a colt and could not be trained, but he is one of the surest of foal getters and one of the best bred McKinneys living. At a service fee of $35 he is one of the best horses to breed to in Cali- fornia. Read the advertisement of these two stallions in this issue. o KINGS COUNTY FAIR. Down afc the little town of Hanford, Kings county, where the Central California Fair is held every year, there is only a half mile track, but the progressive managers succeed in giving the best county fair held in the State. They took in nearly $6000 in gate re- ceipts during six days last fall, which shows that the people of that section turn out better than they do elsewhere. While a good program of racing is given, the managers make a special endeavor to have a fine stock show each year, and the exhibits of dairy and beef breeds, and of sheep, hogs and draft horses is large and meritorious. The association has recently prepared a financial statement from the secretary's books which is as follows: RECEIPTS. Advertising * 62.70 Concession 1770.5- Gate receipts 5966.90 Exhibition space 25.00 Entrance fee 165.00 Lease ground, Co. 1 100.00 Rent, wood, straw 47.35 County donation 1000.00 Total $9137.47 PAID OUT. Taxes, two years $ 156.82 Insurance 142 80 Rent of office 27-00 Account of 1904 965.76 Improvements 669.06 Labor 829.50 Labor, clerical 424.40 Expense 1530.43 Premiums 1165.90 Races 2344.30 Band 536.50 Acrobats 200.00 Directors* expense 144.00 Total $9136.47 "ANOTHER SPAVIN CUBE." Mr. John W. Sanner of Decatur. 111., writes as fol- lows: "I have used QUINN'S OINTMENT to remove splints and reduce soreness in spavins with very satis- factory results. Recently I advised a friend owning: a horse with a bad spavin to use QUINN'S OINTMENT, and he Informed me that the horse is going sound; this result being produced in two weeks, the horse being used dally on paved streets." This Is the gen- eral expression of leading horsemen all over the coun- trv who have given QUINN'S OINTMENT n trial. For curbs, splints, spavins, windpuffs and all bun is nothing better. Price one dollar per t Ad- dress W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N. T not obtain from druggist. ©He gvi&iigv anif gFpxretemcm [February 3, 19C6 JOTTINGS. "Mlarque." the Horse Review's representative who goes through the Grand Circuit every year and writes the accounts of the races for that journal, says: "I saw many mistakes made last season in placing horses as they finished, both on the Grand Circuit and the Great Western. Some of these errors were so glaring »s to be inexcusable, even at a county fair, where the officials are not always guaranteed adepts. On four **r five successive occasions on the 'big ring' serious errors were made when there was no possible excuse. For instance: At Oakley Park, Brownie Wilton beat Norrie by a margin of four feet in the final heat of a race. The judges, to the consternation of the crowd, gave the heat to Norrie. In the two-year-old division of the Review Futurity, at the same meeting, four horses were misplaced in the first heat, although they were widely separated. In this Instance the error caused fourth money, $300, to be given to the wrong horse. At Decatur, 111., last August, a horse heavily backed to come second won the place handily, but another horde away back in the rear ranks was awarded it. The "books" paid according to the decision of the judges, who afterwards placed the horses correctly. There was a howl went up from those who had played the originally misplaced horse to place, and the secretary had to cash the tickets. No less than five horses were misplaced at Gales- burg, 111., in a single heat. Only rank carelessness1 on the part of the judges could make such unpardonable mistakes possible. In case of a really close heat no one can afford to gainsay their judgment, and no one does, excepting the ones1 who hold losing tickets." When such errors occur at the average country meeting there is not much surprise manifested among horsemen, a good strong kick being generally regis- tered by the losers and a lot of loud talk indulged in for an hour or two, and then the races go on as usual, but for Grand Circuit judges to make such mistakes as those mentioned by Marque is inexcus- able. I remember acting as clerk at a meeting once where three "prominent citizens" were the judges. A purse of $1000 was being trotted for and there were six horses in the race. Just at the finish of a heat a little "disturbance" started in the crowd just back of the judges' stand and not one of the three judges saw the finish of the race. It was one of my duties to take down the numbers of the horses as they crossed the wire, and as they were called by one of the judges, and as from my position in the stand I could not see the scrap, my attention was directed to this Fanella 2:13 was not trained for speed until after she had produced the sensational young trotter Todd 2:14% (that trotted eighths in 15 seconds as a two- year-old) and the lamented Sadie Mac 2:06^), the most sensational trotter out last season. The rich speed inheritance that she derived from her ancestors enabled her to transmit extreme speed ability to her offspring before her speed was developd, Th dam of Alix 2.03% had a remarkably strong speed inheritance but had no record, yet Alix was not only a world's champion trotting record breaker in her day, but also holds the honor of winning the fastest nine-heat race ever trotted. Mabel, the dam of Cresceus 2:02*4, had no record but she produced one of the most remarkable trotters ever foaled, the winner of an eight-heat race as a three-year-old against aged horses. After losing the first five heats he won the last three in 2:12*4, 2:11*4, 2:11*4. Few three-year-old trotters could ever recover from the effects of such a race as that, yet Cresceus did not seem to mind it, and finally became the world's cham- pion trotter with a record of 2:02*4, without the as- sistance of a runner pulling a dirt shield in front to lessen atmospheric resistance. No horse that has held the world's champion trot- ting stailion record has yet sired a world's champion trotter, hence although it is advisable for stallion owners to develop the speed of their horses and prove by giving them fast records that they do possess speed ability, such development is not essential to a stal- lion in order to insure his success as a sire of ex- treme speed. The success of a stallion as a sire or a mare as a producer undoubtedly depends upon his or her speed inheritance rather than development. If the inheritance be there with no undesirable element to antagonize it, success is sure to follow under favor- able conditions. Without an inheritance of the right sort, years of development will not enable a stallion to become a successful sire or a mare a successful producer of speed. COMMON SENSE TALK ABOUT THE AUTOMO- BILE. race and I got the numbers of the horses as thev fin- y0U' f0r y0U kn0W y0U don,t XnOW. ,and he wil1 kn0W ished. The presiding judge took my "call" as cor- rect and with his usual dignity announced the result. I have often wondered who these judges would have called on for the necessary information as to the places earned by each horse in that heat, had the "little unpleasantness" been within the line of my vision. They migrht have done as the judges at a lit- tle country fair in this State once did. On this oc- casion the drivers wore no arm numbers and the judges were all looking at the nose and nose finish of the two leaders and forgot all about the other five in the race. They were in a quandary for a few min- utes as to what to do, when a happy idea struck one of them. The five drivers were called into the stand and questioned as to the possibility of a little foul driving in the stretch. Tht first question asked each one was. "Mr. — ^— ." where did you (From the Newark Advertiser.) The general public throughout the entire State is demanding a new law to regulate the speed of all vehicles upon the highways. Horsemen are joining the road drivers' associations in all sections of the State, and much interest is being manifested in the new State organization. The general demand is for a just and fair law for all. Suggestions are numerous as to the terms of such a measure and autoists and horsemen alike are studying in order to agree upon an equitable statute. W. Gould Brokaw, a millionaire auto owner, in a recent interview, said: "There have been altogether too many people killed in the last six months in automobile driving and I believe something should be done to remedy the mat- ter. I am an enthusiastic automobilist myself and I think that all chauffeurs should pass an examination and be licensed before they are allowed to operate a car. In France, where the automobile is in the highest state of perfection and great pleasure is taken in automobile riding and racing, every chauffeur is licensed and has to pass a rigid examination before he is permitted to take anybody out in a car. "We should have the same law in this country. Why should chauffeurs be allowed to take persons' lives in their hands without previously having undergone some kind of an examination. There should be a law passed similar to that under which locomotive engineers are examined. Their eyesight is tested. Their physical condition is tested, and if there i& any accident in which any one can be blamed, the chauffeur, like the engineer, should be responsible. The laws relating to locomotive engineers and chauffeurs should be sim- ilar. "In an accident where there is neglect on the part of the chauffeur he should be punished by criminal action. I think if such an examination were had and such a law passed, it would do much to lower the automobile accidents in this country." The suggestion of Mr. Brokaw would seem to be a good one. It comes from an auto owner, and it has been noticed that most all of the recent fatal acci- dents have been caused by the great speed at which the machines were being driven by the chauffeur. The ability of a chaff eur and the size of his salary seems to be based upon the speed at which he can run his machine. Another suggestion is to allow no higher than twenty-horse power machines to be run upon the highways, or machines which could not attain more speed than twenty miles an hour, the higher power machines being classified as racing machines and allowed only on tracks or beaches where racing carni- vals are being given. Another suggestion is that it be made a State prison offense for either a driver of a horse or machine to be found guilty of careless driving upon the public highways. Twenty miles an hour, or a three-minute gait, it is argued, is fast enough for any one to ride behind a horse or in a machine upon the highways of this State. The autoists claim that the reason why the machine Mr. D. J. Desmond of Los Angeles is spending a snoul<* be allowed by law to go at a much faster pace SIGNS OF A DOCILE HORSE. F. M. Ware in Outing gives various suggestions to the man who would buy a good horse, and among them the following. Once out of the stall, notice that he submits quietly to being wiped over> and betrays no resentment, while harnessing, at accepting the bit, bridle, crupper, etc., etc., and decorously permitting all necessary altera- tions and attentions. Accept no departure from ab- solute docility of deportment; for be sure that if the animal betrays either excitability, nervousness, or vice in the dealer's hands, he will be far worse with you don't know — and those combinations spell trou- ble. In the same way, see him led out and put to the vehicle to which he is to be driven, noting each stage of the process, viewing him always with the icily critical eye of the individual who does not (yet) own him. Excuse nothing, and make no allowances for less. If he makes a move you don't fancy, say so frankly and look further — there are plenty of horses. good portion of his time in San Francisco just now, as the firm of which he is a member has the contract for building the bridges on the new Ocean Shore Railway now building from San Francisco to Santa Cruz. Mr. Desmond is an ardent horseman, and an than the horse, is because it can be stopped more quickly. Just what difference it makes after an ac- cident has occurred how quick the stop is made is not stated. But this statement is disputed. A machine is inanimate; a horse is almost human. The animal, even at runaway speed, will guide itself among ve- i enthusiastic road driver. In company with Mr. S. "Mr. - — , where did you finish?" The Christianson of this city he took several spins over hides, and when checked in its course is easily con- clerk took the claimed figure down, and when all were our park roads an6" ocean drives last week, and has trolled. A machine, when the brake is suddenly ap- ted It was found that there was no contest— consequently decided to keep one or two of his horses plied for a ^uick stt°P. wiII» in many instances, when here while his contracts are under way. Mr. Desmond formerly owned that whirlwind pacer by .Titus out of Lady Waldstein that is the sensation of the Los Angeles track and that recently stepped a mile in 2:07. all had claimed different positions and the summary was made up without even the suspicion that the "prominent citizens" had not placed their eagle eyes on every man in the race. To this day those drivers probably believe that there was something doing by some one of them in the way of foul driving in that heat, but which one they have never been able to ascertain. RECORD STALLIONS AND MARES. The first colt by Strathway 2:19 for 1906 made his appearance at Mr. Whalen's Santa Rita Ranch, near Pleasanton, last Monday. His dam is a fine mare by Athadon, out of a mare by Dexter Prince. She is owned by Mr. O. Scribner of the Associated Oil Com- pany, who is now in Europe. Mr. Whalen reports Stallions that have been trained and have made fast records will have the preference among breeders the colt as a fine big lusty fellow, looking like his in the future. They will be more liberally patronized slre' find receive a better class of mares than will those stallions which have not been trained or those that Min« Host "Scotty" Burns of the Western Hotel the use of maonines- But would a law regulating the going at full speed, "turn turtle" or run sideways and overturn. 'Whoever heard of a road driver killing cows, chickens, dogs, etc., on the road? Yet the 'State- ment is made and vouched for that a South Jersey farmer makes his living by picking up turkeys' and chickens killed upon the public roads by the machines. Both the horse and the machine enter in the business life of this community. The horse and his owner keep thousands employed as coachmen, blacksmiths, harness makers, grain mer- chants, wagon and carriage manufacturers, stablemen, etc., and the machines use oil, gasoline, leather and machinery for the manufacture of which this city is celebrated. These merchants and manufacturers are therefore opposed to any law which would abridge have been trained but have failed to take records. Sacramento, is the owner of a Nutwood Wilkes filly speed lessen the use? Would there not be just This Is as It should be. for the fact that a horse has that he believes will be one of the race winners of many maehines' if not more, sold, if the speed was so taken a fast record is positive proof that he has in- 'he future in the free-for-all class, and his friends who contronea by Iaw as to lessen the danger of accident herlted and possesses all the dualities essential for have looked the little miss over are already figurine and shouId not thx> regulation of speed by law lessen speed. The horse that possesses all the elements of on having a ticket or two on her when she is o Than onVwhich ?e ,""17 su,CCeSSfUl as a slre °f ^ed enou&h t0 start. She is a handsome bay, just eight m, 11,1, >, I! ,^te",any °f theSe ,mP°rtant months °ld and hke all the Nutwood Wilkes family qualities upon which speed depends. has good legs and feet and a lot K a horse has Inherited and does possess all these is out of Ollie Dew by Waldstein of "class." She son of Director. ?™Tt ='",^^^7^ ^ "'"""*» «**<**« '« «» "ame* M, Burns Tas° cho » f°or •eorTl or not Pn ron^W r h,er h'S SPeed 1S 3°- thlS fllly' and tne fact that *1000 would not tempt when" but '.""en ^:°",a,gt„hai.n° 'e_C°r.d and yet hlm. <» ?«' W'th her shows that he thinks pretty when but seven years old he got the world's cho r.lnn trotter, Alix 2:03%. The sire of Patronage was n%, but Pancoast was only two years ■quently had not been trained for speed when he got Patronage. Several well of her. Dan O'Keefe, an occasional correspondent of the Breeder and Sportsman at Woodland, has sold his fast records, but none""of Vh'emTas evefXeT a h0rSeSh0ein(? sh°P at that »lace to his brother' a,ld that has taken so fast a record as that of Three entire sons of Baron Wilkes 2.18 have made records below 2:10. They are Baron Bell 2:09 Oak- land Baron 2:09*. and Baron Rogers 2:09%.' The fastest trotter by the records got by any son of Baron WIKes Is Fereno 2:06*4. Moko, the sire of Fereno has no record and wag only three years old ' Fereno. Sidney Dillon had when he record yet when he « .only two years old he got Dolly Dillon 2:06%, ■' i was but Ave years old when he got the n,w nplon trotter Lou Dillon 1:68& In-- got the world's has gone on the road for the Capewell Horse Shoe Nail Company. Mr. O'Keefe's decision has been In- fluenced by two considerations: The position he has accepted Is a very desirable one. Strict attention to business has somewhat impaired his health and an opportunity to travel will undoubtedly restore it. Mr. , O'Keefe took a course in scientific horseshoeing from Sar„nf h°„ "Jf Public hereafter. The owner, Mrs. a Philadelphia expert and has since had a high class of patronage. His services have been much In de- mand by horsemen of Yolo county, and those who own good roadsters. — i . — o ■ Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. the danger and increase the sale? Another question is that of the public health It is well known that a machine going over a dusty road by reason of the large tires and low body causes a much larger amount of dust to rise than any vehicle to which a horse may be attached. The inhalation of this dust is injurious, and the faster rate of speed at which the machine is being driven there is necessarily more dust. Machine owners admit and hCsemen de- forceabU Whr,r ^W 1S lnade<»^ an ™on-e„- r p f public? ^here^: l^T^l T t?:: V the'd! P6rSOnal '"""*» -d Bering: drafted le » 'he.disc"ssio" *»d when a measure is dratted let it receive the support of all. ■Closed "To ?hCe tra;* hi been plowed up and will Sargent h». If "^ hereafter' Th* owner, Mrs. desired to f- heretof°re Permitted everybody who nhf.f? todrlve on the fack. but the privilege was abused, valuable fruit trees were broken down fences nfrov^ *"* °'her dePreda"°hs committed Tne ine- - u , WaS partlcularly a°aPtea to winter train- :iXnitsoT to the trainers °{ that ,0Ca"* -"' - February 3, 1906] ®tte <§v eebev cmi> gtptfrtsrroan ^wmm^Mmmmmmmmte^mm Woodland claims the week prior to the California State Fair for its meeting this year. Joe Cuicello worked Charley Belden, the Lynwood W. gelding owned by Mart Rollins, a half in 1:04% at Pleasanton one day last week. At the end of a mile in 2:20 on another occasion this good trotter stepped a half in 1:05 and the railcards say Joe was only buggy riding. We received a very pleasant call this week from Mr. C. E. Veeder of the International Stock Food Company, whose headquarters for a few months past have been in Pasadena. Mr. Veeder came to Califor- nia partly to recuperate his health, which had be- come somewhat impaired by a too strict attention to business for many years. We are pleased to know that the glorious climate of this State has fully re- stored him to health, however, and that he is now traveling about over the coast looking after the inter- ests of the company that makes the food that Dan Patch, Cresceus, Directum and Arion eat. He left last Monday night for a week's trip to Oregon and Washington, and will stop in San Francisco for a few days on his return. Mr. Veeder is now the coast agent for the International Stock Food Company. Bakersfield horsemen will race their horses on Washington's Birthday. Five or six harness events and three or four running races will be cardea and some good contests are certain. The track will have a lot of extra work done on it lo make it as l possible and good time may be expected. Sol Shockley of Merced advertises a five-year-old sprinter for sale that should do for pony racing or polo, as he is 14.2 hands, perfectly sound, and can run a quarter in 23 seconds or better. It has been officially announced that the champion trotter. Lou Dillon 1.58%, will be bred this season to John A. McKerron 2:04%. George Hayt. of Binghamton, New York, will again act as presiding judge on the Grand Circuit and Robert Newton of Yorkville, Illinois, will again give the drivers the word. The Tucson Driving Association will give a pro- gram of races on Washington's birthday which is ex- pected to furnish some fine sport. Arizona is getting to be quite a horse breeding section and many good ones are owned there. Mr. Henry Struve of Watsonville writes that his mare, Hegar Wilkes, nominated in the Pacific Breed- ers' Futurity, foaled a nice bay filly on the 23d inst., and he expects her to be in the front ranks when she starts. Mr. Struve recently visited Mr. A. K. Spreckels' Aptos Ranch and states that he saw there as nice a lot of young horses as he ever saw in his life, and says there are several line prospects among them. All have size and good looks and he says "Sandy" has taught them good manners. They will attract much attention when they are put up for sale in this city next month. The pretty two-year-old filly by Stam B. 2:11%, whose picture graces our title page this week, is owned by Mr. S. Christianson of the Palace Hotel in this city and is in James Thompson'sstring at Pleas- anton. She is out of his mare Perza by Allie Wilkes 2-15, second dam Anglia by Geo. Wilkes. Anglie is the dam of Anglina 2:11%, Effie Hill 2:21% and -randam of Kellar 2:16%, and William P. Anglin ■29%. This filly is well staked and is* a very promis- Martin Carter, proprietor of the Nutwood Stock Farm, the home of Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, has just, sold -to Mr. Geo. T. Algeo, of Oakland, the trotting stallion T. C, three-year-old record 2.30, and trial of 2:20%, which is no measure of the horse's speed. T. C. is one of the best bred stallions in California, and Mr. Algeo will place him in the stud at Oakland. T. C. is by Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, his dam is Zeta Carter by Director, and his second dam Lida W. 2:18%, the dam of Nutwood Wilkes, etc., by Nut- wood. As John A. McKerron 2:04%, champion trotting stallion of the Wilkes tribe, is by Nutwood Wilkes out of a Director mare, it will be seen that T. C. is bred in the same lines as that great performer. This horse should receive a liberal patronage from the breeders of Alameda county, and while La has been bred heretofore to but very few mares, his get are i T. C. 2:30 BY NUTWOOD WILKES Purchased This Week by George Algeo of Oakland from Nutwood Stock Farm. ing tr»tter. Mr. Christianson has a Stam B. two- year-old colt which he turned over to Millard Saun- ders <#£ the 22d of this month and just one week later 'Saunders drove him a mile in 3:03. This colt is the^i&icture of his sire, and puts on just as much style when on dress parade. He is out of that fast mare Marguerite by Don Pedro, owned by Charles F. Kapp, who gave her a matinee record of 2:17. Barondale 2:11% is commanding a fee of $50 this season in Iowa. He is now the sire of seven trotters and twelve pacers in the standard list, having had six additions to his list in 1905. The young Baron- dales in California are very highly thought of, al- though none are old enough to race. M. Henry of Haywards, who is working quite a string of horses at Pleasanton, was in the city this week making payments on several colts he has en- tered in the Pacific Breeders Futurity. He reports his horses at Pleasanton as all doing well. Robert C, a gelding by Gossiper, worked a mile in 2:37 last week, with the last half in 1:10, and the last quarter in 34 seconds. Will Guthrie, a colt by Mr. Henry's stallion Educator, trotted a mile in 2:30, with a half in 1:13 and a quarter in 35 seconds. Both these youngsters can show a mile in 2:20 if necessary. A five-year-old McKinney colt out of a Director mare trotted a quarter in 36% seconds, back in 35 and the third trial in 34 seconds the first time on the track. He looks like a high-class prospect. Frank C, a three-year-old pacer by Gossiper, showed a quarter in 34 seconds to a Toomey cart. Ed. Kiel, black stal- lion by Educator, Is one of the showiest animals at tne track. He is quite a high stepper and has speed as well. Educator's colts are all showing well. Offers of $250 for yearlings by this son of Director were re- fused by two owners recently. Sealed bids will be received up to six o'clock this evening by Ira B. Kilgore of Concord, for furnishing the material and constructing fifty-two (52) box stalls for horses at the race track near Concord, according to plans and specifications on file in Mr. Kilgore's office. Among the good mares that are being booked to Kinney Lou is Electress Wilkes 2.28%, dam of that fast and good trotting filly, Lady Mowry 2:12%, by, Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, dam Electress by Richard Elector. She is now in foal to the great son of Mc- Kinney and her owner, J. C. Mowry, of Newark, Cal., believes if one Kinney Lou is good to have, it Is better still to have two. Hanford Medium 2:11%, one of the fast pacers of the California circuit of years ago, Is to be raffled for $1 a throw at Santa Maria soon, where he Is now owned by G. L. Blosser. NN Kenney, the sulky and speed cart man, whose es- tablishment at 531 Valencia street is the place to get the latest speed vehicles, has sold to O. Taylor, the owner of Billy Ellsworth, a white Kenney training cart that is the admiration of everybody that has seen it. Kenney has just received some rose colored McMurray carts that are beauties, and he also has. a few unpainted carts and bikes of the McMurray make. Buyers thus have a chance to inspect the wood and workmanship and order them painted in any color to suit. Go out to Kenney 's and see them. uniformly good lookers and will be speedy. A three- year-old filly by him which Mr. Carter has placed in Fred Chadbourne's charge at Pleasanton is a very promising young mare that has all the earmarks of a high class trotter. Recent additions to Budd Doble's stable are Ed. McGary, three-year-old trotting colt by Zombro 2:11, dam Diavolo by Diablo 2:09%, second dam Lilly Langtry, dam of Ed. B. Young 2:11%, Dudley 2:14, and several others in 2:30. This is a handsome, good gaited colt- and very promising. Lilly Dillon, four- year-old trotting filly by Sidney Dillon, dam the noted old trotting mare Lilly Stanley 2.17%, by Whippleton, sire of the dams of Robeby 2:13%, Clay S. 2:13%, and many others. This filly was trained last year as a three-year-old by the unfortunate Willard Zibble, until he met with that sad accident at Fresno. She has got some of the famous 'Dillon speed" and gives promise of adding another to the list of fast trotters by the sire of the trotting queen. Another Is also by Sidney Dillon, dam Palo Belle 2:24%, by the old war horse Palo Alto 2:08%, second dam Belle Isle by Pied- mont 2:17%. third dam Ida Belle, dam of Carlisle 2:22%, by Hambletonian 10, fourth dam Godfrey Star by American Star 14. This is a two-year-old filly and while never trained, is a trotting youngster that gives every indication of being as good as- her royal breeding. Her dam is one of the best mares In breed- ing and other qualities ever bred to Sidney Dillon In California. Admiral Togo, the four-year-old by Iran Alto 2.12%, out of Aria 2:16% by Bernal, that Joe Cuicello gave a record of 2:29% as a two-year-old in 1904, Is stepping like a 2:10 trotter at Pleasanton. Cuicello worked "the Jap horse" a mile in 2:18 this week. Philip C. Byrne, who had announced that he would stand the stallion Expressive Mac at Sacramento this year, has been induced to take the horse to Hanford, - Kings county, instead, where he has been assured the patronage of a large number of breeders. Mr. T. W. Barstow, owner of that high class pro- ducing stallion Nearest 2:22%, own brother to John A. McKerron 2.04%, writes us that he will not move to Colorado this season, but will stand his horse and train at the San Jose track as usual. More definite announcement later. Ambush 2:14% will make the season of 1906 at Association Park, San Bernardino instead of at -the farm of his owner, G. W. Bonnell at Redlands. Secretary W. H. Gocher has officially promulgated the call for the biennial congress' of the members of the National Trotting Association, to be held at the Murray Hill Hotel, New York City, on Wednesday, February 14. This will be the twenty-third congress of the Association, and in accordance with a resolu- tion by a former congress the committee on creden- tials will meet at 9 o'clock a. m.. of the above date, to receive the credentials of delegates. Any pro- posed changes in the rules should be sent to the sec- retary, to be submitted to the rules committees. Two of the members selected for that committee are W. J. Carer, of Richmond, Va., and Chas. Marvin, of Lex- ington, Ky. The other position on the committee has been tendered to Col. Robert Hough, the veteran starting judge and track manager of Baltimore, who has accepted. The rules committee will meet two days prior to the congress, to go over the rules and receive any suggestions as to their improvement that ex- perience has demonstrated would be advisable. At the meeting of the Kentucky Association of Trotting Horse Breeders held in Lexington, Jan. 16, R. C. Estill was re-elected president, James E. Clay vice-president, and Horace W." Wilson, Lexington, Ky., secretary. The treasury was shown to be in a pleth- oric condition. The good old trotting mare Flora M. 2:16 by Rich- ards Elector, who gave the talent such a tremendous dump at Sacramento a dozen years ago when the Palo Alto horse Truman 2:12 was an overwhelming' favorite, was shipped to San Jose this week to be bred to Mr. Doble's great trotting stallion. She is owned by Mr. W* J. Dingee. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 13-18. Readville, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. FAIR DATES CLAIMED. At the meeting of the North Pacific Fair Associa- tion held last week at Portland the following datey were agreed upon: Seattle Sept. 3 to S Salem Sept. 10 to 15 North Yakima Sept. 17 to 22 Spokatie Sept. 24 to 29 Walla Walla Oct. 1 to 6 Lewlston Oct. 3 to 13 Everett was given the privilege to select such dates as they may decide on. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the 8 &he tSvee&cY ctxitu ^pavimnatt [February 3, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. Do WITT. THE REVOLVER— HINTS FOR THE NOVICE. Technical literature on the revolver is available to. In degree, but it is to be regretted that there is practically nothing extant treating- on this im- portant topic in th€ style and manner suited to th€ tf a beginner. The comparatively few publi- cations on the subject eater to the experienced marks- i consequence, presuppose an intimacy , with the art of using what has been called "the her- | lean weapon," the proteceor of the citizen - equalizer of men; which places the giant within the punishing power of the dwarf. The prevailing belief of what may be accomplished v with tlie revolver is rather uncomplimentary to aj effective firearm. Many assume that the revolver is useless, particularly on a humanl target, al a distance of ten paces or more. Generally g it is true. There is, however, a good reason is, for the erroneous impression is the growth . [on prompted by instances in which the prin- cipals are both inexperienced and excited when in-_ dulging in gun fire — at bipeds or quadrupeds, as thej cases may have been. This belief, however, does great injustice to the sovereign merits of the six shooter. A' well known revolver expert writing on this subject, among other statements, says: "But let it be under- stood briefly in the revolver's defense, that if some one would place dollar pieces at 50 yards, and allow a club of experts to keep what they hit, that some one would lose a lot of money before the day was over. And if there is a man in America wrho cannot hit the ace of spades at ten long strides it is his own fault." The revolver is a type of pistol, differing primarily in having a revolving cylinder, hence the name. A pistol is a sort of rifle, classified as such. £Jo there is the relation between both weapons, the gist of which is a rifled firearm. Rifling consists of alternate grooves and lands throughout the barrel. A revolver, therefore, is practically a short rifle having a revolv-j ing cylinder or magazine in which are placed the cartridges or ammunition. In the selection of a revolver it is equally essential to know what to avoid and wfhat to value. Selection very often depends upon intelligence, rejection and elimination. And, primarily, in choosing a weapon, look for defects even in a brand new gun. At tin* outset never buy a weapon of cheap manufacture. There are many revolvers catchily advertised as "don't pay for reputation," "an honest weapon at an honest price," whose chief virtues exist only in ink. Shun these as evil, for danger lurks in every inch of them. If you wrould enjoy your sport, enjoy it safely. A first-class revolver is the only kind you are justified in using. No weapon can be too good; a high-grade weapon is never cheap. Then, again, allowing a cheap revolver to be safe, they are cer- tainly inaccurate. Where lies the use of having an inaccurate weapon wrhen accuracy is the thing striven for? It has been said that experts use high- priced weapons because they are fancy. Nonsense. Safety and accuracy are what they pursue. If, per- chance, you cannot feel justified in affording a high- grade gun new, by all means select a second-hand weapon of merit. Because of its utmost importance, reject- all cheap revolvers. There are but two high- grade brands "of revolvers made in America; these are well established and need not be named here. Use a hammer gun only; hammerless, automatic pistols and double-action revolvers are delusions and snares. The hammerless is a covered double-action, and double-actions are accurate impossibilities. The hammer must be raised to full cock, leaving nothing to do but aim and pull the trigger. In a double-action the trigger lifts the hammer while sighting, the re- volver trembles and twitches and this absolutely pre- cludes an aim. Many good revolvers are made with double-action devices; but these are used entirely as single actions; many shooters remove the double- action part. An automatic Is fairly reliable, but is cumbersome and unwieldy. The first shot is slow to fire. Afterward It becomes a matter of unnecessary danger and is far from satisfactory. Automatics are now In the most embryo of development, and the fu- ture may produce a perfected weapon which will un- doubtedly be a very interesting production. Do not use a barrel less than four inches long, ex- clusive of cylinder. Otherwise the sights will be too close together to Insure an aim and the barrel roo i i ii, * hape the bullet. Further, a short- barrelled "gun" does not balance nicely, which bal- ance should be as near the trigger as possible. Picking up the revolver, for the first time at the gun dealers, or anywhere else for that matter, open it and be absolutely sure It Is not loaded. If you do not know how to open It, get the salesman to show you, or have him do it himself. He will, for one thing, think a great deal better of you, than If you took a chance of putting the pistol out of commission, for nothing so annoys a dealer as Inexperienced handling and possible damaging of his wares. In this, fire- arms dealers are somewhat peculiar; further, an old shooter is never backward about asking questions; the d .aler or clerk knows this. The opposite pre- vails with the novice; this Is also understood. So it r to pose as an old shooter and be respected, of being regarded with apprehension. rig1 the weapon open In your hand, carefully ill the exposed parts for rust and corrosion, n't take the salesman's word for It — not that he is at all mendacious, but to be your own judge. Then, carrying the weapon to the sunlight, hold a piece of white paper or card at the lower end of the barrel at an angle reflecting the light up through it, so that by looking through the other end you can see the entire intide of the barrel with great distinctness. Don't look through the barrel directly at the light, for the intense glare will preclude a careful inspection, but use the' piece' of paper as suggested. Notice care- fully the "grooVes" and the "lands" between them, which pursue the barrel spirally. This constitutes the "rifling." See that the edges and corners are cut squarely and sharp, for it is the rifling which prepares the bullet for its rotating flight to the target. In an old gun the rifling is worn; sometimes it is eaten away by corrosion, and the result is termed "pitting." A pitted barrel scrapes the bullet and fills the "pits" with lead, and the barrel then becomes what is called "leaded." A bullet from a leaded barrel flies off from its course in any indescribable direction; These er- ratic flights are termed "fliers" or "unaceountables." These .will,, at times, miss a target clean. Occasion- ally, and. very often from an inferior gun, the bullet will turn sideways in its flight, producing "keyholes" — a descriptive name of the puncture in the target. These defects militate irredeemably against accuracy. So in. selecting the weapon beware of "pits." It is next in the order of choosing a weapon to look to the "chamber alignment." The chamber is the place in the cylinder which holds the cartridge. Each chamber in the cylinder should lock directly behind the lower end of the barrel. To examine this close the breech, cock the hammer, and, pointing the gun to the light, look through the firing-pin orifice. Through this you can readily see whether the cham- ber is in collimation with the barrel when the cyl- inder is locked and to all intents and purposes the weapon is ready for firing. Should you detect a cres- cent of metal at either side, or at the top or bot- tcm, just where the chamber butts up to the barrel, he alignment is undesirable. An improper chamber alignment, like pittings, will strip the bullet, lead the barrel and develop the same results. The stripping of the bullet spoils its roundness, and in so doing allows an uneven escape of gas when the bullet emerges from the barrel. This uneven escape of gas throws the bullet out of plumb, and consequently out of its course. One may suggest that the bullet is at the muzzle scarcely long enough for this. The bullet may be quick, but the gas is quicker, the bullet depending upon the gas for its speed; and the result is with us just the same. These defects already described may presuppose a new gun as well as an old one. If the purchaser is selecting a second-hand weapon numerous other de- fects are to be guarded against. At the upper end of the cartridge chamber is a thickening or "collar," and a careless shooter will allow the crease in front of it to become filled and corroded, thereby weakening the cylinder; and a weak cylinder is always a source of danger. In the second-hand weapon "bulgings" are to be looked for. Then, again, an unscrupulous or ignorant dealer will remove the pits from a barrel, and to an unsophisticated purchaser this barrel will appear fine and smooth. A very careful inspection is necessary to avoid being hoodwinked by this ruse. So if you come upon an old gun, scarred and rusted, but with an apparently smooth and shining barrel, the chances are this barrel has been tampered with; that this barrel has been "cleaned," say with flour of emery. Reject this gun forthwith. Better buy an honest gun with a pitted barrel, relying upon get- ting a new barrel from the factory. But in this event make sure the old gun will not cost more in the end than if you bought a new gun outright. Another defect, but one which can be readily reme- died, is a poor trigger pull. A slow, rasping trigger which grates along is very disconcerting to the aim An otherwise good aim is often spoiled by this alone. This defect is~termed a "creep," and a good trigger pull goes crisp and sharp. The trigger should hold fast till just the right pressure is brought and then be up and away quick and with a snap. As any first-class gunsmith can readily correct a bad trigger, this defect is scarcely sufficient to warrant a rejection of the weapon. , Your gunsmith can also regulate the weight of the trigger pull. Three pounds makes a nice, reliable trigger which does not operate prematurely. "Hair- trlggers" are abominations. Somewhat "finer" shoot- ing may be done at times with a hair-trigger, but for general purposes they are unsatisfactory and dan- gerous. Official shooting is done with a 2^-pound pull, which is weighted by placing a dead weight on the trigger three-eighths of an inch from its end. The chief difficulty met in aiming and firing the revolver lies In the proper execution of the trigger pull. The novice grasps the handle and undertakes to "pull" the trigger by merely increasing the crook- edness of his finger. A miss, and he blames the weapon: hence, the universal condemnation that the arm is impractical; or he says he cannot hold it steady. Practice, of course, develops the muscles of thi nil and perfects steady holding, which Is a fac- tor In favor of a good shot. But the best "hold" Is entirely useless when the weapon Is "pulled" way out of alignment with the target. A shot from a good weapon goes straight to where it Is pointed, and it Is the shooter, not the weapon, who misses. Standing nearly erect, but with the shoulders tilted slightly back, the feet separated comfortably about fourteen inches, w-ithout straddling, with the arm ex- tended free from the body, the shooter is in the cor- rect position for revolver practice. This puts the body at an even balance, and no unsteadying muscular effort is necessary, which would disconcert the aim. Stand freely and comfortably with the body at ease. Load the weapon with but one cartridge at a time, and, upon firing, leave the empty shell in the chamber, loading the next and firing until the cylinder is filled with empty shells. This distributes the work evenly among the chambers, and there is no perceptible change in the weight of the gun, as would be the case if the chambers were all loaded at first and thea fired till empty. This system minimizes danger. No one is lounging about with a loaded weapon; then, again, ammunition in the other chambers is not spoiled by loosened bullets or primers. There being no occasion for rapid shooting, this system may be readily followed, and the shooter gains thereby a beneficial rest between shots. This system would not be practical in actual serv- ice; but in this instancet he bullets are fixed firmly by heavy "crimping," the shell being tightly closed around the bullet. For hunting or personal protec- tion the service ammunition should be used. As crimping is slightly injurious to the bullet, target shooters fire from uncrimped shells, loading one at a time. But at the target, even with crimped shells, it is safer to follow the target system. Most clubs make a rule of this which is enforced very strictly. The manner or trick: of "pulling" the trigger is the msyterious key to successful revolver shooting. Aim- ing and firing being done with but one hand, the best aim possible is invariably frustrated by an improper pull. It is not so much to hold steady as it is to pull steady. A revolver may be grasped and pointed well, but the convulsive jerk of a pulling finger undoef everything. The trigger should be "squeezed." Th stock, the trigger, and the space between, must e regarded as one entire solid object which is to^e squeezed or pressed evenly, gradually and ste?iy from all sides at once. This pressure being exf^d from each direction contemporaneously, keepstrie weapon pointed steadily according to the' aim ane*°es not detract from it. This gradual, even "squze." coming from all sides at once, ultimately releas the hammer without deflecting the aim. The wean at the time of discharge thus retains its aim a the bullet flies to its intended mark. This is thereat and only secret of success with the revolver. Iving acquired the necessary dexterity in squeezlr the shooter is the master of any weapon and can vays rely upon himself in any emergency. As a question might be interjected here of how about the 'kick?'" a word or two. This soilled "kick" is a mere bugbear and nothing more. Suf- fices to say the bullet is a long ways from thgun before the "kick" scarcely begins. So, standi- in the position described, grasp the weapon as indited, firmly but without tension or strain, confine yotat- tention to the aligning of the sights upon the tget and of properly executing the squeeze. Keep jur mind off the anticipated discharge of the cartrge. That will take care of itself, and the anticipatioof the report can serve only to unnerve the shooter.if, upon making an attempt to shoot, you find >ir "holding" is poor, or that your aim is tiring, lay \e wreapon dowrn and take a short rest. Concentrate y«r mind upon conscientiously executing each shot ai never fire at random. One properly fired shot is E value, while all the random shots you could bla, away would be of no benefit. Then pick up yot. weapon and try again, grasping it correctly, alignin. the sights and starting the gradual, even squeeze. Di this and your bullet will land there or thereabouts, and the result will be worth while. At first this "squeeze" may appear to be a slow and unsatisfactory way of shooting; that the other man could have emptied his gun at you while you were firing once. But here, this "squeeze" is per- fected with practice, and in a short time develops into certain and rapid matter. And then, again, what damage has an incompetently emptied revolver done? The hit is the thing, though it were slow in starting. Now provide yourself with sufficient ammunition of reputable manufacture, betake yourself to some con- venient range, and, with but one shell in the gun, which must at all times be kept pointed toward the target, practice — and practice continuously. Cleaning Guns. Running oiled cloths through a gun or rifle barrel will not always soften and remove the fouling, though to the eye the interior may appear perfectly clean and bright. Wood alcohol is a better dissolvent of the residue, but a rifleman who has made the subject a study claims that ammonia is the best of all. The final operation in all cases is to wipe the interior thoroughly dry and then apply a good coating of oil. The Late F. S. Stedman. Frederick S. Stedman, secretary of the Du Quesne Kennel Club and of the American Pomeranian Club, a prominent and esteemed Pittsburg fancier, passed away in Pittsburg on January 22. Walter Parrish of Stockton recently lost by death his good Cocker 'Paddy," for that was the kennel name of Mr. Longers, a winner at several shows. The Second Annual Produce Stakes of the Bull Terrier Breeders' Association will be held at the Hotel Irlington, New York, on February 12, 1906, at 10:30 p. m. Mr. Bellln. who will also pass upon this breed at the New York Show, will be the judge. A number of very promising puppies are entered and the competition promises to be very interesting. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonadw and be refreshed. Februarys, iai6] ^Clu- {frvvsOw atib §ppovi9%nan 9 COLORS IN GREAT DANES. The Great Da ne^ Club has adopted the standard of th.e- German- Doggen-Klub for colors, and I think it will interest the Dane fanciers to know what thesi: colors are. According: to the description of dogs de luxe, edited by the "Kennel Association of Breeders of Dog's 'de' Luxe and- Fox Terriers" in Germany, which contains- the standard of the "Deutsche Dogge," standard mentioned also by the Stud Book, vol. 2, published by the Deutscher Doggen-Club, in con- junction with the Nationaler Doggen-Club, there are three divisions of colors — (a) brindle Danes, (b) uni- colored Danes, and (c) harlequins. (a) Brindle Danes — The ground color from the lightest yellow to the darkest fawn, always with ob- lique (transversal) black stripes. (b) TJnicolored Danes — Yellow or grey (blue) in the most various shades, either of one color or with darker shades on the muzzle and round the eyes and streak on the back. The nose in brindles and unicolored Danes must always be black, the eyes and nails dark, white markings allowed only on the chest, between the front legs, and exceptionally on the paws (toes). In blue Danes lighter eyes are permissible, but in no case "glassy" eyes, (c) Harlequin Danes — The grounu color white, with irregularly broken, but possibly sym- metrically dsitributed all over the body black patches (a few gray spots are allowed). In Harlequin Danes "glassy" eyes, fiesh-colored and spotted nose, as well as light-colored nails, are not faulty. It will probably interest the Dane fanciers in this country to know that the Dalmatians are called "Petits Danois" (little Danes) in Belgium and France, probably on account of their markings. Now that the date is' fast approaching when the new rule as to colors of the Great Dane Club will .be in force, it will be very interesting to mention what our German "cousins," the pioneers of the "Deutsche Dogge" in the world, do in order to obtain the clean colors. The Germans say that they like all colors when the latter are. clean. The same applies to Austria. Holland and Belgium, but it is otherwise in France. Not that the French have not an "entente cordiale" in clean colors with the other countries, but they, for instance, do not like at all the brindle- and-fawn Danes. On the contrary, the French, es- pecially the Parisians, are fond of blue Danes and black-and-white Harlequins. Every Dane breeder In German knows how to mate the colors in order to obtain clean ones. Badly colored Danes are very seldom seen in their country, and their owners have simply no courage to exhibit these dogs. Before . going any further into the subject, I wish it to be understood that I do not presume teaching the old, experienced breeder, who knows his "business" well, but I do want to help the inexperienced one — the nov- ice. I think that now is just the time for taking the question of colors in Danes into serious considera- tion, as the result of the end of this month's mating will just fall at the beginning of January, 1906, when the new rule of the Great Dane Club comes into force. In Germany they mate, in the first instance, brindles with brindles, because they (the Germans) possess a sufficient "material" of dark brindles and light brindles. In the second instance they mate brindles with fawns. Then they mate in the first in- . stance fawns with fawns, and in the second instance fawns with brindles. It is risky to match a blue bitch to a blue dog with Harlequin blood in him; in this case it is preferable to mate her to a black dog. Black-arid-white Harlequins must always be mated with black-and-white Harlequins. If the bitch has much white she must be put to a dog with much black, .and vice versa; or a Harlequin bitch with much white ,can be put to a pure bred black dog — i. e., a black dog bred from Harlequins. , . By mating fawns with blues one may get biscuit fawns; by mating blues with brindles one may obtain inferior brindles. These latter are most dangerous for breeding, as it does not take a few generations, but many, many generations to get rid of the wrong ' blood, which an experienced eye can see at a glance on the progeny. — English Stock Keeper. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Portland Kennel Club. A communication from a Portland subscriber, dated January 23d, among other things states: " "The following officers were elected by the Port- land Kennel Club at the annual meeting last night: President, J. "Wesley Ladd; vice-president. Dr. Er- nest F. Tucker; treasurer, Henry Ladd Corbett; mem- bers of the board of directors, W. B. Fecheimer, Frank E. Watkins, Dr. J. C. %an and Henry Berger, Jr. The meeting was not very largely attended, for there were just enough members present to form, .a. quorum, but these were the most enthusiastic among 'the dog fanciers In this city. "The meeting was called to order with Vice-Presi- dent F. A. Fleming in the chair, and aside from the election the principal item transacted was the chang- ing of the date of the annual meeting from the last week In December to the last "Wednesday In the month following the holding of the annual bench show This move was made in order to secure a bet- ter attendance among the members of the club, many of whom find it Inconvenient to be present at this time of the year. 'It was also decided upon motion of J. A. Taylor that the club should be incorporated as soon as the new officials take office and a secretary is> chosen by them. This office was left open In order to enable the new board of directors to make a selection for the office, as F. F. "Wamsley, the retiring secretary, declined the place on account of business and no one present desired to assume the responsibility. "According to the members of the club the coming bench show will eclipse anything of the kind ever held by the club in the past. The affairs of the club are in a flourishing condition, the report of the secre- tary, showing a balance of $605.54 in the treasury. The treasurer's report was not presented at the meet- ing for the reason that Mr. Goldman is out of the city on business and promised to turn over his ac- counts as soon as he returned. "Frank E. Watkins was made custodian of the sec- retary's books until a man for the office shall be chosen." Requisites of a Good Field Dog. The first requisite to a good field dog is his ability to find and point game, and upon his method of find- ing, and the snap and vim with which he goes at n, will depend the place he will occupy when the judges get through with him; he may run fast enough and cover a large amount of ground, as far as distance is concerned, but this question always comes into con- sideration in placing the winners in a field trial; an the contestants being found good bird dogs, as far as pointing and nose goes, then arises the question: Which has the most style, which has the best face, the snappiest way of going, the most style in point- ing birds, and the best range and hunting ability. There are a great many fast, wide-ranging dogs that never win a place at a field trial, and their owners wonder why, but it is the combination of all of these good and desirable qualities that the winner may possess in order to make him valuable to the kennel world. Some breeders think a field trial nothing more than a race and exhibition of speed, but the "all- heels" quality is not thee predominating one; yet this fact remains and forces itself to the front in every contest, that out of several competitors for honors at any trial, the dog which has the widest range, fastest pace, coupled with style, pointing ability used to ad- vantage, usually wins, and it is this dog that is known as the high -class field-trial dog, and whose services are eagerly sought by the prominent breeders throughout the country. "We frequently hear men say: "Oh, my dog is no field-trial dog; he is only a good shooting dog, and the best one I ever saw." True; but what makes him the "best you ever saw?" The simple fact that this same shooting dog may be the son or daughter of one of the high-class field- trial dogs that has had good qualities developed and proven, and who would probably range a quarter of a mile away. Tour puppy possibly would not range fifty yards away, but, if he has been properly bred and you have the record of his sire and dam to back him up, it is safe to say he will take after them in many respects, and it devolves upon the trainer to bring out his natural qualities. Size of Fox Terriers. The question of size in Fox Terriers is one which will never be settled; it is too much a question of in- dividual liking. A show Fox Terrier, however, is one thing and the 'working man" is another. The former is> a dog combing style with substance and quality, with soundness of conformation. The "workman" generally shows all the characteristics of his profes- sion— a wide chest, a strong head, and a general lack of race or quality. His performances above or under ground count for nothing in the show ring, in fact, his very prowess with fox or badger implies that his development has not been in accordance with the exacting demand of the show ring. No one who has a valuable dog cares to risk letting him "go to earth," except in a very half-hearted man- ner, for the purpose of advertising the gameness of his strain. An eye is too easily lost or an ear dis- figured for life to make such diversion profitable. In these days of keen competition the show dog's career is necessarily a very limited one. 'Youth will be served," and to win the highest honors a dog must have all youth's freshness, activity and beauty of out- line. Hence the modern show Fox Terrier is in a class far removed from the "workingstamp." Many years of intelligent breeding have produced in him a beautiful type of animal, the natural outcome of all the thought and study that have been devoted to his development. He Is Still With Us. In response to numerous inquiries we will state that the J. E. Lucas whose name appears in the roster of lost passengers of the ill-fated Valencia, is not the well known handler, John E. Lucas of Mount View Kennels. "Munzie" informed us during the trials at Bakersfield that he would stay in that locality until probably the first of April. At last ac- counts he was still in Kern county with his string of dogs. Denver Show. The Colorado Kennel Club have decided to hold their show on March 8, 9 and 10, 1906, at Denver. The early work is progressing nicely, and there are indications thai, the show will be the greatest that was ever held in the State. ten when referring to him. Coast dogdom and Coast judges would be all right and everything lovely could there be eliminated from the fancy certain miasmatic, blackguard influences that have done more to retard advancement than anything else. This influence has been clever enough to tempor- arily divert the finger of suspicion and consequent deserved ostracism. Diarrhoea and Dysentery in Puppies. There is a great deal of mortality among puppies of all breeds which is due to dlarrhoe or dysentery, which is simply an aggravated form of diarrhoeea. The causes of this are several, and perhaps in the majority of cases the presence of worms is respon- sible for it. When that is so, of course the proper course of treatment is to give a vermifuge and get rid of these pests. We need not enter further upon that, for it is a subject which has been very fre- quently dealt with in this column. There are. how- ever, other causes, and most common of all is the giving of sour or unwholesome food. Soft or semi- liquid foods will very quickly become sour, and care should be taken that no such food is allowed to re- main from one feeding time to another. Only prepare as much as is required for one meal at a time, and if any remains, get rid of it before it sets up fermentation or becomes unwholesome. It must be borne in mind that young puppies when they are weaned are very liable to disturbance of the di- gestive organs, because hitherto they have been sub- sisting mainly upon milk, and when you begin to give them solid food of course nature is called upon to perform a different digestive task. Care, therefore, should be taken that puppies are weaned very grad- ually, for it is useless to expect a puppy to survive a sudden change of food from an entire milk diet on to an entire diet of patent foods. The first result of indigestion in a puppy will be an attack of diarrhoea. Should this come on, pay attention at once to the food, returning to a milk or milk and barley water diet for a day or two, first giving the puppy a good dose of castor oil to clear and soothe the intestines. Diet All Important. When a dog is ailing one of the most important considerations is his diet. In ordinary health a sturay dog can make quite light of swallowing all sorts of indigestible things; he will even be able to digest bones, but if he is ill it is surprising how speedily the digestive functions become deranged, so that in a serious case the dog may not even be able to keep a simple thing like milk down. Everything, of course, depends upon the nature of the ailment from which he is suffering, and the seriousness of it or otherwise; and it may not be desirable to give any solid food at all, particularly if the dog be feverish. By the aid of a clinical thermometer, which has been so frequently advocated in this column, it is always possible to tell at once whether the dog is feverish. When the clinical thermometer shows a degree of fever, it means that there is inflammation in the system somewhere, and that is a warning which must not be neglected. The meaning of it is. so far as diet is concerned, that the dog must not have any solid food whatever until the symptom abates. In any case, when a dog is not well, it is always safe to give liquid or semi-liquid food. Good sheep's head broth, barley water, and oatmeal gruel, milk, gravy and such like, are the proper foods for a dog which is either seriously ill or is convalescent: and It may be remarked that when a dog is convalescent it Is most important that too great a strain should not be put suddenly upon his digestive powers until they have had time to recuperate. A return to solid food, there- fore, should only be made gradually. GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Coast Judges. "We notice in the American Stock-Keeper comment on Coast judges and an extract from an obscure publication criticising the Pasadena show. The excerpt was purely a case of sour grapes. The Pasadena people did very well for an initial show. The inuendo that comment was made in the hearing of the judge — "Of course we know that this talk didn't interfere with the judges or some decisions wouldn't have gone the way they did." Sour grapes and a reflex of a mind that is facile with all tricks and shady innovations of dogdom. Probably the writer fancied to have seen In the Pasadena ring a certain individual whose reputation in dogdom Is tersely expressed by nine people out of Bob Whites and Pheasants Thrive. Game Warden George Neale of Sacramento county is meeting with success of the most pronounced char- acter in the propagation of two species of game birds imported in an attempt to restock the depleted game supply of this section of the State, says the Union. A few pair of bob white quail, liberated last season by Mr. Neale on the Rancho Del Paso, have multiplied to such an extent that there are now hundreds of birds of that variety in the brush and thickets of the grant. By arrangement with the management of the ranch the birds will be protected for a period of two years by which time, it is believed, they will be so numerous as to admit of a brief open season. A curious feature of their development is due to the absence of polygamy among the bob white quail. Unmated members of the flock have taken up homes at some distance from their feathered relatives, and some of them are found with chickens and pigeons In barnyards at the edge of town, where their visits are encouraged by people who were at a loss to account for their appearance. Native or "valley" quail are also doing well on the Haggin grant, and in other localities; where land- owners and sportsmen have agreed upon their pro- tection. These birds, at one time so scarce that their extinction was threatened, are expected to furnish splendid sport within a couple of years If not relent- lessly pursued with dog and gun prior to that time. On the grant shooting at any species of quail Is pro- hibited, because there are few hunters able to dis- tinguish between bob white and native quuil In the brief interval before pulling the trigger. Game Warden Neale has also received satisfactory reports regarding the English pheasants liberated some time ago. He is satisfied that this variety will thrive and multiply rapidly after this season and Is giving considerably attention to their program. T. S. Palmer, who has charge of the _ commission devoted to fish and game manifesting considerable Interest In Mr. N- 10 ©its gvce&ev ani> &p&vt&u*axt (.February 3. 1906 ,.t to populate the county with impo - written to what they eat and n - tie .that, the State' ,1-lth the eh. To Protect Striped Bass. Members of the Call Lnglers Assoi are considering two measures designed to i strl ;h will be presented . gislature. One of these con- ason of two years, while the other wo dose season hereafter during February and March of each year. The marked decrease in the supply of striped bass aters of the birred the members of association to action. They felt some radical measures must be taken o.- else this great .game and food fish will be completely wiped out here, sharing the fate of the sturgeon. Jabez Swan, one of the directors of the associa- tion, makes the following statement: "The enormous catches of striped bass made by professional fishermen has reduced the supply to a remarkable extent. Five years ago many bass were : the Oakland estauary. San Leandro bay. San 10 bar. the tributaries of Petaluma creek and in all the small streams up to the mouth of the Sacra- mento river. "The waters of the bay have been depleted to such an extent that sportsmen trolling in Raccoon straits get no fish, while in other places not 10 per cent of the fish are taken by anglers which were caught some vears ago. From various causes the fish have be- come scarce and will become extinct in a few years like the sturgeon, of which not one is seen here now. ••Bass go in schools and their presence is indicated by the seagulls and by other signs known to the mar- ket fishermen. When a school is located a haul is made running into tons in weight. Most of these fish range from one-half to three pounds in weight, the latter being the smallest supposed to be taken under the law. These under-sized fish may be obtained at almost any restaurant in this city. The little fish markets in the suburbs also have these under-sized fish for sale at all times. Tons may be seen being packed for the country or sold for consumption here almost every day in the year. '•Another, and. if anything, a more deadly enemy than the market fishermen, is the refuse oil which is discharged from ships and refineries about the bay. This drifts onto the marsh grasses and tules and then settles down upon the roe of the bass, destroying millions of the embryo bass. The officials charged with the prevention of this seem powerless to cope with the evil. "This city supplies today about one-third of the fish consumed in this State. If the supply is to be maintained a decided stand must be taken by the officials in the protection of the food fishes. Set-nets, which are against the law, are reported at the mouths of sloughs all over the bay. Seizure or prosecution by the officials are heard of only occasionally. The people should rise up and protect this most valuable of food fishes in the bays and rivers. "The California Anglers' Association is setting on foot a scheme whereby something may be done ef- fectually in this direction. While the bass are pro- lific, they cannot stand everything, and some radical measures must be taken for their preservation. Our association has under consideration two measures, one of which will be presented at the next session of the Legislature. One of these contemplates a close season of two years to give the bass an opportunity to mul- tiply and replenish the waters completely. The other provides for a two-month close season each year in- stead of one month, as at present. "There has been a noticeable falling off in the sup- ply since last year, and severe measures must be taken at once or else the fish will be wiped out." American Bred Dogs. This vexed question has, for the time being, been settled by the Ladies' Kennel Association of Massa- etts in a mo: i thoroughly sportsmanlike manner, Mug to the Boston Herald, which says: There is no topic in dogdom being more universally : - fanciers and exhibitors than the' i. lions that have been placed on Canadian dogs held io Hi" United States. Heretofore there between Canadian-bred and and while many believe that it ill very well for the American Kennel Club to put i dog! bred in Great Britain or any the term American as applied d, it is claimed, include dogs bred in , la. This action Of the American Kennel Club oral 'lie La.iies' Kennel Association of M hich believes in reci- procity In kennel matters, as well as in commercial life. now announci s that In all ol hich it has bench show of the New England ■ mi. to i' held o Bo ton next month, in ■ -i. the asso- ieflnltion. In other words, specials don association e opei equal- ly to Canadian-bred and American hied dogs. Illegal Meshed Net Seized. Deputy Game Warden R. Mi recrjilly seized a 600-foot net, the meshes of which less than the legal size. Two men, for whom -sued, were using the net In appointment slough. quail llinli ently been shot In the inlty of Milton, San Joaquin county. Shooting Hints for Beginners. It is not altogether surprising, when one comes to think of it, that every youth sooner or later, should evip.ee a desire to become the possessor of a gun. From his earliest days he-is, wisely or unwisely, en- couraged to take an interest in popguns and toy pis- tols, and his parents, no doubt, forget that the day will come when the young hopeful of the family is no longer satisfied with these comparatively harmless weapons, but must needs become the owner of some- thing more like the real article. At such times the fond parents begin to ask themselves whether it is wise to encourage in their child that natural instinct of affection for something that makes a noise, which instinct in time develops into that stronger desire for ■'killing something." But it is then too late to consider such things. The average boy is a self-willed young person, and, the more you try to keep things out of his reach,' the more he will endeavor to obtain them. Nor is there really any reason why his desire to possess dangerous weapons should be checked writes a contributor to the English Shooting Times. Tour warlike boy is worth a dozen of his more peacefully inclined brethren, and he who shows the sporting in- stinct when young is far more likely to turn out a good fellow later on than the youth of the molly- coddle type, who has no venturesome spirit in his com- position. There is, one may assert, without fear of contra- diction, no harm whatever in allowing the youngster to follow his own natural inclinations in the matter of catapults, slings, airguns and such like weapons of early youth, nor need one hesitate to encourage him in their use, provided that — and here lies the gist of the whole matter — the beginner is properly schooled in the use of these early emblems of warfare. Even the toy pistol which shoots a small shot, and, of course, the airgun, are capable of doing a good deal of damage and serious injury if carelessly used, and those who have charge of the youngster with his ju- venile weapons of danger cannot be too careful to inculcate into his naturally retentive mind the first principle of safety. Youth, as we all know, is easily impressed, and bad habits, as we all know, learned when young, are not easily forgotten. Nor can a youth of IS or 20 learn so readily as one half his age the elementary portion of any particular training. Carelessness with firearms is a thing Which we often see in the field; but it will be noted that offenders in this respect are more usually to be found among those who have taken up shooting late in life, than in those who begin to learn the game at the beginning of their 'teens. The older man, and, indeed, sometimes the youth, only too often thinks that, because he knows a good many things, he knows all — that which per- tains to the use of firearms included. Perhaps he. is a fair shot or on the road to become one. and he there- fore imagines, very erroneously, that his behavior is all that can be desired. But a man may be a good shot, and yet be very careless with his gun. One sees instances of this almost every day, and ninety-nine out of every hundred shooting "acidents" are due to the arrant carelessness of someone. Boys are not the most common offenders in this respect; but, unless they are properly schooled', they are more than likely to cause some terror among their companions in the field. There are many men who, if they but knew it, ought never to be allowed to handle a gun; and their ignorance of their own carelessness costs them dear. How many men are there who find that they do not get asked to shoot so often as they would like or expect? But they generally search for all kinds of reasons for this, rather than attribute it to the real cause — carelessness on their own part. Unfortunately, it is always difficult to 'tell anyone that he is careless with firearms. A host is the only man who can do it, aad even he, especially if he be a younger man than his guest always finds it a disagreeable task. He naturally hesitates to offend a man who may be one of his best friends, and few people care to have their errors pointed out to them even in the most friendly and quiet way. For all that, it is sometimes neces- sary to call out to a dangerous man to be more care- ful, even in the presence of the rest of the party, and it is far better to run the risk of mortally offending one member, rather than allow the lives of the rest to be endangered. The first lesson, therefore, of the beginner is that which concerns safety, and in this respect matters are far more easy for him nowadays than they were in the days of his grandfather. The up-to-date breech- loader is a very different thing to the old-fashioned muzzle-loader, with its "hang-fires," unexploded charges, and other dangerous features, and the tyro of to-day has to observe but a few simple rules to ensure the safety of himself and his fellows. There are any number of ways of carrying a gun, but only three of these at the most can be considered safe, and then only according to circumstances. The safest and best way of all is over the shoulder, holding the stock by the thin part behind the trigger-guard or at the butt, but always with the trigger-guard upper- mosl and not, as so many people still persist in doing, with the trigger-guard underneath. Under the arm 1=' a good way of carrying a gun if going through covert, or when on a long tramp, and an occasional change from this to the shoulder position and back again will be found to add greatly to one's comfort. When one Is walking in line, the gun is best carried across one arm at an angle of not less1 than 45 de- he barrels pointing forward and downwards. Thus < in ieil. the gun Is always ready for a shot, and companions to the left are always safe. The over-shoulder position, with the small part of the stock grasped In one's right hand, as referred to above, is also a good position when walking In line. It will be found that, while the gun Is in the safest position possible, especially In the case of a stumble over a root or other obstacle, it can be brought to the "pre- sent" in an Instant. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Ja* 1 -June 1— Closed season for black bass. Apm 1-Sept. lu. Oct. 16-Feb. 1-Open season tor taking steal- bead In tidewater. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season In tidewater for steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season for catching salmon. Sept. 15-Aprll 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish, wa'ter I6"Nov" lh -°los» season for taking salmon above tide. Nov. 1-AprII 1— Trout season closed, water' 1~ApriI '— 0l0sea season [or taking steelbead above the Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. wateT' 15_Sept- 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide Gun. July 1-Feb. 15— Dove season open. Sept. 1-Feb. 15— Open season for mountain quail, grouse and SltTS u8Q. Oct. 15-Feb. 15— Open season tor quail, ducks, etc Oct. 15-Aprll 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. M^b;JV05_WestII"£ste^ Kennel Club. New York. Robt. V. McKIm, Secretary. Entrlesclose Jan. 25. Feb. 20, 23-New England Kennel Club. Boston. Wm B Emery, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 30. FFp%f™,?/0s3_Washin^ton, Kennel Clut>- Washington, Pa. u . C. Thomas, Secretary. Entries olose Feb. 22 TholrB'oll,;Serre?aUrty.ern °M° ^^ C'Ub' Hamllt0n' OMo- s^™" 7' M-Duiuesne Kennel Club. Pittsburfe, Pa. F. S Steadman, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 25. tels, S°ehcretary?0l0ra'i0 KmOBl CI"b' D8nTer> Co1' T- W' B«- TRADE NOTES. Averages Reported. Chicago, 111., Jan. 1.— w. D. Stannard, first, gen- eral average, 96 out of 100, shooting "DuPont;" J. S. Boa, second, general average, 91 out of 100, shooting "HuPont;" Dr. Lovell and E. B. Shogren, both of Chicago, and booth shooting "DuPont," tied for first amateur and third general average, 90 out of 100; W. Einfeldt, Oak Park. 111., third amateur, average, 87 out of 100. Holmesburg, Junction, Pa„ Jan. 1.— L. J. Squier, first, general average, 160 out of 189, shooting "Du- Pont;" C. H. Newcomb, Philadelphia, Pa., first ama- teur and second general average, 154 out of ISO shooting "Infallible." F. M. Eames, Philadelphia, Pa.[ second amateur and third general average, 151 out of ISO, shooting •DuPont." A. L. Anmack, Vineland, N. J., third amateur, average, 146 out of ISO, shooting "DuPont." Landsdale, Pa„ Jan. 4.— L. J. Squier, first general average, 170 out of ISO, shooting "DuPont;" W. H. Heer, second general average, 168 out of ISO, shooting "New E. C. (Improved);" J. A. R. Elliott, third gen- eral average, 166 out of 180, shooting "New Schultze;" L. L. Swartz, Landsdale, Pa., first amateur, average, 163 out of 180, shooting "New Schultze;" E. M. Lud- wick, Honeybrook, Pa., second amateur, average, 145 out of ISO, shooting "DuPont;" J. E. Pratt, Philadel- phia, third amateur, average, 144 out of 180, shooting "Infallible." Volo, III., Jan. 9.— J. R. Graham, Ingleside, 111., shooting "New E. C. (Improved)," first amateur and tied for first general average with J. Boa, shooting "DuPont," 166 out of 190; F. C. Riehl, second general average, 165 out of 190, shooting "New E. C. (Im- proved);" L. R. Barkley, Chicago, 111., second amateur and third general average, 162 out of 190, shooting 'DuPont;" Mr. Ben Sterling, McHenry, 111., third ama- teur average, 159 out of 190, shooting "New E. C. (Improved).'" Milton, Pa.. Jan. 10.— H. C. Hirschy, first general average, 147 out of 150, shooting "DuPont;" W. H. Heer, second general average, 143 out of 150, shoot- ing 'New E. C. (Improved);" L. J Squier, "third general average, 138 out of 150, shooting "DuPont;" C. H. Newcomb, Philadelphia, Pa., first amateur, aver- age, 131 out of 150, shooting "Infallible;" Fred. God- Pontcharles, Milton, Pa., second amateur average, shooting "DuPont;" A. B. Longshore, Shamokin, Pa„ third amateur average, shooting "Infallible." They Did it With a Parker. At the Grand Canadian Handicap held at Hamilton, Ont, Jan. 16 to 19, the "Old Reliable" Parker gun was much in evidence. Thos. Upton, winner of the live bird event, with a score of 34 out of 35, is an exceptional record at live birdss, and reflects credit upon the Parker gun. Live bird shooting is the most severe test of a shotgun, and this record is particularly flattering to Parker Bros. The first, second and third amateur averages at inanimate targets were carried off by Parker guns in the hands of C. E. Doolittle, of Cleveland; Jay D. Green, Avon, N. T., and H. D. Kirkover, Jr., of Buf- falo, respectively, showing that the Parker gun is a winner in the hands of amateurs no matter where used. A Prominent New Yorker. J. Noah H. Slee, head of the manufacturing concern that manufactures and markets "3 in One" oil, has just been elected a member of the New York Cham- ber of Commerce. While Mr. Slee is a very busy man manufacturing "3 in One" oil. he still has time enough to be public spirited and progressive in the interests of the community in which he lives and works, and the whole country as well. The sales of "3 in One" are increasing every day at a faster rate than ever before. That Mr. Slee is in earnest in his desire to place ' 3 in One" in the hands of every sportsman and gun owner in the country is certainly evidenced by the fact that they offer in all their advertising to send generous samples free of cost to anyone who asks. February 3, 1906J ®4re gree&er cmt> gtpvvtemcm 11 FOUR BIG I EARLY J CLOSING* GUARANTEED STAKES! Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. ENTRIES TO CLOSE MONDAY, APRIL 2, 06 Only T-wo I*er Oont to Enter. CALIFORNIA STAKES $2000 For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES 2000 For Pacers Eligible to 2:20 Class SUINSET STAKES 1000 For Free=for=AII Trotters GOLDEN GATE STAKES 1000 For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class ENTRANCE DUE AS FOLLOWS: 2 par cent April 2, 1906; 1 per cent additionalif not declared out by May 1, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 per cent additional if not declared by July 2, 1906. Liberal StakeB for other cla8663 will be announced later. EDtry Blanks will be issued March 1st. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELIEY. Secretary, 36 Geary St., S. F, CUTTING AND CURING PORK. taint the meat. DAIRY NOTES. After killing and dressing, the hog should hang until thoroughly cooled. Operations are usually begun early in the morning, so as to have ample time to cool before night. There is a greater demand for bacon in this country than for salt pork, hence -the sides of all hogs which are not overfat should be converted into bacon, says New York Farmer. For salt pork and fresh roasts the hog is first split along the back, the cuts of meat being removed from the loin and shoulder portions and the belly strips used for bacon. When bacon only is desired, the hams and shoulders are first removed after which the spare ribs are cut away. Bacon strips about three inches wide are cut around the body and these are cut in two. The hams and shoulders are cut short of the leg joint, well rounded and trimmed. Lean trimmings are made into sausage or head cheese. Choice lard is made from leaf lard and trimmings only, second-grade lard from gut fat, leaf lard and trimmings. The hams, shoulders and bacon are rubbed with salt and placed on edge in layers in a barrel, which should have a layer of salt sprinkled over the bottom. For each 100 pounds of meat make a pickle of ten pounds of salt, two pounds of brown sugar, two ounces of saltpeter, one ounce of red pepper and from four to four and one-half gal- lons of water. Put these ingredients in an iron or lin vessel, place it over the fire and boil 10 or 15 minutes. Stir while boil- ing and remove the scum. After the brine has cooled, pour it over the meat and let it remain from five to six weeks, then remove, drain and wipe the pieces, after which they are ready for the smoke, which should last two or three weeks. The patent liquid smoke produces meat of a very good flavor. If cured in the old-fashioned way, the smoke should be kept up constantly, but the meat should not hang near enough to the fire to become heated. The smokehouse must be tight, and it Is safer to have a ground floor. The fire should be built in an iron pan near ■the middle of the building. If a red- hot iron is placed in the pan and the corncobs and chips placed over this, the smudge will start easily. An oc- casional piece of green wood adds to the smoke. After smoking, the hams shoulders and bacon pieces can be sewed up in muslin bags, which are whitewashed with lime and hung up in a dark, cool place. The salt pork is left in brine until used. It is usually salted more than the hams, and should be placed in a separate barrel made from well sea- soned oak. A stone is placed over the meat to keep it under the brine. In the spring the meat is removed and rinsed in clean water, and the barrel scalded. The brine is boiled and the impurities skimmed off. The pork is then put In the clean barrel and the brine poured over It. .If this precaution Is not taken, when warm weather approaches, the grease at the top of the brine will putrify and MOST COMMON DISEASE. Indigestion is the most common of all diseases among horses and mules. It is so often not visible, however, that the victim is termed sluggish or lazy without the real trouble being known, and the diseases progresses until the animal becomes worthless. The char- acteristics of the disease are much the same with all live stock, so the sug- gestion made here may be applied in a general way to any animal on the farm. The symptom are variable. The ap- petite may not be impaired. Sometimes it is capricious and perverted and again it continues good. In either case the victim is likely to lose flesh slowly but steadily. The bowels are generally irregular, the faces often coated with mucus and there may be great thirst and acid eructions. Abdominal pain is not in- frequent, especially, when the appetite remains unimpaired. The appetite is not only irregular, but in some cases is depressed. There is a disposition to eat unusual substances, such as wood, soiled bedding or other filthy matter. A healthy horse is the cleanest feed- er of all animals, but if affected with indigestion he may eat food that a hog would refuse. A common symptom is the passing of grain through the body whole and entirely undigested. The victim continues to lose flesh, the skin presents a hard, dry appearance and seems tight, or 'hide bound." As to treatment — 'the cause of the disease should be looked after care- fully and the diet promptly arranged. Commence with the food and regulate its quality, quantity and the intervals between feeding. See that the water supply is fresh and above all that it is given before feeding, for if taken after a meal it washes the contents of the stomach into the bowels before they have been thoroughly prepared for their recep- tion. Endeavor to locate the trouble — whether it is in the stomach, intestines or annexed organs of digestion, as the liver, pancreas, etc. If the teeth are bad, attend to them. If sharp and ir- regular, dress them and smooth them with a tooth rasp. If indigestion is due to bolting the food, correct this by f eding in a large manger where the food can be spread out so that the animal must eat slowly. The bowels should be kept open by feeding soft foods, and when necessary, give such vegetable tonics as pulver- ized gentian in one or two teaspoonful doses mixed with pulverized quassia and bicarbonate of soda in the same sized doses. When acidity of the stomach is a marked symptom, such anticides as pulverized chalk of sub- nitrate of bismuth may be administer- ed in half to tablespoonful doses. p To have careless milkers decreases the flow of milk. He who milks with thumb and finger Is a poor milker. The udder is very tender and needs gentle treatment. It should not be pulled hard nor Jerked. Firm, gentle manipulation will obtain the best re- sults. Statistics show that only one and one-half per cent of the cattle in Amer- ica have had the benefit of a reg- istered sire. A cow that shows she is a good milker or a good breeder when young, will probably continue to be such throughout her career. It is sometimes the case that cows that give the most milk are the worst kickers. If they are really good it pays to work with them. Anyone contemplating the dairy bus- iness needs to consider well his loca- tion and his market, and get that breed which is best adapted to both. Salt should not be fed as a ration at stated times, as too much or too little will be given. They should have free access to it whenever they want it. The calf that is not vigorous is not worth raising, and no time should be spent, nor food wasted, intrying to coax him along. He will be unsatis- factory when he is grown. First-class cows are money makers at -almost any price. The $20 cow Is almost sure to be a rapid money loser. She would be, even if she did not cost anything, but was a present. The modern process of selecting the best for breeding purposes, is a repeti- tion of the old law of the survival of the fittest being worked by man, in- stead of letting nature work it out her- self. As soon as a heifer calf is dropped it should be fed and trained with a view to making the very best cow pos- sible from the material that is in its little hide. That is, the object aimed ability for her to convert the largest amount of food into milk, richest with butter fat. It should not develop the predisposition to put on fat. Fat is antagonistic to making milk. A college professor is quoted as say- ing that a boy can be taught more good sound butter and cheese practice and doctrine in three months, at a good dairy school, than can be learned in -ten months at reguiar work. After a few years of experience as a dairy- man, many things will be understood which now seem strange. But then there will be other problems to handle which are unseen at first. It is an endless interesting study. There is such a thing as a milking habit with cows. These are made by the one who trains them. The future value of the cow depends largely upon how she is treated during her young cowhood. If at the time she is so treated that she will give milk 10 to 12 months or more, she will probably keep it up all her life. Carelessness along this line should be watched to avoid trouble and loss in the future. The stingy feeder cheats himself as well as his cows; but, on the other hand, the dairy cow that will not re- pay generous feeding should be dis- p'aced at once. The best results come from heifers who come fresh at from 24 to 28 months old. Some which are small and undeveloped may wait until older. To wait longer is to lose time. When training calves they should be fed at regular intervals. Not too much at a time. When we observe the course of nature — a little at a time and often — we are not far from the right method. Calves that are to become cows should not be fed much corn, as that has a tendency to put on fat. Wheat bran and oats are better, as these have a tendency to produce bone and muscle. Dairymen who try to be good to their calves often make them too fat by overfeeding. They will not make the best cows. The milking qualities are impaired by developing a predisposi- tion to put on fat, before the time for milking comes. The term "'pure bred" is thought to be deserved by the Island of Jersey, or Guernsey, because no outside breed has been used there for more than 250 years except for beef. All registered cattle in these lines are imported di- rectly from their native islands. One of the best ways to develop the feeding capacity of the calf is to teach it to eat hay as soon as it will, and increase the amount as rapidly as pos- sible. Well cured hay Is a good ration by itself. But the calf should have some oats and bran besides. POULTRY POINTS. The only hens that it will pay to keep through the winter are the lay- ers. Pay little attention to curing sick fowls, but study how 10 prevent dis- eases. Poultry droppings make the best fer- tilizer for the flower and vegetable garden. Meal fed to poultry should always be mixed with boiling water, which par- tially cooks the food. The shape of the eggs has nothing (o do with the life germ, unless the egg is deformed. Eggs from fat hens do not hatch well and should there be any chirks they will be weak. The farm is the proper place to raise poultry profitably. Fowls, like sheep, will eat much waste grain and rid the farm of weed seed and will de- stroy millions of insect enemies. The feeding of a little charred twice a week will heip to brighten the combs and gloss the plumage. While giving egg-making constitu- ents, the farmer must not forget to furnish material for shell -making as well. The three great factors in the winter production of eggs are cut bone or meat, green food In some shape, clover or roots, and exercise. Give the hens a variety of food in the winter for they soon begin to show the effects of the sameness of diet if they are fed on grain exclusively. Grit Is quite as necessary for the ducks as It is for the chickens, and the best way to supply them with It Is to put it in the drinking water. They like to "go fishing" for It. FOR SALE— O'Brien & Sons, side bar Pneu- matic Buggy, In fine condition. Address Buggy, Breeder and Sportsman. FOR SALE— Bay mare, standard at tered, good prospect for race mare up. the road. Address C, Breeder and Spor. 12 &H2' gxecifvv n no giportstrwra L February 3 i»i6 GREATEST MEAT SURPLUS COUNTRY, (Burea of Stati-- - D. A.) .; ry produces so great a mi the United States. ..s June 30, 1904. xports of II inimals and ,:,':g house prodiK' alued at II ,001 .No except nearby Ireland, sends so many cattle English market. The exports of British ports during 1904 amo : head, $36,000,000, and along with them we: 000 sheep, worth nearly $2,000,000. Belgium has become an important destination for United States cattle, and more than 18,000 were exported during 1904. The cattle ship- ! to Cuba, which prior to 1898 seldom reached ten head a year, in 1904 to 135,000 head, val- 100,000. Beef is exported from the United ^ chiefly in the form of fresh meat, and this is nearly all sent to British markets. This trade has in- = .1 while the exports of other kinds of beef have become less during the 15 years 1S90-1904. The United S s exported to the United King- dom 171,000,000 pounds of1 fresh beef in 1890 and 29S,000,000 pounds in 1904. Trade in Bacon, Hams and Pickied Pork. The exports of bacon have declined since 1S90. In that year 450,000,000 pounds were shipped to the United Kingdom, 37,000,000 to Belgium, and 12,0004)00 to the Netherlands; while in 1904 the quantity exported to the United Kingdom was only 197,000,000 pounds, to Belgium 12,000,000, and to the Netherlands 2,000,0000 pounds. On the other hand, the exports of hams increased. In 1S90 there were exported 65,000,000 pounds to the United Kingdom, and in 1904 the amount was 170,000 000 pounds. With some counties, however, there has been a recent decline. Shipments of hams to Germany increased from 1890 to 1898, after which they declined greatly on account of restrictive legislation. Similarly, the exports of hams to Belgium, which in 1S9S reached 16,- . 000,000 pounds, sdffered a decline after that year. Exports of salted and pickl- ed pork to the United Kingdom in- creased from 1890 to 189S and declined from 1S99 to 1904. Extensive Market for Lard. Lard is not only the most valuable of the packing house products export- ed from the United States and worth even more than the cattle exported, but it reaches more markets in large quantities than do most other products of its class. Exports of this article to the United Kingdom increased from 151 '1(10,000 pounds in 1890 to 199,000,000 in 1904; and the exports to Germany im leased from 117,000,000 to 178,000,- 000 pounds in the same time. Lard compounds have gained in im- portance among the exports until the quantity shipped in 1904 to Cuba leached 21,000,000 pounds, United Kingdom 11,000,000, Germany 7,000,000, and Belgium 5,000,000 pounds. Oleo- I'ine is exported chiefly to Ger- in.iiiy and the Netherlands. with smaller quantities to Norway, Cuba, Warranted to Give Satisfaction. GombauSt's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint. 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Address I oThe Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 si West Indies, Sweden and BeL= glum; The chief murke-ts. for olec oil are t] .ids- an J Germany, the countries in 1904 be- ing ' .7,000,0.00 pounds. ■ i ■ VITALITY OF THE COW. --i-m" is published a .....-■ following practij- ggestions which it puts forth re- ing the feeding of the dairy eow s good for America as Australia: Does the production of butter ex- haust the vitality of the cow and ren- der her less valuable for breeding pur- poses, is a question which is exciting a good deal of attention in- various parts of the world. The assertion has been made that the extraordinary yields of butter which certain dairy cows have produced are so extremely exhausting to the animals, that there is a loss of vigor both in the cow and her progeny. It is very questionable, however, if this assertion can be sup- ported by any well authenticated acts. It is commonly supposed that ani- mals can be forced to go beyond na- ture's limit by a system of high feed- ing; that hens can be forced to lay large quantities of eggs, and cows to produce immense yields of milk. But unless drugs are used to cause abnor- mal activity of the organs of secre- tion, animals never exceed their nat- ural capacity. As a matter of fact very few come up to it, owing to the lack of intelligent feeding. So far from the vitality of cows being exhausted by a system of feeding which causes them to produce the largest amount of but- ter fat in a given period, it is the very animals which have most dis- tinguished themselves in the dairy that have produced the famous butter cows and bulls of succeeding genera- tions. The American cows which have yielded such enormous quantitie s of butter are also descended from ances- tors that have also been famous. A dairy cow is a very complex machine for converting food into milk, and, not- withstanding all that may be asserted to the contrary, the weight of evidence goes to show that in order to maintain the milk or butter producing powers for the greatest length of time and to ob- tain the most profit, the- machine should be run at its fullest capacity. No farmer in this State need be afraid of injuring his cows, or impairing their constitutional vitality by feeding with a view to obtain the largest possible returns. Individual butter yields are of spec- ial interest to every owner of a dairy herd, since -they show the value of breeding on lines that are undoubtedly hereditary, and also emphasize the ne- cessity of feeding upon proper foods in suitable quantities so that the cows may be as productive and profitable as nature will permit. . "t EXAS A. AND.M. COLLEGE STU- DENTS AT CHICAGO. At the sixth International Live Stock Exposition, held in Chicago, Dec. 16 th to 23d, 1905, unusual interest was cen- tere ' in competition for the trophies awarded to the Agricultural College whose students proved themselves the best judges of stock. Thirty-five individuals took part in the contest, five each from the States of Iowa, Ohio, Michigan, Kansas, Mis- souri, Texas, and five from Ontario, I Canada. When the results were published It was found that the students from Texas had drawn first honors in swine judging, out of 1500 points obtaining a score of 1229, while the Canadians were in second place with 12 points less. Ontario was first in sheep judging, Ohio in cattle and also in horses, with Ontario second and Texas third. The highest total score by any one individual from the seven colleges rep- resented was made by Mr. John Ash- ton of Texas, who obtained 831 out of i possible 1100 points, Bracken, an Ontario student, being second with 12 points less than Ashton. Two of the 1904 stock judging team are now In lucrative positions. Of the 1905 team three members who will graduate in June, will be In demand by some of the other Southern colleges which are giving particular attention to live stock matters. Size and condition count for more In market than any particular shade or color, o — i Sponges— S, Adderley, 307 Market St. Kiif.' W WORTH $900.00 TO THIS MAN. Newark, N. J., 129. 8th, St, June 24; 1905."" DR. B, J- KENDALL CO., Dear Sirs: — Please send me your horse book. I used your Kendall's Spavin Cure on a running colt with trreat success. He had a very small jack spavin coming on, but the party 1 bought bim of could not see 1C I knew tiiis was a good colt, alto if I got lilm' that l could keep him on his pins by using Kendall'sSpavin Cure. 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FIRST PRIZE BUTTER. Mrs. L. A. Sweet, of Fairmount, Minn., secured first prize on dairy but- ter at- the recent convention of the Minnesota State Dairymen. The fol- lowing description of the methods of handling milk on the farm and the way in which the butter is made is of interest : All the cans, milk pails, strainers, separator, and every utensil used in the manufacture of butter is kept thoroughly cleansed by the use of a brush and "Wyandotte's cleansing powder. First, having throughly rinsed the utensils with warm water, they are washed with luke-warm wa- ter, useing the brush and cleansing powder, and are finally thoroughly scalded with boiling water — at a tem- perature of 212 degrees. Then they are placed in the sunlight so that the d'rect rays can reach the inside of each utensil. The cows are fed a good quality of ensilage and corn fodder, about 2£ to 32 pounds of the former and seven pounds, of the latter daily, together with a mixture of five quarts of wheat bran, four parts fine ground corn meal and one part oil cake meal.. Each cow is fed two-fifths the number of pounds of this concentrated feed that she gives pounds of milk. The cow stables are aired, the cows are carefully brushed before milking and are kept in. a cleanly condition at all times. The milk is strained through a strainer consisting of a wire gauze and one thickness of muslin. As soon as milked it is taken from the barn to the milk room, which is wholly separ- ated from the barn and run through ■the separator at once, the cream being placed in a shotgun can. This can is immediately set in ice cold water. As soon as it is thoroughly cooled it is poured into the storage can and tightly covered. When two days' cream is obtained, twenty-four hours before churning it, five gallons of 35 per cent cream is heated to a temperature of 70 degrees, to which is added two quarts of good c mmercial starter. (Butter-milk was used with the State Convention butter because the commercial starter made was not as good as had been expect- ed.) The cream and starter are mixed thoroughly and then, allowed to stand for twelve hours at about the same temperature, cooled to about sixty de- grees and let stand for twelve hours, churning at about 60 degrees. Dry-picking Is always to be prefer- red when preparing turkeys for mar- ket. When In fine condition, nicely picked, and sent to market without having been packed In Ice, a turkey is at Its best and commands the highest price. ioh Glass Team For Sale TJ RIGHT BAYS; WEIGH HOO LBS. EACH; 16 XJ hands high; well bred; Wilkes stook; well broken, gentle, kind di.- position; absolutely sound; 6 years old, and a very desirable team in every respect. Can be seen at the Hulda Stables, 1530 Fell St., San Francisco. WILLIAM HAROLD 2:131 FOR SALE 'pHE MEEK ESTATE HAVING BEEN PAR- -1 titioned, and the breeding of horses discon- tinued, the Btalllon WILLIAM HAROLD 2:13^ is offered for sale or lease to a responsible party. William Harold is by Sidney 2:19%. and Madam Is Cricket 2:10 by Stelnway. Cricket is one of the great produolng mares of California, being already the dam of five In the list and has three more foals that wiil be givenrecorda. William Harold has had the most limited opportunities 'n the stud, yet is the sire of Janice 2:08^ trotting, Dan Bums 2:15 and Judith 2:25 and several others in the list. He Is In excellent condition, and aa his get are all large, well made and nioely turned horses he should be a good money earner in the stud if In good hands. Apply to or address H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. STALLION TO LEASE To some oompetent horsemen that can furnish himself and take in charge EDWARD B. by STAM B. dam by Dexter Prince, to take the route between Rio Vista and Courtland and vicinity of D S. Mathews' home ranch on Grand Island. The horse is in good condition and ready for work. If the route isn't satisfactory another can be chosen. For further particulars write to D. S. MATTHEWS, Ryde, Cal. A GOOD MARE FOR SALE. By CLIPPER 2:06. dam by AMEEO JR. rj YEARS OLD, TROTS OR PACES; HAND- ' some, sound and a high-class animal in every respect An Al roadster and will make a raoe horse or a valuable brood mare. Reason for sell- lug Is that I have no time to devote to handling ter. Call or address Phone: GEO. C. PETERMAN, Oakland 6501. 779 Twelfth St., Oakland, Cal. Norman Stallion For Sale. -p)ARK IRON GRAY NORMAN STALLION; A-/ weighs about 1600; 16 hands high; 4 years old. Is block! ly built and a Bure foal getter. Colts oan be seen at San Jose. For further particulars address W. 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Spavin, Ringbone (except low RlngboneJ.Curb, Thoroukhpin, Splint, Shoe Boil, Wind Puff, In- jured Tendons and all lameness without scar or loss of hair. Horse may work as usual. *C nfi per bottle. Written guarantee— as 1 J iUU binding to protect you as the best legal talent could make it. Send for copy and booklet. At Druggists and Dealers or Express Paid. TROY CHEMICAL CO. BINGHAMTON, N. Y, Formerly Troy.N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. Strathway 2:19 For Sale. QIRE OP >3 Toggles 2:0814 John Caldwell, 2:0814 Getaway 2: 12* HOMEWARD 2:l3?i (sire of Geo. G. 2:05M) Stbathmont 2:1214 Cuckoo 2:13 Homeway 3:l4U etc., etc. STRATHWAY Is by that great sire, Steinway, and out ol the great broodmare Countess (dam of Dawn 2:18?i) by Whipple's Hambletonian. He is a strong, rigorous horse, and out of all the mares bred to him during the past two years every one proved to be in foal. He will be sold very reasonable, as his owner is selling all his trotting-bred stock and retiring from breeding. For price and further particulars address G3AHAM E. BABCOCK, San Diego. Cal. BROOD MARES FOR SALE. EVEEINE by Nntwood 6001 NELLIE FAIRMONT ! .t'/oal'to by Fairmont U^ZliW. ALAMEDA MAID by Erosj EVELINE (registered) is dam of Ole 2:1014, Tie tarn 2:19, Maud Fowler 2:2l?i and Roblet2:13, the dam of Bonalet 2:09!{, champion three- year-old pacing filly. NELHI FAIRMONT, dam of Zambra, world's champion for 5 miles, 12:24. ALAMEl'A MAID (registered) is out of Oakland Maid 2:22 by Speculation. For prices and particulars address S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa, Cal. F'or Sale. The Perfectly Galtad Trotting- Stallion ALTA VELA 2:11 1-4 (Reg. No. 22449) Sire, ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 In 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar 1:59=J£. Dam.lOEITA 2:1814 (dam or Alts Vela 2:1154 and Palorl 2:24*) by Piedmont 2:1?*; second c'am, Lady Lowell (dam of Ladywell 2:1614 and Lorlta 2:1814) by St. Clair; third dam, Laura, dam of Doc, sire of Occident 2;16&. Address all communications to BREEDER ANDSPORrSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. wrrH the Central Trust Company of la 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sum large or small. INTEREST PAID : SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-4% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Send for Booklet, "THE SURE WAY TO WEALTH." FOE SALE. A FIVE-YEAR-OLD COLT. 14.2 hands high; -"- weighs 1060 pounds; bright sorrel in color; perfectly sound and can run a quarter of a mile In 23 seconds or better. He is one of the most beautiful and best bred sprinters in the State. Suitable for a polo pony. Will sell at a reason- able price. Address SOL SHOCKLEY, Merced, Ca. 673-680 Uth Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE Z1BBELL & SON, Proprietors. San Fbancibco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Bundling all kinds Fanoy Hones. A few Nice Rigs on hand. Tif.4 any oar going to the Chntea. Tel.: West 269 FOR SALE OR LEASE. Two Prince Airlie Stallions. FOBTOLA 37413, a handsome golden bay. 7 years old, 18 hands, weighs 1190 lbs. MENLO BOY 37401, a magnificent brown with white points, 6jearsold, 16.1 hands, weighs 1200 lbs,. These tfvo horses are full orothers. being sired by Prince Airlie 28045: he by Guy Wilkes 2:15*. sire of Fred Khol 2:07?i. Hulda 2:0814, Seymour Wilkes 2:081$: first dam Signal by Del Sur 2:24; seoond dam Lady Signal 2:3514 by Signal 3327. Both of these horses are very fast for the amount of wor«, being only a few months last year, show- ing quarters around :34 and :35. For further information apply to P. H. McEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED (POCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Moat Complete Book of the kind published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St.. San Francisco. ABSORBINE Removes the inflammation and Bunch. Restores the Circulation in any Bruise orThiekened Tissue, without blistering, removing; the hair or laying horse up. Pleasant to use, clean and odorless. $2.00 per bottle delivered. Book No. 1 free. ABSORBINE, JR.. for mankind, Sl.no Bottle. Cures Bunions, Corns. Chilblains, Sprains, Etc. quickly. Genuine manufactured only by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., S4 Monmouth Street. Springfield, Mao. For sale by Mack & Co Laogiey &MichaelsCo. Idlngton&Oo., J. < of San Frano'sco oudington & Co., J. O'Kane and J. A. MoKerron, afl " JACK FOR SALE. A BLACK JACK WITH LIGHT POINTS large, heavy boned, prompt and a gooo. han dler. Is a good foal getter and his foals are excellent individuals. Price very reasonable for prompt sale. AddresB for further particulars, S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa. Toghill Stud 3viest>J3l.c> • Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE-OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER. Manager. Menlo Park, Cal. Reg. No 31706 MONTEREY 2!09 1-4 (Sire of IRISH 3:08^, Fastest Four-Tear-Old Pacer of 1904). By SIDNEY (grandsire of Lou Dillon 1:5854); dam, HATTIE (also dam of Montana 2-181 by Commodore Be mont 4340 MONTEREY 2:09* stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and is one of the finest individuals on this Coast. FEE, 850 for the Season. By MONTEREY 2:09*. Dam, LEAP YEAR 8:»6 (full sister to Iago 2:11) by Tempest 1881, son of Almont 33. YOSEMITE is a very high-class young trotter, and as he will be trained this year he will be allowed to serve only sis choice bred mares FEE, S25 f or tb.e Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leased a doe. roomy barn with 11 large bos stalls on Sherman street, four blockslrdin the racetrack, Alameda, and am prepared to do public tra'ning. Would like to get two good trotters and a promising three-year-old to pr -pare for the races this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. YOSEMITE R. AMBUSH 41840 Rec. (3) 2:141 SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARK. 2 miles east of San Bernardino. Address g. W. BONNELL, Redlands. Crabbet Arabian Stud -SVSSEX, ENGLAND. CRABBET PARK, THREE BRIDGES, and NEWBUILDINGS, SOUTHWATER. J The largest breeding stud of Arabian horses In the world. The conditions under which these horses are bred at Newbuildings produce a type unrivalled for quality and hardiness. The unique knowledge of the breed gained by the owners in Arabia enables them to guarantee purity of blood of the choicest strains, some of which are now extinct in the East. Stallions and mares constantly supplied to breeders throughout the Colonies and on the Continent. A few mares suitable for polo, hacks and quiet in harness generally for sale. For further particulars address GUY CARLETON, Man ger, Carpenters, Southwater, Sussex, England. f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. V. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognise the famous COURT into which for twenty-Q e years oarrlages have driven. This space of over a quarter of an aore has reoently, by the addition of very handsome furniture, ruga, ohandeliera 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 WHITING 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. VICTOR VERILHAC Proprietor JAMES M. McGRATH Manager DEXTER PRINCE STARLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Cor. of Grove and Baker Streets, just at the Panhandle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devisadero Street Cars) Best looated and healthiest Stable In San Francisco. Always a good roadster on hand for sale. Careful and experienced men to care for and exeroise park roadsters and prepare horses for track use. Ladies can go and return to stable d not have their horses frightened by automobiles *r oars TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Fulton Street) Horses Called For, Clipped aod Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR HIRE. I have opened a new Boarding and Training Stable near the above corner, and will board and train for racing, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates Have good location, brand-newstable and everything first-class All horses In my oare will receive the best of attention. Phone: Park 573. T. C. CABNEY. Distemper Losses Stopped. Distemper, epizootic, etc., always Involves immediate and often permanent loss. Why not be prepared to cure every case promptly? DR. CRAFT'S DISTEMPER & COUGH CURE will do It— no cost If it falls. Used by 200,000 stock owners. If your druggist hasn't it, orclerdirect. Price 50c and $1 Let us send you our Instructive booklet, "Veterinary Pointers." Free. WELLS MEDICINE CO, , Chemists & Germologisis, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind D E NEWELL, General Agent for Pacific Coast 519 Hlwilor. St., San Francisco. Cal THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in California. Owners desiring to have horses handled and put In condition for sale or racing are : correspond with the undersigned. JAS THOMPSON. I'lealBoluii. t&he gvsebe v ani* &ptrvt&nxan (February 3, U06 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property or John Paerott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 «"» will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1906 FEE - - - 875 Reductions made f r two or more mares. Manager, WALIEE SEALT. MoKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON iJ Great Race Horse and Producing Sire, ZOLOCK 2:05 THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16 Sire GUY WILKES 2:15^ 21 Dam LIDA W 3:18^ I by NUTWOOD...., .„.8:183£ NUTWOOD WILKES 23116 is the only stallloD that ever produced two three-year-olds in ote season with recordsol 2:12 and 2:12^ respectively. Who la It a : 12, ex-champlon three-year-old gelding of the world, reducpd h's record to 2:10&. John A Mc- Eerron 2:04^4.(2:12^ &s a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe of George Wilkes. NUTWOOD WILKES is the sire of John A Mo Kerron 2;Qiy3 (sire 3 two-year-olds in 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 2:09. Miss Idaho 2:09^. Who Is It 2:10M, Stanton Wilkes 2:\0Y3, Cresco Wilkes (4) 2:IO?i, Georgia B. 2:12M. Claudius (4) 2:13};, North Star (3) 2:13H. Bob Ineersoll (4) 2:14%, and 32 in 2:30 list. His sons Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09'^ and Cavallero 2:09M- His daughters produced Miss Georgie2:10?.£. Mona Wilkes (3) 2:1U4, Lady Mowry (4) 2:12^, Caroline L. 2:14% IloiIo2:15. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. CPp CCA FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges if horse remains my properly. I cc $d\r Good pasturage at $3 per month. Bills payable before removal of mare. Stock well cared for, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. Young Stock by NUTWOOD WILKES for sale. Send for Tabulated Pedigree. For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvln^ton, Alameda Co., Cal. Has 10 Three-Year-OIds that worked trials in 1905 ns follows: LILIAN ZOLOCK 2:14, KINNKY WOOD 2:15, CLFOPATRA 2:15. RED LOOK 2:18, ZOLLIE 2:18. INflUGOKETTA 2:22, HYLOCK 2:25, MAJELLA 2:25, ADA LANTE 2:26. BOLOCK 2:27. and 3 Two-Year-Olds a* follows: WENZA 2:24, BONNIE JUNE 2:27, ISALCO 2:30, and 12 others now In training that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. NUSHAGAK 25939 Sire of ARISTO 2:08^, winner of Occident and Stanford Stakes of 1902. Sired by SABT.E WILKES 2:18, sire of 42 in 2:30; dam, FIDELIA (dam of Fidette 2:28^, dam of Mary Celeste &17&) by Director 2:17; second dam by Reavis Blackbird 2:22; grandam by Lancet, son of McCrackeu's Blackhawk. Fee 850, limited to forty outside mares PRINCE ANSEL !™r Sired by DEXTER PRINCE (sire of Eleata 2:08H. Lisorjero 2:08^, James L. 2:09M, Edith 2:10, etc.); dam, WOODFLOWER (dam of Seyles2:15%£) by Ansel 2:20, son of Electioneer; second dam, Mayflower 2:30!4 (dam of Manzanita 2:16, Wildflower (2) 2:21, and eight producing daughters) by St Clair 16675. Fee 830. Both Stallions will make the Season of 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove, Cal, Ambush(3) 2:I4| Delilah (3) 2:14| Bystander 2:14| Sherlock Holmes 2:I5J Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 ZOLOCK S Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (byGossIper 2:1450 dam of ZOLOCK 2:05«, Zephyr 2:07M; second dam the great broodmare Glosey (by Gen. Booth 2:30K) dam of Gazelle 2:11^4, Delilah (3) 2:14« Ed Winshfp 2-15 Wl lets (mat.) 2:17. i lite S 2:27, and grandam of Col. Green (trial) 2:10"".. third dam Echo Belle (grandam or Conn 2:15>i) by Echo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions All his colts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at SAN JOSE, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Mares will be cared for in any manner desired, but Also, the Three-Year.Old Stallion 1^^ A I ^^ d^\ by ZOLOCK 3:05hj dam GIPSET. dam of Gazelle ^^ £A I . I I 2:11H, Delilah 2M4H and three more in the list. Isalco ^^ »» *■■ V^ V^ is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:I4>4. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track. San Jose. Cal. A Higli-Olass Young MoKinney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A handsome son of McKlnney. Sired by the great McKlnney 2:11^, greatest sire of the age; dam, the great broodmare Daisy S (dam of Tom Smith 2:13!*, General Vallej j 2:22H Little Mao (3) 2:27, and Sweet Roste 2:28; «; i by McDonald Chief 3583. son of Clark Chief 89; second dam, Fanny Rose, great broodmare (dam of George Washington 2:16*£, Columbus S. 2:17) by Ethan .Mien Jr 2993 GENERAL J. B FRISBIE Is a handsome, good-gaited blaok, Ave years old. He is a full brother to Tom Smith 2:13Vi; shows McKlnney speed and will be trained for the raoes this season. Terms, S25 for the Season; usual return privileges, MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 Sire of Dollican 2:15!4, George Washington 2:165£ (sire of Stella 2:1514, Campaigner 2-26W and Princess w. 2:29«), Trilby 2:2i& and Sweet Rosle 2:28M. By McDonald Chief 3583 (sire of 4 and sire of dams of 7 in 2:30); dam. Venus by Mambrino Patchen 58. Terms, 820 for the Season: usual return privileges. Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horses at my barn. 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal, More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. ■IS IVI f \mh Sire of KNOCH 2:12;:, OENEItAL 2:14ii. TEDDY TUK llll.VN 2:17'/,. LITTLE MISS 2:17*4. MAKCHIIIMES8 2:29. LILLIAN MDMORE nod TIP OIJCANDO (trial) 2:00':, BID ABBOTT (trial) 2:18, JAKE F. (trial half mile) 1:06. By SIDNEY 2:19 3=4 (sire of 18 In 2:1511st and 106 In 2:30 list and sire Sidney Dillon, sire LOTJ DILLON dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; next dam Sarpy Mare by Eoho 482. SIDMOOR 2:I75£ is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual In every respeot. He is one of the best produoing sons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. 5 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Addre.. Usui] RMurn Privileges. JUHN Oil, PaClieCO, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:111, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares, FULL BROTHER TO TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 First dam DAISY S. (dam of Tom Smith 2:I3K. General Vallejo 2'20W Little Mac "-27U Sweet tt08lB2:28X)jT MoDonalfl Chief 3.WS; second ,1am Fanny Rose J,m« tcolumbu °S fc 7 George '•'asblngton 2:18?;, v. ho sired Stella 2:15*. Campaigner 2:28V, etc .and Fanny dam i of Scorn rS ?»u, '5 '•,^0N?»5?°;0R ,8OD"d8omeJt sonTo! 'the "great MoKinney on tie it islands 15 hands 2« Inohes over the withers and 15 hands 3'.; Inches over the loins and lgh« 1100 pounds He i never made a regular season in the stud, but was bred to several mares ben three years old and all of his get are of good size and good lookers. several mares Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. Per further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05j SIRE OF BONALET (3) 2:09)4, In winning race-World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3), trial (trotting) 2:11)4 (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECTS flrst orop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2 50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired . A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good condition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. DR. E. G. MCCONNELL 705 Sutter St.. San Francisco. C L. .GRIFFITH, PLEASANTOW, CAL. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE SEASON OF 1906 AT PLEASANTON STAR POINTER l:59 WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN I897. The Fastest, Gamest and Most Consistent Kace Horse In Turf History. Sire of HORNING STAR 2:03. JOE POINTER 2:05}^, SIDNEY POINTER 2:07^. SCHLEY POINTER Z:08if, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:59J< Hal Uillard 2:04J£ Star Hal 2:fMj; Hal Chaffln 2:05H Elastlo Pointer 2:08V4 New Richmond 2:07X Hal Braden 2:07X Storm .2:084 Brown Heels 2:09« Laurel 2:09x Silver Hal 2:10 etc 6 producing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of Star Pointer 1:59^ Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastic Poinier 2:06^4 Cloud Pointer 2:2-li4 Tennessee Pointer 2:2434 2 producing sons 6 produoing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McKINNKY 2:11W, aire of SWEET MARIE 2:04i<, Kinney Lou 2:07?^. Charley Mac 2:07?i, Hazel Kinney 2:09!^, Tin Roman 2:09',i, Dr. Book 2:10. Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05hf. You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09 Zolock2:G5M ' Dam, AILEEN 2:26*4 {dam of Mowltza 2:20!*, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:3*. trial 2:20) by Anteeo 2:16!^. sire of dams ot Directum Kelly 2:08^. Grey Gem 2:09 J4. W. Wood 2:07, etc. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON l:58i4. Red- wood 2:31 Vi. Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:26J£) by Milton Medium 2:25»i (sire of 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium 2:3H£, sire of Nanoy Hanks 2:04, etc GRECO is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only race as a colt, and has shown miles In 2:20 since In his work, and Is a sure 3:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares tt *»100 THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address CHAS. De RYDER, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Rec. 2:12i Sire, PALO ALTO 2:0 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 3=4 IRAN A LTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produoed a oolt that was a world's reoord breaker, and his grandsire has sired several trotters that broke world's records No other horse with a reoord as fast as IRAN ALTO'S oan claim this. At nine years he had sired ten colts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse 2:I2»ri.ThomiB R. 2:15, Vendome 2:17, Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25— alTat four yearsold. Who oan name a horse whose first ten oolts oan beat that? Will Make the Season of 1906 at!, WOODLAND, CAL FEE $40 For further particulars address $20 due when mare is bred and H. S. HOGOBOOU, >20 payable when mare Is known to be in foal. Woodland, Cal- February 3, 1906] ®he gvsetfgv emit gtpavtstnan 15 DUCK SHOOTERS! CAMPBELL'S QUESTION—Wby is it that so many excellent wing sbots cripple fine birds? 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SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 1906. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR ROAD TEAM OWNED BY MR. MABRY McMAHAN OF SAN FRANCISCO ®he gvee&ev citt& gtpxtrtsmau [February 10, 1906 IKT THE H-E3-A.33 HAWTHORNE 3:06 1-4 BILLY BUCK 3:07 1-4 KINNEY LOU 3:07 3-4 l£ I |V I |V I r-W I AM 0-AT3 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON r\!INI\u.Y LUU ^,U n of the champion sire Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February lat, ending July 1st, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. TERMS S10O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal, For further Information, pedigree and description address PHONE: JOHN 2481. BUDD D0BLE, San Jose, Cal. MENDOCINO 22607 RECORD (THREE-YEAR-OLD) 2:19^ Sireof Monte Carlo 3:07 W (to wagon 2:08^); Idolita (2y. o.) 2:21^, (3y.o.)2:I2, (a) 2:09^, Leonora 2:12H, Polka Dot 2:14^, etc Bay Stallion, 15.3& Lands; weight 1190 pounds; hind feet and ankles white; foaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 135, son of Hambletonian 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO (3)2:194. Electant 2:19^ Morocco (3 y.o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904, 2:17^; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie W (3) 2:17^. Hyperion 2:215i. Memento 2:25,4| Mithra (p) 2:14K) by Hamble- tonian Jr. 1882; third dam, Gilda (thoroughbred) by imp. Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Electioneers youngest and best sons With very limited opportunities In the stud he has.proven his worth by producing such racehorses as Monte Carlo and Idolita. Three new additions to his 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performers. His foals are good size, one lookers, bold and pure gaited and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1900, 875; usual return privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 18.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11.1900. Bred at Palo AltoStock Farm. Sire, MoKINNEI 8818 (record 2: MM)- First dam, HELENA JB:lltf (dam of Wildnutl1ng2:ll&; Dobbel 2:22, Hylta (trial 2:12; by Electioneer 125; second dam, Lady Ellen 2:294 (dam of six in list, inoluding Helena 2:I1M, Ellen Wood 2:14^) by Mambrino 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont (Williamson's). McKENA has proven a remarkably sure f Dal getter. He should make a great sire as he is a hoe Individual and bred right. His sire, McKlnney, a game and fast racehorse and sire of game and fast racehorses. His dam, Helena, one of the fastest and gamest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters the world has yet known. His second dam. Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as well as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, S40; usual return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Mares may run on pasture at $5 per month. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for injury or escapes, Address all communications to PALO ALTO STOCK FARM, Stanford University, Santa Clara Co , Cal. McMUBRAY RACING! New California Jocley CI OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S. P. Ferry, foot of Market Street— leave at 13, thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts. Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. McMURRAY SULKIES and J0QQINQ CARTS Standard the World Over. -8®»Address for printed matter and prices W. J. Kenney 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. PHENOL SODIQUE beals SORES, CUTS and BITES Man and Beast. Keep Handy for Accidents. Cures MANGE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. For Sale By AU Druggists. Recomm noed by this ■ publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. w AWARDED *T3*E ^CSEX FRANCE Sfi« PHENOL SPBIQTJB 5^ATIC ANTtSEPTlC ANO DISJHF|CW| Mc Kinney, 2.11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 CUttg iFarms, New?ork. Mention this journ when writing McKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION TJNIM AK 40936 y McKinney 2:11}; dam Twenty-Third by Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15}) by Nutwood GOO. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PALO ALTO, Cal. Usual return privileges or money refunded at the option of the owner of the mare. Terms, $40 for the Season. To Close June 1st. Address or apply to CAPT. C. H. WILLIAMS, Box 151, PALO ALTO, CAL. WAYLAND W. 22516. Record - .!. ONE OF THE LEADING SlHES OF 2:10 PERFORMERS OF 1905. Xf.irfJ*!? Sf,^B°ili^ ;:°6'/». leading money earning pacer of season 1906. Sire of Morosco -l-.hii,-]..' i I.,.:- trotter on California circuit In 1904 % Exoellent Pasturage at Reasonable Rates. No barbed wire. Bast of care taken of Mares, In any manner Owners may desire. Beaton of 1906 at SANTA ROSA Term* 9*0 for the Season. W. Sandy ke the at McGregor & Hocklns' Stables. W. O. HULMAN. Owner. Pasture J2.00 per month. Tlae HrXcK-ixixie;?" Stallion KENNETH C. 2:17 ■^ K l* M» _ ~jV^^m^^giWj04-k i THREE A ) TEAK 1 OLD f 1. RECORD J Sired by McKINNEY: dam MOUNTAIN MAID (dam of Tom Carneal 2:C8H) by Cresoo 4908 (stre ot Allle Cresoo 2:13, etc ); next dam by Cloud. Will make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. KENNETH C. was one of the fastest of an exceptionally good lot of three-year-olds that raoed in California in 1905. He is a splendid individual, has size, style and quality, and the grandsons and granddaughters of McKin- ney through Kenneth C. will be equal to any in the land. Terms 1*30 for the Season. (S15 for Single Service. S. K.6TREFRY, Pleasant on. MONTEREY 2:09 1-4 Reg. No. 31706 (Sire of IRISH 8:08^, Fastest Four- Year-Old Pacer of 1904). By SIDNEY (grandstre of Lou Dillon l:58!i); dam, HATTIE (also dam of Montana 2:16) by Commodore Belmont 4340. MONTEREY J:09', stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and Is ono of the finest Individuals on this Coast. FEE, SOO for the Season. w/\^r"|li| ITL" By MONTEREY 2:091-4. YvyOt-IVll I £. Dam, LEAP YEAR 2:26 (full sister to lago 2:11) by Tempest 1881, son of Almont 33. YOSEMITE Is a very high-class young trotter, and as he will be trained this year he will De allowed to serve only six ohoioe bred mares FEE, S25 for the Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leased a floe, roomy barn with 14 large box stalls on Sherman street, four blooks from the raoetraok, Alameda, and am prepared to do publlo training. Would like to get two good trotters and a promising three-year-old to prepare for the raoes this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, C»l. Pedigrees Tabulated and type written ready tor framing Write for prloei. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary Street, San Franclsoo, Cal. February 10, 1906J ™ %Z Sportsman Stallion Service Book, place last December. There was an attendance of honk tw I f^' 'S the newest and best service some five hundred spectators, including would-be buy ee„ i fpl™ fu fh? „" J* „H°rSe™« wh° have ers from most of the other States, and representatives £1 LP™"°™Cae l}_ the. best and the ™>St convenient from this colony. Considering that the majority of the horses offered were in rather poor condition, the prices realised were of a satisfactory nature. Among those that came in for the most spirited competition was Oym, a two-year-old colt by Owyhee 2:11, that finally went to Mr. L. Wilson of Christchurch, New Zealand, at 155 guineas or over $800. A yearling by Owyhee brought 150 guineas.— N. Z. Referee. H. B. Rutherford, who took Helen Norte 2:09% over the Grand Circuit last year, will again go East in the summer with that mare and two of her sisters a one. He expects great things from him when he gets three-year-old pacer and a two-year-old trotter, that old enough to wear a harness, and if there is any- are saJc* t0 show Grand Circuit form. book of the kind ever brought to their notice It is bound m flexible leather covers, and is of convenient size to carry in the pocket. It sells at one dollar. Dick Abies, who is training at the Santa Rosa track has three colt trotters in his stable that he purchased at he Rosedale Farm sale. They are all by Wash- ing on McKinney out of Daly mares and are nice mdivduals. The two three-year-olds were driven quarters by Mr. Abies the other day in 39 seconds seconds tW°-year-°ld sh°™d »im a quarter in 4i thing in blood lines and precocity he is justified in all his anticipations. Mr. Stickle also owns a colt by Sidney^Dillon out of a Silver Bow mare that looks like something' much better than the average. Fred E. Perkins, president of Narragansett Park, announces from Providence that the Grand Circuit meeting will be held this season regardless of whether pools are allowed or not. shows w ■ Vf harneSS raCine CirCUits for »<>6 ducted on Vh'S branch,0£ »<*>* ^ likely to be con- ducted on a larger scale than ever this coming sea- asSsrin T" be«er°rSani2ed meth°ds which "„ _ assist in its growth in public favor. One of the a testimonial of his skill in holding the reins over the !/°"?!st__facto.rs in the steady growth in popularity M. W. Savage, owner of Dan Patch, the world's champion pacer, has sent to Scott Hudson of Lexing- :on, Ky„ a handsome gold lined silver loving cup aa A gentlemen's driving club has been organized at Indianapolis, the State Fair grounds were leased and high class matinee turf sport is assured Indianapolis devotees the coming season. It will be conducted on the lines of the Cleveland Matinee Club. Chris Anderson .of Livermore has leased from A G Roberts of San Lorenzo the latter's good stallion Ahka by Chas. Derby and will stand him during the coming season at Livermore. The trotting training ground at Highland Park, Louisville, Ky.. will have to be abandoned as the running' horsemen have taken possession of the track and are "'rebuilding the grandstand and making other improvements for the advent of the gallopers. To have a good road in winter in California drainage is necessary. An ordinary dirt road that is perfectly drained and kept smooth will never get very bad, even in the wettest winter. . It is the same with a race track, and there are a half dozen tracks in California that would be good winter training grounds if they were properly drained. pacemaker the day %e famous stallion lowered his ?f harness racing is the organization of fair circui own world's record to 1:55% last fa'l. In days S°"e by when every fair association gave its mating independent of any other association, the con- Ten thousand dollars has been appropriated by the test.s were llttle better than a travesty on harness San Francisco Fire Commissioners for new horses racmS- Today, with organized circuits of fair meet- for the Department. mgs, good stables of horses are secured the racing is generally good and frequently of a high class, and the thousands of spectators go home with a better idea of harness racing, as a sport, than they had before. The county fair tracks are proving to be the kinder- garten for Grand Circuit candidates, not only as re- fers to horses, but also to drivers. Many a famous Grand Circuit horse made his first appearance on the turf on a county fair track and more than one of the drivers now famous served his apprenticeship on the same tracks. It is not a far cry from the county fair track to the Grand Circuit track and those who are inclined to look with scorn on the racing, which is one of the greatest of county fair attractions will do well to remember that some of the men and horses which may be seen this year on the fair tracks will doubtless be seen next year on the tracks of Grand Circuit line. — Horse World. Jos. H. Martin of Livermore has sold to M. Dine- han of the same place the imported Percheron stal- lion Origon. Watch these pages for date of sale of horses from Mr. A. B. Spreckels Aptos Farm. The sale will be held during the last of this month or the first of next. When it is announced, particulars of the horses will be given, and catalogues issued. Every horse- man who has seen "Sandy" working them at Aptos says they are the best looking lot that has been made ready for a California salesring in many a day. Don't miss this opportunity to get a good prospect by Cupid 2:18. own brother to Sidney Dillon. They are choice goods. The horsemen of Livermore and vicinity have called a meeting for to-day, February 10th. to make ar- rangements for a horse show to be held in Liver- more, March 3d. The horse shows at Livermore have always been well attended and well conducted. Ow- ing to the fact that a number of fine draft and coach stallions have been purchased in Alameda county during the past few months, and that many fine trotting stallions are now located in and abotft Livermore, the show of stallions should be an extra good one this year. the BROOD MARE OWNERS! ATTENTION! William Johnson, who is the superintendent of Mr. H. Brace's farm near Agnews, went to Pleasanton last week with a dozen head of young horses, mostly by Mr. Brace's stallion Greco. D. S. Matthews, of Ryde, five year old jack for sale. Cal., advertises a good At a meeting of the Executive Committee of the Gentlemen's Driving Club of Boston, last week, Ar- nold Lawson, son of the author of Frenzied Finance, was elected chairman. It was decided to change the day of holding matinees from Thursday to Wednes- day, and that cups be given for competition at every third matinee during the season of 1906. Mr. H. R. Rand, whose address is at the Hotel Metropole. Oakland, offers for sale a pair of cobby built coal black geldings by a son of McKinney out of standard bred mares. These geldings are five years old and must be seen to be appreciated. Read the advertisement. A new driving club has been organized at Albu- querque, New Mexico, and will be incroporated for the purpose of giving race meetings. Mr. C. E. New- comer is president, and the other incorporators are W. D. Trimble, C. M. Foraker, Simon Schloss and Jacob Levy. A mix-up occurred in giving the breeding of Mr. S. Christenson's two-year-old filly whose picture graced the title page of the Breder and Sportsman last week. The filly, which Is one of the most prom- ising two-year-olds at the Pleasanton track. Is by Bonnie Direct 2:05%, Instead of by Stam B., as stated. The coming horse show at Pasadena is attracting much attention from owners of fine horses In that section and the entry list promises to be very large. Many handsome cups are offered and the money *-es are very liberal. The American Sportsman says: The best young- ster in Charles Marvin's stable at Lexington Is a two-year-old colt by Mendocino 2:19%, dam Palita 2.16. by Palo Alto 2:08%. Marvin is training this colt for the firm of Danforth & Son, Washington, III., who shipped the youngster to Marvin recently. The attention of brood mare owners is called to the announcement of the American Horse Breeders Fu- turity, purse $10,000, which appears In our business columns this week. The conditions governing this futurity are exceedingly liberal. Sixty-five hundred dollars of the purse goes to three-year-old trotters, $4500 of this to the winner; $1500 to two-year-oldi trotters, $1000 to the winner; S2000 to three-year--old pacers, $1300 to the winner. Considering that pacing foals are apt to pop up from new and unexpected sources and that they are very numerous, the liberal alowance for pacers is worthy of special attention of brood mare owners, for $1300 is a good sum of money to win and it is worth the time and trouble of train- ing a colt to race for it, and it makes It an object to mark him. Note also that $750 of the purse goes to nominators of the dams of winners. It costs but $5 to nominate a mare, and this pay- ment entitles you to a year's subscription to one of the best turf papers published, the American Horse Breeder, and a further payment of $10 on November 1st carries the nomination up to the year of the race. The other payments, right up to within 30 days of the race, are very small, thus making the burden light for a nominator up to the time when he shall have an opportunity to find out If his foal Is fit to start. Entries are published each week in the Amer- ican Hore Breeder as they are received. Writ for entry blanks, giving full particulars, addr ican Horse Breeder Pub. Co., 161 High Str*->: Mass. 6 ®tw Qxwifzv an* gpavtztntm [February 10, 19C6 THIRD PAYMENT MADE ON 183 FOALS. nora by Oro Wilkes. ,rnap„. »J. W. Haile & Co.'s br. c. by Demonio, dam Miner\ a Third payment of $10 each was made February 1st on 183 yearlings entered in Pacific Breeders' Futur- ity, $7000 guaranteed, for foals of 1905. The list of those making payments is us follows; (*) Indicates substitution. P. E. G. Anzar's foal by Delphi, dam Antinoche by Grove P. Avers' b. f. Queen of Hearts by Cupid, dam Lady by Dietz's St. Clair. Henrv M. Avers" br. c. Oyama by Almaden, dam Rachella by Chas, Derby. Henry M. Ayers' br. c. Togo by Almaden, dam lera by Chas. Derby. _ , ' . , ' , •D. L. Bachant's b. f. Miss Dividend by Athablo, dam Vivian by Hamb. Wilkes. T. W. Barstow's ch. c. Frank G. by Big Boy, dam Princess Airlie by Prince Airlie. •Mrs. S. V. Barstow's ch. f. Miss Florence by Near- est, dam Alphabetta by Steinway. Geo. H. Bixbv's b. c. Banouero by Neernut. dam Alice McKinney by McKinney. G. B, Blancbard's br. c. B. & D. by Kinney Lou, dam Amelia by Nearest. . Oliver Blanchard's ch. . c. by Kinney Lou, dam Miss Camilla by Boodle. | J. F. Blessing's b- f. Better B. by Stam B., dam Sal inas Maid by Junio. I. L. Borden's b. f. Raraona by Prince Robert, dam Allie Cresco by Cresco. I. L. Borden's s. c. Belvoir by Monterey, dam Alice Bell by Washington. I. L. Borden's s. f. Juliet by Monterey, dam La Belle Altamont by Altamont. W. O. Bowers' ch. f. Betty Direct by I. Direct, dam Betsev bv Silver Bee. Alex. Brown's b. f. by Prince Ansel, dam Majella B. by Nushagak. Alex. Brown's gr. c. by Nushagak. dam Serpolo by Mendocino. Alex. Brown's br. c. by Nushagak, dam Addie B. by Dexter Prince. , Alex. Brown's b. c. by Prince Ansel, dam Bonnie J Derby by Chas. Derby. \ H. Brace's bl. c. by Greco, dam Banker's Daughter by I Arthur Wilkes. I *H. Brace's br. c. by Greco, dam Maud by Stamboul. 1 *H. Brace's br. f. by Greco, dam Babe by Ferdinand. ] H. Brace's br. c. by Greco, dam Toppy by Electic. •H. Brace's b. f. by Greco, dam Kisses by Saturn. *H. Brace's bl. c. by Greco, dam Blossom by Mus- , tapha. •Joe Bonaparte's ch. c. Stewart by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Flora by Alex. Button. *J. R. Bowles' br. c. by Jaybird, dam Alma Wilkes bv Baron Wilkes. Martin Carter's foal by Directum II, dam Muriel P. bv Nutwood Wilkes. •Martin Carter's foal by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Bessie C. bv Calif. Nutwood. I Martin Carter's foal by Kinney Lou, dam Queen C. bv Nutwood Wilkes. Martin Carter's foal by Bonnie Direct, dam Georgie B. by Nutwood Wilkes. James Campbell's bl. f. On Ely by On Stanley, daml Nellie Bly by Woolsey. [ H C. Carson's foal by Neernut, dam Nancy Carson s. t. b. by Nelson. S. Christenson's b. f. by Stam B., dam Perza by Allie Wilkes. •W- A. Clark Jr.'s b. f. by Nutwood Wilkes, dan Ruth Mary. W. A. Clark Jr.'s ch. f. by Highland, dam Reina del Diablo by Diablo. J. C. Connell's b. f. Bellecita by Kewanna, dam Belle C. by Atto Rex. John A. Cole's br. c. Don Reginaldo by On Stanley dam Belle Raymon by Raymon. James Coffin's bl. c. Serge Witte by Cassian. dam Lilith by Secretary. James Coffin's b. c. Mercury by Zombro, dam Ella J. by Bob Mason. •James Coffin's bl. f. Grace Zolock by Zolock, dam Grace Kaiser by Kaiser. James Coffin's bl. f. Rose Lecco by Lecco, dam Rose McKinney by McKinney. T. J. Crowley's foal by Monterey, dam Lottie Park? bv Cupid. John Caldwell's b. c. Bonnie Antrim by Bonnie McK. dam bv Antrim. •S. T. Coram's ch. f. Kesrina by Nutwood Wilkes dam Petrina by Piedmont. •C. L. Crellin's b. f. by Searchlight, dam Bertha bj Alcantara. Joseph Depoister's ch. c. Mill Mont by Milton Gear, dam Alta Almont by Prince Almont. Rick De Bernardi's br. c. Kinney Rick by Kinney Lou. dam lone D. by Paloma Prince. W. J- Dingee's b. c. Ned Dennis by Mendocino, dan- Lucy Shaw by Cropsy's Nutwood. S. Y. Dollenmayer's bl. f. Sierra Maid by Rober* Direct, dam Ida May by Grosvenor. R. L. Draper's bl. c. Robert D. by Murray M., dan Lady Royal by Royal Derby. Frank Drake's bl. c. Count Leadbetter by Coun Hannibal, dam Florista by Admiral. E. D. Dudley's br. c. Lookout by Searchlight, dar Bee by Sterling. W. G- Durfee's b. f. by Petigru. dam Jessie Madiso by Jas. Madison. •W. G- Durfee's c. by Coronado. dam Lulu Wilkes. ; C. A. Durfee's bl. c. Dr. Lecco by Lecco, dam Bessi-fl D. by McKinney. j •T. L. Davidson Jr.'s ch. f. Di Alto by Diablo, dam Trilby D. by Altamont. *J. Wallace De Witt's b. f. Cauda O. by Dictatus. dam Alysse Latham by Steinway. •P. M. Doyle's b. f. by Stam B.. dam Jessie M. by Electioneer. "W. E. Deteis' b. f. Erne B. by Stam B., dam Effie Madison by Jas, Madison. IT H. Elliott's b. c. by Wayland W., dam Belle Cooper by lii August Eric-keen' a bl. a Arclight by Searchlight, dam na by Altamont. Byron Erkenbrechc-r s b. f. by Electro McKinney, dam Wilhelmina by Charleston. J. P. Emlgh's b;\ f. by NushaKak. dam Paltie Wald-j stein by Waldsteln. •Rae Felt's f. by Edward P., dam Lady F. •Rae Felt's foal i. - ht, flam Edith by Dextei' Prince. J. L. Field's b. f. Lady Parkhurst by Nearest, dan, field by Janette Almont. A. Morris Fosdick'8 b. f. Lulu K. by Kinney Lou. dan Athene bv Dexter Prince. •Mrs. Josle s. Frary's i». f, Rosezclln b\ Falrose, dan Nora 9. b b likes. Ernest A. Gammon's b. f. Cleo Dillon by Sidney 1 Ullon. dam Cleo I ■ ■mite. r. i rn. c by Richmond I 'h l< r. da m Bi b Roi nd by Hurler, dam Pane. R. P. m. Greeley's bl. r. Lady Search by Searchlight, dam Winnie Wilkes by Rey Wilkes. Grlf, dam Ladv Richmond by A. W- Richmond. La Siesta Ranch's b. c. Siesta by Iran Alto, dam Wanda by Eros. S W. Dillard's b. c. P. D. Q- by John A., dam Gipsy Maid by Billy St. Clair. . C. T. Likins' ch. c. Orcas by Tennysoman. dam Neereal by Neernut. . R. E. deB. Lopez's b. f. by Stam B., dam Missie Madison by Jas. Madison. Thomas Lynam's ch. c. Count Hannibal, dam Pinkey H. bv Dexterwood. •Miss Minnie E. Lewis's b. c. Humboldt by Cruzados, dam Fatinitza by Poscora Hayward. _._... „ , *R P Lathrop's b. c. Star Medium by Dictatus Med- imu, dam Diva by Mohawk Chief. J. McKenneffs bl. c. McK. by John A., dam Nellie by Killarney. .",.,-,* A. L. Marshall's gr. c. Vernole by Jules Verne, dam Phenole. ' t , „ _ W. S. Maben's b. f. Wander Lust by Petigru, dam Dixie W. by Zolock. - . J W. Marshall's b. s. Moortnx by Azmoor, dam Tnx bv Nutwood Wilkes. H. W. Meek's b. f. by Stam B.. dam Izobel by Mc- Kinney. _ , _ . , " . . •H. W. Meek's br. c. by Kinney Lou, dam Cricket by Steinway. , , , n ,,-,_,. -, Rav Mead's br. c. Rayolight by Searchlight, dam Carrie B. bv Alex. Button. T. H. Miller's bl. f. Flash by Searchlight, dam Bonnie bv Director. _ , _ "James W. Mintum's b. c. Bonnie s Orphan by Bonnie Direct, dam Oceano Bell by Killarney. J. E. Montgomery's gr. c. Orphan Boy by Diawood, dam Nancy H. by Upstart. *W. H. Martin's br. c. Japalac by Nushagak, dam by *I. C Mosher's ch. c. Ocean Wave by Tidal Wave, dam Bessie L. by Montana Director. •P. J. Mann's bl. f- Minnie M. by Capt. Jones, dam Minmont by Almont. •C- S. Neal's ch. f. Fanny Tattler by Monterey, dam Fannv Gossip by Gossiper. •Offutt & Shadbolt's rn. c. by Seymour Wilkes, dam Vesper Bell by Dawn. •Frank Overacker's b. f. Fanny Easter by Arner. dam Fanny Vasto by Vasto. S. D. Parks' b. f. Yvonne by Monterey, dam Inline by Hamb.' Wilkes. , „ , , „ „, ,. G. W. Prescott's br. c. Sonlock by Zolock. dam Blondie bv Prince Royal. B. H. Rivers' b. c. Burney by Dictatus, dam Flora 2d by Brilliant. „, . , William Rourke's bl. f. by On Stanley, dam Christmas Gift by Christmas. H. B. Roben's s. f. Dew Drop by Demonio. dam Dixon Maid by Falrose. F. H. Sanderson's bl. f. Fairfield Maid by Count Han- nibal, dam Lady Woodnut by Woodnut. F. H. Sanderson's b. c. Soscol by Count Hannibal, dam Ida S. by Baywood. J. II. Sanders' s. c. Sidney Wilkes by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Vic S. by Sidney Chief. John J. Sangster's s. f. Miss Jennie by Monochrome, dam Jennie S. by Directum. Scott &. Miller's b. c. by Scott McKinney. dam Maggie by Royal Sid. ' George E. Shaw's b. f. by Benton Boy, dam Nellie Nutwood by Brown Jug. E. E. Sherwood's b. f. Daisy Z. by Zombro, dam Queen Woolsev bv Woolsey. Fred Sims' b. f. Lelia S. by The Oregon, dam Lena S. by Monroe S. Charles F. Silvia's b. c. by Stam B„ dam Swift Bird by Waldsteln. P. R. Sims' b. c. Cap Gorgas by Marvin Wilkes, dam Cbila bv S if Sidney. M .1 Snudlzrr's s. 1. by Delphi, dam Fanny S. by Brown Jug. C. J, Snyder's bl. f. Mabel Shaw by Robt. Direct, dam Black Diamond bv Hanford Medium. S, S. Stlles'.b. f. Helen Stiles by Sidney Dillon, dam Silver 11. in by Silver Bow. Sutherland & Chadbourne's s. f. Queen Eva by Lecco, .inn Bertie by Piedmont. Daniel Sullivan's b. c. Starlight by Searchlight, dam ■ ':i rmel E, Sullivan's foal by Monterey, dam Silver Peak by Silver Bow. . . Mrs s. J. Summers' b. c. Dick Warfield by Lecco, 1 mm 1 iypsle by Mosby. •H. P. Smith's b. f.- Finona McKinney by Montesol, dam Bessie Norfolk by Norfolk. •Payne Shafter's bl. c. Homespun by Anteeo D. dam Spotless by Leo Wilkes. Fred Theuerkauf's br. f. Lulu by Scott McKinney, dam Bee Funston by Dictatus. G. W. Theuerkauf's rn. c. John Christenson by Kinney Lou, dam Pearl Dictatus by Dictatus. P. J. Thompson's b. c. Welnado by Welcome, dam Delnado by Boydell. J. H. Torrey's b. f. Bessie T. by Zombro, dam Manilla by Shadeland" Hero. Mrs. F. S. Turner's c. California Dillon by Sidney Dillon, dam Caritone by Antione. Tuttle Bros.' b. f. by Bert Logan, dam Hattie T. by Stam B. •J. A. Trescony's br. f. Miss Lloyd by Robin, dam Ladv Lloyd by Sidney. Valencia Stock Farm's foal by Direct Heir, dam La Belle by Sidney. Valencia Stock Farm's foal by Direct Heir, dam Rosedrop by Sidney. •Valencia Stock Farm's bl. c. Dusky Glen by Direct Heir, dam Glendoveer by Jas. Madison. •M. M. Vincent's b. f. Vera Hal by Expressive Mac, dam Carmen by News Boy. John Walling' s br. f. Lady Seal by Red Seal, dam Bird by Rockwood. James C. Wallace's foal by Keewanna, dam Ophelia by Alfred. •George L. Warlow's b. c. Cordero by Athablo, dam Lusterine by Onward. George L. Warlow's br. c. Bonnie Don by Bonnie Direct, dam Donagene by Athadon. N. K. West's ch. c. Coming Wealth by The Common- wealth, dam Lena Andrews by McKinney. *N. K. West's b. c. Hilgard by Kalaspall, dam Kitty Caution by Caution. E. B. Whelehan's s. c. California B. by Dictatus, dam Bell by Colton. . Mrs. Alma Whitehead's br. f. Miss Delphi by Delphi, dam The Mrs. by Derby Ash. *C. Whitehead's b. c. Delphi, dam Altoonita by AJ- toona. C. F. White's br. c. Halgretta by Moko, dam Algretta by Red Heart. O. H. Wright's br. c. Davis Boy by John A., dam Rosie Wilkes by Falrose. W. Zibbell's foal by Lynwood W., dam Evangie by Shadeland Onward. J. W. Zibbell's foal by Tom Smith, dam Kate Lumry by Shadeland Onward. JOHN A. McKERRON'S OWN BROTHER. When a stallion is kept in service at one place year after year, and maintains his favor with breeders, it is pretty good evidence that he has merits which breeders not only recognize, but have faith in. Nearest 2:22%, own brother to the champion stallion of all the Wilkes tribe, John A. McKerron 2:04%, has been located at San Jose, adjoining Agricultural Park, since he was a colt and he is now in his twelfth year, at the zenith one might say of his vigor. He was a fast colt trotter himself and had speed enough to get a much lower mark had he been regularly trained and raced. But he proved so popular in the stud that Mr. Barstow, his owner, wisely concluded to keep him there. Nearest is a large horse, wonderfully well muscled, but with great style and finish. By Nutwood Wilkes out of Ingar by Director, he carries further back in his pedigree three crosses of that great thor- oughbred, Williamson's Belmont, "the blood," as Mr. Barstow says, "that took Lou Dillon to the front for a fact." Nearest sires size and style as well as speed, and his get sell at good big prices whenever offered. That's the sort to breed, be one rich or poor. He is the sire of Alone 2:09% as a four-year-old, Just It 2.19% as a three-year-old. with a trial of 2:12%, Highfly, trial 2:12% with the last half in 1:02% as a three-year-old, and with a record of 2: 24% as a two-year-old. If Highfly doesn't get a mark very close to two minutes this year, barring accidents, some good judges of horseflesh will get fooled, and there are a number of others of Nearest's get that will take records this season. Nearest is a beautiful dark bay horse, 15.3, and weighs 1200 pounds.' His disposition is perfect. Those contemplating breeding mares this year should address Mr. T. W. B&rstow, San Jose, for terms and card containing extended pedigree and other particulars about Nearest. WILL MAKE THE SEASON AT ALAMEDA. The announcement was made in these columns last week that Geo. T. Algeo, of Oakland, had purchased from Mr. Martin Carter of Irvington, the grandly bred young stallion T. C. 2:30 and would place him in the stud. Mi\ Algeo has placed his advertisement in this journal, and states therein that T. C. will be in the stud at Alameda Race Track during the season of 1906, at the low fee of $30. There are no better bred stallions than T. C, and judging from a two- year-old filly by him. which was in training for a few months in Fred Chadbourne's stable at Pleasan- ton. he has begun siring speed from the first. There is no other stallion in California except Nearest, a brother, and one owned by Mr. Carter, that is so closely related to the champion John A. McKerron 2:04 as T. C. Like that noted trotter he is by Nut- wood Wilkes out of a Director mare and in addition to this his second dam is the dam of Nutwood Wilkes, T. C. as was shown by the picture printed last week, is a strongly made, good boned horse that has a lot of style and finish. He is a fast natural trotter and is proving that he sires speed. The sons of Nutwood Wilkes that are out of good mares are proving ex- cellent sires. But three or four of them have ever stood for service, yet two have sired 2:10 speed, viz: Nearest 2:22%, sire of 'Alone 2:09% and Stanton Wilkes 2.10%. sire of Cavaliero 2:09%. T. C. repre- sents the acme of scientific breeding, and owners of good mares in Alameda county and the vicinity of San Francisco will find the -Alameda track a very convenient place to send their mares. Mr. Algeo. who is an experienced man with horses, and has the faculty of "getting them going," will take a few to train for the road or track. He has fitted up a number of com- fortable and well appointed stalls at the Alameda track and will be pleased to show his stallion at any time. February 10, 19G6] ©lie gweitev cmi» gtpovt&maxx GOSSIP OF THE THOROUGHBRED. (By Ralph H. Tozer.) Barney Schreiber ought to be very proud of the showing of his Missouri-bred gallopers this year in California, and doubtless he is. The writer feels happy over the showing of the Sains, because he was largely instrumental in getting the genial German to buy the horse bred on the lines that breeders all over the world were enthusing over — a St. Simon - Musket stallion whose granddam was the mother of the two female turf immortals, Memoir and La Fleche, own sisters, bred much on the plan of Sain, because their sire was St. Simon (Sain is a son of SI. Simon), their mother an almost full sister to Musket. Schreiber is evidently a believer in the old saying, "Nothing succeeds like success," for he has another good sire in the grand race horse Bannockburn. a son of Hayden Edwards and Bettie Blaise, a St. Blaise mare. With these horses he mates his best racw mares like Uarda (a double Oaks winner), Miss Marion (a two-year-old staker), Derfargilla and Laura Agnes, and the result is the phenomenal Dr. Gardner, Tom McGrath, Deutschland and Ed. Sheri- dan. At the present meeting Dr. Gardner has won six races and $5,470, Tom McGrath seven races (the season's record to date and $5,950, Deutschland three races and many seconds and thirds and Ed. Sheridan five races. The ones that like the longest journey are Dr. Gardner and Ed. Sheridan, respectively, from the long-distance race mares Uarda and Laura Agnes. Miss Marion and Derfargilla were purely sprinters, and their preferance for a short route shows plainly in their progeny. Should Schreiber desire to breed "Derby horses" all he would have to do would be to send to Sain or Bannockburn some good long-dis- tance race mares of roomy pattern and racing con- formation, whose first, second and third dams threw stake-winners, and if their fourth, fifth and sixth dams had the same distinction they could be "banked upon" twice as strongly. The breeding of the four mothers of good race-winners spoken of shows that if the mother was a "stayer" her produce will like a route, and if only "sprinters" they will be good at that game. Seven horses have won $5,000 or upward at this meeting, and of these Schreiber had the honor of breeding two of the number (Tom McGrath and Dr. Gardner) and owning for a long time the sire of Dr. Leggo (Puryear D) . Proper was bred at Rancho del Paso, Lubin and Bearcatcher in Ken- tucky, Tom McGrath and Dr. Gardner at "Wood- lands." Bridgeton, Mo., and San Nicholas by Charles Kerr at Bakersfield, Cal. appear up .to the running of the race. Melbourne, with a population of about 450,000, has an average- attendance on * Cup days" of over 100,000, nearly every man, woman and child in the province has a. wager on the event months ahead, and of course desires to see the "run for the money." and the result is more interest felt in this race than in any in the known world. It is odd that Australians should be able to teach us how to raise enthusiasm over a particular racing event, but the conditions governing the Mel- bourne Cup. run over the famed Flemington course, are such that every one, from the Governor of the province to the dirtiest bootblack,, looks forward to this great national race with feelings of pleasure. OF INTEREST TO _ YOLO COUNTY BREEDERS. Last Monday announcement was made that the stakes for the Saratoga midsummer meeting would close Monday, March 5, with the exception of the cross-country fixtures, which are to have a later clos- ing day. The principal stake for the meeting, as formerly, will be the Great Republic, thought it will have nothing like the value of last season. It is now a stake with $10,000 added money, as against a $50 000 value when Sysonby galloped off with it last year. The stake was originated by William C. Whit- ney and was designed to be the richest fixture of the American turf. Last year its net value to James R. Keene was $41,465, which more than equaled any two of the rich stakes won by the son of Melton. Next in money importance to the Great Republic in Sysoni- by's winnings was the Annual Champion — his last race of his three-year-old career. It netted $20,500. His Realization had a net value of $17,750; the Cen- tury, $14,775; the Tidal $14,550; Brighton Derby, $11,- 750; Commonwealth, $11375; Iroquis, $5850, and his division of the Metropolitan, through running a dead heat with Race King, $5565. These figures will serve to show the importance of the Great Republic when run under the condition originally contemplated by Whitney. It is the intention of the Saratoga associa- tion to increase the Great Republic ot make' it a $20,000 stake in 1907, but there will be no attempt to restore it to the princely value intended by its origi- nator. Apparently the Great Republic was not appreciated, and no wonder the racing magnates interested in Sar- atoga cut it down materially after Sysonby made a show of his field in the rich event. Saratoga is the place above all others for the running of a stake of national importance, and now that the Great Republic has proved a comparative failure in the all-aged di- vision and Washington Park's American Derby looks like a glorious thing of the past, why should it not be a good idea idea to institute at Saratoga the United States Derby, with say $25,000 added, at one and one- half miles, with no allowances whatever except the usual one to fillies? This would be a race of the greatest importance within a period of three years, and the first time the race was run the managers could let the entries be made two months ahead, so as to stimulate interest, after that when the coming conestants were two-year-olds, in March, as in the other stakes mentioned above. A race of this descrip- tion would prove an incentive to breeders to breed "stayers" in place of soft "sprinters," and the breed would certainly be much improved. In October It would be fitting to have the American St. Leger, also for three-year-olds, at one mile and three-quarters, with $25,000 added, run at Belmont Park, and the American Oaks, one and one-half miles, for three- year-old fillies, might be inaugurated by one of the big racing associations, say the Coney Island Jockey Club, and run in September. It is also astonishing that one of the Eastern clubs does not get up a race patterned after the Melbourne Cup, one of two miles, with $25,000 added, a handicap, the entries to appear six months in advance of the race, the weignts five months ahead, with certain penalties of winning a total of $3,000 upwards from the time the weights I Manager Brooks and Presiding Judge Hamilton ■appear to be at loggerheads over Turfman Dick Wil- liams and the running of his gallopers. Brooks tele- graphed to Emeryville that no investigation of the turfman was in progress, while Judge Hamilton as- serts to the contrary. Meanwhile the Williams' string is running across the bay with considerable success. George Rose, about the largest stockholder is said to side with Hamilton, and there is likely to be a show- down before very long and some one step down and out. Just who it will be is problematical, as the strength of the warring factions is unknown. Accord- ing to every one who has lived at Los Angeles this winter, the "goody goods" made the times very tor- rid for the Ascot people, and they claim they will carry their complaints before the next Legislature. The anti-racing tide has rolled so high in States like Missouri, Illinois and Tennessee of late that, like the roulette marble, "no one knows where it's going to stoo." HORSES FOR ALASKA. C. E. Porter, who is engaged extensively in the freighting business in Alaska, has been in Oregon recently looking for horses suitable for his use. He says. "We do a great deal of handling in Alaska during the winter months, when the ground is frozen, but in the summer loads must be made very light as the horses frequently mire down, and we have to haul them out with chains. The new town of Fairbanks has 7000 inhabitants. It is well built, having a num- ber of three-story brick blocks and modern improve- ments, including several sawmills. There is plenty of timber close at hand and we lack nothing in that respect. We pay $25 a month for a telephone, and nearly everything else is in proportion. A common laborer receives $8 a day and boards himself, or $5 a day and board. We now get a good meal at a res- taurant in Fairbanks for $1. On the trail meals are $2. Beds in Fairbanks are $1 a night. There is a daily newspaper in Fairbanks, the Fairbanks News, which receives telegraphic service over the cable to Valdez and thence by the Overland wire. This is government service and is at reasonable charges. There is no politics in Fairbanks and we pay no taxes. The saloons pay all the government expenses. The town is covered with saloons, which pay $500 a year license; the restaurants pay $15 a year and the gamblers are regularly fined and the tough element contributes its share of government expense. ' The extreme cold weateher in Fairbanks does not last very long. The coldest I saw it before I left was 57 degrees below zero, and that only lasted for a week or two. It is a still, dry cold, which you don't notice much. The average during the winter is 20 to 30 degrees below zero. The summers are very mild andt pleasant, the thermometer running about 65 or 70. During the summer months, day or night, we never have to use artificial light. In the winter time we have only about four hours of daylight. Last summer we had lots of rain, and I must say that during the summer season the roads are simply fierce. The horses often go up to their necks in the mud." The mere announcement that that splendid stallion Tom Smith 2:13^4, owned by Prof. E. P. Heald of this city, has been sent to Woodland, Yolo county, for the season of 1906, has already caused many of ^ the harness horse breeders of that locality to express \ their pleasure, as it affords them an opportunity to \ mate their mares with one of the handsomest, best bred and fastest of the sons of the great McKinney. Yolo county farmers and horse breeders have had the \ reputation for years of producing and driving larger j and better looking roadsters than can be found In most localities in California, and the reason is that J while they have been good patrons of sires with speed and good breeding they have always demanded that size and good looks should be a portion of their quali- fications. In Yolo county there was much of the blood of Signal, John Nelson 187, Dietz's St. Clair and Black Ralph, all horses that got size and good looks, and the daughters of these horses were bred to Alex. Button, whose get are noted for their lofty carriage, speed and splendid road qualities. In later years some of the best bred stallions in California have made seasons in Yolo county, notably Diablo, Bayswater Wilkes, Falrose, Iran Alto and Mr. Alex. Brown's two stallions, Nushagak and Prince Ansel. It will thus be seen that high class trotting blood is not scarce in the country about Woodland, where Tom Smith 2:13*4 will make a season this year in charge of C. A. Spen- cer, at the Woodland Stock Farm. As Tom Smith is a horse of grand proportions, a good gaited fast trotter, level headed and a sire of handsome foals, there is no doubt but the breeders of Yolo county will t,ive him a liberal patronage this year, and the results cannot be anything but good for these breeders and the horse, as from the well bred mares of Yolo should come more than one. 2:10 trotter by this son of McKinney. Tom Smith's dam is the great brood mare Daisy S., dam of Tom Smith 2:13*4, Gen. Val- lejo 2:20^, Little Mac (3) 2:27 and Sweet Rosle 2:2Sy Daisy S. is a daughter of McDonald Chief 35S3, that sired five standard performers, among them that well known trotter, Columbus S. 2:17, and has a producing son and three producing daughters. Mc- Donald Chief was by that stout bred horse Clark Chief S9 and out of a mare by thoroughbred Bethune. The second dam of Tom Smith is another great brood mare, Fanny Rose by Ethan Allen Jr. 2903, son of the old champion Ethan Allen and a mare by Hambletonian 2. Fanny Rose produced George Wash- ington 2:16%, Columbus S. 2:17 and Solano Chief 2:29%. The third dam of Tom Smith is Jenny Lind, a mare that won many races in California In early . days and was considered a thoroughbred. Through Fanny Rose, Tom Smith gets a strong Morgan strain, as she was by Ethan Allen Jr. a son of Ethan Allen 43, the best son of Black Hawk 5. This Morgan blood was quite strong in many of the mares which formed the foundation stock of Yolo county and they should nick particularly well with this stallion. Sweet Marie 2:04% came from McKinney being bred to a mare with Morgan and thoroughberd blood in her veins, and there are many fine mares in Yolo county bred in similar lines. DEATH OF SPHINX 2:2(H2. The announcement has just been made that the Electioneer stallion Sphinx 2:20iA was put to death about two months ago at the Danforth Farm, Wash- ington, Illinois, this act being made necessary as the horse was hopelessly afflicted with paralysis. The last stud service the horse did was in 1904. Sphinx was foaled in 1SS3, and was bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. His sire was Electioneer and his dam the famous mare Sprite, who was bred like Miss Russell, inasmuch as she was by Belmont 64 out of a mare by Pilot Jr. This Pilot Jr. mare was Water- witch, dam of six with standard records, five pro- ducing sons, and grandam of 19 standard performers through her daughters. Sprite produced four stand- ard trotters and her three sons. Egotist, Electrite and Sphinx, are among Electioneers leading producing sons Sphinx at the close of 1905 had 110 in the 2:30 list, of which eighteen have records below 2:15. His fastest trotter is Hazel Ridge 2:11%. but he has four pacers with records below 2:09, the fastest being Sphinx S. 2:05':i. Sphinx up to the time of his death was the only son of Eelctioneer to sire as many as one hundred standard performers. One of the best bred stallions ever foaled in this State has been taken to Salem. Oregon, for the season of 1906. We refer to Tidal Wave 2.09, sired by Nut- wood Wilkes 2:16%, dam My Miracle (own sister to Coney 2:02. McZeus 2:13 and Grace McK. 2:21%), by McKinney 2:11%, second dam Grace Kniser, dam of Stipulator 2:11%, Coney 2:02, McZeus 2:13 and Grace McK. 2:12%, by Kaiser 2200. Tidal Wave is nol y a fast horse and royally bred, but he Is almost a perfect model of a horse in conformation, and very stylish. The Oregon breeders will do well who pat- ronize such a horse as Tidal Wave. THE GOLDDUSTS. Editor Breeder and Sportsman: Dear Sir — I notice in your last issue that T. L. Creason of Point Richmond inquires about the "Gold- dusts" in California. Will say that Col. McNasser brought two sons of Ensign Golddust (son of Golddust 150) to this county from Kentucky. These were full brothers out of the registered mare Silver Spray. One, Ensign Jr.. was destroyed by fire; he got Bell Mc, dam of Silver Bee 2:27% (2 years). The other, Starlight Golddust. got Col. McNasser, that Vet. Tryon trained and drove to a record of 2:19. I have always had the impression that Starlight Golddust and the McCracken Golddust were the same horse, as I believe Starlight stood out at Cosumnes. I have the full breeding of these McNasser horses if Mi'. Creason desires it. Yours truly, M. L. LUSK, 631 K Street, Sacramento, Cal. Joe Cuicello worked the trotter Admiral Togo, four years old, by Iran Alto 2:12%, a mile in 2:16, last half in 1:06, and last quarter in 32% seconds, at Pleasanton last Friday. This colt is a great natural trotter and the free-for-allers will have to look out for him soon. All the boys grab their watches and climb on the rail whenever Joe starts out with Charley Belden, the gelding he is working for Mart Rollins. Last Wed- nesday was work out day for this hors; and he was given a mile in 2:1S% and then another in 2:14%, the last half in 1:04% and the last quarter In 31% sec- onds. This mile was trotted in the middle of the track the entire distance, so the mile was a long one. Henry Struve's mare Hagar Wilkes by Nutwood Wilkes foaled a fine b. f. by Welcome 2:10»-2, January 23d, one of the first, if not the first, foal in stake No. 6 of the Pacific Breeders' Futurity. THE NEW HORSEMAN'S HANDBOOK. The revised edition of the Horseman's Handbook, Just off the press, is certainly a valuable little book. In addition to Its treatment of the care and management of stallions, brood mares, colts, campaigners and special chapters on the care nf the feet, gaitirip and balancing, it also contains the official rules of the American trot- ting turf and a wealth of statistics round nowhere else. ][ gives the championship records of every class, the leading progenitors of speed, list of horse associations, list "!' horse journals, catalogue of books on the horse, and a I E oth< r things too numerous to mention. Jt gives the rules to stand registers, rules for la; out tracks, state pool laws now in vogue, the dll turlty stakes, what they are worth, when are due. and a hundred hints and different - of \ al lie to e^ ery horseman. This little b< had at this office at CO cents per copy i- and at $1.00 per copy in leatherette cover man ought to carry one In his pocket. 8 &he ^vezhsv anb &pavt&xnan [February 10, 1906 lSJcta3t!»SQs3)tsJSs3te\ ed grouse, and wild turkeys is over. Boston, Chicngo, and New Orleans are the only important markets east of the Mississippi that are open to any * onsiderable extent, and these are not without certain restrictions. Now that the hunting season is practically over, the Biological Survey of the U. S. Department of Agri- culture in a bulletin issued January 16th, suggests that efforts be directed toward insuring more effective protection of game and an adequate supply for the future. Owing to the nonmigratory character of quail and the consequent depletion of various localities where hunting has been excessive, or the birds have been killed off by the severity of the past two winters, restocking is frequently necessary; but the demand for live birds for this purpose far exceeds the avail- able supply. The difficulty is augmented by the fact that southern birds are scarcely hardy enough to stand northern winters, and hence it is difficult for Northern States to secure birds suited to the climate. The game commissions of some Sates, particularly Massachusetts and New Jersey, for several years past have endeavored to obtain a supply of quail, but have been only partially successful. The lesson of the great loss of life among quail occasioned by these two severe winters has not been lost. Perceiving that absence of food and shelter is the principal cause of mortality. State officials, game associations, and many private individuals have united in attempting to make good these deficiencies. Grain and other food have been distributed freely and systematically after heavy snowfalls, when the usual food is covered, and suitable shelter has been provided. Much activity prevailed last year in Illi- nois, Indiana. Massachusetts. Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, and West Virginia. Such measures are needed to preserve the quail from possible ulti- mate extinction; for with a growing army of sports- men hunting for them annually — an army that now numbers hundreds of thousands in this country — their ranks are each fall reduced so far below the normal that, if the succeeding winter happens to be severe, extermination of many colonies is almost sure to fol- low. Such a result is deplorable, not only from the standpoint of the sportsman, but, owing to the great value of the quail to agricultural interests as a de- stroyer of insects and the seeds of weeds, from that . of the farmer as well. New Jersey Duck Hunting. The way they do it down East is illustrated in a recent dispatch from Stone Harbor, N. J., and is interesting by way of contrast: The cold weather of the past week has greatly im- proved the wild fowl shooting in the bays and creeks of Cape May county. During the late fall and early winter days thousands of ducks and geese frequented the water ways and ponds that cover the great marshes that extend from Great Egg Harbor bay to Sewell's point, but on account of the mildness of the weather the birds were shy. When the warmer weather prevailed the ducks spent much of the time out on the sea, miles from shore, only coming to the inland waters in rough weather or at night to drink and feed. When the "wind blows cold from the north, bringing snow and sleet, great flocks of wild fowl forsake the open sea and congregate by the thousands in Corson's Bay. Ludlam'S' bay, the Great sounds, and Richard- son's bay. Winding through the marshes from these bays are scores of streams, where the lovers of duck shooting can find the finest kind of sport for three months to come. These water courses are separated from the ocean by five narrow islands, namely: Peck's or Ocean City beach, Ludlam's beach, Seven Mile beach. Five Mile beach, and Two Mile beach. II is in the sheltered coves in the rear of these islands that the sportsmen can find the shooting good. Just now black ducks, broadbills, shell ducks, blue bills, mallards, and a half dozen varieties of diving ducks are to be found in flocks numbering from a score to hundreds. Most of the shooting is done in the early hours of the morning or two or three hours preceding dark- ness, but the best ducking is to be had in rough weather, especially during a snowstorm, when the wild fowl are continually on the move, flying from one stream to another. The use of big heavy guns is a thing of the past in this locality. The best gun is a double ten bore of any good make, chambered for a fairly long cartridge, to shoot three and one-half drams of smokeless powder and an ounce and a suar- ter of No. 4 chilled shot. A report from Tiburon last Monday was to the effect that a very large striped bass had been found dead on the rocks under the railroad wharf. This fish weighed 55 pounds and measured over five feet long. The fish's body bore two deep wounds, spear marks, it was stated, but most probably made by a sea lion. This fish is, if the weight and dimensions are cor- rectly given, the second largest striped bass noted up to date. A fish scaling 59 pounds was taken about two years ago by Sacramento net fishermen. The find was made by Conductors Murphy and Daisy of the California Northwestern Railway. This episode is rather an ironical commentary on the luck of the angling contingent who have been awaiting the appearance of the bass in the Tiburon waters. The fish, for some reason or other, have beuu very scarce in the "straits" for several months past, despite the constant trolling and watching for the anticipated run. Very few bass have been taken and now that the biggest bass ever reported as coming from San Francisco bay waters was found under the conditions noted above the anglers regard this inci- dent as one of the many peculiar happenings in con- nection with striped bass fishing. That big bass are in the Marin shore waters is a fact well authenticated, for the net men have recently taken some good sized ones. Last Sunday two youths got on the train at Greenbrae and they had three bass weighing nearly 60 pounds; one of the fish was over 20 pounds in weight. In answer to numerous questions by interested and empty-handed fishermen on the train and afterwards on the boat, the reply was made that the fish had been caught "way up the bay." In- GEORGE LIVERMORE President of tbe Ithaca Gun Company vestigation proved that the fish had been bought from "Mike," a Greek fisherman at Point San Quentin. Taking the foregoing into consideration, it looks as if bass were present in their accustomed haunts, but for reasons best understood by the fish, the lure of the angler is. for the time being, impotent, A striped bass weighing fifteen pounds was re- cently taken from the Sacramento river at Colusa. The fish was three feet long and is said to be the largest ever taken from the river at that point. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. At a meeting of the Fly-Casting Club held on Tues- day evening the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: F. H. Reed, president; Carlos G. Young, first vice-president; H. C. Sperry, second vice- president; Tom C. Kierulff, secretary-treasurer, re- elected. Thirteen new members were elected. The selected preserve, now owned by the club, on the Truckee river, was evidently a timely and well thought of move on the part of the club, judging from the enthusiasm shown in the project. It is proposed . to have the ground in shape and a house erected the coming sea- son for the accommodation of the members. California Anglers' Association. At a meeting of the California Anglers' Association, held last Monday evening, the following officers for the ensuing year were elcted by the Board of Direct- ors. James Watt, president; David Sachs, first vice- president: Achille Roos, second vice-president; W. R. Eaton, secretary; The Western National Bank, treas- urer. The Board of Directors is composed as follows; Jabez Swan, John Butler, S. A. Wells, George Went- worth, R. Haas, W. F. Hillegass. Mr. Overholzer, J. Snmmi, C. Ashlin, and E. Pomeroy. California favorite hot weather drink— Ja< kson's Napa Soda. Another Suit Against Trespassers. The Colusa Shooting Club have filed suit in the Superior Court of Sutter County against Guy Herd, M. Parkinson, S. Kelly, and a half dozen others, ask- ing that an injunction be issued to prevent them from trespassing and hunting on the preserve of the above Club near Butte slough. WESTMINISTER KENNEL CLUB SHOW. America's premier dog show will begin in Madison Square Garden. New York, next Monday, and con- tinue for four days. The record figures 3013 entries, 19ol dogs— a grand showing for the New York club It was believed by many that the limit for an Amer- ican show had been reached last year, when "713 entries by 1752 dogs were chalked up. Even the man- agement of the show was dubious over a bigger showing in the near future. Things apparently came along with a rush, the barners were let down and all of the best dogs of the United States.and Canada will be seen on the benches next week. Qualitv all down the line, we hear, is plentiful, and the show promises to be the best in every respect ever gotten together in this country. In looking over the list of entries it will be seen that several old time favorite breeds have fallen off and the more recently fashionable breeds have gained correspondingly. Boston Terriers lead all breeds with the big entry of 277 and 217 dogs— seemingly a large contract is ready for the judges to carry out. Second on the list are Cockers— 236 entries, 156 dogs— a splendid showing. Collies (rough) follow with 195 entries, 116 dogs— supplemented by smooth Collies, 13 entries, 7 dogs. Bulldogs. Bull Terriers, French Bull- dogs, Beagles. Irish Terriers, English Setters and Pointers are strong. These entries can be considered a token of confidence in the judges. Fox Terriers have given way, for the once, to Irish and Airedaile Terriers, the latter seems to be gaining in popularity and deservedly so, which can also be said of the Irishmen. Scotties, judging from the entry list, are also in the same position in the East- ern fancy's regard. St. Bernards have fallen off in actual numbers but show a gain in total entries. Of the big breeds, Rus- sian Wolfhounds seem to be holding their own. Mas- tiffs are but the shadow of a tradition. Greyhounds make a rather good showing. The absence of entries by several well known exhibitors has cut down the Foxhound exhibit. Irish Setters and Gordons have a following appar- ently, as they should have, but in Irish Water Span- iels and Chesapeake Bay Dogs we regret to notice the limited entry of two valuable and important breeds. It seems rather odd that dogs of the utility possessed by these breeds should be overlooked to such an extent. Dalmatians, it is claimed, have taken a hold on popular fancy and show up better than Great Danes. Poms, Welsh Terriers, Whippets, Chows and Old Eng- lish Sheepdogs are gainers, as are Dandie Dinmonts. The following is the table of entries as issued by Superintendent James Mortimer: _. ,, , Entries. Dogs. Bloodhounds ^n ifi Mastiffs '.'..'.'.'.'.'.'.',' 3 3 St. Bernards 55 40 Great Danes ] ' 75 45 Newfoundlands . . . 5 5 Deerhounds ' [ j^ 9 Russian Wolfhounds .'.'.'.'. 76 40 Greyhounds 27 15 Foxhounds (English ) .'..['. 17 Foxhounds (American) 5 3 Pointers jjg 54 English Setters 141 95 Irish Setters 3-) Gordon Setters 22 11 Chesapeake Bay Dogs 2 Irish Water Spaniels. 10 7 Clumber Spaniels 1 1 g Field Spaniels 35 21 Cocker Spaniels ^36 156 Collies (Rough) 195 hh Collies (Smooth) 13 7 Old English Sheep Dogs 52 '>3 Chow-Chows 39 17 Dalmatians 7s 4S Poodles 47 33 Bulldogs 192 127 French Bulldogs ... 123 89 Bull Terriers 161 90 Airedales 97 Boston Terriers _'77 ■• | 7 Toy Boston Terriers 1 :; " 1 j Basset Hounds 11 a neasles L03 64 Dachshunde 4s :\ I Fox Terriers (Smooth > 67 35 Fox Terriers (Wire) 63 ;:7 Irish Terriers 129 72 Scottish Terriers 7<; 1 1 Roseneath Terriers 5 5 Welsh Terriers 31 1 -i Black and Tan Terriers «", t Dandie Dinmonts »; 6 Skye Terriers 1 1 Whippets in k, Sehipperkes 7 7 Pomeranians 68 1:: English Toy Spaniels 7.". 1:: Japanese Spaniels 43 23 Pugs 11 8 Toy Poodles 3 :: Yorkshire Terriers 16 ] ", Maltest Terriers 8 6 Toy Terriers S 8 < rriffons Br'uxellois 7 5 Chihuahuas 6 6 Papillions t 4 Miscellaneous 8 8 Totals 3013 197.1 A Quail Hunt. A party composed of A. E. Schadlich. H. W. Hughes. Dr. F. J. Martin of Oakdale, J. B. Coleman of San Francisco, and Andrew Jackson of Napa, went to Don Pedro, near Oakdale. Wednesday of last week for a week's quail hunt. They started out well equipped with tents, cooking utensils and a well-stocked larder to carry the jolly sportsmen through the week's out- ing in comfort. The rabbit pest in Washington is so serious that the Blalock Island Company, whose headquarters are at Coyote, on the island named, have made arrange- ments for the accommodation of 250 sportsmen to participate on February i> in one of the biggest rab- bit hunts ever pulled off in Washington. [1 lions have been sent to every gun club ii Northwest. Railroad rates will be t : company has made the proper arrangei tertain at least 250 shooters. , 10 (CUr ^vceSec ano gtportai^ai* [February 10. 1906 DOINGS IN DOGDOM. AT THE TRAPS. A PROMINENT EASTERN VISITOR. Southwestern Kennel Club. ta Enthusiasm increasing in the rank* of Ine fancy down in the citrus belt, it recent reports Irorn the southern part ■ are any criterion. AngelGf "fth Twe for another show next month, Km ■ misinformed l« The coming show ill be the third annual exhibition of the Southwest- ern Kennel Club. Judging from past successes the next benching shou revious efforts Be- shows the club was spon- ,w, which a Boston porary recently had the bad taste to give a 5hing matter that was unreli- 1 full ot veiled, but none the less scurrilous Section on the officials And all tha after the Boston journal had previously given a full rage favorable report of the show which was reliable and competent and contributed by a prominent Los Aneeles fancier. publication had the effect of bringing from alter that would Have passed away prac- tically unnoticed had it not been floated on the broad current of kei -a by a journal of standing and reliability. This mistake, to draw it mildly, has been commented on by many fanciers here, most .of them, under the circumstances, expressed a feeling re- gret that so prominent a factor in kennel affairs has been used as a cats paw. The officers of the Southwestern Kennel Club, re- cently elected, are the following: Count Jaro/Von Schmidt, president; W. K. Peasley, B. Greenseld and Paul Piepers. vice-presidents; George R. Albers, sec- retary; Messrs. Piepers, Greengeld and L. W. Young finance committee. Captain L. H. Broadhead will act as the club's press agent, and this ensures much aid for a successful show. Bull Terrier Specialty Show. A move in the right direction is the contemplated one-day show of the Bull Terrier Club which is talked of for next month. The show is being promoted by prominent and reliable fanciers and should receive generous support. The Breeder and Sportsman has always been an advocate of specialty shows. The one-day club shows are strong feeders for the various kennel club bench shows and are big factors in keeping up interest and enthusiasm. . . \ number of times in past years specialty shows have been talked of by the different clubs here, but nothing ever materialized in that line but talk. It is to be hoped that a radical change in the usual rou- tine will be the initial factor introducing a worthy and valuable innovation among the Coast fanciers. It was at first contemplated to show the different breeds of Terriers, this idea, with good judgment we believe, was abandoned. Sanction of the Bull Terrier Club of America must first be secured after which Mr. J. P. Norman, secre- tary of the Pacific Advisory Board, will allot the re- quested date. One pleasing feature of the proposed show is the number of special prizes that have been promised. The entry fee, we have been advised, will be $1.00 for the first entry and 50 cents additional for each subse- quent entry. Big Game Hunting in Wyoming. Mr. Antone Eorel. Jr., of this city, recently returned from a most enjoyable trip after big game in the rugged fastnesses' of Wyoming. Mr. Borel was one of a hunting party who were thoroughly outfitted and equipped for an arduous campaign, for the killing of .-!k and big horn in that country, at the present time, is no child's play and the sportsmen must be fortified with a strong heart and sound physical condition who would return from the hunt crowned with suc- i i ss. The hunting party were accompanied by three ;.nd a cook and had along twenty horses for riding and packing. Among the trophies of the chase which fell to Mr. Borel's rifle was a magnificent big elk, one of the shot in that region Eor years past. This coup near Mt. Liedy. a frowning snow- i peak of the Rockies, last October. The mam- ; intlers spread over 52 inches, with a 0 i Hve feet He was a seven-pointer and Lid be a perfect specimen. Three Mountain sheep, five elks and five antelopes, I] ia m n v grouse and sage hens, were bagged in addltl ndld troul fishing was found in sev- reaxns. Grouse were numerous and i amp larder at all times. twenty-one days on the hunting grounds tnosi enthusiastic over the results of the trip. After the closing of the game shooting season, on February 15, there will be but a brief rest for many shotguns, for the powder-burning enthusiasts have in their mind's eye a lively season at the clay pigeon traps this year. A brief outline of the itinerary for local marksmen is the following: The initial trap shoot for the year will be, as usual, a blue rock tournament at Ingleside on Washington's birthday under the combined auspices of the Union and Golden Gate Gun Clubs. The program of events will be announced during the coming week. Three clubs, the California Wing, Golden Gate and Union Gun Clubs will shoot at the Ingleside grounds this season. The first regular meeting will take place next month. Each club will hold seven monthly shoots — the order being: Golden Gate the first Sun- day of each month, the Wing Club the second Sunday and the Unions on the third Sunday. The individual club .-ograms will be practically the same as last year. The two blue rock clubs will continue the class system of grading the shooters and the Wing Club will impose a distance handicap on the pigeon shoot- ers. Across the bay at Alameda Junction the Empire Gun Club's grounds have been prepared and a series of five monthly shoots is being arranged. The first shoot is billed for Sunday, March 11th. the club sea- son closing on Sunday, July Sth. The club program will be practically the same as last season with but slight curtailment in minor particulars. The program will, it is believeu, be issued in about a week. At the Empire traps this season there will be seen a number of new shooters who have recently joined the club. The Millwood Gun Club may not be in position to open their grounds prior to the end of May or early in June. Growing crops prevent the use of the club's shooting ground in Mill Valley in accordance with their usual custom. The Blue Rock Club of Alameda will hold forth at the High street trap grounds on the first Sunday of each month for a period of seven monthly shoots, the first of which will take place on March 4. The third annual tournament of the Pacific Coast Trap Shooting Association will take place at Vallejo on May 26 and 27, on the grounds of the Vallejo Gun Club at Flosden Station. The Lincoln Gun Club proposes to hold three open trap shoots this year at Reclamation, a station on the Sonoma branch of the California Northwestern Railway. It is very probable that the Interstate Association will hold the Pacific Coast handicap in this city again later on in the season. Negotiations to that effect are now in progress. Down in San Jose members of the County Fish and Game Protective Association are arranging for a trap shooting season this year. No less a prominent Californian than Hon. Victor H. Metcalfe, of Oakland, Secretary of the Department of Labor and Commerce, has recently been giving Washington sportsmen a few pointers in trap shoot- ing. Mr. Metcalfe, Assistant Secretary Murray and Solicitor Sims are all members of the Analostan Gun Club which has a trap ground fitted up on one of the Potomac islands in the vicinity of Washington, D. C. Every Saturday there is a gathering of congenial spirits at the club traps. Mr. Metcalfe is generally high gun, his early experience on the Alameda marshes with wild ducks and practice at the Oakland traps giving him a shade the best of it over his Eastern competitors. This is only one of very many instances illustrating the growing popularity of a ' clean sport" and of the diversified following indulg- ing in the recreation. In connection with the brief outline of the local schedule, trap shooting will be held at many other points on the Coast. Tournaments will be held at Sacramento, Los Angeles, San Diego, Colusa, Red- ding, etc.. Phoenix. Ariz.. Portland. Walla Walla, Medford, Ore.. Victoria and Vancouver, B. C. At various points, too numerous to mention, not only in this State, but throughout the Pacific Coast, gun club shoots will be more numerous than ever before in the history of Coast trap shooting. Taking it all in all. indications point to quite a boom in trap shooting here for 1906. The program for the shoot at Ingleside on the 22d inst. is as follows: Five 15-target races. $1.00 entrance. 3 moneys, Rose system. Five-man team shoot, for a purse. Entrance $5 per team, 25 targets. Clubs may enter as many teams as is desired. Blue Cod Plentiful. ■ i.i iltwater ai igli i -: n ho were fishing from a bo 3hores of Angel Island caughl about 75 pounds of the i ultus, or blue cod, as h is usually called by local fishers These fish ging from 5 to S pounds In weight. The blue •"! Is caught In the ivj here be- thi :■■ ■ distance from Hi ■."■ ntly i aughl . .i i, , i ■ .'ell as clan hn..|. .. As a tab 1 1 ■■■ n "i in- tie ba^ -"gum 1 ■ ■ I bi rsomi . rarely puts up I o Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Trout and Pheasants. Plans for the reorganization of the Oregon Fish and < lame Association were proposed at its annual m< etlng last month by Secretary A. E. Gebhardt and nmittee was appointed to look into the matter of Incorporating the organization. It is proposed to i unty associations which will be auxiliary to the State society. The Association decided to work for the establish - i ol .i State fish hatchery for the purpose of i i ping the Oregon streams stocked with trout. To maintain such an establishment it is proposed to im- post .i license of -Si upon each man who carries a rod. Man} applications were received for Chinese pheas- ants for breeding purposes from nearly every State in tin- Union. hi; Hronsoi ected president; Dr. N. Church- man, at; H S. I tutterfield, treasurer, and \. 1 ■'. Gebhardt, secretary. Mr. George Livermore, the president of the Ithaca Gun Company, was in this city last week, the guest' of Mr. Phil B. Bekeart, pausing for a few days' sight seeing, en route to Seattle. Mr. Livermore will meet Mr. Claude H. Smith and Messrs. L. C. and W. L. Smith, his two brothers-in-law, in the northern city. The three gentlemen last named are largely interested in Seattle real estate. Mr. Livermore's visit to the Coast is purely a trip of recreation and sight seeing. Before arriving here he spent several days in Los Angeles. He is a gentleman of pleasing personality and wide information and was keenly interested in many Coast masters that appeal to the consideration of an Easterner. Quail Hunting South. The quail season in Riverside and San Bernardino counties closed on January 31st, and with it closed the incidents which may or may not be pleasant memories to the festive hunter who has worn out his shoes and clothes, shooting his fowling piece hundreds of times and killing but a few birds. Quail hunting the past season has not been over encouraging. In many cases it has proven good sport, but the average person who went out for a day or a few hours, has been doomed to disappoint- ment, for if he got the limit, twenty-five in one day, he either shot away much ammunition and worked hard all day, or else was giving his friends the stiff upper lip, as has been the case with three hunters out of four. Generally "the limit" was translated in the sense of twenty-five birds, but in reality it meant the limit of the hunter's ability. It has been a good word, short, full of meaning, but has been dreadfully abused. In and about the immediate vicinity of Redlands hunting has been poor. In Riverside county it has been better, while on the desert it was good. About Imperial the best of sport has been secured, especially with ducks, of which thousands have been killed without the least apparent decrease in the flight. There are still plenty on the Salton Sea, and hunters may kill them until February 15. They may. also be killed in San Bernardino county until that time. The ducks in that section, however, have not been over plentiful, and hunters have found but little satisfac- tion except in Bear Valley. Steel head Season Closed. Local anglers who have a fancy for steelhead fish- ing in tide water have now laid away their rods and tackle, for the season on steelhead ended on the first instant. The law reads "Every person who, between the first day of February and the first day of April, or between the tenth day of September and the sixteenth day of October of each year, buys, sells, takes, catches, kills or has in his possession any steelhead trout (Salmo Gairdneri) is guilty of a misdemeanor and must be fined (upon conviction) in a sum not less than $20, or be imprisoned in the county jail of the county in which the conviction shall be made, not less than ten days, or he may be punished by both fine and im- prisonment." The trout fishing season will open on April 1st and already many local enthusiasts are planning an early visit to a favorite trouting stream. Indications for the coming season, so far, are very favorable for plenty of fishing sport. TRADE NOTES. Winchester Feather- Weight 1906 Model Repeater. The Winchester Repeating Arms Company has just placed on the market a handsome little extra light weight 22 caliber repeating rifle, known as the Model 1906. This arm is a compact, take-down rifle, hand- ling 22 short rim fire cartridges only. It is attractive in appearance and outline, and in accuracy, reliability of operation and finish it is fully up to the estab- lished Winchester standard. The repeating and take- down systems used in this rifle are simple, positive and thoroughly tried, having always given entire satisfaction. This rifle is made with a 20-inch round barrel fitted with a sporting front sight and an ad- justable open rear sight, and when taken apart can be carried in a dress suit case. It measures 35% inches over all and weighs about 5 pounds; has a handsome straight grip stock 12% inches long, with a drop at comb of 1% inches and at heel 2% inches, finished with a rubber butt plate. The magazine holds fifteen cartridges. Model 1906 rifles can be fur- nished only according to the above specifications. The use of Winchester 22 caliber short smokeless, grease- less, or Winchester 22 short black powder cartridges in this rifle is recommended. The list price of this new rifle is $10.50, and can be purchased from all sporting goods dealers. Averages Reported. Harrisburg, Pa., Jan. 11 — W. H. Heer, first general average. 119 out of 12,5, shooting "New E. C. (Im- proved); H. C. Hiraschy and L. J. Squier tied for second general average, 115 out of 125, both shooting "DuPont"; H. B. Shoop, Harrisburg, Pa., first ama- teur average, shooting "DuPont." McHenry, 111.. Jan. 13-14 — J. S. Boa, first general average, 414 out of 450, shooting "DuPont"; W. D. Stannard, second genera laverage, 403 out of 450, shooting "DuPont"; J. R. Graham, Ingleside, 111., fisrt amateur and third general average, 402 out of 450, shooting "New E. C." (Improved); Ben Sterling, McHenry, 111., second amateur average, 400 out of 450, shooting "New E. C." (Improved). February 10 1906, ®ttc g?reet>etr axxt* ^p&vi&xxxaxi 11 JUDICIOUS INBREEDING. "This subject has frequently been agitated in poultry puDli cations in its application to poultry breeding for tbu last twenty years, it being an import- ant question to those who seek to fix any particular type or characteristic in their stock; and although the subject is an old one, which has been worked over and over again, from every pos- sible standpoint, still, the question is often asked. "How far is it desirable to breed fowls in and in?" It has been abundantly proved that by continuing this practice too long a time, or if done carelessly, without se- lection and discrimination, it resuua in constitutional weakness, decay, re- duction in size and loss of fecundity. On the other hand, it has been general- ly well proved that it is not prejudicial, but advantageous in standard breeding if intelligently practiced, and results in great satisfaction. Inbreeding in dogs, cattle or other animals, we leave to those who have studied that branch of reproduction, and confine our remarks to poultry only. It is asserted that in animals, where it is desired to develop the ner- vous temperment and mental qualities, crossing is preferable; but in fowls there is nothing gained by great devel- opment of brain, and it is a question whether this assumption is well founded when the selection of the ani- mal for inbreeding is intelligently made. Then again, the extent which in- breeding can be pursued without in- jury has been studied, and found to be much slower in injurious results than it has been generally understood to be, where the same has been intelligently practised, so much so that many are led to believe that it can be carried on indefinitely. The great object of in- breeding is to improve the stock in certain things, as for instance, a pe- culiar comb, a certain shape, or fine color or markings. A male, of good form and size, may show remarkably fine coloring throughout, or perhaps may have phenominally fine markings in some section, something, in fact, far superior to that of the flock in general, or even that found in the best of the breed, and there is a desire to produce it in the flock, which can be attained by carefully mating him with a female, the best to be had, both in form and color. The next season mate the best of the pullets from this mat- ing, which should show good style and constitution to their sire. The pullets from this mating will be in blood three-fourths of the sire and one- fourth the blood of the first dam, and if the sire is strong in imparting his own characteristics, some of this sec- ond generation of females will show his traits strongly, and can be used with hopes of reproducing them gen- erally. Perhaps this is as far as It may be safe to inbreed. but if the old sire still maintains his form and vigor, and the last generation shows no signs of degeneracy, then we would again mate him with females carefully se- lected from the second generation, and thus establish in the stock seven- eights of his blood. As a general rule this direct imbreeding should stop here. For fresh blood for the foregoing stock, we would procure a female of another family of the breed remote in relationship, but possessing the char- acteristics sought as far as possible, ► and mate her with a fine male of first generation, which should show he de- sired traits; and from the males from this mating one can be selected to mate with females of the third genera- tion, and every year thereafter, by in- troducing fresh blood through an un- related female, mated with a fine male from the generation last preceding. Keep up the work of improvement, at the same lime preserving the consti- tution and vigor of the flock. By breeding two families of the same stock, as herein directed, the question of deterioration from inbreeding would be almost wholly obviated, while the uniformity and advancement in quality of stock would be largely under the control of the breeder. — Fancier's Ga- zette. BEATING THE BEEF TRUSTS. Farmers of northeastern Kansas have devised a plan which makes them in- dependent of the beef trust and gives them an advantage that is appreciated in the economies of their households. At the beginning of the winter they organized "beef clubs" of fifteen farm- ers each. No officers were elected, but at the preliminary meeting they drew lots for the places of supremacy, each receiving a number from one to fifteen. These numbers are to be retained dur- ing the winter. When the organiza- tion is complete the first assessment is made to pay for a cow, which is slaughtered by a butcher for a small sum. It is divided into fifteen parts — all except the hide, refuse, etc., which are sold and credited toward the next purchase. The fifteen portions of the desirable meat are numbered from one to fifteen, beginning with the choicest portion and ending with that least prized. On a stated day all the farmers come or send to the market, get their portions of meat at the least possible cost. The next week the process is re- peated, No. 1 becoming No. 2, No. 15 being No. 1, and so on until all have made the entire round of numbers. The fifteen weeks of the organization^ winter existence covers the period when farmers can easily keep meat. Turtle's Elixir Wellnieh infallible cure for Colic, curb, splint, spavin and other common horse ail- ments. Our long-time stand- ing offer of $1C0 Reward lor failure, where we sav it will cere, has Dever been claimed. All druccisis sell iL Tuttle's Family Elixir, the prt-r-t household remt-dv. Tuttle's American Worm Powder cures. American Condition Powders. WhiEc Star and Pool Ointment. 100 page book, "Veterinary Experience," free. Be your own horse doctor. Makes plain the symp- toms, gives treatment. Send for ccpy. irnXE'SEIIXIRCO., 52 Beverly St.. Boston, Mass. Mack & Co., San Francisco an J F "W. Eraun, Log Angeles, California Agents. Deposit Your Idle Funds WITH THE TO TELL THE EGG'S AGE. A United States Consul in Germany writes about a recent discovery in that country regarding the age of an egg. He says : It is based upon the fact that the air chamber at the flat end of the egg in- creases with age. If the egg is placed in a saturated solution of common salt it will show an increasing inclination to float with the long axis vertical. A scale is attached to the vessel con- taining the salt solution so that the inclination of the floating egg toward the horizontal can be measured. In this way the age of the egg can be determined almost to a day. A fresh egg lies in a horizontal position at the bottom of the vessel; an egg from three to five days old shows an eleva- tion of the flat end so that its long axis forms an angle of 20 degrees, With an egg eight days old the angle increases to 30 degrees, and with one three weeks old to 75 degrees, while an egg a month old floats vertically upon the pointed end. FOR SALE. Fine Two-year-old Mahogany Bay Filly Sire SEARCHLIGHT; dam VKLMA. Owner has not the time to break or work her. Address MATT HARRIS. Fifth and Brannan Sts., San Francisco. FOR SALE. "DAY MARE, THREE YEARS OLD, BRED J-) by Mr Meek or Hay wards Sire, Wm Harold; dams by Direct, Mambrino Wilkes, Woodburn and Williamson's Baiimnt. Fair size, good style and looker; trotted halt at matinee, Jan. 29th, in 1:22 to high-wteel road cart- Can trot a 35 gait on track or road any day without any rigging or boots. Sound and tough and as well able to be put to work as many 4 or 5 year olds. Price $200. Apply to Breed eb orrlce. Central Trust Company of California 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. PRIVATE SALE. ANE THREE-YEAR-OLD STALLION BY " McKinney 2:11}^ Two yearling colts by Kinney Lou 2:0??^. One yearling colt by Red Nuttle 22357. Twelve standard mares and Allies. I will sell atbargain and will offer inducements on the lot. G. B. BLANCHARD, San Jose, Cal. Too much overheating and fattening foods, such as corn, oats, barley and hemp, have a tendency to cause soft- shelled eggs. If we feed fat and heat- forming foods there cannot follow the large egg-producing results. A nice, uniform flock of hens roam- ing around the yards adds a great deal of pleasure to farm life, and will have a tendency to make everybody, young as well as old, on the farm more in- terested in the poultry business. Sponges— S. Adderley, 307 Market St. BROOD MARES FOR SALE, EVELINE by Nutwood 6001 NELLIE FAIRMONT .A1' Sij'e ALAMEDA MAID by ErosJ EVELINE (registered) is dam of OIe2:10^, Tie- tarn 2:19, Maud Fowler 2;2l?i and Roblet2:I2, the dam of Bonalet 2:G9fi, champion three- year-old pacing Ally. NELLIE FAIRMONT, dam of Zambra. world's champion for 5 miles, 12:24. ALAMEi-A MAID (registered) is out of Oakland Maid 2:32 by Speculation. For prices and, particulars address S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa, Cal. Warranted to Give Satisfaction. GombauSt's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for 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, As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, oprains, 3ore Throat, etc.. It is invaluable. Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is ■Warranted to (rive satisfaction. Price $1 50 per bottle. Sold by dniKfrlsts, or sent by ex- press, charjres paid, wlttt full directions for its use. tlTSend for descriptive jirvulara, testimonials, etc. Address •The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 FOR SALE. A HANDSOME PAIR OF COBBY BUILT -^- coal black Geldings; five years old; 15 2 hands high. By a son of McKinney out of stand- ard bred mares. This is a thoroughly high-class park or road team and has style and manners that would win in a show ring. They are broken to stand, walk and trot; are fear] ess of all objects on road and steam cars: guaranteed to drive sin- gle or double, or on the lead in four-in-hand, and sound and kind in every particular. Address H. R. RAND, Hotel Metropole. Oakland, Cal. You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sum large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-2% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Interest paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. Strathway 2:19 For Sale. OIRE OP ^ Toggles 2:08S4 John Caldwell 2:08% Getaway 2:I2»< Homeward 2:13' | (sire of Geo. G. 2:C5M) Strathmont 2:12J4 Cuckoo 2:13 Homeway S:M3£ etc., etc. STRATHWAY Is by that great sire, Steinway. and out oi the great broodmare Countess (dam of Dawn 2:18-!£) by Whipple's Hambletonian. He Is a strong, vigorous horse, and cut of all the mares bred to him during the past two years every one proved to be in foal. He will be sold very reasonable, as his owner is selling all his trotting-bred stock and retiring from breeding. For price and further particulars address G3AHAM E. BABCOCK, San Diego. Cal. W Pays $5000 Yearly. (w jm Horsemen, read this. Patent , j\j\j, norse remedy business for sale paying $5000 and over yearly. Established twenty years. A gold mine for the right man. Address ORMOND, Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Fulton Sireet) Horses Called For, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOB KIKE I have opened a new Boarding and Training Stable nearthe above corner, and will board and train for racing, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates Have good location, brand-new stable and everything flrst-class All horses in my care will receive the best of attention. Phone: Park 573. T. C. CABNEY. JACK FOR SALE. C'OOD, SERVICEABLE JACK, 8 YEARS ■T old, and good, prompt performer. Guaran- teed in every way. Also, one SADDLE BURRO. Inquire of W. R. MADDEN, 111 Crocker Bldg, San Francisco. JACK FOR SALE OR LEASE. WELL BROKEN AND QUICK TO ACT; * * will do his owe teaalog; 5 years old. Address P. S. MATHEWS, Ryde, Cal. I DIRECT 2:12 1-2 (Officially Timed in 2;08! in a Race) Will make the Season of 19C6 at DAN LIEGINGER'S STABLES, 801 Devisadero Street, San Francisco. I DIRECT isoneof the best bred of all the sonsof the great Direct 2:0554. Hfsdam Is Fran- cesca by Almont (dam of Sable Frances ^: 15VS- Guycesca 2:26 and the stre Earl Medium, sire of 6 standard performers); next dam Frances BrecUenrldfc by Sentinel 280, full brother to Volunteer. As an Individual I DIKECT is perfect, and with his breeding he cannot help transmitting speed. Tarmc €5ft FOR THE SEASON, LIMITED TO A FEW APPROVED MARES. For partic- lerilld $D\J ulars address DAN LIEGINGER, 801 Devisadero St„ San Francisco. Or MABRY MoM AH AN, Owner, 307 Sanson* St.. San Francisco. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C. 2:30 Trial 2:20 Sire, NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16£. sire nf John A. McKerron 2:0JK. Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:0km , Who Is It 2:10*. Stanton Wilkes SMUVa. Cresco Wl)kee2:09fc , etc . etc Dam, /.ETA CARTER by Director 2:17, sire dams of John A. McKerron 'J;i'J ' .. Ozaoam2*.07, Little Thome 2:07^. Leonardo 2:08*. etc., etc.; so-ond dam. Ltda W. 2:18U (dam of Nutwood Wilkes 2: 16! ;. etc ) by Nutwood 600, greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived; third dam by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 3!; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont. T. C isoneof the best bred young stat lions in California. A two-year-old Ally by him has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and Is as handsomo as a picture. T. C. will make the season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with osaal return prlvilvjje. Excellent pasturage for mares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for tabulated pedigree and other information. I will take a few horses to train for road or t GEOROK T. ALGEO, Alan 13 ®it£ gvee&ev cmo Siptfrfe&trtcm LFebruary 10, 1916 FOUR I BIG r ~i •^.-•^-^■f J EARLY J closing] GUARANTEED STAKES! .___ Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. ENTRIES TO CLOSE MONDAY, APRIL 2, 06 Only T-wo DF»©r Oon.t to Enter. CALIFORNIA STAKES $2000 For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES 2000 For Paces Eligible to 2:20 Class SUNSET STAKES 1000 For Free=for=AIl Trotters GOLDEN QATE STAKES 1000 For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class ENTRANCE DUE AS FOLLOWS: 2 par C3tit April 2, 1906; 1 par cant additional if not declared out by May 1, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 per cent additional if not declared by July 2, 1906. Liberal Stakes for otber classes will be announced later. Entry Blanks will be issued March 1st. E. P. HEALD, President. T. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary St.. S. F. <*Cmf^ Registered U.S. Patent OtUce *i^^«» ALTA VELA 2:11 14 SPAV,N CURE IToic Sale. The Perfectly Galled Trotting Stallion (Reg. No. 22449) I Sire, ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 in 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar 1:59&. Dam, LOKITA 2:18i/a (dam Of Alta Vela 2:11 H ' and Palori2:24^) by Piedmont 2;l?*-i; second j c'am, Lady Lowell (dam of Ladywell 2:16^ and Lorlta 2:I8H) by St. Clair; third dam, Laura, dam of Doo, sire of Occident 2:162£. Address all communications to BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisoo. FOR SALE OR LEASE. Two Prince Airlie Stallions. POBTOLA 37413, a handsome golden bay. 7 years old, 16 handB, weighs 1 190 lbs. MENLO BOY 37401, a magnlflcent brown with white points, Gjearsold, 16.1 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. These tt?o horses are full brothers, being sired by Prince Airlie 28015; he by Guy Wilkes 2:15^. sire of Fred Khol 2:07 H£, Hulda 2:08!4, Seymour Wilkes 2:0854: first dam Signal by Del Sur 2:24; seoond dam Lady Signal 2:35'^ by Signal 3327. Both of these horses are very fast for the amount of worn, belngonly a few months last year, show- ing quarters around :3-i and :35. For further Information apply to P. H. McEVOY, MenloPark.Cal. A GOOD MARE FOR SALE. By CLIPPER 2:06. dam by ANTEEO JR. - YEARS OLD, TROTS OR PACES; HAND- ' some, sound and a high-class animal In every respect An Al rtadster and will make a race horse or a valuable brood mare Reason for sell- ing Is that I have no time to devots to handiing ter. Call or address Phone: GEO. C. PETERMAN, Oakland 6501. 779 Twelfth St , Oakland, Cal. Norman Stallion For Sale. T"\ARK IRON GRAY NORMAN STALLION; -L7 weighs about 1600; 16 hands high; 4 years old. Is blocklly built and a sure foal getter. Colts can be seen at San Jose. For further particulars address W. H. WILLIAMS. 1120 Alameda Ave., San Jose, Cal. WILLIAM HAROLD 2:131 FOR SALE 'THE MEEK ESTATE HAVING BEEN PAR- ■*- tltioned. and the breeding of horses discon- tinued, the stallion WILLIAM HAR0LD2:13!{ Is offered for sale or lease to a responsible party. William Harold Is by Sidney 2:I9?i, and his dam Is Cricket 2:10 by StelDway. Criohet is one of the great produoin^ mares of California, being already the dam of Ave in the list and has three more foals that will be given records. William Harold has had the most limited opportunities 'n the Mud, yet Is the sire of Janice 2:08^ trotting, f Dan Bums 2:15 and Judith 2:25 and several others in the list He is in excellent condition, and as his get are all large, well made and nicely turned horses ho should be a good money earner in the stud If In good hands, Apply to or address H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. THOFtOUCHPIN CAPPED HOCK wind purr OREASE HEEL The fire iron Is uncertain; blistering is less effective, and both necessitate laying up the horse from weeks to many months; mercurial and poisonous compounds produce irreparable injury. "Save-the-Horse" eliminates all these factors. Scores of letters to ] D ., , cooflrm and convince/ Send for coP^B- Absolute and overwhelming evidence and cer- tainties as to the unfailing power of "Save-the- Horse " •'Save-the-Horse" Permanently Cures Spavin, Ringbone (except low Ringbone). Curb, Thoroughpin, Splint, Shoe Boil, Wind Puff, In- jured Tendons and all lameness without scar or loss of hair. Horse may work as usual. QR flfl per DottIe- Written guarantee— as 0 JiUU binding to protect you as the best legal talent could make it. Send for copy and booklet. At Druggists and Dealers or Express Paid. TROY CHEMICAL CO. BINGHAMION, N. Y., Formerly Troy, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 MlHBlon St., Sao Francisco, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED JACK FOR SALE. A BLACK JACK WITH LIGHT POINTS -"- largo, heavy bonod, prompt and a goon han dler. Is a good foal getter and his foals are excellent Individuals. Price very reasonable for prompt sale. Address for further particulars, S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa. 87S-fl8r nth Ave. Baok cf The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. "HE ZIBBELL STABLE Z1BBELL & SON, Proprietors. San Francisco, Cal. ...rd.jg.TraltiiDg and Bhndllng all kinds Mioy Horses. A Tew Nice Rigs on hand. T>- ,■..;.- car going to the Chutes. Tel.: West 259 (POCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Most Complete Book of the klod published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. Absorbine REMOVES BURSAL ENLARGEMENTS. THICKENED TISSUES, INFILTRATED PARTS, ami nni PUFF ou SWELLING, CURES LAMENESS, ALLAYS PAIN sill.. it |aj IB hi,, h, Do WlMlcT, Sluill bottle, delivered, Pamphlet |-n i rco. ABSOB6XNE. JR., for mankind,?! 1)0 Botlle. Cores Synovitis, \vceplmt Sinew, Strains. Bouty 01 Bhe le Deposits. Allays Pain. Uuut tree. Manufactured only by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F , 54 Monmouth Street. Springfield, Mass. For sale by Maok&Co . Langley SMlohaelsCo. ojullnnton & Co.. J. O'Kane and J. A. MoKerron, all of San Franofsoo TOOMEY TWO-WHEELERS Give Best Results For Long Shaft, Low Seat, Pneumatic Speed .Cart especially adapted for track use. Racing and Training Purposes. Low Seat Racer Sulkies the Fastest and Best in the World Pneumatic Pole Carts for Team Work on both Road and Track Pneumatic and High Wheel Jog Carts for Road Use Send for latest Catalogue to CANAL DOVER, OHIO, U. S. A. S. TOOMEV & CO. ! O'BRIEN ; Geofie B 2-12W North Sr*r ralPn0sUonMheWlmcrfcTna«ro°«er'JlDllalSp03ltl0n- In Ma bl0°d "nes ar8 "i^S?* "&«?.« Will make the Season of 1906 at San Jo.e. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Bed 1431. T w BARSTOW, San Jo,e. Cal. RED BALL BRAND Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion Awarded Gold Medal At Call Corn la 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 ln the pink of condition. naohattan Pood Co 1 353 FolBom St., San Franclgco ABk your grocers or dealers for It. C. P. KERTELL, Manager. VICTOR YERJLHAC Proprietor JAMES M. McGRATH Manager DEXTER PRINCE STABLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Oor. of Grove and Baker Streets, jost at the Panhandle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devlsadero Street Cars) ..i«Be?V™?a?!S,.an'1 healthle!t stable ln San P'anolsco. Always a good roadster on hBnd for track ?,« ? »dn«,e^K'?,!TB,d m,en t0. "'"J?1 aml °*«olse Park roadsters and prepare hones " £ cars a g0 and retQra to staDle d not bave tbelr horses frightened by automobiles THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired I DAISY S. ,. SS?'SS?J b',uo,li,ui' dam, Jenny Llnd (thoroughbred), dam of Prince Allen 2:27. Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE »50, with usual return privilege. Address F P HPirn « C- A- SPENCER, Woodland, Cal. K. p. HBALD, owner, 184 Post St.. San FranoUoo, Cal. r.»ae Distemper Losses Stopped. {r"sstCmPer'eplZOt>"0' et°'' always lDV0lv«s immediate and often permanent Why not be prepared to cure every case promptly ? ?J,i,,CRn FJLS SSJEMPEE & COTJGH CURE will do lt-no cost If It p,,™ t?Sed ^3™ stock owners. If ycur d.ugglst hasn't It, orderdirecl. Pointers '• pr us 88nd sou our fns<™tlve bcoklet. "Veterinary WELLS MEDICINE CO, , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind D E. KBWBXI., General Agent for Paclllo Coast 619 Mission St., San Francisco. Cal THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in Califor correspond wlttihl unSgS" "andled 3ad "" '" 0OJd'"OD t0r 3"e or rac,DC JAS THOMPSON. Pl.a.ac 14 uDit* gveeb&c unfr gtjttnrtsmtim [February 10, U06 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 <« will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1906 TEE ... $75 Reductions made f r two or more mires. Manager, WALTER SEAL!.. THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16 21 Sire GUY WILKES 3:15« Dam LIDA W 2:18)^ by NUTWOOD. .5S:18K NUTWOOD WILKES 23116 is the only stallion that ever produced two three-year-olds in ore season with recordsoi 2:12 and 3:13M respectively. Who Is It 2:12, es-ohampion three-year-old gelding of the world, reduced h's record to 3:10J4- John A Mc- KerroD 2:0414 (2:12yi as a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe of George Wllkes. NUTWOOD WILKES is the sire of John A Mo Kerron 2:04(4 (sire 3 two-year-olds in 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:09M. Who Is It 2:10?4, Stanton Wilkes 2:10H. Cresco Wilkes (4) 2:10?i, Georgie B. 3:12m, Claudius (4) 2:13!S, North Star (3) 2:13&, Bob Inixersoll (4) 2:149*. and 32 in 2:30 list. His sons Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09;^ and Cavaliero 2:09J4- His daughters produced Miss Georgie 2:103i. Mona Wilkes (3) 2:11V4, Lady Mowry (4) i:UHx Caroline L. 2:14?i,Iloilo2:15. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. Cap ten FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges if horse remains my property. rcc $DV Good pasturage at $3 per month. Bills payable before removal of mare. Stock well cared for, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. Vonng Stock by NUTWOOD WILKES for sale. Send for Tabulated Pedigree For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvlnjton, Alameda Co., Cal. IMUSHAGAK 25939 Sire of ARISTO 'J:OS'4, winner of Occident and Stanford Stakes of 1902. Sired by SABLE WILKES 2:18. sire of 42 in 2:30; dam. FIDELIA (dam of Fidette 2:28V£,damof Miry Celeste 2:1?'.,') bv Director 2:17; second dam by Reavis Blackbird 2:22; grandam by Lancet, son of McCracken's Biackhawk. Fee S50, limited to rorly outside niares. 2-Yeatr-01d Record 21201 Sired by DEXTER PRINCE (sire of Eleata 2:08^, Llson.jero 2:08}*, James L. 2:09tf, Edith 2:10, etc ): dam. WOODFLOWER (dam of Sey)es2:159£) by Ansel 2:20, son of Electloneerrsecond dam, Majflower 2:30^ (dam of Manzanita 2:16, Wtldflower (2) 2:21, and eight producing daughters) by St Clair 16675 Fee S30 Both Stallions will make the Season of 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL jSl High- Olass YO-U.TXS MclXinney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A handsome son of McKlnney. Sired by the great McKlnney 2:11*4, greatest sire of the age; dam, the great brooJmare Daisy S (dam of Com Smith 2:13;*, General Vallejo 2:22^ Little Mac (3) 2:27, and Sweet Risie 2:i8!* 1 by Mj Donald Chief 3583. son of Clark Chief 89; second dam, Fanny Rose, graai broodmire (daTi or Gaorge Washington 2:i6?i, Columbus S 2:17) by Ethan Allen Jr 2993; third dam. Jeany Llad (dam of Prinze Allen 2:v7, also dam of Fanny McGill, damof Scotty 2:19V2. Trllby2:2l5£) GENERAL J B FRISBiE is a handsome, good-gaited black, flve years old. He is a full b.-otner to Tom Smith 2:13^; shows McKlnney speed and will be trained for the raoes this season. TeniH, S35 for the .Season; usual return privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 91re of DjlUoan 2:15^, George Washington 2:I6*£ (slreof Stella 2:15!4, Campaigner 2:28^ and PrlnoessW 2:29>,fh Trilby 2:2l?i and Sweet Rosle2:2HM- By McDonald Chief 3583 (sire of 4 and sire of dams of 7 in 2:3jj; dam. Venus by Mambrlno Patcben 58. Terms, 820 for the Season: usual return privileges. Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horses at my barn. 1021 Georgia St , Vallejo, Cal, ill IWI li ■■ A BNOCH 3:12^, (iF.NERAL 2:14'/3, TEDDY CHE mi,\N 8:11*4, littlk miss 2:i7w, MABCHIONESS Z*.«9. LILLIAN MIJHdKE 2:24',4 and Tip OOOANUO (trial ) 2:09%, HID AKHOTT (trlnlj 2:18, JAKE F, (trial half mile) 1:05. More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. By SIDNEY 2:19 3=4 (tire of 19 in 2:15 list and 106 In 2:30 list and sire Sidney Dillon, sire LOU DILLON 1:58!4. World's Champion); dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; nest Sikh or dnm Sarpy Mare by Eoho 462. SIDMOOR 2;!73t£ is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual In every respect. He Is one of the best producing pons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. A,Mw" ¥rt„„ «_ « . . Usual Rclurn Privileges. JOHN Oil, PaCIieCO, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:111, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares. Full brother to tom smith 2:131-4 Flrstdam DAISY S. (dam of Tom Smith tUBX, Goneral Vallcjo2-20S4, Little Mao 2:27H. Sweet .tosle2:28J£) by Mcujoald Chief 3^83; second dura Fiuiov Koae (dam of Columbus S. 2-17. George Washington S:l«v who sired Stella2:15l4. Campaigner 2:2(l!.i, etc ; third dam Jenny Llnd (dam of Pflnoe Allen 2:2. and also dam of Fanny McGIll, dam of Sootty 2:10',4, Trilby 22 Pi etc ) CONSTRUCTOR Isone of the handsomest sons of ttao great MoKlnney on theCoast.' He stands lihands2rt Inchesover tho withers and 15 hands :i% Inches over the loins and weighs 1100 pounds. He nevor mado u regular season In tho stud, but was bred to saveral mares when three years old and all of his get are of good size and good lookers. Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. For further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH. 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. McKINNEYS FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05 Reg. No. 34471. Great Race Horse and Producing Sire. Has 10 Three-Year-Olds that worked trials In 1905 as followH: LILIAN ZOLOCK 2:14, KINNEY WOOD 2:15, CLEOPATRA 2:15, BED LOOK 2:18, ZOLLIE 2:18, INdUGDKETTA 2:22, MYLOCK 2:25, MAJELLA 2:25, ADA LANTE 2:26, BOLOCK 2:27. and 3 Two-Year- Olds a* follows: WENZA 2:24, BONNIE JUNE 2:27, IZALCO 2:30, ami 12 others now in training: that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. Ambush(3) -... 2:14| Delilah (3) 2:14* Bystander 2:14f Sherlock Holmes 2:15| Dixie S ...2:27 Conchita 2:29 ZOLOCK'S Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (by Gossiper 2:H?i). damof ZOLOCK 2:05ii, Zephyr 2:07^; second dam the great broodmare Glpsey (by Gen. Booth 2:30^,). dam of Gazelle 2:1114. Delilah (3) 2:14;;. Ed Winshlp 2-15, Willets (mat.) 2:17, Dixie S 2:27, and grandam of Col Green (trial) 2:1014. third dam Echo Belle (grandam of Conn 2: 15»i) by Echo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. All his colts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terras for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes Also, the Three- Year-Old Stallion by ZOLOCK 2:05)4; dam GIPSET. dam of Gazelle 2:11)4, Delilah 2:14H and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14)4. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Raee Track. Pleasanton. Cal. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Mares will be cared for in any manner desired, but IZALCO BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05{ SIRE OF BON4LET (3) 2:09^, in winning race— World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3), trial (trotting) 2:11% (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECTS first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2,50 per week. Separate paddocks and stallB if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good oondition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. DR E. G. MCCONNELL 705 Sutter St., San Francisco. c. l. griffith, Pleasanton, cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE Season of 1906 at pleasanton STAR POINTER l:59 ....WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN 1 897 The Fastest. Gamest and most Consistent Kaee Horse In Turf History. , | MORNING STAR 3:03, JOE FOINTEK 3:05^, sire 01 (gioNEY POINTER 8:07lJ, SCHLEY POINTER 2:08Ji, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:59M Hal Ulllard 2MU Star Hal 2:04J£ Hal Cnaffln 2:05« Elastic Pointer 2:0614 New Richmond 2:0?« Hal Braden 2:07« Storm .2:08*4 Brown Heels 2MH Laurel 2:09M Silver Hal 2:10 etc 6 producing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of Star Pointer l:59$i Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastic Poini er 2:06V4 Cloud Pointer SU24H Tennessee Pointer 2:24^ 2 produoing sons 6 produoing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usut.1 Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McKINNET 3:11W, sire of SWEET MARIE 2:04}rf, Kinney Lou 2:07?i. Charley Ma 2:07^, Hazel Kinney 2:09M. Th<* Roman 2:09%, Dr. Book 2:10. Coney 202, China Maid 2:05 Vf, You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09. Zolook2:05M Dam, AILKKN 2:%6% (dam of Mowitza 2:20%, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:32, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 2:18%, sire of dams of DIreotum Kelly 2:08M.Grev Gem 2:09%, W. Wood 2:07, eto. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:5814. Red- wood 2:21 %, Ethel Mack 2:25 and AIleen2:26%) by Milton Medium 2:2514 (slreof 2 and dams or 5) by Happy Medium 2:32%, sire of Nancy Hanks 2:04, eto. GRECO is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won bis only race as a colt, and has shown miles In 2:20 since In his work, and is a sure 2:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of maresat 9*100 THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address . CHAS. De i;\l>i<:n, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. IRAN A I T 11 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 L II U Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 lit a jn ALTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produced a oolt that was a world's reoord breaker, and his grandsire has sired several trotters that broke world's records. No other horse with a record as fast as IRAN ALTO'S oan olaim this. At nine years he had sired ten oolts, four of them with records as follows: Dr Frasse 2:12"4 Thomis R. 2:15, Vendome2:17, Dr. Prasse'a Sister 2:25— all at four yearsold. Who oan name a horse whose first ten oolts can beat that? Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, CAL. FEE $40 For further particulars address ■j" (hi.- when mare Is bred and H, S. HOGOBOOtf, »30 payable when mare Is known to be In foal. Woodland, O'- February 10, 19(6] i£he gvee&ev mtfc gtjxotrtsman 15 DUCK SHOOTERS '.75 per cent OF ALL HORSE OWNERS AND TRAINERS QUESTION—Wby is it that so many excellent wing shots cripple fine birds? ANSWER—Because they don't use BALLISTITE which never fails to kill clean. REMEMBER—One (I) dead bird in the pocket is worth two (2) in the tule. BAKER &, HAMILTON SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGtLES SACRAMENTO SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. USE AND RECOMMEND Oampbell'sHorseFootRemedy SOLD BY---- W. A. SAYRE Sacramento, Cal R. T. PRAZIER Pueblo, Colo J. G. READ & BRO Ogden, Utah JUBINVILLE & NANCE Butte, Mont A. A. KRAFT CO Spokaoe, Wash A. F. HOSKA HARNESS CO.. . .Taooma, Wash MCSORLEY & HENDERSON. ...Seattle, Wash C. RODDER Stockton, Cal WM. E. DETELS Pleasanton, Cal W. C. TOPPING San Diego, Cal JEPSEN SADDLERY CO Los Angeles, Cal C. A. SCHWEITZER Fresno, Cal H. THORWALDSON Fresno, Cal JNO. A. MoKERRON San Francisco, Cal JOS. McTIGUE San Francisco, Cal BRYDON BROS. HARNESS MFG CO Los Angeles, Cal JAS. B. CAHPBELL&CO.. Manufacturers, 412 W.riadison St., CHICAGO, ILL. We Make 16 urades, $17.75 to $300. Write for ART CATALOG to THE ITHACA GUN CO., Ithaca, N. Y. Vo Coast Branch, PHIL B, BEKEART CO., 114 Second St„ San Francisco The Hunter One-Trigger Is Absolutely Perfect because The mecliAnlsm IB positive In Its action Parts are large and strong It never bains nor doubles: In tact. It does jast what we say It will and doeB It every time. HUNTER ARMS CO, FULTON, NEW Y0*K, SMITH GUNS SHOOT WELL. First, Second and Third High Amateur Averages WON BY THE Parker Gun Grand Canadian Handicap live bird event won by the Parker Gun In the hands of Thos. Upton, with score of 34 out of 35. In the amateur class the three high averages at targets were carried off by C. E. Doolittle. Jay D. Green and H. D. Klrkover Jr., all using the Parker Gun. The Parker was much in evidence at the Hamilton. Ont., shoot, Jan 16 to 19. The Parker gun is always In evidence, and if you would improve your score yon Bhould shoot no other. The only absolutely reliable gun in the world. N. Y. Salesrooms: 32 Warren St, 30 Cherry St, Meriden, Conn. SHREVE &, BARBER CO. PIONEER DEALERS 739 Market St. Send for Catalogue 521 Kearny St, Mailorders a Specialty GUNS, AMMUNITION, FISHING TACKLE AND SPORTING OOODS and type written ready for framing Write for prices. Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street. San Francisco, Cal. Pedigrees Tabulated SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. THE HORSEMAN'S HANDBOOK CONTENTS: CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF STALLIONS— The Stall— Vad- dock— Food— Diseases - Kxercise— Grooming — Serving Mares — Amount uf service. CAREANDMANAGEMENTOFBBOOD MARES— Getting Mares iuFoal— C:ne During Pregnancy— Abortion- Foaling— Time When Mare is Due— In Season Again— Weaning CUt. BREAKING ANO DEVELOPING OF COLTS— Care of Colt- Ed- ucating— Feeding — Cure of Growing Feet — Breaking to Drive— Developing, Shoeing and Booting. MANAGEMENT OF CAMRAIGNERS-How to Keep the Race Horse iu Condi lion and Keyed t p for aKaee. CARE OF THE FEET— Booting and Shoeing— Bonner's aod Berrj's Views. CARE OF THE HORSE IN SICKKESS— Some Brief, Simple Kules and Itemed ies. GAITING AND BALANCING— Correction of Faulty Gaits, etc. ANIMAL TAMING AND TRAINING— Methods F.mployed by Gentry in Overcoming Wild Instincts of the Horse and Teaching Him to Learn. STATISTICS— Championship Kecordsof every class —Leading Sires of'J:30 speed— Time of Fastest Miles by Quarters— List of High Priced Horses —List of Hor«>e Associations and Registers— List of Hor^ FISHING Tackle 638 MARKET STREET, 8. F. These ar« the Brands of FACTORY . . . LOADED . SHELLS PACIFIC CHALLENGE SUPERIOR EXGBLSIOR s£3fe VOt. XLTI1I. No. 7. 36 GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 19C6 egistefy- subscription d as r rHKEE DOLLARS A TEAR ^t ^^G^^ w -=^3r^ ©Itc QxzzittX aixb gporismcm [February 17, 1906 F. R. HITCHCOCK, Fresiluit. H. P. WHITNEY, Vlce-Presldenl. ANDREW MILLER, Secretary and Treasure The Saratoga Association FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE BREED OF HORSES RACE COURSE: OFFICE: "the Windsor Arcade Saratoga Springs, N. Y. Stakes for Summer Meetings of 1906-07 TO CLOSE ON MONDAY, MAHGH 5, 1906. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD tht- GREAT KKPCBLIC with 810,000 Added. ..„„„« - By" subscription of *200 each, hair forfeit, or.?50 if declared by June 1, 19C6; with SlQ.iiOU added. of wmch*^Oino tbe second and *iuuu to tbe third. Winners in i*i)b or 1906, when three-year- olds ana upward, of a race of the va,ue of S1U.C00 to carry 8 lbs. extra; of two such races 5 lbs extra Non-winners or $9000 at aDy time allowed 5 lbs ; of $5000. 8 lbs ; of SSaOU, V2 »bs.; of $1000, 15 lbs. One Mile and a Quarter. THF SARATOGA HANDICAP of SlO.OtO. Bv subscription or SJOUeaoh, half forfeit, or $*5 if decla ed by Judo 1st To the dinner 88o0u to tbe second sluuu an-> to the third SaOO Weights to be announced ten dajs before the race. Winners of a race of the value of $!0u0 after the publication of the weights to carry alba, extra On .;, ■'. an 1 a Quarter. THE SARATOGA CUP of S7SOO. B° subscription of $iuO each, or S50 if declared by June 1st for entries made March oth; and SJQOeach for entries made July 2a. when tne event shall do -e. Starters to pay $100 additional. To the winner $6000 and a cup of thr lue of $^'50, to the second $1000, and to the thud $500. Weight for age. One Mile and Sixr ^^ ngs. THE MERCHANTS' AND CITT of S3000. A Handicap By subscription of $50 each, or i lared by June 1st. Starters to pay $50 additional To the winner $-'400, to the second $41*-, . ^a to the third $20X Weights to be announced three days ^before the race. Winners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Mil? and TKree-Btxtet ntSs. THE CUAMFLAIN of S3OU0 A Handicap. By subscription of $50 each, or $25 if declared by June 1st. Starters to pay $50 additional To the winner $2400, to the second $400, to the third $200. Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winners after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Milt and a Furlong. THE DELAWARE. A Handicap. By subscription of $25 each, or $10 if declared by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winnere after thj announcement- of weights to carry 5 lbs- extra. One Mile. THE AMSTERDAM. Selling. By suosorlption of $25 each, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third. The winner to be sold at auction for $4000. If for $30uu allowed 7 lbs.; then I lb. allowed for each $100 down to $1500 Selling price to be stated through the entry-box by the bourof closing entries od the day preceding the race. One Mile. THE CATSKILL.. Selling. By subscription of $25 each. $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third. The winner to be sold at auction for $4000. If for $3u000 If for less. 1 lb. allowed for each $200 down to $3000: then 1 lb. allowed for each $100 down to $1500. Selling price to be stated through the entry-box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. One Mile and a Furlong. FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. THE SARATOGA SPECIAL. By subscription of $1000 each, half forfeit. A Piece of Gold Plate of the value of $2500 to be added by the Association. Subscribers to nam- three horses by May 1st, and only one starter to be named for eaoh subscription. Six Furlongs. *THE ADIRONDACK of 85000. A Handicap By subscription of $50 each, or $25 if deolared by June l*t. Starters to pay $100 additional. To the winner J1U00, to tne second $700, and to the third $300. Weights to be announced three davs before the race. Winners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. Six Furlongs. THE KENTUCKY. For Fillies. Selling. By subscription of $25 each, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third Toe wlooer to be sold at auotion for$4000 If for less, lib allowed for each 1100 down to $1500. Selling price to bi stated throush the entry-box by the hour of closing entries on tbe day preceding the race. Five and a Half Furlongs. THE ALBANY. A Handicap By subscription of $25 each, or $10 If deolared bv the hour of closing en tries on the day preceding the race; slth$I500added. of which $250 to tho second and $150 to the third Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. Six Furlongs. TBE TROY Selling. tSy subscription of $25 each, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to tbe second and $150 to the third. The wlnoer to be sold ar auction for $4000. If fir $3000, allowed 7 lbs.: then l lb. allowed for each $iuu down to $1000. Selling price to be stated throngh the entry-box bj the hour of dosing entries on the day preceding the race. Five and a Half Furlongs. To Be Run at tne Summer Meeting of 1907 THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF $20,000 For Three-Year-Olds and Upward in 1907 ( Now Two-Year-01ds\ and Upward ' For Now Two-Year-old ■ and Upward. The Saratoga Association to guaraotee the cash value of the race to be $20,000: of which the owner of tho hccooJ horso shall receive $2000 and tbe owner of the third horse $1000. Liabilities as follows: For Now Two-Ye»NOii|N, Bv subscription -if fjr> each If left In sifter November 1, 1906, a further subscription of $75 eaoh, and If loft in after Juno 1, 1907, a further subscription of $100 each. For Now Three-Year-Olds and Upward. By subscription of $V) each. If left In after November 1, 1906. a further subscriptlon'of $100 , and it left In after June 1. 1907, a further subscription of $100 each. Staiiteks to pay $l'i[) additional. Winners In 1006 or 1907. when three-year-olds or uoward, of a rare of the value of $10 000. to uarrv S lbs, extra; Of two such raoes, 5 lbs. extra. Non- winners of $9000 at any time allowed 5 lbs.; of*50U0,8 lbs.; of $2500, 12 lbs.; of $1000, 15 lbs. One Mile and a Quarter* All entries should ba addressed to the Secretary, Windsor Arcade, Forty-sixth Stre* t and Fifth Avenue, New York City. ANDREW MILLER, Secretary. - digrees Tabulated and type written ready for framing Write for prices. Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. Toghill Stud (Property of Stephen T. Britten) 46lh it. and 5th Ave., New York City : SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked'for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager. Menlo Park, Cal. PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. 3 V. 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Haohattan Pood Co 1 253 Foleom St., San Francisco ABk your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KEBTELL, Manager. February 17, 1906] ©he greettev mtfr gtjKwtsmcm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROParRTOB. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. OFFICE 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 447. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One 1'ear S3, Six Months 81. 75. Three Months 81 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Francisoo, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guar- antee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, February 17, 1906 Stallions Advertised. TROTTING BRED. BONNIE DIRECT 2:05% . .C. L. Griffith, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE McK. 36569 ... .Geo. A. Kelly, Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:12% Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal- CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GRECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND . . . -. Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. I DIRECT 2:12% Dan Lieginger, San Francisco, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12 %.... H. S. Hogoboom, Woodland, Cal. IZALCO H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEY LOU 2:07% Budd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R. D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. KENNETH C. 2:17 S. K. Trefry, pleasanton, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11% Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622, Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. MONTEREY 2:09% .. .P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman, Los Angeles, Cal. NEAREST .2.22% T. W. Barstow, San Jose, Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16% ._. Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20% . .C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R. AMBUSH 2:14% G. W. Bonnell, Redlands, Cal. SIDMOOR 2:17% John Ott, Pacheco, CaL STAR POINTER 1:59% Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. T. C. 2:30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal. TOM SMITH 2:13*4 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936. ..Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto, Cal. WAYLAND W. 2:12%.. W. C. Helman, Santa Rosa, Cal. YOSEMITE P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05% H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. ■GREEN'S RUFUS Baywood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER. . Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacifio Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903 — $10 due April 1, 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. ■ , |t|tf| Stake No. 4. $6000, foals of 1904 — $10 due March 1, 1906, and starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903 — $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. AUTHORITIVE STATEMENTS of the resources of California will in the future be furnished in the an- nual report of the State Agricultural Society. Sec- retary Albert Lindley and his assistants are now com- piling the annual report for the year 1905, and it is promised that all precedents established during the past will be forgotten when the document comes from the printer's hands and is distributed. The change in conditions is ascribed to a law passed by the last Legislature. It provides that each Board of Super- visors in the State shall furnish to the society a sworn statement of manufactures, industries and re- sources of every description. The annual report of the society is compiled from these statements. "We believe," said Mr. Lindley recently, "that the state- ments so procured will enable the society to issue a report upon California that will surpass anything of the kind ever published by the State or Federal au- thority." With a few exceptions the different counties have already complied with the provisions of the law. and it is evident, from the alteration of statistics that figure in previous reports, that the administration of an oath has enforced a compliance with the spirit as well as the letter of the law. Neither the directors nor the secretary are entirely satisfied with the report for 1904, recently issued, says the Sacramento Union. In nearly every instance the figures and information were secured through the agency of interested indi- viduals or promotion organizations who permitted their imaginations to assume elastic properties when compiling the matter of which the report is composed. In some instances the information verged on the ridiculous, and in past years the annual report was a literary production that provoked no end of mirth. It is believed that the report for 1905 will be ready for the printer in about a month or six weeks. The force now engaged in its compilation will then have accomplished the task of preparing two such docu- ments within a period of six months. BON VOYAGE 2:12%, the champion three-year-old trotting stallion of last year, is being greatly admired at Pleasanton and is getting some of the best mares in California. Besides the mares of his owner, W. A. Clark Jr., he has already had mares booked to him by a half dozen owners. His book will be full very shortly. The bad weather of the past week has pre- vented our artist getting a photograph of this grand horse, but we expect to present one on our front page next week. STAKES FOR THE SUMMER MEETINGS of the Saratoga Association during 1906 and 1907 are an- nounced in our advertising columns. There are eight stakes from three-year-olds and upwards, to which added money is given ranging from $1500 to $10,000. Four stakes are offered for three-year-olds, and five for two-year-olds. The Great Republic of $20,000 for three-year-olds and upward to be run in 1907 is also advertised. TALK ABOUT HORSE VALUES! Nothing dem- onstrates the boom condition of the market better than the fact that a physician in this city has attached the famous Little Albert 2:10 to satisfy a judgment of $184 recently obtained against the horse's owner. Little Albert was foaled in 1SS4 and is therefore twenty-two years of age, and a gelding at that. A PRAYER suggested by Hubbard, editor of The Phillistine, would be an excellent thing for horsemen, and especially amateur drivers, to commit to memory that they may offer it up frequently. It is: "Oh, Lord, help me to win; help me to win. But if, in Thy in- scrutable wisdom Thou seest best that I should not win, then, oh, Lord, make me a cheerful loser." Chas. DeRyder is working fourteen head of trotters and pacers at Pleasanton and last week moved some of them up a little. A chestnut pacer that he thinks very highly of is by Meridian 2:12%, out of a thor- oughbred mare. He is a stallion'and the best disposi- tioned one in any country. DeRyder gave him an easy mile in 2:20 the other day, the last half of which was in 1:05 and the last quarter in 31 seconds. The horse is the property of Mrs. Julia Hamilton. A three-year-old by Meridian, owned by Captain Batch- elder of this city, trotted a mile in 2:25 last week, with the last half in 1:08, and the colt's dam, Corinne Neilson, trotted a mile in 2:20, with the last half in 1:06. Fred Hahn's colt, Geo. Madison by James Madison, is learning to trot fast, a mile in 2:2S, with the last half in 1:09. The stallion Grecco is another trotter that is showing speed for Mr. DeRyder. He trotted a mile out in 2:22, the last half in 1:05%, and the last quarter in 31 seconds. He is by McKin- ney out of a double producer by Anteeo, and his second dam is the dam of Lou Dillon. This stallion has been booked to some high class mares this year. Babbie by Welcome, out of a sister to Cricket 2:10. looks like a good C. of C. candidate. She went a half in 1:04 last week. Captain Thomas' Nutwood Wilkes gelding trotted a half in 1:11% and DeRyder says he likes him. Martin Carter's three-year-old sister to Bob Ingersoll 2:14% looks good enough to out-trot her brother. A mile in 2:25, with the last half in 1:09, was easy for her. A stud colt by L. W. Russell out of the great brood mare Elsie is just get- ting his first lessons in the DeRyder school. He was asked if he could trot a mile in 2:40 and answered the question in the affirmative, coming the last quarter in 37 seconds, a 2:28 gait. Mr. DeRyder let his pacer C. E. Hasoy by Don Derby 2:04% down for a mile in 2:15 last week, the last half in 1:05. and it was only play for him. The mare Lady Bug trotted a mile in 2:22. last half in 1:09. Some high class mares are booked to Star Pointer. Much Better 2:07%, Banker's Daughter 2:13%, Alpha W. 2: OS, Trix, the dam of Mona Wilkes 2:11%, the dam of Bolivar 2:06% and several others are among them. Cleo G. by Yo- semite, the dam of Easter Direct, the filly that trialed in 2:03% last year, is also booked. Farmer Bunch has seven or eight horses in train- ing at Pleasanton, some of them bred in purple. He has a three-year-old by McKinney 2:11%, out of Much Better 2:07% by Chas. Derby 2:20, and a bay stud colt by Chas. Derby out of Monica 2:15 by Mc- Kinney. Bunch is getting one or two youngsters ready for the colt stakes this year and has a look in for some of the money. The pacer Sweetheart by Baywood 2.10%, owned by Mr. William Bolton of Val- lejo, is in his string and is doing nicely. Mountain Maid by Cresco 490S is a member of the Great Brood Mare Table, but is not yet registered and cannot be until another of her produce gets a trot- ting record. She is the dam of Tom Carneal 2:08% and Miramonte 2:24%, both pacers by Diablo 2:09%". She is also the dam of that good trotting colt Ken- neth C. 2:17 as a three-year-old, by McKinney. It coes seem as if a mare by a registered standard trot- ting horse, that has produced two pacers and one trot- ter with standard records ought to be eligible to reg- istration, and if we were establishing a stock farm we would rather have one like her than a dozen of the kind that are standard for five of six generations but have never produced anything fast enough to catch the judge's eye. Mr. S. K. Trefry of Pleasanton, who owns Kenneth C, has a two-year-old out of Mountain Maid that he will give a standard record at the trotting gait so as to register the dam, and thus enable him to register Kenneth C. The last named colt looks as good as any four-year-old in California, and every horseman, who saw him race last year as a three-year-old predicts a record of 2:10 or better for him. Colts by McKinney out of mares that have produced a 2:10 performer are not very numerous, and Kenneth C, although not yet entitled to registra- tion, should attract all the mares this year his owner cares to breed to him. Kenneth C. won a heat in 2:17 last year, and but for the fact that he took the dis- temper soon after would have had a much lower rec- ord. He is one of the best formed horses in California *nd looks very much like his illustrious sire. James T. Leonard of Watsonville has purchased through led Hayes, Mr. W. A. Clark Jr.'s Kinney Wilkes, a son of McKinney 2:11%, out of Hazel Wilkes 2:11% by Guy Wilkes; second dam Blanche, dam of five in the list, by Arthurton; third dam by the old thirty mile champion Gen. Taylor. This horse is very fashionably bred, a good individual, and as Mr. Leon- ard will only charge the low fee of $25 for his services, should get a large patronage. Kinney Wilkes will be in the stud at Leonard Station, and Mr. Leonard's ad- dress is Rural Delivery No. 3, Watsonville. Attention is called to the advertisement in this issue. M. H. Tichenor. the celebrated horseman and horse dealer, has arrived in Pasadena with his family to spend the remainder of the winter. Mr. Tichenor is the head of the firm of M. H. Tichenor & Co., of Chicago, known the country over as dealers in heavy harness horses. The animals handled by his company are said to be the finest in their class in the United States. Mr. Tichenor has had entries in most of the horse shows that have been given in the East. Al- though he has not entered any of his horses for the show to be held in Pasadena it is expected that he will do so. Lou Dillon 1:58%, bred to John A. McKerron 2:04%. has been nominated in the American Horse Breeders' Futurity for foals of 1907. The Kenney Manufacturing Co., 531 Valencia street has a first class second hand bike runabout buggy for sale at $65. It is a bargain. They have also just re- ceived a consignment of those popular low scat, long shaft McMurray carts. The stallion A. Penn 2:0S% will be trained for a faster record and then shipped abroad, having been sold to William Bodimer of Vienna. Austria, for $5000. Walter M. Jermyn, vice-president of the New York Road Drivers' Association, has sold the trotter Direct View 2:0S% to Colonel W. C. Green of copper fame for $8000. The horse was purchased at the last Old Glory sale for $2750. It is reported that Ed Geers will race the California stallion Bonnie Russell 2.10% and Lady Gail Hamil- ton (3) 2:11% this reason. It is announced that W. J. Bates of Dorchester has bought the fast pacing gelding Rey Del Diablo 2:12% and that Dick Lawrence will handle the son of Diablo 2:09.% the coming season. The Rey Directs are attracting much attention in Kentucky. The Stock Farm says: It looks as If Ed Renyon will have a good money winner in the four- year-old Rey del Valle. a pacer by Rey Direct 2:10. It is said that Rey Belle, about the best individual in the whole Direct family, and one of the fastest, will be raced this year by Bard Palmer. She showed miles last year in 2:14, with halves close to a two-minute gait, and she is booked for a record of 2:05 or better this year. Reydelette will be raced this year by Vance Nuckols, who trained her some last year, working her a mile in 2:13, last half In 1:04, trotting. The average of the Midwinter Sal- There were 471 head sold for a total ol wonder is ho.w the New York market trotters and pacers at good prii es $£h$ gveelrev atiir jgvxrrtemon [February 17, 1906 MATINEE AT RIVERSIDE. The Riverside Driving Club held an afternoon of tag on Saturday, February 3d, and in the evening the members enjoyed a splendid banquet and after- wards elected officers for the year. There was a fine crowd out to see the races and the weather was just right for good work. The first race was the 2:30 pace. E. F. Binder's Fernwood took two straight heats from Willie Jib in 2:17, and won the Bartee-Wilson cup. In the 2:25 pace El Diablo won from Norda the J. H. Thompson cup in 2:23. The third race was for the O'Connor-Garner cup. In this race W. A. Hayt'a Lauretta had good company with Flash and Blonde, but she won both heats and the local championship among 2:30 trotters. In the fourth race Roscoe won the first heat; Dewey the second, and Adalantha the third, Ros- coe's time being 2:36 and Dewey's 2:37. The deciding heat was won by Adalantha, time 2:37M>. The finishes in all these heats were neck and neck and the final heat was a splendid race. E. F. Binder's Tom McKinney won two straight heats in the 2.40 mixed, which gives this horse the first leg on the Riverside Driving Club's cup for this class. Colonel, Baby and Monocrat also started in this race. In the sixth race six horses got away and it was about the prettiest harness race which has been seen in these parts for a long time. All round the stretch in the first heat the field played in a bunch, changing places, but never losing distance. Alta Rena, Ping Pong, Laura K., "White Stockings, Zella Z. and Bob Neernut were the names of the sextette. - Ping Pong won the race in 2:30%, and in doing so won the first leg on the E. F. Binder cup. Four horses entered in the road race. They were McO'D, Prince, Belle Raymond and Jack. Prince won the race in 2:50 and also the Riverside Driving Club cup. Thirty-two members of the Riverside Driving Club sat down to one of the most appetizing banquets which has ever been spread in the Eighth Street Cafe on Saturday evening. Mr. Drummond had spared no pains to have this banquet one of his best and he surely succeeded in doing so. The tables were laid in the form of a Roman cross. This was the annual "feed" of this club: Score Card. Hard Starters (Oysters on half shell) Green Ones East Breakers (Pickles ("Wafers) A Warm-Up (Consomme) Suckers (Fish out of the swim) O'Connor in the Lead Toe Weights (Mashed potatoes) (Sweet corn) A Fowl Drive (Roast turkey with dressing) A Sweet Pace Cooling Out (Candied sweets) (Ice cream) Hot Tips Body Wash (Cigars) (Coffee) Now, "They're Off," Under the Wire, Smoke Up and "Let's Get Busy." At the conclusion of the supper, E. F. Binder, as president, welcomed the members and gave a brief history of the club. He stated the club was organ- ized just one year ago last night and grew from twenty charter members to 104. Short speeches by the members followed, anticipat- ing even greater success during the coming season. The next matter was a motion to increase the board of directors from seven to eleven members, which was carried. Nominations were then made for the members of the board, and the following were elect- ed: E. F. Binder, W. L, Flagg, Alexander Wilson, H. G. Stanley, Maurice Griffin, J. T. Garner and W. A Hayt of Riverside; M. S. Sutphen and Frank Og- den of Highgrove: Peter Beatty of Perris and George W. Prescott of San Bernardino. Messrs. Ogden, Sutphen, Beatty and Prescott were elected by a unani- mous rising vote, while the remaining seven were elected by ballot. George W. Prescott was elected a director, as A. Wilson had been elected a director to the San Bernardino Driving Club. Immediately after they had been elected the directors adjourned to an adjoining room to elect the officers of the club for the coming year. The following were chosen: Presi- dent, Alexander Wilson: vice-president, M. S. Sut- phen; secretary-treasurer, W. L. Flagg. The offices of secretary and treasurer were com- bined into one. Upon the suggestion of President Wilson a hearty vote of thanks was extended E. F. Binder and the retiring board for the excellent work of the past year. The meeting then adjourned for the evening. The following members were present: Alex. Wilson, Axel Nelson, J. Hudson, J. T. Garner, M. Griffin, T. E olai i i' l". Binder, W. L. Flagg, Chris O'Connor, J. F. Backstrand, Stanley McDougal, Dr. Huff, F. A. \. .7. Stalder, M. J. Westerfield, S. J. Elliott, n. G. Judd, Julius Hess, J. H. Strachan, W, A. Hayt, Frank Pond, C. C. Cole, M. G. Sutphen. Frank I igden, David Stanfleld, G ■ Smith. <;. M. Carrigan, Chas. O'Brien, T. J. Pulley, [I. G. Stanley. Of the out-of-town members, Peter Beatty of Per- ris. Charles Farrer of Santa Ana, and A. K Miller of Perris were the only outsiders present at the ban- quet board. An interesting trotting race cai t'r in the morn- ing -it the Riverside Driving T'ark between Messrs. gton and Make Kraig, who, in order to settle lor "f sup' i iorl between I heir I rol ters, went half-mile hea a side. Kralg won two i > ! c- three heal I ol them closely contested hotly driven. SPEED AT FRESNO. WM. SINNOCK VISITS APTOS RANCH. The track at Fresno, while not one of the principal training centers in California, is nevertheless a place where some of the fastest miles are paced and. trotted during the circuit racing, and for the number of horses trained in the winter and spring has as much speed to show as any place. Schuyler Walton, the well-known reinsman, has nineteen or twenty horses in training there at the present time, some of which he is getting ready to race in California this year, others being given a few preliminary lessons in speed culture, preparatory to being driven on the road or turned out later to grow and be raced later on. A green four-year-old pacer by Athablo that is called Dan S. is one of his best prospects. This horse has shown a half mile in 1:03% very handily and is very highly thought of by all who have seen him at work. The' green mare Directrine after three months' work showed him a quarter in 34 seconds, with the last eighth in 15% seconds, which makes her look like one of the good pacing prospects for 1906. The two-year-old colt by John R. Gentry 2:00%, out of a Hal mare, is of course a pacer, and is show- ing that he is as good as his breeding by pacing a Quarter in 38 seconds, with an eighth in 18% seconds, when not much more than bridle wise. Walton is working a three-year-old pacing filly by Athalbo out of Lectic by Eclectic that has shown con- siderable better than a 2:40 gait and is coming right along. The famous "Buckskin mare" by Athadon, out of a mare whose breeding is unknown, is looking fit to race for the money, and she will astonish the natives some day when she is turned loose. She worked a mile better than 2:08 last year on two different occa- sions, and looks like a 2:05 pacer. Mr. Graham has leased her for this year and Walton will drive her. Athasham, one of the best three-year-olds out last year, although he did not lower his two-year-old rec- ord, is trotting nicely and acts like a coming 2:10 per- former. About the handsomest horse at the track is Allesan- dro 2.23%, and he can trot a quarter better than 32 seconds right now. He took first premium at the stallion show at the Hanford fair last year. Stanford McKinney, Geo. Warlow's representative for the three-year-old trotting stakes this year, has shown a half in 1:10 and gives every evidence of being a money winner. There is a black pacer by Howard St. Clair 2:18 in Walton's string that causes considerable conversa- tion among the horsemen. After three months' work last year he paced a mile in 2:14%, with the last half in 1:06. A Diablo mare that wears the hopples paced a quar- ter in 31 seconds recently with Walton up. Trainer Middleton is driving seven or eight horses, besides a few colts, and has one horse that is being watched closely by the railbirds as he is looked upon as a likely phenom. He is a big, fine-looking pacer, nicely gaited and strong enough to pull a surrey with four people. He spent last year working on an oil wagon, but is eating good oats and hay at the present time and living like one in the swim, as he has shown a lot of speed. Quarters in 32% seconds seem very easy for him now, and he has not been given any miles as yet at a gait that has tired him. If he proves to be a race horse he should be a good one. Charley Clark is handling a string of eight horses, all green ones, and all going along nicely. He will have a few to talk about later on. Stamboulette 2:10% is doing stud duty at the Fresno track and is being well patronized, as also is Diablo 2:09i4. Athablo and Athadon will have full books before the first of May, and Mr. Warlow's young stallions are also being patronized by the best breeders. Fresno would be quite a horse center were one of the old- fashioned county fairs and race meetings to be held every year. , Santa Ana, Cal., Feb. 11, 1906. Breeder and Sportsman: I am not a subscriber of your very valuable- •pape^', although I read it weekly. My neighbor, Mr. Charles A. Riggs, takes your paper, also the Horse Review7, and I take Western Horse- man and Spirit of the West, so you see we are quite horsey for two families. I want to tell you of a trip I took last week and what I found. I had some busi- ness wThich called me north to Santa Cruz and Wat- sonville. After I left Santa Cruz I heard the con- ductor call out Aptos, and the name kept coming up before me. After I got to Watsonville it dawned on me that Aptos was where Mr. Spreckels' stock farm was situated. I made inquiry and found that the farm was only half a mile from the station, so I stopped off and wTalked out. On my way out I met a gentleman driving an elegant pair of horses right on the bridge. I went a little farther and met "Sandy" Smith, the trainer, driving a very nice brown pacing horse, and he informed me he wrould soon be back and show me around. The first horse he showed me was a four-year-old pacer sired by that grand old horse, Dexter Prince, and I think his dam was by Cupid 2:18. Mr. Smith told me to walk over to the track and he would show me something, and he "made good," as the saying goes. It was a magnificent big 16-hand horse, and such a set of legs "and feet, good from tip of nose to his heels, beautifully mannered, elegantly gaited, and carried his head and tail like a Kentucky saddle horse. The man that wants a prospect and a No. 1 road horse can find him in this beautiful gelding. Next was a four-year-old filly, I think by same sire, dam by McKinney 2:11%, a high class one. Then a chestnut gelding that Mr. Smith says is fast. Then I wTas shown Cupid 2:18, own brother to Sidney Dil- lon. I need not tell you anything about him. I was then shown a chestnut stallion. I don't re- member his breeding, but he is a beauty and Mr. Smith informed me that it would take 2:15 to catch him when in condition. Then to my notion I feasted my eyes on a four- year-old stallion by Dexter Prince, but cannot re- member his dam. But he is all horse. Then a black imported coach stallion, a beauty; then a team of geldings on the coach order that were fine, and a pair of bay, two-year-olds by the coach stallion and out of trotting bred mares that to call beautiful is putting it mild. Fine heads and necks, long, full tails that reach the ground. Mr. Smith informed me that he wras getting about 25 head ready for sale, and they are the finest lot I have seen in California, all large and writh elegant legs and feet. I then inspected the weanlings and they are a magnificent lot of youngsters. Now you will excuse this long article, as I am not a reporter. But I was treated so nicely that I could not resist telling your readers that if any one wants a day off^ visit Aptos Ranch and if you are at all "horsey" you will find it a day wrell spent. Yours truly, WM. SINNOCK. GOOD OUTLOOK FOR RANGE HORSE BREEDERS The man who has horses to sell for the next two years has a good chance to be king of the stockmen, according to H. I. Wilson of Montana. Mr. Wilson is associated with Capt. W. J. Bradshaw of Helena, in railroad contracts near Toronto on the Canadian Pacific. They tried to purchase horses in Montana last year, but could obtain but few. The demand will be immeasurably increased with the building of the new roads. As it is now, all the big contractors have all the work they can do for several years ahead, and there is more in sight. The coming of the Milwaukee will mean work for an army of men and teams, the Gould system is to parallel the Union Pacific, and the Grand Trunk Pa- cific is to throw a line westward clear across Canada. This will mean a market for thousands of horses. The contractors now buy their stock outright instead of hiring men with teams, and they want grade horses that weigh about 1200 pounds. Horses of the required standard command from $100 to $125 in the market. At such figures the horseman has a bonanza. He runs less risks of loss than any other stockman. On the range the horses are good rustlers for a living, and by a little additional feeding they can be put in prime condition for sale. With the vast amount of work ahead of the contractors, there is no chance of a drop in price, in spite of the inroads of the auto- mobile where the streets are paved. ANOTHER GOOD CIRCUIT. Harness racing in the Southwest is undergoing an unusual boom, no doubt brought about by the phe- nomenally successful meeting held the last week in the year at Phoenix, Ariz., says Palmer Clark. It was the occasion of the inaugural territorial fair, and not only were the races of a very high class order, but the management were accorded such gen- erous patronage that they at once announced dates for a spring meeting to be held the fourth week in April. A number of gentlemen present were so enthused over the success of a meeting conducted on such a high plane and liberal scale that a movement was inaugurated to organize at El Paso, Texas, and thus complete the chain of meetings that will maHe an ideal spring circuit. These two meetings are to precede the New Mexico and Colorado circuit, beginning at Al- buquerque, and follow down the line to Las Vegas, Trinidad, Pueblo, Colorado Springs and Denver. The old half-mile track at Albuquerque has been practi- cally abandoned, and a new mile track, with a half- mile in the center, is now under construction on the highlands on the plan of the one at Phoenix. This is just what was needed to popularize the sport in that wide-awake town. This circuit would then be, as at present planned: Phoenix, Ariz., fourth week in April. El Paso, Texas, first week in May. Albuquerque. N. M.. second week in May. Las Vegas, N. M., third week in May. Trinidad, Colo., fourth week in May. Pueblo, Colo., fourth week in May. Colorado Springs, Colo., second week in June. Denver, Colo., third and fourth weeks in June. Jackson's Napa Soda cleanses the stomach and renders the eye clear. The well known real estate dealer^T. C. Barnett of San Jose owns a very fine pair of matched trotting mares, full sisters, by Poloma, son of Fallis 2:23 by Electioneer, that are not only well matched in color, style and action, but are fast trotters both double and single. Neither have e\;er had any regular training, but have learned to step fast on the road. Last Fourth of July at the "sensational speed exhibition" given at the San Jose track by Frank Granger, promoter and ex-superintendent, one of these mares, only six weeks cut of pasture, and first time in single harness, was hitched to sulky and driven by her owner, an ama- teur, n mile in 2:221,«. The other mare is not quite so fast, but together they can trot in 2: 30. These mares are daily seen on the streets of the Garden City and universally admired. Mr. Barnett is breed- ing them both this spring to the great Kinney Lou 2:07%. February 17, 1906J <&*ur gveebev mtfc gpovtemon NOTES AND NEWS. W. G. Duncan of Wasco, Oregon, visited his former home in Yolo county, California, last week, and while there purchased from Gottleb Mast two good jacks, paying §1325 for the pair. Mr. Duncan will engage in breeding mules on his ranch in Oregon. Hazel Patch 2:02% will probably be stabled at the San Bernardino race track for the next few months. Cal Rodriguez came up from Gonzales, Monterey county, this week, to take a thoroughbred stallion back for Mr. Chris "Widemann of that place, who will turn the horse out with a bunch of range mares to raise saddle horses. The common saddle horse that has no particular gaits except walk, trot and gallop, but is sound in wind and limb and of average size, is getting very scarce in California, and Mr. Widemann is confident the demand for them is on the increase. Rodriguez has taken up Mr. Widemann's two pacers, Joe Robin and Fred W., two full brothers. Joe Robin worked a mile last year very handily in 2.13 but was taken sick and failed to make a very good showing. This year Cal thinks he will be able to get a low mark. We have heard of horse carrots growing to pretty large dimensions in California, but Captain Watson, the well known marine surveyor of this port, raised one on his place in Oakland recently that weighed 12 pounds and 9 ounces. The captain drives good horses on the road that can show speed at the trot when necessary to win a brush, and it may be that these big carrots he feeds them are of a special var- iety that impart that much desired qualification. Mr. E. C. Peart, the well known merchant and horse breeder of Colusa, recently wrote to an official of the Yuba and Sutter Driving Club at Marysville as follows: "I have the Colusa track and pasture leased and we are now making an effort to get up a three days' race meeting in April. I think we can do it O. K. and we shall want all the horsemen from Marysville. We shall give two harness and two or more running races each day. They will go with a rush, I think. Please tell the boys to get ready for April." J. M. Herbert of Denver has recently purchased from C. W. Williams of Galesburg, 111., a three-year-old colt by Belsire 2: IS out of a mare by Jay Bird. Bids for furnishing the material and constructing fifty- two stalls for horses at the race track* near Concord, were opened February 3, and the same was awarded to J. W. Guy of Concord. There were several bidders. The contract price is $2275. The appurtenances will be built in two sections of 312 feet each. The stalls will be 12x12- In addition, outside the bid. several tanks will be erected and pipes laid to furnish water at intervals. Minor im- provements of lesser character will be installed, and in many other respects the work will be prosecuted without delay. Mr. Guy looks for lumber to arrive on the ground this week, when the actual work of building the new stalls will begin. The two-year-old pacer Oregon Patch by Joe Patchen out of Bhima by McKinney, second dam by Altamont, is just being broken by his owner in Ore- gon and is said to have a phenomenal lot of speed and a level head as well. He certainly ought to on his breeding. Budd Doble purchased recently two yearlings by his great horse Kinney Lou. The dam of one is by Nutwood Wilkes, sire of John A. McKerron 2:04%, and the great North Star (3) 2:13%; second dam by Sidney, grandsire of Lou Dillon 1:58%; third dam by The Moor, sire of the greatest of brood mares. Beauti- ful Bells; fourth dam by Ben Lippencott, son of Wil- liamson's Belmont. The dam of the other is by Near- est, son of Nutwood Wilkes and full brother to tne great McKerron; second dam by Anteeo 2. 16%, son of the champion sire of champions, Electioneer; third dam by Venture 2:27, son of Williamson's Belmont and sire of the dam of Directum 2:05i)i. champion four-year-old trotter of the world. Mr. Doble has great faith in the success of the McKinney and Nut- wood Wilkes cross and it will be seen that both of these youngsters unite the blood of both the above great horses. The second dam of one is by Sidney, a great speed sire, and the second dam of the other is by one of Electioneers best sons, and Electioneer is the greatest of all sires of early and extreme speed, and both are backed up by the blood of the great thoroughbred, Williamson's Belmont— blood more highly prized than any other thoroughbred strain ap- pearing in the pedigrees of California bred trotters. A down east Yankee thus puts it : "I pity the man who says the automobile will drive out horses. There is all the difference in the world between the horse and the machine; the difference between the living and the dead; between the game, resolute, do- or-die sort of horse that compels admiration, and the inanimate grandfather's clock that keeps time in the front hallway. Were the old faithful clock to stop forever, you could not ring a tear out of the children with a force-pump; but they will cry as if their hearts were broken over a St. Bernard that has passed on to the animal heaven. The steam engine and the trolley have not put the horse out of com- mission, and the automobile will fail to do so. There is a practical as well as a sentimental phase of this matter. The automobile can do some things that a horse can not, also a lot of things that a horse will not. Is there an automobile that can travel in soft mud in comparison with horses, and are there any places in the United States where a wayfaring per- son does not find mud at certain seasons of the year? It is not sentiment but irresistibly logical facts that will prevent the automobile from supplanting the horse and the horseless age will not come until the arrival of the manless age, womanless era and dog- less epoch. Harry Brown has a string of horses at Pleasanton track that should have a money winner or two among them. His mare Helen Keyes by Sidney Dillon, out of Diva by Piedmont, is looking in good shape. This mare is a wonderful trotter. She was taken east last year by Monroe Salisbury, but was not started. In Chas. DeRyder's hands last year at Pleasanton she trotted a mile in 2:12 after three months' work, and the last eighth was in 15 seconds, a two minute clip. Mr. Brown has not commenced to move her up this year, but she has the speed at all times and Is a great prospect. Brown has a gelding by Diablo that is a sure trotter and if he remains sound will be able to give Diablo a representative in the 2:15 trot- ting list along with his numerous pacers with records below that mark. A Sidmore gelding which Brown is working is also a speedy prospect. One of the best looking two-year-olds that is eli- gible to this year's Breeders' Futurity is owned by Mr. F. W. Perkins of Oakland, who bred him. The colt is by Mr. Perkins' good stallion Athamax and is out of the mare Gary Pettus by Pittock, son of Altamont. After getting the colt nicely broken his owner has sent him up to S. W. Lillard of Davisville, who will work him some over the track there. As Mr. Lillard has leased Athamax for the season of 1906, the colt will give the breeders of that locality an idea of what sort of sire Athamax is. Mr. Geo. C. Need of Gait has recently purchased the trotting bred stallion Gold Crown by Falrose out of a mare by Sable Wilkes, and he is an inch and a half over sixteen hands. He weighs 1200 pounds and is a fine model of a horse. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Van Nuys of Belle Mead, N. J., have announced the betrothal of their daughter Marie Elwood to Arthur Caton Thomas, New York repre- sentative of the American Horse Breeder. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 13-18. Readville, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1 Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. FAIR DATES CLAIMED. At the meeting of the North Pacific Fair Associa- tion held last week at Portland the following dates were agreed upon: Seattle Sept. 3 to 8 Salem Sept. 10 to 15 North Yakima Sept. 17 to 22 Spokatie Sept. 24 to 29 Walla Walla Oct. 1 to 6 Lewiston Oct. 8 to 13 Everett was given the privilege to select such dates as they may decide on. NUTWOOD 600 Sire of 174 standard performers, his sons have sired 977, and his daughters have produced 2GS in the list 6 f&he $Bxeebev atib giptfrtsmcm [February 17, 1906 M\ JOTTINGS. ®1 THE GREATEST TURF SCANDAL in many years broke suddenly on the trotting horse world Saturday morning' of last week, when it was announced that the famous $5000 gold cup won by Mr. Elmer E. Smathers of New Tork with Major Delmar, when he defeated Mr. C. K. Billings' Lou Dillon at Memphis in October, 1904, had been seized on a writ of replevin by the sheriff of Xew York; that the seizure was made as the result of a suit brought by Murray Howe on behalf of the Memphis Trotting Association, who claimed the cup had been obtained by Mr. Smathers through fraud; that the fraud consisted in having had Lou Dillon drugged just before the race, and that Geo. Spear and Ed Sanders had made affidavits to the effect that Mr. Smathers had paid Ed Sanders $5000 for administering the drug to Mr. Billings' mare. The dispatches further stated that Mr. Smathers had put up a bond of $7000 and regained possession of the cup and would vigorously fight the charges made against him, which he denied in toto. This was indeed a scandal, and as the first few pre- liminary announcements were followed day after day with additional charges and recriminations, the morsel became richer and richer, and was rolled with much unction under the tongues of horsemen and all others who are interested in anything pertaining to the turf. Opinions were formed and freely expressed on all sides, the majority of them having little foundation outside the newspaper talk. Whether or not Lou Dil- lon was drugged at Memphis will not be established until the evidence of both sides is presented in court or before other proper authorities, and it is impossible for anyone to form an unbiased opinion on the sub- ject on the evidence thus far submitted through the press. The salient points of the case are about as follows : The Memphis Trotting Association alleges fraud on the ground that Mr. Billings' mare was drugged at the instigation of Mr. Smathers. It has filed affidavits made by Geo. Spear and Ed Sanders, the former trainer for Smathers at the time, but the full text of these affidavits has not been printed as yet. The press report is that Spear makes oath to the statement that at the request of Mr. Smathers he had a talk with Ed Sanders, brother of Millard Sanders, who trained and drove Lou Dillon to her record, and suggested that Ed Sanders fix the mare so that she could not win. This Ed Sanders agreed to do for $10,000. Smathers thought the sum too large and offered $5000. Further negotiations were between Smathers and Ed Sanders. The latter is quoted as making affidavit that Smathers paid him $5000, and the following words are said to be copied from this affidavit, but the full text of the document is not given: "I prepared a rubber bag, tightly tied, capable of holding eight ounces of quicksilver. After a warming- up heat the mare appeared to be so good that I de- cided the little lead I had put in the quarter boots she wore was not sufficient to stop her. By means of being well acquainted with those in the stable, I got to the mare, and introduced the bag containing eight ounces of mercury." It will be noticed by careful reading of the above statement that Sanders does not make it plain whether he "introduced" the bag of quicksilver into the mare or simply placed it in her boots where he claims to have placed a little lead prior to her warming up heat. < 'uiside the complaint in the case and the affidavits of George Spear and Ed Sanders, none of which have thus far been printed in full by any journal that has reached this coast, the only other sworn evidence per- taining to the case is an affidavit made last Wednes- day by Dr. A. H. Fehr, now at the Emeryville track ;ii Oakland, who deposes as follows: "At the time of the trotting race meeting at Mem- phis when the celebrated race between Major Delmar, belonging to E. E. Smathers, and Lou Dillon, the propi rta ol C K. G. Billings, was trotted, 1 was em- ployed in the position of official veterinarian of the "i id was also in the employ of C. K. G. Billings, i have known all along thai there was some- thing wrong with the race, but never considered that it was up to me to make any statement in connei tion with the case until the recent attempt ol whal i con- sider i' be .hi unwarranted attack upon Mr. Smathers ii brought -nit. few words l \ Murraj Howe In a greal nun s , e seemed excited and the flrsl thing hi to me was that Lou Dillon had an attack of the thumps, or what we technically term in the profession spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm. I went to the stall where the mare had been taken immediately after the first heat. She was closely guarded by a special officer, and Murray Howe, who was at the time the personal representative of Mr. Billings, directed me to treat the mare for the thumps. I examined her and found nohing wrong with the. mare more than some nervousness, such as any horse would show aftr coming out of a hard race. In other words, I consider that I was simply ordered to give a dose of medicine where none was needed. Mr. Howe insisted that the mare should be treated for thumps, and, of course, it is commonly known that belladonna is the drug used in such cases. It is also common knowledge that such a drug will deaden any animal and kill speed. Therefore, acting under orders, I ad- ministered an abnormal and unusual dose of the drug, which was sufficient to kill the speed of the strongest and fastest horse in the world for the time being. LTnder those circumstances it was impossible for Lou Dillon to win the Memphis cup, a fact which Mr. Howe and Mr. Billings both knew at the time as well as I. DR. A. H. FEHR. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 14th day of February, 1906. J. J. KERRIGAN, Notary Public. formances do not support the theory that she was permanently injured by drugs. After reading all that has appeared in the daily press so far, I for one cannot form a just opinion as to the guilt or innocence of Mr. Smathers. It is a re- markable case, the most remarkable in the history of the trotting turf of America. The testimony of Ed Sanders and George Spears, in the absence of corrob- orative evidence that will prove their statements be- yond the possibility of a doubt, should not be consid- ered for a moment by anyone. Men who will engage in such work for pay will make affidavits for pay, and their unsupported testimony should not be given any weight at all. On the other hand, such men as Mur- ray Howe and the directors of the Memphis Trotting Association are not of the sort that_can be easily de- ceived, and they must have additional evidence which in their opinion is conclusive of the guilt of Smathers. or they would not try to make a case of the testimony of Sanders and Spear. The race was a memorable one. Lou Dillon had established her claim to the trotting championship by trotting a mile the year previous in 1:58%. Major Delmar's record was 1:59%, and there was a great deal of controversy as to the comparative abilities of the two as actual race horses. The Memphis cup race had been inaugurated two years previous by the Memphis Association. It was for trotters to be driven to wagon by amateurs. Mr. Smathers had won the first leg in 1902 with Lord Derby, defeating Mr. Billings' horse The Monk. For the second leg Mr. Smathers named Major Delmar, and Mr. Billings Lou Dillon. The latter won in two straight heats. The third leg was to decide the permanent ownership of the beautiful gold trophy. The same drivers with the same horses that contested in 1903, were to start. The mare was favorite. Delmar drew the pole. He got away in front and reached the half in 1.00%, Lou Dillon lapping him here, and as she was driven very wide was considered to have gone to the half faster than the Major. At the head of the stretch he drew away, however, and won as he pleased in 2:07, the mare evidently distressed. The poor performance in the first heat caused alarm among Lou Dillon's admirers, and her trainer called for the advice of a veterinary surgeon. After a close examination Lou Dillon was pronounced to be suffering from a case of "thumps." Mr. Billings therefore decided to start his pet, only in order to allow Smathers to proceed over the course. In the second heat Lou Dillon was pulled to a slow jog. Major Delmar continuing over the mile in 2.18%. The fractional time of the first heat was 0:30%, 1:00%, 1:31%, 2:07. So the cup went to Mr. Smathers, and Mr. Billings publicly congratulated his adversary on his win. Four days after this memorable race Lou Dillon was good enough to start to beat 2:01% without a pace maker in front. Millard Sanders drove her, and while she did not lower the record she went away slowly but reached the first quarter in 29% seconds. In- creasing her speed she got to the half in 59% seconds, was at the three-quarters in 1:29%. She faced a strong wind up the back stretch which made her per- formance most remarkable, and finished the mile in 2:01%, lying the unpaced record of Major Delmar. The next day she tried it again but 2:02% was the besl she could do. November 8th she again started to beat 2:01% ami trotted her mile unpaced in 2.01%, lowering tie- record. November 11 she starter! againsl Lhis "' and made her mile in 2:01. These per- On Saturday last, when the San Francisco Exam- iner printed the first account of the Memphis Cup scandal which reached this coast, I met Millard San- ders at Pleasanton. At that time the Examiner's meagre account of the affair stated that affidavits had been made by Sanders and Spear, failing to give their initials. Millard, who was surprised at the pub- lication, immediately stated that he had made no affi- davit in regard to the matter and knew nothing of it. (It was not until the following morning that the papers connected Ed Sanders' name with the affair.) In Millard Sanders' talk to me about that race, he was very careful and deliberate in his statements, and seemed to doubt the alleged drugging of the mare. He said that Mr. Billings drove her very wide, that the rate of speed to the half was faster than he himself would have driven it to wagon, and conveyed the impression that she had the "thumps" from some natural cause. He stoutly affirmed that some of the miles he drove her during the three weeks following were the greatest miles she ever trotted. And then he made this very significant statement. "Doc_ Tanner, who manages and trains Mr. Billings* horses, has a 'dope' or heart medicine which he often gives his horses. Many times he asked me to admin- ister a dose of it to Lou Dillon when she was to make a great effort to lower a record. I always opposed giving it to her, and sometimes Mr. Billings would come to me and ask me to let the mare have it as Mr. Tanner thought it would help her. Sometimes I would make a feint of giving this dope, throwing it all away at times, and again letting her have a very little of it. I was opposed to giving her anything of the kind as I did not believe she needed it. "When she trotted her mile in 1:58% in 1902 she did not have a drop of dope of any kind." There is not a man in California who believes that Millard Sanders ever had anything to do with the drugging of Lou Dillon or knew anything about it. In an interview last Sunday he said: "People turn to me, thinking that I must know some- thing about this sensation. It is more of a surprise te me than any man on the face of the globe, ir I were put on my oath this minute I would say that I do not believe these reported affidavits regarding lead being put in the quarter boots of Lou Dillon and the administering of quicksilver to the mare. I don't want any one person in the world to think that I ever put even the weight of a straw in the way of Lou Dillon. I loved Lou Dillon and I was heartbroken when Major Delmar beat her in the gold cup race. It was a crushing blow to me as I regarded the mare as good as she ever was in her life. I never accepted or received one dollar for doing or countenancing anything that would hinder this mare in any way. I was always faithful to Lou Dillon and C. K. G. Bil- lings, and I want every man to believe that I am tell- ing the absolute truth." And every man that has known Millard here in California will believe him, and sympathize with him in this matter. When the case comes up in court it will be watched with intense interest, and until the testimony is given and sifted no one is justified in forming an opinion as to whether Lou Dillon was drugged or not. The "doping" of horses to accelerate their speed or to enable them to carry it farther should be very severly legislated against. The running turf has had no end of scandals from this cause and while there are stringent rules against the practice it is almost impossible to stop it. The administration of heart tonics is injurious to the horses and when once a horse has become accustomed to its use in races he is a "dead one" without it. and there is no easier way to make a horse "run for the books" than to enter a dope horse in a race and refrain from giving him his dose. The trainers who came back from the Grand Circuit in 1905 say that the little mare Grace Bond doubtless had a big dose of heart tonic when she won that five-heat race in the Kentucky Futurity that year. Our readers will remember what a great story went the rounds about that race. How after this delicate little trotter had won two heats in the remarkable time of 2:09% and 2:09%, she dropped back to fourth place in the third heat and finished fifth in the next. The time was 2:11% and 2:13. Then all her boots were taken off and every strap that could be spared was removed from her harness. Thus relieved she seemd to recuperate and lost somewhat the tired feel- ing she had and trotted the fifth heat in 2:09%, win- ning the race. Some of the California trainers who were at the Lexington meeting that year say it was February 17, 1906] ©lw gvezbev anb gtpawsfmcm not taking off the weight that brought the mare around so nicely, but a dose of heart tonic that revived her. Dr. McCoy, in an article condemning the use of these stimulants, intimates the same thing. Could it be possible that Lou Dillon had enough of a heart stimulant the day of tho Memphis race to give her the "thumps"? Stranger things have happened. FROM A LINE OF GREAT BROOD MARES. Our front page picture this week is the reproduc- tion of a recent photograph of the McKinney stal- lion Constructor, owned by James Smith of Vallejo. Constructor is standard and registered, his number being 39569, and is an own brother to that very fast trotting stallion Tom Smith 2: 1314. Constructor is a horse of grand proportions, a square trotter, and while having no record has shown his speed in a race. He was formerly called Duplicate, and under that name started in a race for three-year-olds at the Breeders' meeting at Petaluma in 1903. The fast mare Tuna, whose record is now 2:0S%, won the race, but Con- structor finished in second position in two heats, which were in 2:22% and 2:24%, and was a close second each time. This shows that he possesses speed, and although he has not been raced since, he will fcfe able to take a low mark if trained. Constructor is a fine looking black stallion, measures fifteen hands, two and a half inches over the withers and an inch higher over the loins. He weighs 1100 pounds. The name of his sire. McKinney 2: 11%. appears oftener in the trotting turf journals than that of any other stallion in America, and owing to the fact that he is the greatest sire of 2:10 and 2:15 speed, living or dead, and that so many of his sons are doing stud duty, the McKinney family is destined in a few years to be one of the greatest of the Wilkes tribe, as it is breeding on and producing standard speed in every direction. McKinney has forty 2:15 performers and twelve in the 2.10 list. He stands at the highest serv- ice fee asked for any trotting stallion in America — $500, and gets the mares. It is superfluous to talk about McKinney, as every reader knows his fame and his accomplishments on the track and in the stud. -Daisy S., one of the greatest brood mares in Cali- fornia, is Constructor's dam. She is by McDonald Chief 3583, a producing son of Clark Chief 89. The latter sired the dams of Martha Wilkes 2:08, one of the greatest race mares, and Phallas 2:13%, that held the champion stallion record back in 1884 and sired 27 standard trotters and two standard pacers, includ- ing Norman B. 2:06%. Daisy S. has produced four standard trotters and has three or four more able to enter the list at any time they are given the word. Her list of performers is: Tom Smith 2:13%, Gen. Vallejo 2:20%, Little Mac (3) 2:27, and Sweet Rosie 2:28%. The second dam of Constructor is another great brood mare— Fanny Rose by Ethan Allen Jr. 2903, son of Ethan Allen, one of the greatest of the renowned Morgan family. Fanny Rose produced Geo. Washing- ton 2:16%, Columbus S. 2:17 and Solano Chief 2.29%. Geo. Washington sired the dam of that fast trotter Pat Rose 2:12%. The third dam of Constructor, Jenny Lind, also occupies a place in the Great Brood Mare Table. Jenny Lind's dam was said to be a thorough- bred mare brought to this state from Kentucky in early days for breeding and racing purposes. Her owner died and the pedigree was lost, but her filly foal, dropped soon -after her arrival in California, was raced and won. beating some of the best bred thor- oughbreds in California. Bred to trotting bred stal- lions, she produced one standard trotter, Prince Allen 2: 27,' and two daughters that are in the Great Brood Mare list, viz., Fanny Rose, noted above, and Fanny McGill, dam of Scotty 2:19%, and Trilby 2:21%. It will be seen that Constructor's first, second and third dams are all great brood mares and every suc- cessful breeder knows that stallions bred that way are the ones that can be expected to sire speed with certainty. Not only were these three mares producers, but thy produced handsome, large horses that won hard fought races and have a great reputation for gameness. Constructor will make the season at Vallejo at the very low fee of $25 and should get a large patronage at this figure. THE CAPTAIN JONSES. John Green has three head of the get of Captain Jones in his string at Pleasanton. Lady Jones 2:16% looks as if she could take a few seconds off her record, and the three-year-old Chehalem is just about one of the nicest and raciest looking horses that one can find at the track. "Red" has purchased a commuta- tion ticket and goes to Pleasanton from San Fran- cisco every morning and back every night. As he reaches the track by 9 a. m. and leaves at 5:20 p. m. he has all the time necessary to devote to his horses, and has the advantage of living where he can get terrapin for dinner if he wants it. A FUTURITY WINNER. Murray M. 2.14, winner of the Pacific Breeders' $6000 Futurity of 1904, will make the season of 1906 at the race track at Los Angeles in charge of Prof. H. B. Freeman. Murray M. is a son of Hambletonian Wilkes, sire of three with records below 2 : 09, and his dam is Anna Belle, one of California's greatest brood mares and the dam of three in the 2:15 list, and four in 2:20. Murray M. stood 16 hands as three- year-old, and weighs about 1200 pounds. He is a beautifully gaited trotter, and is bred right and galted right to be a sire of extreme speed. See his adver- tisement in this issue. N. T. A. BOARD OF REVIEW. Xew York, February 14. — The National Trotting As- sociation at its twenty-third biennial congress, held to-day, made many important changes in its rules to govern the trotting turf for the coming year. The adoption of a new rule to prevent drivers or riders from resorting to the use of the watch while in a race led to an animated discussion, but was finally adopted by a vote of 24 to 6. Another new rule in regard to drivers and riders which was adopted was as follows: "A driver or rider cannot be expelled from the National Trotting Association for non-payment except where he is the nominator or owner of the horse." On the recommendation of the rules committee a rule was adopted allowing any circuit of tracks of five or more members to have its own board of stew- ards. Rule 43 was amended to read: "That in all perform- ances against time a pacemaker may accompany the trotter or pacer, but shall not run ahead of him to break the natural resistance of the atmosphere." The reason announced for passing this rule was because experienced has shown that the wind shield aided the trotters and pacers to gain records from three to eight seconds faster than these same horses were capable of making under normal conditions. Mr. Billings tendered his resignation from the board, and the resignation was accepted. The board felt that Billings should have had the Memphis Cup matter brought before it for investigation, and thus prevented the scandal from being aired in the courts. After Billings' resignation had been accepted H. K. Devereaux said: "We all deplore the turf scandal which involves Billings and Smathers. Billings has seen fit to decline re-election as a member of the board. If it goes out that he is not re-elected, and there is no explanation attached, it may appear that it is a reflection upon him. I move that this body pass a resolution thanking Billings for his service in the past and expressing regret that he cannot accept re-election." The resolution was then adopted. The following officers were elected: President, P. P. Johnston, Lexington, Ky.; first vice-president, Morgan G. Bulkley, Hartford, Conn.; second vice- president, N. T. Smith, San Francisco. The district boards elected include: Pacific district, A. B. Spreckels, John C. Kirkpatrick and E. P. Heald, all of San Francisco. WELL BRED HORSES FOR SALE. A REAL TROTTER. SANTA ANA DRIVING CLUB. The Santa Ana Driving Club has arranged to hold another meeting at the local race track on February 22, in accordance with the plans of the organization as mapped out earlier in the season, and already the promise is that a good card will be offered. All of the Fullerton horses which took part in the first meeting will be on hand, and besides these there will be a good representation from other parts of the coun- ty. There will be four races scheduled for the after- noon and each one will be a contest. In the gentle- men's road race, seven entries are talked of for sure, and the field may possibly be larger, as there are sev- eral horses owned at Santa Ana and at Orange that are good enough to go with the best green roadsters in the State. The silver cups to be given as prizes are on ex- hibition. The cups are very handsome and make ac- ceptable and valuable trophies. To add to the interest of the meeting1, there will probably be a match race between Burnut, owned by George W. Ford, and an unknown from Riverside, said to have gone the route in 2:16. This will be a feature thrown in free as an additional item of inter- fist for sport lovers who believe a good horse race U jne of the most entertaining things in the world. In the meantime horses entered for the various events are being worked on th local track and every assur- ance is given that the coming event will be one of the best affairs of the kind ever held in Santa Ana. In our advertising columns will be found the an- nouncement of sale of several royally bred horses owned by the Sacramento Valley Stock Farm. The proprietor of this farm in starting out in the breeding business many years ago made for his guidance the following deductions concerning the breeding of trot- ters: First — Most of the successful producers of trotters trace in the male line to Hambletonian 10. Second — A successful producing male line of Ham- bletonian 10, as a rule, is represented by individuals that in each and every generation have been success- ful as producers, no generation being represented by an individual that has failed to produce welt, unless it be the young sire representing the last generation, which has not yet had an opportunity to demonstrate his producing quality. Third — The most successful male lines of Hamble- tonian 10 (through which we may expect to eliminate chance as much as possible in the breeding business) are those that in each generation are represented by an individual that has produced better than any an- cestor of the preceding generation, thus giving im- provement in the producing quality of each succeeding generation from Hambletonian 10 down. Fourth — The male lines of the sire and the sires of the first, second, third, fourth and even subsequent dams are all important in estimating the producing quality of a pedigree. Fifth — Outcrosses of blood other than that of Ham- bletonian 10 in a pedigree are to be estimated of value only when these outcrosses have demonstrated their ability to produce trotters independently of the blood of Hambletonian 10, or in conjunction with the blood of Hambletonian 10 as producing the dams and grandams of performers or producers. Sixth — Thoroughbred blood in the trotter is of value only when it is the blood of particular thoroughbred male or female lines that have proven ability to pro- duce trotting speed, all other thoroughbred crosses being detrimental and retrogressive. Such thorough- bred blood is as much trotting blood as the blood of the standard bred horse and should not be considered "thoroughbred blood in the trotter." By interpreting the pedigrees of the sires and brood mares of the Sacramento Stock Farm in accordance with the foregoing deductions of the owner, a fair es- timate of the blood lines of each individual for breed- ing purposes will be easily obtained. SWEET MARIE AND WENTWORTH. Breeders who are looking for a really high class and highly bred McKinney stallion to send their mares to this year should not overlook the fact that Geo. A. Kelly's young trotter Bonnie McK is in the stud at Pleasanton. Charley De Ryder saw this horse driven by and said: "There's a real trotter." Monroe Salisbury saw him work a mile and told Mr. Kelly that Bonnie McK was worth two of that mare he used to own, meaning Anzella 2:06%. "When experts like these gentlemen have such things to say of a young trotting stallion it is worth while for the breeders to sit up and take notice. Bonnie McK's breeding has been commented on before in these columns, but it is as well to again state that he is by McKinney 2.11%. his dam the trotting mare Bon Silene 2:14% by Stamboul 2:07%, his second dam that great mare Bon Bon 2:26 that is by Simmons 2:28. and has pro- duced Bonnie Direct 2:05% (sire of Bonalet, three years, 2:09%), Rector 2:10%, Bonsilene 2:14% and the stallion Bonnie Steinway that paced a mile in 2:0S% with the last half in 1:02% at Pleasanton last year. The next dam is Bonnie Wilkes, dam of four in the list, and the next is thoroughbred. There's no better breeding anywhere. Bonnie McK will be raced this year. He trotted a trial in 2.19 last year, and is able to take a record below 2:15. Look him over when you go to Pleasanton, or send to Geo. A. Kelly for his card containing terms, etc. A short tabulated pedi- gree of Bonnie McK appears in his advertisement in this issue. In New York February 1st, Emerson E. McCargo of Philadelphia approached a couple of newspaper men and said: "I am anxious to match Wentworth against Sweet Marie or Tiverton, or botji. There has been consid- erable beating about the bush and talk about such a matter, so I came over here today with the money in my pocket to effect a match. I don't seem to be able to reach the right parties, so I have decided to issue a formal challenge which I would like to give to the press." Mr. McCargo then dictated the following challenge: "I, Emerson E, McCargo, trainer and driver of Wentworth 2:04%, world's champion trotting gelding, hereby challenge the trainers, owners, drivers and managers of Sweet Marie 2:04% and Tiverton 2:04% to a match race, or a series of match races, for $1500 to $2500 a side per race, winner to take all. I will race either horse separately or make them three cor- nered events, as owners may select, race to come off during the month of July, 1906, date and track to be mutually agreed upon. "I mean business and am ready to post forfeit at short notice. EMERSON E. McCARGO." This challenge appeared throughout the country in the various dailies of February 2d, and provoked the following reply from Alta P. McDonald, in whose charge Sweet Marie now is. "I. A. P. McDonald, driver of- Sweet Marie 2:04%. hereby agree to match her against Wentworth 2:04%, in response to the challenge issued by Emerson E. Mc- Cargo. I accept his terms for amount of purse men- tioned with the understanding that said sum be $2500, the maximum named by Mr. McCargo. "I am ready to meet the Wentworth party in New York within the next two weeks to make final ar- rangements and post forfeit in the sum of $500 to $1250. I agree to make the race a match event be- tween Sweet Marie and Wentworth, or a three-cor- nered race with Tiverton included. "I have repeatedly stated my willingness of racing Sweet Marie against any trotter in the country, and hereby back my declaration by accepting Mr. Mc- Cargo's challenge, the proposed race to be held dur- ing the month of July, 1906, previous to the opening of the Grand Circuit meeting at Detroit, over any track mutually agreed upon." As all parties seem to be agreed in this matter the only thing remaining to do is to put up the money and get ready for the race. The committee in charge of the racing matinee, which is to be held on the Bakersfield race track on the afternoon of Washington's birthday. Is preparing the longest and what will undoubtedly be the best program that has yet been run off at that race track. Many of the fastest horses in Kern county are already entered both in the harness and running races. The free-for-all trot and pace will be the feature of the afternoon. That good mare Lemonee 2.18%, half sister to W. G. Durfee's good trotter Petigru 2:10%, died recently at Patchen "Wilkes Farm. She was in foal to Peter the Great 2:07%. Harry McKerron 2:24%, trial 2:10, was sold a few days ago by Chas. A. Otis Jr. to a syndicate of Cleve- land gentlemen for the sum of $7000. It is reported that he will be trained for the M. & M. this ir. He is by John A. McKerron 2:04%, son of Wilkes 2:16%. 8 THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. By RAlPHi'B. TOZER. mx$ gxe&er crni* Qpoxixtnan LFebkuaky 17, 19C6 Proper's win of the- Palace Hotel Handicap last Saturday, worth $2,700 to W. B. Jennings, makes the Preston-pans horse the heaviest winner at the local meeting-. He will now be given a much-needed rest before being taken to the far East. The big bay is a good piece of racing machinery. Returning from the East with the reputation of being about the best handicap horse on the continent, Proper has fully sus- tained his "rep." His record is eight starts here (in the first he was probably not fit, was caught in the webbing and finished sixth). After that he won four races, was second twice and third once. When his racing days are over Jennings should have a high- class sire with the much-prized Voltigeur blood closer up than in any horse in the world (except other sons and daughters of Preston-pans). The last-named was a son of the same Prince Charlie that sired Salvator, Senorita, imp. Pirate of Penzance, imp. Wagner, Lochiel, Princess Bowling, etc., and his dam was Beatrice by Voltigeur. Prince Charlie (a 2000 guineas winner and second for the St. Leger) was by Stockwell's best son, Blair Athol, out of Eastern Princess, by Surplice, winner of the Derby and St. Leger. This Prince Charlie branch of the Stockwell tribe is one exceedingly prolific of good sires, there being others nearly equal to Pirate of Penzance, Wagner and Lochiel, the latter a horse who has headed the "winning stallions" list in Australia. Wag- ner would have been famous if he had never sired anything but Imp and Flying Dutchman. The Pirate of Penzance tribe is noted for its good two-year-olds and the ability of all the members of the family to run in the mud with success. Proper's dam. Prim n, was by Ben Ali (son of Virgil, grandsire of the greatest of American sires, Hanover) ; his second dam was the good producing mare Prude (own sister to Katie Creel), by King Alfonso; third dam Margue- rite (a fine producer), by Lexington, and on through My Lady. Motto, Lady Thompkins, Katy Ann and Medoc's dam (five great producers), to the old Mon- tague mare, the source from which came Lexington. * * * The rain seemed to bring a return of "form-run- ning, which had been conspicuously absent for the best part of the time since the flyers left Ingleside. At the last-named place the running was very true, and a person who could not pick winners at that track could not do so anywhere, in all probability. The bookmakers were a very sorry-looking lot at the San Francisco course, but their sad faces wreathed in smiles and they rubbed their hands gleefully when the races had been on at Emeryville for a few days. There was little or no form to the running, and the "reversals" shown by a host of horses was so marked that the failure to mete out punishment to the of- fenders was the wonder of the race-goers. One of the great in-and-outers died the other day, and so rank had been her running that little sympathy was ex- pressed over her demise, but on the contrary the majority of form-players seemed to be glad that the mare had passed to the land where she could play no more tricks and extract no more coin from their pockets. Edinborough is a fine sample of recent running. On February 10th he won from Sad Sam, Pickaway and others over a five-furlong course in the mud with 110 pounds up and Dugan riding. February 12th the black horse, with the same rider up and two pounds more in the saddle, runs absolutely last, behind the horses he had beaten in a five furlong race in the mud. Harbor was beaten over thirteen lengths in a mile and fifty yards race February 9th, and on the 12th, in a mile race, and in new hands, nearly won. But in the words of Jimmy Fadden, "Wat t'ell?" However, it does look as if to be successsful these days on the race course a handicapper must needs be not only clever at figuring horses* capabilities, but must be an adept at finding out owner's prices and jockeys that will or will not follow owner's instruc- tions. * * * The once good race mare Esherin, a former winner of the California Oaks, died February 9th, right after running In a mile and fifty-yard dash. She was owned by Leslie Coggins and was a very useful racing tool, principally noted in her later days as the cham- pion form fllpflopper at the track. * * • Speaking about Esherin makes one think of her rival in the opposite direction, viz., consistency. Ban- nock Belle, the one spoken of, is second to Tom McGrath, number of starts considered, at the meet- ing. On the 29th of November the Bannockburn mare ran third, and In seventeen starts thereafter she was "out of the money" just once, her record being three wins, eight seconds, six thirds and one fourth, all of which reflects \he utmost credit upon her owners, Jones & Co. Angelica has been "in the money". seven times out of eight. Bucolic six out of seven, Cruzados won three out of four races here, Cloudlight has won three races and been "out of the money" just once in seven trials. Cerro Santa's record is two wins and a close second in three starts up to last Tuesday; Dr. Gardner has started nine times, unplaced, second, eighth, then six wins In a row; Ed Lllburn started six tir.ies, winning three races and being second twice: Fireball has been one-two-three in six races (i seven; Firm Foot ran second and then won in a row; Forerunner, in his last nine races, ->n four, been second once, third four; Gateway, m starts, has been "in the coin" on thirteen ns; Gossiper started twelve times, winning six, being second twice and third once; In eleven starts Hi-Caul-Cap won thrice, was second thrice and third twice. Lady Goodrich started six times, win- ning twice, being second twice and third once; Lily Golding, Lem Reed, Military Man, Nagazam, North- west. Nigrette, Native Son, Nine Spot, Proper, Pal, Palemon, Pimkin Peerless Lass Royal Rogue (in ten starts not worse than third), Romaine (nine times in the money out of- ten starts), Rey del Mundo, Ralbert, Ralph Young, Supreme Court, Tocolaw (nine out of ten times in the money, including four wins), Toupee (nine out of ten times in the money, including four wins), Tom McGrath (in fourteen starts in the money thirteen times, including seven victories, and hold- ing the place of honor), The Lieutenant, Tawasentha (three wins in the same number of starts), and Viola B. (the same) come under the heading of extremely consistent horses that have raced here since Novem- ber 11th last. The inconsistent horses, many of which ought to have been barred long ago for in-and- out running, are legion, and their poor showings would take up too much space and cause an overflow of wrath in the detailing, hence I will leave it out. in an instant those terrible heels w-ere lashing up and down. The tiger was thrown helplessly to the ground, and lay with broken jaw, crying out with pain. The king gave a signal, the door of the cage was opened and the poor, defeated Burrhea rushed in and buried him- self in the farthest corner. The man-eater stood erect and triumphant.— Chicago Horseman. THE BLOOD HORSE. Look, how 'round his straining throat Grace and shifting beauty float; Sinewy strength is in Iv-j reins, And the red blood gallops through his veins, Richer, redder, never ran Never through the heart of man. He can trace his lineage higher Than the Bourbon dare aspire — Douglas, Guzman, or the Guelph, Or, O'Brien's blood itself! He. who hath no peer, was born, Here, upon a red March morn; But his famous fathers dead Were Arabs all, and Arab bred, And the last of that great line Trod like one of a race divine! And yet he was but friend to one Who fed him at the set of sun, By some lone fountain fringed with green; With him a roving Bedouin He lived (none else would he obey Through all the hot Arabian day), And died untamed upon the sands Where Balkh amidst the desert stands! — Barry Cornwall. THE HORSE AND THE TIGER. The "man-eater," a name given to a dangerous horse in Rudyard Kipling's tale of "The Walking Del- egate," received salutary and deserved treatment at the hands, or rather the hoofs, of his fellow beasts; but the horse of which Mr. Knighton writes in "Pri- vate Life of an Eastern King" had never experienced a superior power, and therefore his ferocity was un- tempered by fear. I was driving in a buggy with a friend through one of the finest of Lucknow's streets, on the way to the palace, when we suddenly noticed a deserted condi- tion of that part of the city. No inhabitant was to be seen in that part of the city. No inhabitant was to be seen in any direction. "Some execution," we whispered. Just then we came upon the body of a woman which looked as if it had been trampled to death on the pavement. On we went. No citizen was in sight, and the houses everywhere were closed. The next thing we saw was the figure of a youth, lying dead upon the road. On the top of a neighboring house I spied one of the king's troopers, intently looking up the road. "What is the matter?" I called. "The man-eater is loose, Wallah he has turned. Look out for your safety, sahibs. He is wild today." I had heard of the fierce animal owned by the troopers. "He is coming. Take care!" shouted the man. Far ahead we could see the brute, a large bay horse, coming toward us. He caught sight of the vehicle, and rushed forward to attack. We turned rapidly round, and our horse, almost unmanageable from ter- ror, flew over the road. Away we went in a mad gallop toward an enclosure with iron gates. As we sped we could hear the furious clatter of hoofs growing nearer and nearer. We gained the gates; my companion leaped from the buggy and closed them. The monster rushed up and stood look- ing savagely, his nostrils distended, his glaring eye- balls as ferocious as any wild beast's. He saw that he was foiled, turned, kicked the iron bars, and made for the archway, where a party of troops were awaiting him. They skillfully noosed the brute, muzzled him, and led him away. That evening I mentioned the incident to the king. "I have often heard of the man-eater. He must be a furious beast." "More savage than a tiger, your majesty." "A tiger! Good! He shall fight a tiger. We will see what impression Burrhea will make on him." Burrhea was a favorite tiger, and had never been allowed to enter a contest in which he could not conquer. The next day we all assembled in a court- yard to see the fight. The man-eater was standing in a great fnclosure made by bamboo rails. Burrhea's cage was brought, and the beautiful creature was let loose. The man-eater fixed his eyes on the tiger, lowered his head, and waited. The tiger bounded with rap- idity, and landed on the horse's haunches. Up went the iron heels, and Burrhea lay sprawling. After this the tiger was more cautious. Round and round the enclosure he went with catlike tread. For fully ten minutes he kept up the march, then, quick as lightning, sprang. The man-eater was ready, and ducked his head low. Burrhea leaped to his back and THE TICHENOR MADE HORSE. Horse lovers of the world are indebted to Myron H. Tichenor for what he has done in establishing a type of American trotting bred show and carriage horses, writes Chas. Phillips. Mr. Tichenor has proved so conclusively that the American trotting bred horses outclasses all other types, that the estab- lishment of experiment stations by the United States government is due entirely to the initiative that he took some years ago at his breeding farm at Ocono- mowoc. Wis. When Mr. Tichenor invaded the New York market, the hackney craze was more intense than it is to-day. He showed a horse that had more than the desired percentage of conformation; he showed more quality than the hackney was capable of; he showed better manners, and he showed what the hackney has always and will ever lack — courage and speed. In those days there was no such thing to be found among horses as all around action. We had the knee actors, and horse lovers used to stand en- tranced when the dealer drew their attention to how the exhibited horse was folding his knees above the shaft point, but our esteemed Chicago breeder hap- pened along and showed horses that could not only outstep their competitors, but fold the knees and pull the hocks up so that the action was all around, with the horse in perfect equipoise and without any undue exertion on the part of its rider. This was a decade ago, .and since the advent of this horse, which is rightly called the "Tichenor made" horse, the pro- gress made by breeders of the American trotting bred horse has been phenomenal. The demand became so great that within five years there was a scarcity in the market, and phenomenal prices began to pre- vail; exporters could not get a sufficient number of horses to supply the foreign demand, and such good prices were to be obtained that within the last two or three years, instead of sending horses abroad, our export trade has dwindled to nothing, and there has been in its place an influx of English and Canadian dealers with hackney and other nondescript types of horses. That they found a ready market cannot be denied, for the Eastern Anglomaniacs were ably as- sisted in their endeavor to out-English the English by the National Horse Show Association, which im- ported an English dealer named Gooch to judge Amer- ican horses and to attempt to establish a precedent for a type of saddle horse that would be English* rather than American. There is now in course of organization a society composed of wealthy patriotic horsemen who are breeders, and who intend to band themselves into an association that will be more formidable than that of any association in the country, and it will not be long before the markets of the world will recognize the superiority of the trotting bred carriage horse over all other types, as it now recognizes but is loath to admit the greatness and grandeur of our gaited saddle horse and our standard bred trotter. TO CURE COLDS IN HORSES. The cold in a horse is generally manifested by a mucous discharge from either one or both nostrils, a staring coat, general depression, slightly "off feed," bowels slightly constipated and scanty, high colored urine; these symptoms become aggravated as the dis- ease progresses; the mucous discharge takes on a more sticky, thick appearance; a cough is quite fre- quent, especially if exercised; the cold may extend to the throat, causing considerable sore throat, as is shown by the animal protruding the head, soreness from manipulation of the throat, and frequent cough- ing. If left to itself the simple cold becomes chronic and may last for a considerable length of time, the animal constantly losing flesh, the coat remaining rough from improper nutrition, and feed apparently doing the animal no good. Preventive treatment is, of course, much easier than medicinal. Keep the animal from standing in draughts while warm, blanket during cold weather to prevent chilling, and if obliged to work during the severest weather a canvass blanket is of extreme importance and should be provided for every animal. Medicinal treatment consists of steaming the nose, using a pail of hot water to which is attached a sack, the other end being cut so as to allow the steam to enter the horse's nose; a tablespoonful of one of the coal tar products is of extreme importance in helping to heal the inflamed mucous nrernbranes of the nose. A pint of raw linseed oil to open the bowels is beneficial. A poultice of bran or linseed meal, hot, applied to the throat, will relieve the tenderness there. A thick blanket to keep the animal warm should, of course, be provided. The patient, as of course is understood, is placed in a large stall, pre- ferably a box stall. As the animal begins to con- valesce, of course a bitter tonic is indicated to stim- ulate the system and set the organs working again; such as an ounce of pulverized nux vomica, four ounces of pulverized iron sulphate and ten ounces of pulverized glychrriza mixed with ten pounds of oil meal; a dose of this mixture being a teaspoonful night and morning in ground feed.— C. L. Barnes. Like all good things, Jackson's Napa Soda has a dozen counterfeits. Watch out! February 17, 19C6] ©tt£ $r zebev attb &povt#txxav\ 9 MAMBRINO PATCHEN. Unlike the so-called brood mare sires Pilot Jr. 12 and American Star 14, Mambrino Patchen has a number of 2:10 trotters descended from him in a direct male line. Mambrino Patchen was foaled in 1S62 and his great son, Mambrino King, was foaled in 1872. Mambrino King is sire of three 2:10 trotters, Lord Derby 2:05%, Nightingale 2:08 and Dare Devil 2.09, and sired the dams of the great trotters The Abbot 2:03%, The Monk 2:05%, and the grandam of Battleton 2:09%, Fred Keyes 11944 by Elyria 2:25%, son of Mambrino King, is sire of Letah S. 2:09%. Patchen Mambrino, a son of Mambrino Patchen, is sire of Walter E. 2:10. This makes five 2:10 trotters sired by male descendants of Mambrino Patchen. Daughters of Mambrino Patchen are dams of Ralph Wilkes 2:06%, Jupe 2:07%, Bouncer 2:09, Rubber 2:10, and Lizzie G. 2.09%, and grandams of Charley Herr 2:07, Fred Kohl 2:07%, Kingmond 2:09, Hes- erus 2:09y2, Ozanam 2:07, Stanley Dillon 2:07%, Glen- wood M. 2:07%, and Robert Mc 2:08%. The sons of Mambrino Patchen, other than Mam- brino King, that have sired the dams or grandams of 2:10 trotters appear to be as follows. (1) Mambrino Boy 2:26%, sire of Gussie Wilkes, dam of Allerton 2:09%, that in turn is sire of four 2:10 trotters and the dam of one. Mambrino Boy also sired the dam of Axtell (3) 2:12, that is sire of four and of the dam of three 2:10 trotters. Mambrino Boy was 'bred to the great brood mare Betty Brown, that was by his sire Mambrino Patchen which produced the mare Aileen. that is dam of St. Vincent 2:13%, the sire of Lord Vincent 2:08%. (2) Homer, sire of the great brood mare Lucy Homer, that is dam of the 2:10 trot- ters Authoress 2:09% and Lecco 2.09%. (3) Repub- lic, the sire of the dam of Louise Jefferson 2:10. (4) Mambrino (Carr's) the sire of the dam of the fast trotter Sweet Marie 2:04%. (5) Mambrino Blit- zen, sire of the grandam of Bay Star 2:08. (6) Trot- ting Boy, sire of the dam of Robert Mc. 2:08%. Great as is the foregoing showing made by the sons and daughters of Mambrino Patchen, it is prob- able that in the estimation of a large number of horsemen and breeders who have studied the subject Mambrino Patchen makes a still greater showing in regard to the sires produced by his daughters. His famous daughter, the great brood mare Alma Mater, that was out of thoroughbred Estella by imp. Aus- tralian, and grandam Fanny G. by imp. Margrave, the third dam of Palo Alto 2:08%, is dam of the three celebrated sires Alcantara 2:23, Alcyone 2:27 (both by George Wilkes 2:22) and Allandorf 2:19%, by On- ward 2.25%, son of George Wilkes, Autograph 2:16% by Alcantara is sire of Authoress 2:09% and also of Expectation, the dam of Major Delmar 1:59%, the world's fastest trotting gelding and the world's sec- ond fastest trotter. As the dam of Autograph was by Kentucky Clay, son of the Rodes Mare, it follows that Major Delmar possesses two crosses of the blood of the Rodes Mare. Alcantarus 2:20% by Alcantara sired Altro L. 2:09%, and Atlanta 2:09%, a daughter of Alcantara, is dam of Early Reaper 2:09%. Boreal (3) 2:15%, whose dam was Rosy Morn by Alcantara, is sire of Boralma 2:07 and Boreazelle 2:09%. Alcyone 2:27 is sire of the three 2.10 trotters Mar- tha Wilkes 2:08, Bush 2:09% and Harrietta 2.09%. His great son McKinney 2:11% is the only sire in the world that has sired as many as six 2:10 trot- ters the six being (1) Sweet Marie 2:04%, whose dam was by Mambrino (Carr's), son of Mambrino Pat- chen, thus giving this, the fastest trotting mare de- scended from George Wilkes 2:22, two crosses of the blood of the great son of the Rodes Mare; (2) Charley Mac 2:07%, (3) Kinney Lou 2:07%, (4) Hazel Kinney 2.09%, (5) The Roman 2:09%, and (6) Dr. Book 2:10. McKinney's son Zombro 2:11, whose gradam was by Kentucky Clay 194, son of the Rodes Mare, was bred to Gazelle 2:11%, a daughter of Gossiper 2:14%, by Simmons 2:28, whose dam was Black Jane by Mam- brino Patchen, and the result of this breeding was Zephyr 2:07%, that possesses three crosses of the blood of the Rodes Mare. Alcyone's son Dark Night is sire of Valpa 2:09%, and grandsire of Emma Brook 2:09%. His son Silver Shimes is sire of Prom- ise 2:10, and his son Quechy 2:12 is sire of Wilque 2:09%. Alcyone was foaled in 1877 and died in 1887. He was unquestionably one of the greatest speed pro- genitors that ever lived, and his untimely death was an immense loss to all horsemen interested in the harness horse. Allandorf 2.19% is sire of Dick Hubbard 2:09%, his son Strong Boy 2:11%, whose grandam was the thoroughbred mare Grey Mary, is sire of the good trotter Doctor Strong 2:05%; and his son Silverthorne 2:15, whose grandam was the thoroughbred mare Alice by imp. Knight of St. George, is sire of Kirkwood Jr. 2:10, that went to Europe and there won some excellent races and is editorially described as winning a two-mile race at Vienna, Austria, lowering the European two-mile record to 4:26%. Silverthorne also sired Golddust Maid 2:09%. Baron Wilkes 2 : 18, whose dam, Belle Patchen, was by Mambrino Patchen, is sire of four 2:10 trot- ters, and has five sons that are sires of 2:10 trotters, viz.: (1) Baron Dillon 2:12, sire of Dillon Boy 2:09%. (2) Moko (own brother of Bumps 2:03%), sire of Fe- reno 2:05% and Susie N. (3) 2.09%, whose record is the fastest three-year-old record of 1905 for a trotter, and a wonderful filly that compelled Miss Adbell to trot two heats in the Kentucky Futurity in 2:09% and 2:11% in order to win the race. (3) Oakland Baron 2:09%, sire of Rhythmic 2:06% and Baron de Shay 2:08%. (4) Prince of India, sire of Prince of Orange 2:06%, and (5) The Bondsman, sire of Grace Bond (3) 2:09%, and winner of the 1904 Kentucky Futurity. Guy Wilkes 2.15% , dam Lady Bunker by Mam- brino Patchen, is sire of Fred Kohl 2:07%, Hulda 2:08% and Lesa Wilkes 2:09, his son Nutwood Wilkes 2:16% Is sire of John A. McKerron 2:04%, and his grandson Nushagak (son of Sable Wilkes 2:18) is sire of Aristo 2:08%. William L. (own brother of Guy Wilkes) is sire of Axtell (3) 2:12, whose dam was by Mambrino boy 2:26%, by Mambrino Patchen, and Axtell is sire of four 2:10 trotters and dams of three. Patchen Wilkes 2:29%. whose dam and grandam were both by Mambrino Patchen, is sire of Patchen Maid 2:08%, and his son Bonnie Bow 2:27% was bred to Lucy Homer by Homer, son of Mambrino Patchen, and sired Lecco 2:09%. Wilkes Boy 2:24%, dam the great brood mare Betty Brown by Mambrino Patchen, has four sons that are sires of 2:10 trotters, viz.: Grat- tan 2:13, whose grandam was the thoroughbred mare Bandella, is sire of Grattan Boy 2:08 and Clarita W. 2:09%. Constantine 2.12%, dam Kincora by Mam- brino Patchen, grandam by Mambrino Tranby, son of Mambrino Patchen. and third dam Betty Brown by Mambrino Patchen, is sire of Masetto 2:0S%. His son St. Vincent, before mentioned, is sire of Lord Vincent 2:0S%,and his son Gregory the Great, whose great grandam was the great brood mare Belle Clay by Kentucky Clay 194, son of the Rodes Mare, sired Angiola 2:07%, that either leads or is among the larg- est money winners of the 1905 Grand Circuit. Wilkes Boy's great grandson, the non-standard St. Clair, sired Billy Buch 2:07%, that was a large, if not the largest, Grand Circuit winner two or three years ago. Simmons 2:28, whose dam Black Jane was by Mambrino Patchen, is sire of Hesperus 2:09%, of the dam of Fereno 2:05%, and grandam of Stanley Dillon 2:07%. Kitchell's Red Wilkes 2:19%, whose dam, Mambrino June, was by Mambrino Patchen, sired Dan Wilkes 2:09%. Crawford (p) 2.07%, whose dam Carrie Patchen was by Mambrino Patchen, sired Dan T. 2:07%. The great brood mare Mary Mambrino by Mambrino Patchen is grandam of the three noted sires, Patron 2:14%, sire of Caspian 2:07% and Cara- calla 2:10; Patronage, sire of the world's second fast- est trotting mare, Alix 2:03%, and Prodigal 2:16, sire of John Nolan 2:08. Shadeland Onward 2:18%, whose dam Nettie Time was by Mambrino Time, son of Mambrino Patchen, is sire of Mabel Onward 2:09%. Allerton 2:09%, whose dam was by Mambrino Boy 2.26 %, son of Mambrino Patchen, has already been mentioned as the sire of four 2:10 trotters and dam of one. Mary Mambrino was bred to Cuyler and produced Beatrice, the dam of Patronage, sire of Alix 2:03%; Patron 2:14%, sire of Caspian 2:07% and Caracalla 2:10, and Prodigal 2:16, sire of John Nolan 2:08. The blood of Mambrino Patchen and Cuyler each ap- pear in Prince Orange 2:06%, and Harrietta 2:09%, was by Alcyone, whose dam was Alma Mater by Mambrino Patchen, the third dam of Harrietta,, Em- ma Arterburn, also being by Mambrino Patchen, and this mare Emma Arterburn, whose dam was the thor- oughbred ^ mare Jenny Johnson, was bred to Cuyler and produced Mercedes, the grandam of Harrietta. All Right 2:09%, whose sire was Enright 2.18% by Nutwood 2:18%, a grandson of Sally Russell, by thoroughbred Boston, Enright's dam being by Cuyler, and Pat Ford 2:10, whose sire, Blitzen 2:27%, was out of a daughter of Cuyler appear to be the only 2:10 trotters possessing the blood of Cuyler that do not also possess the blood of Mambrino Patchen. The blood of Mambrino Patchen appears in ninety-one of the 2:10 trotters in which the blood for Cuyler does not appear, the comparison being two for Cuyler as against ninety-one for Mambrino Patchen, or more than forty-five times as many for Mambrino Patchen as for Cuyler, the horse that Wallace declared helped to save Mambrino Patchen from disgrace. The 2:10 trotters possessing the blood of Lady Thorn 2:18%: Belle Kuser 2 : 08. Her son General Washington sired Stranger, sire of Colonel Kuser 2.11%, that sired Belle Kuser. Ethel Downs 2 : 10. Stranger also sired Boodle 2:12%, the sire of Ethel Downs. Pixley 2:08%. Her dam, Loto, was by General Washington, son of Lady Thorn. Lady Thorn's blood also appears in Promise 2:10. The 2:10 trotters descended from Kentucky Clay 194, son of the Rodes mare: Captain Jack 2:09%, whose dam, Mattie C, was by Wildwood, a son of Kentucky Clay. Jim Fenton 2:08%, whose dam was by Atlantic 2:21, whose dam was a daughter of Kentucky Clay. The blood of Kentucky Clay also appears in the tab- ulation of the pedigree of Major Delmar 1:59%, the world's fastest trotting gelding. Kentucky Clay also sired the third dam of Gregory the Great, that sired the excellent trotting mare Angiola 2.07%. Kentucky Clay also sired the grandam of Zombro 2:11, the sire of Zephyr 2:07%. — Algernon in Horse Breeder. AZOTURIA. The Horse World of Buffalo has opened a stallion representative purse of a guaranteed value of $7500 which is novel in its way and should be popular with breeders and owners. The purse or stake is for three-year-olds that are sired by stallions nominated in the stake. The nominating of a stallion before December 1st this year will make all of his get that are foaled next year eligible to the stake and not one cent will have to be paid on them until April 1st, 1910, the year of the race, when $25 will be due on each three-year-old. A starting payment of $100 will then be payable the day before the race, and both these payments are to be added to the stake. Stallion owners will pay an entrance fee to nominate their stallion, which fee is graded according to the amount asked for service fee. It is a novel stake and will be a very valuable one if stallion owners make the list of stallions nominated a liberal one, which they should do. It is one of the most liberal stakes ever proposed, inasmuch as every foal of 1907 that is sired by a stallion nominated in it will be eligible as soon as it is born and there will not be one cent to pay on it until it is three-years-old. Azoturia is defined by the dictionaries as "a disease of animals arising from a too rapid disintegration of tissues or a defective assimilation of food." The word itself is an illegitimate scion of the English, Greek and Latin languages, thrown together after the notably careless methods of the wordsmiths of the medical profession. It is also known to the wise men of the horse doctoring fraternity as haemogloia- nuria, but it is not likely that the wayfaring man would be malicious enough to call anything that. Briefly stated, it is a deadly ailment that any horse is liable to if he is not properly cared for — that is, if he is kept cooped up in a stable and fed nitrogenious food, and then brought out to work after a few days of rest. Let your horse eat as much when he is not working as when he is, and take him out after a few days of rest in a warm stable, and you may get a practical knowledge of azoturia that you will prob- ably regret. It doesn't matter about the age, sex or breed of the horse; all of them are subject to it if they meet the same conditions. Epizootics of this disease are comparatively rare, but it may be said to be epidemic in all large cities in winter. There are very few years in which the veterinary is not called upon to treat cases of the disease. So frequently are there a number of cases at the same time that the word is sent out that there is an epizootic in progress, and possibly the condition may be properly styled epi- zootic, but it may be observed that such conditions cease almost as promptly as they begin. The cause of azoturia, as heretofore stated, is too much feeding and too little exercising. Given a horse of normal appetite, and confine him in a stable for a week with the same amount of food to eat that he thrives under when he is worked regularly, then take him out, drive him on a cold day, and you are very likely to note the following symptoms: For the first fifteen minutes or so he will be full of life and spirits. Then he will perspire profusely. The kidneys throw off dark-colored liquid, and the animal becomes de- pressed. All the life and fire seem to have gone out of him. and he breathes heavily and with difficulty. In a very few minutes one or both of his hind limbs becomes rigid, and he loses control of his hindquar- ters. He sinks to the ground, and in most cases is dead in a few hours, although sometimes the illness lasts for several days before it is terminated one way or another. In cases where one limb only is affected the driver is very likely to think that the animal has picked up a nail, but upon examination it will be found that the loins are swollen, and he is unsteady on both feet. He crouches, and the limbs are semi- flexed, and in a short time the animal drops his hind- quarters to the ground. The body and limbs move convulsively, but there is a lack of co-ordination be- tween the various sets of muscles. If there is a com- petent veterinary surgeon at hand the horse may be cured, and again he may die in a few hours in spite of the most skillful treatment. In cases of late recov- ery the animal is usually partially paralyzed for months and owners should remember that one attack of the disease predisposes to others. The treatment indicated by the best authorities includes a thorough physic, diuretics and anti-spasmodics. It is not an ailment, however, that an amateur should undertake to treat. The best thing to do after a horse is stricken is to get him to a* stable as rapidly as possible, blan- ket him carefully, and get the doctor without a mo- ment's delay. It is a disease that is practically confined to horses used in cities, and it usually attacks those in the full flush of vigor of life. So far as the books show, there has never been known a case in a horse on pasture, and very rarely one where the animal was worked daily. Plethoric horses that feed heartily are the most subject to it, for the reason that they con- sume more food than they can properly assimilate. The mortality is from thirty to eighty per cent. The Germans, who are particularly accurate in the mat- ter of statistics, are inclined to fix the mortality rather higher than the French and American authori- ties. Bay reports that out of 368 cases there was a mortality of seventy per cent. Stockleth reports a mortality of fifty per cent, Grimm of forty, and Stutt- gar of forty. The records of the veterinary depart- ment of the German army show a mortality of from twenty to forty per cent, but as most of the horses tested by the vets of the Kaiser's hosts get the most scientific care imaginable, it may be that the average of deaths among them is lower than among less fa- vored animals. The French authorities claim that the mortality is from five to seventy per cent. The Americans hold it is from twenty to ninety. Anyhow, it is a "turribul" disease, and the veterinary who gets a call in such a case is sorry before he starts in. And it is so easily prevented that the doctor is inclined to be indignant when he sees a case. Here is a simple rule that every horse-owner should see that his stableman observes: When a horse is idle, reduce his rations, give him regular exercise. Do not feed an idle horse as much as he wants. Keep his bowels open. If possible, give him green stuff occasionally. — Exchange. "BOG SPAVIN CXTKED." Capt. I. F. Sperry of Arkansas City writes: I have cured my two-year-old colt of a bad case of bog spavin and thorough-pin with QUINN'S OINTMENT; have used it for years and believe it is the only medicine that will remove all kinds of enlargements on horses with- out removing the hair." This is the general expression of leading horsemen from Maine to California. For curbs, splints, spavins, windpuffs and all bunches there is nothing better. Price One Dollar per bottle delivered. Address W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall. N. Y., if you can- not obtain from druggist. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda, Mr. A. E. Ashbrook of Chicago, where 1 manages "Bit and Spur," a monthly m. voted to horses, is in Pasadena fo assisting In the management of the 10 ©he gvevbev anfr *ttpavt&mcm [February 17, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. GROUSE AND WILD TURKEYS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEIR ECONOMIC VALUE. By Sylvester D. Judd, Assistant United States Bio- logical Survey. The Prairie Hen. The prairie hen, or "prairie chicken," (Tympanucbus americanus) inhabits the Western prairies from Mani- toba to southern Texas and Louisiana and from Ohio to Nebraska. The birds of southern Texas and Louis- iana (Tympanuchus americanus attwateri — Bendire) are smaller and darker than the common bird. This big grouse, resembling a brownish-gray hen, adds ani-- mation to the Western prairies and is as characteris- tic of them as the mocking-bird is of the South. In the nuptial season the birds assemble every morning at daybreak on little hillocks on the plains, and the cocks strut about with wings 'drooping, tail spread, and the large orange-colored sacs on the sides of the neck fully inflated. At intervals they lower their heads and emit a singular booming love note that can be heard more than a mile, and is one of the most striking bird notes in the general spring chorus. The rivalry of the males at these gatherings often leads to fierce fights. Finally all find partners, separate into pairs, and make nests in grass-lined depressions among standing grass or similar shelter, where about a dozen eggs are laid to a clutch. Generally only one brood is raised in a season. The young, like those of other gallinaceous birds, leave the nest as soon as they are hatched and run about with the hen in search of food. In summer prairie hens roost on the ground in a family covey, as does the bobwhite, but in winter, in many sections, they roost in trees. In the fall several coveys congregate in a pack, after the fashion of ptarmigans and crested quail. Prof. F. E. L. Beal informs the writer that at Ames, Iowa, during the early eighties, he frequently found packs numbering as many as a thousand birds, and that they habitually roosted in the long grass beside sloughs. The prairie hen is migratory in the northern part of its range, and to a certain extent farther south also. The well-known authority on migration, Prof. W. W. Cook, says (Bui. 2, Div. Econ. Ornith., Dept. Agri., p. 105, 1888): "In November and December large flocks of prairie chickens come from northern Iowa and southern Min- nesota to settle for the winter in northern Missouri and southern Iowa. This migration varies in bulk with the severity of the winter." From a gastronomic point of view the prairie hen deserves high praise; it is larger than the ruffed grouse, sometimes weighing 3 pounds, and has a de- licious flavor. The flesh of young birds is light-col- ored, of old ones dark. The estimation in which the bird is held may be realized from the fact that in 1902 the supply at from $3 to $5 a brace nowhere met the demand. Years ago prajrie chickens were shipped east by carloads, but to-day scarcity of birds and a commendable stringency of laws practically pre- clude shipments. Many sportsmen declare that there is no better sport than "chicken" shooting. The bird unquestion- ably is one of the noblest of game birds. Though in speed of flight it by no means equals the ruffed grouse or the bobwhite, it furnishes fine sport when hunted with dogs. Early in the season, in suitable cover, it lies to a dog like a stone. So reluctant occa- sionally is it to fly that it can hardly be put up, and Professor Cook informs the writer that several times while hunting in northern Minnesota he saw a point- ing dog jump and catch a three-fourths grown prairie hen. Late in the fall, however, when gathered in large packs, they do not lie well. Early in the season— that is, during the last two weeks of August and the first part of September — the prairie hen affords a better test of a dog's ability to hunt fast and to range out a mile or more from the gun than does the bobwhite. It is for this reason that field trials on "chicks" are always well patron- ized, and the dogs that win are highly valued. So highly esteemed is the prairie chicken as the quarry of "racing" dogs that abundant means for the restock- ing of suitable places with the species is likely to be forthcoming from field-trial patrons. The ideal con- ditions for "chicken" shooting are realized in a fence- less country, where it Is possible for the hunter to drive, while the dogs range from a quarter of a mile to a mile away from the wagon. As soon as they point game the sportsman hurries up and shoots. The driver "marks down" the birds that escape and per- tly half a mile before alighting. Then the wagon i" where they dropped, and shooting is again in order. In some parts of the country the sport stops at 10 or 11 o'clock in the morning, because of the Intense heat during the middle of the day, when the birds are resting In places difficult of access, and Is not resumed before 3 or 4 o'clock In the afternoon. Preservation and Propagation. — The prairie hen de- serves well of man. It Is beneficial to agriculture, is one of the best table delicacies, and its booming call Is the dominant spring note of the plains, as the bird is thel most chari resident. Furthermore, the number of entries to the yearly field trials on "chick- peak for it as an object of sport. In view of good qualities of the bird, the causes of Its ; tshed numbers should be sought, and adequate applied to preserve It from extinction. ie beginning of the nineteenth century the hen was extremely abundant throughout Ohio and Kentucky. It is now rare in both States. A part of the ground it has lost in the East it has gained by a westerward and northward movement. It has followed the grain fields of the pioneers of the plains, and with the extension of grain culture into Minnesota and Manitoba it has become plentiful there. According to Doctor Hatch, it was by no means com- mon when the white man first came to Minnesota, and he says that in Illinois as late as 1836 a hunter was extremely lucky if he could bag a dozen in a day. Some years later, with much less e*f£ort, one could have shot fifty in a day, and there were records of 100 to a single gun. (Birds of Minnesota, p. 163, 1S92.) The former status of the bird in the East is well indicated by Audubon's classic observations at Hen- derson, Ky.. in 1S10. Audubon says: "In those days during the winter the Grous would enter the farm- yard and feed with the poultry, alight on the houses, or walk in the very streets of the villages. I recollect having caught several in a stable at Henderson, where they had followed some Wild Turkeys. In the course of the same winter, a friend of mine, who was fond of practicing rifle shooting, killed upwards of forty in one morning, but picked none of them up, so satiated with Grous was he, as well as every member of his family. My own servants preferred the fattest flitch of bacon to their flesh, and not unfrequently laid them aside as unfit for cooking They could not have been sold at more than one cent apiece So rare have they become in the markets of Philadelphia, New York, and Boston, that they sell at from five to ten dollars the pair." (Ornith. Biog. II, p. 491, 1S35.) So far as the sportsman is concerned, the prairie hen is now extinct in Kentucky, and nowhere is the royal game bird even approximately so abundant as it formerly was in that State. There is little good chicken shooting east of the Mississippi. The best now to be had is in Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, the Dakotas, and Manitoba. Fortunately many people are actively interested in the protection and preservation of the prairie hen and excellent laws in its behalf already exist. There is a constantly growing senti- ment in favor of non-resident hunting license and a legal limit to the day's bag, while some States afford the bird absolute protection for a period of years. (Illinois, Louisiana, and Oregon protect prairie hens until 1909, and Michigan and the Province of Ontario until 1910.) and their example should be followed wherever it is growing scarce. The passage of non- export laws in most of the States has been productive of much good. These State laws have been made effective by a recent Federal law — the Lacey Act — which prohibits interstate commerce in game killed in violation of local laws. Through its operation the sale of the prairie hen was virtually stopped in 1902 and 1903 in all the large cities of the East. Absolute enforcement of this law and successful prohibition of local sales must be effected before the safety of the bird is assured. The laws relating to the close season have been greatly improved, but in some States the open season (four months in Oklahoma and South Dakota) is still too long. The preservation of the prairie hen is far more difficult than that of the bobwhite. The bobwhite is more prolific and does not require so extensive a range. Moreover, it is swifter of wing and habitually dives into the woods to escape the hunter. Before the hammerless gun and the wide-ranging bird dog the grouse of the open prairie falls an easy victim. It has to contend also with the trapper, besides preda- tory birds, reptiles, and mammals. Its most deadly enemy, however, is the prairie fire in spring, which destroys every nest within its sweep. E. W. Nelson informs the writer that in the early seventies in northwestern Illinois the farmers in many places burned the prairies in spring after the prairie hens nested, and often gathered for household use large numbers of the eggs thus exposed. Were it possible for stockmen to burn the grass a little earlier it would result in the saving of thousands of birds. The prairie hen has the advantage, however, of yielding more readily to domestication than the bob- white, and strong efforts should be made to establish preserves of domesticated birds for restocking country where the species is extinct. Successful enterprises of this kind would be profitable. That such domesti- cation is possible and even feasible, the appended quo- tation from Audubon implies: "The Pinnated Grous is easily tamed, and easily kept. It also breeds in confiniment, and I have often felt surprised that it has not been fairly domesticated. While at Henderson, I purchased sixty alive, that were expressly caught for me within twelve miles of that village, and brought in a bag laid across the back of a horse. I cut the tips of their wings, and turned them loose in a garden and orchard about four acres In extent. Within a week they became tame enough to allow me to approach them without their being frightened. ... In the course of the winter they became so gentle as to feed from the hand of my wife, and walked about the grdens like so many tame fowls, mingling occasionally with the domestic poultry. . . . When spring returned they strutted, "tooted," and fought, as If In the wilds where they had received their birth. Many laid eggs, and a good number of young ones made their appearance." (Or- nith. Blog. II, p. 495, 1835.) There is great probability of success in the restock- ing of much of the former range of the prairie hen if undertaken in the proper way and properly sustained by adequate protective laws. Successful results would materially add to the assets of every farm. Food Habits. — For the purposes of this report the contents of 71 stomachs of prairie hens have been examined. Fortunately this material represents not only the shooting season, but all other months except July. Most of the stomachs came from the Dakotas, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin. Nebraska, and Texas; Illinois and Ontario furnished the rest. The food con- sisted of 14:11 per cent animal matter and S5.89 per cent vegetable matter. The former was insects; the latter seeds, fruit, grain, leaves, flowers, and bud twigs. Insect Food.— The insect food included 12.78 per cent of grasshoppers, 0.48 per cent of beetles 0.39 per cent of bugs, 0.12 per cent of ants and other Hymen- optera, 0.29 per cent of other insects, and 0.05 per cent of spiders. The ruffed grouse takes about one- sixth less and the bobwhite about one-third more of insects than the prairie hen. Although the bobwhite destroys injurious grasshoppers, the relative propor- tions of grasshoppers and beetles consumed by it and by the prairie hen are notably different. In the food of the bobwhite the grasshoppers are to the beetles as 3.71 to 6.92; with the prairie hen the ratio stands as 12.78 to 0.48. Indeed, grasshoppers constitute the bulk of the prairie hen's animal diet, the reason being probably that on the prairies the grasshoppers vastly outnumber all other sizable insects. For a gallina- ceous bird the prairie hen is highly insectivorous from May to October, inclusive, insects constituting one- third of the fare of the specimens shot during this period. The species is particularly valuable as an enemy of the Rocky Mountain locust. During an in- vasion by this pest in Nebraska, 16 out of 20 grouse killed by Prof. Samuel Aughey from May to October, inclusive, had eaten 866 locusts — a creditable perform- ance, economically rated. Some ornithologists believe that the diminution in the number of prairie hens is in a measure responsible for the ravages of certain insects. Farmers who know these facts must regret the extinction of the bird in States where it once thrived, and they may well support measures for re- introducing and protecting it. Almost every kind of grasshopper and locust ap- pears to be acceptable to the prairie hen. In a list given is named 13 species of short-horned grasshop- pers identified in its food. The prairie hen eats also long-horned grasshoppers (Xiphidium sp., Conoce- phalus sp., and Orchelimum sp.) and crickets (Gryllus sp.) and tree crickets (Oecanthus sp.). In its beetle diet the prairie hen makes up in var- iety what it lacks in quantity. Unlike our common small passerine birds, but like our other gallinaceous birds, it feeds on the harmful leaf beetles. It destroys also the potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata), in both adult and larval stages, and the injurious 12- spotted cucumber beetle (Diabrotica 12-punctata). The stomach of a bird collected by H. P. Attwater, November 7, 1893, in Aransas county, Tex., contained 16 of these latter insects. Among other leaf-eating beetles may be mentioned Chrysomela pulchra, Chrys- omela suturalis, Disonycha quinquevittata, Monoxia puncticollis, and Graphops pubescens. The injurious May beetles (Lachnosterna sp.) also are destroyed, as well as weevils (Thecesternus humeralis and other species). Like many other birds, the prairie hen is partial to ground beetles. It has been known to take such kinds as Anisodactylus rusticus, Agonoderus pallipes, Amara sp., and Chloenius sp. It probably feeds also on the different abundant species of Har- palus. Ladybirds are at times destroyed, as was attested by remains of Hippodamia convergens con- tained in one stomach. Miscellaneous insects are eaten in small numbers, but are interesting because they include a number of the forst insect foes, such as the cotton worm (Ala- bama argillacea) (Fourth Rep. TJ. S. Em. Commission, p. 88, 18S5), the army worm (Heliophila unipuncta), several species of cutworms, the yellow bear cater- pillar (Diacrisia virginica), cankerworms (Geometri- doe), the Angoumois grain moth (Sitotroga cerealella). and the chinch bug (Blissus leucopterus). The bird's habits of eating chinch bugs has been reported by B. F. Gault, of Chicago, and Prof. F. M. Webster, of the Bureau of Entomology, Other bugs, including stink bugs (Euschistus sp.) and the tree hoppers (Sticto- cephalus sp.) make part of the food. In addition to ants, such as Formica exsectoides, the prairie hen occasionally eats other Hymenoptera, including Tiphia inornata and gall insects contained in the galls of Cynipidae. In its liking for galls and their contents the bird resembles the ruffed grouse and the British pheasant. Further study of the food habits of the prairie hen will unquestionably add largely to the foregoing enumeration of insects, but our present knowledge, incomplete as it is, shows the general character of its insect food, and establishes the value of the species as a destroyer of insect pests. Vegetable Food. — From October to April, inclusive, the prairie hen takes little but vegetable food. This element amounts to 85. S9 per cent for the year. Fruit constitutes 11.79 per cent; leaves, flowers, and shoots, 25.09 per cent; seeds, 14.87 per cent; grain, 31.06 per cent, and miscellaneous vegetable material, 3.08 per cent. , Like the bobwhite and the ruffed grouse, the prairie hen is fond of rose hips, and the abundant roses of the prairie yield 11.01 per cent of its food. This fact perhaps may be a useful hint to anyone who attempts to introduce the bird or to improve its environment. The other fruit found was of little importance — merely 0.78 per cent. It was made up of domestic cherries, woodbine berries, sumac, poison ivy, huckle- berries, strawberries, partridge berries, mistletoe, wild grapes, the berries of Solanum and Symphoricarpus, and cornel (Cornus asperifolia). Of the frugivorous habits of the prairie hen Audubon writes: "In the February l", 19C6] <&i\e gveebex* anfc grporismuu 11 western country, at the approach of winter, these birds frequent the tops of the sumach berries, to feed on their seeds, often in such numbers that I have seen the bushes bent by their weight." (Ornith. Biog., IT. p. 501, 1S35.) It is important to note that often when deep snow causes scarcity of other supplies the sumac affords both the prairie hen and the bobwhite abundant food. As with the insect food, further investigation un- doubtedly will extend the fruit list. The prairie hen eats a much smaller proportion of seeds, with the exception of grain, than the bob- white, and in this respect is less useful than the latter bird. It is, however, a better weeder than any other grouse, and its services in this particular are worthy of consideration. As before stated, seeds make 14. S7 per .cent of the annual diet. Of these, grass seeds form 1.03 per cent; seeds of various polygonums, S.49 per cent, and miscellaneous weed seeds, 5.335 per cent. When the nature of the prairie hen's habitat is re- called it seems strange that the percentage of grass seed is so small. The bobwhite, in contrast, takes 9.46 per cent of grass seed. Like the bobwhite and other granivorous birds, the prairie hen often eats the seeds of the various species of panicums, the paspalums, and pigeon grass (Choetochloa viridis). The seeds of different polygonums, or smartweeds, play an important part in the economy of the prairie hen. They form S.49 per cent of the food. These plants grow profusely where illy drained regions of the plains are under water for a few months in the year. Black bindweed (Polygonum convolvulus) and smartweed (Polygonum lapathifolium), with the close- ly related dock (Rumex crispus), are included in the bill of fare. Of the 5.35 per cent of remaining mis- cellaneous seeds, ragweed (Ambrosia artemisioefolia) is the most important element, but is insignificant in amount when compared with the same element of the bobwhite's food. Other compositae are eaten by the prairie hen — wild sunflower, coreopsis (Coreopsis car- daminefolia), and others. The prairie hen has a liking for legumes, reminding one again of the bobwhite. It selects two of the latter's favorites — cassia, and the hog peanut (Falcata comosa). It takes also the seeds of a closely related plant, the prairie mimosa (Acuan). It has been known to feed on seeds of water willow (Dianthera sp.), the yellow false garlic (Nothoscor- dum bivale), blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium gramin- oides), shepherd's purse (Bursa bursa-pastoric), mer- cury seeds (Acalypha sp.), croton seeds (Croton sp.), and seeds of purslane (Portuca oleracea), the seeded pods of the latter being plucked. Grain. — As a grain eater the prairie hen heads the native gallinaceous birds. Everybody who has gone "chicken" shooting knows how closely the bird is as- sociated with stubble fields. The stomachs and crops examined in the investigation contained 31.06 per cent of grain. The bobwhite. another busy stubble feeder, takes only 17.3S per cent. The stomach of a grouse shot in June in Nebraska contained 100 kernels of corn and 500 grains of wheat. J. A. Loring, formerly of the Biological Survey, during December in Ne- braska found prairie hens feeding in wheat stubble, about straw stacks, and along the edges of cornfields. Doctor Hatch, in writing of their granivorous habits, says: "The grain fields afforded both food and pro- tection for them, until the farmers complained of them bitterly, but not half so bitterly as they did after- wards of the bird destroyers who ran over their broad acres of wheat, oats, and corn in the order of their ripening it." (Birds of Minnesota, p. 163, 1S92.) Buckwheat, barley, oats, and millet are relished, but corn appears to be the favorite cereal, amounting to 19.45 per cent of the annual food. Other grain, prin- cipally wheat, was in the ratio of 11.61 per cent. Amost W. Butler reports that in Indiana, during Sep- tember, fields of ripening buckwheat are favorite feeding grounds. There is reason to believe that sprouting grain is sometimes injured. Audubon speaks of such injury in Kentucky, where the bird was ex- tremely abundant. Like other gallinaceous birds, the prairie hen likes mast, though naturally it obtains much less than the ruffed grouse. The stomach contents showed the beaked hazelnut (Corylus rostrata) and acorns, in- cluding, among others, those of the scrub oak (Quercus nana) and the scarlet oak (Q. coccinea). Like the ruffed grouse, it swallows acorns whole. A bird shot in Minnesota in March had bolted 28 scar- let-oak acorns. Leave, s Flowers and Shoots. — Like other grouse the prairie hen is an habitual browser, to the extent of 25.09 per cent of its food. This is divided as follows: Twigs or shoots, 0.55 per cent; flowers, 9.34 per cent, and leaves, 15.20 per cent. This is only half the amount of similar food taken by the ruffed grouse. Naturally the prairie hen is much less given to bud- ding than the ruffed grouse, but it has been known to pluck buds of poplar, elm, pine, apple, dwarf birth (Betula glandulosa). and black birth (B. lenta). "I have counted more than 50 on a single apple tree," , writes Audubon (Ornith. Biog., II, pp. 491 and 501. 1835), "the buds of which they entirely destroyd in a few cases. These birds eat leaves, including those of the buttercup! everlasting (Antennaria). red and white clover, and the interesting water milfoil (Myrio- phyllum), often grown in goldfish globes. Food of the Young. — The economic value of the prairie hen is due mainly to its destruction of weeds and harmful insects, the latter constituting almost the sole food of the downy chick. Unfortunately only two stomachs of young birds were to be had for ex- amination. The chicks were recently hatched Texas prairie hens (Tympanuchus americanus attwateri). They had eaten 1 tree cricket, 5 undetermined cater- pillars, 1 imago of the very destructive Angoumois grain moth, 1 leaf-beetle (Monoxia puncticollis), and 18 12-spotted cucumber beetles (Diabrotica 12-punc- tata). which do not always confine themselves to cu- cumbers, but injure more than a dozen other culti- vated plants. (To be Continued.) Anglers Will Have a Preserve. Messrs. Clarence Ashlin and Sam Wells, last week, in the interest of the California Anglers' Association, devoted several days to the inspection and survey of the territory along the line of the new Coast line elec- tric road, between Santa Cruz and "Waddell creek. The result of the trip, it is probable, will be the securing of fishing privileges along the Waddell and the establishment of a clubhouse in the "new coun- try." In San Pablo Bay, on the flats off the mouth of Castro creek, a number of striped bass have been caught recently — one day sixty-one fish were landed. The bass are nearly all underweight and should be left alone for the time being. The Pacific Striped Bass Club will hold the second annual opening of the club at Tiburon on Washing- ton's Birthday. A few striped bass are being caught in the San An tone; conditions are not at present, however, of great encouragement for the rodsters. A Business Change. We acknowledge receipt of a communication from Messrs. Mac Kenzie and TXnderhill announcing the association of the two gentlemen in the real estate and insurance business at 218 Sansome street, this city. Mr. Underhill has been for thirty years connected with the Selby Smelting & Dead Co. and for the past eight years manager of its extensive manufacturing operations and brings to the new firm a compre- hensive knowledge of Pacific Coast affairs, commer- cial, financial and corporate, as well as a wide ac- quaintance. ■lAioaooa ni soNioa San Francicso Show. At a meeting of the San Francisco Kennel Club, held last Wednesday evening, it was decided to hold the club's tenth annual show on June 6th to 9th, inclu- sive. The most suitable building in this city, the Me- chanics' Pavilion, was not available for the club show, .in May, hence the postponement. The fact that the show is now an announced fixture is gratifying to local and Coast dogdom. There was a feeling in some quarters that the later dates this year would cut down the entries. We are inclined to doubt that it will have any other effect save that of increasing entries and creating a greater enthusiasm. The annual show of the San Francisco Kennel Club is enthusiastically looked for by a strong following of the fancy and has likewise a substantial position in the regards of the general public. Mr. George Raper, who was with us in 1903, had the club's invitation to judge for the contemplated May show. If Mr. Raper's business engagements in June do not prevent, the original selection stands good and he will pass on the dogs. Mr. H. H. Carlton, who had charge of the office at the club's initial show in '97 and who has acted as superintendent several times since, will fill the re- sponsible billet in June — this selections is an all-round satisfactory one. The bench show committee is composed of J. E. de Ruyter, Fred P. Butler, W. S. Kittle and J. Dove Cun- ningham. The Bull Terrier Show. The one day show of the Bull Terrier Club seems to have a large number of supporters. The club is a new organization, not more than a month old, and counts on an entry of at least 65. This is a most en- couraging outlook for the Bull Terrier men. The date set for the show is Saturday. March 17th, sanction for that day having been requested of the Bull Terrier Club of America. The show will be held in a com- modious hall on the corner of Sutter and Powell streets. The officers of the club are: J. C. Bone, president; George Flexnor, vice-president; Dr. W. H. Watkins. secretary-treasurer. A number of cups and specials have already been secured, among these being Breeder a few hours. . . . They were, in fact, looked upon with more abhorrence than the crows are at present '. a ml Sportsman cup, Chas. Reid Thorburn cup, San in Massachusetts and Maine, on account of the mis-.y, Mateo Kennel Club trophy, Clifford G. Cook cup, El- chief they committed among the fruit trees of the .^liott Pierce cup, Richardson Bros, trophy. Davy Crock- orchards during winter, when they fed on their buds, ."ett trophy, and others. or while in the spring months, they picked up thero The winners class rating will count four points for grain in the fields." This mischief was due largely 3? the tri-color dog. The show is worthy of the earnest to the abundance of the birds, a condition never likely j? support of all Bull Terrier breeders and fanciers and to return. < I * Ss the recognition of the general fancy as well. The prairie hen shows a marked taste for flowers. o A delicate pink rosebud had been plucked by a bird.: Seattle Show. shot at Omega, Neb., in June. More than a thousand J« The dates for the annual show of the Seattle Dog golden-rod heads were found in another. Additional *£ Fanciers' Association are April 18th to 21st, Inclusive. composite flowers devoured were Amphiachyris (Am-f&The bench show committee consists of John W. Rip- phiachyris dracunculoides), sweet balsam (Gnaphal- ,; inger. Dr. C. W. Sharpies, F. A. Pontius, E. A. Swift ium ogtusifolium). and others. The flower and leal buds of birth and apple also are taken. Small green ovaries of Ruellia and blue-eyed grass were noted In C. W. Sharpies, president; J. W. Riplinger, vice-presi- dent; Chas. McAllister, secretary; Arthur Murphy, treasurer; Josiah Collins, R. M. Palmer and Julius Redelsheimer, trustees. Mr. Collins, D. B. Youngs. W. B. Bailey and P. J. Glennon were elected to mem- bership. The club at the recent meeting voted a reward of $25 for evidence leading to the conviction of the men who have been poisoning dogs near Green Lake. A number of valuable dogs have been killed lately in that vicinity, and the club members are determined to hunt down and punish the guilty parties. It is expected to make the bench show in April the largest and best ever held in Seattle. All the dog fanciers in the city are now working together in one club; past differences have been forgotten, and every man in the organization will work hard to make the show a big success. It is expected that there will be three hundred dogs on exhibition, and among them will be the best in the West. The show will be held under the auspices of the American Kennel Club. Bulldog Notes. Mrs. J. P. Norman has recently become the pleased owner of a promising young Bulldog bitch sired by Ivel Damon. If we are not mistaken, there will be a Bulldog kennels located in Berkeley and the popular secretary of the P. A. B. will be much interested in the same. Mr. T. M. Stateler's bitch Puddin'face (imp Clyde Nestor-imp Norma) is in whelp to Phil C. Meyer's Endcliffe Baron (Endcliffe Frafalgan-Dark Virginia). The bitch, it is said, is a good looking one. She was served on January 9th. Eye Treatment. In answer to a communication from Mr. George H. Lent, Isleton, requesting treatment for his Irish Water Spaniel fi which is afflicted with "sore eyes and a mucous gathering in the corners of both eyes," Dr. W. F. Egan, V. S.. advises as follows; Bathe the parts daily with a solution of two drachms of boracic acid added to a quart of warm water. Judges at New York. The judges for the Westminster Kennel Club's thirtieth annual dog show, held in Madison Square Garden, New York, this week, were as follows; Miss A. H. Whitney. Lancaster, Mass. — St. Bernards, Newfoundlands and Pugs. G. Muss-Arnolt, Tuckahoe, N. Y. — Bloodhounds. Russian Wolfhounds. Pointers. Basset Hounds, Dachs- hunde and Japanese Spaniels. H. W. Lacy, Wakefield, Mass. — Mastiffs, Deerhounds. Greyhounds, Poodles. Chows, Black and Tan Terriers, Dandie Dinmont, Skye and Bedlington Terriers, Schipperkes, Maltese Terriers, Chihuahuas, Papillons and Miscellaneous. John Hartmetz, Brooklyn, N. Y. — Great Danes. J. Marshall Henry, Brookneal, Va. — American Fox- hounds. Major J. M. Taylor, Rutherford, N. J. — Chesapeake Bay Dogs, English Setters, Irish Setters and Gordon Setters. E. M. Oldham, New York City. — Irish Water Span- iels, Clumber Spaniels, Field Spaniels, Cocker Span- iels, Pomeranians, Yorkshire Terriers and Griffons Bruxellois. John Sergeant Price, Jr., Chestnut Hill. Pa. — Dal- matians. M. Mowbray Palmer, Stan.rord, Conn. — Collies. H. T. Peters, Islip. L. I. — Old English Sheepdogs. W. P. Earle, New York City.— Bulldogs. W. N. Le Cato, East Orange, N. J. — French Bulldogs. Daniel Buckley, Chestnut Hill, Pa. — Airedale Ter- riers. W. J. Green. Philadelphia. — Boston Terriers. S. "Van Schaick. New York City. — Irish Terriers and Welsh Terriers. TV. B. Emery, Boston, Mass. — Scottish Terriers and Roseneath Terriers. Thomas Shallcross, Providence, R. I. — Beagles and Whippets. Boston Show Judges. The judges announced for the New England Kennel Club show at Boston next week are the following: Miss Anna H. Whitney. Lancaster, Mass. — Blood- hounds, Mastiffs, St. Bernards, Deer Hounds, York- shire Terriers, Toy Terriers, English Toy Spaniels. Mr. James Mortimer, Hempstead, L. I. — Greyhounds, Foxhounds (English), Sporting Spaniels, Collies, Dal- matians, Poodles, Whippets, Bulldogs, French Bull- dogs, Irish Terriers, Welsh Terriers. Japanese Span- iels, Miscellaneous. Mr. J. O. Dutton, Leonia, N. J. — Great Danes, Dachshunde. Mr. Frederic J. Lenoir, Greemv i. Mass. — Pointers. Mr. Horace A. Belcher. Somerville. Mass. — Setters. Mr. George B. Post, Jr.. New York. — Beagles. Dr. John E. De Muml. Brooklyn, N. Y. — Russian Wolfhounds. Mr. William C. Codman, Providence. R. I.— Scottish Terriers, Manchester Terriers, Pomerani a: Mr. J. Willoughby Mitchell. Brooklyn, N. Y. — Aire- dale Terriers. Mr. William A. Bragdon. Portsmouth, X. H.— Fox- hounds (American). Mr. Thomas Holden, Jr.. M ■■ n 'S. J.— Bull Terriers. Mr. Thomas Benson, Jr., Boston.— Boston Terriers, Mr. James J. Lynn. Port Huron, Mich. — Fox Terriers. ind Ed Stormfeltz. An effort will be made to secure the services of Ben Lewis as judge. The officers elected for the ensuing year are. Dr. A Corrected List. The list of orhcurs of the San Kennel Club, as given in another paragraph, is a bit inaccu- rate and should be as follows: John E. de Ruyter. president; William S vice-presid< ht; i *red 1'. Bui ler, urer; w. w. Richards and John L, C rectors. Bench show committee — John E chairman; William S. Kittle and Fred P. 12 Cite Qv£€i*€x and gtfrarfs-mau [February 17, 1906 A. K. C. NOTES. Annual Meeting. The regular annual meeting of the- American Ken- nel Club was held In New York last Wednesday. The Committee on Membership met Tuesda; noon for the purpose of receiving and acting upon applications for admision lo membership in the A. IC C, and for the approval of credentials ol ■ whose names are to be submitted to the club at the annual meeting. Nominations for Officers. The names of the following gentlemen were pro- posed at the annual election of officers: For President — August Belmont, Hollis H. Hunne- well. For Vice President — Hillls H. Hunnewell, J. Ser- . geant Price, Jr., Dr. J. E. DeMund. For Chairman Stud Book Committee — Marcel A. Vlti, For Chairman Constitutionand Rules Committee — Gouverneur M. Carnochan, Edward Brooks. For Chairman Field Trials and Coursing Meetings Committee — James W. Appleton. For Chairman Finance Committee — William G. Rockefeller. For Chairman Membership Committee — William B. Emery. The result of the election Wednesday was not re- ceived before we went to press. American Bred. No action of the American Kennel Club since its inception, has aroused such a storm of controversy as the recent decision to limit the regular novice class to dogs bred in the United States. The kennel press is overwhelmed with letters from breeders and ex- hibitors, the majority of whom do not understand the facts of the case or are intentionally bringing up a false issue. Let us look at the matter calmly. The American Kennel Club provides for five regular classes, in any of which (with the one exception of the novice class) dogs of recognized breeds, no mat- ter where they are bred, can be entered. Is it very unreasonable that one class out of five should be kept for competition among our own dogs? American breeders have for a long time fought for this very thing. The change then is not in the class, but only in the acceptation of the term American. If we allow this to include Canadian bred dogs, we defeat the object of the rule. Bench show committees have the privilege of adding as many classes as they see fit, with the proviso that they do not conflict with the regular classes. No bar of any kind is placed on Canadian dogs, except as to the novice class, and no restraint is placed upon specialty clubs. They are free as ever to give their specials to whom they please; only if they wish to include Canadian or any other dogs bred outside the United States they must not use the term American bred. Specialty clubs hav- ing members residing in Canada and desiring to open their specials to such members, should clearly state, "Open to American and Canadian bred dogs," which would come fully within the interpretation of the rule. If on the other hand, the specials are stated to be for "American bred dogs," a protest against the competition of any foreign bred dogs for such specials would have to be sustained. It is very strange that the particular parties inter- ested, the breeders and exhibitors of this country, cannot see the advantage of restricting one class out of the many for dogs bred in the United States. The rule excluding all foreign bred dogs from American bred classes is not a new one, as it has been in force since 1SS9: but as it has not been lived up to in the past, the recent action of the American Kennel Club is only an interpretation of the existing rule. With calmer reflection the public will realize that this rule is not retaliation against the Canadian Ken- nel Club; it has nothing to do with any controversy or misunderstanding between the American, English or Canadian Kennel clubs; it is neither actuated by pri- vate spite, nor the result of ignorance of delegates acting without due deliberation. On the contrary it is a well timed and sensible rule to save one class out of the many for the use of American breeders, and the betterment of dogs bred in the United States. — A. K. C. Gazette. Must Compete in All Classes. The following important notice published in the January number of the A. K. C. Gazette, although calling for the attention of show officials, is none the less important to exhibitors, and is as follows: "The following rule should be carefully read by bench show officials, secretaries and superintendents of shows: "XV. Any dog entered for competition and received at the show building must compete in all classes in which he is entered, and for all specials for which he is eligible, and falling to do so, shall be subjected to a fine by the American Kennel Club equal to the entrance fee for each class. No dog eligible for spe- cial prizes can be withdrawn from competition un- less It has been stated on the entry blanks, 'Will not compete for special prizes.' "This rule has been misunderstood and the custom of entering dogs in regular classes 'for specials only' has become common. The dogs not being brought be- fore the Judges in the regular classes, no awards were marked against their names in the catalogue. "A case, however, has been referred to this office where a dog entered the open class, and marked for specials only, was given reserve by the judge in the regu'ar class. The owner objected to the award, whl ;h he could not do under the rule, as the wording Is j-'ain, 'a dog must compete In all classes In which • entered/ It Is therefore necessary that bench officials should see that every dog entered in a must compete In that class whether marked 'for •:: lals only' or not. A provision Is made In this rule exhibitors who 'will not compete for special ;es,' but no provision Is made for exhibitors to 'compete for specials only,' " WARTS ON THE DOG. Everyone is familiar with the small growths on i he skin of the human being which are called warts, and dog owners frequently find the same excrescences on the skin of their animals,, particularly on the head, the eyelids, ears, mouth, and lips being the most usual situation for their growth. The technical name for warts is verucca, which means literally an elevation. They are the result of an increased activ- ity in the papillated structure of the skin, which leads lo the secretion of an excessive amount of epithelial covering. There seems very little doubt that the tendency to excessive development of warts is heredit- ary, and certainly constitutional tendency is a strong factor in their growth. Warts not only appear on the skin of the dog and other animals, but also on the mucous membrane, particularly on the inside of the mouth, in some instances tongue, lips, and palate being thickly studded with them. In size and form warts exhibit great variety, those usually seen being small and round, but occasionally they grow to some length, and though, as a rule, they appear as isolated growths, cases are met with in which they are scat- tered so profusely over certain parts of the body that the skin has the appearance of the skin of an ele- phant instead of that of a dog. Frequent inquiries are made by correspondents as to the best method of treatment, and there is no doubt that this must vary according to the extent and situation and char- acter of the growths. Among the most common forms in some animals is the pedunculated wart, by which is meant warts which have a stalk, and which hang from the skin like an apple or pear. This form when found in cattle often assumes an enormous size. . Their removal is comparatively easy, a ligature, or the simpler method of tying a piece of string round the neck of the wart and snatching it away is fre- quently perfectly successful in the case of these pen- dant growths. Other warts are exactly the opposite of the pedunculated form, having a broad base, and being only slightly raised from the skin. These can be most easily removed by the scalpel; but this in- strument can only be used when the skin is suffi- ciently loose to allow the contraction which neces- sarily takes place in the healing process. Encysted warts are closely related to fibrous tumors, and only present the character of warts when they have attained a considerable size, and push their way through the skin, carrying a covering of cuticle with them. Some warts are highly vascular, and bleed freely when they art cut, and the popular idea that the blood from a wart would, if allowed to flow over the skin, cause the appearance of fresh warts is familiar to most of us, and there is at least ground for suspecting that this idea may be correct. It has, at any rate, been proved by experiment that papilloma- tous growths may be transmitted by inoculation, and various instances have been met with in which it appears at least probable that the scratching of a wart in some delicate part, and the consequent dis- tribution of the blood which flowed from it on to the skin or mucous membrance, resulted in the appear- ance of a fresh crop of wart growths. Besides the use of a ligature and a scalpel, the application of caustic is a means of ridding the dog of the growths, nitrate of silver or acetic acid being frequently used. It is necessary before applying the caustic to scrape the surface of the warts, in order that the epithelial covering may be removed, as it would be useless to bring the agent, however powerful, in contact with the dense horny covering of the growth. Arsenic mixed with a little honey, and smeared over the sur- face of the wart after the central portion has been sufficiently scarified to cause a little bleeding, is often found successful. Great care, however, must be taken in the use of any of these agents, as the reckless application of either might easily cause extensive sloughing of the surrounding parts. [In the applica- tion of caustic or any corrosive agent, arsenic, etc., there is always danger of further complication im- pending from the dog's licking, with the tongue, any or all affected parts that can be reached. The pre- vention of this habit, for the time being, by whatever suitable means handy, would of course be readily understood by the person treating the dog. — Ed.] The treatment of warts when they are found in delicate parts such as the eyelids, the inside of the mouth, etc., is naturally not easy, and our readers may be glad, observes a writer in the London Field, to be reminded that there remains yet another remedy, which has at least the advantage of being very sim- ple, and which can be applied, especially in the case of the dog, when the situation of the wart forbids the use of scalpel, ligature or caustic. The applica- tion of fresh blood is, it is asserted by many who have tried it, a most effectual remedy. It is unusual for correspondents who ask for advice to inform us as to the success of remedies suggested, but in the case of the treatment of warts with the warm blood from freshly slaughtered animals, various corre- spondents have written after trying it to express their satisfaction with the results of the method. To apply the remedy effectively, the dog must be taken to he slaughter house, the blood taken from a recently killed animal while warm, and before coagulation has commenced, and the warty growths smeared with It, If they are inside the dog's mouth, his head should be thrust Into the vessel containing the blood. He will naturally protrude his tongue, which will carry the blood back Into the mouth and the mucous lining. In one instance this method was carried out on three occasions, with intervals of two or three days. The warts became brownish in color, faded and shrank rapidly, and finally disappeared. It occasionally happens that the greater part of a dog's body is covered with small warts, and in this Instance It Is sometimes considered advisable to administer small doses of salicylic acid; but this must only be tried under proper supervision, and there is no question that the blood bath is by far the safest plan, and might, at any rate, be given a fair trial before more stringent measures are employed. In former times the treatment of warts was carried on in less scientific ways than at present. With human beings, the most popular method was that of charm- ing the growths away. A knot tied in a piece of string, which was then buried in the earth,, was con- sidered to be quite infallible; but was probably not tried with the lower animals, as the necessary faith in the power of the charm would not have been forthcoming. Two favorite devices for removing pedunculated warts from animals were the pincers and the bowstring. The use of pincers required no skill; the warts were merely seized and pulled off. The use of the string was more complicated. A strong piece about three yards long was used, a loop made in the middle, which was then slipped over the head of the w^art. A man held either end of the string, and on a given signal the loop was pulled tight, in- closing the neck of the wart and cutting it through. In both these cases the wart usually bled, and this was stopped by a touch of a red hot iron. These very rough measures could only be excused on the plea that they were usually successful, and were applied to the larger animals, the horse and the cow. Occasionally warty growths appear in some of the canals and tubes of the respiratory organs, and cause serious and even fatal obstructions. They would, however, only be discovered on post mortem examin- ation, and, even if it were otherwise, could not be treated. A Novell Gun Attachment. Alfred T. Wright of Roxton, Tex., is the patentee of a novel invention providing a handle which may be applied to rifles and shotguns to facilitate supporting the barrel end of the gun, says the Scientific American, In aiming a gun in the ordinary way, the palm of the left hand is upward, and in swinging the muzzle of the gun around at different times, the weakest and least used muscles of the arm are employed. Furthermore, the arm is held nearly straight from the wrist to the shoulder, preventing the use of the elbow joint, and brings into play muscles which are already developed and strengthened, thereby improving the aim of the operator, and relieving him from the fatigue of con- tinually holding his arm in a strained position. The invention also provides a very comfortable and con- venient way of carrying the gun, permitting the sportsman to carry it with the muzzle down, and the arm hanging freely at the side. The attachment com- prises a clasp adapted to grip the gun barrel, and a depending handle, which projects below the barrel and may be readily grasped by the hand. The clasp con- sists of two metal plates, curved to embrace the bar- rel, and formed with depending shanks to which the handle sections are attached. The shanks are sepa- rated by a filler piece, and the outer faces of the shanks are covered with wooden sections, the whole being bolted firmly together. In practice the clasp sections may be lined with leather or soft material to prevent scratching the barrels, and to give a proper finish to the same. The clasp may be fixed at any position on the barrel by means of a thumb screw- at the forward end, which may be tightened to clamp the clasp sections together. This handle also protects the hand from the heated or cold barrel, as well as giving the shooter a firm hold on the gun. Oregon Anglers to Be Taxed. At the recent annual meeting of the Oregon Fish and Game Protective Association, among the matters discussed was a proposition providing for the taxing of anglers for the purpose of raising funds to further the wrork of propagating trout in the different streams in the state. At present Oregon fishermen who delight in angling for these sportive denizens of the brooks and lakes are dependent on the government each year for the supplying and stocking of streams with eggs. According to the promoters of the new idea the as- sociation will be able to raise a suitable fund by ar- ranging for the imposition of a small fee of 50 cents or $1, which moneys could be used in the stocking of streams on a much larger scale than in the past. This proposition up north seems to meet with favor by most of the Nimrods, who express a willingness to pay such a small sum for something that will bring them better results than the present system of dependence on the government. This tax, it is proposed, will not apply to boys un- der IS years of age, and, therefore, will not work a hardship on any youth desiring to spend his time in the effort to lure the speckled beauties from their haunts. The success of the hunters' license whereby the state has acquired a suitable fund for the pro- tection of the game interests, has served as an in- centive for the new scheme, for it is argued that the fund to be secured by the taxing of the several thou- sands of fishermen jn the state would aid in stocking the various streams throughout the state with trout to such an exent that the results would more than be satisfactory to the sportsmen. Another measure introduced at the meeting was a proposed plan of reorganization, suT>mitted by Secre- tary A. E. Gebhart. This plan is the proposal to form separate organizations of the association among the members residing in the different counties, which the author claims will stimulate more interest in affairs pertaining to game protection in the different locali- ties, as they would be able to act independently on matters pertaining to their respective districts. It was also recommended that the organization go on record as favoring a measure doing away with the exemption of farmers in the matter of taxation, for it is claimed that the game wardens have met with con- siderable difficulty in collecting fees from persons who lease preserves and claim exemption on the ground that they are entitled to hunt on their own ground. In hot weather there Is no drink like Jackson's Napa Soda — plain or in a lemonade. February 17 1906. ©tte ^reeocr miD gfrpartemait 13 LET THE FISH LAWS BE REVISED AND ENFORCED. The Modesto Herald strikes a keynote in sounding the alarm for early and active measures in the line of fish protection. That there should be a revision of the present law is patent to everybody who is at all cognizant of the situation. If there was provision made for the enforcement of the law, things would not be so bad. We will make this suggestion to our contemporary, that if the law is violated in Merced county as is intimated below, the county officials are \ax in their duties. It is not absolutely necessary that police action, against fish and game law violators, be taken by a Deputy Fish Commissioner or Game War- den. The county officers have full power in the premises. Merced county is quite a distance from the city, it is true, but right under the noses of the Fish Com- mission, a law that is plain and mandatory is vio- lated week after week, systematically and persist- ently— we mean that provision of the statute which prohibits the fishing for and taking of salmon, shad or striped bass with nets on Saturdays and Sun- days. Just what particular right the Fish Commission has to place a construction on this section of the law entirely opposite to its intent and purpose is a puzzle that has been, as yet, unsolved by many. The article first referred to above is the following: It is reported that the salmon are running up the San Joaquin river in greater quantities than ever known before. In this connection, it might be sug- gested that here is a place where the game laws might undergo a radical revision. Last December it was demonstrated in this county that the salmon is a game fish in every sense of the word, and that they can be taken with rod and line. This is clean sport, "and exciting sport. The present law gives but a short season for the catching of the salomn, for the reason that the common way of taking them is to put nets partly across a stream and spear the fish as they try to pass the barrier. While the law may be all right, it is generally unobserved. In the Tuolumne river last season, to the positive know- ledge of the writer, there were several nets entirely across the stream, twenty-four hours in the day, while others pere put entirely across while the owners were fishing, and then removed. In the San Joaquin, gill-nets were placed entirely across the river, in utter defiance of the game laws, preventing the fish from ascending the stream to spawn. Should a law prohibiting the use of seines and regu- lating the size of nets, and prohibiting the taking of salmon and bass otherwise than with hook and line be passed, the waters of the Tuolumne and San Joa- quin would within five years afford some of the finest fishing in the world. The bass are driving out the carp and kill off the young catfish. It has been shown also that the rod and reel enthusiast no longer needs to hie him to the waters of the Columbia river and its British Columbia tributaries to take the salmon with fly and spoon. He can have just as good sport within 125 miles of San Francisco, if the laws be made to properly protect the fish. We would suggest, and will be enthusiastically sec- onded by all true Ike Waltons, that the fish law be so amended that salmon may be taken at any time of the year with the hook and line; that set nets of no kind be allowed in a stream for the purpose of preventing the free passage of the fish, and that seining be ab- solutely forbidden; also that wide awake game war- dens be appointed and the laws stringently enforced. The Tuolumne is becoming well populated with the gamey striped bass, and a few of the black bass are also found in its waters. But at the low water stage, market fishermen and "hogs" visit the "holes" with seines and clean out the fish, regardless of size or kind. AT THE TRAPS. A feature of the Washington's Birthday shoot at In- gleside will be the Phil B. Bekeart challenge cup race at 100 birds.- In the five man team race the best two out of three races will decide the ownership of the purse. This event has already been won once by a Golden Gate Gun Club team. FLY-CASTING CONTESTS. The dates arranged for the fly-casting contests of the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club at Stow lake this year provides for a series of ten Saturday and Sunday meetings at the lakeside, with two additional dates for casting up back scores as follows: The dates for the Saturday events are: February 24th, March 10th, March 24th, April 7th, April 28th, May 12th, June 2d, June 14th, July 28th, August 25th, September loth. The Saturday re-entry dates are May 12th and September 15th. The dates for the Sunday contests are: February 25th, March 11th. March 25th, April 8th, April 29th, May 13th. June 3d, June 17th, July 15th, July 29th. August 26th September 16th. May 13th and Septem- ber 16th are Sunday re-entry dates. The following gentlemen were elected to member- ship at the last meeting of the club. John H. Hopps, L. G. Burpee, H. Page, C. S. Moses, John Van Allen, W. H. Brophy and E. M. C. Whitney. The rules in force last year in the club's contest on Stow lake will govern the events this year. The initiation fee on and after May 1st will be $50. The sportsmen of Spokane, through the Spokane Rod and Gun Club, have addressed circulars to many farmers in Washington asking that the quail about their farms be fed during the winter months. It will be a paying investment for all concerned if the sug- gestion is carried out. Hatcher, Geo. Mackie, Lou Fisher, M. E. Atchison, Planck, Wm. Clayton, W. D. Townsend, C. A. Thorpe, Malone, Anderson, Dick Jackson, H. M. Jackson, E. J. Nalle. F. M. Gooden, C. D. Ellison, H. Murrell, J. A. Dryden. Mrs. A. Topperwein, Lige Woodward, Omer Pearn, W. Gilbert, H. E. Sherman. O. C. Guc-^s^, J. B. Riddle, Stillson. R. Cook, D. Morrill, Dave Harretl and Harold Money and others. A gun club has been organized at Albion, Mendo- cino county, with a list of twenty-five members to start with. There is considerable rivalry between the Albion and Fort Bragg shooters. In consequence sev- eral trap shoots in the near future are talked of. The Richmond Gun Club was recently organized across the bay at Point Richmond. Forty members are on the charter roll. Arrangements will be made for a number of trap shoots this season. The offi- cers are: President, J. Q. Black; vice-president, V. A. Fenner; secretary, J. P. Arnold; treasurer, J. E. Moitoza; property holder, R. C. King. The bustling town of Alton, Humboldt county, boasts a flourishing gun club, and a prize shoot is held every Sunday, weather permitting. It was or- ganized quite recently with twenty-two members and the following officers: G. W. Cousins, manager; Grant Clark, captain; R. P. Nellist, secretary and treasurer. A good piece of ground has been rented from Charles Carr near the town, and the same is being fixed up appropriately with a house and platform soon to be constructed. The club purposes entertaining other clubs this season, and will provide pleasure and profit for their visitors. The scores made at the shoot of last Sunday was as follows. F. C. Hauck, 21 out of 25; C. Gould 20, C. T. Bryant 15, George Cousins 14, H. Christiansen 14, N. Hauck 11, R. P. Nellist 11, R. T. Bryant 10, M Bailey 10, T. Fiest 9, B. Davis S, A. Hazen 7, Charles Bryant 6 The annual spring tournament of the Delaware State Trap Shooters' League under the auspices of the Wawaset Gun Club will be held at Wilmington, Del., May 9, 10. The secretary, Mr. W. N. Foord, will send program to any address requested as soon as issued. Harvey McMurchy is due in this city next week. The Pueblo Gun Club of Pueblo, Colo., has 112 mem- bers. J. W. Reger is president; E. G. Galloway, vice- president; J. C. Croft, secretary and treasurer, and John M. Killin, field captain. Jim Head of the U. M. C. Co. was a recent guest of the club. The Kentucky Trap Shooters' League will hold its annual state championship tournament on the grounds of the Daviess County Gun Club, at Owensboro, Ky., May 23, 24. There will be added money in each event and a sterling silver cup will be offered for the state championship at 100 targets. Frank Pragoff of Louisville is secretary of the league. For pro- grams or information about the tournament address James Lewis, secretary, Daviess County Gun Club, Owensboro, Ky. The program for the coming tournament of the Detroit, Mich., Gun Club announces that the. principal event for the first and second days will be the live bird trophy shoot for the Gillman and Barnes inter- national trophy, valued at $150, with $100 added. The third day will be devoted to target shooting" and there will be ten events. Any further information de- sired may be obtained by addressing Frank H. Pat- ton, Celeron, Detroit, Mich. The fifth annual Sunny South Handicap was held at Brenham, Texas, January 22-27. The program called for 1220 targets, not including the Sunny South Handicap of 100, which did not figure in the av- erages. Chan Powers, with 1180 out of 1220, was high amateur for the shoot. Mr. Powers shot re- markably well. Getting off the first day to a bad start (103 out of 120), he dropped but two the second day (21S out of 220), five the third day (220-215), three the fourth (220-217), eight the fifth (220-212), five the sixth (220-215). W. R. Crosby equaled this total, having 10 the best of Powers at the end of the first day's shooting. Frank Riehl. 1175, was next. H. G. Taylor, 1160, and T. E. Hubby, 1159, followed in order. Sixty-four shooters participated in the regular series of events. Forty-seven men lined up in the Sunny South Handicap at 100 targets, 15 to 21 yards. Of these 33 finished with 90 or better. Thirteen finished in the 80s. There was only one in the 70s. W. R. Crosby, at 21 yards, the top distance, got 98. Maxwell, the Nebraska wonder, at 16 yards, tied this. On the shoot off Crosby got 22, Maxwell 21. and the O'Fallon, 111., star took the cup. Among those present were: Luther Wade, L. E. Dinsmore, Frank Riehl, H. Dun- nell, B. Stilling, J. R. Graham, Claude Binyon, W. H. IUian, H. S. McCloskey, J. W. Speight, E. L. Jones, A. Wilcox, L. E. Ross, Otto Sens, "S. A. C," T. E. Saxton, Dan Bray, G. A. Schroeder, Geo. W. Maxwell, Will Veach, Wallace Miller, Charley Young, "Walter Huff, Lednum, W. R. Crosby, Chan Powers, John Burmeis- ter, R. O. Heikes, H. G. Taylor, Harry Scane, H. D. Bates. J. S. Day, Turner Hubby, Weatherhead, A. M. Honolulu Kennel Club. A strong kennel club, with 60 names on the charter roll, was recently organized in Honolulu, H. T. Mr. Will E. Fischer was temporary chairman and Dwight Stein temporary secretary at the prelimimiry meeting. Messrs. Chas. Hustace, J. Batchelor, Dr. Rowatt, Clarence Crabbe, C. Campbell and W. E. Fischer were appointed a committee on permanent organization. Kennel affairs have gradually been coming to the front in the far away Pacific isles and now the fancy is strong enough to organize a club and hold bench shows. It is a fact not generally known that there are quite a number of well bred and good Pointers, Eng- lish, Gordon and Irish Setters, Irish and Bull Terriers, Bulldogs, Scotties and a fair sprinkling of good Col- lies to be found in the islands. Transfer of Kennel Name. Sunset, the kennel name under which Dr. Fred W. D'Evelyn's good Fox Terriers were, not so long ago, familiar to the Coast fancy, will soon be the kennel name for John L. Hinkley's dogs, application for the transfer having been made to the A. K. C. at New York. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. 1 -June 1— Closed season for black bass. Feb. 24— San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Classifica- tion Contest No. 1. Stow lake, 2:30 p. m, Feb. 25— San Francisco Fly-Casting Club Sunday Classifica- tion Contest No. 1. Stow lake, 10 a. m. April i-Sept. hi. Ont. 16-Feb. 1— Open season (or taking stcol- head In tidewater. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close reason in tidewater for steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season for salmon. Sept. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oet. 16-Nov. 15 - Close season for taking salmon above tide. water. Nov. 1-Aprll 1— Trout season closed. Nov. 1-Aprll 1— Closed season for taking steelhead above tide water. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide s iter. Gun. Feb. I5-July I— Do^e season closed. Feb. 15-Sept. 1 — C osed season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Feb. 15-Oct. 15— Closed season for quail, ducks, etc. Feb. 22— Blue Rock Tournament under the auspices of the Golden Gate and Union Gun Clubs. Ingleside. Feb. 22— Pueblo Gun Club. Blue rock tournament. Pueblo, Colo. March 4— Blue Rock Gun Club. Grounds foot of HUh street, Alameda. March II— Empire Gun Club. Blue rocks. Alameda Junction. May 26, 27— Paoiflo Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third annual blue rock tournament. Vallejo Gun Club grounds, Flos- den Station. June 19, 22— Interstate Association. Grand American Handicap target tournament. $1000 added money. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec- retary-Manager, Plftsburg, Pa. Oct. 15-April 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug I— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. Feb. 12, 15— Westminster Kennel Club. New York. Robt. V. McKim, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 25. Feb. 20, 23— New England Kennel Club. Boston. Wm. B. Emery, Secretary. Entries olose Jan. 30. Feb. 28-Maroh 3— Washington Kennel Club. Washington, Pa. F. C. Thomas, Secretary. Entries olose Feb. 17. Feb 28, March 3— District of Columbia Kennel Club. Washing ton, D. C. Howe Totten, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 10. March 1, 3— Southern Oblo Kennel Club. Hamilton. Ohio. Thos. Boli, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 12. March 7, 10— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburg, Pa. F. S. Steadman. Secretary. Entries olose Feb. 25. March 8, 10— Colorado Kennel Club. Denver, Col. T. W. Bar- tels, Secretary. Entries close Maroh 13, 16— Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N.Y. S. P. White- Secretary. Entries close March 14, 17— Passaic County FUh and Game Protective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas. Matthews, Secretary. Entries close March 17— Bull Terrier Club. San Franolsco. Entries olose March 21, 24- Wolverine Kennel Club. Detroit, Mioh. K. G. Smith, Secretary. Entries close March 10. Maroh Southwestern Kennel Club. Los Angeles. George R. Albers, Secretary, Los Angeles. Entries olose March 30 31-Haverhill Kenuel Club. Haverhill, Mass. A. A. Balch, Secretary. Entries close May 29, 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L. I. Entries close June 1 2— Ladles Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed, Secretary. Entries olose June 6, 9 -San Franolsco Kennel Club. loth annual bench show Fred P. Butler, Secretary. Entries close June9— WIssahlckon Kennel Club. Wissahickon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price, Secretary. Entries close Sept. 3, 5— Miami Valley Kennel Club. Piqua, O. Edwin A. Hiatt, Secretary. Entries close Sept. 3, (J— Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J.Leo, Seoretary. Entries olose Sept. 8— Cadaruurst Kennel Club Cedarhurst, L I. Jno. G Bates, Seoretary. Entries olose ■ Sept. 29— Bryn Mawr Kennel Club. Haverford. Pa. Henry D. Riley, Seoretary, Stafford, Pa. Entries close — — WINCHESTER .22, MODEL 1906 Averages Reported. Cumberland, Md., Jan. IS— W. H. Heer, first general average, 185 out of 190, shooting "New E. C." (Im- proved); J. M. Hawkins, second general average, 175 out of 190, shooting "DuPont"; L. J. Squier, third general average, 173 out of 190, shooting "DuPont"; O. Hohing, Lonaconlng. Md., first amateur average. 164 out of 190, shooting "DuPont"; F. Blllr Cumberland, Md.. second amateur average. 16: of 190, shooting "DuPont"; R. S. Dennik Pa., third amateur average, 166 out of I "DuPont." 14 ©tte gvecitcv croc ^portsmcm [February 17, 1906 CORROSION OF FENCE WIRE. The Department of Agriculture at ■Washington has just issued a bulletin on the corrosion of fence wires which we commend to the attention of all in- terested on the subject, especially the manufacturers of wire. The author of the bulletin, Allerton S. Cushman, con- cludes- First, that modern Bessemer and open earth steel wire rust much more rapidly than iron wire; and. sec- ond that manganese unevenly distrib- uted in the steel is at least in part the car.se of it. The first proposition all will admit, and the second should be suggestive to the manufacturer. It has been the general impression that in- ferior galvanizing had much to do with the short life of modern fence wire, but this Mr. Cushman thinks is not the cise the fault being in the wire itself though of course thickly galvanized wire is more durable than the same wire not so well galvanized. The so- lution of the problem lies with the wire manufacturer but not with him alone. He is seeking to make a cheap pro- duct, and as long as users of wire pre- fer this in kind he will naturally make it. If cheapness is made the main con- sideration in buying fence wire we must expect a wire that will not last long. What is needed now is a prac- tical test by which the buyer of wire can tell just what kind he is getting; and a general realization of the fact that a durable fence wire will cost more than one made by the process now in use. The farmers of the coun- try in recent years by their demand for iron nails have greatly increased their production; and if they will de- mand more durable wire and pay the price to secure it they will compel manufacturers to go back to iron wire or produce better steel wire. Some manufacturers claim to have solved the problem of a durable steel wire and we hope they have, because it is cheap- er than iron wire. The best advice that can be given now is to avoid light steel wire, and do not try to get the cheapest but the best, on which a reasonable guaranty is given. o KEEP HOGS DRY. The time of year is present when un- usual care should be taken to keep hogs dry. Their sleeping quarters should be such that rain cannot fall into them. They should be raised above the outside ground sufficiently to keep water from draining from the outside in'o them. No animal can be comfor- table when damn and chilled for long periods at a time. Dampness will also cause rheumatic troubles. Any one who is intelligent enough to understand that a hog can- not do well unless comfortable, will readily realize that such pains as a person suffers from rheumatism are enough to prevent a hog from making good returns to its owner. Swine do not need to be pampered, but nothing should be neglected that will make them comfortable and healthy. No matter how the roof of the shelter looks, have it rain proof. Old hay or straw can make a very serviceable roof. Warranted to Dive Satisfaction. GomhauSt's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Bplint, Sweeny, Capped Hock, Striatic a Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cores all skin diseases or "Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria Removes all Bunches from Horseo or Cattle, As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, ipraina, Sore Throat, etc, It la invaluable. livery bottle of Caustic Balsam sold if ' Warranted to fflvo Bntlrii.. ■tlon. prico $1 60 1 Der bottle. Bolu by druft£i«t«, or sent by ex- ■■■ 'P-, charcres paid, witn full directions for i-M use. t3*~Send for descriptive circulars, ; Ptlmonlals, etc. Address I tThe Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 In the Kansas City Court of Appeals a fortnight ago four suits by shippers against a railroad for damages arising from delays in reaching market were decided in three of them. In the lower court the shippers had all obtained verdicts and three of them were suc- cessful on the appeal. The fourth de- cision however was reversed, the plaintiff having failed to prove dam- age. The hen that lays eggs in winter does something else besides lay on fat. She must have egg-making food, which means meat, milk, clover, bran and vegetables, along with corn. Sponges— S. Addertey, 307 Market St. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C- 2:30 Trial 2:20 Sire NUTWOOD WILKES 2:1614, sire of John A. McKerron 2:04H. Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:09v4, Who Is It 2:10*. Stanton Wilkes 2:10&, Cresco Wilkes 2:09k, eta, etc. Dam ZETA CARTKR by Director 2:17, sire dams of John A. McKerron 2:04^. Ozaaam 2:07, Little Thome 2-07 vy Leonardo 2:08*. etc., etc.; second dam. LidaW- 2:I8Ji (dam of Nutwood Wilkes 2-164 etc j by Nutwood 600, greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived; third dam by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont. T C is one of the best bred young stallions in California. A two-year-old filly by him has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and is as handsome as a picture. T. C. will make the season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with usual return privilege. Excellent pasturage for mares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for cardcontaining tabulated pedigree and other information. I will take a few horses to train for road or track. GEORGE T. ALGEO, Alameda, Cal. Used 5 Years-Best for Man and Beast. Grand Isle, Vfc, March 20. 0a. Dr. B. T. Kendall Co., . _ , . .. Dear Sirs:— I have used Kendall's Spavin Cure for both horses and family for the past five years. It is the best liniment I have ever used, I would not be without it. Yours truly, M. M. Sona. Everybody who ever used it calls Kendall's Spav* iS» The Great Horse Remedy Surest cure for Spavin, Ringbone, Curb, Splint and Accept no substitute. The preat hook, A Treatise en the Horse," tree from druggists or Dr B.J KENDALL CO . Enosbnrg Falls, Vt FOR SALE CHEAP, \ LEX MALONE-BAY STALLION; ST\R ■i*- and small snip; near hind foot and ankle white; off forward foot and coronet whiie; stands 16 1; weight 1200 lbs. and Is 7 years old this spring. Kind aDd gentle; can be driven anywhere by a lady; is perfectly city broken; good gaited and could show speed if trained He is by Ales Button; first dam. Carrie Malone bySteinway; second dam, Katy G. by Electioneer, she is a full sister to Carrie B that took a record of 2:18 at Santa Rosa 'ast fall. Can be seen at the San Jose race track at J. S Phippen's stable. For particulars write to J. S. PHIPPEN, care of Golden West Hotel, San Jose, Cal. CLEVELAND BAY STALLION FOR SALE. . TERY HANDSOME, 17 HANDS HIGH, weighs ' 1600 pounds; color, dark bay; age, 5 years; stylish, good boned, sure foal getter, sound in every respect; drives double, single, and rides. Sire, Imp. Sportsman; dam, imp. Rellington Rose. For price, etc . address JAMES BOYD, Milpitas, Cal. Strathway 2:19 For Sale. I QIRE OF O Toggles "... 2:08y2 John Caldwell 2:08V& Getaway 2:12)4 homeward ." 2: i3j-4 (sire of Geo. G. 2:05*4) Strathmont 2:12^ Cuckoo 2:13 Homewat S:143i etc., etc. STRATHWAY is by that great sire, Steinway, and out of the great broodmare Countess (dam of Dawn 2:189£) by Whipple's Hambletonian. He is a strong, vigorous horse, and out of all the mares bred to him during the past two years every one proved to be in foal He will be sold very reasonable, as his owner is selling all his trotting-bred stock and retiring from breeding. For price and further particulars address GRAHAM E. BABCOCK, San Diego, Cal. TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Fulton Sireet) Horses Called For, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOB EIRE. I have opened a new Boarding and Training Stable near the above corner, and will board and train for racing, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates. Have good location, brand-new stable and everything first-class All horses in my care will receive the best of attention. Phone: Park 673. T. C. CABNEY. Deposit Your Idle Funds WITH THE Central Trust Company of California 43 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sum large or small. BROOD MARES FOR SALE. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY FOR SALE CHEAP. Imported Belgian Stallion Will be sold very cheap on account of closing out stock farm Several big young colts, stand- aid bred mar* by Piedmont, etc. Address C. L JONES, Bos 43, Modesto, Cal. FOR SALE. BROWN GELDING 7 YEARS OLD. STANDS 16 HANDS HIGH. ' By Chas Derby (sire ofDon Derby 2:04^, etc ); dam, Oonalaska by Prince Red. Good roadster. Address A. PASTENE, 1939 O'Farrell Street, Telephone: Geary 3083, San Francisco. EVELINE by Nntwood 600 "l NELLIE FAIRMONT I jtVoll^o by Fairmont N ££& W. ■ ALAMEDA MAID by ErosJ EVELINE (registered) is dam of Ole 3:10*4, Tie- tam 2:19, Maud Fowler 2:81% and Roblet2:13, the dam of Bonalet 2:09H. champion three- year-old pacing filly. NELLIE FAIRMONT, dam of Zambra, world's champion for 5 miles, 12:24. ALAMEDA MAID (registered) is out of Oakland Maid 2:22 by Speculation. For prices and particulars address S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa, Cal. 3 1-2% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Interest paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. FOR SALE. TTATCHED CARRIAGE PAIR OF DARK ■"J- bay Geldings, standard bred, six years old, 16!4 hands; sound, reliable and enduring; good long-distance travelers. Apply to G. D. BOYD, San Rafael, Cal. FOR SALE. Fine Two-year-old Mahogany Bay Filly Sire SEARCHLIGHT; dam VELMA. Owner has not the time to break or work her. Address MATT HARRIS Fifth and Brannan Sts., San Francisco. FOR SALE. T>AY MARE, THREE YEARS OLD, BRED -*-) by Mr Meek of Hay wards. Sire, Wm Harold; dams by Direot, Mambrlno Wilkes, Woodburn and Williamson's Balmont. Fair size, good style and looker; trotted half at matinee, Jan. 29ih, in 1:22 to high-wheel road cart. Can trot a 35 gait on track or road aDy day without any rigging or boots. Sound and tough and as well able to be put to work as many 4 or 5 year olds. Price $200. Apply to Breeder ornce. FOR SALE. A HANDSOME PAIR OF COBBY BUILT -"- coal blaek Geldings; five years old; 15-2 hands high- By a son of McKinney out of stand- ard bred mares. This is a thoroughly high-class park or road team and has style and manners that would win in a show ring. They are broken to stand, walk and trot; are fearless of all objects on road and steam cars: guaranteed to drive sin- gle or double, or on the lead in four-in-hand, and sound and kind in every particular. Address H. R. RAND, The Renaissance, corner Franklin and Fell Sts., San Francisco, Cal. An Inflamed Tendon NEEDS COOLING Absorbinc Will doit and restore the circulation, assist nature to repair strained, rnp- tored ligaments more successfully than Firing. No blister; no hair gone; and you can use the borse. $2.00 per bottle delivered. Book2-B Free. 1 ABSOHBINE, JR., fur mankind sum Bottle. Cures Strained Torn Ligaments. Allays pain quickly. Genuine manufactured only by W. F. YOU NO, P. D. F., 54 Monmouth Street, Springfield, Mail. For sale by Maok&Co . Langley &MlohaelsCo. ewdLnRton & Co.. J. O'Kane and J. A. McKerron, all of San Franolsco. A GOOD MARE FOR SALE. By CLIPPER 2:06, dam by ANTEEO JK rj YEARS OLD, TROTS OR PACES; HAND- ' some, sound and a high-class animal in every respeot An Ai roadster and will make a race horse or a valuable brood mare. Reason for sell- ing is that I have no time to devote to handling her. Call or address Phone: GEO. C. PETERMAN, Oakland 6501. 779 Twelfth St., Oakland, Ca- The Perfectly Gaited Trotting Stallion ALTA VELA 2:11 1-4 (Reg. No. 22449) Sire, ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 in 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar l:59££. Dam. LORITA 3:18*4 (dam Df Alta Vela 2:11H and Palori 2:24*4) by Piedmont 2:17*4; second t'am, Lady Lowell (dam of Ladywell 2:16*^ and Lorita 2:18*4) by St. Clair; third dam, Laura, dam of Doc, sire of Occident 2:163£. Address all communications to BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St,, San Francisco. Norman Stallion For Sale. ■TjARK IRON GRAY NORMAN STALLION; U weighs about 1600; 16 hands high; 4 years old. Is blockily built and a sure foal getter. Colts can be seen at San Jose. For further particulars address W. H. WILLIAMS. 1120 Alameda Ave., San Jose, Cal. JACK FOR SALE. pOOD, SERVICEABLE JACK, 8 YEARS ^-* old, and good, prompt performer. Guaran- teed in every way. Also, one SADDLE BURRO. Inquire of W. R. MADDEN, 111 Crocker Bldg, San Francisco. FOR SALE OR LEASE. Two Prince Airlie Stallions. PORTOLA 37413, a handsome golden bay. 7 years old, 16 hands, weighs 1190 lbs. MENLO BOY 37401, a magnifloent brown with white points, 6 j ears old, 16.1 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. These t«vo horses are full Drothers. being sired by Prince Airlie 28045; he by Guy Wilkes 2:I5M. sire of Fred Khol 2:07?^. Hulda 2:08*4, Seymour Wilkes 2:08Vi: first dam Signal by Del Sur 2:24; second dam Lady Signal 2:35*4 by Signal 3327. Both of these horses are very fast for the amount of worn, being only a few months last year, show- ing quarters around :M and :35. For further information apply to P. H. McEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. 67a-680 11th Ave. Baok of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE Z1BBELL & SON, Proprietor!. San Fhanci6CO, Cal. Boarding, Training and Bundling all kinds Fanoy Horses. A few Nloe Rigs on hand. T It1 soy oar going to the Chutes. Tel.: West 260 WILLIAM HAROLD 2:131 FOR SALE rpHE MEEK ESTATE HAVING BEEN PAR- J- titioned, and the breeding of horses discon- tinued, the stallion WILLIAM HAROLD 2:13*4 is offered for sale or lease to a responsible party. William Harold is by Sidney 2:193£, and his dam Is Cricket 2:10 by Steinway. Criobet is one of the great produoing mares of California, being already the dam of five in the list and has three more foals that will be givenrecords. William Harold has had the most limited opportunities 'n the stud, yet is the sire of Janice 2:08*4 trotting. Dan Burns 2:15 and Judith 2:25 and several others in the list He ts in excellent condition, and as his get are all large, well made and nicely turned horses he should be a good money earner in the stud If in good hands. Apply to or address H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. JACK FOR SALE OR LEASE. TyELL BROKEN AND QUICK TO ACT; ' ' will do his own teasing; 5 years old. Address D. S. MATHEWS, Eyda, Cal. February 17. 19(6] mte gveebev ctxtb gptfrtsmtcm Closing Out at Private Sale off tlx© Sacramento Valley Stock Farm Stallions, Brood Mares, and Young Stock Suitable for Training. CH. STALLION, FOALED 1902, "DILL CAB A." — Sire Sidney Dillon; 1st dam, Guy- cara, 2:18%, by Guy Wilkes, 2:15%; 2nd dam, Biscara idam of 5 in list, 1 below 2:20). by Director 2:17; 3rd dam, Bicara (dam of 6 in list, including the great stallion Pancoast and other producing sires and dams), by Harold 413 (sire of Maud S); 4th dam, Belle (dam of Belmont, sire of Nutwood. McCurdy's Hambletonian 2:26%, and other .producing sires and dams i, by Mambrino Chief 11; 5th dam, Belle Dupe, by Bellfounder (Brown's), son of Imp. Bellfounder and Lady Allport by Mambrina, a' son of Imp. Messenger, the next dam of Brown's Bellfounder being by Tippoo Sahib, son of Imp. Messenger, and the next dam by Imp. Messenger himself. This young stallion's pedigree is unexcelled, his sire and the sires of his 1st, 2nd. 3rd and 4th dams having produced world-record holders, as well as many others the gamest and best of all times. In looks and make-up he is as great as his pedigree, unexcelled. Although never trained, his natural speed is phenomenal. For the production of world-record holders, he should excel his sire or the sire of his 1st, 2nd. 3rd or 4th dam, each of which enjoy fame in this respect. As a candidate himself for the record he is entitled to much consideration. CH. STALLION, FOALED 1902, "FLOSSNTJT."— Sire Nutwood Wilkes 2:16^4; 1st dam, Flossie, by Cornelius (.11335), sire of Connelita 2:10%, etc.), by Nut- wood; 2nd dam, sister to Ruth Ryan (thoroughbred), by Lodi, son of Imp. Yorkshire and Topaz by Imp. Glencoe; 3rd dam, Eva Bulwer by Bulwer, son of Grey Eagle; 4th dam, Emma Taylor by Imp. Glencoe; 5th dam, Lancess 4th dam of Palo Alto and oth dam of Alcyone, Alcantara, etc.), by Lance. The blood lines in this young stallion's pedigree represented the male line of Nutwood Wilkes laid upon two crosses of Nutwood, one of Echo, one of Geo. M. Patchen Jr., and a thoroughbred female line tracing to Lancess. to which female line trace such great ones as Alcyone (sire of McKinney), Alcantara, Palo Alto, and many other great ones. The sires in the thor- oughbred female line down to Lancess have each produced the dams of trot- ters. The high degree of natural speed, strength and size, Nutwood type of conformation and make-up of this young stallion make him worthy of use in the stud and worthy of the opportunity to earn a low record on the track. BAT ttL&RE, FOALED 1903, "FLOWEBET BELLE." — Sire Monbells 2:23}£, son of Mendocino 2:19%, by Electioneer and Beautiful Bells (world's greatest brood mare), by The Moor; 1st dam, Floweret (dam of 2 in list and full sister to Wildflower, Manzanita, etc.), by Electioneer; 2nd dam, Mayflower 2:30% (dam of Wildflower, Manzanita, etc.). by St. Clair 16675. The sire of this filly represents Electioneer's most famous speed pro- ducing line, the Electioneer-Beautiful Bells cross. The dam of this filly represents a great performing and producing line that first made Electioneer famous through the great Wildflower, Manzanita, etc.j the Electioneer-May- flower cross. This filly was bred to Dillcara in 190o, and the pedigree of the produce will be composed almost exclusively of the greatest bloodlines of the greatest producers in the trotting world. Her produce from such mating will always rank of the. highest value for breeding purposes, as well as for racing. CH. MAKE, GBISETTE, FOALED 1902.— Sire Marengo King 2:29%. son of McKin- ney 2:11% and By By by Nutwood; 1st dam, Lisette by Abdallah Wilkes 7562 (sire of Waueo 2:14%, etc.), son of Geo. Wilkes; 2nd dam, Musette by Startle 290 (sire of 11). son of Hambletonian 10; 3rd dam, Beckie Sharp by Billy Denton (sire of 2), son of Hambletonion 10; 4th. dam, Kent Mare by Black Hawk 5. In this filly's pedigree we have almost exclusively the producing male lines of Hambletonian 10. Her sire traces to that speed progenitor through McKinney, crosses of Nutwood and Dictator being thrown in. We get to Hambletonian 10 in the male lines of the sire of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dams very quickly through only one or two generations of producing sires, some- thing phenomenal for close up breeding to Hambletonian 10. This filly was bred to Dillcara in 1905, and the produce will probably have in its pedigree more crosses of Hambletonian 10 than any other horse, following the sug- gestion, "The way to breed trotters is to get all the blood of Hambletonian 10 that you can, and then get more." Stout and well formed as this filly- is. her produce should be not only speedy but useful in the racing game. Not broken to drive. CH. MAKE, FOALED 1902, "BESSIE SWEET." — Sire Diablo 2:09U; 1st dam, Bessie Roan by Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes; 2nd dam, Bessie by Ventura 2:27?i; 3rd dam. Lady Emma 2:39?i by Paul's Abdallah, son of Hambletonian 10. The excellent brood mare sire Venture 2:2i5i, a thoroughbred, being the sire of the 2nd dam. a real good half-thoroughbred son of Guy Wilkes being the sire of the first dam, Diablo 2:09^ being the sire of the filly herself, the 2nd and the 3rd dams having been about the best mares ever driven in San Fran- cisco for speeding at the Park, should make this filly most valuable for breed- ing purposes, she being of large size and stout and blocky. Was never bred or broken. CH. MABE, FOALED 1889, "FLOSSIE." — Sire Cornelius 11335 (sire Carmelita 2:10ii. etc.). son of Nutwood 2:183i, and Jennie G. 2:26% by Echo, he by Hambletonian 10: 1st dam, sister: to Ruth Ryan ( thoroughbred), by Lodi, son of Imp- Yorkshire and Topaz by Imp. Glencoe; 2nd dam, Eva Bulwer by Bulwer, son of Grey Eagle; 3rd dam, Emma Taylor by Imp. Glencoe; 4th, dam, Lancess (to whom trace in female line Alcyone, sire of McKinney, Alcantara, Palo Alto, etc.), by Lance, son of American Eclipse. In this pedigree we have top crosses of Nutwood and Echo, great brood mare crosses, laid upon a thoroughbred female line going to Lancess, the 4th dam of Alcyone (sire of McKinney), Alcantara, Palo Alto, etc., the sires in this female thoroughbred line being the most noted for producing the dams and grandams of trotters. Lodi. the sire of the 1st dam. produced the dam of Pedlar and others; Bulwer- was by Grey Eagle, whose daughters and grand-daughters produced great trotting performers; Imp. Glencoe*s grand- daughters produced several trotters. The dam of this filly was a sister to Ruth Ryan, who produced Strathern, sire of Plunkett 2:13%. Sons of Flossie, by well bred stallions, should become great sires, as well as performers. She is a very large, stout mare, of the Nutwood type. Bred to Dillcara in 1905. BAY MABE, FOALED IN 1894, "FLOSSIE HOCK." — Sire Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes and Eda (thoroughbred), by Hock Hocking; 1st dam, Flossie by Cornelius 11335, son of Nutwood and Jennie G. 2:26% by Echo. (See. Flossie for continuation.) This pedigree represents a Guy Wilkes-Nutwood-Echo cross upon an excellent thoroughbred female line. Not bred in 1905. Never broken. A stout, well made mare. No living produce. BAY MABE, FOALED 1894, "BESSIE HOCK;" Bay Roan Mare, foaled 1S95. "Bessie Roan"; Ch. Mare, foaled 1S98, "Bessie Babe"; three full sisters; Sire Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes 2:15%. and Eda (thoroughbred) by Huck Hocking, son of Ringgold by Boston; 1st dam, Bes.su by Venture 2:27%, thoroughbred son of Williamson's Belmont; 2nd dam. Lady Emma 2:39% to pole, by Paul's Abdallah, son of Hambletonian 10. These three mares, full sisters, are each stout, smooth turned, extra well formed; were never broken to drive or ride. Their sire, Hock Wilkes, was a very stout, speedy, though crippled, half- thoroughbred son of Guy Wilkes. Their 1st and 2nd dams were about the speediest and best road mares driven in San Francisco and speeded in the Park. In this pedigree we have a top cross of Guy Wilkes laid upon a female line with Venture, a thoroughbred brood-mare sire, for the sire of the first dam. and a son of Hambletonian 10 for the sire of the second dam, extra stout bloodlines for the production of game trotting speed. ALSO SOME TWO-YEAB-OLDS nut of dams whose pedigree is given above, suit- able for training and breeding purposes, and entered in Futurity Stakes. One grand 2-year-old stallion. 15 Address SACRAMENTO VALLEY STOCK FARM, Care of BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal. PRIVATE SALE. (-)NE THREE-YEAR-OLD STALLION BY ' McKinney 2:llj^ Two yearling colts by Kinney Lou 2 : 07 ?.£ . One yearling colt by Red Nuttle 22357. Twelve standard mares and Allies. I will sell at bargain and will offer inducements on the lot. G. B. BLANCHARD, San Jose, Cal. Pays $5000 Yearly. •SilfiOOO Horsemen, read tbls. Patem V x - » ■ horse remedy business tor sale, paying 85000 and over yearly. Established twenty years. A gold mine for the right man. Address ORMOND, Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. kNi£-THE-H(W ^^0 Wk^ "^^ Register.;,] Trade Mark » ^^^JW. ™ SPAVIN CURE V4 THOfTOifCHPIN CAPPED HOCK wino eurr oacf.se xat The fire iron is uncertain; blistering is less effective, and both necessitate laying up the horse from weeks to many months; mercurial and poisonous compounds produce irreparable injury, "Save-the-Horse" eliminates all these factors. t „,. . AsburyPark. N. J.. Nov. 29 1805 Troy Chemical Co, Blnghamton N Y Gentlemen-I have used •■Save-the-Horse" In numerous case*, curb >pllnf a' d ringbones. It was tbroueh my success -Save-the-Horse" was Introduced Into Ihis clly. 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Nov. 15. 1905. Troy Chemical Co. Blnghamton. N. Y. Gentlemen— I purchased a bottle of Save-the- Horse last spring, to use on a curb that had been laming a horse for nearly a year. I had used several other remedies, but they failed to work. I only used Save-the-Horse a few times when all lameness stopped and the horse has been bothered with it no more. I had another horse go lame with a bad splint and a few applications fixed him all right. I think your cure Is all O. K. and well worth the money, and costs less for results than some of the cheaper remedies. I remain, yours sincerely, S. S. STEEL. TM'rouJhom%^e^Tu'1S,TlI^'isSpavia' Rlngbone ««°ept low Ringbone), Cut halrrTo?semaPy worf as ufua!' W'na Pufl' lDIared TeDdons 3nd "" lamness """outlcar o'r loss .00 D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St. Curb. of $5 OO ?™irt°mit. .yri"ehgiarantee-as binding to protect you os the best legal talent S7d Ser- l^xoellent Pasturage at Reasonable Rates. No barbed wire Bast of oare taken of Mares, in aay manoer Owners may desire. Sired by McKINNEY: dam MOUNTAIN MAID (dam of Tom Carneal 2:08H) by Cresco 4908 (aire of Allle Cresco 2:13, eto )'; next dam by Cloud. Will make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. KENNETH C. was one of the fastest of an exceptionally good lo' of three-year-olds that raoed in California in 1905. He is a splendid Individual, has size, style and quality, and the grandsuns and granddaughters of McKin- ney through Kenneth C. will be equal to any in the land. Terms ($30 for the Season. i*l5 for Single Service. S. K.&TREFRY, PleasAnton. MONTEREY 2:09 1-4 "SfcJ- (Sire of IRISH 3:0814, Fastest Four- Year-Old Pacer of J904). By SIDNEY (grandslre of Lou Dillon 1:5814); dam, HATTIB (also dam of Montana 2:16) by Commodore Be mont 4310. MONTEREY 2:09' i stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and Is one of the finest individuals on this Coast FEE, S50 for the Season. \/^0 C Ml I T" C" Ry MONTEREY 8:09y YVJOE.IVII I C Dam. LEAP TEAK r son of Almont 33 am, leap YEAR 2:26 (fu)l sister to Iago2:ll) by Tempest 1881, YOSEMITE Is u very hlgh-olass young trotter, and as he will be trained this year he will be allowed to serve only sis ehoiee bred mares FEE, S25 for the Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leased a Due roony biro with 11 large box stalls on Sherman street, four blocks from the racetrack, Alameda, and am prepared to do public tra'ning. Would like to get two good trottern and a promising three-year-old to pr -pare for the raoes this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. TVILLIAM8, San Lorenzo, Cal. , DWl f n-fAAC Teihll1«l1LAH and typewritten ready for framing rcUlglCta lauuiaiCU Write for prioes. Breeder and | Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisoo, Cal. February 17, 1906] f£he gveeirev anir ^povtsntan 17 PAYMENTS DUE MARCH 1, 1906 $10 EACH ON TWO-YEAR-OLDS At the entered In Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes No. 4— $6000 Guaranteed. FOR FOAiS OF MARES COVERED IN 1903. ENTRIES CLOSED NOVEMBER FOALS BORN 19C4 2. 1903 To Trot or Pace at Two Years Old in 1906 and at Three Years Old in 1907 S3350 Top Trottloe FoaU S1750 for Pacing Foals. 820O for Owners of Stallions. $2000 for Three-Year Old Trotter? S MOO for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three-Tear-Old Trot 1250 for Two-Year-Old Trotters 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two-Year-Old Trot 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Trot when mare was bred 8800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners and Money Divided as Follows: looo for Three-Year Old Pacers 200forNomlnatorof Dam of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace 750 for Two-Year-old 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 Tongues End iTOCK GET JUST ENOUGH AT THE RIGHT Tl COMPREjjED PURE-SALT BRICK5. AND PATENT FEEDERS. fl/o waste, no neglects II convenience. Your dealer has it. Write us for The booh BELNONr STABLE 5UPPLY CO. PATENTEES MANUFACTURERS Broohlyn, N.Y. • This Payment Keeps Your Entry Good to March 1, 1907. STARTING PAYMENTS-S25 to start in the Two-Year-Old Paoe. 835 to start in the Three- Year-Old Trot. »35 10 Mart in the Three-Year- Old Pace. 850 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. Address correspondence to the Secretary. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary Street, Sin Francisco, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED STALLION SERVICE BOOKS (POCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Most Complete Book of the kind published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St.. San Francisco The following Stallions, owned by W. A. Clark Jr., will make a public season: ROM l\l I F" ft/I K ^fi^fiQ (Trill 2 "19^ Bon Voyage Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Two-year-old Record 2:15 Three-year-old Record. , ,2:12££ Timed In a Race.. 2:!Oi4 WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (88500) FOR 1905. BON VOYAGE (3) 2:12?£ la by Expedition 2:15% by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erin 2:24%; second dam Farce 2:29 Vi by Prlnceps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150 For breeding, Individu- ality and racing qualities he is unsurpassed. He Is a rich bay in color with black points, stands 15.3 hands and when matured will weigh 1S00 pounds. Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. where he will be limited to twenty outside mares. d*c/i enr fi-p Cpqcnn USUAL RETURN1 PRIVILEGES, or money refunded Bhould mare OOU lur IUC ocasoii. not prove in foal. A rare chauce to breed good mares to an excep- tionally high-class and highly bred young stallion. TRIAL 2:12 (at Fonr Years Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By ESPRESSO 29199 (half brother to Expressive (3) 2:18%) by Advertiser S:15&, son of Electioneer 125; iam ALPHA 3:23% (dam of Aegon 2:i8M.sire of Ageon Star 2:11^. etc ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22; second dam Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 in list and 3 producing sons and 7 producing daughters) by Mambrino Chief 11. etc Terms for the Season $25 HTGHLAND Is a grand looking young stallion, seven years old. His breeding Is most fashion- able, and his immediate ancestors are producers of race winners with fast records. He is beauti- fully gaited and has a perfect disposition. Does not pull or want to break at speed, and can be placel at will in a bunch of hirsas He tsa high-class horse and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trotted a quarter in 31 seconds over the Pleasanton race track HIGHLAND is a coal blaok horse with one white hind ankle, stands 16.1 - ands high and weighs close to 1200 ponnds. Address all comminications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Highland Son of McKinuey 2:11 Vi and Bjn Sllene2:H1/s by Stamboul 2:07',i Will make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON Fee S50 BONNIE McK. is a grand individual and a fast trotter with perfect legs and feet All mares bred to him in 1905 will be nominated in Breeders Futurity without expense to owner Address GEO. A. KELLY, Pleasanton, Cal. fMCcKinney 3:11)4., f Alcyone 2:27 {SS'^ by Hamb' ,0 by Mamb. Patchen j Gov Spragne 2:20H by Rhode IslaDd tRose Keoney lire of artna Wilkes 2:08 60 In 2: Ma Sire or ^ I Coney . 2:02 ; « I Sweet Marie 2:M« I Rose Sprague .... U and 38 more in 2: 15 „„„ ,„„„ Dam or „,.„ •I 701n2:3J McKlnney ...2:llx Graodam of E2 Fereno 2:05& Z tstamboul207« ( Sultan 2:24 by The Moor JF I | sirTo'f IFleetwIngbyHamb. 10 Q I. Bon Silene 2:14* ] |',?™b0Ulette £!?* *■» Dam of by Mamb. Messenger dam of 2 In list 03 Bjnnie McK. (trial) . .2:19 I I Rnn rnn 9--W I" Simmons 2:28 by Geo. Wilkes I eon ton —»■•■■•- \ Bonnie Wilkes 2:29* Bonnie Direct 2:05* - - bv- Geo- Wilkes Rector 2:10 Bon Silene 2:14% Bonnie Steinway trl)2:08% dam of 4 in list Greatest Son of McKinney 2:11! Will m3ke the Season of 1906, from February 1st to June 1st, At LOS ANGELES, CAL. Fee, $50 for the Season. THE STANDARD TROTTING STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Terms, 840 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 Is by Hambletonian Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes S:08Ji. Phoebon W. 2:G83i, Robert I 2:08% aDd 7 others in the 2:15 list); dam Anna B^lle (3) 2:37>/2 (dam of Robert I. 2:08?^. Maud Murray 2:12. MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 in 2,30 list and dams of 8. MURRAY M. 2:14 is a handsome five-year-old bay stallion with small star and black points In his three-year-old form he stood 16 hand* and weighed 112d lbs., and is a natural, square-gaited trotter. He is a horse of grand fiaish. plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back, strong loins and stifles good f*et and legs. His breeding is excellent, and with his Individual- ity he presents a popular and spee i-producing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes in the show ring. Excellent pasturage at reasonable rates. For further particulars address PROF II B FREEMAN, University Station, Lo8 Angeles, Cal With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse aid mare does not change ownership. Money duo at time or service, or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is the sire of eleven standard performers a^ follows: Zephyr 2:07)4, timed separately in a race in 2:QS'/£: Charley T. 2:13(4 trial 3:10%; It ilia 2:I414, over half-mile track, trial 2:08 »4; Bellemant- three vears old, record 2:1^^, trial 2:U3£; Zrnnbowyette 2:l6i-i. trial 2:14H; Zennbia 2:19, trial half tn 1:055$ Tee Dso Cee 2:19& trial 2:1314: Lidv Zjmbro 2:.'4, trial 2:10; Lord Kitcher.er 2:24 >4. trial 2M9& Zealous 2:ii6^. trial 2:20: Nina Hoof ta 2:27. ZOMBRO has won more first prizes in the show rlne than any California stallion, and his got have sold for more money duriDg the past three years. He is the only horse living or dead that ever won fortv heats in staniard time as a three-year-old. His get are all large, beautifully formed and endowed with great natural speed The choicest pasture formares. Addresa GEO. T. BECKBRS, 3949 Flgueroa St , Los Angeles. Cal. i RECORD 2:22'.; i— Sire of Alone (4) 2:09M (trial 2:06 ',). Just It (3) 2:19% (trial 2:1214), High Fly (2) 2:24M (trial 2:12%. last ba^f In 1:00%). and full brother to the great John A. McKerron 2:04 14, the second fastest stallion In the world. By NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16%, sire of John A. McKerron 2:01% (second fastest stallion In the world), Tidal Wave 2:09, Mien Idaho 2:09vi, Wbo Is It 3:10&, Stanton Wilkes 2:10^. Cresco Wilkes (4) 2:10%, Georgie B. 2:12^, North Star (3) 2:I3M- winner Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes $6000 Guaranteed of 1905 and 32 in 2:30 li*d; dam INGAR, the greatest producing daughter of Director; second dam Annie Titus by Echo 462: third dam Tiffany mare (dam of Gibraltar 2:22%) by Owen Dale, son of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST is a dark bay, 15 3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds; well j formed and of kind disposition. In his blood lines are represented the greatest strains of the American trotter. Will make the Season of 1906 at San Juse, with return privilege in case horse remains in California. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T. W. BARSTOW, San Jose. Cal. NEAREST 35562 KINNEY WILKES Sired by MoKINNEY 2:11 H- sire or Sweet Marie 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07?i, Charley Mac 2:073*. Hazel Kinney 2:09 "4. The Roman 2:09%, Dr. Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05m, Zolock2:Q5M- You Bet 2:07 Jennie Mac 2:09 etc First Dam, n.v/Ki, WILKKS 2:llM. a great race mare by Guy Wilkes 2: 15M- aire of F ed Kohl 2:07%, Hulda 9:08%, Lesa Wilkes 2:09, Seymour Wilkes 2:0814, etc , and dams of Antezella 2:10%. Katherine A: 2:1IM. etc., etc , and granddre of John A. McKerron 2:04%; second dam, Blanche (dam of Hazel Witkes2:ilM Una Wilkes2:15. Guvson2:24. Native Son 2:26':- and Silver Spray 2:28) by Arthur ton 365; third dam, Nancy by Gen Taylor, champion 30-mlle trotter of the world. KINNEY WILKES is a very h indsome, we I mide bay stallion, standing 15. 3and weighing 1100 pounds. He is one of the best br.d of the McKinneys. Will make the Season at Fee $25. THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKINNEY 2:11M— greatest sire of his age; dam, the great brood mare DAISYS, (dam of four in list) by McDonald Chief 3583, son of Clark Chief 89; second dam. Fanny Rose, great brood mare (dam of three with records better than 2:18) by Ethan Allen Jr.2993; third dam, Jenny Lfnd (thoroughbred), dam of Prince Allen 2:27. Will make the Season of 190B at WO >DL.\ND RACE TRACK Z^^ P^OFIL To a limited numberof approvtd maros. FEE 8oO, with usual return privilege Address C. A, SPENCER, Woodland, Cal. E. P ITE VLO, Oivoer, 2 I Past St.. San Francisco, Cal. R. AMBUSH 4 1 840 Rec. (3) 2:14-1 SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARK. 2 miles east of San Bernardino. Address c. W. B0NNELL, Redlands. LEONARD STATION, Santa Cruz County. For cards containing tabulated pedigree, etc , address JAUES T. LEONARD, Rural Delivery No. 3, Watsnnvllle, Cal. I DIRECT 2:12 1-2 (Officially Timed in 2;08-l in a Race) Will make the Season of 1806 at DAN LIEGINGER'S STABLES, 801 Devlsadero Street, San Francisco. I DIRECT is one of the best bred of all the sons of the Ereat Direct 2:05H- HisdamtsFran cescaby Almont (damof Sable Francts2:l51/£. Guycesca 2:26 and the sire Earl Medium, sire or fi standard performers); next dam Frances Breckenrldpe by Sentinel 260, full brother to Volunteer. As an individual I DIRECT is perfect, and with his breeding be cannot help transmlttlngspeed. TVrmc VLZft F0R THE SEASON, LIMITED TO A FEW APPROVED MARES. For partlc- 1 CI Ilia •pOU ulars address DAN LIEGINGER, KOI Devlsadero St,, San Francisco. Or MABRY MoMAHAN. Owner, 307 Sboboiiip St.. San Frnn Pedigrees Tabulated and typewritten ready for framing. Write BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Gear. Francisco, California. 18 @Jte gveebev aixb gtpovi&maxt [February 17, 1906 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property or John Pareott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 «"» will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1906 FEE - 875 Reductions made f . r two or more mares. Manager, WALTER SEALT. THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16 r Sire GUY WILKES 2:15^ 2] Dam MI) A W 2:18^ I by NUTWOOD..... ....3:18?.£ NUTWOOD WILKES 22116 is the onlystallion that ever produced two three-year-olds in ore season withrecordsof 2:12 and 2:12^ respectively. Who Is It 2:12, ex-ohampion three-year-old gelding of the world, reduced his record to 2:10^- John A Mo Kerron 2:04H (2:12M as a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe of George Wilkes. NUTWOOD WILKES is the sire of John A Mo- Kerron 2:04lA (sire 3 two-year-olds in 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 2:09. Miss Idaho 2:09 if, Who Is It 2-.10H, Stanton Wilkes 2:10^, Cresco Wilkes (4) 2:I0=£, Georgie- B. 2*12W, Claudius (4) 2:13&, North Star (3) 2:l3Ya, Bob Ingersoll (4) 2:\A%, and 32 in 2:30 list. His sons Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09M flQd Cavallero 2:09Ji. His daughters produced Miss Georgie 2:10?^. Mona Wilkes (3) 2:11H, Lady Mowry (4) 2:UH, Caroline L. S:14&, Iloilo 2:15. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st, Ppp C*ft FOR- THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges if horse remains my property. rCC $D\} Good pasturage at $3 per month. Bills payable before removal of mare. Stock well cared for, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. Young Stock by NUTWOOD WILKES for sale. Send for Tabulated Pedigree For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvlnglon, Alameda Co., Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 Sire of ARISTO 2:08^, winner of Occident and Stanford Stakes of 1902. Sired by SABLE WILKES 2:18. sire of 42 in 2:30; dam, FIDELIA (dam of Fidette 2:28H, dam of Mary Celeste 2:I7U) by Director 2:17; seoond dam by Reavis Blackbird 2:22; grandam by Lancet, son of McCraeken's Biaokhawk. Fee 850, limited to forty outside mares. PRINCE ANSEL ""SSoT Sired by DEXTER PRINCE (sire of Eleata2:08^, Lisoi,jero 2:08^, James L. 2:09*4. Edith 2:10, eto.); dam, WOODFLOWER (dam of Seyles 2:15%) by Ansel 2:20, son of Electioneer; second dam, Mayflower 2:30^ (dam.of Manzanita 2:16, Wildflower (2) 2:21, and eight producing daughters) by St Clair 16675 Fee 830, Both Stallions will make the Season of 1006 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A. SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX. BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove, Cal. -A. Higli- Olass Young MoELlnney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A handsome son of McKlnney. Sired by the great McKlnney 2:11^, greatest sire of the age; dam, the great broodmare Daisy S (dam of Tom Smith 2:13^. General Vallejo 2:22V£ Little Mac (3) 2:27. a ad Sweet Rosle 2: iS\{ t by MoDonald Chief 3583. son of Clark Chief 89; second dam, Fanny Rose, great broodmare (dam of Gaorge Washington 2:16?£, Columbus S.2:17) by Ethan .Mien Jr 2993; third dam. Jenny Lind (dam of Prince Allen 2:27, also dam of Fanny McGill, dam of Sootty 2:19*4. Trilby 2:2ia£). GENERAL J. B FRISBIE ii a handsome, good-gaited blaok, five years old. He is a full brother to Tom Smith 2:13*.^; shows McKlnney speed and will be trained for the races this season. lernn, 825 for the Seasou; usual retnrn privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 Sire ot Djlllcan -Z:lbK. George Washington 2:163£ (slreot Stella2:15^, Campaigner 2:26m and Princess W 2:20«), Trilby 2:21 3£ and Sweet Rosle 2:28^. By McDonald Chief 3583 (sire of 4 and sire of dams or 7 in 2:30); dam. Venus by Mambrlno Patchen 58. Terms, 02O for the Season: usual return privileges. Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horses at my barn. 1031 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal, More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. 1 1 I HH IMmMM.l % I nil UP MM l M V in 2:3'i list and sire Sidney m I 1MI mm\ M ■ ■ U . Dillon, sire LOU DILLON ■II I VI ¥_ i ■ /I SlHE OF KNOCH 2:12t/i, GENERAL 3:14'/,, TEDDY TIIK KOA>- •■C-.1-'/,, LITTLE MISS 3:17t<, MAKCIIIONKsS 2:2!>, LILLIAN S1DIUOKE ■t-.'tiV, and TIP OOUANDO (trial) 2:09U, HID ABBOTT (tilnl) 3:1H, JAKE F, (trial half mile) l:OS dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; next dam Sarpy Mare by Echo «2. SIDMOOR 2:17Ji is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual in every respeot. He is one of the best produoing sons of Sidney, and with the right orosB will get Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Address Usual Return Privileges. JUHN 0TT, PaClieCO, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:1 li, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares. full Brother to TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 , Little Mac 2:274, Sweet Columbus S. 2: 17, George - -;26K,etc; third dam Jenny Llnd (dam of Prime Allen 2:2* and also dumof Fanny MoGlll. dam of Sootty 2:I9V4, Trilby 221V etc) •.'OMSTROCTOR Is one of the handsomest sons of the great McKlnney on the Coast. ' lie stands '.; t ,nds214 Inouesover the withers and 15 hands 31; Inches over the loins and weighs 1100 pounds ' "Vli. "?* e " regular Reason In the stud, but was bred to soveral mares when three years oh .11 of his get are of good slzo and good lookers. <-■> joo.oui. Vill Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. For further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. Hrsflam DAIS^ S. (dam of Tom Smith 2:I3«. General Vallejo 2:20W. Llttli Itosl. 3:2830 by McDjnald Chief 3583; seoond dam Facny Rose (dam of Colum Was'.lngton2:l8>i. woo aired SlellaS: 1514, Campaigner 2:28«, eto ; third dam J McKINNEYS FASTEST ENTIRE SON J Reg- No. 34471. ZOLOCK 2M Great Race Horse and Producing Sire, Ambush(3) 2:14i Delilah (3) 2:14| Bystander 2:I4| Sherlock Holmes 2:lSj Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 Hob 10 Ttiree-Year-OldB that worked trials in 1905 as follows: LILIAN ZOLOCK 3:14, KINNEY WOOD 2:15, CLEOPATRA 3:15. RED LOOK 2:18, ZOLLIE 3:18, INAt/GUJRETTA 3:33, HYLOCK 3:26, MAJELLA 3:35, ADA - LANTE 2:36, BOLOCK 2:37, and 3 Two-Year-Olds a« follows: WENZA 3:34, BONN IIS JUNE 2:27, IZALCO 3:30, and 12 others now In training: that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. ZOLOCKS Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (by Goasiper 2:14?i) dam of ZOLOCK 2:05}^, Zephyr 2:07^; second dam the great broodmare Gipsey (bv Gen. Booth 2:30V4). dam of Gazelle 2:11^, Delilah (3) 2:14}/™, Ed Winship 2-15, Wlllets (mat.) 2:17, DiiieS 2:27, and grandam of Col. Green (trial) 2:10^, third dam Echo Belle (grandam of Conn 2:15^) by Echo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. All his colts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Season starts February 1st and ends Jnne 1st. Mares will be cared for in any manner desired, but Terras for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO by ZOLOCK 3:0514; dam GIPSET, dam of Gazelle 2:11!^, Delilah 2:14^ and three more in the list. Izaloo is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:HV4. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY. Race Track. Pleasanton. Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05{ SIRE OF BONALET (3) 2:09^, in winning race - World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE DIE (3), trial (trotting) 2:ll'i (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECTS first orop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2 50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good condition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. DR. E. G. MCCONNELL 70S Sutter St., San Francisco. C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON STAR POINTER t:59J ...WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN 1897..... The Fastest, Gamest and Most Consistent Race Horse in Turf History. Slr« f (MORNING STAR 3:03, JOE POINTER 2:05if, aire 01 ( SIDNEY POINTER 2:07«4, Sl'Hl.EV POINTER 3:OSy, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of S tar Pointer l:59s< Hal Dlllard 2:04Ji StarHal 2:04i£ Hal Chaffm 2:05^ Elastlo Pointer 2:06^4 New Richmond 2:07"^ HalBraden 2:07« Storm 2:08X Brown Heels 2:09H Laurel. 2:09M Silver Hal 2:10 eto. 6 producing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of S tar Pointer 1:59m Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastic Poinier 2:06H Cloud Pointer 2:24u Tennessee Pointer 2:24S 2 producing sons 6 produoing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McKINNEY 2:11M. sire of SWEET MARIE 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07?i. Charley Mac 2:07?^, Hazel Kinney 2:09M. Tn * Roman 2:09^. Dr. Book 2:10- Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:06)tf, You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09. Zoloolc*3:05H Dam.AIL.KKN 2:26}£ (dam of Mowitza 2:20VJ, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:3i, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 3:16& sire of dams of Dlreotum Koily2:08W,Grey Gem 2:09^, W. Wood 2:07, eto. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:58*4, Red- wood 2:21»i, Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:26!'a) by Milton Medium 2:25", J (sire of 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium 2:32^, sire of Nancy Hanks 2:04, eto. GRECO Is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only race as a colt, and has shown miles In 2:20sinoe in his work, and Is a sure 2:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of marea &t W lOO THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address I'llAS. De RYDER, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IK AN ALTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produced a oolt that was a world's record breaker, and his grandsire has sired several trotters that broke world's reoords. No other horse with a reoord as fast as IRAN ALTO'S oan olalm this. At nine years he had sired ten oolts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse 2: 12V4. Thomas R. 2:15, Vendome 2:17, Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25— all at four years old. Who oan name a horso whose first ten colts oan beat that? Will Make the Seasao of 1906 at WOODLAND, CAL FEE $40 For further particulars address $20d",*t?hen mare Is bred and H. S. HOGOBOOM, nyable when mare Is known to be In foal. Woodland, C»'- February it, lat.6] dbiic tfveeocx unis Qpovisinaxi 19 DUCK SHOOTERS! CAMPBELLS QUESTION- -Why is it that so many excellent wing shots cripple fine birds? ANSWER—Because they don't use BALLISTITE which never fails to kill clean. REMEMBER-=0ne (1) dead bird in the pocket is worth two (2) in the tule. &, HAMILTON EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE BAKER SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SACRAMENTO SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST 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 POISONEDSORES and ABRASIONS OP THE SKIN It ha«. 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 oflered which can justly eien claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the market relying wholly on its merit forsuccess, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done In the way of advertising, tnesalesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that vear. This increase was entirely aue to it- MERITS, and from it we feel justified in saving that ltisTHE GALL CURE OF THE2QTH CENTURY It Is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fetlock which Id jure and often lay up racehorses. All Trainers Should Have It In Their Stables. PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25c; 1 LU. BOX. 81. OO. Read our "ad" on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy inlnext issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL &C0., Mfrs., 412 W.Madison St., Chicago, 111. Sold by all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. Ifjnot In stock ask them to write any Jobber for it. STALLION OWNER! If You Need a Stallion Card or Stock Catalogue Compiled and Printed, Stallion Poster, Stallion Service Book, a Cut of Your Horse, a Horse Book of aov kind or a Tabulated Pedigree. Get it where you can get the CHEAPEST and BEST. FOR SAMPLES AND PRICES ADDRESS MAGNl'S FLAWS &. CO., 35S Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ILL,. THE HORSEMAN'S HANDBOOK The Cocker Spaniel We Make 16 urades, $17.75 to $300. Write for ART CATALOG to THE ITHACA GUN CO., Ithaca, N. Y. To Coast Branch, PHIL B-BEKEART CO.. 114 Second St., San Francisco SMITH HAMMERLESS » EJECTOR GUNS HUNTER 4^^ Go!d Metlal ONE-TRIGGER ^*&_ lewis & clark EXPOSITION CONTENTS: CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF STALLIONS-The Stall-Fad- dock— Food— Diseases- Exercise— Grooming — Serving Mares— Amount of Service. CAREAND MANAGEMENT OF BROOD MARES— Getting Mares in Foal — Care During Pregnanev— Abortion- Foaling— Time When Mare is Due— In Season Again— Weaning Colt. BREAKING AND DEVELOPING OF COLTS— Care of Colt-Ed- ucating — Feeding — C;ire of Growing Feet — Breaking to Drive — Developing, Shoeing and Booting. MANAGEMENT OF CAMPAIGNERS— How to Keep the Race Horse in Condition and Keyed Dp for altace. CARE OF THE FEET— Booting and Shoeing— Bonner's and Berry's Views. CARE OF THE HORSE IN SICKNESS- Some Brief, Simple Utiles and Remedies. 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By subsorlptlonof 3200 each, half forfeit, or $50 if declared by June 1, 1906; with $10,000 added, of which $-JoOO to the second and $1000 to the third. Winners in 1905 or 1906, when three-year- olds and upward, of a race of the value of $10,000 to carry 3 lbs. extra; of two suoh races, 5 lbs. extra. Non-winners of $9000 at any time allowed 5 lbs.; of $5000, 8 lbs.; of $2500, IS lbs.; of $1000, 15 lbs. Qnt Mile an THE SARATOGA HANDICAP of SIO.OCO. By subscription of $000 each, half forfeit, or $25 if declared by June 1st. To the winner $8500, to the second $1000, ana to the third $.i00. Weights to be announced ten days before the race. Winners of a race of the value of $4000 after the publication of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. Mile and a Quarter. THE SARATOGA CUP of 97500. By subscription of $100 each, or $50 if deolared by June 1st for entries made March 5th; and $300 each for entries made July 2d, when the event shall close. Starters to pay $100 additional. To the winner $6000 and a cup of the value of $250, to the seoond $1000, and to the third $500 Weight for age One Stile and Six Furlongs. THE MERCHANTS' AND CITIZENS* of S3000. A Handicap. By subscription of $50 each, or $25 if declared by June 1st. Starters to pay $50 additional. To the winner $2400. to the second $400, and to the third $200. Weights to be announced three days before the raoe. Winners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Mile and Three-Sixteenths. THE GHAMI'LAIN of 83000. A Handicap. Bv subscription of $50 each, or $25 if declared by June 1st. Starters to pay $50 additional. To the winner $2400, to the second $400, to the third $200. Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winners after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Mile and a Furlong. THE DELAWARE. A Handicap- By subscription of $25 each, or $10 if deolared by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race; with $l500added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third. Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winnere after thj announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Mile. THE AMSTERDAM. Selling. By subscription of $25 each, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third The winner to be sold at auotion for $1000. If for $3000 allowed 7 lbs.; then 1 lb. allowed for each $100 down to $1500 Selling price to be stated through the entry-box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race- One Mile. THE CATSKILL. Selling. By subscription of $25 eaoh. $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third. The winner to be sold at auction for $4000. If for $3000, allowed 7 lbs; then lib allowed for each $100 down to $1000. Selling price to be stated through the entry bos by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. Seven Furlongs. FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS. THE SARANAC of £5000. A Handicap. By subscription of $100 each, or $25 if declared by June 1st. Starters to pay $50 additional. To the winner $4000, to the second $700, to the third $300 Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Mile ami a Furlong. THE HURON. A Handicap. By subscription of $25 eaoh, or $10 If declared by the hour of closing entries on Iheday preceding the race; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third. Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winners after the announcement of weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. One Mile and Three- Sixteenths. THE SENECA Selling. By subsorlptlonof $*5 each, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third. The winner to be sold at auction for $4000. If for less, lib allowed for each $100 down to $1000. Selling price to be stated through the entry-box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. Six Furlongs. THE MOHAWK. Selling By subscription of $25eajh, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of whioh $250 to the second and $150 to the third. The winner to be sold at auction for $i000. If for less. 1 lb. allowed for each $200 down to $3000; then 1 lb. allowed for each $100 down to $1500. Selling price to be stated through the entry-box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. One Mile and a Furlong. FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. THE SARATOGA SPECIAL. By subscription of $1000 each, half forfeit. A Piece of Gold Plate of the value of $2500 to be added by the Association. Subscribers to nam three horses by May 1st, and only one starter to be named for each subscription. Six Furlongs. THE ADIRONDACK of 85000. A Handicap. By subscription of $50 each, or $25 if declared by June 1st. Starters to pay $100 additional. To the winner $4000, to tne second $700, and to the third $300. Weights to be announced three days before the race. Wlaners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. Six Furlongs, THE KENTUCKY. For Fillies. Selling. By subscription or $25 each, $10 forfeit; with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to the third The wloner to be sold at auction for $4000 If for less, lib allowed for each $100 down to $1500. Selling price to b? stated through the entry-box by the hour o" closing entries on the day preceding the race. Fire and a Half Furlongs. THE ALBANY. A Handicap. By -%ub$crlption of $25 each, or $10 If deolared by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race; *ith $1500 added, of which $250 to tho second and $150 to the third. Weights to be announced three days before the race. Winners after the announcement of the weights to carry 5 lbs. extra. Six Furlonge THE TROY Selling. My subscription of $25 each, $10 forfeit; the third. The winner to be sold a*, allowed for each JlOudown to$!000. St with $1500 added, of which $250 to the second and $150 to auction for $4000 If for $3000, allowed 7 lbs : then 1 lb. lling price to be stated throngh the entry-box bs the hour of closing entries on the day preoeding the race. Five and a Half Furlongs, j To Be Run at the Summer Meeting of 1907 THE GREAT REPUBLIC OF $20,000 For Three-Year-OlrJs and Upward in 1907 ( Now Twn-Tear-Olds and Upward For Now Two-Year-Old* and Upward. The Saratoga Association to guarantee the cash value of the race to be $20,000: of which the owoorof tho sesonil horse shall receive $2000aod the ownerof the third horse$iOOD. Liabilities as follows: Vor Now Two-Year-OldK, By subscription or $25 each. 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BONNIE DIRECT 2:05%.. C. L. Griffith, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE McK. 36569 Geo. A. Kelly, Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:12 94 Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GRECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. I DIRECT 2:12 % ... .Dan Lieginger, San Francisco, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12%.... H. S. Hogoboom, "Woodland, Cal. IZALCO H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEY LOU 2:07% Budd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R. D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. KENNETH C. 2:17 S. K. Trefry, Pleasanton, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11% Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622, Thos. Smith, Vallejo. Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. MONTEREY 2:09%... P. J- Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman, Los Angeles, Cal. NEAREST. 2. 22*4 T. W. Barstow, San Jose, Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16% ._. Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20%.. C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R. AMBUSH 2:14% G. W. Bonnell, Redlands, Cal. SIDMOOR 2:17% John Ott, Pacheco, Cal. STAR POINTER 1:59% Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. T. C. 2:30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal- TOM SMITH 2:13% C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936. . .Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto, Cal. WAYLAND W. 2:12%.. W. C. Helman, Santa Rosa, Cal. YOSEMITE P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05% H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. GREEN'S RUFUS Bay wood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER. .Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacific Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903— $10 due April 1. 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 4, $6000, foals of 1904— $10 due March 1, 1906, and starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906 — $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- ■retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. A BIG FIRE which destroyed the plant of the San Francisco Electrical Company early Thursday morning of this week has put nearly every linotype and printing plant in this city out of commission and for this reasoD this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman goes to its readers with four pages less than usual at this season. All of the regular ad- vertising appears in this number, but four pages of late news and other reading matter is necessarily omitted. The photograph of Bon Voyage, from which the half tone engraving on the front page of this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman was made, does not do the horse justice, but it was obtained under ad- verse conditions and was the best the photographer could do under the circumstances. Bon Voyage is a much handsomer horse than the picture would indi- cate, and in his individuality there is something that will lead any observer to the conclusion that he is looking- at a great young stallion even though he should not lie aware of his name, his breeding or his performances. The writer was at Pleasanton track two weeks ago and met Ted Hayes, who has managed and trained the horses of Mr. W. A. Clark Jr. for several years. I had never seen the young champion Bon Voyage so Mr. Hayes said he would have him led out. "When you have looked him over," said Mr. Hayes, "write of him as you have seen him. Tell your readers just how lie appeared to you and if there are any weak points don't be afraid to say so." This was frank enough, certainly, and as we walked toward the sumptuous apartments formerly occupied by Searchlight 2:03%, but now the home of Bon "Voyage, I recalled these facts: Bon Voyage was the champion two-year-old trotter of any sex of 1904, when he won the two-year-old divisions of the Ken- tucky and Horse Review futurities and took a race record of 2:15. The two heats of the first named event were in 2:15 and 2:15%, and it takes a high class two-year-old colt to trot a race like that. Mr. Clark paid $10,000 for him just after he won that event, and considered that the race fully justified his judgment of the colt, which it certainly did. In his three-year-old form Bon Voyage was the fastest three-year-old trotting stallion of 1905. He won the Hartford Futurity, and took a record of 2:12%, while his winnings at the end of the season were over $11,000. After these facts had passed through my mind, and I remembered that Bon Voyage was by Expectation 2:15%, one of the best bred sons of Elec- tioneer, that his dam is the great brood mare Bon Mot, dam also of Endow 2:14% and Bequeath 2:20%, in addition to being a very choicely bred mare, I thought to myself, a colt bred like this fellow and with such a list of performances to his credit, should be a high class individual. On reaching the stall, the door was opened by Billy Forbes, who came to California in the fall of 1903 with Budd Doble and Kinney Lou 2:07%. There are no better caretakers than "Billy" and Bon Voyage was as well groomed as any horse I ever saw. He is a beautiful dark bay, one of the richest I ever saw, and outside of the coronet of his near hind foot there are no white hairs on him. His legs are black, as black as coal, and he has a beautiful mane and tail that touches the ground. We had no standard to measure him, but he is full 15.3 and my guess at his weight was 1150 pounds, but Ted Hayes says I am about fifty pounds too high, but that he will weigh full 1100 and will take on the other fifty pounds before the season is over. There is no better boned horse in California. His head and front are remarkably like Electioneer, his grandsire. He is not a big bodied horse, but his back is short, his loins good, his hips and quarters smooth and muscular, and he stands on about the best set of legs one will see during a long inspection tour. After being trained and raced hard as a two and three-year-old, trotting all sorts of tracks and being driven so many fast miles, there is not a puff or a pimple on him. I would call his legs and feet perfect. His head is a strong, brainy one — a regular trotting head, and Hayes tells me that on the track Bon Voyage knows nothing else but trot, never making a mistake. I could not help thinking as I looked this young horse over what a grand stallion he will be to breed to Wilkes mares, of which there are so many in California. Bon Voyage's pedigree is a most interesting study. His sire Expedition 2:15% was by Electioneer, out of Lady Russell, an own sister to Maud S. 2:08%. Lady Russell produced four standard trotters and one pacer, has three producing sires and two producing dams. Expedition has sired fifty standard performers, of which nine are in the 2:15 list. The dam of Bon Voyage is Bon Mot, a great brood mare with three 2:20 trotters to her credit — Bon Voy- age 2:12%, Endow 2:14%, and Bequeath 2:20%. She was by Erin 2:24%, a producing son of Belmont 64, the sire of Nutwood. Erin's dam way the great Even- tide, dam of Kremlin 2:07%, and two more in the list, five producing sons and a producing daughter. The second dam of Bon Voyage is Farce 2:291i by Princeps 536, the sire of those famous trotters Green- lander 2:12 and Trinket 2:14. and sixly-four more in the list. Princeps was by Woodford Mambrino out of Primrose by Abdallah 15, a rare good cross of game racing blood. Roma, the third dam of Bon Voyage, is a great brood mare with three standard trotters to her credit, and she was by that handsome horse and sire of handsome horses Golddust 150, who was by Vermont Morgan. He sired Lucille Golddust 2:16%, one of the old time champions, and has eighteen sons that have sired standard speed, while his daughters have pro- duced twenty with standard records. Bruna, the fourth dam of this stallion, was by Pilot Jr., Hint sired the dam of Maud S. 2:08%, Jay Eye See 2:06% and thirty-eight more in the list. A tabulation of the pedigree of Bon Voyage contains the names in the first three cross* s of such mares Ms Green Mountain Maid, Misp Russell, Eventide, i: and Bon Mot, truly a greal showing1. We advise owners '>r good br J marcs to visll Pleasanton and looli tin^ stalll ver. Mr. Clark has j, ni the service fee al $50, a very low li^mv Cor a horse that has such individuality, breeding and race record. Mr. Hayes tells me that when he took Bon Voyage East last year as a three-year-old, he could and did trot a quarter on the Denver track in 30 seconds. He will not be raced this year as a four- year-old, but next season he will be trained and raced on the Grand circuit and a record of 2:05 or belter is thought to bjT easily within his reach. Hav- ing been bred in the lines of extreme speed and shown conclusively that he has that quality besides great gameness and race horse qualifications, there is no reason why he will not transmit speed, and as Mr. Clark will breed a number of his choicest mares to him, and train and race the produce, breeders who are wise will see from these facts that Bon Voyage colts are certain to be good property, and act ac- cordingly. THE MATCH IS MADE. A meeting of the representatives of last year's trio of noted trotters, Tiverton 2:04],i>. Wentworth 2:04%, joint holders of the champion record for trotting geld- ings, and Sweet Marie 2:04%, was held at the Gilsey House in Newr York Monday night, February 12th, for the purpose of formulating the conditions and posting the money for the sweepstakes race next summer re- cently proposed by E. E. McCargo, trainer and driver of Wentworth. There were present besides Mr. Mc- Cargo, A. P. McDonald, of Albany, representing- Sweet Marie, and John Howell, the trainer and driver of Tiverton, besides a contingent of local horsemen. After a discussion of the conditions the following agreement was drawn up and signed by the three gentlemen above named: New York, February 12, 1906. This is an agreement entered into by John Howell of New York, Alta P. McDonald of Albany. N. Y., and E. E. McCargo of Philadelphia, Pa., for a match race in which their horses, Tiverton 2:04%, Sweet Marie 2:04%, and Wentworth 2:04%, respectively, will be the contestants, under the following conditions: l.,The race will be for $2,500 a corner, play or pay, winner to take all. 2. Each party does hereby agree to deposit a for- feit of $500 with the New York Morning Telegraph to bind said contract. Of the remaining amount of $2,000 should be deposited with the stakeholder as follows: $1,000 on or before midnight, June 1, 1906, and the balance $1,000 before 7 p. m. the day previous to the date of the race. 3. The race to take place during the month of July, 1906( between the dates of Monday, the 2d, and Saturday, the 21st. 4. Date of race and track to be selected by mutual agreement, and announced on the day the second payment falls due. 5. Race to be best two in three on the "Empire plan," in case of a split heat, only the heat winners to start in the third and decided heat. 7. The race to be under the rules of the associa- tion of which the track agreed upon may be a member. Now that the affair has been settled by the signing of the above agreement and the posting of the for- feit, the race will begin to take on interest and the development of the contestants will be eagerly watched. It is safe to say that if all come to the post in their best form it will be one of the most sensa- tional contests ever witnessed on a trotting course. All of the horses are game, all have class substantially alike, and all will have the advantage of the best handling, both prior to and during the race, to be secured, so that if nothing goes wrong with any of them in their development, the race should be one long to be remembered. — Trotter and Pacer. HORSES FOR S. F. FIRE DEPARTMENT. The Board of Fire Commissioners of the San Fran- cisco Fire Department last week awarded the contract for furnishing horses to the department In accordance with the conditions advertised. In classes 1, 2 and 3 Joseph Levy was the lowest bidder and the contract for furnishing horses in those classes was awarded to him. Class 1 is for horses suitable for engines and trucks. in the inside districts. These horses must weigh 1.600 or over. The price to be paid Mr. "Levy for them is $338.50 each. In class No. 2, horses weighing 1,500 and upwards, suitable for engines and trucks in the outside dis- tricts, the price is $317 each. For classss Xo. 3, which is for lighter horses suit- able for all work, weighing from 1.500 pounds down to 1,200, the price is to be $278 each. Gus Lindauer was the lowest bidder on buggy horses for use in the department. These horses must weigh 1,200 pounds, and must be able to trot and pull a buggy at a 3:30 gait. These horses bring the top price of any horses used by the department; $350 ■ aeii was Mr. Lindauer's bid, and it was the lowest. Plenty of snow and great snow racing down East, especially in Boston during the past week. The Bos- ton Globe of February 12 prints a quarter of ;i page of pictures of the most sensational speed animals with elaborate account of the speed contests. We quote: "It seemed as if every man in greater Boston, wl wned a horse and a 'pair of runners," was out yesterday afternoon trying to find a glib place to speed on, eventually found their way to the Charles River speedway over which :i steady stream of equip- ages were traveling in both directions all the after- noon. Supt. Gllman has the upper road in the lines! Iltion, The lasl half, and particularly the last quarter just back of Soldiers' Field, is In Ideal shape for all t he fun i here is to be obtained with horses on the snow. To-day the whole length of the road from the Arsenal bridge to the Harvard boathouse will he open and there will be plenty of racing'." Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. &h& gveebev mtfc gfpovt&matt [February 24, 1906 The Pasadena Horse Show, which will be held on the 6th. 7th ami Sth of next month, is attracting much entry list is already a large one. Mr. J. M. Bohon. of Los Angeles, lias purchased i .1 -. D. K. Wise on the Redondo ihe Santa Fe railroad, twelve miles from Mr. Bohon, who is a fancier of blooded - ; well bred trotters, will plant his new purchase to alfalfa and will keep of which he owns a number, on owns two good young f Zolock 2:05% in Bolock and Hylock. For the first time in more than half a century the New York State Fair this year returned a profit to the state treasury as the result of last season's exhi- bition at Syracuse. The legislature appropriated $25,- 000 to finance the fair, and this was returned, with $3000 additional. Trotting races and a horse show drew the crowds which made the profit. Now that the State Fair commissioners have had the good sense to get into the Grand Circuit and avoid a conflict of dates for their harness races and horse show the an- nual exhibition at Syracuse is coming to the front as one of the big sporting events of the season. Action is extremely important in light horses. It should be straight and true. At +he trot it should be what is known as the straight line trot — no wabbling from one side to the other, or swinging the feet. The action from behind should be straight, the feet picked up smartly, the hock well flexed, and the feet or both fore and hind legs at each step placed immediately in front cf the former position. The Portland Rural Spirit of February 16lh says: Lonzo, the five-year-old gelding by Zombro. out of an Altamont mare, died this week at Irvington track from blood poison, the result of castrating some months ago. Lonzo was one of the most promising green trotters in this part of the country, having worked miles last year close to 2:20 very handy. He was owned by P. J. Mann of this city, who at one time The owners of Direct Hal 2:04%' and Star Hal 2:04% have opened a unique futurity to the value of $1000. This is open only for mares bred this season to either of their stallions, to be raced for as three- year-olds, and no distinction made as to gait of foal, and no entrance fee charged. Every mare should be mated with the idea of pro- ducing a colt of some definite type — roadster, carriage horse, draft horse, general farm horse — anything, in fact, for which there is special use and a steady de- mand. Such horses always bring good prices, while Mr. Mann lost by death in their prime. with the assistance of owned Altao 2:09% and Trumont 2:21%, both of which there are always too many that are not really suited to anything in. particular. A difference in a few dol- lars in a service fee may make ten times the difference in the price of a colt. Above all things be sure the stallion has vigor and stamina. numb* ^ ' Sa Luis Obispo, contemplates ew race track on land just west of the Ity Quite a number have already come forward with generous subscriptions. The track will i i principally for training trotters and pacers. Doble has made a ten strike in securing acres of choice ry< grass pasture just at the edge of the city limits of San Jose, where he will pasture the brood mares sent to his great trotter Kinney Lou 2:07%. this season. This pasture is divided into four fields, is well watered and has good sub- stantial board fences with no wire. One of the most desirable things for a breeder to know is that the mares he sends to a horse are well cared for. Mr. Doble is prepared to give and will see that all mares sent to Kinney Lou get good care and are properly kept. The great trotter Dr. Strong 2:05% will not appear in the Grand Circuit in 1906, but will be used in mati- nee work by his owner, Mr. Pickering, Pittsburg. It is quite a revelation to some sports to know that It is reported that Directum Miller 2:05%, that went they can be punished if they cruelly whip their horses lame in a rare at Readville last year, is jogging sound °n the road, for Hugh Milan this winter, and it is thought will stand the work all right in 1906. State Representative Russell has offered a bill in the Kentucky house of representatives proposing that racing upon any course in the state shall be limited to forty days in any calendar year. It affixes penalties of a fine of from $500 to $1000 daily for violation of the provisions of the bill. The legs of the racing gelding Terrill S. 2:08%, who has won 112 standard heats, are said to be still as smooth as a colt's. The trotting horse of today is an established breed, with strength and endurance, in many instances, su- perior to that of the runner. March 17th has been selected by the Riverside Driving Club as the date of its next matinee. In keeping with the day, the principal event will be for horses of the green class. Dr. F. N. Folsom, of Forestville, Sonoma county, writes us that the stallion Silas Skinner 2:17, recently purchased by Oliver & Folsom of that place, is being liberally patronized. A company has just been formed in Forestville and the imported Percheron stallion Bon Coeur 40789 purchased. Although Forestville is the center of a fruit district much interest is being taken in horse breeding this year and more mares will be bred than formerly. Report comes from "Vienna that the trotting stallion Wig Wag 2:1614, now considered about the best race horse in Europe, and who, it was one time reported, would be brought back to America for a campaign down the Grand Circuit this year, will serve twenty mares belonging to the Austrian government this spring. By a recent decision of the French courts it has been decided illegal for any person to act for another in "placing" money in the pari-mutuels. Thus all the wealthy horse owners will be forced, if they desire to wager, to personally make their own bets. No excep- tions will be made, even for royal personages, who are frequent visitors at French courses. The Kansas bred trotting mare, Bay Leaf 2:26 by Telephone 2:15%, is a member of W. A. Clark, Jr.'s, band of brood mares, now locted at Pleasanton, Cal., and will be bred to Bon Voyage (3) 2:12 this season. Mabel by Naubuc, the dam of that champion pacer Directly 2:03*4, whose two-year-old record of 2:07% has never been equalled, is for sale. She is in foal to Bonnie Direct 2:05% and while the produce will be very closely related to Directly it will be bettei- bred. See the advertisement in our business columns. Indirect information was received last week by John J. Scannell that Idolita 2:09%, the stallion formerly owned by him, had changed owners since going to Europe at the reported price of $20,000. Jay McGregor 2:07% w^as priced at $20,000 last week. Evidently no one in the breeding industry has any fears of the future of the harness horse. Famous Ambler Park, near Philadelphia, Pa., is soon to be a thing of the past. It is being surveyed and will be cut up into building lots. Years ago "General" John E. Turner, the great driver, purchased the grounds, and together with his son Frank, trained trotters there, bringing out many famous ones from there. The Orleans county, N. Y., horseman, George Resse- guie, owns a two-year-old colt that comes nearer be- ing a brother in blood to Sadie Mac 2:06% than almost any colt in the country. The youngster was sired by Peter the Great 2:07%, sire of Sadie Mac, dam Cocoa 2:29% by Arion 2:07%, sire of the dam of Sadie Mac; second dam Zembia 2:11%, a daughter of King Al- mont. This colt is a big, handsome fellow, and al- though just nicely broken, can show enough speed at the trot to justify the belief that he will be a trotter of the Sadie Mac order some day. Items like the following from the Le Grande, Ore- gon Chronicle appear very frequently these days in the Northern California aid Oregon papers: Horses, horses, is the fad and the rage. The demand is al- most as strong as the time when Richard ni offered to swap his entire kingdom for just one. A new buyer went to Elgin the fore part of the week to pick up a carload of the heavy grades, Ed Willard is also back from Portland to try to secure another car for that market. A man arrived Wednesday from Alberta and says he wants just one straight trainload of Grande Ronde horses. He wants the smaller kind, but is not so particular as to age and will take two-year-olds and on up. The matured animals, he says, can be dis- posed of for working purposes and the younger stock is to be put on the ranges. The demand for stout work horses is as brisk at this time as was the call for cavalry animals during the South African trouble. Walter Snyder will again serve as secretary of the Detroit Driving Club this season. The New York Horse Fair Association will not hold an exhibition next spring. This was decided at the annual meeting on Thursday. Members of the organi- zation were opposed to paying $5000 rental for Madi- son Square Garden, with a clause in the lease binding them not to award any prizes for show ring competi- tions. No other available place for an exhibition could be found. There will be at least twelve meetings in the Lake Erie Circuit this year. A photo of the beautiful loving cup presented by the Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association to Mr. W. W. Savage in honor of the 1:55% mile paced by Dan Patch at Lexington, October 4th last, has just been received from Mr. Savage, who says: "I certainly very highly appreciate this valuable re- membrance of the fastest harness mile in horse his- tory. I am sure that Dan was pleased on Christmas morning as he ate apples from this cup and if his Kentucky friends could have seen him at that time they would have noticed a specially gratified expres- sion in his eyes as he crowded his nose to the very bottom in order to receive the last piece of apple." Donald Wilkes 2:13^, who has figured in many stoutly contested races in the Northeastern Ohio Cir- cuit, is an inbred Guy Wilkes 2:15%. Harry Stinson is jogging Alexander 2:09^ and will name him in all the early closing stakes to which he is eligible. GETTING READY AT APTOS FARM. Senator J. VTC. Bailey, of Texas, has purchased a ii;n t of land containing 204 acres, adjoining his Ken- lucky farm, on the Versailles pike, for $40,800, and he will continue in the breeding of trotting horses i ii a ^Ull more extensive scale than in the past. Evi- dently Senator Bailey believes that breeding the suc- cessful trottei i^ no! Inconsistent with the successful pursuit of statesmanship. April [i is the date selected for the annual Kentucky Stallion Show. The exhibition will be held on the fair grounds al Lexington and will be under the man- ei i of thf Kentucky stock Farm. That Locanda 2:02 has qualities beyond most pacers, regardless of age or breeding, there is proof conclu- sive, as shown in his last year's races, especially at Lexington. Ky., where he took his present mark, gen- eraled by Tom Murphy, the young Glen Cove. L. I., trainer. Tom says that in the heat at Lexington in which the stallion took his fast mark, he trailed and got away behind and actually paced the mile in 2:01%, with the last half in 59% seconds, according to his watch. Jf exhibitions count for anything. Locanda stands a good chance of getting a 2:00 record against time another year in Tom's hands. He paced more miles light around 2:03 last year than any other pacer, not accepting Nathan Straus 2:03%. Mr. Borden, who owns the horse, is authority for this statement. to the big fall of snow and the cold weathei in the ranges of thi northi rn extremity of California 1 u egon this winter, rang.- horses ha^ i bi 'i suffering greatly. Reports from the country ind Madeline are to tin effed thai many horses havi v snows have robbed them of I " enti d them from Stoi kmen south 1 ": '!i ■ I '■■ ufl i Ii ■ ■ ■■ 1 1 e animals Is i ■■ : ai d thai w tth 1 ■ of spring win i><- a revelation of gr< ., g the ■ ■> A numb* r of i to< k] lefl Utui as a few ""■ -i ■'■ to round up a herd of snow- Only twi - oul of a I i found : ■ 1 1 ■■ - A Milwaukee, Wis., exchange states: In an inter- view with J. W. Flack, owner of Hazel Patch 2:02%, Mr. Flack was asked with reference to the rumors being circulated about his having disposed of bis black stallion, and as to whether or not the horse would lie lirought back to Milwaukee. Mr. Flack as- serted positively that he owned Hazel Patch at the present time, and stated that the horse would be shipped to Milwaukee from California during the fore pari Of Match. Mr. Flock, as owner of Hazel Patch, on December 6, 1905, entered into an agreement with J. G. Sherman of Lake Geneva, Wis., by which Ed Sherman was to race Hazel Patch at Phoenix. Ariz., ind in California on shares. This has doubtless been the cause of reports about (he sale of Hazel Patch. William Mel rid, Porl Rl> I nd, S ha: a i ■ ■ ■• Bon a Brothi thai toob a record ol t day of 1 I year, that ha > ■. blui ribbi tn ho\ rii ■ ind tins never n beaten. She will be trained thl season. Dave McClary will not race Hal Direct this year. ii is Raid that he has a standing offer of $ir>,000 for him if he shows a trial mile this year in 2:0r>. Dave thinks it will be easy money, claiming that he will show in 2:02 al the very least. Among the horses that will be in the consignment of Mr. A, B. Spreckels from his Aptos Farm, and that are now being worked there by Sandy Smith, are two full sisters to the Cupid mare now in Budd Doble's string at San Jose that is as fast as a bullet. These mares are out of a McKinney mare, and are good gaited trotters. Another mare is a full sister to Venus II 2:11^ by Cupid, own brother to Sidney Dillon. Whoever gets this one will get a trotter. She has stepped quarters in 35 seconds. There is also a full sister to Harold D. 2:11^4. by Dexter Prince, the horse Henry Dunlap bought at an Aptos Farm sale in 1902 for $275 and sold last fall in the East for $3,200. This filly Sandy says is just as good as Harold D. was with the same amount of work. There is also a full brother to Psyche 2:16^4 that has the making of a great horse, and a colt by Dexter Prince out of Psyche that gives every promise of being as good a horse as Dexter Prince ever sired. He is a four-year-old and a pacer, was worked a little as a three-year-old, and can step an eighth in 16 seconds. Then there is a half-brother to Zambia 2:14% that is a chestnut four-year-old this ■spring, a trotter that has as much speed as any horse that has not been trained any more than he has. A big bay mare, 16 hands, by Altivo, out of a Dexter Prince mare, stepped a mile for Sandy the other day over the farm's half- mile track in 2:33* She is so big she had a hard time getting around the short turns, but she is a dandy and always steps the last quarter in 35 seconds. Mr. Spreckels is not keeping any of the good ones. All he will keep are the two-year-olds and younger. Lots of visitors have been calling at the ranch lately, among them Mr. Norris of the Norris & Rowe shows, who wanted to buy four that are in the consignment, as their conformation was so perfect. Mr. Spreckels refused to accept any offer for them, however, as all go to the sale. February 24, 1906] ®tt£ $vezi*zv ctub &p0xx&maxx BREEDING THE TROTTER. Few subjects have been given greater consideration throughout the civilized -world, but especially in Amer- ica, during the last forty years and more, than has the problem of breeding the light harness horse for both road and track use. While opinions of leading thinkers have often greatly differed, marvelous pro- gress has been made, especially in extreme speed breeding. The object of the trotting horse breeder has been two-fold, namely, to establish a distinct family, or breed, of trotting horses, and the production of extreme harness speed. Both results have been as- siduously sought at the same time. Doubtless more effective and uniform results would have been accom- plished had all efforts been centered, first, on the per- fection of a breed of trotters, for in striving for ex- treme speed production the breed-perfecting operation has not only often been lost sight of, but has actually been impeded. A wise man indeed would he be who could teach the science of trotting horse breeding in so short an article as this must of necessity be, but a reference to the subject is certainly appropriate in a trotting horse paper special number, such as this one is. The editor of The Western Horseman has always been a stickler for "fundamental principles" in trotting horse breeding. He has maintained not only that a breed of trotting horses may be estab- lished only through orthodox line breeding — in-and- in breeding — but that the greatest and most uniform success in breeding both uniformity of individuality and extreme speed comes through this very orthodox in-and-in breeding — piling trotting cross upon trotting cross and persistently avoiding outcrosses to "alien blood." While we have not succeeded in the half cen- tury, nay, a full century, in which we have been breeding trotters, in establishing a breed of trotting horses in the sense that we have a breed of running horses, a breed of draft horses or a breed of Jersey cattle, we have reached that stage of perfection of the structure which clearly "points the way" to ulti- mate an absolute perfection. To the orthodox mind the time is past for reaching out for outcrosses, new infusions and problematical expectancies. The founda- tion is beyond improvement; the body timber in sight is sound to the core, and all we have to do now is to match the pieces by proper selection, using the straight and sound timber and rejecting the spurious. Straight and sound timber, trotting horse timber, means, of course, our most stoutly bred trotting ani- mal of the highest degree of individual perfection in points of size, conformation and soundness, and cer- tainly our supply of these is ample. "Fads and fan- cies have no legitimate place in present-day trotting horse breeding, and he who indulges their use not only does so at his own expense, but at the expense of the trotting breed as a whole. Perfection has come slow- ly to the trotting family largely on account of the "side-stepping" of some breeders and some teachers. But fortunately for the problem of "perfecting a breed of trotting horses," the "side-steppers" grow less nu- merous as time passes. Trotting blood is the "wheat" in the light harness race horse kingdom, as real wheat is in the cereal kingdom. Wheat is not improved by "cross-breeding" it with rye, barley or oats, and trot- ting blood cannot be improved by cross-breeding it with other breeds of horses, and nothing is surer than that breed perfection in the trotting horse family must come only by eliminating, or "breeding out" the "yel- low streaks" existing in the present-day imperfect trotting breed. Many present-day trotting bred horses have the required seven standard (trotting) crosses, but not one has seven uncontaminated trotting crosses, and hence we have not as yet produced the "thoroughbred trotter," and not until we do have thoroughbred trotters, "in plenty," will we have a fixed and perfected breed of trotters, with fixed and uniform characteristics. With "thoroughbred trot- ters," even, will not come uniform and extreme har- ness speed simply through the mating of thorough- bred trotting stallions with thoroughbred trotting mares, but such results will follow much more uni- formly than they do now, and hence the more prog- ress we make in breed perfection the more progress will we also make in uniform extreme harness speed production. Evidently, then, our trotting horse breed- ing operations should be carried on in straight lines, in trotting lines, using our best individual knowledge in the matter of individual mating. As has often been said in these columns, mating standard mares with standard stallions, nor even mating low record stan- dard trotting mares with low record standard sires, is not sufficient to insure the production of an extreme speed trotting product. But plenty of trotting blood on both sides constitutes the first and most essential element, and acuteness in making compatible individ- ual matings will do the rest. Stout speed producing blood lines should receive the first consideration, purity of gait and soundness should come next, and temperamental characteristics, a most essential thing in extreme speed production, should come next. We put the extreme speed essential last, for the reason that the omission of this consideration will not only probably not stand in the way of its being ccidentally struck, but that the additional cross, with the other considerations followed, will result in a product which will be one cross nearer type perfection, and the operation will not be a losing one. A good many fine- spun theories regarding "dynamic conditions," old age superiority, certain crosses for high excellence in the male produce, others for superiority in female pro- duce, and other "moonshine," are advanced; but busy and practical breeders have neither the time nor in- clination to back therein, and hence they are not dwelt on here. With good, strong trotting blood, and plenty of It, on both sides, the most essential thing In speed production undoubtedly Is temperamental mat- ing. This of itself is no trifling study in its entirety. though uncomplexed temperaments, especially if strongly phlegmatic, or as plainly nervous, are easily and readily recognized, and, fortunately, are the va- rieties most frequently met with in horses, at least more readily recognized. Sluggish, phlegmatic mares, however well bred, should not be mated with stallions possessing the same temperament, nor should exces- sively nervous, high-strung, "rattle-headed," if you please, mares be mated with stallions possessing like mental characteristics. Here is the one instance in which an "outcross," a temperamental outcross, is the saving clause so far as results are concerned. Sedate, "strong-minded," level-headed, phlegmatic stallions are the best gait controllers, while gimpy, snappy, nervous, high-strung mares — nervous even to "rattle- headedness" — impart to the offspring nerve force, gameness, rapidity of action and other extreme speed elements and race horse qualities. These qualities in a brood mare constitute the virtues sometimes found in thoroughbred mares as harness speed producers. The fruits of this phlegmatic-nervous temperamental cross are seen in the Hambletonian-thoroughbred cross, the Hambletonian-Morgan cross, the Hamble- tonian-Blue Bull cross, the Wilkes -Mambr in o Patchen cross, and, reversed, in the Dr. Herr-"cold-blood" cross, and, again, reversed back, in the Argot Wilkes- Dr. Herr cross, not that Argot Wilkes is "cold blooded," but that he is sedate, phlegmatic, yet well bred, while the Dr. Herr mares are snappy, energetic and highly nervous, having the nervous temperament exaggerated. All along the line we find rich fruit from this phlegmatic-nervous temperament cross, and, with good breeding on both sides as a basic principle, the medium-depth student breeder can do no better than to let it be his guiding star in harness speed breeding. — Dr. J. W. Neal in Western Horseman. GOOD AVERAGE. BIG ROUND UP PLANNED. The annual round-up this spring in Douglass county, Washington, promises to be one of the most pictur- esque and exciting that has ever been held in the west, says the Everett Tribune. Frenchman moun- tain, eighteen miles south of Quincy, has always been a bad place for range horses getting away from riders, and there is many a fine horse that has escaped its owners on that range for years. These are generally* the best of the bunch, the strongest and swiftest of them all. This year a plan has been suggested which, if car- ried out, will certainly bring in practically every horse on the range. Horsemen propose to unite in the round-up with ranchers and horsemen from other sections who have horses on this range, and put enough riders in the field on a certain date to prac- tically drive all before them. A line of riders will on a certain day proceed leisurely south toward French- man hill, driving all before them. The east end of the line will swing around to Crab creek and then the line will gradually converge until they have the range horses all at the mouth of Crab creek, on the Colum- bia, or Red Rock coulee. Red Rock coulee is a natural corral which requires but a few men to hold as many as 5000 head, and it is probable that it will be fenced at the end as there is money enough in the treasury of the horsemen at this time to build a corral at Coy- ote spring and fence Bed Rock canyon. The country embraced in this plan is about thirty miles from east to west and nearly fifty miles from north to south, and there are said to be fully 6000 head of horses on the range at this time. Many ranch- ers have stray horses that will be found in the bunch and stockmen from other counties are also interested. Teh entire round-up will occupy less than a week and practically every horse in the country will be driven in. LIVERMORE HORSE SHOW. The annual horse show and stallion parade will come off at Livermore, Alameda county, this year on March 3d, one week from to-day. It is expected that this show will be ahead of anything yet given in that city and horsemen from all over this section of California will be in attendance. All horse owners are invited to make entries there being no charge for entering or showing horses. All horses must be ready to fall in line at 12:30 as the parade will start at 1 p. m. sharp with no delay. Music will be furnished by the Livermore band and if the weather is at all propitious the probabilities are that a very large crowd of people will be in attendance. The officers of the day are President H. M. Christensen, Vice- President John D. Collins, Treasurer John Sweeney, Grand Marshal Frank Fennon, Announcer William McDonald and Secretary Theo. Gorner. So many fine stallions are owned in Alameda county that the show should be one of the best ever seen in this section of the State. The 7:40 ferryboat from the foot of Market street, San Francisco, will connect with the Livermore train at Oakland Mole, which reaches Liv- ermore about 9:30. Returning, there are two trains in the afternoon, leaving Livermore about two and five p. m. The Breeder and Sportsman editor acknowl- edges receipt of a very cordial Invitation to be present. A New Yorker writing of the Midwinter Sale at Madison Square Garden says: The Midwinter Sale, which is considered the season's prospective for trotting horse breeders and racing men, is now a matter of history, but the facts it pro- duced are interesting. During the four days of the sale a total of 471 horses were sold to the highest bid- der for the sum of $167,360, or an average of $355.33 per head. The latter figures may not impress the pub- lic as a very encouraging sign, but to experienced horsemen who were able to see the offerings as they appeared in the sales ring and the showing they made, the general average is far above that of any previous year for the same and perhaps a shade better quality of stock. In trotting horse sales of the nature and magnitude of the Garden event just closed horses available for one of three purposes — professional racing, matinee driving or breeding farm— are the class from which an intelligent idea can be secured as to the real condition of the horse market as it concerns the American trot- ting horse for the turf and the stock farm. A careful study of the sale summaries for the four days proves beyond all doubt that these classes not only sold at higher figures, but brought out such keen competition as has seldom been noticed in a sales ring. Buyers showed a readiness to pay any price for a trotter or pacer which came into the ring with an authentic fast trial and looked good as a racing pros- pect. This class made the best and highest average, in spite of the fact that they compose the most un- certain propositions of the harness turf. Horses available for amateur racing and road or speedway driving found new owners at higher prices than have ever been the case formerly, with a larger number of buyers, while horses that had proved their worth as gentlemen's roadsters fetched better prices than their original cost. This was true of almost every horse known in local amateur circles that faced the auctioneer. Stallions and mares of right breeding whose blood lines could be traced to some of the noted winners on the harness turf, were eagerly sought after by the owners of well known breeding establishments, while youngsters of approved breeding and with futurity en- gagements found ready buyers at paying prices. The apparently low average for the total sale, there- fore, is wholly due to consignments for which neither one of the classes mentioned had any use or demand. Had they been available for the purposes of the gen- eral horse dealer their owners would have received better returns for them, but even in this the majority of that class of stock failed to meet with general ap- proval. The initial sale of 1906 proved conclusively that the demand for trotters and pacers of the right quality will be greater in 1906 than it was last year and that owners of such stock can set their own prices on them,- yet find more than one ready purchaser. It is plainly to be seen that harness racing men are greatly in need of racing material from the way they were scrambling after offerings to their liking. COLUSA SPRING RACES. The race meeting to be given by Mr. E. C. Peart at Colusa, commencing Tuesday, April 24th, will come off rain or shine. There will be a program lasting three days and Mr. Peart extends an invitation to horsemen everywhere to enter in these events. The program arranged is as follows: First Day. Trotting and pacing, 3 minute class, best 3 in 5, $100. Trotting and pacing, 2:24 class, best 3 in 5, $100. Running, J/&-mile dash, free for all horses, $50. Running, %-mile dash, free for all horses, $65. Second Day. Pacing and trotting, 2:35 class, best 3 in 5, $100. Pacing and trotting, Farmers' Race, best 2 w 3, $50. Running, 1-mile dash, Novelty Race, $50. Third Day. Pacing and trotting, free for all, best 3 in 5, $150. Pacing and trotting, 3-year-old, best 3 in 5, $100. Running, *^-mile dash, free for all horses, $40. Running, %-mile dash, free for all horses, $65. A special race for two-year-old trotting and pac- ing, one-half mile heats, $25. DISTEMPER CUBED OB NO COST. The fact that the proprietors of Dr. Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure have for many years been selling it under a guarantee to refund the money if the remedy ever failed -is of itself the evidence needed for the un- usual value of the remedy. When it Is further found that during all this period the sale of the remedy has constantly increased until it Is used by some two hun- dred thousand stock owners, it is time that those not familiar with It should investigate it. Dr. Craft's Distemper Cure is regularly advertised In this journal and we call special attention to the pamphlet mentioned in the advertisement In this issue. This pamphlet, "Veterinary Pointers," contains much really valuable information for the stock owner aside from the special material in regard to curing distemper, epizootic, pinkeye, coughs, etc. Write for the pamphlet today to Wells Medicine Co., 13 Third St., Lafayette, Ind. Two very handsome photographs were received this week from our friend C. A. Harrison of the Hotel Driard, Victoria, B. C, who knows a good looking horse when he sees one. The pictures are of the mare Sophie McKlnney by McKinney out of Bessie Wilkes, dam of Trilby Direct 2:08^4, by Sable Wilkes, and a yearling son of hers that hag been named Maple Wilkes. He is by Nutwood Wilkes and the picture shows him to be one of the grandest looking yearlings to be found anywhere. He was foaled on the 8th day of last April and is nominated in the Breeders' Futur- ity. The mare and colt are both owned by Mr. J. W. Kelly, Esq., of the Maple Glen Farm, Duncan's, B. C. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. T., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. T., Aug. 13-18. Readvllle, Mass., Aug. 20-26. Providence, R. L, Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. T., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. In hot weather there la no drink like Jackson* Napa Soda— plain or In a lemonade. 6 nfthe gveelxev attif gpovtstnxan L February 24, 19C6 THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. (By Ralph H. Tozer.) At last the stewards of the Emeryville trs served some inconsistent runnii Har- bor is referred to), and in lieu of proof of fraud, will refuse the entry of the horse during the rest of the meeting. This ue warning to owners of the offending racers, should have been followed l„ tl | sei d-out running of i Oronte, Neva I-ee, Bountiful, To San, Dr I ly Lad, Clydes, Martinmas, Red Light, Edward, Hi u . Wexford, Graziallo, Gate- .. Invictus, Dargin, G: Hj h B Gowari, ination Romaine. Blumenthal, Haven Run, leeway, Ocyrohe, Sugarmaid. Tavora. Ebel Thatch- F.thel Abbot and Luerece. all these form reversal- turning their nipfiops since January 1, 1906. Verily this is a long list, not one involving many prominent however, and if in the absence of direct evi- dence of fraudulent running of horses the stewards i idges should warn owners of inconsistent runners that form flipflops will not again be tolerated. I be- lieve we would see a wonderful change for the better, much more formful racing and general satisfaction to those that really support "the game" — the general public. It is a mistaken idea that the giving out to the press of the doings of turf officials in the line of detecting turf frauds hurts "the gate." On the contrary, such matters, made public, show that the officials are hewing to the line and trying to keep the sport as clean as possible, all in the interest of the admission-payers. * * * The Ascot Park imbroglio, involving, if the charges of the accusing horsemen be true, Manager James W. Brooks, Owner C. T. Durnell and Handicapper Ed. Jasper, is the talk of turfdom. It seems that Presiding Judge Hamilton and Manager Brooks have been at daggers-drawn ever since the meeting began, late in November, and there have -been horsemen who took sides against Brooks and formed a clique in opposition to him. It must have been a fairly strong combination, too, and the directors must have taken sides, or Brooks would not have been excluded from the judges' stand, as it appears he was, only when he had business with the judges. The accusing horse- men, most of them members of the new Horsemen's Protective Association, declare that Brooks and Dur- nell were in "cahoots" throughout the meeting, in fact that Durnell declared to J. J. McCafferty last fall that he was going to Los Angeles, where he had formed a favorable combination with Manager Brooks; that races would be put on the programme especially suitable to his horses and the weights in the handi- caps so fixed that the Durnell horses would have more than a fair chance of winning. Formal charges against Brooks and Durnell have been made out hut up to Wednesday had not been filed with the club's stewards, and, if their action does not suit the accus- ing horsemen, prominent among which are J. J. Mc- Cafferty, Henry McDaniel and C. T. Boots, the matter will be carried to the Pacific Jockey Club, if the Chronicle representative be correct. Owner Frank Van Meter declares that Brooks gave orders to the track superintendent to harrow the course deeply for the $2,500 race between Bearcatcher, Handzarra and Cruzados, this being in the former's favor and against Van Meter's mare, Handzara. Van Meter went to the judges and Director George Rose and Brooks' har- rowing orders were revoked. Brooks laughs at this and can prove the contrary by many witnesses. Van Meter claims Handzarra was winning the race when Cruzados' rider deliberately ran into the mare, knock- ing her off her stride and winning the race for Bear- catcher, on which "Boots" Durnell had wagered $5,000. Verily the racing pot is seething at Los An- geles. In this connection I want to point to an evil that should be remedied at once if fair dealing is the aim of the southern jockey club. Two of the judges were on the Board of Stewards at Ascot Park the last I knew. The Board of Stewards is supposed to be a sort of jury to hear testimony for and against accused persons. Now most of these accusations are handed in by the judges themselves, and when they take their places in the jurors' box they are acting as both judge and juror, all of which is not fair. With an unfair man acting as both judge and juror undue advantage is given, and men against whom the Judge had a prejudice could he made to suffer through that prejudice. I well remember one case of utter unfairness, of making fish of and foul of another. .\ inn, named John suit.' had been running up a lot of horses at the first Ascot meeting, and alleged lives were put on his Hack to see if he did anything irregular. It was claimi 1 .< detective saw Strlte and "Old Man" Johnson I'd' Johnson & Dod- son) dividing up a considerable sum of money over he run-ups. The mattei came up, and al- igh both denied the truth of tin detective's report, was first suspended and (hen ruled off (he turf Johnson was suspended Indefinitely, the latter g restored to good standing in a wee] or ten days, Strlte was not even allow i to Sell his horses nt auction until the last day of the meeting: In fact It looked as If the officials Intended to outlaw all his horses for transgressing the rules regarding selling or claiming races. The Missouri horseman Is still under the ban (he was a backwoodsman via, seemed to run his horses to win always), while Johnson is quite prominent on the turf and the owner of many flyers with winning ways. This Is Just a sample of the sort of "Justice" meted out by the Ascot Park stew lrds, a number of which, as said before, are Judges as well as Jurymen. If Strlte violated the rub o, Johnson was equally guilty, and In fact ought ave been more severely punished than Strlte, for reason that he had been racing on the big tracks ie country for many years, where they were par- ir, while the poor backwoodsman from Missouri had raved almost entirely in "the bushes," where rules re "jokes." Manager Brooks asserts that there is not a word of truth in Hiv published statement of Horsemen J. J. U i fferty, Henry McDaniel and C. T. Boots alleging his ownership in certain horses at Ascot and that he has been in collusion with C. E. Durnell and W. T. Williams in the matter of fixing weights for the of these men in handicaps and stakes, and as proof of the handicappers' fairness shows that nineteen of the handicaps run up to the date of the "howl" had been won by horses run in nine different interests. Brooks furthermore declares that Handicapper Jasper was the first one the dis- turbers desired removed, and he believes in both Jas- per's honesty and competency. Boots is undoubted- ly the champion disturber in turf circles hereabouts. His trouble making began several years ago, when he was elected president of a Horsemen's Protective Association, and made himself decidedly unpleasant. T. H. Williams, Jr., finally ordered his badge taken up at a meeting in the Emeryville jockey room, and Boots has not raced a great deal over the N. C. J. C. tracks since. Several years ago the writer noted several of his attempts to "knock" so that he could get a man in the office of racing secretary of the San Francisco Jockey Club that would favor him. He final- ly succeeded in his plan, with the result that his horses won a number of races during the running off of the first programme made by his friend, the new racing secretary, whom he kept such close com- pany that they were likened to the Siamese twins. Boots went around smilingly with his reciprocating friend, and it was not positively shown for a while whether Boots was the racing secretary or his new found friend for whom he had successfully "knocked." At length others who had used their hammers almost as well as Boots on Prince Poniatowski's door clam- ored for some of the patronage of the new racing secretary, with the result that the N. R. S. put on many races for the second and third division of Cale- donian Clubbers, to the exclusion of the chief of the clan, who in the opinion of modest men had already gorged himself. This did not suit the turfman who had done such masterly work in the club-wielding department, and who had helped the new secretary along with his labors so well in his callow days, a split ensued, and the supposed Siamese twins were divided by a mountain of harsh words. It looks as if where this turfman lingers any length of time there turmoil and strife follows very shortly. * * * Manager Brooks declares that the case is similar to the one of several years ago, when Boots caused trouble in San Francisco on almost identical lines. Judge Hamilton declares he knows nothing of the charges against Brooks outside of wrhat he has read in the papers. It seems that the Horsemen's Protective Association has been formed and a committee, consisting of J. J. McCafferty, Charles Boots and Henry McDaniel, was appointed to draw up the complaint. The McCafferty-Durnell feud culminated in the fol- lowing rulings, made by Judge Hamilton, but which however, has no connection with the Brooks affair: J. J. McCafferty and F. T. Wood were each fined $1000 and W. T. Williams $100 for practices derogatory to the best interests of the turf. C. C. McCafferty was the complainant and was sustained. He claimed J. J. McCafferty furnished money to Wood, who, in turn, loaned it to Williams on February 2d to claim Dur- bar. After the mare was awarded to Williams he sold her to Wood for an advance of $170, and the latter subsequently sold her to J. J. McCafferty for $70 less. The judges annulled W. T. Williams' claim, ordered Durbar returned to her former owner. C. T. Boots' claim against Durnell was sustained, and Durnell was fined $1000. Hamilton also disqualified Toupee in the four races which he ran at Ascot, and the money which the horse won in the said races is to be properly divided between second and third horses. It was also ordered that the claim of the mare Cutter, which Durnell took in a selling race December 21st, be an- nulled for the reason that he did not own Toupee at the time, and therefore had no right to claim Cutter, and the purse won was ordered returned and divided between second and third horses. Hamilton also fined Charles McCafferty $1000 for being a party to the Toupee transaction. Charles Boots claimed that Toupee was not the property of Durnell, and produced a letter in evidence from Charles to John McCafferty. A part read as follows: "I send Toupee to Los Angeles with Durnell, and have arranged for him to run in his name on account of his having a good apprentice jockey." Charles McCafferty, it was also proved, said on Feb- ruary 3d that Toupee was his horse at the time he ran under Durnell's colors. F. T. Wood and Henry McDaniel filed an affidavit with the judges that Charles McCafferty had stated the same thing to them at Ascot. Durnell produced two bills of sale for Toupee, but the judges said these bills contradicted each other, and in their opinion were manufactured to suit the occasion, and that Toupee simply ran in Durnell's name to get the benefit of Wiley's apprentice allow- ance. To show what bitter feeling has been engendered between Durnell and McCafferty it is only necessary to state that after McCafferty's horse, The Huguenot, had won the fifth event, Durnell bid him up and got him for $800, and thereupon made a complaint that the horse had been "doped." The judges ordered the official veterinary to examine The Huguenot, and two other veterinary surgeons were called In, and after a lengthy consultation It was decided that the horse had been given some kind of stimulant or opiate. They however failed to detemine just what had been used. All of the above will merely hasten the end of win- ter racing in the southern metropolis, started under none too favorable auspices, in view of the large majority of "goody-goods" in the community that they had to encounter, and with a hostile press for good measure, the management has indeed had a rocky row to hoe. The magnificent stallion Goldfinch, it seems, was left at Rancho del Paso, and only late last week proceeded to the Elmendorf Stud of J. B. Haggin in Kentucky in a specially chartered private car and Superintendent John Mackey attending personally to his conveyance across the continent. Goldfinch is a chestnut horse by the unbeaten Ormonde from Thistle (dam of Common and Throstle), by Scottish Chief. Before leaving England Goldfinch sired Chelandry (the Oaks winner) and Hawfinch, while in this country he begot many stake-winners. Tradition being prob- ably the best. When the Haggin yearlings go East to be sold in May the curtain will be rung down on Rancho del Paso as a breeding establishment. RECORDS BROKEN IN 1905. Several world's records were broken on the Ameri- can running turf last year, and, judging from the de- sire among the eastern track owners for fast time, more new figures will be hung up this season, par- ticularly at Belmont Park, which has come to be regarded as the fastest track in the world. Beginning at the shorter distances, a revised list of the records as they stand at present will be of interest to lovers of thoroughbred racing. It was in October, 1894, that Maid Marian ran five furlongs down the Eclipse course at Morris Park in 0:53%, a mark that has never been surpassed. McGee. a three-year-old, established a record of l:05y5 for five and one-half furlongs at Chicago in 1903, which still stands intact. At six furlongs there are two sets of records made in straight-away races, and in races on circular tracks. Artful holds a record of 1:08 for six furlongs straight, made over the Eclipse course at Westchester, in October, 1904. Over the old Futurity course at Sheepshead Bay, Kingston hung up 1:08 for this dis- tance on June 22, 1S91. Roseben, carrying 147 pounds, ran the distance on a circular track last fall at Bel- mont Park in 1:11%. This mark will probably remain the top notch for many years to come. At six and a half furlongs Martinmas holds a record of 1:18%, made on an eastern track in 1904, while The Musketeer hung up a world's record for seven furlongs when he ran this distance in 1:25 during the meeting of 1902. Back in 1890 Bella B., a fast mare, covered seven furlongs straightaway at Monmouth Park in 1:23%. Rag Tag, a four-year-old, ran seven and a half furlongs in 1:32% in 1903, and the record stands unequaled. Last fall Klamesha, with a feather on her back, ran a mile around one turn in 1:31%, which equaled the record made in 1903 by the three- year-old Dick Welles, at Washington Park, Chicago. But Dick Welles carried more weight and ran around two turns. Straightaway the best mile ever run was that of the famous Salvator, who in a match against time at Monmouth Park in 1S90 hung up the figures 1:35%. Harrow, an English bred horse, was timed in 1:35% over one of the British tracks in 1S99. At a mile and twenty yards Maid Marian's 1:40 flat, made in Chicago in 1893, remains unchanged. Grand Opera holds the best record for one mile and fifty yards, 1:41%, made in Chicago in 1903. Then at a mile and seventy yards Jiminez has the best figures, 1:42%, also established in the Windy City in 1901. Haviland, a six-year-old, ran a mile and 100 yards in Chicago in 1:44% in 1903, which is a record, too, although Coruscate equaled it last July on one of the Western race courses. The same time. 1:44%, stands as a record for one mile and a sixteenth, made by Glassful, a three-year- old, in 1903. Fort Hunter created the record of 2:01% for a mile and three-sixteenths at Saratoga in 1904. The fastest time for a mile and an eighth was made by Watercure at Brighton Beach in 1:51%, in 1900, the figures being qualed by Rochampton at the same track the next year. Brighton was the track on which the late S. S. Brown's Broomstick ran a mile and a quarter in 2:04%. That was not long after Irish Lad had created new figures for a mile and three-eighths at Sheepshead Bay. where on June 25 he was timed in 2:17%. Goodrich has held the record for a mile and a half — 2:30% — ever since 1S9S, when he made it in Chicago, Africander's 2:45% for a mile and five furlongs, in 1903, is a best on record, while the erratic Major Daingerfield huijg up 2:57 for a mile and three- quarters in 1903. There are very few races at two miles nowadays. Ten Broeck, in a race against time in Louisville, 1S77, ran this distance in 3:27%. a record that still stands, although Judge Denny equaled it in California in February, 1S9S. The peerless Ethelberfs record of 3:49% for two miles and a quarter has never been equaled since he put it on the books by winning the Brighton Cup at the beach, August 4. 1900. Drake Carter ran three miles at_ the Bay in 5:24 on September 6, 1SS4, but this is a distance seldom raced over now. At four miles Lucretia Borgia holds the record of 7:11, made against time at Oakland, 1S97. The list is complete with the ten-mile record of 26:18, made in 1SS0 by Mr. Brown at Rancocas, N. J. A carload of twenty horses were shipped from Pen- dleton, Oregon, to North Taklma, Washington, one day last week. They were all between five and eight years old, and weighed from 1200 to 1600 pounds. The carload brought $180 per head. Mule buyers are searching the interior of California for mules. Prices range from $150 to $200 per head, but the buyers have to have them. February 24, 190BJ ®*t* gveebev axii> gtpovrsmcm ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. E3^pffl C3SJS] ^S^^ 3®3 ;35p^ ' Somewhat Disabled. The destruction of the main electric power plant in this city on Thursday morning compels us to run one page less in this department for this issue. Matters of local interest, etc., in consequence, are of necessity postponed until next week. GROUSE AND WILD TURKEYS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEIR ECONOMIC VALUE. By Sylvester D. Judd, Assistant United States Bio- logical Survey. The Sharp-Tailed Grouse. The sharp-tailed grouse (Pedioecetes phasinellus) is about the same size and has the general appear- ance of the prairie hen. Its range is wide, extending from Lake Michigan to northeastern California, and from northeastern New Mexico to Alaska. The sharp- tailed grouse varies in different parts of its range, and has been divided into two geographic forms in addition to the typical bird. These are the Colum- bian sharp-tailed grouse (Pedioecetes phasianellus columbianus), occupying the western part of the bird's range in the United States, and the prairie sharp-tailed grouse (Pedioecetes phasianellus cam- pestric) which covers the plains east of the Rocky Mountains. In the northern part of the Mississippi Valley its range overlaps that of the prairie hen, and mixed flocks are sometimes seen, but the "spike tail" is seldom found in such large numbers as that species. It shows also much less adaptability to changed con- ditions and disappears more rapidly after the sub- jection of its range to agriculture. In regard to its curious courtship. Professor Ma- coun writes of the Columbian sharp- tailed grouse: "The males collect in large numbers on some hill about the end of April or beginning of May to have their annual dance, which they keep up for a month or six weeks. It is almost impossible to drive them away from one of their hills when they are dancing. One day about the middle of May, I shot into a dancing party, killing two, and wounding another, which flew a short distance. I went to get it, and before I got back to pick up the dead birds, the others were back dancing around them." — (Cat. Can. Birds, pt. 1, p. 212, 1900.) About a dozen eggs generally make a clutch, and but one brood is reared in a season. The eggs vary from buff to olive-brown and are usually spotted with brown. From two to three months after hatching, the young are full grown and afford quite as good if not better sport than the prairie hen. They lie well to the dog, and usually rise with a noisy, clucking cry; after a short distance the flight changes to an alter- nation of rapid vibrations of the wings and gliding or sailing on stiffly outspread pinions. The flesh of the young, like that of young prairie hens, is light colored and deliciously flavored. After the birds begin to pack they afford little sport to the hunter. The sharp-tailed grouse are partly migratory. In winter they take refuge in the highest trees, walking among the branches almost as nimbly as the ruffed grouse. Like the latter, the present species has a habit of plunging into the snow to spend the wintry night. It has many natural enemies in the winter, and in summer the golden eagle has been known to feed its young very largely upon its flesh. Its strug- gle for existence is unusually severe. Wherever it abounds, in accessible districts, it is pursued relent- lessly by the sportsman: but where diminished to a certain point, as on its western and northern ranges, hunting it is largely abandoned. Probably some de- cades will pass, therefore, before it will be in danger of total extinction. As it does not readily accept civ- ilization, it is not likely to become a popular bird in our growing game preserves, which each year be- come of greater economic importance. Food Habits. — The food habits of the sharp-tailed grouse have been studied in connection with the pres- ent paper by the examination of forty-three stomachs. These were collected in every month of the year ex- cept January and March; most of them in Nebraska and the Northwest Territories, but some in Minne- sota, North Dakota and Manitoba. The investigations showed that animal matter (insects) formed only 10.19 per cent of the food, while vegetable matter (seeds, fruit, and "browse") made 89.91 per cent. If subsequent study proves that these figures apply gen- erally to the species, the sharp-tailed grouse is to be classed among the birds most largely vegetarian. Insect food. — The insect matter consists of bugs, 0.50 per cent; grasshoppers, 4.62; beetles, 2.S6 per cent, and miscellaneous insects, 2.21 per cent in a total of 10.19 per cent of the food. Vernon Bailey, of the Biological Survey, found that three birds shot by him in Idaho August 29 had eaten chiefly insects, includ- ing grasshoppers, small bugs and small caterpillars. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway state that the Columbian sharp-tailed grouse has been known to feed on cater- pillars and other insects that have been scorched by prairie fires.— (Hist. N. A. Birds, Land Birds. Ill, p. 439. 1S74.) The young of the sharp-tailed grouse, like those of other gallinaceous species, are highly insectivorous. A downy chick from 1 to 3 days old, collected on June 27, in Manitoba, by Ernest Thompson Seton. had eaten 95 per cent of Insects and 5 per cent of wild strawberries. The insect material consisted of a lepidopterous chrysalis and the remains of beetles and black ants (Camponotus pennsylvanicus). An- other young bird, about 8 days old, taken by the same collector, had been exclusively insectivorous. It had eaten such beetles as weevils, ground beetles (Harpa- lus herbivagus), the ladybird (Anisosticta seriata), and the click beetle (Dolopius lateralis), also two cutworms, 9 sawfly larvae, such leaf hoppers as Tet- tegonia sp. and Helochara communis, and one leaf spider. The sharp-tailed grouse is fond of grasshop- pers. Vernon Bailey shot three birds at Elk River. Minn., September 17, 1S94, which had eaten, respec- tively. 7. 23 and 31 grasshoppers. The species is a de- stroyer also of the Rocky Mountain locust. Of nine birds collected by Professor Aughey from May to October, inclusive, six had eaten 174 of these pests. (First Rep. U. S. Entom. Comm., Appen. II, p. 47, 1877, 1S7S). The bird eats also a few crickets and, like other gallinaceous game birds, devours the Colorado potato beetle (Leptinotarsa decemlineata). It has been known to feed on the bugs Oncometopia lateralis and Oncometopia costalis. The lack of sufficient ma- terial to determine exactly the bird's relation to in- sects is to be regretted, but enough is at hand to demonstrate the fact that its insect food is much like that of its relaives. Vegetable Food.— The vegetable food of the sharp- tailed grouse, so far as ascertained in the laboratory, comprises weed seeds, 7.39 per cent; grain, 20.50 per cent; fruit, 27.6S per cent; leaves, buds and flowers, 31.07 per cent, and miscellaneous vegetable food, 3.06 per cent, making a total of S9.S1 per cent. The weed- seed element consists of the seeds of black bindweed (Polygonum convolvulus) and other polygonums, wild sunflower (Helianthus sp.), ragweed (Ambrosia arte- misaefolia), peppergrass (Lepidium), blue-eyed grass, sedge and catchfly (Silene antirrhina). The seeds of a number of leguminous plants are eaten, including those of alfalfa. Like many other game birds, the species feeds on mast (largely acorns), including acorns of the scarlet oak (Quercus coccinea). Corn is eaten, but wheat is the favorite grain. It formed 17.21 per cent of the food. A thousand kernels of wheat were sometimes found in one stomach. The sharp-tailed grouse is a great browser. It makes 31.07 per cent of its food of leaves, buds and flowers. Ernest Thompson Seton found it eating the buds of willow and birch. It feeds on the leaves of cottonwood, alder, blueberry, juniper, and larch; also leaves of quillwort (Isoetes), vetch, dandelion, grass, and rush (Jancus). Hearne says that in winter it eats the tops of the dwarf birch and the buds of pop- lars. Flowers form 91.90 per cent of its diet, the spe- cies leading all other birds in this respect. A half pint of the showy, bluish blossoms of the pasque flower (Pulsatilla hirsutissima) which brightens the western prairie are often taken at a meal, and those of the dandelion also are eaten. Inflorescence of grasses, alder, willow, maple and canoe birch are plucked along with leaf buds. Like the prairie hen and the ruffed grouse, the sharp-tailed grouse is frugivorous, and fruit forms 27.6S per cent of its diet. Hips of wild rose alone form 17. 3S per cent. Ernest Thompson Seton. who examined hundreds of stomachs of the sharp-tailed grouse, says that he cannot recollect an instance in which they did not contain the stony seeds of the wild rose (Rosa blanda). (Proc. U. S. Nat. Mus. XIII, p. 519, 1S90. 1891.) The Biological Survey has found rose seeds in many of the stomachs examined, but in numeroous instances it has recorded their absence. The iruit oz both prairie rose and the sweet- briar (Rosa rubiginosa) are eaten. Mr. Seton states that in Manitoba where he has collected during the winter, gravel to pulverize the food is not to be had, and the stony rose seeds act in its stead. Rose hips appear difficult to digest, and, furthermore, are some- times thickly set with bristles that would irritate the human stomach, but appear to cause no inconvenience to the grouse. The persistent bright-colored hips are readily seen above the snow, and they are a boon to the birds in wintry northern regions, where the strug- gle for existence is bitter. Other plants of the rose family furnish food for the sharp-tailed grouse, such as the thorn apple (Crataegus sp.), the wild straw- berry, and the wild black cherry (Prunus serotina). It feeds on blueberries and cranberries and on the snowberry (Symphoricarpus racemosus). various spe- cies of manzanita, bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva- ursi), buffalo berry (Lepargyrea argentea), juniper berries, huckleberries, and arbutus berries. It takes also the partridge berry (Mitchella repens), a favor- ite with the ruffed grouse. Like many other species, it eats with relish the fruit of cornel (Cornus stoloni- fera and poison ivy (both Rhus radicans and Rhus diversiloba). The Heath Hen. The heather hen (Tympanuchus cupldo), which, to casual view, appears like a small-sized prairie hen, inhabits the scrub oaks of the island of Martha's Vineyard, on the coast of Massachusetts. It was for- merly abundant in Connecticut and the eastern parts of New York. New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Vir- ginia. As no stomachs of this now rare bird were to be had for examination, we must depend on the work of other investigators for knowledge of Its food habits. Audubon quotes David Ecktey as follows: "The bay- berry, which abounds in many parts of Martha's Vine- yard, Is the principal food of the Grous particularly such as grows on low bushes near the ground and is easily reached by the birds. They also feed on the boxberry, or partridge berry, the highland and low- land cranberry, rosebud*, pine and alder bud.s acorns etc." (Ornith. Biog. II, p. 500, 1835.) William Brewster in 1890 ascertained that, all told there were probably only about 200 heath hens, and that they were confined to about forty square miles of the island of Martha's Vineyard. In speaking ..f their habits, he says: "At all seasons the heath hens live almost exclusively in the oak woods, where the acorns furnish them abundant food, although, like our ruffed grouse, they occasionally, at early morning and just after sunset, venture out a little way to pick up scattered grains of corn or to pluck a few clover leaves, of which they are extremely fond. Thev also wander to some extent over the scrub-oak plains, especially when blueberries are ripe and abundant. In' winter, during long-continued snows, they sometimes approach buildings to feed upon grain which the farmers throw out to them." (Forest and Stream XXXV. p. 188, 1S90.) If this bird can be saved from extinction and intro- duced into many of the Eastern States, it will be much more likely to succeed, on account of its wood- land habits and narrow range, than the prairie hen, which require a more open country and usually does not take refuge in woods from its enemies. Experi- ments with the heath hen must be made soon, how- ever, or it is likely to become extinct. The Lesser Prairie Hen. The lesser prairie hen (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) is a smaller bird than the common species of the Mississippi Valley and is found from western Texas north to western Kansas. But little of its life his- tory is known. It has been found breeding abun- dantly the first of June at Fort Cobb, Ind. T., and William Lloyd observed this grouse wintering in Concho and Tom Green counties. Texas. H. C. Ober- holser, of the Biological Survey, found them common in August, 1901, in Wheeler county. Texas, where they frequented rolling plains overgrown with oak brush from 1 to 4 feet high. These oaks are ever- green, and the prairie hen feeds upon the buds and young shoots. At the time of Oberholser's visit the birds were in coveys of from fifteen to twenty, but, according to the people of that section, the prairie hens gather in flocks of hundreds in the late fall. At this season they are destructive to unthresned wheat and oats, tearing off the surface of the stacks. In winter they visit cattle pens and corrals in search of food. During severe winters they are sometimes so numerous that they become a nuisance. Some idea may be had of their abundance during winter from the information secured by Oberholser that one man shipped 20,000 of them from this section in a single season. (To be continued.) Wild Animals Become Tame. Wild animals and birds under favorable environ- ments readily become used to man and his ways. In the Yellowstone Park, the raising of alfalfa for the winter feed of the wild animals in the park has proven a great factor in bringing the wild hoofed creatures closer to the observation of man. In this respect, Superintendent Pictcher of Yellowstone Park writes enthusiastically of alfalfa as a food for the wild animals in that great preserve. He says in his report: "From a field near the Gardner arch 100 tons of fine hay will feed the antelope and other animals. The hay has been stacked near the soldiers' quarters. Three years ago deer were seldom seen anywhere about th Mammoth Hot Springs and only occasionally a few tracks could be seen in the snow, showing where they had crossed over the parade ground of Fort Yellowstone during the night. "As a matter of experiment, and with the hope that some of these animals that passed through the post might be induced to come around where they could be seen, a few bales of alfalfa hay were scattered about the parade ground. The result was remark- able. From the second day after the hay had been put there about a dozen black-tailed deer appeared. Next day the number was doubled, and from day to day the number increased, until finally they num- bered considerably over 100. "It was extremely interesting to see how quickly these animals lost all fear of human beings, and even when the evening gun is fired within 100 yards of them they pay little or no attention to It. but show much more interest to the lowering of the flag from the staff, which is located in the center of their feed- ing ground. "The mountain sheep, which are supposed to be the wildest of all western animals, have become even tamer and more fearlesss than the deer." There are about 100 of them now within the con- fines of the park. These animals are rapidly disap- pearing in the west and this fact makes it more im- portant to preserve those in the park. Antelope are also becoming rare. About 1500 of these little animals make their home in the park and seem to be Increas- ing rapidly. Last year 16,198 tourists visited the park. John Benn's Trout and Salmon Flies. The San Francisco Fly Casting Club Is holding a raffle of the grand collection of John Benn's trout and salmon flies, exhibited at the World's Fair, St. Louis, and at the Portland Fair, receiving the gold medal at both expositions. The flies are now on exhibition at 801 Market street, corner of Fourth. Tickets are on sale at Claybrough-Golcher's, Olympic Arms Co. and Chas. H. Kewell Co. On a hot day drink Jackson's Napa So : and be refreshed. 8 &he gveebev axxfr *&pcvt&mixn [February 24, 1906 Blue Rock Shoot The first regular Golden Gate Club monthly shoot for this year will be held at Ingleside tomorrow. Los Angeles Show The Southwestern Kennel Club will hold the third annual bench show in Los Angeles April 11th to 14th inclusive. James Cole, ol Kansas City, will judge all classes. Premium lists will be out March 1st. EntrieB close April 3d with George Albers, 60th Avenue and Marmion Way, Los Angeles. o Portland Show The Portland Kennel Club has applied to the Pa- cific Advisory Board for the dates April 25th to 28. h inclusive, on which to hold its annual annual bench show. SAVE THE BIRDS. The Breeder and Sportsman has repeatedly pleaded the cause of the leathered inhabitants of wildwood and field, urging that indiscriminate slaughter should be stayed for two reasons at least — their economic value, contrary to the general belief in that respect, lat they were not game birds. Our native birds are principally preyed upon by a horde of foreigners. European and Asiatic, a vandal lot of human locusts, who net, trap and shoot every variety of bird for the pot. These fellows flock to the hills and fields every Sunday and should be stopped some way or other. One effective method would be the concerted action of farmers and ranchers in keeping trespassers off their lands. How most birds help the farmer and rancher is given below in an epitome of statistics, the result of scientific research, published by the Department of Agriculture, and shows what various birds feed upon and how, in consequence, they may be useful or detri- mental to agricultural interests. The Department of Agriculture, realizing the im- portance of correct information on this subject, has examined the stomachs of 26,000 birds of various kinds with the following results: The bluebird is a good friend of the farmer, de- stroying harmful insects, and wild fruit can be planted to encourage his presence. The robin is found to eat but little cultivated fruit, less than five per cent. Nearly half of his food con- sists of wasps, ants, spiders, grasshoppers, caterpil- lars, etc. He also destroys the March fly larvae which injures the grass in the hayfields. The chickadee will in one day destroy 5550 eggs of the canker worm moth, and farms where this bird is encouraged to spend the winter are remarkably free from these pests. The brown thrasher eats some cherries and grain, but these constitute only 11 per cent of his food, and he does great good by the destruction of many beetles which would do far more injury to the crops. The house wren and butcher bird do great good in destroying caterpillars, bugs, crickets, spiders, grass- hoppers, locusts, web worms, injurious beetles, etc. The butcher bird and loggerhead shrike destroy grasshoppers, mice, etc. The catbird is said to eat fruit, but while this is true in some parts of the country, one-third of its food consists of harmful insects. This bird prefers wild fruits to cultivated, such as berry-bearing bushes, red mulberry trees, etc. The late Sylvester Judd suggested that crops of cherries and strawberries can be protected by "plant- ing the prolific Russian mulberry, which if planted in hen yards and pig runs will afford excellent food for the hens and pigs besides attracting the birds away from more valuable fruit." The vireos help the farmer in destroying harmful insects. Cedar bird. More than one-half of its food consists of wild fruit and one-eighth of insects which are among the worst pests of the country, especially the elm leaf beetle. Swallows, not only are the greatest fly catchers, but also destroy flying ants, beetles and weevils. The rose breasted grosbeak is fond of potato- beetles, and is especially helpful to the farmer. The meadow lark has been said to eat clover seed, but that seems to be a mistake, for 99 per cent of his food at clover time was found to be insects, mostly grasshoppers. It is estimated that the value of the grass crop saved by meadow larks on a township of 36 square miles, each month during the grasshopper season is about $356.40. He also destroys other in- inone them some of the most injurious beetles. or Beril pays: "Far from being injurious, it is one of the most useful of allies of agriculture, stand- ing almost without a peer as a destroyer of noxious Insects." The red-winged blackhlrd Is also a friend, destroy- mtltles o( caterpillars, grasshoppers and wee- en when In the cornfields more than pavs for the porn eaten bv destroying the worms In the husks. Tn winter It destroys seeds of rag-weed, fox- fall grass and bird weed. The rrnw Wnrlchlrn rlestrnvs the rose hug. cureul'o, m,- i Hbonner, erlelret pad locust. These tUrrls follow the "low -.pa feed or ,*n>l-,o Tt |= onlv when In rare Instances these birds descend upon n «eM In hundreds of thousands that thev may do much ln*"ry. The err w Is said to feerl np the snrnutln* corn nnd rr-r> in 'he milk, on cultivated fruit, and the r»irs r,r poultry and wild hire's. While It has i nt these charce-- nre true to ft certain ef the. amount destroyed is small compared food done In destroying Injurious Inserts The etrfrs nnd yonpty of poultry ropfltl- per cent of his food tor the year. The crow destroys injurious insects — grasshoppers, hay beetles, cut worms, etc., also mice. Moreover he does good service as a scavenger. Some farmers protect themselves by feeding to the crows old corn when the growing corn is in the milk, or tar the corn before planting, thus securing the services of the crow in destroying the insect pests that will surely injure the growing crop. The best methods of tarring are given in the "Crow Bulletin" which can be obtained of the Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. The bluejay has been accused, like the crow, of eating corn and young birds and eggs, but it has been found that he prefers mast, seeds of trees, such as acorns, etc., and 22 per cent of- his food consists of grasshoppers, caterpillars, etc., so that he does more good than harm. The horned lark, or shore lark, does great good by eat.ng weed seed and but little damage to grain crops. The yellow-bellied fly catcher, wood pewee and phoebe are all helpful to the farmer by their destruc- tion of harmful insects. The kingbird has been accused of destroying honey bees, but examination proved that nearly all the bees were drones, and that he feeds upon the robber fly, the worst enemy of the honey bee, and known to kill 104 bees in a day. The kingbird also destroys the hairy and downy woodpeckers, chafers, clover, weevil, etc. He prefers wild cherries, elderberries, etc., to cultivated fruit. The flicker has been wrongfully accused of eating corn. Nearly half its food consists of grasshoppers, and Professor Beal says that this bird, also the hairy and downy woodpeckers, should be protected and en- couraged. The red-headed woodpecker eats more grasshoppers than any other woodpecker, also eats June bugs, weevils, etc. The woodpecker sapsucker. These birds are largely insect-eaters. It is only occasionally that an orna- mental tree may be injured by them, and to protect these, the black alder, Virginia creeper, wild black cherry and juniper can be planted. The cuckoo, black-billed cukoo and yellow-billed cuckoo are very useful in destroying injurious beetles, grasshoppers, caterpillars, web worms, etc., etc. Hawks and owls. These are among the best friends of the farmer. Dr. Fisher says: "The birds of prey, the majority of which labor night and day to destroy the enemies of the husbandman, are persecuted unceasingly." The marsh hawk is one of the most useful. It has a white rump and flies low over the meadows; it lives on meadow mice, etc. Red-tailed hawk, hen hawk. The bird does not deserve the latter name; 66 per cent of its food con- sists of injurious mammals. The red shouldered hawk, sparrow hawk, Swain- son's hawk, are all most useful, destroying insects and mammals. It is said that 300 Swainson's hawks in one month save 60 tons of produce that would otherwise be destroyed by grasshoppers. Only three kinds of hawks seem to be guilty of the charges made against them, the gos-hawk. Coop- er's and the sharp-shinned, while all the rest are very helpful to the farmer and fruit grower. The long-eared owl destroys mice and disturbs but few birds, and is said to do much good. Barred owl. Only 4% per cent of its food consists of poultry and game and it could do much less harm if chickens were shut up at night. Its food is mostly made up of injurious insects and mammals. The screech owl destroys both insects, mice and rats. The barn owl lives mostly on injurious mammals, gophers, moles, mice, rats, etc. It has been found that 93 per cent of its food consists of mice. Owls remain with us through the winter feeding upon the little enemies of orchard, garden and field. King and Silver Salmon Fry. Superintendent Shebley of the Brookdale hatchery is preparing to distribute about half a million king salmon in the Santa Cruz county streams during next month. He has about 67,000 steelhead eggs hatching now and has enough fish in the Soquel and Powder Mill dam ponds at present to get fully 700,- 000 more eggs. Mr. Shebley expects to receive a lot of silver salmon fry from Baker Lake, "Wash., in the near future. Fish Spearers Fined. E. Eriekson and D. P. Rollins, employees of the P. I. Company, near Monterey, were arrested last Satur- day by Deputy Fish Commissioners "W. R. Welch and E. E. Pedler. They subsequently pladed guilty before Justice Lambert and were fined $25 each. The offense committed was spearing steelhead. The two men were caught in the act and had speared quite a number of fish. The statute prescribes the method of catching steelhead; the use of a fish spear for that purpose is illegal. TRADE NOTES. Averager. Reported. Blue Mound. 111.. January 24-25. J. S. Boa. first general average, 339 out of 365. shooting "DuPont." W. D. Stannard. second general average, 331 out of 305, shooting "DuPont." W. E. Keller. Taylorvllle. 111., first amateur and third general average, 322 out nf 365, shooting "DuPont." J. W. Robins. Blue Mound, 111., second amateur average. 299 out of 365, shooting "DuPont." W. J. Manning, Morrisonvllle, 111., third amateur average, 292 out of 365. shooting "DuPont." Hamilton, Ont., January 16-19, J. R. Taylor, first general average, 407 out of 440. shooting "DuPont." C. E. Doollttle, Cleveland, O., first amateur and sec- ond general average, 402 out of 440, shooting "New E. C." (Improved). J. A. R. Elliott, third general av- erage, 897 out of 440, shooting "New Schultze." Q. B. Burns, Cleveland, O., second amateur average, 3392 out of 440, shooting "New E. C." (Improved). J. W. McMeans, Cleveland, O., third amateur average, 385 out of 440, shooting "New E. C." (Improved). The Sunny South Handicap Tournament, Brenham, Texas, January 22-27. Handicap event was won by W. R. Crosby, shooting "New E. C." (Improved), who tied for the event with Geo. Maxwell, Holstein, Neb., shooting "DuPont," on 98 out of 100. In the shoot- off Mr. Crosby broke 22 out of 25 to Mr. Maxwell's 21. W. R. Crosby, shooting "New E. C." (Improoved), tied for first general average for the whole tourna- ment, with 11S0 out of 1220. An amateur, also shoot- ing "New E. C." (Improved), won first amateur av- erage and tied for first general average with this same score. F. C. Riehl, second general average, 1175 out of 1220, shooting "New E. C." (Improved). H. G. Taylor, Meckling, S. D., second amateur and third general average, 1160 out of 1220, shooting "New E. C." (Improved). F. A. Weatherhead, Red Oak, Iowa, third amateur average, 1151 out of 1220, shooting "Du Pont." Mr. F. C. Riehl made one run of 232 straight, The Only One. Judging from the large number of inquiries and let- ters received recently in regard to the matter of the gold medals awarded the Smith gun and Hunter one- trigger by the Lewis and Clark Exposition, it would seem as if a statement as to the exact truth of the matter would not be out of place. The L. C. Smith was the only gun awarded a gold medal by both the expert and superior juries, and the Hunter Arms Company has good reason to feel proud of this award, as the expert jury was composed of gentlemen of wide experience, both practical and theo- retical. For instance, Major Hittinger is a goovern- ment official and has charge of the testing of govern- ment guns. Senator R. D. Inman has been an enthu- siastic sportsman ever since he was a boy, and is at present the owner of both Parker and Scott guns. Captain Meyers has been familiar with guns for years and is thoroughly conversant with gun mechanism and shooting in general. The gold medal awarded was on the mechanical con- struction and remarkable simplicity of the Smith gun, as well as the Hunter one-trigger. 10 COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. 1 -June l-Closed season [or black bass. Feb 24-San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Clarifica- tion Contest No. 1. Stow lake, 2:30 p. m. Feb.25-San Franolsco Fly-Casting Club, Sunday Classifica- tion Contest No. I. Stow lake, 10 a. m. April 1-Sept. to. Oct. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- head in tidewater. Sept. 10-Oot. 16-Close season In tidewater tor steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season (or salmon. Sept. 15-April 1-Open season tor lobsters and orawflsb. Oct. 16-Nov. 15 -Close season tor taking salmon above tide, water. Nov. I- April 1— Trout season closed. Nov. 1-April l-Closed season lor taking steelhead above tide water. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10-Season open lor taking salmon above tide fe-ster. Gun. Feb. 15-July 1— Dove season closed. Feb. 15-Sept. l-C:osed season lor mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Feb. 15-Oct. 15— Closed season lor quail, duoks. etc. Feb. 22-Blue Rook Tournament under the auspices ol the Golden Gate and Union Gun Clubs. Ingleside. Feb. 22-Pueblo Gun Club. Blue rook tournament. Pueblo. March 4-Blue Rock Gun Club. Grounds loot ol High street, Alameda. T ., March 1 1-Empire Gun Club. Blue rooks. Alameda J™°''°°; May 26, 27-Paclflo Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third annual blue rock tournament. Valle]o Gun Club grounds, * los den Station. June 19, 32-Interstate Assooiatlon. Grand Ame ricaa Hand icap target tournament. J1000 added money. Elmer E. Shaner, &ec retary-Manager, Plltsburg, Pa. Oct. I5-Aprll 1— Open season lor English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug I— Deer season dosed. Bench Shows. Feb. 12. 15-Westminster Kennel Club. New York. Robt. V- McKim, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 25. Feb. 20, 23-New England Kennel Club. Boston. Wm. B. Emery, Seoretary. Entries olose Jan 30. Feb 28-Maroh3-WashIngton Kennel Club Washington, Pa. F.C. Thomas, Seoretary. Entries olose Feb. 17. Feb 28. March S-District of Columbia Kennel Club. Washing ton. D. C. Howe Totten, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 10. March 1. 3-Soutuern Obio Kennel Club. Hamilton, Ohio. Thos. Boll. Seoretary. Entries close Feb. 12. Maroh 7, 10-Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburfe, Pa. *.&. Steadman. Secretary. Entries olose Feb. >5. March 8. 10-Colorado Kennel Club. Denver, Col. T. w. Bar- ters, Secretary. Entries olose _,k, Maroh 13, 16-BufIalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N.Y. S. P. wnite, Secretary. Entries olose _, , tl «.„„ March 14. 17-Passalo County Fish and Game P™'6"1™^ elation. Paterson, N. J. Jas. Matthews, Secretary, intries ° March 17-Ball Terrier Club. S.n Francisco. Entries close- March 21, 24- Wolverine Kennel Club Detroit, Mioh. K. t, Smith, Seoretary. Entries olose March 10. March 30 31-Haverhill Kenuel Club. Haverhill, Mass. a. a Balcb, Seoretary. Entries olose „„„,.,.„ April 11, 14-Southwestern Kennel Club. If'AW'f.8; ae0rge R. A lbers Secretary, Los Angoles. Entries olose April S- April I8.21-Seattle Dog Fanciers' Association. Seattle, Wash. Chas. McAllister, Seoretary. Entries olose Mav 29, 30-Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L.I. Entries close June 1 2-Ladies Kennel Association ol Mass. Mrs. l.. m. Speed, Seoretary. Entries olose June 6. 9-San Franolsco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench snow Fred P Butler, Secretary. Entries close .Tune 9-WlssBhtckon Kennel Club. Wlssahickon, Pa. J. ser- geant Prloe. Seoretary Entries olose ■ Sept. 3. 5-Mlaml Valley Kennel Club. Plqua, O. Edwin A. Hiatt. Seoretary. Entries olose • Sept. S. 6-Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J.Leo, Seoretary. Entries olose 9ept. 8— Cedarhurst Kennel Club- Cedarhurst, L. I. Jno G. Bates, Seoretary. Entries close ■ Sept. 29— Bryn Mawr Kennel 'Oluh." Havertord Pa. Henry D Riley, Swretary, Stafford, Pa. Entries olose — — February 24, iy(6] <&it? gvgsozv axxXt Qpovi&ntan 9 HOW TO TREAT "LUMPY JAW." It might be of interest to the farmer io know that it often pays him to trea\ his cattle afflicted with "lumpy jaw." This disease, technically termed acti- nomycosis, is caused by the "Ray fun- gus,"' a fungus found on the various awns of grasses and grains. This awn harboring the fungus may then find lodgment in the cavity of a shed milk- tooth or other lesions of the mucous membranes of the mouth, intestines, respiratory tract or skin, there often producing very extensive destruction of tissue and suppuration, eventually leading to a large "lump" from the surface of which oozes a yellowish pus. "Wooden tongue" is a form of this disease affecting the tongue, in which condition we will find the ton- gue swollen hard and stiff and find it very painful to the touch. From our experience we find that when this disease is confined to the head and neck we can generally hope for a cure in the course of a few months or less, depending upon the stage and nature of the disease. When the tongue is affected the liberal appli- cation of Lugol's solution of iodine or tincture of iodine must be resorted to. This should be applied twice daily by means of a small brush. Internally the daily administration of four drams of potassium iodide dissolved in a pint of water should be persisted with for about two weeks, when it should be dispensed with for tnree or four days and again repeated as before. The daily dose can be gradually decreased as we see improvement in the animal. When the jaw is affected commence by cleaning the affected area with a so- lution of one part carbolic acid to 100 of water; then as much as possible scrape out supprating area and by means of a small syringe (hypodermic syringe, if possible) inject liberal ctuantities of Logul's solution of iodine once or twice daily, accompanied by the daily administration of four drams of potassium iodide as above. While this disease is not very fatal, we find that it very materially decreases the value of the animal for both beef and breeding purposes, and immediate treatment is to be encouraged. BREEDING SPRING LAMBS. Warranted to Give Satisfaction. GomhstuSVs Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puff3, and all lameness from Spavin, Ringbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or "Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria, Kemoves all Bunches from Horses or Cattle, As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism. Sprains, jore Throat, etc.. It Is Invaluable. livery bottle of Caustic Balsam sold Is Warranted to give satisfaction, price 81 SO per bottle. Sold by druggist*, or sent by ex- press, charges paid, wita full directions for its uae. t3"Send for descriptive oirculvs, testimonials, etc. address I «The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, o There is still a lingering idea that a lamb is too young an animal to put to breeding. There was a belief, time ago, that a three-year-old ewe was the right animal to put with the ram, which should be five years old before it could be safely bred. It was said, in ancient times, that far in the future a thousand years should be as one day, and one day as a thousand years. Com- paratively as this is to be understood this time has come, for in fact thu prophecy has been fulfilled, says American Sheep Breeder. For it comes to the same thing that we may com- municate with another person twenty thousand miles away in a moment, and travel more than a mile a minute. In this age we are pushing things, and lr a colt is fit for the race course at a year old, and the greater part of the world's business is done by youths un- der twenty years old, we may very reasonably push things equally in all matters. Thus in conformity with the modern methods, otherwise, wu may very properly and safely breed the last year's lambs and so largely in- crease the product of our flocks; a full half anyhow. The matter has been settled, how- ever, and has passed the stage of dls^. cussion. At a year old lambs are now sheep. There are plenty of cows under two years old. and market beeves no older. Any full grown man may now remember when a steer was fed five years before it was thought fit for the butcher, but the farmer who should feed any animal in this way now would quickly find his only refuge in the poor house, or deservedly go to the asylum. There is no good reason why last spring lambs may not be bred. It will increase the stock of sheep, which in fact needs replenishing, if it is true that we are five sheep short out of every hundred we had two years ago. But like the growth in substance, as compared with age. we may very rea- sonably breed the lambs of last year and so practically almost double the breeding stock at once. The rest is a mere matter of feeding. HOG FOR MARKET. Breeders of swine will find the fol lowing suggestions from The Swine herd of practical value: The object of hog raising and breed ing is to produce the character of hog that best suits and profits the packer, being the kind of hog that meets his wants and trade. A breeder should have in his mind at all times the pur- pose for which hogs are raised and then improve the breed with this ob- ject in view. The style of hog that best suits the market is not the same to-day that it was 30 years ago. There are changes in the requirements as there are in other things. One man will say it is because of progress! veness, while an other may call that in question. How ever we have to deal with the facts as they are. Forty years ago the farmer required 18 months to market his hogs. The pigs of this year were carried through the winter, with just feed enough to maintain and add some growth. Feed ing was then commenced upon them early the next year and fed heavily as soon as new corn was ready, and put into the market averaging 300 to 600 pounds, according to the feeders' abil ity and the amount of feed used. At that time there was no summer pack- ing. Here is the risk of IS months or disease and the necessary feed to com bat a severe winter to furnish the heat. To-day the hogs can be marketed in from 6 to S months, less than half the time, at an average of 250 to 300 pounds. The expediting of the pro duction of a marketable hog is cer tainly a vast improvement. It is the saving of feed, the saving of risk from disease and interest and time. "We have ample proofs from the tests of the experimental stations of the greater cost of the hog to produce to this age and size, and that it takes a very much greater percentage of corn to produce a pound of gain on a hog that weighs 300 pounds and upwards than one that weighs 50 pounds and upwards. There is a smaller increase in the gains from same amount of feed as the hog grows older and larger in size Therefore, the cheapest meat pro- duction is on the younger hog. "When R. W. Clark of Utah fed a bunch of steers last season he found that they made a pound of gain from 11 5 pounds of alfalfa hay and 31.* pounds of beet pulp at a cost of 2.8 cents. "When the pulp was fed ad libitum with alfalfa to the steers, it had a value of $1.85 and when similar- ly fed to sheep It was worth $1.13 a ton. On a full ration of alfalfa and grain — bran and shorts In equal parts — the steers made a pound of gain at a cost of 4.93 cents. "With another lot fed alfalfa, grain and beet pulp, a pound of gain cost 3.98 cents. "When a full ration of alfalfa and pulp with a half ration of grain was fed. a pound of gain was made from 9.2 pounds ot alfalfa, 2.03 pounds of grain and 19.1 pounds of pulp, the cost being 3.51 cents. When a full ration of grain and pulp was fed with a half ration of alfalfa, a pound of gain was made from 4 28 pounds of alfalfa, 3.65 pounds of grain and 21.3 pounds of pulp at a cost of 3.84 cents. Molasses In small quantities — four ounces a head daily — fed with eight pounds of grain and beet pulp ad libitum had a value of $2.36 the ton. $1.25 $1.00 ,75 .50 .35 .25 Rock Island Sheep's Wool Sponges, in all sizes, for vehicle washing and harness cleaning. At Qarte'-s dpalcrs, or delivered on receipt cf price. S ADDERLEY. 307 Market St., S. F , Cal. Standing Offer Good always, everywhere. $100 Reward, for any lame- ness, curb, splint, founder, distemper, etc., (where care is possible) that is not curedby TUTTLE'S ELIXIR Greatest horse remedy in the world. Tattle's Family Elixir invaluable for human bruises, pains, rheumatism, etc. Send for free 100 paee book. Veterinary Experience." The perfect horseman's guide. Every disease symptom and its treatment. rattle's Elixir Co., 52 Beverly St, Boston, Mass. Mack & Co. , San Francisco and F. V?. Braun, Loa Angeles, California Agents, Deposit Your Idle Funds WITH THE Central Trust Company of la 42 Montg-omery St. SAN FRANCISCO. FINE LOWLAND PASTURE. Sediment Soil. Stock Stabled in Storms. No Wire Fences. RANCHO CALAO, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL. FOR SALE. The great broodmare MABEL by Naubuc Dam of Directly 2:03M (two-year-old champion ret-ord 2:07^), Reybel (trial) 2:10 as a three-year old and several others wiih trials b-low 2:3U. Mabel is in foal to Bonnie Direct 2:0dJ4- This eross should produce a world-beater. For price and particulars address I. D. CUNNINGHAM, Haywards, Cal Trap For Sale. A PINE. STYLISH, STRONGLY CON structed, high Trap, with brake, in splendid condition; can be secured at a bargain for cash. Cost $425; bult to order. Owner leaving city. See it at once at HULDA STABLES, 1530 Fell Street, Park Panhandle. By McKinney 2:11H; dam, Lady Washington In every point he shows his breeding; has good style and action. Stands 16 hanas, weight 1200 pounds. His get bring big prices. "Will make the Sanson ai Rose Dale Stock Farm Fee, »30 for season. Forforth*-r perticolars address ROSE DALE STOCK FARM. Sam a Rosa, Cal FOR SALE CHEAP. Imported Belgian Stallion Will be sold very cheap on account of closing out stock farm Several big young colts, stand' ard bred mare by Piedmont, etc Address C. L. JONES, Box 43, Modesto, Cal. FOR SALE. BAY MARE. THREE YEARS OLD. BRED by Mr Meek of Haywards Sire, Wm Harold; dams by Direct, Mambrino Wilkes, Woodburn and Williamson's Balmont. Fair size, good style and looker; trotted halt at matinee. Jan. 29th. in 1:22 to high-wheel road cart Can trot a 35 gait on track or road any day without any rigging or boots. Sound and tough and as well able to be put to work as many 4 or 5 year olds. Price 8200. Apply to Breeder office. r HITS THE BULLS EYE1 J every lime, "3 in One" gun oil / lubricates the most sensitive sclioi 'point perfectly, clcsna out all residua ' of buret and smokeless powder, , r/« • sn positively prevents load- (Q>Ste(iJff& ing snd plitinc, slso rust 1 and tarnish. Write tor special aun booklet and flri.l enmple-both free. G. W. COLE CO. 128 Woshin«lon Life Building, New York. 678-680 Ilth Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of HorseE bought and sold. THE Z1BBELL STABLE ZLBBELL & SON, Proprietors. San Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Handling all kinds Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand. T ■< any car going to the Chutes. Tel.: West 250 PEDIGREES TABULATED And type written Ready tor framing Write for prices. Bhmdib abd Spob 5I»>I> !l tin San PranolBoo. Oil. You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sura large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-2% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Intereat paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. I^or Sale. The Perfectly Galted TrottlnB Stallion ALTA VELA 2:11 1-4 (Reg. No. 22449) Sire. ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 in 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar 1:59J£. Dam/-?"ITfo?:18^(dam0tAltaVela 2:11* and Palorl 2:2410 by Piedmont 2:17^: second Cam Lady Lowell (dam of Ladywell 2:16« and Lorita !:I8S4) by St. Clair; third dam Laura, dam of Doo. sire of Occident 2:165£. ^Ai?^S.„a■ll "onniunications to BREEDER AND SPORrSMAN,36 Geary St.. San Franclso? JACK FOR SALE. CJ.OOD. SERVICEABLE JACK. S YEARS ^ old, and good, prompt performer. Guaran- teed in every way. Also, one SADDLE BURRO. Inquire of W. R. MADDEN, 111 Crocker Bldg, San Francisco. Strathway 2:19 For Sale. a IRE OP ° Toggles 2:08S£ John Caldwell 2-.08& Getaway 2:12*^ Homeward 2:13?^ (sire ot Geo. G. 2:05J<) Strathmont 2:12^ Cuckoo 2:13 Hoxiewat J: u*£ etc., etc STRATHWAY is by that great sire. Stelnway. and out of tbe great broodmare Countess (dam of Dawn 2:18?£) by Whipple's Hambletonlan. He is a strong, vigorous horse, and out of all the mares bred to bim during tbe past two years every one proved to be in foal. He will be sold very reasonable, as his owner is felling alibis trotting-bred stock and retiring from breeding. For price and furthfir particulars address GRAHAM E. BABCOCK, San Diego. Cal. BROOD MARES FOR SALE. EVELINE by Nutwood 600 "1 NELLIE FAIRMONT bv Fairmont All suf* V in foal t« I LyDWood W. AT.AMFDA MAin bv Frog J EVELTNF fme'etorr of Pip 2:W«. T'*>- t»ni9;lfi Maud F^wlPr P;?ii; nnd RoMpt 2:15. tho dam of ppp»l*»t 2:D9J-L champion three- vpnp-old nt>"'r,p fl"v NET-L1F FATRMONT. dam of Zambra world's champion for 5 mllp". ]3;94 ALiMP.r»A M ATTWrprMstPped) In nut of Oakland Maid 2:22 bv Speculation For prices n"d m»*'lr"'pt-s pddrpccj S. R WRIGHT Santa Rosa. Cal. FOR SALE. A HANDSOME PAIR O^ COBBY RTJIT.T coal bl»pk Gp'dtrF": Ave ypar° old: IS 2 hands ntpri Rv a wn ot Mr-Klnnpv out of otnnfl- ard brpd marp». This Is a thoroii'-h'v hfph-c'ass park op poro" rpam and has sly'p and mmip»r« that would win In a show rtr-e. Tho*" urn hr/ifc > stand, walk and fpot: arefpa'-'pcoof n ' ■ on road and «f»m cn*-s: gtmrnntmf to rir< -■ pip or donblp. op on thf 'pad in fnnr>(ii-r)ii^d unrt and vind In "vpi-v nnrtlrii'r-'- H. R . RA ND. Thp Rpnaissftnpp, corner F: and Fell Sts., San Francisco, Cal. 10 (Tin- fSxcsHev ailH i»fHJrtan>ait [February 24, 1906 Westchester Racing Association RACE COURSE: Belmont Park, Queens, Long Island, N. Y. OFFICE: 571 Fifth Ave., N. Y. THE WINDSOR ARCADE. Spring and Autumn Meetings 1906. The following races are open to close by midnight of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, with a Supplementary Entry for some as by the Conditions. CONDITIONS. FIRST SPRING MEETING Thursday, May lOth, to Saturday, May 19th-Nine Days. THE MAIDEN' -For maiden two-year-olds. Colls lis lbs.; Allies and geldings "J> "» A t $25 each. !lil rorlelt; SI500 added. Fivi Furlongs THE BOIQUET— Selling lor two-year-olds, at $S5 each, $10 lorlelt: $1500 added. Fiv THE eav.chvont— For maiden three-vear-old. Colts Holds, geldings 112 lbs. aillOTUOItn at $23 each. $10 forfeit; $1800 added. Winners extra Furlongs is no lbs.: Seven Furlongs THE VAN N EST-Selling lor three-year-olds, at S25 each, $10 forfeit; 51500 arJded^ Furlongs THE 5IETROPOLITAN HANDICAP— For three-year-olds and upward, at $100 each, hall forfeit; JlOonly If declared; $10 000 added. un\ ->'"e THE TOBOGGAN HANDICAP— For three-year olds and upward, at $30 each; $10cniyif de clared; $3500 added. Six Furlongs THE HA BLEU- Silling for three-year-olds and upward, at $25 each, $10 forfeit; $2000 added. THE NEW RCCHEI.LE HANDICAP— For three-year olds and upward, at $25 each; $10 if de- clared, with $1500 added. Seven and a Naif Furlongs SECOND SPRING MEETING Monday, May 28th, to Wednesday, June 6th— Nine Days. THE GAIETY— For two-year-old Allies, at $25 each; $10 forreit; $1500 added. To carry 112 lbs. Winners extra. Wour "nd « IIa'f Furlongs THE LACKEATE-For two year-olds, at 830 each, hall forfeit; $2500 added Colts 115 lbs. fillies and celdlngs 112 lbs Winners extra. Maiden allowances. Ftvt Furlongs THE BAYCHE8TER— For three year-olds, non-winners ol $1500 in 1905, at $25 each; $10 forfeit* $2'X>0 added. Colts 115 lbs , geldings 112 lbs, fillies 110 lbs. Penalties and allowances One Mile THE POCANTICO— For three-year-olds, non-winners of $5000 in 1905. at $30 eaoh: half forfeit; $1200 added. Colts 126 lbs. geldings 123 lbs., Allies 121 lbs. Non-winning and maiden allowances. Mile and a Sixteenth THE COSMOPOLITAN HANDICAP For three year-olds and upward, at $50 each; half lorfeit; $10 only If declared; $5000 added. -""'« "nd a Sixteenth THE SPRING SERIAL HANDICAPS— For three-year olds and upward, at $30 each; $10 addi- tional for starters in each race, viz: CROTONA $1800 added, six furlongs; CLAR>SMONT $2000 added, six and a half furlongs; VAN CORTLANDT, $2000 added, seven furlongs. Total added $5800. THE JOCKEY CLUB WEIGHT FOR AGE— For three-year-olds and upward, at $10 each, $15 additional for starters; $2500 added. Three-year-olds 109 lbs., four-year ol'- and aged 129 lbs. 126 lbs : five six Mile and a Furlong STEEPLECHASES. NEW YORK STEEPLECHASE-For four-vear-olds aDd upward Run First Meeting, at 810 each: $15 additional for starters; $2000 added For.r-year-o:ds 135 lbs., five-year-olds. 149 lbs., sis-year-olds and upward 156 lbs. About Two Miles WHITNEY MEMORIAL STEEPLECH VSE— For four-year-olds and upward. Run Second Meeting By subscription of $500 eacb, balf forfeit, with $5500 addpd in money and piaip. i Subscribers to name three horses by May 1st, one to the post. About Two Miles and a Halj ^ INTERNATIONAL STEEPLECB ASE HANDICAP— For fou>--year olds and upward. Rnn ■ Second Meeting, at £25 each; $10 only if declared; with $K00 added. About Two Miles ( GRVND NATIONAL STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP— For four-year-olds and upward. Run Second Meeting At $100 each, half forfeit; $25 only if declared: with ?525Ci added in money and plate. About Two Miles and a Balf Gentlemen riders. Prof>s- About Two Miles and a Half To Close and Name by Midnight of Saturday, May 12th (Third Day of First Meeting). THE AMATEUR <"UP— A high weight jelliQg race for three-year-olds and upward. Gentlemen riders Run Second Meeting, at $10 eacn;$25 additional lOr starters, with $1500 added in mon"y aDd pla'e. °nt Mile MEVDOW BROOK HUNTKRS S E KPLECH ASE— For four-year-olds and upward, qualified uoder the rules of ihe N S & H. A and the C. H. A. Run Second Meeting, at $10 each; $io additional for starter-: $ lino added in money and plate. Four year-olds 145 lbs., five-year-olds ]h3 lbs . six years and upward 166 lbs Penalties and allowances sional riders 7 lbs extra TO BE RUN AT THE AUTUMN MEETING. October 8th to October 20th, Supplementary Entries to Close August 15, 1906. THE NURSERY HXNDICAP— For two.yearolds, at $C5 each, the only forfeit if declared by August I5tb, or $50 if dsclared iheday before the race: if left in after that time to pay $100 pach if eutered Aueust 15th at $75 each, the only forfeit if declared the day before the race. If lef . in afterthat time to pay $150 each, with $3000 added Six Furlongs THE CHAMPAGNE— For two-year-olds, at $50 each, half forfeit: $H) only if declared by August 15th. If entered August 15th at $100 each, half forfeit, wiih $5000 added. Non-winning and maiden allowances Seven Furlongs THE JEROME H AN DICAP— For three-vear-olds. at $50 each, half forfeit; $10 only if declared by August 15th If n'ered August 15th $100 each, half forfeit; $25 only ir declared the day before the race, with $2000 added. Mile and Five-sixteenths THE MUNICIPAL H .NDICAP— For three-year-olds and upward, at $50 each half forfeit: $10 only if declared by August 15lh. If entered August 15th at $100 each, half fnrfeit; $25 only if declared the day before the race, with $2500 added. Mile and Three- Quarters THE BELMONT PARK WEIGHT FOR AGE RACE— For three-year-olds and upward, at $50 each, half forftiit: ?:ooniv if declared by August 15th If entered August 15"b at$!00each, half forfeit with $1030 added. Three-yearolds 111 lbs., four year-olds and unward 124 lbs. Two Miles and a Quarter Entries for the above are received only and under the conditions as printed and in all respects subject to and in accordance with the Rules of The Jockey Club- The Steeplechases in accordance with the Rules of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. For eotry blanks address. __J _ H. G. CR1CKMORE, Clerk of the Course, Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Ave., N. Y. Thick, Swollen Glands ■ i nrltn Absorbine i. iiiankiti'i, Yarlcoeu | 1 BSOXtBINB,JR.,for only by W. F. YOUNG. P. D. F., ftl Monmouth Street. Spring field, Mail Fnr«alo by Mack & Co Langley &MlchaolnCo. dlngtoaJtCo.. J.O'Kane and J. A. MoKerroo, ill of San Francisco. TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEYISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Falton 8>reet) Horses Called For, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR KIKE I have opened a new Boarding and Traioing Stable near the above corner, and will board and train for racing, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates Have good location, brand-new stable and everything first-class All horses in my care will reoelve the beat of attention. Phone: Park 573. t. C. CABNEY. JACK FOR SALE OR LEASE. WELL BROKEN AND QUICK TO ACT; '» will do hla own teaslDR: b Tears old. / A«ros« D. S. MATHEWS, Ryde, Cal. Closing Out at Private Sale Of til© Sacramento Valley Stock Farm Stallions, Brood Mares, and Young Stock Suitable for Training. CH. STALLION. FOALED 1902, "DILLCARA." — Sire Sidnev Dillon; 1st dam, Guy- cara, 2:1S%, by Guy Wilkes, 2:15*4: 2nd dam, Eiscara (dam of 5 in list, 4 below 2:20). by Director 2:17; 3rd dam, Bicara (dam of 6 in list, including the great stallion Pancoast and other producing sires and dams), bv Harold 413 (sire of Maud S); 4th. dam, Belle (dam of Belmont, sire of Nutwood, MeCurdy's Hambletonian 2:26%. and other producing sires and dams), by Mambrino Chief 11; 5th dam, Belle Lupe, by Bellfounder (Brown's), son of Imp. Bellfounder and Lady Allport by Mambrina, a son of Imp. Messenger, the next dam of Brown's Bellfounder being by Tippoo Sahib, son of Imp. Messenger, and the next dam by Imp. Messenger himself. This young stallion's pedigree is unexcelled, his sire and the sires of his 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th dams having produced world-record holders, as well as many others the gamest and best of all times. In looks and make-up he is as great as his pedigree, unexcelled. Although never trained, his natural speed is phenomenal. For the production of world-record holders, he should excel his sire or the sire of his 1st, 2nd, 3rd or 4th dam, each of which enjoy fame in this respect. As a candidate himself for the record he is entitled to much consideration. CH. STALLION, FOALED 1902, "FLOSSNTJT." — Sixe Nutwood "Wilkes 2:16%; 1st dam, Flossie, by Cornelius (11335), sire of Connelita 2:10*4. etc.), by Nut- wood; 2nd dam, sister to Ruth Ryan (thoroughbred), by Lodi, son of Imp. Yorkshire and Topaz by Imp. Glencoe; 3rd dam, Eva Bulwer by Bulwer, son of Grey Eagle; 4th dam, Emma Taylor by Imp. Glencoe; 5th. dam, Lancess 4th dam of Palo Alto and 5th dam of Alcyone, Alcantara, etc.), by Lance. The blood lines in this young stallion's pedigree represented the male line of Nutwood Wilkes laid upon two crosses of Nutwood, one of Echo, one of Geo. M. Patchen Jr., and a thoroughbred female line tracing to Lancess, to which female line trace such great ones as Alcyone (sire of McKinney), Alcantara, Palo Alto, and many other great ones. The sires in the thor- oughbred female line down to Lancess have each produced the dams of trot- ters. The high degree of natural speed, strength and size. Nutwood type of conformation and make-up of this young stallion make him worthy of use in the stud and worthy of the opportunity to earn a low record on the track. BAT MAKE, FOALED 1903, "FLOWERET BELLE."— Sire Monbells 2:23%, son of Mendocino 2:19%, by Eleciioneer and Beautiful Bells (world's greatest brood mare), by The Moor; 1st dam, Floweret (dam of 2 in list and full sister to Wildflower, Manzanita. etc.), by Electioneer; 2nd dam, Mayflower 2:30% (dam of Wildflower, Manzanita, etc.), by St. Clair 16675. The sire of this filly represents Electioneers most famous speed pro- ducing line, the Electioneer-Beautiful Bells cross. The dam of this filly represents a great performing and producing line that first made Electioneer famous through the great Wildflower, Manzanita, etc., the Electioneer-May- flower cross. This filly was bred to Dillcara in 1905, and the pedigree of the produce will be composed almost exclusively of the greatest bloodlines of the greatest producers in the trotting world. Her produce from such mating will always rank of the highest value for breeding purposes, as well as for racing. CH. MARE, GRISETTE, FOALED 1902.— Sire Marengo King 2:29%. son of McKin- ney 2:11% and By By by Nutwood; 1st dam, Lisette by Abdallah Wilkes 7562 (sire of Wauco 2:14%. etc.t. son of Geo. Wilkes; 2nd dam, Musette by Startle 290 (sire of 11). son of Hambletonian 10; 3rd dam, Beckie Sharp by Billy Denton (sire of 2), son of Hambletonion 10; 4th, dani, Kent Mare by Black Hawk 5. In this filly's pedigree we have almost exclusively the producing male lines of Hambletonian 30. Her sire traces to that speed progenitor through McKinney, crosses of Nutwood and Dictator being thrown in. We get to Hambletonian 10 in the male lines of the sire of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dams very quickly through only one or two generations of producing sires, some- thing phenomenal for close up breeding to Hambletonian 10. This filly was bred to Dillcara in 1905, and the produce will probably have in its pedigree more crosses of Hambletonian 10 than any other horse, following the sug- gestion. "The way to breed trotters is to get all the blood of Hambletonian 10 that you can. and then get more." Stout and well formed as this filly is. her produce should be not only speedy but useful in the racing game. Not broken to drive. CH. MARE, FOALED 1902, "BESSIE'SWEET." — Sire Diablo 2:09%; 1st dam, Bessie Roan by Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes; 2nd dam, Bessie by Ventura 2:27%: 3rd dam, Lady Emma 2:39% by Paul's Abdallah, son of Hambletonian 10. The excellent brood mare sire Venture 2:27%, a thoroughbred, being the sire of the 2nd dam. a real good half-thoroughbred son of Guy Wilkes being the sire of the first dam, Diablo 2:09*4 being the sire of the filly herself, the 2nd and the 3rd dams having been about the best mares ever driven in San Fran- cisco for speeding at the Park, should make this filly most valuable for breed- ing purposes, she being of large size and stout and blocky. Was never bred or broken. CH. MARE, FOALED 1889, "FLOSSIE." — Sire Cornelius 11335 (sire Carmelita 2:10%, etc.). son of Nutwood 2:1S%, and Jennie G. 2:26% by Echo, he by Hambletonian 10; 1st dam, sister: to Ruth Ryan (thoroughbred), by Lodi, son of Imp. Yorkshire and Topaz by Imp. Glencoe; 2nd dam, Eva Bulwer by Bulwer, son of Grey Eagle; 3rd dam, Emma Taylor by Imp. Glencoe; 4th dam, Lancess (to whom trace in female line Alcyone, sire of McKinney. Alcantara, Palo Alto, etc.), by Lance, son of American Eclipse. In this pedigree we have top crosses of Nutwood and Echo, great brood mare crosses, laid upon a thoroughbred female line going to Lancess, the 4th dam of Alcyone (sire of McKinney). Alcantara, Palo Alto, etc., the sires in this female thoroughbred line being the most noted for producing the dams and grandams of trotters. Lodi, the sire of the 1st dam, produced the dam of Pedlar and others; Bulwer was by Grey Eagle, whose daughters and grand-daughters produced great trotting performers; Imp. Glencoe's grand- daughters produced several trotters. The dam of this filly was a sister to Ruth Ryan, who produced Strathern, sire of Plunkett 2:13%. Sons of Flossie, by well bred stallions, should become great sires, as well as performers. She is a very large, stout mare, of the Nutwood type. Bred to Dillcara in 1905. BAY MARE, FOALED IN 1894, "FLOSSIE HOCK." — Sire Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes and Eda (thoroughbred), by Hock Hocking; 1st dam, Flossie by Cornelius 11335, son of Nutwood and Jennie G. 2:26% by Echo. (See Flossie for continuation.) This pedigree represents a Guy Wilkes-Nut wood-Echo cross upon an excellent thoroughbred female line. Not bred in 1905. Never- broken. A stout, well made mare. No living produce. BAY MARE, FOALED 1894, "BESSIE HOCK;" Bay Roan Mare, foaled 1S95, "Bessie Roan"; Ch. Mare, foaled 1S9S, "Bessie Babe"; three full sisters; Sire Hock- Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes 2:15%, and Eda (thoroughbred) by Hock Hocking, son of Ringgold by Boston; 1st dam, Bessie by Venture 2:27%, thoroughbred son of Williamson's Belmont: 2nd darn, Lndy Emma 2:39% to pole, by Paul's Abdallah, son of Hambletonian 10. These three mares, full sisters, are each stout, smooth turned, extra well formed: were never broken to drive or ride. Their sire. Hock Wilkes, was a very stout, speedy, though crippled, half- thoroughbred son of Guy Wilkes. Their 1st and 2nd dams were about the speediest and best road mares driven in San Francisco and speeded in the Park. In this pedigree we have a top cross of Guy Wilkes laid upon a female line with Venture, a thoroughbred brood-mare sire, for the sire of the first dam, and a son of Hambletonian 10 for the sir-e of the second dam, extra stout bloodlines for the production of game trotting spee'd. ALSO SOME TWO-YEAR-OLDS out of dams whose pedigree is given above, suit- able for training and breeding purposes, and entered in Futurity Stakes. One grand 2-year-old stallion. Address SACRAMENTO VALLEY STOCK FARM, Care of BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal. <> PRIVATE SALE. NE THREE-YEAR-OLD STALLION BY McKinney 2:ltl< Two yearling colts by Kinney Lou 2:075^. One yearling coit by Red Nnttle 22357. Twelve standard mares and Allies. I will sell at bargain and will offer inducements on helot. O. B. BLANCHARD Jose, Cal. Pays $5000 Yearly. fill A 000 Horsemen, read this. Patent (P-IUjUiJU. horse remedy business for sale, paying $5000 and ove»" yearly. Established twenty years. A gold mine for the right man. Address ORMOND, Breeder and Sportsman, 30 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. February 24 1906, dttte gsrceoer anD ^ppct&tucm 11 AMERICAN HORSE BREEDER $10,000 FUTUKtTY Open to Mares bred jn 1905. To be contested by Two and Three Year Olds in 1908 and 1909 $6500 to Three-year-old Trotters ($4500 to Winner) $2000 to Three-year-old Pacers '$1300 to Winner) $1500 to Two-year-old Trotters ($1000 to Winner i $725 TO NOMINATORS OF DAMS OF MONEY WINNERS ENTRIES CLOSE MARCH 1, 1906 COND Five annual subscriptions to the BREEDER, at $2 eacb, or ten semi-annual subscriptions at$i each, money to accompany entry, entitles you to a free nomination of a mare; or, if you have not the time or inclination to secure subscriptions, a paymentof $5 on each mare will be accepted, and each 3d piyment entitles you to a year's subscription to the paper, which will be sent to a party or parties designated by you Second payment, $10, is due November 1, 1906 when color and sex of foal must be given Nothing morels due until May 1. the year of the race If you wish to start a foal in the two-year-old division, a further payment of $10 Is required May 1, 1938 and $20 more thirty days before the race. On starters. $-10 evening before the race. In the three-year-old trotting division a payment of HO is required May 1, 1909, and $40 more thirty days bafore the race. Oa starters,$l00 evening before the race. If the foal ts a pacer, a payment of $20 is required May 1, 1909; $'20 thirty days before the race On starters. S10 evening before the race. The two-year old division of the purse will be mile heats 2 in 3; the three-year-old division, either trot or pace, mile heats, 2 in 3. In toe two-year-old divi- sion $1000 goes to th ) winner. $200 to the second horse. $100 to the third and $50 to the fourth; $90 goes to the nominator of the dam of winner, $30 to the nominator of the dam of second horse, $20 to the nominator of the dam of third h3rse, $10 to th; nominator of the dam or fourth horse *.*■!&. lhe threo-year;Ofddlvisl.in trotting moaey win be divided as follows: $1500 to the winner MC00 to second hotse. $100 to third horse, $200 to fourth horse. $253 to the nom'nator of the dam of the winner, S7o to the nominator of thi dam of the second horse. $50 to tha nominator cf the dam of thfl third horse, $2d to the nominatorof thedam of the fourth horse. In the three-year-old pacing division onney will b; divided ai follows: $1300 to the winner $300 to second horse. $lo0 to third horse, $75 to fourth horse; with $100 ta nominator of dam of winoer $40 to nominator of dam of second horse, $20 to nominator of dam of third horse. $15 to nominatorof dam jf fourth horse. With exceptions herein noted, rules of the National Trottin* Association will prevail. If a nom nated mare has no living foal on November 1. 190G, her nominator mav substitute another mare and foal, regardless of ownership, but thsre will ba no return of a payment nor will any entry be liable for more than amuunt paid in or contracted for In entries the nam" 'color ana pedigree of mare must be given, also the naneof the horse to which she was bred in 1905 These races will be contested at one of the Eastern Grand Circuit Meetings in 1908-9 For Entry ZBlgtTiT^s Address AMERICAN HORSE BREEDER PUBLISHING CO., 161 High Street, Boston NOTE. Na,mes of mires nominated, and their owners and the sires to which they were bred in 1905, will be published in the Breeder each week as they are received. ^^ W%^^|1 ^^ Registered Trade V Am iP^t '^SPAVIN CURE < THOROUGH*!/* CAPPED HOCK WIND f>UfW Oft£AS£ ««, The fire Iron is uncertain; blistering is less ffective, and both necessitate laying up the horBe from weeks to many months; mercurial and poisonous compounds produce irreparable Injury, "Save-the-Horse" eliminates all these factors. Asbury Park N. J , Nov. 29, 1905. Troy Chemical Co., Blnghamton. N. Y. Gentlemen— I have used "Save-the-Horse" in numerous cases, curb, splints a^d ringbones. It was through my success -'Save-the-Horse" was introduced into this city. I tried it on a bad ease of thrush, poured it right Into the affected part three times a week, and it healed it right up, making a perfect cure. I highly recommend it to all my friends. Yours truly, C. D HAVILAND, Livery and Sale Stables. 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I only used Save-the-Horse a few times when all lameness stopped and the horsehasbeen bothered with it no more. I had another horse go lame with a bad spl'nt and a few application* fixed him all right. I think your cure Is ail O K and well worth the mones, and costs less for results than some of the cheaper remedies. T remain, yours sincerely, S. S. STEEL. "Save-the-Horse" Permanently Cores Spavin, Ringbone (except low Ringbone), Curb, Thorougbpm, Splint, Shoe Boll, Wind Puff, Injured Tendons and all lamness without soar or loss of hair Horse may work as usual. (Ki- /■%/■* per bottle. Written guarantee— as binding to protect you as the best legal talent 3>OiL/V couldmakelt. Send for copy and booklet. At druggists and dealers or express paid Scores of letters to confirm and convinoe Send for copies. Absolute and overwhelming evi- dence and certainties as to the unfailing power of "Save-the-Horse." TROY CHEMICAL COMPANY, BINGHAMPTON, NEW YORK. 5KSF#.t D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St , San Francisco. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C. 2:30 Trial aao Slre',?kTTT,l?0?^WT11;K,Ef 2 = I6*S. sire o( JohnA. McKerron S:0J*i. Tidal Wave S-09 Miss „ Idaho2:U9'.,,WlioIsIt2:10i<. Stanton Wilkes 2:10!;, Cresco WllkeasS": etc etc Little Thome 2:0, tf Leonardo 2:08M, etc., etc.; second dam. Lida W. S:18J< (dam of NuTwood Wilkes 2:16 /, etc ) by Nutwood 600, greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived; third dam bv Geo. M. Patohen Jr. 31; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont y T C is one of the best bred young stallions in California. A two-yearold 61ly by him has been T C0wmmake"neasera°song,rOUerSa' Ple*sa™a tWs winter, and'is ashands^e a?a pic fur" At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with usual return prlvllvge. ,.h8iIf!1le'"i,S""8f '.1r m,ares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for card containing tabulated pedigree and other Information. I will take a few horses to train lor road or track. GEORGE T. AI.GKO. 1207 Eagle Ave., Alameda, Cal. Isbi He Worth Saving?. writes. 1 have u.e - curbs, splints. thlrk.Mcu the last two years I have not been without Qu oughly at diirerent times, and say wltho; * ' T\ hy trade off or sell at a beggarly price a good horse just because lie "goes lame." -throws a curb or develops some other blemish? There is nothing in the way of Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Wmdpuffs or Bunches which will not vield readily and permanently to treatment QUINN'S ** OINTMEh OINTMENT. Uy of the kind I have l£,il..i»,:r:,.£r W. B. Eddy & Co.. Whitehall. N.Y. a prominent physician of Sheridan lnd a number of remedies for the removal o ed tendons and tisanes generally, but f.> s ointment. I have tested H tboi noy tliftit is the onlv reliable re .00 per bottle. Sold by all d hes Pedigrees Tabulated atThis Office FOR SALE OR LEASE. Two Prince Airlie Stallions. PORTOLA 37413. a handsome golden bay. 7 years old, 16 bands, weighs 1190 lbs. MENLO BOY 37401, a magniacent brown with white points, Bjearsold, 18. 1 bands, weighs 1800 lbs. These two horses are full brothers, being sired by Prince Atrlle 280*6; he by Guy Wilkes 2:15}^, sire of Fred Khol 2:07?^. Hulda 2:08 i-i, Seymour WIlkes2:08^: flrst dam Signal by Del Sur 2:24: second dam Lady Signal 2:35^ by Signal 3327. Both of these horses are very fast for the amount of wor«, being only a few months last year, show- ing quarters around :3i and '35. For further Information apply to P. H. McEVOY, Menlo Park, Cal. TOR SALE. OF bay Geldings, standard bred, six years old, itfij hands; sound, reliable and enduring; good long-distance travelers. Apply to G. D. BOYD, San Rafael, Cal, FOR SALE CHEAP. ILEX MALONE— BAY STALLION; ST\R "■ and small snip; near bind foot and ankle white; ofl forward loot aod corooet white; stands 16 1: weight 120U1D3 and is? years old this spring. Kind and gentle; can be Jriven anywhere by a lady; Is perfectly city broken; good gaited and could show speed if trained He is by Alex Button; first dam. Carrie Malone byStelnway; second dam, Katy G. by Electioneer, she Ib a full sisttr to Carrie B that took a record of 2:l8at Santa Rosa Tast fall. Can be seen at the Sao Jose race track at J S Phippen's stable. For particulars write to J. S. PHIPPEN, care of Golden West Hotel, San Jose, Cal. CLEVELAND BAY STALLION FOR SALE. \'ERY HANDSOME. 17 HANDS HIGH, weighs * 1000 pounds; color, dark bay; age. 5 styllsb, good boned, sure foal ceu> every respect: drives double, stag] Sire. Imp. Sportsman; dam. Imp. Rol Rose. For price, etc , address JAMES BOYD, Mil] 12 ®itc gxee&ev cmb ^ppvt&man [February 24, 1906 PAYMENTS DUE MARCH 1, 1906 $10 EACH ON TWO-YEAR-OLDS entered In Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes No. 4— $6000 Guaranteed. FOR FOALS OF MARES COVERED IN 1903. FOALS BORN 190 ENTRIES CLOSED NOVEMBER 2, 1903. To Trot or Pace at Two Years Old in 1906 and at Three Yeats Old in 1907. 83350 for Trotting Foals S1750 for Pacing FoalB. S800 to Nominators of Dams of Winners and 8300 for Owners of Stallions. 82000 for Tiiree-Tear Old Trottere MOO for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three-Tear-Old Trot 1S50 for Two-Year-Old Trotters 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Two-Year-Old Trot 100 to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Tnree- Year-Old Trot when mare was bred Money Divided as Follows: 81000 for Three-Year-Old Facers 200 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace 750 for Two-Year-Old 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 IheyLicfclt As tney want it COMPRESSED ' PURE-SALT BRICKS •n PATENT FEEDERS. way ofjalnng animals. AsK Dealers. Write us for Booh. BEM0NI5MEM!PPLY(0. PATENTEES-MANUFACTURERS' BROOHLYN.N.Y This Payment Keeps Your Entry Good to March 1, 1907. STARTING PAYMENTS— 825 to start In the Two-Year-Old Paoe. 835 to start in the Three-Year-Old Trot. 835 to start in the Three-Year- Old Pace. 85c to start in the Three- Year-Old Trot. All starting payments to be made ten days before the Brst day of the meeting at which the race is to take place. Nominators must designate, whenmakiag 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. Address correspondence to the Seoretary. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary Street, S&n Francisco, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED STALLION SERVICE BOOKS (POCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Moat Complete Book of the kind published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco. The following Stallions, owned by W. A. Clark Jr., will make a public season: Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Bon Voyase Two-year-old Record 2:15 Three-year-old Record. ,,3:13^ Timed In a Race 3:10^ WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (88500) FOR 1905. BON VOYAGE (3) 2:12?i Is by Expedition 2:15& by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erln2:242£; second dam Farce 2:29>4 by Princeps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150 For breeding, individu- ality and racing qualities he is unsurpassed. He Is a rloh bay in color with black points, stands 15.3 hands and when matured will weigh ltOO pounds. Season of 1906 at PLEA9ANTON RACE TRACK, where he will be limited to twenty outside mares. C£0 fnr iht* Coacnn USUAL RETURN" PRIVILEGES, or money refunded should mare 3>0U lUl ILlC ocaSUll. not prove in foal. A rare chance to breed good mares to an excep- tionally high-class and highly bred young stallion. TRIAL 2:12 (at Four Years Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By EXPRESS© 39199 (half brother to Expressive (3) 2:1SH) by Advertiser 2:15H. son of Electioneer 125; dam ALrHA 3:33^ (dam of Aegon 2:I8M. sire of Ageon Star 2:11 ^, eta ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22; second dam Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 in list and 3 producing sons and 7 producing daughters) by Mambrino Chief 11, etc Terms for the Season $25 HIGHLAND is a grand looking youug stallion, seven years old. His breeding Is most fashion- able, and his immediate ancestors are producers of race winners with fast records. He is beauti- fully gatted and has a perfect disposition. Does Dot pull or want to break at speed, and can be pi a ie 1 at win in a buiihnr n>rs^-t He Is a high-oiaas hor^e and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trotted a quarter In 31 seconds over the Pleasanton race track. HIGH i ..AMD is a coal black harse with one white hind ankle, stands 16.1 l ands high and weighs close to 1200 ponnds. Address all communications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Greatest Son of McKinney 2:ni Will make the Season of 1906, from February 1st to June 1st, At LOS ANGELES, CAL. Fee, $50 for the Season. With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse and mare does not chaDge ownership. Money due at time of servioe.or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is the sire of eleven standard performers as follows: Zephyr 2:07 j-i, timed separately Id a race in %08>4: Charley T. 2:13!4- trial 2:10'^; Italia 2:14V£, over half-mile track, trial 2:08V&; Bellemoot- three years old, record 2:Ia3£, trial 2:1 i%\ Zombowyette 2:16}^, trial 2:14!^; Zenobia 2:19, trial half In 1:05K Tee Dee Cee 2:i9>/2. trial 2:13^; Lady Zombro 2:24, trial 2:10; Lord Kitchener 2:ii%, trial 8:19*4; Zealous 2:56 J4, trial 2:20: Nina Bonita 2:27. ZOMBRO has won more firbt prizes in the show rind than any California stallion, and his get have sold for more money during the past three years. He is the only horse living or dead that ever won fortv heats i o standard time as a three-year-old. His get are all large, beautifully formed and endowed with great natural speed The oholoest pasture formares. Address GEO. T. UKCKKR3. 3949 Figueroa St , L«s Angeles, Cal, NEAREST 35562 BONNIE McK. 36569 (Trial 2:19) Son of MoKiDney 2:11 % and Bon Sllene 2:1414 by Stamboul 2:07^. Will make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON Fee S50 BONNIE McK. is a grand individual and a fast trotter with perfect legs and feet. All mares bred to him in 1906 will be nominated in Breeders Futurity without expense to owner Address GEO. A. KELLY, Pleasanton, Cal. u s Z z o DQ f Aloyone 2:87 .... Is?0- Wilkes 2:22 by Hamb. 10 * Sire of I Alma Mater McKinney 3:11« \ Martha Wilkes 2:08 by Mamb. Patcnen Coney... Slre..°' 2:02 L 6°ln3:3° J Gov. Sprague 2:20« Sweet Marie 2:04* I Rose Sprague. .. J by Bbode Island and ift mnrp in 9-lfi Dam of ^RoseKenney 701n2-30 MoKinney 2:11K by Mamb. Messenger Grandam of Fereno 2:05J4 r Stamboul 2:07^ 1 Sultan 2:24 by The Moor Sire of I Fleetwing by Hamb. 10 Bon Siiene3:14V5 Stamboulette 2:10* damof2inllst Dam of inert 2:11 etc, Bon Fon "-2B (Simmons 2:28 by Geo. Wilkes L unLon..^„ tBonnie Wilkes 2:29* Bonnie Direct 2:05* - ■ ... by Geo. Wilkes Kector 2:10 Bon Silene 2:l4y2 Bonnie Steinway trl)2:08% Bonnie McK. (trial).. 2:19 dam of 4 in list THE STANDARD TROTTINQ STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Terms, $40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 Is by Hambletonlan Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes 2:08J4. Phoebon W. 2:08^, Robert I. 2:08& and 7 others In the 2:15 list); dam Anna Balle (3) 2:2714 (dam of Robert I. 2:08g£. Maud Murray 2:12, MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 In 2.30 list and dams of 8. MURRAY M.2:14 Is a handsome'flve-year-old bay stallion with small star and black points. In his three-year-old form he stood j6 hand-* and weighed 1125 lbs., and is a natural, square-galted trotter. He is a horse of grand finish, plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back, strong loins and stifles good feet and legs. His breeding is excellent, and with his individual- ity he presents a popular and speeA-produoing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes In the show ring. Exoellent pasturage at reasonable rates. For further particulars address PROF. H, B. FREGU4N, University Station, Los Angeles, Cal, iKECOKD 2:32'i)— Sire of Alone (4) 2:09^ (trial 8:06&)' Just It (3) 2:191^ (trial 2:12^), High Ply (2)2:24^ (trial " ISft, last half In 1:0014). and full brother to the great John . MoKerron 2:04^, the second fastest stallion in the world. By NUTWOOD WILKES 3:1614, sire of John A. MoKerron 2:0414 (seoond fastest stallion in1 Fee $25 the world). Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho S:U9H, Who Is It 2:10j<. Stanton Wilkes 2:10^. Cresco Wilkes -. Georgia B. 2:12^, North Star (3) 2:I3U, winner Paofflo Breeders Futurity Stakes $6000 (juaruutoed of 1905. and 32 in 2:30 list; dam INGAR, the greatest producing daughter of Director; second dam Annie Titus by Echo 162; third dam Tiffany mare (dam of Gibraltar 2:22^) by Owen Dale, son of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST is a dark bay, 15.3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds; well formed and of kind disposition. In his blood lines are represented the greatest strains of the American trotter. Will make the Season of 1906 at San Juse, with return privilege In case horse remains In California. For terms aod extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T. W. BAR8TOW, San Jose, Cal. KINNEY WILKES Sired by MoKINNEY 2:11&, sire of Sweet Marie 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07^, Charley Mac 2:075£« Hazel Kinney 2;09M. The Roman 2:0914, Dr. Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05M. Zolook2:05M, You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mac 2:09, etc „ First Dam, HAZEL WILKES 3:11^, a great race mare by Guy Wilkes 2: 15M. sire of F^ed Kohl 2:075£, Hulda 2:0814, Lesa Wilkes 2:09, Seymour Wilkes 2:0814, etc., and dams of Antezella 2:10>4, Katherlne A: 2:11^. etc, eto., and grand*lre of John A. MoKerron 2:0414; second dam, Blanche (damot Hazel WIlkes2:llK. Una Wllkas 2:15. Guyson2:24. Native Son 2:2614 and Silver Spray 2:28) by Arthurton 365; third dam, Nancy by Gen. Taylor, ohampion30-mlle trotter of the world. KINNEY WILKES is a very handsome, we 1 rn^de bay stallion, standing 15.3 and weighing 1100 pounds. He Is one of the best bred of the McKinneys, Will make the Season at THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKINNEY 2:11^— greatest slro of his age; dam, the great broodmare DAISY S. (dam of four in list) by McDonald Chief 3583, son of Clark Chief 89; seoond dam. Fanny Rose, groat brood mare (dam of three with reoordB better than 2:18) by Ethan Allen Jr. 2993; third dam, Jenny Llnd (thoroughbred), dam of Prince Allen 2:27. Will make tho Seaion of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE 150, with usual return privilege. Address O. A. 8PENUER, Woodland, Cal. V, P flTA'ALD, Owner, 3t Pj»t Mt.. San Franc. noo. Cal. MBUSH 41840 Rec. (3) 2:14| SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARE, 13 mile, east of San Bernardino. Address c W. BONNEIX, Redlands. LEONARD STATION, Santa Cruz County. For oards containing tabulated pedigree, eto , address JAMES T. LEONARD. Rural Delivery No. 3, Watsonville, Cal. I DIRECT 2:12 1-2 (Officially Timed in 2;085 in a Race) Will mate the Season of 1906 at DAN LIEGINGBR'S STABLES, 801 Devlsadero Street, San Francisco. I DIRECT is one of the best bred of all the sons of the great Direct 2:05^. His dam is Fran- oesoaby Almont (dam of Sable Franoes2:15V6. Guyoesoa 2:28 and the Blre Earl Medium, sire of 6 standard performers); next dam Frances BreckeDrldpe by Sentinel 260, full brother to Volunteer. As an individual I DIKEOT is perfeot, and with his breeding he cannot help transmittingsFeed. Tormc «5fi FOR THE SEASON, LIMITED TO A FEW APPROVED MARES. For partlc- I CJ Ills ♦JKW uiara address DAN L1EGINGEK, 801 Devlsadero St„ San Francisco. Or MARRY MoMAHAN, Owner. 307 Sansom St.. Sao Francisco. Pedigrees Tabulated and typewritten ready for framing. Write for prices BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 86 Geary Street, San Franolsoo, California. February 24, 1906] f&he gveebev anb gtp&vtsmtixx IS THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1906 TEE --- 875 Reductions made t r two or more mares. Manager, WALTER SEAtT. (4291) McKINNEYS FASTEST ENTIRE SON J Reg- No. 34471. Great Race Horse and Producing Sire, ZOLOCK 2:05 THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED I ( Sire GUV WIXKES 2:15M NUTWOOD WILKES 2:lfct-« NUTWOOD WILKES 32116 Is the only stallion that ever produced two three-year-olds in ore season with records ol 2:12 and 2:12^ respectively. Who 1b It 2 : 12, ex-ohampton three-year-old gelding or the world reduced h's record to 2M0K- John A Mc- Kerron2:04L£ (2:12^ as a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe of George Wilkes NUTWOOD WILKES is the sire of John A Mo- Kerron 2:0H4 (sire 3 two-year-olds In 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 209. Miss Idaho 2:09m. Who Is It 2:10'i, Stanton Wilkes 2:10^, Cresco Wilkes (4) 2:IO?i. Georgie B 2-12M Claudius (4) 2:13!'j. North Star (3) 2:13/,, Bob Ingersoll (4) 2:14?i, and 32 in 2:3011st. His sons Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09!-i and Cavallero2:09M „,„,,., . His daughters produced Miss Georgie 2:10J».Mona Wilkes (3) 2:11V4, Lady Mowry (4) 2:12!-i, Caroline L. 2:143£ Iloilo2:15. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the Ambush (3) 2:14^ Delilah (3) hUh Bystander 2:I4§ Sherlock Holmes 2:15{ Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 ZOLOCKS Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 Has lO Three-Ye>*r-01d8 that worked trials In 1905 as follow*: L1LI4N ZOLOCK 8:14, KINNKY WOOD 8:15, CLEOPATRA 2:15. RED LOOK 2:18, /OJ.C.IK 2:18. IN^UGURKTTA 2:22, HYLOCK 2:25, MAJELLA 3:25, ADA LANTE 2:26. BOLUCK 2:27. and 3 Two-Year-Olds a- follows: WKNZA 2:24, BONNIE .TUNE 2:27, IZAL.CO 2:30, and 12 others now Id tralnln(r that can nhow quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. 1-2 (by Gosslper 2:14%). dam of ZOLOCK 2:05*. Zephyr 2:07*; second dam tbe ereat broodmare Glpsey (by Gen. Booth 2:304)- dam of Gazelle 2:114, Delilah (3) 2:14*4, Ed Winsbip 2*15 Willets(mat.) 2:17, Dixie S 2:27, and prandam of Col. Green (trial) 2:104, third dam Echo Belle (graodamof Conn 2:15*) by Echo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands i6 hands. Is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions All his colts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame Will Make the Season cf 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Season starts February 1st and ends Jane 1st. Mares will be cared for in any manner desired, but NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. „ «-« rnBTOpqFJSON with the usual return privileges if horse remains my property Fee $50 gg£ p™or.lntKpSf month Bills payaole before removal of mare. Stock well- oared for, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. °* ,„ " ' stock bv NOT WOOD WILKES for sale. lend for TaWafed Pedigree For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CARTER. Nutwood Stock Farm. Irvln.ton, Alameda Co., Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 !lre of ARISTO 208M. winner of Occident and Stanford Stakes of 1903 Sired by SABLE WILKES 2:18. sire of 42 in 2:30; dam. FIDELIA (dam of Pldette 2:28*. dam of Mary Celeste i: 17*) by ~ of Mccracken's Blackhawk, So^leZd da^'R^is Bl^ckbtrd^ grandam by Lancet, son Fee 850, limited to forty ontslde mares PRINCE ANSEL 2-Ye&r-01d Record 2:201 Also, the Three Year-Old Stallion IZALCO by ZOLOCK 2:05t4-; dam GIPSEY. dam of Gazelle 2:11^, Delilah 2:14'/3 and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:1414. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY. Race Track. Pleasanton. Cal. 01..H ^nuvTBl! PRINCE (sire of Eleata2:08«, Lisotoero 208H, James L. 2:09«, Edith 2:10, St Clair 16675 Fee 830. Both Stallions will make the Season of 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX. BROWN, Owner, Walnnt Grove. Cal. A Sii 'h-OlaBS "StTo-U-riS McBLinney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A hanisome son of McKluney Sired by the great McKlnney2:llv< greatest sire of the agei dam thereat broodmare Daisy S (dam of Tom Smith 2:13*. General Vallej ) 2:23« Little Mac (3j •T.2?,and'I™"t Rosie %-iB'i i by McDonald Chief 3583. son of Clark Chief 89; second dam Fanny Rose, LLf V.„ZmL« (dam of 'Qeoree Washington -l:\Wi, Columbus S 2:17) by Ethan Mien Jr 2993. fnlrddam ^° J^n? LI?"(Sam o?pgrince Ilieu 2:J7. also' dam of Fanny McGill damof Scotty 2:19k'. Trilnfl?ii? GENERAL J B FRISBIE is a handsome, goodgalted black ftve years old. He is a fall brother to Tom Smith 2: 13M: shows McKinuey speed and will be trained for the races this SBaS0D Terms, 835 for the Season: BONNIE DIRECT (4) S:05{ SIRE OF BONALET (3) 2:09%, in winning race— World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3), trial (trotting) 2:11'^ (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECT'S first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or bs sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2 50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good condition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. nsnal return privileges. CHIEF JR. 11622 MAMBRINO «ir« nf Duncan IDM«>RK 2:24V, and TIP OQCANDO (trial) 2:09;/,. SID ABBOTT (trial) 2:18, JAKE E. (trial half mile) 1:05 Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Addre"8 Usual Return Privileges. ^^^ SIDMOOR 2:\7% is a dark bay stallion and a grand todtvidual in every respect. He la one of the best producing sons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:1 li, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares, FULL BROTHER TO TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 FlrstdamDAISY S. (damof Tom Smith 2:13M. General Vallejo 2-20V4. Little Mac 2:27H, Sweet Rosie 2-28»i) by McDonald Chief 3583; second dam Fanny Rose (dam of Columbus S. 2: 17, George Washington SlMi, who sired Stella2:15K, Campaigner 2:26*. etc ; third dam Jenny Lino (dam of PrTooe Allen 2:27 and also damof Fanny McGill. dam of Scotty 2:19% Trilby 2:210. etc ). CONSTRUCTOR Is one of the handsomestsons of the great McKInney on the Coast. He stands 15 hands 2Klnchesover the withers and 15 hands 3V, Inches over the loins and weighs 1100 pounds He never made a regular season in the stud, hut was bred to several mares when three years old and all of his get are of good size and good lookers. Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. For further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. GRECO Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to BLACK COLT, FOALED IflOO. Sire, McKINNEY 2:11*, aire of SWEET MARIE 2:04*. Kinney Lou 2:07^. Charley Mac 2:07V, Hazel Kinney 2:09*. Tro Roman 2:094. Dr. Book 2:10. Coney 2:02. China Maid 2:05*. You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mac 2:09 Zolock2:05* Dam, AILEEN 3:«6V£ (dam of Mowitza 2:20 V4, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:3i, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 2:16!;. sire of dams of Directum Kelly 2:08*. Grey Gem 2:09^, W. Wood 2:07, etc. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:584. Red- wood 2:21'A Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:£0&) by Milton Medium 2:254 (sireof 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium 2:324, sireof Nancy Hanks 2:04, etc GRECO is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won bis only race as a colt, and has shown miles In 2:20 since in his work, and Is a sure 2:10 trotter. Ho will bn pt-rmlittii to serve a limited number of mares &t MtOO THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address CHAS. De RYDER, Manager, ri.m«.mi mi . Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IRAN ALTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and cran- dam both produced a colt that was a world's record breaker, and his grandsire has sfnd trotters that broke world's records No other horse with a record as fast as IRAN ALTO'S can claim this. At nine years he had sired ten colts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. BYasse 2:124, Thomas R. 2:15, Vendome2:I7, Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25 — all at four yearsold. U*n -n name a horse whose first ten colts can beat that? Will Make the Season of nxirt at WOODLAND, OAL. For further particulars addn FEE $40 $20 due irhen mare 1b bred and 120 payable when mare is known to be In foal. H. 8. HO'. Won 14 &hc gxeebsx mtfr gtjxcrvteman tFEBRUARY 24, H06 ismsrixi 3L.OXJ inxr THE RACING! HAWTHORNE 2 :0H 1--1 B1LI.Y BUCK 3:07 1-4 KINNEY LOI7 8:07 3-4 \£ I IVI It I C"\/ B ^1 I 0-.OT3 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON rxiiMlNLY L.WVJ ^.U M OF THE CHAMPION SIRE Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending: July 1st, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. TERMS S10O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. New California Jockey CIM OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP o P?r Speolal Trains stopping at the Track take S. P. Perry, foot of Market Street— leave at 12 thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two oars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts. Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT. Secretary. For further information, pedigree and description address PHONE: JOHN 2481. BUDD DOBLE, San Jose, Cal. MENDOCINO 22607 RECORD (THREE-YEAR-OLD) 2:19i£ Sire of Monte Carlo 2:07»i' (to wagon 2:08^4); Idolita (2y. o.) 2:21^, (3y.o.)2:12, (a) 2:09ii, Leonora 2:1214, Polka Dot 2:N>^, etc Bay Stallion, 15. 3\'3 Lands; weight 1190 pounds; bind feet and ankles white; foaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 125. son of Hambletonian 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO (3)2:I0H, Eleciant 2:19>4 Morocco (3 y.o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904, 2:17ji; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie W (3)2:17^. Hyperion 2:2 1££, Memento 3:25%, Mithra (p) 2:14^) by Hamble- tonlan Jr. 1882; third dam, Gilda (thoroughbred) by imp. Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Electioneers youngest and best sons With very limited opportunities in the stud he has pro van his worth by producing such racehorses as Monte Carlo and Idolita. Three new additions to his 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performs s. His foals are good size, fine lookers, bold and pure gaited and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, 875; usual return privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 16.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11, 1900. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, McKINNEY 8818 (record 2:1 1M). First dam, HELENA 2:11'., (damof Wildnutllng 2:11^; Dobbel2r22, Hyita (trial 3:12; by Electioneer 125; second dam, Lady Ellen 2:29H (dam of sis in list, iooluding Helena 2:11^1 Ellen Wood2:14H) by Mambrino 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont (Williamson's). McKENA has proven a remarkably sure f ial getter. He should make a great sire as he is a floe individual and bred right. His sire, McKinney, a game and fast racehorse and sire of game and fast racehorses His dam, Helena, one of the fastest and gamest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters the world has yet knowD. His second dam, Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as well as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, 840; usual return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Mares may run on pasture at $5 per month. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for injury or escapes. Address all communications to PALO ALTO STOCK FARM, Stanford University, Santa Clara Co , Cal. McMURRAY Especially Adapted for Jogging;, Training and Matinee Driving. W Price Low. McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS Standard the World Over. -835**Address for printed matter and prices W. J. Eenney 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. PHENOL SODIQUE heals SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast. Keep Handy for Accidents. PHENOL SOBIUP !25?Ei«.'TOc*TO*«o»5:S52S| Cures | MANGE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. For Sale By All Druggists. Reeomm naed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. McKinney, 2!11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 tJFees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege; but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2. per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 1 0 miles from Cuba. ®lj? fEmptr? (Exit} iFarma, newtork. Mention this journal "•) when writing. Tb.e 3vlo3r3k.irAn.ev Stallion KENNETH C. 2:1 7 IE} McKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION UNIMAE 40936 y McKinney 2:11}; dam Twenty-Third by Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15}) by Nutwood 600. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PALO ALTO, Cal. Usu«l return privileges or money refunded at the option of the owner of the mare. Terras, $40 for the Season. To Close June 1st * Address or apply to Kxcellent Pasturage at Reasonable Rates. No barbed wire. Best of care taken or Mares, in any manner Owners may desire. CAPT. C. H. WILLIAMS, Box 101, PALO ALTO, CAL W\' ■£*• gJeS|*2jpg£ U^-*— ...it, . fltft S* Wrl W" ■■« f*wn*5K *£L> Sired by McKINNEY: dam MOUNTAIN MAID (dam of Tom Carneal 2:01%) by Cresco 4908 (sire of Allie Cresco 2:13, etc ); next dam by Cloud. Will mate the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. KENNETH C. was one of the fastest of an exceptionally good lor of three-year-olds that raced in California in 1905. He Is a splendid individual, has size, style and quality, and the grandsons and granddaughters of McKin- ney through Kenneth C. will be equal to any In the land. Tnnnp f*30 for the Season. I tf! Ilia , .¥15 for Single Service. S. K. TREFRY, Pleasnn'on. . No. 31706 WAYLAND W. 22516. R< :12i. ONE OF THE LEADING SIRES OF 2:10 PERFORMERS OF 1905. u.JS!lS S^aB°kivll ' ' ■ '-'" :' Sire of Morosco -U I v> , a w ■ 2-10W ' ',!'" I ■ ' 01 i i I, Sultan, S i \nteeo or 'ur great Bolh nr 2 01 in Arthur w Joroscp 2:12, . i . . ■ . Leland v Sandv i will make the Season of 1906 at SANTA ROSA, at McQregor & Hocltine' Stables. . .„, it „ W. C. EILIUN. Owner. 40 for the SeaBon. Pasture $3.00 per month. MONTEREY 2!09 1-4 R3?, (Sire of 1KI9H 2:08^, Fastest Four- Year-Old Pacer of 1904). By SIDNEY (grandstre of Lou Dillon 1:5854); dam, HATTIE (also dam of Montana 2:16) by Commodore Bemont 4340. MONTEREY 3:09J4 stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and is one of the finest individuals on this Coast. FEE, 850 for the Season. V/^C C" H/1 I T r B* MONTEREY 2:09^. T UO H. IVI I I C- Dam, LEAP YEAR 2:36 (full sister to Iago2:ll) by Tempest 1881, son of Almont 33. YOSEMITE Is a very high-class young trotter, and as he will be trained this year he will be allowed to serve only six choioe bred mares FEB, S25 for the Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leased a fine, roomy barn with 14 large box stalls on Sherman street, four blooks from the racetrack, Alameda, and am prepared to do public tra'ning. Would like to get two good trotters and Q promising three-year-old to pr pare for the races this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. t>£kHlfT«*^^C Tahlfla-foH and typewritten ready for framing rCUIglCCO taUUiaiCU Wrifce for prlcei. Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. February 24. 1906] ®he gxceitev cmfr gtpo-vtsman 15 DUCK SHOOTERS! QUESTION- -Why is it that so many excellent wing shots cripple fine birds? ANSWER—Because they don't use BALUSTITE which never fails to kill clean. REMEMBER=-One (1) dead bird in the pocket is worth two (2) in the tule. BAKER &, HAMILTON SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SACRAMENTO SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. OF ALL MORSE OWNERS AND TRAINERS 75 PER CENT USE AND RECOMMEND Campbell'sHorse Foot Remedy SOLD BY... W. A. SAYRE Sacramento, Cal R T. FRAZIER Pueblo, Colo J G. READ & BRO Ogden, Utah JUBINVILLE & NANCE Butte, Moot A A KRAFT CO Spokane, Wash A. F. 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Ladles oan go and return to stable d not have their horses frightened by automobiles •»r cars NO MORE DISTEMPER. There's absolutely no need of a case of disten per, pinkeye, or any conta- gious catanhal diseases among your animals. Dr CRAFT'S DISTEMPER & COUGH CURE can not fail to prevent and cure— no pay if it fails. If not at your druggist's, order direct, 50c and $1 Our free booklet, ''Veter- inary Pointers," will be invaluable to you Write for it now. WELLS MEDICINE CO. , Chemists & Germologisfs, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Inrj D K NEWELL, General Agent for Pacific Coast 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEAS ANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in California. Owners desiring tn have horses handled an 1 put in condition for sale or racing are invited to correspond with the undersigned JAS. THOMPSON, Fleaaanton. Cal. RED BALL BRAND. v warden Uold Medal At California State Fair 1892. Overy horseowner who alues his stock should onstantly have a sup- ■ly of it on hand. It mproves and keepa tock in the pink of ■onditlon. rtanhattan Food Co 1 253 Folfioiu St., San Franclgco Ask your grocers or dealers for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. F. KGRTELL, Manager. March 3, 1906] &he gveebev mtfcr ^\xovt&mait 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 44T. Telephone: Black 586. Terms— One Year 83, Six Months S1.7S Three Months »l STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Franolsoo, ° Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not neoessartly lor publication, but as a private guar- antee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, March 3, 1906 Stallions Advertised. TROTTING BRED. M.MADEN 2:22 « M- U LUSk' S;lcrame,Uo' ™J BONNIE DIRECT 2:05V, . .C. L. Griffith. Pleasanton, Cal. ■BONNIE McK. 36569. .. .Geo. A. Kelly, Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:12% Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GEN J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GRECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND. Tea Hayes, Pleasanton. Cal. I DIRECT 2:12% Dan Lieginger, San Francisco, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12% H. S. Hogoboom, Woodland, Cal. IZALCO H- Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEYLOU 2:07% Budd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R. D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. KENNETH C. 2:17 S. K. Trefry, Pleasanton, Cal. LYNWOOD W. 2:20%... H. A. Carlton, Santa Rosa, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11% Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622, Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm. Ca . MONTEREY 2:09%... P. J- Williams. San Lorenzo. Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman. Los Angeles.Cal. NEAREST .2.22 1,4 T. W. Barstow, San Jose. Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16y2 ................... Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20%.. C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R AMBUSH 2:14% G. W. Bonnell, Redlands, Cal. SEYMOUR WILKES 2:0S%.. Thos. Roche, Lakeville, Cal. SIDMOOR 2:17% John Ott, Pacheco, Cal. STAR. .P0I.N.TE^ . ':5C&V.-De -Ryder,- Pleasanton,- Cal. T c 2-30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal. TOM SMITH 2:13% C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936... Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto, Cal. WASHINGTON McKINNEY Rose Dale Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Cal. WAYLAND W. 2:12%.. W. C. Helman, Santa Rosa, Cal. YOSEMITE P- J- Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05% H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. GREEN'S RUFUS Baywood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER.. Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. -0 ■ California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacifio Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903— $10 due April 1, 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 4, $6000, foals of 1904— $10 due March 1, 1905, and starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1. 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. o THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. T-. Aug. 13-1S. Readvllle, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. MANY CHANGES IN THE RULES governing har- ness racing were made by the biennial congress of the National Trotting Association at its meeting held February 14th in New York. In another column will be found a report of the meeting giving the more im- portant of these changes. The most radical departure from past methods is the concession granted a circuit of not less than five nor more than twelve tracks to have its racing supervised by a Board of Stewards to be appointed by the Board of Review, or its President, and to consist of five members selected from a list of names suggested by the associations comprising the ch-cuit — each association to suggest the names of two persons. This is a concession to the Grand Cir- cuit, which has for several years been trying secure "home rule." Another new rule is one requiring that no person shall act as starter at a meeting unless he ■has been regularly licensed, and numerous duties are assigned such persons. A rule that will be of most interest to drivers and trainers is one that prohibits the carrying of timing watches in races without the consent of the judges. The strict enforcement of this rule will make better racing and prevent the laying up of heats where a fast record is not desired. The new rule which prohibits any person or stable having in their employ in any capacity an expelled, sus- pended or disqualified person, is an aftermath of the Butler-Salisbury case which caused so much talk last year. It will now be impossible for any person to start a horse on an association track who has in his employ any person who is under suspension. An excellent new rule is the one which prevents any horse wearing hopples in a race after starting without them, or permitting their removal after once starting with them. All in all the changes in the rules have been made to improve racing, and while they may not all work as well as expected, they should be firm- ly enforced and thus given a fair trial. THE SECOND VOLUME of "The Morgan Horse and Register" by Jos. Battell, has been issued and we acknowledge receipt of a handsomely bound copy, which is welcomed as a very valuable addition to our library. The volume contains the names of all animals registered in volume I, with number of page where registered, together with the names of many other horses registered in conformity with the rules of the Morgan Register. A feature of both volumes is many beautiful half-tone engravings made from actual pho- tographs of famous horses, and these in themselves are not only of much value but an actual guide to the breeder of to-day who is breeding horses to a type. Mr. Battell has expended a vast amount of time and money in preparing these volumes of the Morgan Register, and while he will never realize from their sale anything near the cost, he has accomplished something that is of vast value to the army of Amer- ican horse breeders. The Morgan horse as a type iP receiving much attention in late years, and all intelli- gent breeders are beginning to realize that the type is one that should have been preserved with greater care, and that the use of the blood, wherever found, is worth while. A horseman's library that does not contain the two printed volumes of The Morgan Reg- ister is not complete. A SENSATIONAL ITEM of news about the San Jose race track and fair grounds appears on another page of this week's issue. It is from the San Jose Mercury and states that the track is to be cut up into town lots, and that all the horsemen stabling there have been ordered to vacate the stalls. It is possible that the sale of the track to L. E. Hanchett. representing a railroad company, may have its legality tested in the courts. At any rate it is stated by those who claim to know that there was a clause in the original deed from the owners of the property who gave it for an agricultural park and fair grounds, that the land should revert to them or their heirs if it was ever devoted to other uses. It is to be hoped that this clause was in the deed and that it will be declared effective by the courts. THE OFFICIAL YEAR BOOK of the League of American Driving Club has just been issued, and the secretary of the league and compiler of the book, Mr. Geo. A. Schneider of Cleveland, will please accept our thanks for a copy. The work contains full summaries of all trotting and pacing events at matinees of 1905, also summaries of amateur events at public meetings during that year. There is also a list of officers and members of all the clubs in membership In the league, and an alphabetical list of the trotters and pacers owned by club members. The illustrations, which are very numerous, are splendid specimens of the en- graver's art, and as the book is very handsomely printed it is an adornment to any library. OHIO HORSEMEN are certainly "up against it good and hard." After polling their full strength against Governor Herrick and defeating him for re- election, placing the Democratic candidate, Pattison, in the chair, they are now told that the latter will see that the laws against betting are "enforced to the letter," and that he will veto any bill that passes the Legislature permitting betting on races. As a consequence there will be no meeting this year at the Glenville track at Cleveland, as the association will not take the chances of giving one without betting. MURRAY HOWE,- secretary of the Memphis Asso- ciation, has been in California for the past week vis- iting Pleasanton, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other points, presumably getting testimony for the case which his association has brought against E. E. Smathers. THE SPRING SOUVENIR NUMBER of the Ameri- can Sportsman of Cleveland is one of the best of the many splendid editions of that journal. The cover design is very attractive and artistic. o REGISTRATION. The Chicago Horseman points out that no more en- couraging sign of the prosperity of the trotting busi- ness need be sought than the fact that the annual report of the American Trotting Register Association reveals the fact that an unusually large number of colts were registered in 1905. Just after the collapse of the celebrated boom breeders became discouraged and careless and neglected to register their colts as they should. This neglect, the Horseman continues, was due in a measure, too, to the fact that the breed- ers had overestimated the value of the "standard," or, at least, had so abused the word that it failed to carry the weight it had previously. Now, however, breeders recognize the fact that a certificate of regis- tration is of value, the more so if the colt happens to develop into a high class horse, and if the colt hap- pens to be sold for export the certificate is absolutely essential. If a breeder has not the confidence to register the produce of a trotting-bred mare and stal- lion, then there is something the matter with his sys- tem of breeding. A certificate is a guarantee to the public that the breeder is conducting his business in a proper and approved manner. The foreigner who pur- chases a trotter for export, if it is only across the line into Canada, is very apt to become suspicious if there is any trouble in securing the requisite papers from the American Trotting Association. He has been educated to the fact that properly bred horses of all the different types are registered in their respective stud books in his country, and is loth to take a story in place of the essential papers. And this is particu- larly true if the horse has been sold by the breeder and has passed through several hands. The profes- sional dealer in trotting-bred stock, especially those located so as to command the Canadian trade, will, of course, prefer to purchase the properly registered colt if other things are equal, for he avoids delays and much bother if he happens to make a sale across the line. The breeder will have to recognize all this if he would prosper, for while the sale of one colt or horse may not amount to a great deal, the sale of half a dozen or a dozen to one dealer is a transaction to be desired. It would be a state of things much to be desired if all horses on the race tracks were regis- tered and none allowed to start unless the proper papers were shown on demand. It would reduce the temptation to commit fraud by "ringing" to a mini- mum and would add a dignity to the sport, the breeder and to the trotter. "With hundreds of country fairs each year, tiie races of which are made up of local horses owned and driven by "fanners' boys" of the neighborhood, it does "not appear that the registration of all race horses could be enforced. Each and every breeder, however, will advance his own interests by having all of his colts properly registered. o Here is an opportunity to buy a high class brood mare and a prospective foal for a low price. Mr. R. P. M. Greeley of Fourteenth and Franklin streets. i uklaml, is :ilniu< to take a trip south for the benefit lit' his health and before going wishes to dispose of his horses. "Winnie Wilkes 2:17% he offers for $350. She is in foal lo that great trotter Lecco 2:09% and the produce should be worth more than the price asked for the mare. Winnie Wilkes will be in the great brood mare list as sure as her produ are raced. o — FAIR DATES CLAIMED. At the meeting of the North Pacific Fair Associa- tion held last week at Portland the following dates were agreed upon: Seattle Sept. 3 to 8 Salem Sept. 10 to 15 North Yakima Sept. 17 to 22 Spokahe Sep'. 24 to 29 Walla Walla Oct. Lewiston Oct. • Everett was given the privilege to ,is they may decide on. ®he ^veeinev atth *&pavi&man [March 3, 1906 NOTES AND NEWS. Livermore horse show will open to-day at 1 p. m. With . _ showing of stallions ade. iple 1 1 ;i '; s' 'uvenir contained more - and way filled from cover to covei with interes ing ... ling. They are asking but $50 for the service of Search- light 2:1 ucky this season. Los Angeles. Santa Rosa and Woodland will each year give good harness meetings this year. The Breeders' Association will hold a meeting at Fresno, and could be induced to give meetings at Pleasanton and San Jose if the tracks can be secured. John Pender, of Portland, Oregon, has sold to J. H. Xickerson of Centralia the pacing mare Annigito 2:21 by Antrim, dam Nelly Blackwood by Blackwood Jr. Empire City Farm has nominated thirty-five mares McKinney 2:11% in the Horse Review stake. Enterprise like that pays and pays well. Rev del Valle, who was given his name by the editor of The Breeder and Sportsman, will be pointed for the C. of C. by Ed. Benyon. Here's hoping the son of Rey Direct will win it in straight heats. Deveras 2-:ll%, own brother to Rey Direct 2:10, is to be raced again this year at the Canadian meetings. Dr. E. A. Pearce of Portland, Oregon, owns a Zom- bro four-year-old filly out of an Altamont mare, that is considered one of the greatest trotting prospects in the Northwest. Noeturno 2:20, the handsome son of Alfonso, will make the season of 1906 at Salem, Oregon, where he will be in charge of W. H. Sloan. Iloilo 2:15 by Welcome 2:10^ will be raced again this year in all probability. He has been used as a road horse for a year or more by his owner, Mr. John Treadwell of Oakland, but is looking so well and has so much natural speed that he will be sent to AI McDonald at Pleasanton to get ready for the races. A. Ottinger has sent his fast pacing stallion Daeda- lion 2:0S% to James Thompson at Pleasanton, and the son of Diablo may be seen racing on the Grand Circuit this year. If anybody can bring this fast stallion to the post fit to race for one's life, "Jeems" can /do the trick. One of the funny developments of Western ingen- uity in cases of emergency is reported from Routt county, Colorado, where it seems the ranchers have this winter experienced considerable snow and then some, says Field and Farm. A genius named Charles MeCormick of Halm's Peak has perfected a set of web snowshoes for his horses so that they can get over the country without mushing around in the beautiful and wearing themselves out. The horses soon became accustomed to the shoes and travel with the same ease as a man_ does on skis. Mr. MeCormick con- templates still further improvements on the shoes before applying for a patent and putting them on the market. There is a possibility of Tucson being included in the Rock;- Mountain circuit and the speedy pacers and trotters of the Southwest may race there possibly late in April. Among the cities which are mentioned in addition to Tucson as being on the proposed racing circuit are Phoenix, El Paso, Albuquerque, Las Pueblo, Denver and Montana cities. [1 planned to open the circuit in Phoenix where one of the best tracks in the country is located. If go through successfully, the horses may stop Tucson on their way from Phoenix to El Paso. The track is a half mile oval, hut could be put in good condition for the races. small breeder and single brood mare owner, e owner of a single high-class trotter or pacer, Cten too greatly magnifies his disadvantages i ■ ■ -take engagements. But facts -how that the single brood mare owner, small breedei who makes few futurity Ions, has been an unusually fortunate ■ tary Horace Wilson, of the Ken- tucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, has pre- a wonderfu I Inter* ting little table on the - ■ in. this table that ol i I ucky Futurity Df the number iv< re noml- n*ho nominal I or s mares, H of the narea named by heir resp br< .ii ■ being Peter the Great, Kath- i | .. Sadie W i Bond ill Vdbell and me. With thi i e facts before him, th< i ... | o pal ronlze li i ; Di i ■ of 1 1 i Df hia chan.es ■ ■ r of ra iv ini. v. i roo! Oregon, has pur- ee h '■■'■■ ' i : ■ stallion Captaii J n of Oliver J en prospect Kenneth C. 2:17 as a three-year-old, is being picked as another 2:10 trotter for McKinney. The ease with which he took his record last year showed conclusive- ly that he was one of the best three-year-olds in the iuntry.' As his dam has produced three with re- coi Is from 2:08% to 2:20%, Kenneth C. is bred for a sire, and will make a successful one with ordinary opportunities. Hamline has a $5,000 purse Tor 2:13 pacers, one of the same value for 2:21 trotters," a $2,500 purse for 2:30 pacers, and one of $2,500 for 2:35 trotters. Eight $1,000 purses are also offered. The meeting will be in September and the entries close Monday, July 2. The runner in front will not be permitted any more in record breaking performances, which is hardly fair to the horses that will try to lower the records of Lou Dillon and Dan Patch. The Charter Oak stake will be a $10,000 event for 2.09 trotters. March IS is the date set for the beginning of the trotting meetings at Vienna, Austria. S. S. Bailey of Seattle has purchased the fast pacing mare Vinnie Mann 2:11% and will race her this year. Lute Lindsey has her in charge. The Great Western Circuit is growing and bids fair to rival the Grand Circuit in purses and attendance within a very few years. Richmond Chief 2:11%, the fastest trotting stallion that ever took a record at fifteen years of age, is looking well this season, and is a great favorite at Bakersfield where he is owned by "Mr. T. H. Fogarty. Out of fifteen or twenty colts by him owned in the vicinity of Bakersfield that have been broken, every one is a trotter, not one that is inclined to pace. Five two-year-olds by him started in a race at Bak- ersfield on Washington's Birthday and made a nice race. Mr. Fogarty owns a very handsome filly by him out of Athenian, the dam of Stanley Dillon 2:07%, that is hardly broken yet, but she can trot your eye out, and is a great prospect. All the get of Richmond Chief are live trotters and seem to enjoy racing and take to it naturally. It is reported that the great Oregon State Fair has succumbed to the "skindicate book" and that the priv- ilege for the big fair of 1906 has been let. We hope the report is not true, but that auctions and mutuals will be the system of betting permitted, because if he "skindicate" system rules, the end of good racing at Salem will soon be in sight- Captain John, the British Columbia green pacing sensation, will be trained at Yakima. Washington, this spring by John Millington. Captain John is by Ten- nysonian, a California bred stallion, out of that fast mare Fannie Putnam 2:13 that Charlie Jeffries cam- paigned a few- years ago. James W, Marshal] of Dixon has shipped the mare Sophia by Robert McGregor 2:17%, dam Ora Wood by Wildwood 144, second dam Lady Utterback by Mambrino Patchen Jr., to Nutwood Stock Farm to be bred to Nutwood Wilkes. Sophia is the dam of Corona (3) 2:27%, and of Domino, the whirlwind pacer that stepped a half at Cleveland in 1:03% and was sold for $3400. In the same car was shipped a mare by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Abbie Woodnut, dam of Diawood 2:11, etc.. to be bred to Zolock 2:05%. This mare is owned by Mr. F. Murphy of Dixon. Mr. Mar- shall will send to Zolock this year one of the hand- somest mares in the country. She is by Demonio 2:11%, brother to Dorf Derby 2:04%, Diablo 2:09%, etc., first dam Mamie Comet, dam of Comet Wilkes 2:21, and Macleay (2) 2:22*4, by Nutwood 600, second dam Black Betty by Sportsman, son of Eastern's David Hill, third dam by St. Clair, sire dam of Manzanita 2:16, etc. As has been heretofore stated Mr. Marshall has booked Trix, dam of Mona Wilkes (3) 2:11%. by Nutwood Wilkes, to Star Pointer, and he states that if he only owned two more good mares that he could hook to Bonnie Direct 2:05% and Zombro 2: 11 he would be satisfied. Those who wen,- at Pleasanton track last Monday and saw Geo. A. Kelly working his trotting stallion, Bonnie McK„ by McKinney. were loud in their praise of the way ibis young trotting stallion came through the stretch al the end of his miles, and predictions were freely made that if there is a green 2:10 trotter in California this horse is ■lii" No nunc perfectly gaited one w as e> ei seen on a race track. Mr. Frank J. Kilpatrick, of 35 Wall street, New York, who now has business connections in San Francisco, and spends considerable of his time here. i- a enthusiastic read driver, and greatly enjoys ou* Park and ocean drives. Last fall he purchased the Casl pacing mare Virginia 2:09%, by Bob Mason, to drive on the road and speed wayi. Two weeks ago Virginia slipped a foal by Zolock. greatly to Mr. Kilpatrick's surprise and chagrin, as he did not know she had been bred and would not have purchased her if he had known [| as he wanted her exclusively for ; road driving. Luckily the mare is all right and will soon be ready to show her speed when taken out. Mr. Kilpatrick has long been a prominent driver on w York speedway and has enjoyed many brushes there with ownei ol rasl trotters and pacers \ dispati n Williams port, Pa., dati d February 20th slates that the n I i i seller Frank Herdic, died .ii his home there aged 63 years. According to reports from the East, novel condi- tions will govern the Charter Oak stake at Hartford this year. It will be open to horses in the 2:09 class, and will consist of three heats, with an equal division of the money in each heat. For horses having records of 2:10 or faster the entrance fee will be 5 per cent. For those with slower records there will be a gradu- ated entrance fee, running down as low as 1 per cent for the 2:30 class. The plan is similar in principle to the classification method in running races, where the handicap is supposed to equalize the chances of all contestants, regardless of natural form, the dif- ference being, however, that in Mr. Welsh's plan a nominator is not required to pay more than his chances are considered worth. The idea is certainly a novel one and likely to prove popular with nomina- tors at least. A prominent breeder has said that advertising cuts the same figure in the success of a stallion owner as it does in that of a dry goods merchant, although a lot of stallion owners appear not to recognize the fact. The men who are on the lookout for stallions to patronize are, as a rule, close readers of the ad- vertising columns of the turf papers. A sire may be of exceeding merit, but if his owner neglects to inform the public of his whereabouts and his claims to patronage, he is not likely to receive a large num- ber of mares from the public. The stallions which get the pick of the mares owned by men who keep no stallion of their own are those controlled by men who recognize the value of publicity. This statement will be found to be true by anybody who will take the trouble to investigate it. In business advertising is a greater factor to be reckoned with than any other one thing, and the owner of such a stallion who does not recognize this will deprive him of taking the place he deserves among the sires of his time. — Kentucky Stock Farm. DRAFT HORSES IN OREGON. Five thousand draft horses have been shipped out of Eastern Oregon during the last twelve months, at prices ranging from $70 to $100 per head, is the esti- mate of a horse buyer in the cityi to-day, says the Oregonian. The scarcity of good work horses is now being felt in all the farming districts of the Northwest, he de- clares, and it is necessary for somebody to begin growing horses to supply the home demand or it will be necessary for horses to be imported from the Cen- tral States for use on inland empire farms. Of these 5000 horses gathered from the ranges of Eastern Oregon, it is estimated that two-thirds of them have gone to the cities of the Northwest, in- cluding Tacoma, Seattle, Portland and Spokane, to be used in heavy trucking and street work, and the remainder have gone in the farming districts where horse power is still used almost exclusively in place of steam. Few raisers are now devoting their time to rais- ing itr- 2*Sfnlar draft breeds and there is a better op- portunity to begin hi this line in Eastern Oregon right now than ever before. The extensive purchases of heavy horses in Pendleton proves that many are now^ awake to the situation and that within a few- years the supply for this section will again be equal to the demand. MAKING HORSES INVISIBLE. A special military commission is now sitting in Berlin considering the "best means of making cavalry as invisible as possible in warfare. Harmonizing men's uniforms with natural conditions as much as possible is not enough, and the commission is now discussing the advisability of dyeing the horses or screening them with light canvas trappings. An Express representative who made inquiries at the war office yesterday was told that several experi- ments had been made in this direction during the war in South Africa. One official said: 'Many horses were dyed, but it was found that the dye soon washed off all except gray horses. Several vegetables dyes and Condy's Fluid diluted were used, but the experiments proved of little value. Canvas trappings make the horses perspire and impede their movements, and besides, when the sun is behind the cavalry the horses' legs can be seen through the canvas. "The best screen for cavalry used in South Africa was a combination of various heather-like shrubs, picked up on the veldt. These plants were in many cases strung upwards and downwards from the trap- pings, and gave the appearance, when cavalry were moving slowly across the skyline, of waving vegeta- tion,"— rLondon Express. THE READVILLE STAKES. The New England Trotting Horse Breeders' Asso- ciation has opened the following stakes, which will be decided on the three heat plan, every heat a race: The Blue Hill. 2:30 class, trotting; $4,500; divided $1,050 to first, $300 to second, $150 to third, each heat. The Massachusetts, 2:14 class, trotting; $9,000; divided $2,100 to first, $600 to second, $300 to third, each heat. The Ponkapoag, 2:10 class, trotting; $4,500; divided $1,050 to first, $300 to second, $150 to third, each heat. Readville, 2:0S class, trotting; $3,000; divided $700 to first, $200 to second, $100 to third, each heat. The Norfolk, 2:0S class, pacing; $3,000; divided $700 to first, $200 to second. S100 to third, each heat. Tie' Neponset, 2:06 class, pacing; $3,000; divided $700 to first, $200 to second, $100 to third, each heat. The entrance fee will be 5 per cent of the purse, with nothing deducted from the winners of any part Of the purse. March 3, 1906] (friti? &vttb&; €mb gfp&et&mcm A GOOD DAY AT BAKERSFIELD. The Bakersfleld Driving Club held an afternoon of excellent racing on Washington's Birthday, which brought out a large attendance, over fourteen hundred paid admissions being taken at the gate. The weather was unfavorable, as it rained several times during the day, and the track was from ten to fifteen seconds slow, but as the racing was announced to come off rain or shine, everything came off according to pro- gram and all were well pleased. The racing committee was made up of the follow- ing gentlemen: T. H. Fogarty, H. W. Klipstein Jr., Thos. O'Brien, Wm. Lutz. M. A. Lindburg. Wm. Baker and P. Klipstein. Mr. J. W. P. Laird acted as presiding judge, with F. M. Schofield and Rowan Irwin as assistants. The timekeepers were M. A. Lindburg and Geo. Tilton. W. H. Thomas acceptably filled the position of starter and announcer and H. W. Klipstein Jr. was an ex- cellent track marshal. The results of the races were as follows: Three-year-old trot: Blue Dick, bl. r. g. by Richmond Chief ..(Yancey) 1 Reginald, b. c. by L. W. Russell (Fogarty) 2 Bessie Wilkes, ch. f. by Hamb. Wilkes (Bevin) 3 Time— 2:40jX. Two-year-old trot for the get of Richmond Chief 2:11J4: Doctor C. b. c (Baker) 1 Queen, b. f (Lamb) 2 Topsy. blk. f (Carson) 3 Valentine, br. f. (Gunther) 4 Jack, rn. g (Attridge) 5 Time— 3:20. Trotting, 3:00 class: Fly, b. f. by Almont Lightning (Kiger) 1 Richmond, gr. g. by Richmond Chief .... (Fogarty) 2 Sport, br. g. by Del Paso (Granger) 3 Vernon, b. s. by Del Paso (Baker 4 Time — 2:53%. Trot or pace, 2:30 class: Maud, ch. by Herald (Klipstein) 1 Johnny the Swede, ch. g. by Gossiper . (Flickinger) 2 Annie Rooney, ch. m. by Happy Prince. . (Colwell) 3 Time— 2:35. Trot or pace, 2 : 40 class : Lady McGregor, b. m. by McGregor (Lamb) 1 Blue Ribbon Dick, ch. g. by Corbett Wilkes( Wilson) 2 Dick, b. g (Hughes) 2 Time— 2:50%. Pace, free for all, half mile dash: Richard B. by Woolsey 1 Ferndale by Longworth 2 Time — 1:12. Running Events. Quarter mile dash — Stockings won, Bay Dick sec- ond, Sandow third, Flier fourth. Time, 0:27. Three-eighths mile dash — J. W. James won, Gen. Lee second. Time, 0:40%. Quarter mile dash — The Virginian won, J. W. James second. Gen. Lee third. Time, 0:28. One mile, over seven hurdles. Blue Ridge won. Flying Bill second, Stockings third. Time, 2:05. 15; and $10, July 15, when horse must be named. Five per cent from money winners. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent of the division of the stake; no race longer than five heats. The association re- serves the right to declare off and return all pay- ments made on or before July 15, provided any of the divisions of the stakes have not filled satisfactorily. A horse distancing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth money only, and in no other case shall a horse be entitled to more than one money. Rules of the American Trotting Association, of which this association is a member, to govern, except hobbles not barred on pacers over three years old. Bozeman stake, ?1,000; trotters, $500; pacers, $500 — Early closing stakes for foals of 1904 to be raced for in their two-year-old form, and the entrance fees are payable on the dates given above, except that it is $5 a payment instead of $10. Two out of three heats and the money divided as above. The association re- serves the right to declare two starters a "walkover" and to divide the money 667:; and 33 % per cent. A horse distancing the field will be entitled to first and fourth money only and in no other case shall a horse he entitled to more than one money; hopples barred. Gallatin Valley stake, 2:40 class, $1,000; trotters, 2.40 class, $500; pacers, 2:40 class, $500 — Early closing stakes for foals of 1903 to be raced for in their three- year-old form. Conditions same as the Bozeman stake. Rules of American Trotting Association to govern in both the Bozeman and Gallatin Valley stakes, except hopples barred. Running, Bozeman Derby, 1% miles, purse $500 — Entries close April 15; entrance fee payable $5 April 15 and on the 15th of May, June, July and August, when horse must be named. Ten pounds below scale; money divided 70, 20 and 10 per cent. Five per cent from money winners. The officers of the association intend to make this year one of the best in the history of the fair and recently they increased the capital stock of the fair association from $10,000 to $25,000, and the number of directors from 9 to 13. BRED FOR A GREAT SIRE. LOS ANGELES MATINEE RACING. Members of the Los Angeles Driving Club were the hosts at a matinee Washington's birthday at Agricul- tural Park. In spite of the recent rains the tr-xc;k was in good condition, and the sport was excellent. The first heat of the second race furnised the thrills for that race. Curtis Colyear's Proctor whs the favor- ite, but in the get-away B. H. Smith, driving Harry H. Jr. collided with H. J. Myers' Gladys M. The sulkies scratched twice before the tangle was straightened out. Proctor had to be pulled up short to avoid a bad smashup, and Zollie, a handsome black mare driven by Mr. B. Mosher, went away in the lead, took the pole and came in easily. Proctor took the lead of the second section as soon as the tangle was straight- ened out, but the damage was done and he had no chance to win. The results of the matinee were: Pacing, 2:25 class. Seigfried, b. f., F. B. Long owner 1 1 Laura G., b. m., George L. Pierce, owner 2 2 Time— 2:27, 2:42%. Pacing, 2:20 class. Zollie, bl. m., M. B. Mosher, owner 1 1 Gladys M., H. J. Myers, owner 3 3 Harry H. Jr., B. K. Smith, owner 4 2 Proctor, ch. g., Curtis Colyear, owner 2 4 Time— 2:27%, 2:21. Pacing, 2:15 class. Lohengrin, b. g.. Dr. Dodge, owner 1 2 I Conners, b. g., Geo. A. Pounder, owner 2 1 2 Time— 2:20%, 2:19%. 2:21. Trotting, 2:20 class. Abe Miller, M. B. Mosher, owner 2 1 1 Zombretta, L. J. Christopher, owner 1 2 2 Time— 2:22%, 2:21%, 2 26. GOOD STAKES AT BOZEMAN. Bozeman. Feb. 26, L906. The officers of the Interstate Fair Association have met and fixed the purses for the early closing stakes for the Gallatin county fair, which will be held here from September 17 to 22. Inclusive. R. D. Steele is president of the association and Justin M. Smith is secretary. Following is a list of the stakes and the requirements: Interstate fair stake, for $2,000; 2.30 trotters, $1,000; 2:25 pacers, $1,000. The entries for these stakes close March li and the entrance fee is payable as follows: $10. Marcl IS- $10, April 15; $10, May 15; $10, June WANTS OTHERS TO HAVE THE SAME CHANCE. Breeder and Sportsman — Gentlemen: I have just read the new rule adopted by the National Congress in regard to the pacemakers in time trials. This is a surprising decision to me, as it virtually places Lou Dillon and Dan Patch where they cannot be reached for many years to come. This does not seem a fair deal for other horse owners and on the face of things it looks to the general public as if Mr. Billings and I were jointly interested in building a fence around the records of our horses. I dislike very much to be placed in any such light, as I believe every horse should have an equal chance in time records as well as in racing. 'When a horse comes to the front that is able to beat Dan Patch, I certainly think he ought to have exactly the same conditions enjoyed by Dan, and surely Mr. Billings would take the same fair position. I do not know the true grounds for this new rule, but I do know that I like to see. what is for the best interests of the general horse raising business. I cannot see how such interests will be benefited by shutting out other horse owners from an equal chance in lowering the paced records of Lou Dillon and Dan Patch, which have attracted more attention from the general buying public than anything that has hap- pened for years. It is generally admitted that these two records have been of tremendous value to the horse breeding interests. These exhibition miles with pacemakers are all marked in the year book, so that they cannot cause any confusion. If we want to keep up the interest of the general public, we must give other horses a fair chance to lower the present trot- ting record of 1:58% and pacing record of 1:55%. They should be lowered some day, and when the horses appear that are capable of doing the trick. I stand for them having the same chance as the present holders of these records. As far as I am concerned I do not like to have the impression go over the country that Dan Patch needs a fence around his record to keep some other horse from winning the crown. In view of these facts. I want to go on record as not in favor of this new rule. I believe it will be detrimental to the renewed interest that is now being taken in the harness horses. To keep him properly before the public he must do great things. Breaking records keeps people interested and makes more buyers and breeders. Preventing the breaking of records, by putting up an almost impass- able fence, will prove injurious to the horse.business. Yours very truly. M. W. SAVAGE. SIDNEY DILLON'S MEASUREMENTS. Marque of the Horse Review recently pul tl line on Sterling R. Holts stallion. Sidney Dillon, with Hi., following results: r 1 11 ■ 1 1 1 ■ s Height at withers Height at coupling 60 Length from point of shoulder to swell of quart 1 ' ' Total length from poll to roots of tail 76% Length of head from poll to tip of muzzle 2! % U ngth of neck from poll to notch in vertebra, at withers '" Length of foreleg from point of elbow to grow Length of front cannon from center of knee to center of ankle - 12% Circumference of forearm at swell. . . .". 16% L h'_ n 1 from point of hip to point of neck 39% Length from point of hock to ground 21 Width of hips, point to point --'■■ Girth at heart 72 Girth at waist "?'-■ One of the neatest and most attractive stallion announcements issued this year has just been sent out from this office for Capt. C. H. Williams, owner of the McKinney-Di rector-Nutwood stallion, Unimak 40936. A half-tone engraving made from a recent photograph of this horse graces the front page of the Breeder and Sportsman this week. Unimak will make the season of 1906 at Capt. Williams' farm at Palo Alto, Cal., at the very reasonable fee of $40- Breeders who are looking for sires that have strong individu- ality, natural speed, and are bred in the strongest producing lines, should not overlook Unimak. Our readers are more or less familiar with Unimak, through his being advertised in these columns, but we advise everyone who would like to have the horse's pedigree in tabulated form, together with a list of statistical facts in regard to his ancestors to send to Capt. Williams for one of these neat pamphlets. One of the most successful men who has engaged in the breeding of trotters in recent years is Mr. Sterling R. Holt, of Indianapolis. Mr. Holt was the purchaser of Sidney Dillon at the New York auction when the sire of the champion trotter was sold, and the first year paid for the horse in service fees. This year Sidney Dillon's fee was increased, yet mares will be turned away. Mr. Holt is a man of business acumen and an excellent judge of a horse, conse- quently when it is stated that three years ago he visited California and purchased from Chas. Durfee an own brother of Unimak. that has since trotted in 2:16%, and will be raced this year, breeders will re- alize that Mr. Holt considered the breeding about top notch for a McKJnney. The combination of Mc- Kinney, Director and Nutwood blood cannot be im- proved on. The first two mentioned stallions were great race winning sires, and Nutwood is the great- est sire that ever lived, when the number of his get with standard record (174) is taken into considera- tion, along with the further facts that 977 of his sons are producers of standard speed and his daughters have produced 268 with standard records. Unimak is a big, fine, bold-going trotter, intensely masculine and with 2:20 speed at the present time. He is now a four-year-old, but the Captain says he will not be trained for a low record until he is five, although he is given some work every year, and has always shown more speed than was expected of him. When he is five years old he will be given every op- portunity to show the speed that is surely in him, and 2:10 will be within his reach, as he can show two-minute speed now. Unimak will be given but a limited number of mares and those desiring to breed their mares to him should book them psjrfy. LOS ANGELES HORSE SHOW ASSOCIATION. Articles of incorporation of the Los Angeles Horse Show Association have been filed. The organization includes over sixty well known residents of the South- ern California metropolis who are subscribers to the capital stock of the company, which is placed at $5000, divided into 500 shares of $10 each. The Board of Directors for the first year are Walter S. Newhall. Byron Erckenbrecher, Col. John H. Nor- ton, Ferd K. Rule, Howard G. Bundrem, A. E. Ash- brook, John G. Mott, Dr. M. L. Moore and W. J. Doran. The association will have offices at 311 Laughlin building. Among those who have subscribed to the capital stock are representatives from all of the prominent towns of Southern California. Secretary Ashbrook is preparing a list of prizes, which will be issued within a few days. The first show will be held in one of the parks near the city during the early part of April. All intending ex- hibitors are requested to communicate at once with the secretary, so that he may have this information before publishing his prize lists, which it is expected will include all classes from a Shetland to a four-in- hand team. WHICH WAS THE WINNER. Charley Scott, the well known horseman and far- mer of St. Helena, Napa county, recently found the following document among some old papers that have been in his possession for many years: Napa City, Sept. 16th 1S64. This is to certify that Lewis E. Rowley and Wil- liam Hoyt agree to trot a match 1 in five. to harness and to rule The ra : Row- ley agrees on the first part to trot Nathan Coombs' buggy horse known as Barb, against Hoyt's of the second part, horse of Charley Carter's known as Paddy Whacker, to be trotted on the 14th day of October. 1SG4, for one hundred dollars a side, half forfeit, the rest to be put up on the mornfng of the race. To be trotted on Nathan Coombs' prlvai- in Napa county. LEWIS E, ROWLET, WILLIAM HOYT. Mr. Scott says the above agreement has 1 --'ssion for a long- time, and whenever he ha.s run across it. he has wondered which horse won. \w n ould not be surprised El ou ad and sub- 91 riber, Mr Geo. Bemerj m- uld remember how the race terminated. The polo and pons ra ■ inS tournament which opened this best event of the kind ever held in California Over one hundred 1 were on the ground on the opening day, and es which begin to-day are all 11. Chasi town to operate the mu- tual machines for ■ ted. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda, 6 ®tte fBrjee&er axxb gftrtfrtemmt March 3, 1906 HOOF BEATS. The Breeders' Association will hold a race meeting at Fresno ' I Every meeting held by ihis at Fresno has been successful and this 'e meeting will be no exception. The meeting . 1 How soon after the one at Los Angeles. Kenney, the bikeman, received day before yesterday four brand, new latest model McMurray long shaft, low seat, speed carts. One is a royal blue, another orange yellow, and two carmine in color. Get out to his place at 531 Valencia -street as early the' possible if you want your pick of the four, as they will not be there many days. CALIFORNIA HORSES IN AUSTRALIA. ■Man trotting champion Fritz 2:13 is now 3 old and has been taken to New Zealand . "While he is not as fast as in his younger 'ritz can show a mile below- 2:20 very handily. There is advertised for sale in this issue a bay mare ■cars-old that should attract the attention of This mare is by William Harold 2:13%, son of Sidney, and is out of a mare by Direct 2:05^;. sec- ond dam Dusk, dam of Fallacy 2:17% by Mambrino a, third dam Centennial Belle, dam of Clipper 2:06, by thoroughbred Woodburn, fourth dam Bonnie Belle by Williamson's Belmont, fifth dam by Givens by imp. Langford. No more richly bred filly can be found in California and as she is stylish and a good looker, and can trot a 2:35 gait any day on the road without any training or rigging, she is a great pros- pect. The price asked for her — $200 — is not one-third of what she is worth. A meeting of horsemen was held at Sacramento last Tuesday evening, the object being to organize a gentleman's driving club, to be known as the Fort Sutter Driving Club. The meeting was in every way successful and great unanimity was shown by those present. W. V. Fierce was elected temporary chair- man and he appointed the following committee to in- terview horsemen who are likely to join, as well as those who have signified their willingness to become members; A. W. Morrison, John Riley, Ray Dittus and J. P. Callendine. The committee will meet again next Monday at a place to be shortly announced. The Exeter Stock Breeders' Association held a meet- ing at Exeter Monday evening and a code of by- laws was drawn up and other business transacted. The following officers were elected: President, G. W. Kirkman; vice-president, C. E. Mackey; secretary, C. E. Balaam; treasurer, Bank of Exeter. The object of the association is for stock breeding purposes, but annual race meets will be held. Nearly all the horsemen living in Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Glenn and Butte counties are getting horses ready for the meeting to be given by Mr. E. C. Peart at the Colusa track, April 22d. The trotting mare Lady Knapp, which was used as the instrument whereby George Whitney, a well known Western reinsman, practiced a series of whole- sale frauds upon trotting associations in all sections of the country, has been located in Lincoln, Nebraska. A. C. Pennock of Cleveland, Ohio, who has been in- vestigating at the instigation of the American Trot- ting Association, positively identified Lady Knapp the other day as the same animal which in 1904 won two races in the 2:15 class in the East under the name of Mildred. A Lincoln capitalist and horse enthusi- ast, C. L. Hooper, purchased the mare a year ago for breeding purposes. He will make no effort to resist the animal's expulsion by the trotting association. There is much talk around Pleasanton track of a little pacer by Gossiper that M. Henry is working. The writer saw Mr. Henry drive the youngster through the stretch last Monday and the reason for the speed conversation about him was evident. A sweeter gaited one was never hooked up and he moves easily and gracefully and seems to enjoy it. He'll be a race horse sure. Zolock 2:05'/4 is getting some very high class mares at Pleasanton. Although the breeding season has not fairly begun, Zolock's book is rapidly filling with the names of some of the best mares in the country. Zolock takes much of his exercise on the trot, and a nicer gaited horse at this gait one rarely sees. If he ) i rained and raced as a trotter he should get a very low record. Geo. A. Davis of Pleasanton has booked three mares to Bon Voyage 2:12%. one of them the famous mare i by Sidney. James Coffin of this city has booked two mares to the same horse, and Fred Devis has booked two McKinney marcs. Henry Hahn of this city and several others have also sent mares to this young stallion. Mr. Chas. Griffith, owner of Bon- nie Direct U : 0 r> i i . contemplates sending a Bonnie m : t< the court of Bon Voyage. Mr. I. L. Bor- den Mill send one of his best mares to Mr. Clark's etalll < !k> has charge of all Mr. Clark's win, is called upon many times dur- ing ii ■ i ipi Voyage led out. We advise every reader of the Breeder and Sports- man who contemplates entering upon the breeding of coach and carriage horses, to read the very interesting and able address delivered by Mr. Geo. M. Rommel of the U. S. Department of Agriculture at Lincoln, Nebraska, recently. It will be found on the Sth page of this issue. Thos. Kell of 95 South Market street, San Jose, offers to lease for next season the two producing mares. Babe, dam of Just It 2:19%, winner of the Occident-Stanford Pace, and Fanny Menlo, the dam of Claudius 2:13ii. Both mares are now in foal to J. R. C. See advertisement. Rose McKinney, the dam of Alameda 2:22*4, has been registered as standard under rule 3 by the Amer- ican Trotting Register Association. Her son Frank Covey by Mendocino, owned by Dr. DaFoe of San Jose has also been registered under rule' 1, with the number 46,200. A pleasant episode occurred in this city last Sunday when Mr. Laud C. Gates, the well known farmer and horse owner of Modesto, was united in marriage to Miss Ena, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Zibbell, of this city. The happy couple will have the best wishes of a host of friends and admirers. It Is report* hat Mr. A. W. Bruner of Los Angeles I ii tary of the Los An- n.u Club and associate. 1 himself with Dr. the CI utes Park alt: nl the southern Fred Chadbourne, of the firm of Sutherland & Chad- bourne, Pleasanton, has been working the two-year- old filly Bernice by Owyhee 2:11, out of Bertha, dam of Don Derby 2:04*4, Diablo 2:09^, etc., for L. C. Crellin, for some time this winter, and two weeks ago the firm became so enamored of the handsome and fast filly that an offer was made Mr. Crellin for her, which offer was accepted. Bernice is one of the finest prospects in the training school, and in addition should be one of the greatest of brood mares when her racing days are over. We understand §1600 was the figure at which. she changed hands. We expect to see Fred ride a fast mile behind her some day. HOW DOBLE PRACTICED HYDROPATHY. In all probability Budd Doble was the originator of the swimming system of training a trotter. In 1S71 he had the trotter Hotspur in his string and had him entered in a $6000 stake to be trotted at Buffalo. Ten per cent was the entrance money in those days, and when in his early training Hotspur went wrong in one of his hind legs Mr. Doble stopped work on him and nursed the lame leg very carefully in hopes to effect a cure and save that money if possible. After a while the filling went out of the leg and Hotspur was started up again, but in a few days the leg again fevered up and the horse showed lameness. Doble was training him at the old Fashion course at Long Island, and one day conceived the idea of swimming the horse in the salt waters of Flushing Bay, which was close at hand. He hired a man with a rowboat and took to the beach rub-rags, scrapers, body wash and everything generally used in those days in cooling out and caring for a horse after a heat: Taking a seat in the stern of the boat, and holding Hotspur's halter in his hand, he ordered the boatman to row about the bay. Hotspur took to water like a duck and Doble watched him closely to see how his wind held out in the effort of swimming. When the horse gave evidence of tiring he would take him ashore, and the swipes would get to work on him just as though he had worked out a fast mile. This was kept up several weeks, the swims increasing in length, and Hotspur's entire training was given him to halter from the seat of the boat. His leg rapidly improved and the horse never trotted a step on a track or a road until the day of the race, which was on August 10th. There were four other starters, Myron Perry, Thos. Jeffersorh Pilot Temple and Byron. The last named won the first heat in 2:25^2, but Hotspur took the next three and the race in 2:25, 2: 25 *£ and 2:25. His leg did not bother him in the least and he trotted as good a race as he ever did in his life. This was probably the first time a horse was ever trained as a swimmer to win a trotting race, but the system has been ad- vocated many times since as effective with "dickey" horses. From a copy of the Australasian received by the last steamer, we take the following account of The Ranch, a trotting horse breeding establishment maintained by Mr. W. B. Veirs, an American gentleman now en- gaged in business in Melbourne*. Outside the studs of thoroughbreds there are a few light-horse breeding establishments in Victoria, and of these the most interesting one that I know of is that maintained by Mr. W. B. Veirs, at the Ranch, on Moonee Ponds Creek, near Glenroy railway sta- tion. I know of no pleasanter outing from Melbourne than an afternoon spent in the fields at the Ranch, looking at the trotting dames and their foals. The stallions kept at the Ranch are Digitalis (imported), a well-known prize taker at most of our leading shows. He is a bay horse, standing 15.3, with plenty of substance and a record of 2:25%. He was siren by Daly, a good performer, and__a sire of good per- formers. His grandsire was General Benton, a fam- ous sire in the States, and his dam was Cygnet. In the third line in his pedigree the four horses and four mares all distinguished themselves at the stud. Dixip Alto (foaled March 24, 1900), imported by Mr. Veirs, has a splendid pedigree; scarcely a name is mentioned but what is of the very highest class. Among the sires are Electioneer (125), Palo Alto (5353), Piedmont (904), Electioneer (125), and Nutwood (600) in the third line. The most noted of the female names in this pedigree are Green Mountain Maid (twice) Miss Russell, and Dame Winnie (thoroughbred), dam of Palo Alto. Dixie Alto is a handsome horse, of a bright bay color, and has much the appearance of a thoroughbred. Another stallion is Governor Tracy, bred by Mr. John Grigg, of Longbeach, N. Z. He is of a rich bay color, stands 15.3, and is strongly build He comes of a great trotting family, his pedigree com- bining the strains of Hambletonian. Red Wilkes, Mam- brino Chief, and Pilot. He. is half-brother to General Tracy, one of the fastest trotting horses in Aus- tralia. Of the brood mares, I like Diana Rose the best. She is a perfect harness mare, of good size, excellent shape, action that leaves nothing to be de- sired, great pace, an admirable disposition, and per- fect manners. She is by Daly, the sire of Digitalis, her dam Baby Buttons, by Alexander Button, second dam Lady Buttons, by Alexander, one of the best strains of trotting horses in America. Another im- ported mare is Mary Daly, sister to Digitalis. She was a performer of the highest class. Two other imported mares are Coney Island and Santa Rosa. Molly Whips is from Mary Daly by Willie Whips, who was selected in America by Mr. Veirs for Messrs. Hunter Bros., Burnewangpark. The Whips family are highly thought of in America, and are inbred to Electioneer (125), whose record at the stud is of the very highest. The imported mares have all been put to Dixie Alto, and their foals are very promising. A mare that would attract attention in any company is Winona (im- posed), the property of Mr. A. S. Patterson, and selected for him by Mr, Veirs. She is a sister to Digitalis, and has a splendid foal at foot by Dixie Alto. Among the Australian-bred mares are several good performers; they are mostly of fair size, good bone, and well shaped. Altogether ther are about thirty brood mares belonging to Mr. Veirs on the Ranch. Most of the young stock are at present on a property Mr. Veirs has on the Goulburn. Lately he has imported a full sister to Diana Rose, which in every respect closely resembles her beautiful relative. The Ranch and the stud are left entirly under the management of Mr. Alec Robertson. A PROFITABLE STALLION TO PATRONIZE. A SIRE OF SPEED AND GOOD LOOKS. Mr. v ■ ... i ol L23 Taylor i I Ity, has i in the hands of trainer Willi Alameda that is one of the best gait i prom- ising yo Iters In that neighborhood. Mr. Chase trained with the Idea of racing him on. The Pleasani"n hoi amen will hold an afternoon of r;\ mg on Saturday, the 17th Inst. Three or four races 'be held and a good day's sport is assured. The i a further particulars will be announced next J uning the few years that the get of Seymour Wilkes 2:08*& have been old enough to place on the market, it has been a very common remark among dealers that there has never been one that could not be sold at a good profit as soon as it was three years old. They are all such large, well turned, stylish roadsters, either hays or browns, and with such cool heads and good manners, that buyers want them as soon as Lhej are Offered for sale. Seymour Wilkes is himself one of the handsomest stallions In the State, and om Of the gamest race horses that ever went through the California circuit. He weighs 1200 pounds, stands 16 hands, and is a very symmetrical horse. His service fee has been placed at $30 which is exceedingly low for a horse of his class. There are Q number, of the get of Seymour Wilkes owned in San Francisco, which his owner, Mr. J. W. Gregory of the St. G.orge Stables, 408 Bush street, will be pleased to §how prospective buyers. Seymour Wilkes will make the season at Lakeville, Sonoma county, in charge of Thos. Roche, who can be addressed for further particulars. The announcement of the Guy Wilkes stallion Lyn- wood W. 32853, two-year-old trotting record 2:20, appears in this issue. This horse will make the sea- son of 1906 at Santa Rosa where he has been kept for several years past, and where he is one of the most popular of stallions. Lynwood W. is one of the fastest natural trotters ever bred in California, is a very handsome horse, and is siring speed, good looks and size with great uniformity. He never covered but eight standard mares prior to 3905, but he has to his credit Dumont S. 2:20, Clipper W. 2:24%, So- noma Queen 2:25. and Sonoma May 2:29*4, all trotters. Charley Belden, the most sensational green trotter in* the State, is by him, and is showing 2:12 speed at Pleasanton. Sonoma Girl, trial 2:15, with a last quarter in 30 seconds, is another of his produce and many others that have shown extreme speed. Lyn- wood W. is out of the producing mare Lindale by Sultan Jr., second dam Flora Pierson 283 by Gen. McClellan 144, third dam by Langford, son of Wil- liamson's Belmont. At the low fee of $25 asked for the services of Lynwood W., he is one of the best stallions to breed to in California and owners of good mares will find it profitable to send them to him at Santa Rosa. For further particulars address H. A. Carlton, Santa Rosa. STAKE WINNER IN THE STUD. Mr. M. L. Lusk of Sacramento has leased the hand- some colt trotter and, stake winner, Almaden 2:22*4. by Direct 2:05*?, dam by McKinney 2:11%, and will keept him at the new Agricultural Park, Sacramento, for the season of 1906. Almaden is now five years old and is not only one of the best bred but one of the gamest and best gaited trotting stallions in California. He won the two-year-old division of the Pacific Breeders' Futurity in 1903, and the Occident Stake in 1904, the latter being a seven heat race and one of the closest contests ever seen at the State Fair. Alma- den is a black horse of handsome proportions, and combines the blood of two of the greatest racing families, (he Directors and the McKinneys. March 3, 1906] ©he g*«e2>£¥ itub &v0vx&nxatx THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. By Ralph H. Tozer. Racing in California and in the Middle West must be conducted along different lines, or it will be legis- lated against, as in Missouri, Illinois, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and other States. There has been too much catering to the bookmaker and the horse- owner in recent years, and old Mr. Vanderbilt's fam- ous saying, "the public be d — ■ — d" has been thought to be about right by race track management, appar- ently. Because a bookmaker had on one or more books throughout a meeting was no reason he should do many suspicious things (the talk of race-goers), and never have an investigation of his doings. Be- cause a man had a fine string of horses was no good reason why he should run his gallopers Z-fashion all season and never be called to task by the stewards, even though they ran first to-day and last yesterday, and were roundly cursed therefor^by the burners of midnight oil, and admission-payers generally. Rac- ing judges, in the absence of positive proof of fraud, should use their "thinkers" more and say to owners of "in-and-outers": "We do not know that you laid your horse up with a bookmaker yesterday and tried to win to-day, but we do know that your flyer is very inconsistent, and any further running of this sort will result in our at least refusing the entry of this particular Biblical runner." If officials don't call the owners of the zigzaggers down and try to keep the racing clean the opponents of the sport will throw mud on it that will be hard to scrape off in the halls of legislation. In short, it is with the turf officials, in a large measure, whether winter racing shall live or die in this section. If they keep it clean, hewing to the line and letting the chips fall where they may, goring the recreant ox, no matter whose brand it bears, all in the interest of the people who pay the fiddler, it will thrive. If favorites are to be played and those favorites are allowed to run their horses as their selfish, snaky minds dictate, the fate of racing in Missouri, Illinois and other great States will be the fate of California racing. * * * Whether there be much whitewashing or not at Los Angeles, it is claimed that several official heads will be snickersneed. The water in a shallow creek never gets clearer through stirring up the soft mud at the bottom, and in many cases one does not often have to go deep before much black mud is encoun- tered. Barney Schreiber seemed to have more sound sense than all the Los Angeles racing coterie com- bined. He knew what the mud-stirring did in Mis- souri, Illinois and other States, and he took train and hurried to Los Angeles. to take the sticks away from the game-killers before they tore up the entire bottom of the creek and got down to hard pan. There was a pronounced "hush" soon after his arrival, a cessation of hostilities, but the fire was only smol- dering, and when he left there was no one to throw water on the embers, and it broke out again. * * * "Cy" Mulkey was seventy-four years of age last Monday, and few men have been in "the game" longer than Mr. M. His career began in Missouri, his native State, with "quarter horses," in 1843, when eleven years of age. In 1S47 he came across the plains from Missouri to Oregon, there being a few race horses in his folks* "outfit." In 1854 Mr. Mulkey cut quite a figure in Oregon racing and in 1860 brought to Cali- fornia a fast horse called Frenchman's Pony. Many years later he trained the renowned winners, Joe Howell (the "iron horse" of his time) and the fleet mare Premium, and not so very many seasons ago conditioned for the racing fray the frequent winner Tim Murphy and the phenomenal Sinfax. As the trainer of the Palo Alto and A. B. Spreckels flyers the veteran reached the top of the ladder of fame as a conditioner of gallopers in this part of the world, and no trainer alive is as well known on this Coast as Cyrus Mulkey. Dick Williams, satisfied that he would not be al- lowed to race in the far East undisturbed, decided to sell off his entire string of gallopers. Fireball and Alencon were sold last Monday to "Boots" Durnell. The former was held at $6,000 not long since and it is probable that at least $8,500 was realized for the pair of fleet ones. Williams owns a fine farm of 900 acres in Oklahoma, and in the last few years fully $40,000, I am told, has been spent in improvements there, so that Richard is in no immediate danger. * * « The exodus from Los Angeles to Emeryville has be- gun. Recent arrivals are Bob Harris (with W. H. Carey, Lotta Gladstone and Mr. Budd), H. Walker (with Matador, Oasis, Hattie Crews, W. P. Palmer and Lucien), and ex-Jockey Charley Van Dusen with Hip- pocrates and one other. The stables of W. P. Max- well (which includes Eugenia Burch) and J. F. New- man (including Don Domo), Denny Bros, and George Dodge are due to arrive any time now. * * * Ebony, a black horse by Hamilton II-Cricket, bred at Antioch, is about the best horse at Ascot over a distance of ground these days. Last Monday he ran a mile and fifty yards in 1:42%, easily, with 110 pounds up, the first mile being run in 1:39%. The black horse's entry was refused at Emeryville a sea- son or so ago for inconsistent running, but he seems to have mended his ways. * * * In order to show that the Sains are a "staying" tribe, Barney Schreiber will start his three-year-old colt Nealon in the Thornton Stakes, at four miles, a race never won by a horse of this tender age. * * • Ed Gaylord, Denver's well-known racing man, last Thursday purchased Rubric and Lustig of Dick Wil- liams. The first-named was held at $4,000, it was understood, and should prove a "star" performer at the coming Overland Park meeting. Hector and Wee Lass were purchased of Williams by Hall & Marshall, and W. P. Magrane secured the excellent filly. Silver Sue. The return to the Williams farm in Oklahoma was begun last Thursday with the stallion Reserva- tion and four brood mares, and the discredited turf- man will probably confine himself to breeding racers in future. Col. A. F. Walcott, a big figure in the Eastern turf world a few years ago, when of the firm of Walcott & Campbell, died in New York last Monday of heart disease. * * * It looks as if there could be race meetings given without interference in St. Louis county, Mo., for by a decision of the Supreme Court last Monday the St. Louis police are denied authority to act except in the confines of the city. Kinloch is in the county and part or all of the Delmar track is outside the city limits. The famous race horse and sire, Longstreet, died last week. The person who got through the rule in the Ameri- can Turf Association allowing three pounds to ap- prentice riders in handicaps is to be admired for his determination if not for his good sense. I always thought handicaps were made to bring horses to- gether at the finish, yet this rule would make it ap- pear otherwise, and now it's hard to say what handi- caps are for. * * * There ought to be a swift change made in the claiming race rules. They are mere farces now. with the owner of the third horse given the first claim. I believe any one in or out of "the game" ought to be allowed to claim a horse if he is willing to give the price set by the rules, and in case of more than one claim being made for a racer, the new owner should be decided by lot, the judges settling the matter, for they have more time than the clerk of the scales. This would prevent a large share of the fraudulent claiming (many .times, perhaps, for a con- sideration) that one sees in these commercial days. Why should an "outsider" not have as much right to claim a horse he thought entered at too cheap a price as to run one up after it has won? These races, if run under the plan I have set forth, would be all right, but they are radically wrong under the present rules. * * * Mr. S. S. Eakle of Williams reports a bay filly foaled February 19th by Claude out of Mercelle by imp. Prince Rudolph, second dam imp. Wandilla. This is one of the few foals by Claude on this coast. BEAUTIFYING THE FAIR GROUNDS. (Sacramento Union.) In preparation for the annual State Fair to be held next fall a score of workmen and a dozen teams yes- terday commenced work in the new park. Graders and plows will be in operation for a month or more, it being deemed advisable to take advantage of the recent rains in performing the task outlined. Despite the liberal use of the bolo by Governor Pardee, who vetoed many of the improvements recom- mended by the directors, it is stated that an economical use of the funds he is disposed to allow will enable the society to greatly beautify and improve the park by the beginning of the State Fair. It is proposed to grade and level all the unimproved territory lying between the Stockton road and the race course and barns. When this work is completed the entire area will be planted to grass and trees, in order that they may obtain as early a start as possible. By this fall it is expected that the grounds on both sides of the entrance surrounding the grandstand, the cattle barns and all places where people congregate, will be green lawn. Arrangements have been made to procure from the Capitol Commission all the Ber- muda grass roots unearthed in the thinning out the present growth in the park. Scarcely a week passes without the arrival or a number of four-footed guests for the harness horse quarters. Over fifty head of trotting and pacing stock are now quartered at the track, and a fee of $2 per month is paid by each owner. Because of the glowing accounts of the track that are circulated by horsemen, owners at a considerable distance are preparing to winter their animals here in the future. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. W. G. L, Bakersfield — There are trotting bred, pac- ing bred and thoroughbred mares by the name of Flora D. If you can give us a little more definite in- formation as to the mare whose pedigree you want, we may be able to find it. William Leach, Marysville. — The thoroughbred horse Red Buck was sired by Red Boy and his dam was Norma by Norwich, son of Lexington, second dam by Oregon Charlie. Red Boy was by War Dance out of Neilson by imported Sovereign. ATTEMPT TO CLOSE SAN JOSE TRACK. (San Jose Mercury, Feb 25 ) 10Tv^!?na,1tS.01' AS"™ltural Park have been notified o vacate the,r quarters at once as L. E. Hanchett the present owner of the property, will take fail Pos- session on April 1, and desires the Park to be tree from occupants. The notices were issued from the J^r the Sa" J°Se ahd Santa Cla™ Street Rail! way Company and were signed by L. E. Hanchett he railroad people, to abolish the track and to cut he track into town lots in the near future. Although the horsemen had intimations that they would be compelled to leave, the notices came much sooner than they were expected and caused intense conster- nation. It is now known for a certainty that the Agricul- tural Park race track will be abolished. There are now between 75 and 100 horses in training on the local course. They will be taken to the other tracks of the State. In the opinion of the San Jose horsemen, the closing of the Agricultural Park race track is one of the greatest calamities that has fallen to the turf for many years. San Jose is a favorite wiUi fanciers as a winter resort for their stock, the location and cli- mate being the best In the State. The Agricultural Park tract contains between 84 and S6 acres. The Rose Carnival Pavilion and the base-ball park will not be touched. The racing course training quarters and fair grounds, it is stated will be immediately surveyed and cut into lots for an Alameda sub-division. L. E. Hanchett, the President of the San Jose and Santa Clara Street Railway Com- pany, purchased the property some months ago from the Agricultural Association. He visited the property about three weeks ago and at that time hinted that it would be divided. A short time afterward a pre- liminary survey of the land was made. Since that time nothing has been done. It was understood by Budd Doble that no action would be taken until July 1. at the very earliest. The horsemen have only about one month to remove their stock and property and will consequently be incon- venienced greatly. This is the only open training track in this part of the State. The trainers do not care particularly to go either to Santa Rosa or Fresno. The track at Pleasanton is crowded. Among the horsemen who are in San Jose at the present are the following: J. s. Phippin, 20 head; John Gordon 10- John Groom, S; P. W. Hodges, 12; Budd Doble, S, besides Kinney Lou; Siljan, 6; Williams, 8; William Cecil, 3; O. L. Housley. 2; T. W. Barstow, 6; C. A. Durfee, 2. In addition to these there are many more horsemen with smaller strings. H. R. Ward, who has had a number of pacers in training here, left yesterday for Pleasanton. Others will leave within a short time. The notices of re- moval were served to the men this morning by Dep- uty Constable Charles Marcen. They expressed con- siderable regret and do not want to leave at all. The San Jose race track is considered to be one of the safest and fastest in the State when it is in proper condition. Its closing will mean the dropping of San Jose from the circuit. Of the 75 horses that are now in training, all are in splendid condition, and for this reason mainly the horsemen object strenuously to leaving. Some of the horsemen think that the change will not be made. Others understand that the track can- not be abolished. When the property was placed in the hands of the Santa Clara and San Mateo County Agricultural Association, it is said a clause was in- serted in the transferal papers whereby the property i everted to the hands of the heirs if the race track was ever abolished or its disuse indefinitely continued. CHALLENGES HEATHERBLOOM. Heatherbloom's right to be called the champion high jumper, with a record of 7 feet and S inches, has been questioned by Mme. Marantette of Mendon, Mich., who owns the noted fencer St. Patrick. The Western horsewoman is out with a challenge to match the Michigan jumper against any horse in the world for $1,000 a side, each of the owners to select a judge and the two judges so selected to choose a third. Mme. Marantette stipulates that the bars of the trial shall be placed at 6 feet G inches for the first jump and that each horse shall have five trials. The bars are then to be raised to 7 feet 10% inches, and after that each owner may raise them as he sees fit for his own horse until the match is decided. She further specifies that each owner may hold the bars for himself, but they are to be strapped to the posts. D. H. Harris, the manager of St. Patrick, says that horse has jumped 7 feet 10% inches in public and is now the champion. DON'T WAIT FOE DISTEMPEB. J. G. Belt, D.D.S., Safford, Arizona. — Electioneer died December 3d, 1890. He was foaled May 2d, 1868. R. L. B., Oakland. — Rifleman, sire of the gray geld- ing Col. Lewis 2:18%, was a thoroughbred horse. He was foaled in 1S55, and was by Imported Glencoe out of a mare by Rodolph. 0 Jackson's Napa Sods, cleanses the stomach and renders the •?• cleir. The season is at hand when distemper, grippe, epi- zootic, colds, pinkeye and a variety of catarrhal ail- ments are apt to prevail among stock. When these diseases start, it may be too late to lake preventive measures. In any case there will be loss and trouble that should if possible be avoided. It will pay to have the right remedy on hand ready for use when need arises. We believe our readers would be wise to pro- vide themselves with some of "Dr. Craft's Distemper & Cough Cure," which is advertised in another column. This remedy has a record of many years back of It. It Is sold under the agreement to refund the money If it ever falls. If any of our readers are not familiar with It, we suggest that they write at once to The Wells Medicine Co.. 13 Third St.. Lafayette. Ind.. for a copy of their valuable pamphlet, "Veterinary Pointers." The Terre Haute Trotting Association which has not given a meeting since its disastrous failures in 1901 and 1902, will give a meeting the comlrr- mer, probably in July. It will not be In circuit, but the week before Detroit is tail 8 mu? gvezb&v ani* gpcxtenxaxi [March 3, 190b GOVERNMENT HORSE BREEDING. (Address by Geo. M. Rommel, U. S. Department of Agriculture, at Lincoln, Neb.) work in horse breeding to be undertaken i rit was begun late in tstry of the De- ration with the ign governments g for many 3 in ess or fostering the industry i ntial way. In nearly all. these remounting of armies has been the ■.irk: in our own case breed- table for the army is merely an inci- al consideration. The immedi; ■■■- of the American work is the i Lit ion of a breed of American carriage horses from native material, the more remote but broader purpose the improvement of the general utility horse, and the ultimate one is raising the standard of the entire light horse stuck of the country. By the first it is hoped that a remedy may be found for the present shortage in the supply of carriage horses and that the tendency of the native- stock to produce fine carriage horses may be preserved by systematic breeding; by improv- ing the general utility horse a horse will be provided which will do more efficient work for light farming, family and general work, and by improving the entire light horse stock every market which draws on this type for its horses will be indirectly benefited, includ- ing the army. Work of this kind is pertinent. During the financial depression of ten years ago horse breeding suffered a most serious decline in the United States. The farmer with a large number of mares on his hands was at a positive disadvantage, because he bred them as a rule and hence had a constant increase which had to be disposed of, usually at a loss. When the depres- sion was most severe foreign horsemen found that we had an excellent supply of horses here and began to buy. The growth of the export trade was followed by the improvement in business conditions in the United States, and soon we had two strong demands for our horses, the domestic demand calling for them in larger numbers than ever before, and the foreign demand, which was practically a new one. When the European demand was at its height the British war office began its purchases for South Africa, taking in all approximately 150.000 horses. These animals were of an inferior type, the ones we could best afford to sell. Their exportation was a blessing to the horse industry and the general standard has been percepti- bly raised by it. The shortage of carriage horses in our markets is the most evident reason why. Since the Boer war the trade has witnessed a con- test between the home and foreign demand for Amer- ican horses, -and the home demand has won. From 1899 to 1904 the average price of horses on the Chicago market has increased as follows: Drafters, $22; car- riage horses, $32.50 (pairs $65); drivers, $10; horses for general use, $35; bussers and trammers, $25; sad- dlers, $10, and southern chunks. $14. During this time the export of horses fluctuated from 64.722 during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1900, to 103,020 during the year 1902, and 34.S22 during 1905. The year 1902 inr eluded some 80,000 horses to South Africa. The de- cline in the export of horses of the marketable types to the United Kingdom during this time is the best indication of the real state of this trade, as that country has always been our best customer. The trade reached its height during the fiscal year 1900, when 30,232 horses were exported. Since then it has declined rapidly, until during the year ended June 30. 1905, only 1,635 horses were sent to the United King- dom. This decline has been caused by the great in- crease in prices shown above. The domestic trade can pay more for horses than the foreign, and foreign buyers have been practically driven out of the market. The trade with the United Kingdom is an index of the situation, particularly concerning the better classes, because that country always buys good horses. It Is even true that the current has set in the opposite direction and a certain amount of importing of fine horses for market purposes is now being carried on by Englishmen. There is nothing in this situation to alarm us. The foreign trade stands ready to buy our horses whenever domestic prices decline to a sufficient extent, and, therefore, an over supply or a slack de- mand will have a less serious effect on the American Industry than it would have had twenty years ago. To supply the demand horses by the thousands have been imported for breeding purposes. The draft breeds have been in the majority, and their use is generally satisfactory. Only once have we had anything ap- proaching a native drafl breed, and that lias been completely lost. This was the Conestoga draft horse of Eastern Pennsyslvanla. They were dappled gray or nearly white in color, other colors being rare. They weighed from 1,200 to 1,400 pounds and stood from 16 to 17 hands. Soirrn specimens weighed 1,500 pounds oci ■ lonallj "i 11 ■ 1. "(i t0 2,000 pounds. They are described a; smarl drafl horse* and rare good walk- ■ 1 ■ . were used In Ll Ii of 1 1 si and in the frelghl Ing busini ■■ ■■ across the Jleghanli s before "i ro I roads. The de: ■ lopmenl of railroads een I led their death km II Thej havi ii 'i No one seems to know whence they cami or v ■ ..I them, They could have been tlvi Aral 1 br 1, but their existence has no value fur us dow excepl to show that dn fts breed a 1 an be devi loped that are peculiarly suited co ■ ■■ Ions. All the dn El horsi on our ma resenl are grades of the foreign and with the tai ■■■ numbers of foreign drafl m our soil thl can best be solved by t: _; them to our conditio] and reaching by sys- and well directed efforts a position of inde- e of foreign breeders. The breeding of the lighter types of horses is an entirely different situation. We have developed two more or less distinct breeds of Lght horses in the American trotter and the American saddle horse. The trotter has been developed solely for speed, the saddle horse for practical saddle use and for pleasure, with a conformation and gaits specially suited to saddle purposes; both breeds transmit these respective qual- ities with considerable uniform. ty. The American thoroughbred is a direct offshoot of the English thor- oughbred and very little native blood has been mixed with it. Foreign breeds of the carriage type have been im- ported in large numbers, but their use on the native stock has not resulted in a satisfactory supply of car- riage and general utility horses, nor have the pure breds of these breeds been able to showr uniformly marked superiority over the native horses. The vest majority of the carriage horses on our markets and in our horse shows are trotting bred and many are standard bred and have been campaigned on the race track. Dealers generally prefer a trotting bred horse to a grade of a foreign coach breed or a cross between one of these breeds and trotting stock, with one pos- sible exception — the cross between a hackney stallion and a standard bred mare makes an excellent carriage horse, and some hackney breeders go so far as to admit that the American blood is necessary to secure the best results. The foreign breeds generally excel the native stock in conformation and action, but they are nearly always lacking in speed and endurance; they "soft," to use the horseman's phraseology. Fur- thermore, with the exception of the English breeds, they do not breed true to type. The continental Euro- pean breeds have been developed first by crossing thoroughbred stallions on native mares, and later by continuing this cross with the use of crosses of hack- ney and other European coach breeds. The horses retained for breeding purposes have been selected according to type, with little regard to pedigree, a system almost exactly the reverse of that of American breeders. Furthermore, nearly all the European coach breeds have been developed under government super- vision for military purposes, and the desired type is one more suitable for saddle than for carriage. This is particularly true of the French Demi-Sang, known here as the French coach horse. The German coach horses are perhaps somewhat exceptional. The type that seems to be approved there is one more nearly approaching the draft types, this being the general tendency of the German judges at the St. Louis Ex- position. This being true, the continental breeders who sell to American importers must either breed especially for the American demand and ignore the local demand, or sell horses to the American trade that they cannot use in their own breeding operations. 'The worth of the native American stock for carriage purposes has been established in the face of the im- port trade in European breeds, but unfortunately no breeders of trotting stock have worked especially with this end in view. The trotting horse is the national horse of America, just as the thoroughbred is the national horse of Great Britain. Where you find an American you will find trotting horses, just as sure as you will find thoroughbreds wherever you find an Englishman. Generally, however, they are bred for speed. Now, breeding for speed is all right if you can get the speed, but unfortunately speed is not an easy thing to get, and it must be extreme speed to be profitable. The trotting bred carriage horses on our markets are generally what might be termed accidents in breed- ing. They are picked up by buyers who scour the country for horses of the right type. These buyers know where the accidents are most likely to occur. They are familiar with the stallions whose get be- come suitable carriage horses and are ready to buy these colts at maturity. In a great many cases they buy trotting stallions of carriage conformation and action, castrate and dock them and convert them into heavy harness horses. The constant occurrence of these accidents of breeding in sufficient numbers and with sufficient regularity to supply the demand for carriage horses certainly shows that with careful se- lection and concentration of effort this tendency can be made a certain one and the production of trotting bred carriage horses a profitable industry. At the same time the public should be shown the value of trotting bred carriage stallions for breeding purposes, iind the emasculation of these horses should cease. The farmer should be educated to know that it is far more profitable to breed to trotting horses for sound- ness, conformation, size and action, with speed as a minor consideration, than to breed with speed as the sole object and everything else secondary. There is a large proportion of our farmers who pre- fer to use light horses in their farm work. They own mares of trotting blood and usually breed to trotting stallions. It is to save this carriage tendency in the null, r 10 the country and show the small farmer who uses light horses in his farm work how he may choose sires to the best advantage, as well as to assist in solving the immediate carriage horse problem, that Lhe Department of Agriculture has inaugurated ex- periments to study the possibility of developing a breed of carriage horses Crom an American founda- tion. , Thus far eighteen mares and one stallion have been purchased. Six of the mares were carefully selected from a band of about 300 in Wyoming owned by G. D. Ralnsford of Diamond, Wyoming. The original stock was brought from the East about twenty-five years a^<» and consisted of standard bred and Morgan t s, on which have been used thoroughbred and standard bred stallions. Conformation, action and quality have been the sole standards of selection; speed was out of the question. The owner maintains a stable near New York city, where his surplus Is sent each year to be developed for the city trade. These horses give us excellent material for the pur- pose They arc large and well proportioned, with splendid bone, muscle and feet. They have fine action and the constitution that comes from life in the high altitude and dry climate of that section. Twelve of the mares were purchased from M. H. Tichenor & Co., of Chicago, by a board composed of Prof. C. F. Curtiss, director of the Iowa experiment station; Prof. W. L. -Carlyle of the Colorado experi- ment station, and the writer. The Tichenor firm has developed its carriage horse business by handling practically nothing but trotting-bred horses. They have given instructions to their buyers to keep a lookout for suitable mares to submit to the purchas- ing board on its arrival. Other dealers on the Chicago market were asked to submit mares for the approval of the purchasing board and did so. For the selection of a stallion advertisements were placed in leading live stock papers asking for descriptions of suitable stallions and quotations on them. The mares purchased in Chicago were bred in the States that supply that market— namely Kentucky, In- diana, Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri 'and Iowa. They are fr^m such families as the Wilkes Harrison Chief and Morgan. The stallion purchased was one submitted by M. H. Tichenor & Co.— Carmon 32917. American Trotting Register. He was bred by Hon. Norman J. Colman, of St. Louis, Mo., ex-Gover- nor of Missouri, and the first Secretary of Agriculture, Carmon was shown by Thomas W. Lawson, of Boston, Mass., as a wheel horse in his famous four-in-hand under the name of "Glorious Thundercloud." He is by Carnagie S405, a son of Robert McGregor. Carnagie was out of Annie Nutwood, by Nutwood, her dam be- ing Annie Watson, by Vermont Boy, a Morgan horse otherwise known as French Charlie.. Carmon's dam was Monitor Maid, by Monitor, a son of Merchant, by Belmont, out of Lady Mambrino, by Mambrino Chief. Manitor's dam, Trojano, runs to Morgan and thoroughbred stock. The dam of Monitor Maid was Clara C. by Seth Warner, a son of Ethan Allen. The dam of Clara C. was Grace, a granddaughter of Ad- ballah 15, out of a daughter of Old Bull. The more detailed pedigree follows: Carmon 32917. by Carnagie 8405, by Robert McGregor 647, by Major Elsall 211, by Abdallah 15, son of Hambietonian 10. Carmon's dam Monitor Maid, by Monitor 1322, second dam Clara C, by Seth Warner 2S1, third dam Grace, by Adballah, Jr., 5720; fourth dam Glencoe Bell, by Old Bull, son of Pacing Pilot. The great worth of this pedigree from a carriage standpoint lies in the fact that the prominent sires have been noted for good conformation. Robert Mc- Gregor was a horse with particularly well-made croup, quarters and thighs; Abdallah 15 had an especially fine head and neck, and the Morgan, Mambrino Chief and the Clay stock have been noted for breeding excellent conformation and beauty. Carmon traces once to Abdallah 15 in the fourth generation and three times in the fifth, twice to Morgan stock in the fourth generation, and once in the fifth, once to Mam- brino Chief in the fifth generation and twice in the sixth, and once to Andrew Jackson in the seventh generation. Any tendency to pace is a great objec- tion 'in a carriage horse, and it is worthy of note that there are only two strictly pacing crosses in the pedigree, and they are remote — in the sixth generation. Further, the great sires in the pedigree are not in any way entitled to be called sires of pacers. All of these horses were selected strictly according to type. Considerable latitude was exercised as to height, but when a small mare was accepted she had to be of the desired type. Conformation, action and quality were the first considerations. Speed was only incidental, but was regarded as an important point. That is to say, a mare which plainly could not sus- tain a three-minute gait for some distance and travel ten or twelve miles an hour without undue fatigue was rejected. Pedigree was considered only so far as it showed that the horses selected were from parents of similar type, and therefore likely to transmit the type with reasonable certainty. The breeding of the stallion was known, but the pedigree was not fully worked out until after his purchase. Therefore it cannot be said to have had more than an incidental influence. It was the individual, not his pedigree, that we were after. Now the fact that a horse was purchased practically on his individuality alone, and that after his purchase we find that his pedigree is an ideal one from a car- riage standpoint, seems to me to be one of the great- est importance to breeders. It shows that individual excellence in the selection of breeding animals is the only safe guide to follow, and that selection for indi- vidual excellence, continued generation after genera- tion, will result in fixity of type. There are exceptional cass where an individual will prove to be a superior breeder, but these exceptions merely prove the gen- eral rule. I do not mention this as a great discovery, nor. indeed, as anything new. This is the practice of all successful breeders. A great breeder of Berk- shires said to me recently in response to a request for information regarding his methods: "I make my breeding selections in my barnyard, with the animals before me, rather than in my parlor with their pedl- gress before ine." Many small breeders, however, re- gard pedigree as all in all, and many of our breeds of live stock have been seriously injured by pedigree ■ "booms." The method which will be used in developing this type will be to breed up by selection. The most rigid culling will be practiced and no animals retained for breeding which do not come up to the required stand- ard. There will undoubtedly be many obstacles to over- come. The trotter is not perfect as a carriage horse. Although individuals of outstanding excellence can be obtained, the breed is a whole have very serious faults for this purpose. It has speed and endurance, which are lacking in all foreign breeds of light horses but the thoroughbred, but speed has often been bred for without due consideration to soundness, beauty of conformation and symmetrical action. Hambietonian MaKCH 3, 19C6J ®hv ^tee&CTr cmfc &p0vx&xxxan 10, the fountain head of the breed, was anything but a handsome horse, but his sons had speed and could transmit it. Yet many of his descendants inherit his big head. Ungainly necks, heavy shoulders and withers, flat croups, light quarters and crooked hocks are common among our trotters, even the fastest ones not being exempt. The horses purchased for the de- partment's work are remarkably free from these de- fects, but we have no means of knowing that some of the ancestors of the mares did not have them, and it would not be surprising to find them cropping out in the progeny. This tendency to revert to undesir- able types may be strong at first, but it is hoped hat it can be overcome by proper selection. Pre- potency is perhaps the greatest thing to be obtained. At present the man breeding to a trotting stallion is not sure enough of what he will get. There is a cerain amount of lottery about it. By persistent selecion this also can probably be obtained. The development of the work in the future will depend on the funds provided for it. The large ranches of the West provide an abundance of material of great value. In Wyoming, Montana and on the Pacific Coast there are many ranches where trotting horses have been bred for years and where more than the usual amount of attention has been paid to selection and conformation. Throughout the central West there are a great many stallions whose colts are watched by buyers as possible carriage horses. These stallions should be located, their pedigrees studied and the point ascertained if possible whether there is a fam- ily relationship between them. Further, the work needs more mares, and if possible the services of the trotting bred carriage stallions which are so prom: nent in the show rings should be obtained for a limi; ed number of selected mares. occurred. "Men cheered, threw their hats in the air, jostled and pushed. Small fights were started by men tiying to oust others out of a good position. Hats were lo.it, clothing torn, faces scarred, tempers spoiled, n.rney won and lost, and, in fact, we had the biggest time in the history of Waterville. "When the final heat was over and General Knox had won, Babel and Pandemonium combined would have run and hid for the racket that ensued. True, we have faster time now, but we never hova the exciting times we had way back in the iliys when Foster Palmer was in his prime and General Knox was the king of horses among Maine horsemen." It is doubtful if there is a stallion now staii'-Mi* for service in Maine that is a direct descendant in the paternal line of the Drew Horse, and bur few that trace directly through their sires to Generul Knox, whMe in nearly every county in the Slate may be found stallions that are representatives of the Wilkes or Electioneer family. General Knox and the Drew Horse both helped improve the horse stj :k cf Maine and the good qualities which they transmitted will long continue to be manifested in the horse s.ock of the Pine Tree State. The best stallions there to-day are not more highly esteemed than were Cm- era! Knox and the Drew Horse in their day, an I the most successful race driver there is not more popular than was the late Foster S. Palmer when in 1-y pri^ffy- American Horse Breeder. AN OLD-TIME MAINE HORSE RACE. When Col. T. S. Lang took the stallion Gen. Knox to Maine In 1S5S or 1S59 the most popular horses, in that State, especially within a radius of many miles of Bangor, were the Drews. Many of the Drews were blood-like in appearance and were excellent roadsters. They were hardy, wiry animals and some of them could trot fast for that early day. As a rule they were lighter in the jowl and cleaner in the throttle than Gen. Knox and his get. They were also as a rule lighter in the barrel. The Drew family originated in Maine, and was founded by a horse raised by a man named Hiram Drew, who at that time lived in Exeter, Maine. It has been stated that this horse was bred by Mr. Drew, but Mr. D. did not claim any credit at the time, for, though he owned the dam her foal was an unpre- meditated presentation, as he was got by a three- year-old colt that reached the pasture in which the mare was grazing by jumping the fence, much to the disgust of Mr. Drew. This three-year-old colt that got the Drew Horse 114, was brought from the Province of New Brunswick by the late A. G. Hunt, who then lived in Exeter. Mr. Hunt claimed that this three-year-old colt was a thoroughbred. A Mr. Ried of Fredericton, N. B., who was considerably inter- ested In horses and well posted on the breeding of horses in his section, investigated the matter and became convinced that the Hunt colt was Young Buzzard, by Sparrow Hawk, a son of imported Buz- zard, he colt was gelded and raced successfully as a runner for a time in Maine by Mr. Hunt, who finally sold him to parties outside of the State for racing purposes. The dam of Drew Horse was Boston Girl, by Sir Henry, son of the Brewster Horse, by the famous American Eclipse. The second dam of the Drew Horse was Lady Jane, by Winthrop Messenger, and it has been stated upon apparently good authority that his third dam was the Adams mare, by Winthrop Messenger. This being the case it is not difficult to account for the inclination shown by the get of the Drew Horse to stick to the trotting gait. There was a sharp rivalry for years between the Knoxes and Drews. Each family had its firm friends and when the horses met in a contest the race was for blood. One of the most exciting races that ever occurred in Maine was between Gen. Knox 2:31^ and the stallion Hiram Drew 2:31%, then the fastest vrot- ter, by the Drew Horse, that could be found in Main*?. This race took place before either General Knox or Hiram Drew had made his best record. One who witnessed the race gave the following account of it in a Maine paper last summer: "Older Waterville residents remember the hottest race in the history of the old Waterville driving park, now converted into portions of Pine Grove and Cal- vary cemeteries. It was in 1862 when a race was scheduled between General Knox and Hiram Drew. That it was to be a hot race and for blood as well as the stake, everybody knew for counties around. Not only did people come from all over the State of Maine, but also from New Hampshire and Massa- chusetts. "The old-fashioned grand stand, without a cover, would hold about 500 people if all sat close. When that grand stand was filled and a reasonable number were scattered around, the finish on both sides of the track, the association managing the race meets considered they had cash enough coming to meet a'l expenses. But when General Knox and Hiram Drew met on that eventful day in the summer of 1S62, the crowds that came to see the match stretched more than halfway around the course on both sides of the park and kept up a continual howling during the scoring for each race. "I should say the crowd was about equally div'ded for favoritism. You see the crowd which came from away outnumbered our folks. We, of course, were for General Knox, Tom Lang arid Foster Palmer. Heats were started and the most of the crowd never knew It until the horses were getting into the second quar- ter. Then the greatest excitement I have ever so^n IMPORTANT CHANGES IN THE RULES. Many changes were made in the rules of the Na- tional Trotting Association at the twenty-third con- gress held in New York February 14th. Among the more important were the following: Rule 2, Section 9 now reads: A nominator is liable for entrance on each horse entered in a purse or stake. All entries must be paid for but the terms can be fixed by the member and must be published in the conditions. Rule 4 was changed so that five entries are now required to fill and three to start. Rule 24 wras amended by adding the following sec- tions: Section 3. No person shall be permitted to start horses in a race or performance against time on a track in membership with the National Trotting As- sociation, unless he holds a license from said associa- tion as starter. Section 4. Upon the recommendation of two mem- bers and other information showing the good char- acter, knowledge of trotting rules and ability of an applicant to do the work, license to start horses shall be issued by the. board of review, or the president, pending its action, to a sufficient number of persons. Section 5. In addition to the duties heretofore re- quired of the starter, he shall give information as to- the practical application of the rules, when called on by track officers and employees, and shall always en- deavor to have racing and performances against time conducted fairly according to rule, and in all cases where any material thing is done against the equality of racing, that an alert expert might reasonably know of, he shall report the same to this association with the names of the responsible parties and the witnesses. For a failure to viligantly use his oppor- tunities to promote honest racing and faithfully per- form his duty, his license shall be revoked by the president of this association. Section 6. Time made in a race or performance against time shall be a bar and not a record, unless the starting shall have been done by a licensed starter, as herein provided'. Section 7. The starter shall be paid by the member, such compensation as may be agreed on. Rule 28 was amended by adding the following sections: Section 5. A driver or rider cannot be suspended for non-payment of entrance except when he is also the nominator or owner. Section 6. No driver or rider shall use a timing watch when driving or riding in a race, without the consent oi the judges. Rule 29, Section 1: Amended by cutting out the word "and" in the tenth line, by changing the word "in" to "and" in the eleventh line, and inserting the word "commenced" after the word "race" in the same line. Rule 29 was amended by adding the following sec- tion: Section 2. No horse shall wear hopples in a race unless he starts in the same in the first heat, and any person found guilty of removing or altering a horse's hopples during a race for the purpose of fraud, shall be suspended or expelled. Rule 33, Section 3, requires that after the first heat the horses s'hall be called five minutes prior to the time of starting. Another section has been added to this rule as follows: Section 4. If the judges tolerate any divergence from this rule or fail to order out all the horses and start the heat within the time as required by the rules, they, the judges, shall be fined, suspended or expelled. Rule 43, which governs time records and bars, has had Section 12 struck out and the following sections inserted in place thereof: Section 12. A regular meeting is hereby construed to mean a meeting advertised In at least one news- paper published and circulated in the vicinity, not less than one week before the commencement of said meeting, at which meeting no less than two public races actually take place on each day of the meeting. In this connection a public race is a contest as defined in Rule 42, Section 1, and said contest must be a bona fide and the performance subject to all the rules of the National Trotting Association governing public races or contests, and any officials or members or judges or timers who shall tolerate any divergence from the rules of the National Trotting Association, shall be fined, each and every one, not less than $100, nor more than $500, or shall be suspended or expelled, as the case may warrant. Rule 51 amended by adding the following section: Section 3. Whenever the penalty of expulsion is prescribed in these rules, it shall be construed to mean an unconditional exclusion and disqualification from any participation, either directly or indirectly, in the privileges and uses of the course and grounds of a member during the progress of a race meeting. Rule 51 amended by adding the following section: Section 5. No person or persons or stable having in his, their or its employ in any capacity an expelled, suspended or disqualified person, or persons, shall be eligible to compete after written or printed notice to said person, persons, stable or authorized agent of either from the secretary of the National Trotting Association, in a race or races on the grounds of a member or members, except in cases where a limited penalty is imposed by judges during the progress of a meeting against a man working under a written contract; but nothing in this exception shall be con- strued so as to permit a suspended person to drive, ride, train or assist in the care or racing of any horse or horses on the ground or grounds of a member during the progress of a race meeting or meetings. Section 7. An expelled, suspended, or disqualified person cannot act as an officer of a member. A mem- ber shall not, after notice from the secretary of the (National Trotting Association, employ or retain In its ^rnploy an expelled, suspended or disqualified person. ny member found violating this rule shall be fined any sum not to exceed $500. The following was adopted as Rule 52: Rule 52. — Circuit and Board of Stewards. Section 1. A regularly organized circuit shall be composed of not less than five nor more than twelve associations in membership with the National or American Trotting Associations. Each and every mem- ber of said circuit so formed, shall annually recom- mend for appointment not less than two persons, and from the list of names so recommended, the board of review, or its president, pending its action, shall select and appoint five persons from the names thus recommended, and the persons so appointed shall con- stitute the board of stewards of said circuit, whose powers and duties are defined in Rule 53, Section 1. Rule 52, changed to Rule 53. Rule 52, Section 2, changed to Rule 53, Section 1, and amended to read as follows: Section 1. All decisions and rulings of the judges of any race, and of the several associations and pro- prietors belonging to the National Trotting Associa- tion, may be appealed before the close of the meeting to the board of review, to a district board in the proper district, or a board of stewards of a regularly organized circuit, and shall be subject to review by the board appealed to, upon facts and questions In- volving the proper interpretation and application of these rules; provided, that parties to be affected thereby shall be notified, as the board appealed to shall direct, of a time and place when such appeal will be acted on; and provided further, if the appeal relate to the decision of a race, immediate notice shall have been given to the judges of the race of the in- tention to so appeal. Findings of a district board or a board of stewards shall be subject to appeal to the board of review, and all evidence or other testimony filed or taken by either of them shall be forwarded, together with the finding, which must be signed by a quorum of the said board, to the secretary of the National Trotting Association within two weeks of the close of the meeting at which the matter was acted upon occurred. Rule 58, Section 3. struck out and the following adopted as Rule 50, Section 3, in place thereof: Section 3. No horse sold or bargained for condi- tionally or otherwise after 7 p. m. of the day preced- ing an engagement is eligible to compete in it. Any person violating this rule shall be fined, suspended or expelled. N. T. A. WILL HEAR THE CASE. The alleged "doping" of Lou Dillon at Memphis in 1904 will be thoroughly investigated by the Board of Review of the National Trotting Association. This action was decided upon by the Biennial Congress of the National Trotting Association in session at New York last month. It is expected that the case will be decided at the next meeing of the Board of Review, which will be held in May. E. E. Smahers, who it is alleged entered into a conspiracy to "dope" Lou Dillon, visited Major P. P. Johnston, the president of the National Trotting As- sociation, and requested an investigation into the charges made by Murray Howe, secretary of the Memphis Trotting Association. He was instructed to submit the request in writing, which he did later in the day. The complaint, after reciting the i characterizes them as false and malicious, and abso- lutely groundless, and demands that they be made the subject of an Investigation without President Johnston advised C. K. G. Billings, owner and driver of Lou Dillon in the race in which it fs alleged the mare was "doped," of Mr. Smathers' action. An Interview between Mr, Billings and Presi- dent Johnston followed. In which the former prom- ised that Murray Howe Would file a request at once for an investigation. This was done, and in it Howe charges that Mr. Smathers was guilty of conspiracy to accomplish the defeat of Lou Dillon In the race for the Memphis gold cup In 1904 by "doping" her. Secretary W. H. Gocher of the National Trotting Association has Instructions to begin at once vestigatlon of the facts. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the 10 ©ft£ gvssifsv croft gipavl&man [March 3, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. 1-June t— Closed season for black bass. March 10— Sao Franoisoo Fly-Casting Clab. Saturday Classifi- cation Contest No. 2 Siow lake 2:30 p. m. March U— San Franolsco Fly-Casting Club. Sunday Classifi- cation Contest No. 2. Stow lake, 10 a. m. April .-rfept. U.. Or.t. 1&-Feb. 1— Open season for taking stcal- haad In tidewater. Sept. I0-Oot. 16-Close reason In tidewater tor steelhead. Sspt. I0-Oct. 16— Close season for salmon. Sept. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oct. 16-Nof. 15 -Close season for taking salmon above tide, water. Nor. 1-April I— Trout season closed. Nov. l-Aprll l— Closed season for taking steelhead above tide water. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide pater. Gun. Feb. 15-July 1— Dove season closed. Feb. 15-Sept. 1—C osed season for mountain quail, grouse and j sage hen. Feb. 15-Oct. 15 — Closed season for quail, ducks, eto. March 4— California Wing Club. Live pigeons. Ingleside. March*— Blue Rock Gun Club. Grounds foot of Hi&h street, Alameda March 11— Empire Gun Club. Blue rocks. Alameda Junction. March 18— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside- Marcn 25— Golden;Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. March 35— Vallejo Gun Club. Blue rocks. Flosden Station. April 14, 15— Los Angeles Gun Club. 18th semiannual tourna- ment. £500 added money May 26, 27— Pacific Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third annual blue rock tournament. Vallejo Gun Club grounds, Flos- den Station. June 19. 22— Interstate Association. Grand American Handicap target tourLament. $I00U added money. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec- retary-Maoager, P.f tsburg. Pa. Oct 15-Aprll 1— Open season for English SDlpe. Oct. 15-Aug l— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. Feb. 12, 15— Westminster Kennel Club. New York. Robt. V, McKim, Secretary. Entries close Jan. 25. Feb. 20, 23— New England Kennel Club. Boston. Wm. B. Emery, Secretary. Entries close Jan 30. Feb 28-March 3— Washington Kennel Club. Washington, Pa. F. C. Tnomas, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 17. Feb 28. March 3— District of Columbia Kennel Club. Washing ton, D. C Howe Totten, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 10. March l, 3— Southern Obio Kennel Club. Hamilton, Ohio. Thos. Boli, Secretary. Entries close Feb. 13. March 7, 10— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburg, Pa. F. S. Steadman. Secretary. Entries close Feb. 25. March 8, 10— Co orado Kennel Club. Denver, Col. T. W. Bar- tels. Secretary. Entries close March 13, 16— Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N.Y. S.P.White. Secretary. Entries close March 14. 17— Passaic County Fi-h and Game Protective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas. Matthews, Secretary. Entries close March 17— Bull Terrier Club. San Francisco. Entriesclose Marcn 21,24— Wolverine Kennel Club. Detroit, Mich. K. G. Smith, Secretary. Entries close March 10. March 30 31— Haverhill Kenuel Club. Haverhill, Mass. A. A. Baicn, Secretary. Entriesclose April II, 14— Southwestern Kennel Club. LosAngeles. George R Albers Secretary, LosAngeles. Entries olose Aprils. April 18.21— Seattle Dog Fanciers' Association. Seattle, Wash. Chas. McAllister, Secretary. Entries close April 25, 28— Portland Kennel Club. F. E. Watkins, Acting Secretary. Entries close May 29, 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L. I. Entriesclose June 1 2— Ladles Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed. Secretary. Entries olose June 6. 9 San Francisco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench show Fred P Butler, Secretary. Entriesclose June 9— Wlssahlckon Kennel Club. Wls&ahiekon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary. Entries close AT THE TRAPS. The local schedule for the season's trap shooting has been agreed upon as follows; First Sunday of each month, California Wing Club, live birds, at Ingle- side; second Sunday of each month, Empire Gun Club, Alameda Junction, Alameda; third Sunday, Union Gun Club; fourth Sunday, Golden Gate Gun Club, both to shoot at Ingleside. The Elue Rock Gun Club will shoot the first Sunday of each month on the grounds at the foot of High street, Alameda. The Fresno Gun Club boys opened up on he ISth inst. just for a season's starter. Rain stopped the sport before the card was shot out. The club pro- poses to shoot regularly this season on the Polasky trap grounds. The scores made were the following: Ten targets — Lewald 6, Schlueter 9, Holdsclaw 7, Ickes 9 and 7, O'Neill 8, S. Twenty targets — Lewald 12, 11, Schlueter 18, IS, 16, J7, Holdsclaw 18, 20, 14, Ickes 15, 15, 17, 15, O'Neill ri9? IS, 12, Donell 15, 14, 15, Eilert 18. The club is using an automatic trap this year. San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Contest No I, Classification Series. Stow Lake, February ;i4 1906 Wind northwest. Weather, cloudy. Judges, Geo W Lane and J. B. Kenniff; referee. T. C Kterulff; clerk, A. Craig. Events l Douglass. J R.. . Lane, Geo W Kierulff.T C Bnrp-e. L. G YounK.G. C Keontff J. B ... Brooks. Dr. W. E Reed.F. H 77 93 4-12 83 8-12 85 84 4-12 92 8-12 92 8-12 91 8-12 92 2 12 811 98 4-12 90 4-12 95 92 8-12 711 84 4-12 81 4-12 77 6-12 79 5-12 m 93 4-12 92 8-12 93 4-12 93 114 93 93 8-12 97 6-12 95 7-12 98 95 91 95 10-12 93 5-12 86 90 98 90 93 97.9 98 85.6 Sunday Contest No. 1 Classiflcetlon Series Stow Lake, Februiry 25 1906 Wind, northwest. Weather, floe. Judges, J B Kenniff andT. C.Kterul0; referee, Dr. W. E. Brooks; clerK, A. Craig. Events 1 Young, C. G Golcher, HC Kenniff, J. B Halght. P. M Klerulfl.T C. ... Reed P. H Brooks Dr. W.E. Turner, Jas S . .. Wright. K Sperr 1. H B D'nki'l.pell H G.W Mai.'fle'.d, W D. Sper"y Austin.. 90 91 4-12 89 8-12 89 2-1 W 5-12 104 ► K 4-12 :'J 4-12 87 6-i <» 11-12 li ix 93 91 4-12 95 14 8-12 7H m K-12 KJ 4-12 77 6-1 <3 5-12 n 92 92 4-12 B I in-' 11 7-12 91 4-12 91 H-12 86 8-1 89 2-12 91 95 8-12 95 4-12 90 10-1 93 1-12 9b 8-12 90 K-12 83 4-1: 87 50 HI 91) 4-12 76 8-1: 83 6-12 k7 up K-12 91 4-12 94 2-12 92 9-12 82 76 70 10-12 73 5-12 94 94 96 K-12 95 4-12 80 t7 4-12 no 81 2-12 87 1-12 97.6 97^9 92" ^•NOTE: Event 1— Distance Casting, feet. Event 2— Ao lv- v percentage Event 3— Delloaoy, (a) acouraoy percentage icacy percentage; (o) net percentage. Event 4— Lure cast mage, -he frictions is lure ousting are lSthj. The first regular monthly blue rock shoot of the Vallejo Gun Club will take place on the club grounds at Flosden station on the 25th inst. The fourth Sun- day of each month has been selected as the day for the club program shoots this season. The bustling town of Alton, Humboldt county, now boasts a nourishing gun club, and a blue rock shoot is held every Sunday, weather permitting. It was organized quite recently with twenty-two members and the following officers: G. W. Cousins, manager; Grant Clark, captain; R. P. Nellist, secretary and treasurer. A suitable piece of ground has been rented from Chas. Carr near the town, and the same will be fixed up appropriately with a house and platform, etc. The club purposes entertaining other clubs this season, and will provide pleasure and profit for their visitors. The scores as made at the shoot of 'Sunday, February 4th, were as follows: F. C. Hauck 21, C. Gould 20, C. T. Bryant 15, G. Clark 15, Lela Bryant 15, Geo. Cousins 14, H. Chris- tiansen 14, N. Hauck 11, R. P. Nellist 11, B. T. Bryant 10, M. Bailey 10, T. Fiest 9, B. Davis 8, A. Hazen 7, Chas. Bryant 6. On Sunday, February 11th, the scores in a 25-target race were: G. O. Eansan 19, G. Clark 18, G. Gould 17, W. Rus- sell 16, H. Christensen 15, F. Hauck 14, T. Bryant 13, G. W. Cousins 12, A. Hazen 11, H. Douglas 10, N. Hauck 7, 11. Bayle 7, T. Bullard 7, C. Floyd. Up to twenty birds it was a tie between Messrs. Clark, Gould, Ranson and Christensen, each having fourteen birds to their credit. The last five birds set- tled it, however, Ranson breaking straight. The Folsom Gun Club held a blue rock shoot Feb- ruary 4th. The average of those who shot at 100 targets was as follows: O. Ferguson .790, J. Broder .727, M. Surbaugh .709, J. B. Joerger .700, R. Keefe .680, G. Gerber .550, Geo. "Wilson .540, O. Miller .536, P. Joerger .500. Secretary Chas. Van Valkenburg writes us: "The Los Angeles Gun Club will give its annual tournament April 14th and 15th. The program will call for ten 20-bird events each day, $25 added, totaal $500 added money for two days. The money will be divided Chick" system, three monies. 'Will also shoot off club trophies, championships and Tuft-Lyon medals, and two team events. I will send you some programs in a few days." The Los Angeles Gun Club will hold the club's eighteenth semi-annual tournament on April 14th and 15th. There will be $500 in added money. Secretary Chas. Van Valkenburg, American National Bank Building. Los Angeles, will furnish further informa- tion, programs, etc., on request by mail. The California Wing Club program for the season of 1906 calls for seven monthly shoots, beginning with March 4th and ending on September 2nd. Each race will be at 12 live birds and the club purse will be $75 for each shoot. Handicaps in the race will range from 24 to 32 yards. The money division will be the same as last season — one money for every three en- tries. This event will be the initial one for the day and will start promptly at 10 a. m. In addition, there will be a club shoot for medals and prizes. This contest will be started at 1 p. m. after the conclusion of the purse race. The medal shoot will be a series of seven monthly contests, each race at 12 birds, all contestants to shoot at 30 yards- rise. Four medals will be awarded to the four high guns at the end of the season, "the next six to receive a merchandise prize which will be selected by a committee." The first Sunday of each month is the day selected on which the club shoots will be held. "All back scores must be shot up prior to club events." But two back scores, and no more, can be shot up by any member. The distance handicaps as arranged by the board of directors are the following: M. O. Feudner SO yards, C, C. Nauman 30, Edw. Don- ohoe 29, W. J. Golcher 29, H. C. Golcher 29, P. J. Walsh 29, C. A. Halght 29, A, M. Barker 29, S. B. Knowles 28, A. T. Derby 28, G. W. Gibson 28, E G McConnell 2S, Edw. Schultz 28, W. E. Murdock 28 A. J. "Webb 2S, P. B. Bekeart 28, "W. E. Green 28 e' Glevesahl 27, A. M. Shields 27, J. V. Coleman 27^ T Prior 27, C. D. Laing 26, Wm. Hanson 26, E. A. Fano 26, J. K. Prior 26. J. Bermingham 25, T. P. Bodkin ?5 Frank Turner 25, W. L. Gerstle 24, Achille Roos "4' W. E. Duzan 24. The Golden Gate Gun Club started the blue rock ball rolling last Sunday. The attendance of shoooters was good and the weather conditions all that could be desired. Thirty-one guns lined up in the club match. This race is at 100 targets in 25 bird sections, and the shooters are divided into four classes. There will be a series of seven monthly shoots and the club purse for each meeting is $100. The high guns last Sunday were: Champion class. M. O. Feudner 95 Dick Reed 95. W. J. Golcher 94, C. C. Nauman 93, Ed Schultz 91. First class, M. J. Iverson 87, Prior 86, W. E. Murdock SI, W. S. Wattles 79, F. Schultz 77! Second class, H. P. Jacobsen 82, J. Masterson 76, F. Knick 76, C. D. Harvey 71, J. Bruns 71. Third class Dr. Sylvester 77, B. Patrick 70, Lynch 46. There were but four men in the third class and they received $17, three moneys. Following the club race the initial shoot for the trophy donated by A. M. Shields took place. This was a distance handicap race at 25 targets. The shooter winning the event oftenest this season to re- tain the trophy. Nauman and Feudner (20 yards ■ each) and Terrill (14 yards) tied on 23 breaks. On the shoot off Terrill, a new figure at the local traps and a clever shot, cracked .9 out of 10 against 8 apiece for the other two. Feudner and Reed were first and second high guns for the day. The scores follow: Club race, 100 targets, champion class — Feudner 23 24 24 24 — 95 Reed 23 25 25 22 — 95 Golcher 24 23 23 24—94 Nauman 23 24 24 22 93 Ed Schultz 21 23 24 23 — 91 Holling - 22 22 23 23 — 90 G. Sylvester 21 24 22 24 — 90 "Webb 23 23 22 19 — 87 Forster 19 23 21 23 — 86 McMurchy" 20 19 22 22 — S3 First class — ■ Iverson 21 20 23 23 — 87 Prior 22 20 23 21 — 86 Hull IS 21 21 21 — SI Murdock 19 22 19 19 — 79 "Wattles 13 24 21 20 — 78 F. Schultz 17 22 22 16—77 Fano 16 20 22 19 — 77 Harpham 16 IS IS 16 — 68 Donohoe 15 21 20 12 — 6S Second class — Jacobsen 15 23 22 22 — 82 Masterson IS 20 22 16 — 76 Knick 20 22 16 16—76 Harvey IS 15 20 IS— 71 Bruns 17 21 13 20—71 Terrill 16 20 20 14 — 70 Pisani 16 16 19 18—69 Lewis 11 IS 9 7 — 45 Shields 14 11 9 9—43 Third class — Dr. Sylvester 18 20 16 23—77 Patrick 14 IS 17 21—70 Lynch 12 11 12 11—46 Roos 11 14 w .. — .. 'Guest. Shields' Handicap trophy race, 25 targets, distance handicap — Terrill, 14 yards, 23 breaks; Nauman 20-23. Feud- ner 20-23, F. Schultz 14-22, McMurchy 16-22, Iverson 18-21, Webb 18-21, WTattles 14-21, Donohoe 14-21, G. Sylvester 20-20. Ed Schultz 20-20, Jacobsen 16-20, Harvey 14-20, Reed 20-19, Golcher 20-19, Holling 18- 19, Pisani 14-19, Prior 1S-1S, Harpham 14-1S, Master- son 14-17, Fano 14-17, Potter 16-16, Lewis 14-11. The Empire Gun Club program for 1906 is prac- tically the same as last year, except in some minor details. The club will shoot regularly on the second Sunday of each month at Alameda Junction. The first event is the club championship race, 25 birds, entrance 75 cents. A $50 purse will be divided among the four high guns at each shoot. The high average gun for the season will receive a gold cham- pionship trophy. The second event is the money- match, free to members, distance handicap. Shoot- ers will be classified on scores made in the first race. A $15 purse will be divided among the one high gun in each of the four classes. The open to all events are the special cash prize and the Sweeney record medal race. Both events are distance handicap races' with side pools made up from a portion of the entrance money. These two shoots were very popular last season. Two score of shotgun artists on The firing line be- fore the Ingleside bluerock traps Washington's Birth- day was a most auspicious opening of the local trap shooting season. The shoot was under the auspices of the Golden Gate and Union Gun Clubs of this city. Five events at 15" targets, one at 20 targets, and a special race at 100 targets was the card for the day. "Dick" Reed of this city, who missed but six clay pigeons out of 95 shot at. was high average for the day, 93 per cent. Emil Hollingg and C. C. Nau- man came next with 92 per cent. The Phil B. Bekeart challenge cup race was post- poned, a special event at 100 birds being shot in- stead. The shooters and scores were: E. Holling 94, E. Schultz 94, M. O. Feudner 88, Harvey, Mc- Murchy 87, F. Schultz 79. The shooters and scores In the four fifteen and one twenty-bird races were: Dick Reed, 15, 14, 14, 14, IS; March 3, 19C6] ®he gvse&ev ants gtptJtrtsrocm 11 W. J. Golcher. 13, 12, 12, 11, 12. 16; A. J. Webb, 12, 15, 10, 13, 14, 17; D. W. King Jr., 13, 13, 12, 12, 12, 15; W. S. Wattles, 10, S. 9, 11, 15; "Reading," 13, 12, 10, 12, 10, 13; Harvey. 12, 12, 9, 15, 14, *; Greene, 14, 10, 9, 14, 13, 17; Terrill. 5, 11, 12, 12, 11, 12; Rob- inson, 7, 12, 9, 11, 10, 17; Dr. Pitres, 7, 7. 7. 13, 11, *; Guggenheim, S, 5, 6. 11. 5, *; Patrick, 8, 11, 12, 13, *, *; Prior, 13, 14, 13, 12, 12, 14; M. O. Feud- ner, 12, 12, 9, 15, 17; C. C. Nauman, 12, 13, 15, 15, 14, 19; E. Holling. 13, 14, 13, 14, 14, 20; W. E. Murdock, y, 10, 9, 11, 10; J. B. Hauer, 12, 7. 9, 11. S, *; T. L. Lewis. 4, 8, *, *, *, *, *; Kelly, 14, S, *, * 14, *; Dr. Sylvester, 9, *, 10. 10, *, *; Pickersgill, 7. * 11, *, *, ". •; George Sylvester. 11, 13. 14. 14. 14, IS; M. J. Iverson, 12. 9, 9. 10, 14, 16; E. Schultz, 13, 13, 13, 15, 11, IS; F. Schultz, 11, 12, 2, 13, 12, *; Dr. Bodkin, 6, 7, G, 9, 7, *; F. L. Carter, 12. 7, 12, 12, 10, 15; H. M. McMurchy, 13, 11, 13, 12. 12, 14; R. W. Hesse Jr., 7, 11, 11, 10, S, *; Ed Donohoe, *, *, 10, 9, 12; Johns, *, * 6, *, *, *; C. Ashlin, 10: J. Masterson, 11; R. Haas, 11: G. Barber, 10; Schneider, 13. Among those who shot straights were Holling 20. C. D. Harvey 15, Feudner 15, Nauman 15, 15; Webb 15, Wattler 15, Reed 15. D. W. King Jr. 15, E. Schultz 15, F. L. Carter 15. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. The California Wing Club shoot at live pigeons will be the program at Ingleside tomorrow. Among the participants will be Mr. Harvey McMurchy, a sportsman who is known to the fraternity throughout the United States and Canada. Since he year 1886 Prince Mac has taken part, as a guest of the club, in the opening shoots of this, the oldest trap shooting organization in the United States, for nineteen con- secutive years. Blue rock shooting in the raisin belt this season will have a healthy stimulus, judging from the fol- lowing, which we cull from a Fresno exchange: "The Reedley Gun Club has organized for active shooting this season. Probably the biggest shoot of the s^ison for the club will be the one tomorrow (February 22). Blue rocks will be shattered as they have not been shattered for a long while. The or- ganization now contains about thirty members, all enthusiastic nimrods, and some of the best shooters in the county belong with the club. J. E. Sheibley is manager. Fresno marksmen have been invited to shoot with Reedley tomorrow. The Fresno Gun club shooting this season will be under the management of Lewald and Schlueter. Prospects are that the -sport will be better kept up this season* than it has in two or three years. The Fresno gunners expect a meet with the Reedley men very shortly. The two clubs contain about thirty men apiece. Fresno's will have shooting on the Pollasky depot grounds every Sunday the weather permits." The trap shooters of Vallejo and vicinity are look- ing forward to a great season this year. The opening shoot will take place on March 25th. Several of the members of the Vallejo Gun Club went out last Sun- day to work on the new grounds, which are a little north of those they had last year. The big event of the season will take place May 26-27, when the Pacific Coast Trap Shooters' Asso- ciation, of which Dr. Turner is president, will meet in that city as the guests of the Vallejo club. There will be some 200 members present and an order has been already placed for some 50,000 blue rocks for the two days' shoot. The San Jacinto Gun Club was organized on Feb- ruary 24th with a charter roll membership of twenty- five. The officers of the club are: President, J. F. Hards; vice-president, Chas. D. Cram; captain, C. A. Loud; secretary and treasurer, Arthur Wright. A committee is at work preparing traps and get- ting the grounds ready. A number of Hemet men \iave joined the club. The Riverside Gun Club members propose to hold a series of club shoots on the East Eighth street grounds this season. A lively shoot was pulled off on February 22nd. Among the visitors attending were: Hip Justins, Hagerman, Chas. Van Valken- berg, Guy Lovelace and Sam Smith of Los Angeles, J. L. Davis of Corona and members of the Arlington Gun Club. Powder burning in the south promises to be pyro- technical this year. A redivivus of trap shooting at San Jose under the auspices of the Fish and Game Protective Associa- tion is scheduled for this year. We recall the time when a Garden City team was a doughty factor in the general results at a tournament. Dr. Barker, Coykendall Brothers, George Anderson. Johnny Carroll and several other crack shots used to keep the boys on the firing line up to the top notch tension. With the exception of the genial doctor, the others mentioned have not been much in evidence at the traps for several years. Nevertheless, the sport has been regarded with a warm feeling by a number of Santa Clara valley sportsmen and we predict that the "old guard" and the new recruits will not take second place with any coterie of shotgun devotees on the Coast, for among the Santa Clara sportsmen, we state without reserve, there is a representation of shotgun manipulators second to none in any section of the United States. Green Valley Shooting Club. At a recent meeting of the above named organiza- tion the following officers were elected: President, Henry Martin; vice-president, Peter Siebe Jr.; sec- retary and treasurer, G. L. Mason; directors, Clyde Drake, C. M. Hall and Walter Sink. o Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. A. K. C. Meeting. The regular annual meeting of the American Ken- nel Club was held Wednesday afternoon, February 14. About seventy-five delegates were present. The only business of importance done was the re-election of all the officers. These are August Belmont, pres- ident; Hollis Hunnewell, vice-president, and A. P. Vredenberg, secretary. H. K. Bloodgood was re- elected president of associate members, and Dwight Moore was appointed chairman of the committee on rules, succeeding Major G. M. Carnochan. The re- consideration of the standing of American dogs was submitted to the committee on rules, and that com- mittee will also hear the protest against the decision of he Westminster Kennel Club in the Eastover Launcelot case. Parlor Bench Show. The Victoria, B. C, fanciers have the right idea -In keeping interest and enthusiasm alive. The parlor bench show held on the evening of February 9th under the auspices of the Victoria Kennel Club proved a great success. Every class was well represented and the competition was very keen. The following is the list of prize winners: English Setters — Novice dogs, C. F. Banfield's Rex; open dogs, E. Hoosen's Prince; open bitches, E. Hoosen's Lady of Lyons. Irish Setters — Puppy dogs, Geo. Jay's Prince William; puppy bitches, J. Ham- mond's Kathleen; novice bitches, J. Hammond's Kath- leen; open dogs, 1 Geo. Jay's Mike, 2 A. Fallfull's Mickey Green; open bitches, 1 Dr. Garesche's Victoria Noreen, 2 A. Fairfull's Jess, 3 Dr. Garesche's Kath- leen. Best Irish Setter — Geo. Jay's Mike, res Dr. Gar- esche's Victoria Noreen. Gordon Setters — Puppy bitches — A. E. Johns' Queenie; open dogs, R. Wall's Jack; best Gordon Setter — R. Wall's Jack. Pointers — Open dogs and bitches — C. F. Banfield's Judy. Col- lies— Novice dogs — Mrs. E. B. Pauls Randy; novice bitches, W. Rosie's Heather Bell; best collies, W. Rosie's Heather Bell. Cocker Spaniels — Puppy dogs, E. Cole's Chase; puppy bitches, T. Harley's Queen; open dogs, 1 Dr. Garesche's Victoria Chum, 2 Dr. Garesche's Victoria Rooney; open bitches, black, 1 P. Goodwin's Maryella, 2 Miss Walker's Jet; red, 1 C. A. Goodwin's Little Dods, 2 Dr. Garesche's Vic- toria Ruby; best Cocker Spaniel, Dr. Garesche's Chum; res P. Goodwin's Marella. Field Spaniels — Puppy dogs and bitches — Dog, S. Benson's Jerry; bitch, J. Little's Lady; special, S. Benson's Jerry. Fox Terriers — Puppy dogs, 1 J. K. Angus's Swagger Mac, 2 J. R. Saunders' Togo; puppy bitches, J. K. Angus' Swagger Halfpenny; novice dogs, Miss Davies' Wings; open dogs, 1 G. Florence's Puget Speedy, 2 Miss Tom's Sunshine; open bitches, J. R. Saunders' Vex; best Fox Terrier, G. Florence's Puget Speedy; res J. K. Angus' Swagger Mac. Irish Ter- riers— Open bitches, 1 E. Carlow's Saanich Irish Pop- lin, 2 W. Webster's Noah. Bull Terrier — R. Wash's Blarney. Black and Tan — Miss McDonald's Tiny. New York Show Notes. The thirtieth annual show of the Westminster Ken- nel Club this month was undoubtedly the greatest bench show ever given in America; 1951 dogs, 3013 en- tries in 538 classes, broke all records. Quality was of a high standard throughout and big classes were the rule; wins under these circumstances were worthy of consideration. The attendance was better than ever and that is saying a deal. The smart set of New York, Philadel- phia and Boston were much in evidence during the four days. The judges — all well known Eastern fanciers — seemed to get the dogs just about right, with perhaps less than half a dozen notable exceptions. The management under Mr. James Mortimer was everything that could be desired. Cash premiums for the regular classes amounted to §13,000, and this sum was equaled in money value by the special prizes. Field and Fancy makes the following statement- "It is a significant fact that many of the dogs re- cently imported were thrown down in the hardest kind of style. The past seasons, under the English judges, dogs of this kind have been invincible, and the way the American wearers of the ermine over- looked them seems to give color to the story that the Englishmen favor the British dogs. Or Is it that the Americans are also prejudiced, but fn just the opposite way?" E. Shelley of Lamar, Miss., had charge of the Western and Southern winning field trial dogs, nine of them. The entries of working bird dogs at the show were conceded to be the most valuable collec- tion of Pointers and Setters ever benched. One of the most interesting features of the judging was the competition in the field trial clasps — for dogs that had been placed at any public trial in the United States or Canada. Among the entries were dogs of international fame. Three of the dogs, however, Baby Ale, "probably the most noted Pointer ever seen at work." Lemon's Rodfield and Lanark Lad, two Eng- lish Setters, arrived too late to be shown, more's the pity. Major J. M. Taylor judged the field trial classes. The awards were: English Setters— Field Trial Class — Dogs and bitches (that have been placed at any public field trial in the United States and Canada — Open — 1 G. N. Clemson's Pioneer, 2 J. Sherwood's Jessie Rodfield's Count Gladstone, 3 J. Lemon's Canada II, res. J. Thompson Jr.'s Ramona;. v h c W. W. Lindley's Young Bob's Tony, Jas. Thompson Jr.'s Freda. Pointers — Field Trial Class— DogB and bitches— Open (that have been placed at any public field trial in the United States or .Canada)— 1 A. M. Masters' Hard Cash, 2 H. A. Waldron's Norwald Primrose, 3 R. K. Armstrong's Don, res W. J. Gordon's Launcelot; v h c Motschenbacker and Dutton's Tioga Sam, C. E. Pier- son's King Woolton, h c Thomas Johnson's Manitoba Mike, c Jas. Thompson Jr.'s Evell. A matter of much interest to the Coast fancy was the winning of the Wandee Kennels. The Fox Terriers did not, contrary to the usual custom, turn up many sensational performers. The exception was Wandee Florence, a smooth bitch puppy who went through in a sensational manner, taking first puppies, open and winners. In smooth dogs the Wandees did well, but Sabine Ruler got away with the trl-color. W. Coast- guard held down the wire-haired dogs in good shape. The winners were as follows: Foxterriers— Smooth— Dogs — Puppies— 1 Wand.-. Kennels' Wandee Menlo, 2 Sabine Kennels' Sabine Raven, 3 E. H. Ingwersen's Warren Radicant, res A. A. Macdonald's Aldon Colonel, v h c Sabine Kennels" Sabine-Rival, h c Major G. M. Carnochan's Calrs- muir Orion, c H. O. Tiemyei's Springhill Hackett. Novice — 1 Wandee Menlo. 2 Sabine Raven, 3 Warren Radicant. res Sabine Rival. Limit— 1 Wandee Ken- nels' Norfolk All Blue. 2 Sabine Raven. 3 Macdonald's Aldon Tipster, res W. Rutherford's Warren Recorder, v h c S. Kennels' Sabine Reynol. Open — 1 S. Kennels' Ch. Sabine Ruler. 2 Wandee Kennels' Wandee Knight, 3 Aldon Tipster, c Cairnsmuir Orion; (bred in the United States or Canada), 1 Wandee Knight, 2 Sabine Raven, 3 Aldon Tipster, res Warren Recorder, v h c Cairnsmuir Orion. Winners — 1 Sabine Ruler, res Wandee Knight. Bitches— Puppies— 1 W. Kennels' Wandee Florence. 2 S. Kennels' Sabine Favor, 3 W. Rutherfurd's War- ren Remedy, res Rutherfurd's Warren Destiny. No- vice— 1 Sabine Favor. 2 Rutherfurd's Warren Ca- dence, W. Kennels' Wandee Varilla. Limit — 1 Sabine Kennels' Sabine Figent, 2 W, Kennels' Wandee Musk-. 3 Warren Cadence. Open— 1 W. Kennels' Wandee Doris, 2 Rutherfurd's Warren Jenny; (bred in the United States of Canada), 1 Wandee Florence, 2 Rutherfurd's Warren Jenny. 3 Sabine Figent. res Wandee Music. Winners— 1 Wandee Florence, res Wandee Music. Brace— 1 W. Kennels' Team, res W. Rutherfurd's Team. Fox Terriers —Wire-haired — Dogs — Puppies — 1 Thomas' Endcliffe Prevail, 2 Mrs. R. F. Mayhew's Fox Hills Pirate, 3 Primrose Kennels' Primrose Bell Boy. Novice — 1 Endcliffe Prevail, 2 Maj. G. M. Cairnsmuir Bully. 3 E. H. Ingwersen's Niola Gift. Limit — 1 Thomas Endcliffe Pennant, 2 R. E. Straw- bridge's Radnor Criterion, 3 Rowsley Kennels' Rows- ley Jester, res P. Kennels' Primrose Buttons, v h c Mrs. R. F. Mayhew's Raby Sensation, h c R. Kennels* Rowsley Joker. Open — 1 Wandee Kennels' Wandee Coastguard, 2 R. E. Strawbridge's Ch. Selwonk Top- per, 3 Endcliffe Pennant, res Rowsley Jester, v h c Rutherford's Ch. Cairnsmuir Barkeeper, h c Carno- chan's Cairsmuir Powwow; (bred in the United States or Canada), 1 Endcliffe Pennant, 2 Mrs. R. F. May- hew's Fox Hills The Roman, 3 Ch. Cairsmuir Bar- keeper, res Rutherfurd's Warren Bandit, v h c C. W. Keyes' Hillcrest Friar. Winners — 1 Wandee Coast- guard, res Ch. Selwonk Topper. Bitches— Puppies— 1 Thomas' Endcliffe Precision, 2 Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Cadwell's Corey Hill Wire, 3 Car- nochan's Cairnsmuir Banshee, res C. W. Keyes' Hill- crest Flox, v h c Rutherfurd's Warren Balance. Nov- ice—1 Endcliffe Precision, 2 Corey Hill Wire, 3 Cairns- muir Banshee, res Hillcrest Flox, v h c Warren Bal- ance. Limit — 1 Rowsley Kennels' Rowsley Hope, 2 R. Kennels' Rowsley Courtly, 3 R. Kennels' Rowsley Siren, res Thomas* Endcliffe Precilla, v h c Carno- chan's Cairnsmuir Powder Puff. Open— 1 Rowsley Hope, 2 Rowsley Courtly. 3 Wandee Kennels' Wandee Manila, res Rowsley Siren; (bred in the United States or Canada), 1 Endcliffe Precision, 2 Cairnsmuir Ban- shee. Winners — 1 Rowsley Hope, res Rowsley Courtly, Brace — 1 R. Kennels' Brace, res Wandee Kennels' Brace. Team — 1 R. Kennels' Team. GROUSE AND WILD TURKEYS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEIR ECONOMIC VALUE. By Sylvester D. Judd, Assistant United States Bio- logical Survey. The Ruffed Grouse. The ruffed grouse (Bonasa umbellus) is widely dis- tributed over the wooded parts of the United States and Canada, and ranges from northern Georgia. Mis- sissippi and Arkansas north to Hudson Bay and central Alaska, and from Maine to the coast of Ore- gon. The different conditions of environment prevail- ing over this great range have had their effect fn modifying the colors of the ruffed grouse so that sev- eral forms may be distinguished. The ruffed grouse is separable Into four forms: The common bird of the Eastern States (Bonasa umbellus); the Car ruffed grouse (B. u. togata) of the spruce forests along the northern border, from Maine to British Columbia: the gray ruffed grouse (B. u. umbelloides) of the Rocky Mountains, north to Alaska: and the Oregon ruffed grouse (B. u. sabini) of the humid west coast, from northern California to British Columbia. The color differences between the bird of the south- ern Rocky Mountains and the Oregon ruffed grouse of the humid west coast are especially marked. The latter is the most richly colored of the North American grouse, and Is notable for its handsomely contrasted black and reddish brown colors, set off by immacu- late white. The ruffed grouse Is one of the mist highly prized of American game birds. It Is known In New England as the "partridge," but in the Southern S usually called "pheasant." It Is dlstinctlve'.'- the woods, imparting the spirit of . every sylvan retreat that it inhabits. In 12 ©He gveebev imfc ^jcnritertt>a« [MABOH 3, 1906 Maryland, near the city or Washington, the species is or was until recently, not uncommon along the rocky palisades of the Potomac and in deep gorges lined with laurel thickets. In Essex county. N. J., it frequents the crest of a wooded basaltic dike known a* the Orange mountains, where the picturesque rocky woods with a good stand of I rees and an un- dergrowth of blueberry, second-growth white oak, wild grape and bittersweet vines and beds of partridge la repens) furnish a congenial home. That ruffed grouse usually prefer deciduous to ever- particularly noticed by the writer in i at Chocorua. N. H.. a hamlet between and the V\ hite mountains. On spruce forests remote from clearings he seldom came across grouse. He frequently met them, however, in woodlana near farms or in clearings, and particularly along wood roads. A favorite ground in August was the clearing of an abandoned farm. 200 feet above Chocorua lake, which lies at the foot of Chocorua Mountain. The fields are rated from one another by little trout brooks and grown up to young spruces. Here in bowlder- strewn pastures was an abundance of blackberries, blueberries and grasshoppers, with old apple trees, lies, and poplars for winter budding. On this old farm the writer never failed to flush from three to eight grouse, and on several occasions he saw hen birds with young. In a sandy spot of the road lead- ing up to the house the grouse had dusting wallows, which they used habitually. During October birds were found in hemlock woods with an undergrowth of osmunda ferns or other vegetation. The ruffed grouse does not congregate in large coveys, like the plumed quails or the prairie chicken, but is found in companies of from two to eight, usually members of a single brood. It does not spend the night on the ground, but perches on a tree. When the weather is very cold, however, it often plunges into the snow and passes the night as snugly as an Eskimo in his igloo. The bobwhite whistles, the prairie chicken booms, and the blue grouse hoots, but the ruffed grouse drums. The drumming is one of the most interesting and attractive of all bird performances. It may be heard at every season, but is at its best in spring. The cock, then in full vigor, mounts his drumming log, droops his wings, raises his fantail, and struts along the log with his crest and glossy black neck tufts erect. He begins beating his wings slowly; then faster and faster, till their rapid reverberation becomes a tattoo, rolling out a challenge to rival cocks and a love call to the hens. Nesting takes place in the latter part of April, or more often early in May. In a makeshift nest scratched in a hollow are laid ten or a dozen or even more creamy white or buffy eggs, usually unspotted, but sometimes with fine specks of brown. The young look like little brown leghorn chicks. Only one brood is raised in a season. On July 4, in New Jersey, the writer has seen young birds as large as woodcock. The cock grouse assist neither in incubation nor in rearing the young, but after the eggs are laid as- semble in small companies by themselves. The hen is amply able to care for her little family, and Mr. Sandys tells how a mother forced to headlong and un- valorous flight a youngvPolnter that had designs on her brood. (Upland Game Birds, pp. 11S-119, 1902.) The notes of the grouse during the breeding season are interesting. When the brood is surprised the hen utters several clucking sounds, one of which may be described as "quit, quit, quit." Mr. Sandys, in writ- ing of the call of the parent birds to scattered chicks, says: "In about ten minutes there sounded a low musical chirruping, very like the sound emitted by a red squirrel between the coughing, sputtering notes." I Ibid., p. 119. 1902.) Major Bendire, quoting Doctor Ralph, says that a disturbed mother grouse utters a sound like the whine of i young puppy. (Life Hist. N. A. Birds (1), p. 62, 1892.) Of 'lie habits and general attractiveness of the ruffed grouse Major Bendire writes as follows: "The ruffed grouse is naturally tame and unsuspicious, and let it once realize that it is protected, it becomes al- most as much at home in the immediate vicinity of man as a domestic fowl, and quickly learns to know its friends. At the tine country residence of the Hon. Clinton L. Merriam, near Locust Grove, N. Y., es- pecially during the winter. It is not an unusual sight to see Beveral of these handsome birds unconcern- walking about the shrubbery surrounding his home, ajid even coming on the veranda of the house to feed. They, like many other animals about the c learned that here at least they are among 111. iris ond plainly show their full confidence in them. Even during the mating season a cock grouse may frequently be seen In the act of drumming with- is of some of the outbuildings." (Ibid,, p. 60, 1892.) Bird Lore for May- June, 1904, has an account of a wild hen grouse . hicr, was s" lame that it would come out of the woods al call and allow itself to be picked up, tier displaying the I unbounded confidence In its hum:.' neighbors. To lovers of nature the aes- thetic value of this beautiful bird Is very great, and its value is. none the less, although M can not be meas- ured In cash. The ruffed grouse affords grand sport; indeed, with not a few sportsmen It holds higher place even than bobwhite. In flight it is one of the swiftest of upland game birds, and considerable skill, a quick eye. and a steady land are needed to shoot It on the wing. Most shots must be made In cover, and the bird's habit of putting a tree between Itself and the sportsman as way adds to the difficulty. As a rule it does u so close to a dog as a bobwhite, but well-trained, cautious animal It lies fairly ^\ hen brought to bag the grouse is a noble Prom six to nine birds may be called a good day's bag, worth more than several times as many bobwhites. The excellence of this grouse as a table far short of the demand, and the price is always high. If the bird could be successfully bred in captivity, it would furnish a most valuable food. Preservation and Propagation. — The ruffed grouse has a number of potent enemies. Most dangerous of alMs probably that destructive biped, man. Writing from Minnesota, Dr. P. L. Hatch says: "Nowhere was the ruffed grouse more abundant than in all the de- ciduous forests of this state, until mercilessly slaugh- tered by the pot hunters. • * * But their glorious day is passing away as fast as about 300 dogs and 700 double-barreled breech-loading shotguns can ac- complish their annihilation." Birds of Minnesota, p. 160, 1S92.) Many market hunters of the grouse use a little cur dog trained to tree the game and to bark until the gunner approaches within range. Of the numerous natural enemies, hawks, owls, crows, skunks, minks, wild cats, and foxes are very destructive, and in cer- tain localities a species of tick often infests the birds. Among the birds of prey, the Cooper hawk, goshawk, red-shouldered hawk, barred owl, and great horned owl are their worst enemies. At Marshall Hall, Mi, the writer found a crow plundering the nest of a grouse. Almost everybody who is personally familiar with the habits of the fox has found it feeding on game birds. At Chocorua the writer came upon the den of a red fox about which were strewn tail feath- ers of the ruffed grouse. Owners of shooting pre- serves will do well to destroy systematically all vermin injurious to game. The bird should have better pro- tection also from man. Massachusetts still permits land-owners to snare grouse on their own lands dur- ing October and November. Such destructive and un- sportsmanlike practices should be prevented every- where by well-enforced laws. The abominable prac- tice by summer campers of potting grouse when they have young should also be punished by a strict en- forcement of the law. In sections where grouse are decreasing under persistent gunning the open season should be further limited or even eliminated for a period of years, until the birds have recovered some- thing of their former numbers. (In Ohio the season has been closed until 1908, in Illinois until 1909, and in Missouri until 1910.) A reasonable limit to the day's bag- should be set by law. Kansas, Maine, and Wis- consin restrict the number to 15; Montana and Ore- gon to 10, Ohio to 6. Vermont, Pennsylvania and Connecticut have a limit of five grouse per day to a gun, and in the latter state, as well as in New York, no more than 36 can be taken in a year. By similar laws other states can aid in the preservation of the bird. The grouse in captivity often becomes tame. Some- times, indeed, it takes kindly to the henhouse. It has laid in captivity, and its eggs found in the woods have been hatched under domestic hens, but thus far nothing like successful grouse culture has been ap- proximated, though there appears to be no reason why under proper conditions it should not be successful. Comprehensive knowledge of the bird's food habits should assist in solving the problem. Food Habits. — The food habits of the ruffed grouse have been investigated in connection with the present paper by the examination of 20S stomachs and crops. This material represents food taken in every month, but chiefly in the colder half of the year. New York supplied more material than any other section; Can- ada, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts came next; and Nebraska, "Virginia, Maryland, Kentucky, New Hamp- shire, Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, Wisconsin, and South Dakota each contributed a smaller part. Analysis of the food showed 10.92 per cent of animal matter and 89.08 per cent of vegetable matter. The animal food is almost all insects. The vegetable food consists of seeds, 11.79 per cent; fruit, 28.32 per cent; leaves and buds, 48.11 per cent, and miscellaneous veg- etable matter, 0.86 per cent. The insect food proper includes grasshoppers, 0.78 per cent; caterpillars, 1.15 per cent; beetles, 4.57 per cent, and miscellaneous in- sects, 3.86 per cent. Some miscellaneous animal mat- ter, made up of spiders and snails, is also eaten. The ruffed grouse eats a somewhat smaller proportion of insects than the bobwhite, but, like it, feeds on them to a large extent in the breeding season. Insect Food. Insect Food — Grouse shot by the writer at Chocorua, N, H. in Sept., 1898, were feeding largely on the red- legged grasshopper, which was unusually abundant in pastures where the birds foraged. They had picked up also long-horned grasshoppers and a few black crickets. Crickets often swarm in fields during fall, and offer tempting morsels to birds. The ruffed grouse occasionally eats such caterpillars as cutworms, army worms, cotton worms, the red-humped apple worm, and the oak-leaf caterpillar. A number of observers, among them Doctors Fisher and Weed, report that it feeds on oak caterpillars. The ruffed grouse, like the bobwhite, prefers beetles to any other insects. It takes almost as many of them as of all other kinds put together, including even so.li small ones as the clover weevil. It likes also the injurious leaf-eating beetles, destroying even the no- torious potato beetle. It eats the pale-stripped flea beetle as well as many other leaf beetles, including Systena hudsonias, Disonycha caroliniana, Choetoc- nema sp., Galerucella sagittarioe, and the grapevine pest, Adoxus vitis. By scratching, the grouse unearths many pests not found by other birds, notably beetle larvae, click beetles, and May beetles, Including Lach- nosterna hlrsuta. It also consumes another Injurious beetle, Dichelonycha sp., closely related to the May beetles and resembling them In habits and appearance. It scratches up many ground beetles belonging to Pterostlchus, Anisodactylus, Harplus, and other genera. Beetles of other families also — firebies, metal- lic wood borers, and Calltys scabra — are In the food list. The grouse feeds also on such miscellaneous insects as flies, bugs, ants, and such other Hymenoptera as sawflies and ichneumon flies. A large proportion of the flies are slow-flying species, like cranes flies, which are preyed upon by many other kinds of birds. Bugs, however, are much more often destroyed by bobwhite and the ruffed grouse than by other birds. The ruffed grouse has been known to prey on the chinch bug, which at times is the most injurious insect in our country, and seldom destroyed by any except gallin- aceous birds. Farmers who permit market hunters to rob them of their game should remember this fact. The grouse picks up also many other bugs, among them predaceous species like the ambush bug and the assassin bug. They eat also homopterous insects, in- cluding leaf hoppers and buffalo tree hoppers. Like many other birds, the ruffed grouse eats ants, frequently including such large species as Camponotus pennsylvanicus. Among small ants may be mentioned the pavement ant. Several species of the useful para- sitic ichneumons are occasionally taken, and as an offset such foliage-destroying insects as sawflies, in- cluding adult forms of Nematus sp. and larvae of Lophyrus sp. A peculiar long-bodied hymenopteron (Pelecinus sp.) also has been noted. The queerest article of food, perhaps, is the galls produced by in- sects (Cynipidoe). The ruffed grouse shows a marked liking for these odd growths, which contain a few tiny larvae. The common semidomestic pheasant of England has the same taste. The grouse usually selects galls growing on oaks, often those produced by species of the genus Amphibolips. A bird shot in Lunenburg, Mass., in October, had eaten twelve of these oak galls, although at that time other food was abundant. Few invertebrates other than insects were found in the investigation of the food of the grouse. The mis- cellaneous animal food, however, included representa- tives of such Myriapoda as the thousand-legs, of the order Diplopoda, and such Arachnida as harvest spid- ers, jumping spiders, and ground spiders; snails of the genus Helix, and also shell-less snails, or slugs, including Limax sp. and Tebennophorus carolinensis. (To be Continued.) Not a Representative. C. O'Reilly is not employed by nor is he in any way connected with The Breeder and Sportsman. He is not authorized to represent this publication in any capacity whatsoever. o TRADE NOTES. Averages Reported. Bay City Texas, Jan. 31 to Feb. 1— F. C. Riehl. first general average, 432 out of 440, shooting "New E. C." (Improved); W. R. Crosby and H. B. Money, both shooting "New E. C." (Improved), tied for second general average, 424 out of 440; first amateur aver- age and third general average was won by an ama- teur, shooting "DuPont," 423 out of 440; F. A. Weath- erhead, Red Oak, la., second amateur average, 422 out of 440, shooting "Infallible;" A. M. Hatcher, Bris-. tol, Va., third amateur average, 419 out of 440, shoot- ing "DpPont." Columbus, O., Feb. 1 — J. R. Taylor, first general average, 224 out of 250, shooting "DuPont;" C. O. LeCompte. shooting "Infallible," R. L. Trimble shoot- ing "DuPont," and Geo. Burns, Cleveland, O.. shooting "New E. C." (Improved), tied for second general aver- afe on 220 out of 250; Mr. Burns also won first ama- teur average, with this same score; R. S. Rhoads, Columbus, O., second amateur and third general aver- age, 218 out of 250, shooting "DuPont;" H. E. Smith, Columbus, O., third amateur average, 216 out of 250, shooting "DuPont." At Detroit, Michigan, February 14th to 16th last, the Gillman & Barnes International Pigeon Trophy was won by J. R. Taylor, Newark, O., who scored 25 straight. Mr. Alex. Tolsma of Detroit, Michigan, was second with 24 out of 25. Both the above shot "Du- Pont" smokeless. As Usual, Winchester Shells Lead, The Sunny South Handicap, the most important trapshooting event of the South and the prize eagerly sought after by all Southern shooters, was won by W. R. ("Billy") Crosby from a very large field of contestants. Mr. Crosby also captured the high pro- fessional average for the entire shoot, which was held at Brenham. Texas, January 22nd, 23rd, 24th, 25th, 26th and 27th. Mr. Crosby, as usual, shot the cele- brated Winchester "Leader" shells. The high ama- teur average for this shoot was also won with Win- chester "Leader" shells. Thus the shells that nave been first in records and averages for the last six years start another year writh victories. Turning to the North, the Hamilton Tournament, the big Canadian shoot, saw a clean sweep for Win- chester shells. Mr. J. R. Taylor and Mr. J. A. R. El- liott won first and second high professional averages, and Mr. C. E. Doolittle and Mr. George Burns cap- tured first and second high amateur averages for the tournament, and in the big live bird event Mr. J. R. Taylor, Mr. M. E. Fletcher and Dr. W. W. Green won first, second and third. It is needless to state that all these gentlemen shot the Winchester "Leader" shells exclusively. Mr. RsJph Trimble, shooting Winchester "Leader" shells, did some extra fine shooting at the annual mid- winter tournament of the Columbus, Ohio, Gun Club, on February 1st. Out of 225 targets shot at on av- erage he scored 220 breaks. At the Cumberland, Maine, midwinter tournament, which took place on January 18th, and the Montclair, New Jersey, midwinter tournament, which was held on January 20th, there were present as the shooting stars of these tournaments shooters that used the time tried and reliable Winchester "Leader" shells, the "shells the champions shoot," and the ones that are not only "Leaders" by name, but leaders by na- ture. March 3, 1906J ®jtte gvse&ev cmo ^pariswcm 13 WOOL AND MUTTON. Keep salt before the flock all the time. Dip the tlcky lambs if you would have them grow. Keep some of the best of the young sheep to take the place of the old ones. Early maturity is just as advan- tageous to the breeder and feeder of sheep as to any other stockman in the world. Don't allow the sheep to rush or squeeze through doors or gates. It may injure the unborn lambs. Don't house the sheep too closely. Cold is not as bad as damp, foul air. Give shelter instead of warmth. Sheep and wool are ruling very high. Let the beginner keep a level head and start at the bottom and learn the busi- ness. Tou should be feeding for the lamb crop. The ewes must grow wool lambs and mutton all at once. Feed accord- ingly. The best way to clean a wood pas- ture where the young sprouts are be- coming troublesome is to turn in the sheep. Mutton breeds of sheep do not de- pend on waste lands and hillsides to become profitable. Good sheep require good pastures, and pay well. Wool is simply, a product of the sheep, and no farmer can make sheep pay who de- pends on wood only for his profit. To make early lambs grow, provide a pen Into which the lambs can go, but which restrains the ewes from en- tering in the pen. Place a pan of ground oats and let the lambs help themselves; the ewes should also be fed on ground oats. SAVED $100.00 Hazelhurst, Miss. , March 81, 1906. DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., Gentlemen :— I have a 6100,00 borse that a friend of mine pave me for 81.00 provided I would take him out or town and save lilm rrom pa^ Ing to have him hauled out when dead. Tlie horse had Sweonoy, both shoul- ders, but your Spavin Cure brougnt him out all O. K, Respectfully, L. G. Bird. The remedy that endures, curing thousands of horses annually is Kendall's Spavin Cure. The standard cure for two generations of Sp nvins.Curbs, Splints, and all lorms of Lamonoss. Prl o, SI; © lor 35. Greatest known liniment for family use. All drui_'frlstS6ell it. Accept no substitute. The preat book, "A Treatise on the Horse," tree from druggists or Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Enosbnrg Falls, Vermont FOR SALE. A HANDSOME PAIR OP COBBY BUILT -"■ ooal black Geldings; five years old; 15*2 hauns nigh By a son of McKinaey out ot stand- ard bred mares. This is a thoroughly high-class para or road team and has siyle and manners that would win in a snow ring. They are broKen 10 stand, walk and trot; are fearless of all objects on roaa and st- am cars; guaranteed to drive sin- gle or double, or on the lead in four-in-hand, and sound and kind tri every particular. Address H K RaND, The Renaissance, corner Franklin and Fell Sis., ban Francisco, Cal, THE NEW ENGLAND BREEDERS CLUB ANDREW MILLER, President. R. T. WILSON JR.. Vlcc-Presldenl OFFICE: The Windsor Arcade, 46th Street and Sth Avenue, New York Ctty. RACE COURSE: Rockingham Park, Salem, N. H. Stakes to be Run at the Summer Meeting, 1906 TO CLOSE ON THURSDAY, MARCH 15, IS06. THE NEW ENGLAND HANDICAP, Guaranteed Cash Value $5000, for Th re e-Y ear-Olds and Upward THE BOSTON CUP, Guaranteed Cash Value $3000, for Three-Year-Olds and Upward THE RULES OF RACING, and subsequent amendments ihereto. adopted by the Jockey Club, govern all races tun under the auspices of The New England Breeders Club FOR THREE-YEAR-OLDS AND UPWARD. The New England Handicap of »6u» O For Three- Year-Olds and Upward By subscription of $25 each; $100 additional to start. To the wiaoer -S4JW. to the second $700. and to tne th'rd $300 Weights to he announced 5 days before the race. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs extra. One Mile and a Furlong The Boston Cup of 83000 For Tnree- Year-Olds and Upward By subscription of $15 each; 850 additional to start. To the winner$J400, to the second 3400, and to the third $200. Weight for age. One Mile and a Quarter The Exeter Handicap of S150O For Three- Year-Oids and Upward. By subscription of $35 each, or $10 If declared by the hour of closing entries on tne day preceding the race To the winner $i20f) to the second $200. and to thj third $i00. Weights to be announced 3 days before the race Winners after announce- ment of weights to carry 3 ibs. extra One Mile and Thkee-Sixteenths The Hampshire Handicap of slut O For rnree- Year-Oids and Upward. By subscription of $25 each, or $10 tf declared by the hour of closlog entries uq the day preceding the raoe. To the winner $700. to the second $200, and to the third $100. Weights to be announced 3 days before the race. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs extra One Mile The Peace-Treaty Handicap nf SI 000 For Three- Year-Olds and Upward- By subscription of $25 each, or $10 if declared by lbe hour of c-oslng enirltaon the day preceding the race. To the winner $700, to the second $200. and to the tnlrd $100. Weights to oe announced 3 days before the race. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs. extra, Six Furlongs The Vrancoula or SlOOO For Three- Year-Olds and Upward. By subscription of $10 each; $'5 additional to start. To the winner $70U to the second $200. ana to the third $100. The winner to be sold at auction for $3000. If for Ibh?, 1 lb allowed fur each $100 down to $1000. Selling price to be stated through the entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. One Mile e Dartmouth of SlUoO For Tnree Year-Olds and U award. By subscription of $IOeach; $15 additional to start. To th-3 TtQUf t7<)\) [jtmaij >nd 8:0>, aai to the third $100 The wlaoer to be sold at auction for $.'500 If for less, 1 lb allowed for each $100 down to $00. Selling price to be stated through the entry box by the hour of dosing entries on tht day prectding the race. Six Furlongs SEYMOUR WILKES Race Record 2:08 1-2 The Fastest Son of Ouy Wilkes And Sire ol the Sensational Trotter Monroe 2:10& and Joe Eviston (3) 3:23 Will make the SeaBon of 1906 at Lakeville, Sonoma County, Cal. SEYMOUR WILKES earned his record in a hard fought race BDdwa. a game racehorse No horse in California oan show - a greater proportion of large handsome, strongly built and well- boned colts. Thfv all look alike, and in nearly every instance an- square trotters. SKTHiifJK W1LKK8 is bv Guy Wilkes his dam Early Bird by flaymail: recond dam by Odd Fellow ihl'ddamo. a son of Williamson's Belmiot, rourthdam by Blacknawk 767. H« weighs 1*10 poinds S' an Is 16 hands high and Is one of them ist symmetrical bor-estn California. Several of his get are in San Frauolsoo anl willbiiaown to p wp-oHve breeders with pleasure, T __„ (._ j.u . dncnn * 3 A S50 TO INSURE. Mares can be shipo"d direct to ranch lermS IOr ttl- beaSOIl MU. „» .i.,D. i*.id Pa«turaKe $3 Pir ML For fur her particulars apply to THOS. ROCHE, Lakeville, Sonoma Co., or J. W. Gregory, St. George S-ables, if)8 Ru-h st eer Sun F--n»o1sr.n FOR 1HREE=YEAR-0LDS. The Stock Exchange of S ;0<»0 For Three-Year Olds By subscription of $15 each; $35 additional to start. To the winner $1500, to the second $300. and 10 the tb>rd $200 Non-winners of $10U0 allowed 4 lbs.; of $-2000, 8 lbs ; of $1000, 12 lbs.; of $650, 15 lbs ; of $100, 20 lbs.; ma.dens, 25 lbs. Oae Mils The An fill of SIOOO For Fillies Three Years Old- By subscription of $10 each; $15 additional to start. To the win- ner $700. to th) sbOondliK) and to the third $100 Non-winners of $2000 allowed 5 lbs ; of $1000, 81 os ; of $650. 12 lbs ; of $400. 15 lbs ; maidens, 20 lbs. One Mile The National Uuard Handicap of Slfioo For Three-Year-Olds. By subscription of $35 each, or $10 if declared bv the hour of closing e 1 tries on the day preceding the race To the winner $1200, to the second $200. and to the third $100 Weights to be announced 3 days before the race. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs extra. One Mile and a Furlong The Portduiuur.li Handicap of SIOOO For Three- Year-Olds tij subscription of $25 each, or $10 If declared by the hour of closing entries oq the day preceding the race. To the winner $700, to the seoond $200, and to the third $100. Weights to oe anaouaocd 3 days before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weights to oarry 3 lbs. extra. Seven Furlongs The Mooadnock of SIOOO For Three- Year-O.ds By subscription of $10 each; $15 additional tostart. To the winner $700, to the second $200. and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auction for $20(0. If for )e>s, 2 lbs allowed for each $100 down to $1000. Sellitg price to be staud ii.ru 1. fa the idijj or sty the hour of closing entries on the day preoeding the race. One Mile The fllluure Man of SIOOO For Three- Year-O.ds. By subscription of $10 each: $15 additional to Mart. To the wirner$7C0, to the second $-J00 and to the thlro $100. The wiener to be told at auction fcr $'CC0 If (or less, lib allowed for each $100 down to $50u. Selling prioe to be stated through the fniiy box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. Six Furlongs LINWOOD W. 32853 RECORD AS A 2-YEAR-OLD 2:20 1-2 Sired by GUY WILKtSS: dam. the greai b ood mire L.INLML.E by Sultan Jr. 12771 LYVWOOD W was a sensational colt rro'ter and Is fast proving him elf to be a great sire, al'hough he never coy^r-id but eight stainard b-ed mares prlnr to 1915 SMllhehastnhlsored.lt Dimoni S 2:20 illpp-rW 2:2«i4, Soooma Q teen 2:25. S noma May 3:29 ■<, all trotters with records madelnl9"5 The following am tn» only onlts that ever had a-y tra nine. They have worked as follows: R W P 2:12* Ciar'es B-ldeo 2:13* Sonoma Girl 2:15 Slv h. (3) 2:16*4, Dnmint S. 8:17, Ay-res* 3:1*, Sonoma May 2: 19K. Jim V 2:25 Ella V. (3) 2:21, Clipper W. 2:21, Sjnoma Queen (3) 2:22, Sonoma Star (3) 2:»7i4 Dennis 230 Frank G. (21 2-30. Will m.ke the Season of 190* at Santa Roba. 8ERVK1K PKK *tK H v CVtCroV owner, Santa Roaa. Cal. ALMABEN 2:22 1-4 by DIRECT 2:05 U Dam by McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 A perfect colt trotter, wtnolng the Breeder two ypar-old sta^e in 2:22^ in l903andOccldentS'ake <7heais) 'n lfl04 Will make ihe Season at Biicr»m«-nto Race Track in charge of M. L. LUSK. Address. 631 K St., Saoramento. Cal. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C. 2:30 Trial 2:20 Sire NOTWOO> WlLKEs 2:1614. sire of John A. McKerron 2:0114. Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:i9«, Who I~ It 2:10*. Stanton W.Ikes 2:1014. Cre.-co Wilkes 2:09K etc .etc Dam ZKTA UAKTKR bv Director 2:17, sire dams nf John A McKerron 2:0414. Ozanam2:07 Little Thorne2:07M- Leonardo 2:0814 elc.elc; secoDddam. Lloa W. 2:18h (dam of Nutwood Wllkes2:l614 eto i bv Nutwood 600. greatest sire of broodmares that f«t-r lived, thlrddamby Geo. M. Patohen Jr. 31; fourth dam. Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont. T. C Is one of the best bred young stallions In California A two-year-old tllly by h'm has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and is as haDdsome as a picture T. O. will make the season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. wltb nant.1 return prlvllvge. ■ Excellent pasturage for mares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for oard containing tabulated pedigree and other lnfotmai ton. 1 will take a few horses lo train for road or track. OEilRflK T AI.HKII. 1207 Kagle Ave., Alameda, Cal. Crabbet Arabian Stud OBABBUT PARK. TBRBK BRIDGES and NEW BUILDINGS. SOUTH WATER The largest breeding atud of Arabian hor-iea in the wirld "} >USSEX, ENGI AND. The conditions under wh'ch these horaesare"b°ed'arNewbulldrrrgrproduce*a T/pe'linrlvalled for quality and bardlne-s Tne tmlqu.- knowledge o! the brted gained by the owners In Arabia enables them to guar .ntee purity of blood of theohoioest strains, soma of which are now eitlnot In the East. Stallions and mares constantly supplied to breeders throughout the Colonies and on the Continent. A few mares suitable tor polo, hicks and quiet In harnesijteuerally for sale. For further particulars address «>..i.«* GUY OABLETON, Maoiger, Carpenters, Southwater, Sussex, England. FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. i Merrimack of S1SOO For Two Vear-ulds. By subscription of $1^ each: $25 additional to start. To the w'nner $1200, to the second $200 ai.d to thi third $100. Non- winners of $000. or two races of the value of 9 M 00 each, uilowed A ibn • of one of $1000 .r two of $650 each, 81ba.; of oneof46CO 12 lbs : of ore • f 9400, 16 lbs.: msldeoa, 18 lbs. • Five Forlongs i Longfellow II .ndlcup of SIOOO For Two- Yea r-u Ida By suhsoriptlon of $25 each or $10 if declared by the hour of closing en tries on ihe day preceding the ra^-e. To the winner $700. to the second $.'00 and to the third $100. Weights to be announced 3 days before the race. Winners after acnounctmentof weights to carry 3 Iba. extra Five and a Half Furlongs I Co'-ttnentril Handicap of SIOOO For T .70- Year-Old* By subscription of $25 eaob. or $10 if deolared by thehourof closing en tr'ea on the dav preceding the raoe. T > the wiener $700, to the secood $200, acd to the third $100. Weights to oe announced 3 days before the race. Winners after announcement of welphis to carry A lbs extra. Six Furloj*gs i Vn-ntir i,f MIOOO ForPiHie T^rj Years Old. By su*iscrlptloi of $10 eaoh; $15 additional tostart. Toth*>win- nrrtrin. to tae -teooad $W0. anl to in * th-r 1 $1'10 Mn-fUaer-f >f $J00) allowed I lbs ; of $1UU0. n'K having aoq two race-i of the value of $650 eaoh, 8 lbs ; of $60 J, 12 lbs.; of S-)0 i, 15 lbs : maid- ens. 18 lbs Five furlongs > W*-ll*-Bley Handicap of 81000 For FiliiesTwn Year.s O.d By nubscrlption of $25 each, or $10 If deolared by the hour of clos- ing entries on the day preceding the race To the winner $700. to the second $200, and to the thl d$l00 Weights to hi annjunced3dajs before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 ibs extra. Five and a Half Furlongs > Nonh Shore of SIOOO F »r Two-Year-O'ds By subscription of $10 eaob: $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the second $200 and to the third $100 Tne winner to be sold at auction for$'i000 If for less, lib allowed for each $100 down to $500 Selling orioe to be stated through the entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preoeding the race. Five Furlongs I SnmerHft of SIOOO For Two- Year-Oida. By subscription of $10 ea"h; $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the secood $.'00, and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auction f r$2000 It for less, 2 lbs. allowed Tor each $100 qowq to$lo00 Sailing price to be stated through the entry box by the hour of olostng entries on the day preoeding the race. Fivb and a Half Furlongs I rhxrmlngfare of 91000 Fcr Ft I lies Two Years Old. Bv subscription of $10 each: $15 additional to start. To the win- ner $700. to the second $200. and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auction for $2500 If for ie-H lib allowed fir each $100 down to $i00. Selling price to be stated through thn entry box by ihehourof dosing entries oo the d >y preceding tde race. Five Furlougs STEEPLECHASES. The Harvard Steeplechase Handlcup of SIOOO For Fjur-Year-0 dn and Upward. By subscription of $25 each, or $10 If declared by fbe hour of ciosi g entrfesoo toe dav precedloK the raoe To the winner $700, to the second (2n0, and to the third $100 Weights to be anaounoed 3davs before the race. Winners ftft«r announcement of we'ehf* m oarry 3 ibs. extra Thr Full Course about Two Miles and a Half The Banker Hill Sf et-plechHBe Handicap of SIOOO For FdUf-Year-O d> and Upward Be .subscription of $25 each or $10 If declared by the hour of closing entries on tb« day p-< ceding the race To the winner $700. to the secona $200 and to the third $100 Weights to no. announced 3 days before the ra^e \v oners after anno'io* ement of weieb'* to earry s lbs extra The Short Course about Two Miles The Ore-en M"antnln Steeplechase of SIOOO For Four Year Olds and Upward. By subscription of $10 ea^h: $15 additional tostart. To the wino«r$700. to the second J-KX), and 'O the third $100 Four- Year-Olds to carry M5 lhs; Flve- Ypar-Oids ]55ibs : Six-Year-OM" and Upward 160 lbs. Non-winners of $1500 In l905orl9C6 allowed 5 lbs.; of $800, 8 lbs.; of 9000, 12 lbs; of $400, 15 »b*. The Short Course about Two Milks The Pnw Wow steeplechase of «1 OOO -.,,,, m t For F ur- Year-Olds and nnwa'd Bv subscription of?i0eaoh; $l;> additional tn start To the winner $700 to the secood $.'00, and to the third $100 The wlooer to be fold at auction for $2000. If for less. 2 Ibs allowed forpach$l00d iwn to $'000 selling price to be stated through the entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race The Full Course about Two Miles and The Whlt» Moontaln steeplechase of SIOOO For Four- Y«ar-Oid« and Upward By subscription of 810 each; $15 additional to winner $700, to the seoond $200 and to the third $mo. The wnner to besoui $2600. If for less, I lb allowed foreaob $100 down to $500. Selling price to bee ,h. entry box b, tfct bour ot 010.1m entries on the aw/™^'^", ABori 14 acta? tSvceovr atxi> giportemim I. March 3 181C An excellent mixture to use In ng from rust farm implements ot all kinds having metal surface cxpos- one pound of lard and to It add two ounces of common resin; melt them slowly together stirring as they cool. To the metal surface ar thin coating of this mixture using a brush or a cloth. Put your grain through good sheep and you will have it cleaned, g ar.u ready for market at a higher price than you can get at the elevator. As a lamb is f rhaps the most diffi- cult of all animals to recuperate after once stunted, it pays to keep thrifty. Sheep greatly improve lar.d whi too many are not kept on the acre. n Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombau tit's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Eingbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all Bunches from Horsea or Cattle. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc.. it is Invaluable. Evc-rr bottle of Caustic Balsam sold ia Warranted to pive sntislaction. price SI 50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- press, chare-:'.- paid, witn full directions for its o^e. t^*Setid for descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc- address • The Lawrence-Williams Co.. Cleveland. 0 SI. 25 $1.00 ,75 .50 .35 .25 Rock Island Sheep's Wool Sponges in all sizes, for vehicle washing and harness cleaning. At barneys dpalers. or delivered od receipt or price. S. AODERLEY, 307 Market St., S. F , Gal. BROOD MARES TO LEASE. On account of leaving the county, I will lease two of the best producing brood mares in the State: BABE, dam of Just It2:19>4 (3-year old champion) Her dam was by Smdan 5103. half brother to Stamboul 2:071,4, champion trot t-lre of Lou Dillon 1:58H). Dam, Femda.lv Belle by Judge Salisbury, he by Nutwood, etc ALFRED D 2:12^ stands 16 hands and weighs 1150 ib^. He is sound and a racehorse that Is much faster than his record. Has paced miles close to 2 minutes. Address Mrs A C. DIETZ, 5403 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. Cal. FOR SALE. The great broodmare MABEL by Naubuc Dam of Directly 2:03M (two-year-old champion rei-ord2:or^), Reybel (trial) 2:10 as a ihree-year- c-ld and several others wlih trials b low 2:30. Mabel is In foal to Bonnie Direct 2:05M- This cross should produce a world-beater. For price and particulars addieas I. D. CUNNINGHAM, Haywards, Cal. De PUE & SPRAQUE, Owners 324 Fine Street, San Francisco Breeders of HigVClass Carriage Horses Breeders of High-Class Saddle Horses Stud Headed by MANCHESTER Registered American Hackney Stud Book 201 Twice "Winner of Blue Ribbon in New York Morse Show- Carriage Teams, Saddle Horses and Gig' Horses For Sale. Correspondence Solicited. A. H. BRINTON, Manager WOODLAND, CAL. Deposit Tour Idle Funds WITH THE BROOD MARES FOR SALE. EVKLINK by Nutwood 000*1 NELLIE FAIRMONT (A1J s*te by Fairmont f T Id foa' l° ' Lynwood W. ALAMEDA MAID by Eroaj EVELINR (registered) Is dam of 01e2:lOV£, Tie tarn 2:19. Maud Fowler '2:2\% and Uoblci 2:12, the dam of IJonalet 2:09!^, champion three- yoar-old paring Ally. NELLIE FAIRMONT, dam of Zambra, world's champion for .1 mile*, 13:24. ALAMEDA M ATD(reglatered) 1b out of Oakland Maid 2:22by Speculation. For prices and particulars address S. B. WRIGHT, Santa Rosa, Cal. Trap For Sale. \ FIXE. STYLISH, STRONGLY CON- structed, high Trap, wlih brake, in splendid condition; can be secured at a bargain for cash. Cost $425; bult to order. Owner leaving city. See itatoDceat HULDA STABLES, 1530 Fell Street, Park Panhandle. Wasliir£ton McKinney 35751 By McKinnev 2:li>*; dam, Lady Washington. In every point he shows his breeding; has good style and action. Stands 1G hanos, weight 1200 pounds. His get bring big prices. Will miike tbe S*»ion ai Rose Dale Stock Farm Ke*>, flt.io for season. For forth* r pertlcolnrs arirlrenn ROSE DALE STOCK FARM Santa Rosa, Cal. PINE LOWLAND PASTURE. Sef ment Soil. Stock Stabled in Storms. No Wire Fences. RANCHO CALAO, MOUNTAIN VIEW, CAL. JACK FOR SALE. Central Trust Company 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. I Jim Enewkj \ and just as they want it. The right way to : salt animals Is to let them he) p themselves. Compressed Pure-Salt Bricks j I in onrPatentFeedera.Buppivreflned dairy salt. 1 I They mean animal thrj it. They cost but little. I Convenient for yoa and your I animals suffer no neplect. Ask I your dealer and write ue for I G° ODD, SERVICEABLE JACK. 8 YEARS old. QQd good, prompt performer. Guaran- teed In every way. Aldo. ooe SADDLE BURRO. Inquire of W. R. MADDEN, 111 Crocker Bldg, San Franolsoo- You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sum large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-2% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Interest paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. booklet. Belmont Stable Supply Co.] Patented, Mfr*. f Brooklyn, N. Y. FOR SALE. TiAY MARE, THREE YEARS OLD. BRED -*-* by Mr Meek of Haywards. Sfre.Wm Harold; dams by Direct. Mambrino Wilkes, Woodburn and Williamson's Belmont Fair size, good style and looker; trotted half at matinee, Jan. 29th. In 1:22 to high-wheel road oart Can trot a 35 gait on track or road any day without aDy rigging or boots. Sound and tough and as well able to be put to work a« many 4 or 5.year olds. Price $200. Apply to Breeder office. 67»-680 11th Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE ZIBIJELL, Jh SON, Proprietor*. S±n Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Handling all kinds Fanoy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand. T cd? car going to the Comer Tel.: West 2&0 CLEVELAND BAY STALLION FOR SALE. VERY HANDSOAIE, 17 HANDS HIGH, weighs * 1600 pounds; color, dark bay; age, 5 years; stylish, good boned, sure foal getter, sound In every respect; drives double, single, and rtdes. Sire, Imp. Sportsman; dam, Imp. Rellington Rose. For price, eto . address JAMES BOYD, Milpltfis, Cal March 3, 1906J &he Qxeebex axxis ^xtovisuxaxi 15 Westchester Racing Association Closing Out at Private Sale RACE COURSE: Belmont Park, Queens, Long Island, N. Y. OFFICE: 571 Fifth Ave., N. Y. THE WINDSOR ARCADE. Spring and Autumn Meetings 1906. The following races are open to close by midnight of WEDNESDAY, MARCH 7, with a Supplementary Entry for some as by the Conditions. CONDITIONS. FIRST SPRING MEETING Thursday, May lOth, to Saturday, May 19th — Nine Days. THE MAIDEV-For maiden two-year-olds. Colts 115 lbs.; fillies and geldings 112 lbs At $25 each, $10 forfeit; $1500 added. Five Furlongs THE BOi QUET— Selling for two-year-olds, at $25 each, $10 forfeit; $1500 added. Five Furlongs THE LARCHWONT-For maiden three-vear-old. Colts 1151bs, geldings 112 lbs. fillies MO lbs.: at $25 eaoh. $10 forfeit; $1800 added. Winners extra. Seven Furlongs THE VAN NEST— Selling for three-year-olds, at $25 each, $10 forfeit; 51500 added. Six and a Half Furlongs THE METROPOLITAN HANDICAP— For three-year-olds and upward, at $100 each, half forfeit; $10 only If declared; $10 Oi-O added. One Mile THE TOBOGGAN HANDICAP— For three-year olds and upward, at $30 each; $i0oDiy if de- clared; $3500 added. Six Furlongs THE HARLEM— Selling for three-year-olds and upward, at $25 each, $10 forfeit; S2000addPd. One MUe THE NEW RCCHRLLE HANDICAP— For three-year olds and upward, at $25 each; $10 if de- clared, with $1500 added. Seven and a Half Furlongs SECOND SPRING MEETING Monday, May 28th, to Wednesday, June 6th— Nine Days. THE GAIETY— For two-year-old Allies, at $25 each; $10 forfeit; $1500 added To carry 112 lbs. Winners extra. Four and a Half Furlongs THE LAUREATE— For two year-olds, at $30 each, half forfeit; $2500 added Colts 115 lbs. fillies and --eldtogs 1 12 lbs Winners extra. Maiden allowances. Five Furlongs THE BATCH KSTER— For three year-olds, non-winners of $1£00 in 1905, at $25 each: $1U forfeit $2000 added. Colts 115 lba , geldings 112 lbs., Allies 110 lbs. Penalties and allowances One Mile THE POCANTICO— For tbree-yeir-olds, non-winners of $5000 in 1905. at $30 each; half forfeit; $1200 added. Colts 126 lbs., geldings 123 lbs., fillies 121 lbs. Non-winning and maiden allowances. Mile and a Sixteenth THE COSMOPOLITAN HANDICAP For three year-olds and upward, at $50 each: half forfeit; $10 only if declared; $5000 added Mile and a Sixteenth THE SPKING SERIAL HANDICAPS— For three-year olds and upward, at $30 each; $10 addi- tional for starters In each race, viz: CROTONA $1POO adr"ed,six furloDgs: CLAR^MONT $2000 add°d, six and a half furlongs VAX CORTLANDT, $2000 added, seven furlongs. Tota added $5800 THE JOCKtT CLUB 'WEIGHT FOR AGE— For three-year-olds and upward, at $10 each, $15 additional for starters; $2500 added. Three-year-olds 109 lbs., four-year ol< s 12fi lbs.; five sis and aged 129 lbs. Mile and a Furlong of tla.© STEEPLECHASES. NEW YORK STEEPLECHASE— For four-year-olds and upward Run First Meeting, at $10 each: $15 additional for starters; $2000 added For.r-year-o.ds 135 lbs., five year-o'ds 1451 lbs. six-year-olds and upward l.E6 lbs About Two Miles WHITNEY MEMORIAL S TEEPr,EnH \SE— For four-year-olds and upward. Run Second Meeting. By subscription of $500 each, half forfeit, with $5500 add' d in m^ney and pia'e. Subscribers to name three horses by May 1st. one to the post About Two Miles and a Half INTERNATIONAL STEEPLECB *«*E HANDICAP— For four-year-olds and upward. Run Second Meetiig. at $25 each: $10 only if declared; with $i:00i.dded. About Two Miles GRAND N\TIOVAL STEEPLECHASE HANDICAP— For four-year-olds and upward. RUD Second Meeting. At SlUUeach, half forfeit; $25 only if declared: with $5250 addPd in money and plate. " About Two Miles and a Half To Close and Name by .Midnight of Saturday, May 12th (Third Day of First Meeting). THE AMATECK « UP— A high weight felling race for three-year-olds and urward- GentlemeD riders Run Second Meeting, at $10 each; $25 additional 10r starters, with $1500 sddi din money and plate. One Mile ME VDOW BROOK HUNTERS S E KPLECHASE— For four-year-olds and upward, qualified under the rules of the N ■ S & H. A and the C. H A. Ran Second Meeting, at $10 each; $15 additional 'orRtarter-*; $1200 added in money and plate. Four-year-olds Ub lbs., five-year-olds 159 lbs , six years and upward 168 lbs. Penalties and allowances. Gentlemen riders. Profes- sional riders 7 lbs extra About Two Miles and a Half TO BE RUN AT THE AUTUMN MEETING. October 8th to October 20th; Supplementary Entries to Close August 15, 1906. THE NURSERY HANDICAP— For two. year olds, at IS5 each, the only forfeit if declared by August 15th, or $50 if declared thp day before the race: if left in after that time to pay $100 each If entered August 15tb at $75 each, the only forfeit if dec'ared the day beforp the race If lef in after that time to pay $150 each, with $3000 added Six Furlongs THE CHAMPAGNE- For two-year-olds at $50 each, half forfeit: $10 only if declared by August 15th If entered August 15th at $100 each, half forfeit, wlih £5000 added. Non winning and maiden allowances Seven Furlongs THE JER'»MK HANDICAP— For three-veat-olds. at $50 each, half forfeit; $10 only if dPClared by August I5th If ntered August 15th $100 each, half forfeit; 525 only If d^clarpd the d*v before the race, with $2000 added. Mile and Five-Sixteenths THE MUNICIPAL H NDICAP— For ihree-year-olds and upward, at $50 each half fnr.'eit: $10 only If declared by August 15th. If enured August 15th at $100 each, half forfeit; $\snniv if declared th-^ day before the race, with $2500 added Mile an>! Three-Quartere THE BELMONT PARK WEIGHT FOR AGE RACE— For three-year-olds and upward, a? $50 each, half forfeit: $10 only if dec'ared by August lath If entered August 15 h at$!0neach, half forfeit, with $3000 added. Three-year olds 111 lbs., four year-olds and nnward 124 ihs Two Miles and a Quarter Entries for the above are received only and under the conditions as printed and In all respects subject to and in accordance with the Rules of The Jockey Club The Steeplechases in accordance with the Rules of the National Steeplechase and Hunt Association. For entry blanks address, H. G. CRICKMORE, Clerk of the Course, Windsor Arcade, 571 Fifth Ave., N. Y. ACCIDENTS will happen. The colts will fet hurt. Any Soft Inflamed unch can be removed in a pleasing manner with ABSORBINE No blister. No hair gone. ComfortfoT the horse. Profit for yon. $2.00 per bottle de- livered. Book 4-B free. ABSORBINE, JR., for man- kind. $1.00 Bottle. Removes the black and blue from a bruise at once. Stop Tooth Ache, Reduce Swellings. Genuine manufactured only by W. F YOUNG, P. D. F., 0-1 Monmouth Street. Springfield. Slan, For sale by Mack & Co Langiey & Michaels Co. aldington & Co., J. O'Kane and J. A. MoKerron, all of Be* Frar-'BOt TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DEVISADERO AND FULTON STS. (1408 Folton S reet) Horses Called Por, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR LURE. I have opened a new Boarding and Training Stable near the above corner, and will board and train for racing road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class homes at reasonable rates Have good location, brand-new stable and everything flrst-clasa All horses in my care will reoelve the best of attention Phone: Park 673. J. C CABNEY. TOR SALE. MATCHED CARRIAGE PAIR OF DARK bay Geldings, standard bred, six yearn old. ]fj'i hands; sound, reliable and enduring; good long-distance travelers. Apply to G. D. BOYD, Sati Rafael, Cal. Sacramento Valley Stock Farm Stallions, Brood Mares, and Young Stock Suitable for Training. CH- So«^2?^!^i?/|^'k;?^fif?f"-^e Sidney Dillon; 1st torn. Guy- below 2?20* bv Director ' ^f"-"ir« a.™ d»*am' ^ifcara (dam of 5 in list, 4 Imp. Be°ffoCUn'dlr"nd ?ad?mAl|on byManl^Z^J*?0™^- SOn °« the next dam of Brown'sBel founder be.rTg bv TinD„o S*™ * Mess-en-ger' "^ff'i"* *S? rxt. da« *>y lm*>- ^singer himself unexcelled, his sire and the sires of as many others the iS^STmS belt ^."ll^eT^iS^Sta^ndVirSn J^a^to^SSj? ™tS5SgSl AS a «**"& "f '« fhTreford h°e CH- '^^i^s^^rn^uV^^^r^V^nSftr^^1^ This young stallion's pedigree 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th dams ha | wf, chMfe^eh?^eJrtraacnedsuehh|rr°eafhobnr|sd STS&ZZ &?S &3sS Alcantara, Palo Alto, and many other great one s The sires in the thor ?e£ The Tilh delre^? t0 ,La"feSS hIVe each Product the dkmshof 'trol HSAog" StUd 3nd W°rthy °£ the oP^onLrtV^to^eaTn^a lolv ^ o°n£ BAY M4EE, POilED 1903, "FLOWERET BELLE."— Sire Monbells 2-23W Mendocino 2:19%, by Eleciioneer and BeautiTul Bells ,worfd?s :23*£, son of greatest I-Io* ft^S^i;*5"^ "c"' ^y ElectioneeViLI dasTMayflowe" " Thi tS» ^^i,ldflo,,,',er- Manzani'a. etc.). by St. Clair 16675 aiajnower Ihe sire of this Ally represents Electioneer's most famous speed nro ducing line, the Electioneer-Beautiful Bells cross. The dam of th is fillv . represents a great performing and producing line that first m?de Electioneer famous through the great Wildflower, Manzanita, etc., the I&ctioneer Mav flower cross. This Ally was bred to Dillcara in 1905. and the pedigree of the produce will be composed almost exclusively of the greatest bloodlines of the greatest producers in the trotting world. Her producer rom such weVlTs For ra'cTnT rank °£ the higheSt Value for b^in^ purpuras CH. MAKE, GRISETTE, POALED 1902.— Sire Marengo King 2-29«. son of MeKin- ney 2:llVi and By By by Nutwood; 1st dam° Lisette by Abdallah Wilk?s «,82i/Si,r?n°f Wauco 2:14%. etc.). son of Geo wX £ dSif "iSseYte by Startle 290 (sire of 11). son of Hambletonian 10: 3rd dam, Beckie Sharp bv liacl Heanw°kn5. us and granddaughters of McKin- ney through Kenneth C. will be equal to any in the land. Tnrmo ' *30 for the Season. I ClIllO "( S15 for Single Service. S. K'TREFKY, Pleasant on. Reg. No. 31706 CAPT. C. H. Box 151. WILLIAMS. PALO ALTO, CAL. WAYLAND W. 22516. Recoil 2:12£. One of the leading sires or 2:10 performers of 190s. MONTEREY 2I09 1-4 (Sire of IRISH 2:OSvf, Fastest Four-Year-Old Pacer of 1904). By SIDNEY (grandsire of Lou Dillon I:58&); dam, HATTIK (also dam ef Montana 2:16) by Commodore Be mont 4^40 MONTEREY 2:09' i stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and Is one of the finest individuals on this Coast. FEE, SfiO for the Season. \fS\C tT llil I T C" By MONTEREY 2:09^. T UoL IVI I I L_ Dam. LEAP YEAR 2:26 (full sister to Iago2:ll) by Tempest 1881, son of Almont 33. YOSEMITE is a very high-olass young trotier, and as he will be trained this year he will be allowed to serve only sis ohotce bred mares FEE, JS25 for the Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leaded a fine, roomy barn with U large bos stalls on Sherman street, four blocks from the racetrack, Alameda, and am prepared to do public tra'ning. Would like to get two good trotters and a promising three-year-old to pr. pare for the races this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. i mares by Electioneer, Director. Nutwood. Sultan. Stamboul, Anteeo pur creat sires, he Is the sire of Bolivar 2:08%, Nellie R. 2:10. Arthur W. . ..lorosco 2:12, John A. 2-12^4, Forrest "W. 2:14%, Iceland W. 2:16. Al Sandy ■ Maud S< mita Wilkes 2:26%. Wavland w. will make the Season of 1906 at SANTA ROSA, at McGregor & HocUns' Stables. «...«, I*. ~ w. C. btslman. Owner. -ma 840 for the Season. Pasture $3.00 per month. Pedigrees Tabulated and type written ready for framing Write for prices. BREEDER AND Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francieoo, Cal. March 3, 1906] ®He gveebev anb gtpxrrtsfmcm 17 FOUR BIG I EARLY I d CLOSING? , 1 CUARANTEED STAKES! Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. ENTRIES TO CLOSE MONDAY, APRIL 2, 06 Otily M-'wo Per Oon.t to Suter. CALIFORNIA STAKES $2000 For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES 2000 For Pace s Eligible to 2:20 Class SUBSET STAKES 1000 For Free=for=AII Trotters GOLDEN GATE STAKES 1U00 For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class ENTRANCE DUE AS FOLLOWS: 2 per cent April 2, 1906; 1 pir caot additional if not declared out by May 1, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 p9r cent additional if not declared by July 2, 1906. Declarations (to declare ou'l must be mailed to the Secretary, aDd will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made. Oa July I, 1906. nominators, by the payment of an additional 2 per cent, have the right of substituting another horse or transferring their entry to another member of the Association In place of the horse named in the original entry, but the horse so substituted must be eligible to the class in which substitution is made on July 1, 1906. Liberal Stakes for other classes will be announced lattr. E. P. HEALD. President. P. W. KEI1EY, Secretary, 36 Geary St.. S. F, The following Stallions, owned by W. A. Clark Jr.. will make a public season: BONNIE McK. 36569 (Trial 2:19) Bon Voyage Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Two-year-old Record 3:15 Three-year-old Record.. 2:129£ Timed In a Race H:10% WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY ($8500) FOR 1905. BON VOY vQE (3) &133£ is by Expedition 2:1534 by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erin 2:24^: second dam Faroe 2:29^ by Prtnoeps 536: third dam 8oma by Golddust 150 For breeding. Individu- ality and racing qualities he is uosurpas-ed He Is a noh bay In color with black points, stands 15.3 hands and when matured will weigh 1S00 pounds. Season of 1906 at FL.KASANTON RACE TRACK. where he will be limited to twenty outside mares. USUAL RETURN" PRIVILE JES. or money refunded should mare a i -. prove in foal A rare chance to breed good mares to an excep- tionally hlgh-olass and highly bred young stallion. $50 for the Season, TRIAL 2:12 (at Four Years Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By KXPKKSSO 29199 (half b-other to Expressive (3) 2:12V2) by Advertiser 2:15*i son of Electioneer 125: am AL> HA '4:%nya (dam of Aegon2:l8M-s''"e of Ageon Star 2:1 1^, etc ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22: second da-n Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 In list and 3 producing sons and 7 producing daughters) by Mambrino Chief 11. etc Terms for the Season $25 HIGHLAND is a grand looking young stallion, seven years old. His breeding is most fashion- able and his immediate ancestors are producers of ra^e winners with fast records He is beauti- fully galted and has a perfect disposition. Does not pull or want to break at speed, and oan be placei at wll- in a bunon of hirses He Is a hlsth-da^s bor-^e and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trofed a quarter In SI seconds over the Pleasanton race track HIGH .AND is a coal black horse with one white hind ankle, stands 16. 1 1- ands high and weighs olose to 1200 ponnds. Address all communications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Son of MoKloney 2-.UH and Bon Silene 2:14>S by Stamboul 2:07^ Will make the Season of 1908 at PLEASANTON Fee S50 BONNIE McK. Is a grand individual and a fast trotter with perrect legs and feet. All mares bred to him in 19U6 will be nominated in Breeders Futurity without expense to owner. Address GEO. A. KELLY. Pleattantoo, Cal. * [McKinney 2:lljtf..., U Sire of SI- Coney . I Sweet Marie and 38 more in 2:15 y •! 70 in 2:3J 2-.04H 2 £ < OLEon Silene 3:14^.. Uam of Aloyone 2:27 Sire of Martha Wilkes 60 in 2:30 RoseSprague Dam of McKInney 2: Graodam of Fereno 2: D5M Bonnie McK. (trial). .2:19 Stamboul 2:07!4 Sire of Stamboulette 2: Ellert 2; etc. Bon Bon 2:26 Dam of Ronnie Direct... Rector 2: Bon Silene 2: Bonnie Steinway trl)2; OnU 141/. 08^ (Geo Wilkes 2:22 by Hamb. 10 (.Alma Mater by Mamb. Patchen ! Gov. Sprague 2:20i,S by Rhode Island Rose Kenney by Mamb. Messenger ' Sultan 2:24 by The Moor Fleetwing by Hamb. 10 dam of 2 in list f Simmons 2:28 by Geo. Wilkes i Bonnie Wilkes 2:29j* by Geo. Wilkes dam of 4 in list ZOMBRO 2:11 Greatest Son of McKinney 2:ni Will make the Season of 1906, from February 1st to June 1st, At LOS ANGELES, CAL. Fee, 850 for the Season. With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse and mare does not change ownership. Money du« at time of service. or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO Is the sire of eleven standard performers as follows: Zephyr 2:07^, timed separately in a race In 2:08'^: Charley T. 2:13^. trial 2:IOl4: Italia 2:14^. over half-mile track, trial 2:0SY2; Bellemoot three years old. record 2:1^, trial 2:1 \%; Zombowyette 2:16»^. trial 2:14*4; Zenobia2:19. trial half in 1:05^ Tee Da* Cee 2:i9V4 trial &I3& Ladv Zombro 2:24, trial 2:10; Lord Kitchener 2;24H- trift1 2:l91/4: Zealous 2:56^. trial 2:20: Nina Bonita2:27. ZOMBRO hat won more first pr'zea In the sbowrin" than any California stallion, and his get hav« sold for more money during the past three years. He Is the only horse living or dead that ever won fortv heais in standard time as a turee-year-nid His eet are all laree. beautifully formed and endowed with great natural speed The choicest pasture formares Address GEO. T. BECKERS, 3949 Flgoeroa At , LoS Angeles. Cal. (RECORD 2:22141— Sire of Alone (4) 2:09^ (trial 2:06^)' Jo=t It (3) 2:1914 'trial 2-12^), High Flv (2) 2:24 M (trial 2:124 last haf In 1:00!^) and full brother to the great John . MoKerron 2:04>4. the second fastest stallion in tbe world. By NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 16H, sire of John A. McKerron 2:04^ (second fastest stallfon In the world), Tidal Wave 2:09. Mis* Idaho 2:091^. Who Is U2:1U>* Stnnton Wilkes 2:10^. Cresco W'lkes (4)2:l0% GeorgieB. 2:12^. North Star (3j 2:I8!i. winner ^aolflo Breeders Futurity Stakes $6r>00 Guaranteed of 1905 and 32 in 3:30 It--'; dsmlNOAR. the greatest producing daughter of Director; second dam Annie Titos by Echo 462: third dam Ttff.ny mare Mamof G'braltar2:22H> hyOwen Dale, son of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST is a dark bay, 15 3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds: well formed and of kind disposition. In bis blood lines are represented the greatest strains of the American trotter. Will make tbe Season of 1906 at San Jose, with return privilege in case horse remains in California. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T W IARSTOW. San Joie, Cal NEAREST 35562 THE STANDARD TROTTING 4.TALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, JLOS ANGELES, CAL. Terms, $40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 Is by Hambletonlan Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes 2IU81,.. Phoeboo W. 2:C8=£, Robert I. 2:08?^ aDd 7 others In the 2tl5 list); dam Anna Bjlle (3) 2:27!'. (dam r.f Robert I. 2:089i Maud Murray 2:12. MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16] by Dawn, aire of 5 In 2.30 list and dams of 8 MURRAY M 2-14 is a handsome fWe-vear-old bay stallion with small star and black points. Id his three-year-old form he stood 16 hand and weighed 1125 lbs., and Is a natural, square-gaited trotter Ha Is a horse of grand flaisb plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back strong loins and stifles good feet and legs. His breeding is excellent, and with his individual- ity he presents a popular and spee .-producing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes in the show rine. . Excellent pasturage at reasonable rates For further particulars address PKOF- H. R FREEHIN Urilveralty Station. Los Angeles, Cal. KINNEY WILKES Sired by MoKINNEY S;ll&, sire of Sweet Marie 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07«. Charley Mac 2:07^, Hazel Kinney 2:09Vi The Rnman 2:03yj, Dr. Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05^. Zolook2:05M. You Bet 2:0? .Tonnte Ma- 2:09 etc. First i»am, HAZKL, WILKKS 2:11^, a srreat race mare by Guy W ilkes 2:l.->»(, sire of F ed Kobl 2-07K Hulda '>'08Vi L*sa Wilkes 2:09. Seymour Wilkes 9:0814, etc , and dams of Antez^lla 2:10^, kaherlne A- 2'MVi- etc, e'o , and grand Ire of John A, McKerron 2:04'J: second dam Blanche (damof flazrsl WilkesS:!!1* TJoa Wilkes 2:15 Guvson 2:24 Native Sin 2:26!4 and SllverSpray 2:28) bv Artbunonaev third dam, Ninoy by Gen Taylor.cbamplon 30-mile trotterof the world. KINNEY WILKES l5) a ve<-y hini^om'*. we 1 mide bay stallion, standing 15.3 and weighing 1100 pounds. He is one of the best br.d of the McKInneys. Will make tbe Season at Fee $25. LEONARD STATION, Santa Cruz County. For oards containing tabulated pedigree, eto., address JAMES T. LEONARD, Rural Delivery >"o 3, TYtiteoDVllle. Cal 'J HE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKINNEV 2:1 \H— greatest sire of bla age; dam, the great broodmare DAISY S. (dam of rour In list) by McDonald Chief 358-1, son of Clark Chief 89: second dam Fanny Rose, greai brood mare (dam or three with records better than 2:l8j by Etban Allen Jr. 2993; third dam, Jenny LInd (ihoroughbred).dBmof Prince Allen 2:27. Will make the Season of 1900 at WO »DLAND BICE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE 950, with usual return privilege Address C. A, BFENUER, Woodland, Cal. E. P 1^\T(0 ^trinr. "8 1 P » Francisco, California. 18 ©He gveebev anb gpavtsmixn 1MAR0H 3, 1906 THE BAYWOOD STUDLnr^jf Jrnri"""" """ THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. § ' |ff "/| »W% (Property of John Pabhott, Esq.) |1 Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 m. will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1906 FEE $75 Reductions made t r two or more mares. manager, WALTER SEALY. THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16! Sire GCT WTLKES 3:16* Dam LIDA W 2:1 8!< by NUTWOOD ....2:18% NUTWOOD WILKES 23116 is the only stallion that ever produced two three-year-olds in o- e season wlthrecordsot 2:12 and 2:12)^ respectively, who Is It a : 12. es-ohamplon three-year-old gelding of the world, reduced h Kerron 2:04v5 (2:12s* as a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe of George Wilkes NUTWOOD WILKES is the sjre of John A. Mo- Kerron 2:04H (sire 3 two-year-olds in 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 2:09. Miss Idaho 2:09m Who Is It 2:10H. Stanton Wilkes 2:10V4, Oesco Wilkes (4) S:I0J£. Georgie B. 2-12J4 Claudius (4)2:131,5. North Star (3) 2:I3!4, Bob Ineersoll (4) 2:14K. and 32 in 2:30 list. His sons Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09>4 and Cavaliero 5:09Ji His daughters produced Miss Georele2:10?i. Mona Wilkes (3l 2:1114. Lallen Jr 2993, third dam. Jenny Llnd (dam of Prince Allen 2:?7, alsodamof Fanny McGlll. damof Scotty 2:194'. Trilby 2:21^} GENERAL J B FRISBIE l<* a handsome, good gatted alack five years old- He it- a full brother to Tom Smith 2:13^; shows McKlnney speed and will be trained for the races this season. Term*, 825 for the Season; osual return privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 Sire of DjiUcao 2:154. George Washington 2:16^ (sire of Stella 2:154. '!anQpalgner2:26i^ and PrlnceBs W 2:29m, Trilby 2:21 *£ ana Sweet Rosle2:28^. By McDonald Chief 3583 (sire of 4 and sire of dams of 7 In 2:30); dam Venus by Mambrlno Patchen 58. Terms, 820 fur the season: atual return privileges. Good pasturage 83 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horse a at my barn. 1031 «*>orela St . Vallfj'i, nftl More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. S1DM00R 2:1. 3 SlHE OF By SIDNEY 2:19 3=4 (&ireof Id In 2:15 list and 106 In 2:30 list and sire Sidney Dillon, sire LOU DILLON 1:58H, World's Champion); dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor: nest dam Sarpy Mare by Echo 462. ENOCH 2:lZi;. GENKRAL 2:14V5. TEDDY TIIK KOAN S:17lf, LITTLE MISS i8:17>4. SIDMOOR 2: ]7J£ Is a dark bay stallion makchidNEsh Z-.40. Lillian MDMoKE and a grand Individual In every respeot ■>.:■■*', mil TIP OQCAr.no (trial) 2:00.. He Is one ot the best producing sonsof BID ahhoTT (trial) :::18, JAKE F, (trial Sidney, and with the right oross will get half mile) i:Off. Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Ada"M inHN ftTT Dq usuai ^tum privies. JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:111, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares. FULL BROTHER TO TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Ftiat lam DAISY S. (damof Tom Smith 2:13*. General Vallejo 2-204, Little Mac 2:274. Sweet - j.m v McDjnald Chief 3583; seoond dam Fanny Rose (dam of Columbus S. 2: 17, George v, ashingtoc 2:16 -i. *vho sired Stella2:i54. Campaigner 2:26^. etc; third dam Jenny Lind (dam of I'rinoe Allen 2:27 and also dam of Fanny McGlll, damof Scotty 2:194, Trilby 2:21 J£, etc ). CONSTRUCTOR Is one of the handsomest sons of the great McKlnney on the Coast. He stands ' i hands 24 inocesover the withers and 15 bands 34 Inches over the loins and weighs 1100 pounds. (e never made a regular season In the stud, but was bred to several mares when three years old id all or his got are of good size and good lookers. Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. ZOLOCK 2:05 Reg- No. 34471. Great Race Horse and Producing Sire, SIRE OF Ambush(3) 2:H{ Delilah (3) 2:14| Bystander 2:l4f Sherlock Holmes 2:15^ Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 Has 10 Tiiree-Ye«»r-OId8 that worked trials lo 1905 as follows: LI LI \N ZOLOCK 3:14. EINNKT WOOD 2:15, CLKOPATBA 3:15. RED LOOK 3:18 ZOLLIK 2:18. IN *UGUKETTA 2:22, HYLOCK 2:25, MAJELLA 2:25, ADA L4NTE 2:26. BOLOCK 2:27. and 3 Two- Year-Olds a- follows; WENZA 2:24, BONMK JUNE 2:37. IZALCO 2:30. and 12 others now In training that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. ZOLOCK'S Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 Hia Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1.2 (by Gosslper 2:HJi) damof ZOLOCK 2:05H. Z-?phyr2:07><; second dam toe ereat broodmare Gipsey (by Gen Boolb 2:30i*) dam of Gazelle 2:114, Delllab (31 2:14U. Ed Wiosbip 2-15 WilJets (mat.) 2:17. DliieS 2:27. and grandam of Cjl- Green (trial) -J: 10VS ■ third dam Echo Belle (grandam of Conn 2:15»4) by Eobo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK staDda 16 hands, is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions All his colts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY. Race Track. Pleasanton. Cal Season starts February 1st and ends Jane 1st. Mares will be cared for In any manner desired, but by ZOLOCK 3:05i4: dam GIPStsT dam of Gazelle 2:I1H. Delilah 2:144 and rhreem-^re in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:144. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05J SIRE OF BDSiLET (3) 2:09!i, In wlnnlog race— World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3). trial (trotting) i:\XV~ (last half 1:03). Only two otB3NNIE DIRECTS first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2 50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good oondition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. E. G. MCCONNELL 705 Sutter St., San Francisco. C. L. GRIFFITH. Pleasanton, Cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE Season of 1906 at pleasanton STAR POINTER l:59J .WORLD'S RECORD MAGE IN I897. The Fastest, Gttmest and Most Consistent Kace Horse In Tnrf History. .,„ . (MORNING STAB 2:03. JOE POINTER i-.OBU, ' ollSIUNlI POINTER 2:07tf, SCHLEY POINTER 2:08J4, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr, Sire of Star Pointer 1:S9« Hal Ulllard 2:04^ Star Hal 2:045£ Hal Cnaffln 2:uoK Elastlo Pointer 2:06i4 New Richmond 2:0?!4 Hal Braden 2:i>7s* Storm .2:08i4 Brown Heels 2:091* Laurel . 2:09« Silver Hal 2: 10 etc 6 producing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Damof Star Pointer l:59w Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastic Pnin er 2:06^ Cloud Pointer 2:24j* Tennessee Pointer 2:24-S£ 2 produolng sons 6 producing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, .MfKiNNn 3:11*. sire of SWEET MARIE 2:04^, Kionej Lou 2:07?.;. Charley Mac 2:07^, Hazel Kinney 2:09^. Th > Roman 2:09;i. Dr. Book 2:10. Coney 202, Ohioa Maid 2:05^- You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09 Zolocli2:U5^ Dam, AILEEN 2:'-i6»4 (dam of Mowltza 2:20!4, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:32, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 2:16! j. sire of dams of Dlreotum Keiiy 2:08M-Grey Gem 2:094. W. Wood 2:07, eto. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOT7 DILLON 1:584. Red- wood 2:2P,i, Ethel Mack 2:25 and Alleen 8:S6H) by Mtlton Medium 2:254 (sire of 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium &32J£, sire of Nancy HanBs 2:04, eto. GRECO is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only race as a colt, and has shown ml lea In 2:20slnoe In his work, and Is a sure 2:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares ut WlOO THIS SEASON^ Correspondence solicited. Address , ('HAS De RYDER, Maoaeer, Plflavanton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IRAN alto'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produced a oolt that was a world's record breaker, and his grandslre has sired several trotters that broke world's records Ni other horse with a record as fast as IRAN ALTO'S can claim this. At nine years he had sired ten colts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse 2:124. Thomas R. 2:15. Vendome 2:17, Dr. Prasse's Sister 2:85— all at four years old. Who can name a horse whose first teneoltsoan beat that? Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, CAL. For further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. FEE $40 $20 due when mare is bred and $20 payable when mare Is known to be in foal. For further particulars address H. S. HOGOBOOU, Woodland, Ca March 3, I* 6] (Kite gxeeOex cmts ^poriemuu 19 DUCK SHOOTERS! CAMPBELL'S QUESTION—Wby is it thai so many excellent wing shots cripple fine birds? ANSWER—Because they don't use BALLISTITE which never fails to kill clean. REWEMBER—One (1) dead bird in the pocket is worth two (2) in the tule. BAKER & HAMILTON SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGLES SACRAMENTO SOLE AGENTS TOR THE PACIFIC COAST. EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE For GALL BACKS and SHOULDERS. CRUPPER SORES and SADDLE GALLS there is none aaperior. The horse CAN BE WORKED AS USUAL. For BARBED WIRE CUTS. C ALKS.SCRATCH- ES, BLOODPOISONEDSORES and ABRASIONS OP THE SKIN it has no equal. It is very adhesive and easily applied to a-watery as wel 1 as a dry sore. Its use will absolutely prevent BLOOD POISON- ING. In this respect there is no Gall Cure offered which can justly eien 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 ft we feel justified In savinp that itisTHE GALL CURE OFTHE20TH CENTURY It is a quick aud sure cure for those troublesome skin cracksunder the fetlockwhich lDjureand often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Have It la Their Stables. PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25o ; 1 L«. BOX. 81.00. Read our "ad" on Campbell's Horse Fooc Remedy in; next issue of this paper. JAS. B.CAMPBELL &C0., Mfrs., 412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. Sold bv all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. If not in stock ask them to write aDy Jobberfor It. We Make 16 urades, $17.75 to $300. Writelfor ART CATALOG to THE ITHACA GUN CO., Ithaca, N. Y o, coast Branch, PHIL B. BEKEART CO., 114 Second St., San Francisco SMITH HAMNIERLESS » EJECTOR GUNS ALSO ^iljA Wl11 HUNTER j^^ Gold Medal ONE-TRIGGER ^& lewisTclark EXPOSITION HUNTER ABMS CO., FULTON, NEW YORK. First, Second and Third High Amateur Averages Grand Canadian Handicap live bird event won by the Parker Gun In t bands of Tbos. Upton, with score of 34 out of 35. In the amateur classth three high averages at targets were carried off by C. E. Doolittle. Jay D. Green and H D KtrkoverJr-, all using the Parker Gun. The Parker wa much in evidence at the Hamilton, Oat . shoot, Jan 16 to 19. The Parker gun is always In evidence and If you would improve your score you should shoot no other. The only absolutely reliable bud in the world. N, Y. Salesrooms! 32 Warren St. 30 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn. SHREVE &, BARBER CO. 739 Market St, Send for Catalogue PIONEER DEALERS 521 Kearny St. Mailorders a Specialty GUNS, AMMUNITION, FISHING TACKLE AND SPORTING GOODS STALLION OWNER! If You Need a Stallion Card or Stock Catalogue Compiled and Printed, Stallion Poster, Stallion Service Book, a Cut of Your Horse, a Horse Book of any kind or a Tabulated Pedigree, Get it where you can get the CHEAPEST and BEST. FOR SAMPLES A>'D PRICES ADDRESS MAGNUS FLAWS £* CO., 358 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ILL. THE HORSEMAN'S HANDBOOK CONTENTS: CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF STALLIONS-The Stall-Pad- dock—Food— Diseases — Exercise— Grooming — Serving Hares— Amount of Service. CARE AND MANAGEMENT OF BROOD MARES— Getting Mares in Foal —Care During Pregnancy— Abortion — Foaling— Time When Mare is Due— In Season Agaiu— Weaning Colt. BREAKING AND DEVELOPING OF COLTS— Care of Colt-Ed- ucating — Feeding — Care of Growing Feet- Breaking to Drive— Developing, Shoeing and Booting. MANAGEMENT OF CAMPAIGNERS— Hovr to Keep the Race Horse in Condition and Keyed Up for a Race. CARE OF THE FEET— Booting and Shoeing— Bonner's and Berry's Views. CARE OF THE HORSE IN SICKNESS— Some Brief, Simple Rules and Remedies. GAIT1NG AND BALANCING— Correction of Faulty Gaits, etc. ANIMAL TAMING ANO TRAINING— Methods Employed by Gentry in overcoming Wild Instincts of the Horse and Teaching Him to Learn. STATISTICS— Championship Records of every class —Leading Sires of J :30 speed— Time of Fastest Miles by Quarters— List of High Priced Horses — List of Horse Associations and Registers — List of Hor^e Journals -List of Books on the Horse— Period of Gestation Table, etc. AMERICAN TROTTING RULES-The Complete Rules gov- erning Harness Racing with Index, Officially Signed by Secretary W. H. Knight. USEFUL INFORMATION-Rules for Admission to Stand- ard Registers -Rules for Laving out Tracks- Treatment of Horse's Teeth— How to Groom a Horse— About Clipping Horses— To Start a Balky Horse -Where to Buy Specialties for Horsemen, etc. DD,rr (Taper Cover 50c "nlUt ( Leatherette Cover 81 Address BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 36 CEARY ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. The Cocker Spaniel Its History, Points. Standard, Care, Training Etc, PRICE, POSTPAID, 50 CENTS The Instructions on Care, Training, etc., apply to other breeds as well as to Cockers, and it is a useful book for the dog owner. Tells how tj teach them to perform tricks. FOR SALE BY THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN SAN FRANCISCO CAL. CLASSIFIED ADVERTISEMENTS Advertisements under this head one cent per word per insertion. Cash to accompany order. GREAT DANES nRKAT DANE POfS [BLUEBEARD-MAUD " S ) for sale; eight weeks old. O. BERG- STEN. Center-street Station, Oakland. GOKDON SETTERS. ?OR SALE-PUPPY AND BROKEN DOGS OKO H STONE. Bos 13. Fresno. Cal. BREEDERS' DIRECTORY. irarciK BUSINESS COLLEGE 24 Post Street, San Francisco, Cal, The oldest, the largest, the most popular com- mercial sohool on the Ptfoiflc Coast. 20,000 gradu- ates; 30 teachers; 70 typewriters; over 300 students annually placed In positions. Send tor oatalogue. E. P. HKALD. President. 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Q0COANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOR STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIQS JOB SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT BY EL DORADO UNSEED OIL WORKS CO. 208 California Struct. San Francleco, Cal. SAN FRANCISOO. CALIFORNIA. BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE DEALERS IS 55-57-59-61 First Street, S. F. Telephone Main IBS CALIFORNIA X>x*. W m., :F\. H2saxi. M. R. C. V. S., F. E, ▼. 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 Coloniet at the port of San Francisco; Professor of Equina 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, 1 1 17 Golden Gate Avenue, near Webster St., San Francisco: Telephone Park 128. Chronic Bronchitis and Catarrh of tbe Bladder Cared In 48 Hoars. CAPSULES Superior to Copaiba, Cupebs or 0 ©he gveeliev nd $20), aui to the third $100 To. 3 winner to b 3 sold at auotion for $2500 If for less, 1 lb allowed for each $100 down to $M)3. Selling prioe to be stated through the entry box by the hour of olosing entries on the day preceding the raoe. Six Furlongs FOR THREE=YEAR-0LDS. The Stock Exchange of RiOOO For Three-Year-Olds By subscription of $15 each; $35 additional to start. Tj the winner $1500, to the second $300, and so the third $200. Non-winners of $1000 allowed 4 lbs.; of $2000, 8 lbs ; of $1000, 12 lbs.; of $650, 15 lbs ; of $100, 20 IDs.; ma dens, 25 lbs. One Mile The Artful of 81000 For Fillies Three Years Old- By subscription of $10 eaoh; $15 additional to start. To the win- ner $700, to the second $2*0. and to the third $100 Non-winners of $2000 allowed 5 1Db ; of $1000, 8 lbs ; of $950, 12 lbs ; of $400, 15 lbs ; maidens, 20 lbs. One Mile The National Guard Handicap of SI 500 For Three- Year-Olds. By subscription of $35 each, or $10 if declared by the hour of olosing eitries on the day preceding the race To the wlnner$1200, to the seoond $200. and to the third $100 Weights to be announced 3 days batore the raoe. Wioners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs extra. One Mile and a Furlong The Portsmouth Handicap of 810O0 For Three- Year-Olds By subscription of $25 each, or $10 If declared by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race. To the winner $700, to the second $200, and to the third $100. Weights to De anoouncad 3 days before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs. extra. Seven Furlongs The Monadnock of SI OOO For Three-Year-Olds- By subscription of $10 each; $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the second $200, and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auotion for $2000. If for less, 2 lbs allowed for each $100 down to $1000. Selling price to be stated through the entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preoedlng the race. One m»le The Minute Man of 81000 For Three- Year-Olds. By subscription of $10 each; $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the second $200, and to the thira $100. The winner to be sold at auction for $3000. .If for Jess, lib allowed for eaoh $100 down to $500. Selling prioe to be stated throughjtbe entry box by the hour of olosing entries on the day preceding the race. Six Furlongs FOR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. The Merrimack of 810OO For Two Year-Olds. By subscription of $10 each; $25 additional to start. To the winner $1200, to the second $200, and to the third $100. Non-winners of $2000, or two races of the value of $1000 eaoh, allowed 4 lbs ; of one of $1000 or two of $650 eaoh, 8 lbs.; of one of $600 12 lbs.; of one of $400, 15 lbs.; maidens, 18 lbs. Five Furlongs The Longfellow Handicap of 81000 For Two- Year-Olds. By subscription of $25 eaoh, or $10 If declared by the hour of olosing entries on the day pr«oeding the race. To the winner $700, to the second $200, and to the third $100. Weights to be announced 3 days before the race. Winners after announcement of weights to oarry 3 lbs. extra. Five and a Half Furlongs The Continental Handicap of 81000 For Two- Year-Olds. By subscription of $25 eaoh, or $10 If declared by the hour of closing en trlea on the day preceding the raoe. To the winner $700, to the second $200, and to the thirdJBlOO. Weights to be announoed 3 days before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs. extra. Six Furlongs The Vawar of 8tOOO For Fillle* Twj Years Old. By subscription of $10 eaoh; $15 additional to start. To the win- ner$700, to tne seoond $200, and to the third $100 Non-winners of $2000 allowed 4 lbs.; of $1000, not having *on two races of the value of $650 eaoh, 8 lbs ; of $600, 13 lbs.; of $400, 15 lbs ; maid- ens, 18 lbs Five Furlongs The Wf-llealey Handicap of 81000 For Fillies Two Years Old By subscription of $25 eaoh, or $10 If deolared by the hour of clos- ing entries on the day preceding the raoe To the winner $700, to the seoond $200, and to the third $100 Weights to ba announoed 3 days before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weights to carry 3 lbs extra. Five and a Half Furlongs The North Shore of 81000 For Two- Year-Olds. By subscription of $10 eaoh; $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the Becond $200, and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auotion for $3000. If for less, 1 lb. allowed for eaoh $100 down to $500 Selling price to be stated through the entry box by the hour of olosing entries on the day preceding the race. Five Furlongs The Somerset of Siooo For t'wo- Year-Olds. By subscription of $10 eaoh; $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the second $200, and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auotion tn $2000. If for less, 2 lbs. allowed for eaoh $100 down to $1000. Selling prioe to be stated through the entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preoeding the raoe. Five and a Half Furlongs The Charmlogfare of 81000 For Fillies Two Years Old. By subscription of $10 each; $15 additional to start. To the win- ner $700, to the second $20U, and to the third $100 The winner to be sold at auction for $2500 If for less l lb. allowed for each $100 down to $500. Selling price to bestated through the entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the raoe. Five Furlongs STEEPLECHASES. The Harvard Steeplechase Handicap of 81000 For Four-Year-0 da aod Upward. By subscription of $25 eaoh, or $10 If deolared by the hour of closing entrieBon the day preceding the raoe To the winner $700, to the Becond $200, and to the third $100 Weights to b9 announced 3 days before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weights to oarry 3 lbs. extra The Full Course about Two Miles and a Half The Banker Hill Steeplechase Handicap of 81000 For Four-Year-Oidn and Upward Bp suosorlptlonof $25 eaoh or $10 If declared by the hour of olOBlog entries on the day p-eoedlng tho nice. To the winner $700, to the Heoona $200, audio the third $i(K). Weights to be announced 3 days before the raoe. Winners after announcement of weigh '.* to oarry 3 lbs extra. The Short Course about Two Miles The r VJOOO. irfor less. 2 lbs allowed for eaoh $ 100 d jwn to$i0J0 Selling prioe to be stated through 'he entry box by the hour of closing entries on the day preceding the race, The Full Course about Two Miles and a Half V. hit.- Mountain Kteeplechace of 81000 Kour- Year-Olds urn I Upward By subscription of $10 each: $15 additional to start. To the winner $700, to the second $200. arid to the thlrd$l"0. The winner to besoid at auotion fo $2500. If for less I lb allowed for eaoh $100 down to $500 Seiiiog price to be stated thro ig tbe en -y box by ih»* hour of cio«lnir entries on ibc day nr-cediog th'f race Tnn Shout Qmihsk aikuit Two Milk Toghill Stud IVXEST^TXjO (Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager. Menlo Park, Cal. r PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. ^ TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will. now. with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which for twenty-ti e years carriages have driven This space of over a quarter of an aore has recently, oy the addition of very handbume 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. J \lhm-Leggea Hors^ are not curiosities by any n ti.. s. The country js full of them. The . fourth leg- is there ail right tut it is not worth anji hing because of a curb, splint, spavin or other like bunch. You can cure the hnrse of any of these i ailments and put another Found leg under him ty the use of Quinn's Ointment* W¥m^ It is time tried and reliable. When a horse is cured 1 with Qui nn's Ointment he starscured. Mr. E.F.Burke oiSpririnl1eld,Mo., writfsas tollows- "I have been u^ing Qulnn's Ointment tor=everal years and have ef- fected many marvelous cures; It will go deeper and* cause less pain thun any blister I ever used. Thought itmy duty lor the benefit ol'hovses to recommend yonr Ointment, lam never with out it " Tins is the General verdict by all who pi ve Qulnn's Ointment a trial. For curbs, splints, spavins, wimlpuffs, and al. bunches it is unequnled. Price SI per bottle at all drupe-ists or sent by maiL Send for circulars, testimonials, &c W. B. Eddy A Co., Whltehaft, N. Y. VICTOK VEKILHAC Proprietor JAMES M McGRATH Manager DEXTER PRINCE STABLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Cor. of Grove and Baker Streets, just at the Panhaodle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devlsadero Street Cars) Best looated and healthiest Stable in San Franclsoo Always a good roadster on band for sale. Careful and experienced men to care for and exerolse park roadsters and prepare horses for traok use. Ladles can go and return to stable d not have their horses frightened by automobiles %t oars NO MORE DISTEMPER. There's absolutely no need of a case of distemper, pinkeye, or any conta- gious catanhal diseases among your animals. Dr. CRAFT'S DISTEMPER & COUGH CURE can not fail to prevent and cure— no pay if it fails. If not at your druggist's, order direct, 50c and $1 Our free booklet, "Veter- inary Pointers," will be Invaluable to you Write for It now. WELLS MEDICINE CO. , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind D K. NEWELL, General Agent for Pacific Coast 519 Mission St., San Francisco. Cal THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in California. Owners desirine- tn havp horses handled and put in condition for sale or raolng are Invite J to correspond with the undersigned JAS.>THOMP80N, Pleasanton, Cal. RED BALL BRAND. Awarded GoldMedal At California State Fair 1893. Every horse owner who alues his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand. It mproves and keeps iufi< in the pink of oudithm *\ -tn hut tan Food Co 1 253 Folaom St., San Francisco abx your grocers or dealers for it. Positivelv Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. O. P. KEKTFXr.. "Manager. March 10, 1906] ©he gfcewfcetr mtfr &povtetmxn 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN P. W. KELLEY, Phopeistob. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. — ^-OFFICE 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. o. fELEPHONE: Black 680. BOX 447. Termi— One Year S3, Six Months SI. 75. Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Franoisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not neosssarily for publication, but as a private guar- antee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, March 10, 1906 Stallions Advertised. TROTTING BRED. ALMADEN 2:22% M. L. Lusk, Sacramento, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT 2:05%. .C. L. Griffith, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE McK. 36569... ".Geo. A. Kelly. Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:1254 Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith. Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GRECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND Tea Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. I DIRECT 2:12%.... Dan Lieginger, San Francisco, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12% H. S. Hogoboom, Woodland. Cal. IZALCO H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEY LOU 2:07% Budd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R. D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. KENNETH C. 2:17 S. K. Trefry, Pleasanton, Cal. LYNWOOD W. 2:20%... H. A. Carlton, Santa Rosa, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11% Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBEINO CHIEF JR. 11622, Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. MONTEREY 2:09%... P. J. Williams. San Lorenzo, Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman, Los Angeles, Cal. NEAREST. 2.22% T. W. Barstow, San Jose, Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16% _. Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20%..C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R. AMBUSH 2:14% G. W. Bonnell, Redlands, Cal. SEYMOUR WILKES 2:0S%.. Thos. Roche. Lakeville, Cal. SIDMOOR 2 :17 54 John Ott, Pacheco, Cal. STAR POINTER 1:59% Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. T. C. 2:30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal. TOM SMITH 2:13% C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936. ..Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto, Cal. ■WASHINGTON McKINNEY Rose Dale Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Cal. WAYLAND W. 2:12%.. W. C. Helman. Santa Rosa, Cal. YOSEMITE P. J. Williams. San Lorenzo, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05% H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. GREEN'S R.UFUS Baywood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER. .Toghill Stud. Menlo Park. Cal. MANCHESTER 201 A. H. Brinton, Woodland California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacifio Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000. foals of 1903—510 due April 1, 1906, and starting- payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 4. $6000, foals of 1904— $10 due March 1, 1906, and starting- payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting-. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1. 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903 — $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904 — $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903 — Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE has an opportunity before it by which it can do a vast amount of good for the State of California, and realize for the taxpayers some of the results that were expected when the people paid its debts and established it in new and commodious quarters. Railroad officials all predict a very large immigration to California this summer from the Eastern States, and as the pros- pects for g-ood crops of all kinds are most excellent, the opportunity to make a showing of the State products at this fair was never better nor so easy to realize. Oregon has been giving a State Fair for years that puts ours to the blush, and yet Califor- nia's population and resources are immensely greater than those of our sister State. The men who have managed the Oregon fair, however, have been imbued with the proper spirit and have made the exposition of their State's resources the main feature of their fair. Great rivalry has been developed between coun- ties and the county exhibits have been very fine and drawn hundreds of people to see them. The displays of live stock have been made as complete as possible, and auction sales of the same during the fair have been a profitable feature. The plain peo- ple, those that are working with hand and brain to build up the State of Oregon and make its homes numerous and prosperous, are the ones that are catered to first. Horse racing they have had regu- larly, and it has been of good class and popular with the people, but the gamblers and touts and skin game fraternity are allowed no place on the fair grounds. The writer visited the Oregon fair two years ago and saw nearly every church in Salem running lunch- eon rooms on the fair grounds during the day and evening. Instead of selling the restaurant privilege to one person, as they do in California, anyone was per- mitted to serve meals by paying a nominal license, and the church people availed themselves of this op- portunity to make a little money. We mention this to show that the Oregonians have seen the wisdom of getting all classes interested in their fair, and that they have succeeded. California can have as good a fair and a much larger one if the directors will bend their efforts toward giving one. It must be an ex- hibit of the State's resources and not a week of running racing with a "skindicate" book. It must be conducted along- the same lines that have made other State fairs so popular and successful and not in the manner which has brought the California State Fair into bankruptcy and disrepute. It can be done. There is money enough appropriated — $5000 in excess of the amount the Oregon State Board receives. Governor Pardee professes to a great desire to see the Cali- fornia State Fair made what it was originally in- tended. There are about six directors of the board whose terms have expired. Surely the Governor should be able to find six men to fill these places who can make the fair a success. It should not be a very difficult task, and it is up to him. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsle, N. Y.. Aug-. 13-18. Readville, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. T., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. MR. F. W. DURBIN, of Salem, Oregon, the hustling secretary of the Oregon State Fair Association, is in California visiting' live stock breeders, horsemen and others and explaining to them the advantages of mak- ing exhibits or racing their horses at the Oregon fair next September. The Oregon State Fair is one of the best managed and best patronized fairs held in the United States. It is not unusual for twenty thou- sand people to pass through its gates in one day, and the sales of live stock held during- the fair are always very successful. While in Sacramento last Monday Mr. Durbin attended the meeting of the California State Board of Agriculture, and gave the directors many pointers on the proper way of managing a fair, at the same time using his best efforts to induce the board to make the California State Fair a member of a Pacific Coast circuit of fairs, a suggestion that should be favorably acted upon. Mr. Durbin is cer- tain that many of the leading Oregon breeders of cattle and other livestock can be induced to exhibit their herds at the California State Fair, and that California, Oregon and Washington fairs can organize a circuit that would be one of the most important and successful in the whole country. A committee of three members of the California State Board, con- sisting of Directors F. H. Burke, Geo. W. Kingsbury and H. B. Stabler, were appointed to confer with Mr. Durbin on his return next week from Los Angeles, when he will more fully explain to them some of the plans which have made the Oregon State Fair so successful. . and race them. In the Breeders' Futurity for foals of 1904, there have been 125 two-year-olds paid up on. Of course quite a number of these are already being worked with the idea of starting them In the two-year-old trotting or pacing divisions this year, for which the stakes are $1250 and $750 respectively, but a large number will not be started until the three- year-old events are called next season. In the Occi- dent and Stanford stakes for 1907 there are many colts and fillies named that are not entered In the Breeders' Futurity and to give them and other two- year-olds an earning capacity the California State Board of Agriculture proposes to give two rich stakes this year— $1000 for two-year-old trotters and $1000 for two-year-old pacers. This is the best move in the interests of the breed- ers and owners of light harness horses the State Fair Association has made in some time. We do not advo- cate giving two-year-olds long and hard campaigns, but moderate training and racing will benefit any colt and the events that will be provided for them by the Breeders' Association and the State Fair will give owners a chance to start their colts and earn a goodly sum. Those who have two-year-old trotters or pacers should begin to work them with the idea of starting them this year as the purses and stakes will be worth winning. A LETTER from our friend, Mr. George Bement of Melrose, states that he is unable to give us any data as to the race which took place at Napa in 1864, which was mentioned in these columns last week, as he did not locate in Napa until four years later. We are very sorry to hear that Mr. Bement is still confined to his house, he having been seriously indis- posed for several months. We hope the spring weather will bring back his health and enable him to get out on the road with some of the descendants of his old champion 30-miler, General Taylor, several of which he still owns. Such men as Mr. Bement can ill be spared, as their example and counsel are guide posts which the younger generations can follow with profit to themselves and the community. BIG STAKES FOR FAST HORSES are offered by the Oregon State Fair this year. Two thousand dol- lars is offered for 2:15 class pacers and the same amount for 2:17 class trotters. There are many other good stakes for other classes. These close early. May 15th, and soon after a big program of addi- tional purses for trotters and pacers will be an- nounced. See the advertisement. STERLING R. HOLT, the enterprising owner of Maywood Farm, the home of Sidney Dillon, has just issued a new catalogue of his farm stock, including pedigrees, descriptions and pictures of the 25 head of Sidney Dillons he recently purchased and that are now at Pleasanton in charge of Millard Sanders. The new catalogue is very handsomely printed and is a credit to the compiler as well as the printer. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. Rosa, San Francisco. — The chestnut mare Alas by Herald, dam Alasco, by Alarm, is registered. She was foaled in 1897 and bred by E. D. McSweeney. I. F. Bekert. Petaluma. — The record of Marengo King- by McKinney. dam By By by Nutwood, is 2 and was made when he was three years old. Hi sold to Eastern parties and died, but worked a mile. in 2:13% after leaving California. The sire of Dan Patch 1:55% is Joe Patchen - S. E.. Hanford. — Colonel C. by Glenway made his of 2:133i at the Breeders' meeting at Petaluma August 29th, 1903. when he won the first heat of the $500 purse for pacers without records. Edwin S. won the next three heats and the raci (1. J. IT.. Rio Vista. — Lady Hoodoo, brown mare. 1892, is registered in Volume 15. A. T. R. She is by Prompter 2305, dam Vixen t>5 Privateer 8135, s id dam Grace, dam of Daedalion 2:"'<'j. etc., by r 2666, fourth dam Mary by Flaxtail 8132, Hfth 'lam by Bright Eyes, running bred. IT you have lost the registration papers you can get a certificate of registration by sending -"at cents to the American Trotting Register :;~,r. Dearborn street, Chicago. TRAIN YOUR TWO-YEAR-OLDS. There will be some good purses for two-year-old trotters and pacers in California this year, that will make it worth while for owners to train their colts and Allies of that age Through an advertisement in the Breeder and Sportsman. Mr. Graham E. Babcock has sold his stallion Strathway 2:19, sire of John Caldwell 2:08%. Toggles imeward 2:13% (sire of George G. 2:05%), and many other fast nn,-s. The purchaser is Mr. James C. Wallace of San Diego, who will place Strathway in the stud there at a fee of $40 for the season of 1906. Strathway is by Steinway out of Countess, the dam of Dawn 2:1 - Ham- bletonian. Strathway inherited sp< and dam and has proven himself sires of extreme speed in this Si ®he gveebev emit ^povisxnan [March 10, 1906 NOTES AND NEWS. || Last Monday James Thompson drove Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick's pacer by Waldstein a mile at the Pleas- anton track in 2:16%, the last half being in 1:05% and the last quarter in 30 seconds. This pacer will go Bast to race on the Grand Circuit. Floradora 2: 18 % by Sable Steinway is in foal to Kinney Lou and will be bred back to McKinney's champion yon. Mr. Ronan. owner of the Pleasanton track, is train- ing Birdman fur the races next Saturday and as he drove his horse a mile in 2:31 the other day. "the boys on the fence" are beginning to think he knows a little something about the training business, and may win that cup. Mr. Henry drove Ed Kell b> Educator a mile in 2:20 this w^ek at Pleasanton. the last quarter of the mile being in 32 seconds, a 2:08 gait. The management of the Dixon Driving Park will hold a race meeting over that excellent half-mile track on Tuesday and Wednesday, May 1st and 2d. There will be four events for colt trotters and pacers, be- sides, races for aged horses. The races for two- year-olds will be for $100, with entrance money added. The races for three-year-olds will be for the 2:30 classes, $100, with entrance money added for each event. Entrance money is $25, of which $5 is due March 10th, $5 April 2d and $15 April 21st. Rowland Moss, Dixon, is Secretary. The stallion Greco, by McKinney, dam Alien by Anteeo, second dam Lou Milton, the dam of Lou Dil- lon, is improving right along in Chas. De Ryder's hands. He worked a mile in 2:16 last Monday and trotted it like a race horse, coming the last quarter in 31% seconds as if he liked the sport. Some years ago a Buffalo street car company which owned 500 horses demonstrated the value of clipping in this way: They clipped 250 horses and kept a careful record of results. Of the undipped horses 153 were troubled with colds or pneumonia, while not one of the clipped horses suffered. Of the fifty-one mares bred to Kinney Lou in 1905, forty-three are known to be in foal. Of the remaining eight, five were bred after August 1st, and it cannot yet be positively determined how many of them will prove in foal, but as far as can be judged at this time they are all safe. This is a remarkable show- ing. Dr. H. N. Berthiaume of Providence, R. I, has lost by death his young McKinney stallion. Ruskin, that was bred at Santa Rosa Stock Farm and out of Russie Russell by Bay Rose. The doctor has an- other McKinney colt by McKinney, however, which he purchased here at the same time he bought Rus- kin. This one is four years old and is called Carakina, and i out of the great brood mare Biscari by Director. The Hollister Advance says: There is a little San Juan boy living near the foot of the Salinas grade, who will turn out a hustling financier. Recently he saw two large automobiles start up the grade on a rainy day. He hitched up a team and followed along. Very soon he came up with the two machines stuck fast in the mud and was asked for a tow. His price was $10 each, which was promptly paid. He is the sort of a Johnny-on-the-spot that will do. Geo. Helman, who has Mr. Minor's horse Morosco 2:12 at Pleasanton, has been stepping him along about a 'forty" gait lately and the gelding acts like a 2:10 trotter. His gait is better than it ever was, and the horse was never in such good shape. Last year when Morosco was sent East he had the misfortune to get in the same car with several afflicted with distem- per and contracted the disease. He was not right during the whole season. He should reduce his rec- ord this year if no accident happens him. Helman has been training Frederickburg 2:12% and has him in nice shape. He has also been breaking for Mr. Minor a few colts by Glendale, son of Wayland W. 2:12, that are good prospects. Monterey, Mexico, must be a red-hot sporting town. A race came off there one day last month in which the prize was a six-shooter and fifty car- tridges. Goshen Jim, 2:08%, is dead. He was one of the contestants in a race over the ice at Minneapolis last month, and just before the second heat was started fell dead in his stall. It was in 1900 that this son of Moses S. was campaigned for the first time by the well-known trainer James Thompson, now of Pleasanton. Goshen Jim was a big horse and had a world of natural speed. He came out in 1900 without a record, and raced through the California circuit. He was owned by Tim Judge of this city, and was bred on the Shippe farm, being by Moses S. 2:19. son of Hawthorne. Goshen Jim's dam was Brown Tempest, dam of Tempest, 2:19, by Chieftain 721, grandam Old Tempest, dam of John C. Shelley, 2:29%. by Morgan Rattler. The campaign of 1900 opened at Colusa July 28th. Goshen Jim was a starter and won his race in straight Dr. H. J. Ring of Ferndale, Cal., is the owner of a very handsome black fifilly by Bonnie Direct 2:05%, that is now two years old and is just being broken. She is gentle and level-headed, with any amount of natural speed and gameness. The doctor has named her Maid of California, her dam being California Maid by Waldstein. This filly, while showing much speed, will not be raced this year, but reserved for her three-year-old engagements next season. She is en- tered in the Breeders* $7000 futurity. Al McDonald of Pleasanton made a trip to Suisun last week, and says he was surprised to see so many enthusiastic trotting horse owners as Suisun con- tains. While there he was shown a four-year-old pacer owned by Mr. H. B. Muzzy of Bird's Landing that is just about the best looking and most promis- ing pacer he has seen for some time. Mannie Reams, who brought out the fast three-year-old Mannie R. in The horsemen at San Jose track do not seem to be very much worried over the notices to vacate sent them by L. E, Hanchett. They are nearly all of the opinion that San Jose's fine track will not be cut up into building lots this year nor next. Geo. Simpson of Walla Walla. Washington, recently sold ten head of Clydesdale horses, consisting of nine mares and a stallion for $3000. The purchaser was offered $4000 for the bunch a few days later, but de- clined the offer. The Yuba and Sutter Driving Club of Marysville is arranging to hold a meeting in April just after the close of the Colusa meeting. It is thought enough horses can be secured for a three or four days' pro- gram. That little pacing filly by Highland out of Reina del Diablo by Diablo that Ted Hayes has in his string at Pleasanton, like all fast females, is causing lots of talk. Last Monday Hayes drove her a quarter in 45 seconds with the last eighth in 22 seconds. For a foal of 1905 that "never had no chance" this little miss is about the speediest thing in the country. She is just beginning to pick up and get a little flesh on her bones, but her ribs are still in evidence and her form needs padding in several places. She has the frame for a high class one. however, and speed enough to bet on. After a month or two more of the care and feed she is getting she will look as well as she acts. GOSHEN JIM Guy Abbott is the name of a 19 months old colt by Searchlight 2:03% that is attracting much attention and admiration from Oakland horsemen. The colt is well bred, his dam being Melba by Gossiper 2:14%, second dam by Director 2:17, third dam by Nutwood 2:18%, fourth dam by Sam Purdy 2:20%. Guy Ab- bott was bred and Is owned by Andrews & Abbott and Is being trained by the senior member of the firm, Mr. G. Andrews. The great pacing mare Much Better 2:07% will be bred i his spring to the great trotting stallion Kinney Lou 2:07%. The produce will not only have a great speed inheritance, but will be most fashionably bred. The standard and registered mare Gracie S. by Waldstein, dam Sadie Moor by Grand Moor, was bred to Greco, son of McKinney, this week. Gracie S. is owned by Rev. W. L. Speers of Rocklin. heats. At Red Bluff the following week he again won first money in three heats, and at Chico a week later he repeated the same story. At Marysville he had a walkover on August 23rd, and at Woodland the next week won right off the reel, but when he reached Sacramento and started in the 2: 11 class against Kelly Briggs, Myrtha Whips, I Direct, Daedalion and several other fast ones, he got the flag the first heat. At Stockton, after dropping a heat to Georgie B., he won the next three heats and took a record of 2:10%, which was his fastest mile that year. He started ten times and won seven races in 1900. The following year Thompson took Goshen Jim east, but did not win a heat with him, and finally sold him at a good figure. In 1902 the horse was raced again, but only won one heat. In 1903 Goshen Jim was started in a cup race at the big fair at Hamline and astonished everybody by beating Angus Oh So, Prince Stevens and Red Strath in straight heats, pacing the second mile in 2:08%. He was a great pacer on the ice, and is said to have paced a half in 1:00% on that sort of going. 1904, has this pacer in charge. McDonald says the four-year-old is a beautiful dark brown horse, with a good sensible head, fine eye. a short back, muscular quarters and, in short, good all over. He is by De- monio, 2:11%, out of a mare by Gossiper, 2:14%, and will be raced this year. He worked miles close to 2:12 last year as a three-year-old." Byron Erkenbrecher of Los Angeles has sent his MlcKlnney mare Rita H , 2:11% pacing, 2:14% trotting. to the court of the champion pacer Star Pointer 1:59%. The mare arrived in PkasaiUon last week and has been bred. Walter J. Snyder, formerly secretary of the Detroit Driving Club, has been appointed racing secretary of the Michigan State Fair Association. G. W. Voor- hies has been appointed superintendent of the State Fair track, which is located in Detroit. G. A. WalilgiM n, secretary of the Denver-Overland Racing Club at Denver. Col., has selected June 16th to Jul.v 7th as the time for the race meeting to be civf-n tt Overland Park. The officers of the Denver- 1 Club are: President, E. A. Colburn; secre- ...d manager, G. A Wahlgreen. The intention e a number of stakes for special races. A or 2:24 trotters, and one of $1500 for 2:21 re likely to be the best, but others of $1000 will be scattered through the program. The Washington Birthday program of races, which was arranged by the San Bernardino Driving Club, but had to be postponed, has been rearranged and will be held this afternoon at the San Bernardino track. S. A. Elder and John R Daily of Missoula have purchased from the Bitter Root Stock Farm the trot- ting stallion King Amos by Prodigal. It is the in- tention of the new owners to breed King Amos to a lew good mares during the coming season, and later place him in training and make the Montana circuit with him. $125,000 in stakes and purses is worth training horses for. That is the amount which the Montana Fair and Racing Circuit of 1906 has hung up for trotters, pacers and runners to compete for, and a large portion of it will be in early closing stakes which are advertised in this issue to close Apri! 10th The first meeting on the Montana circuit will be at Butte, opening August 22d. There are three $1000 stakes for trotters and three for pacers, besides smaller purses. The Butte meeting will continue ten days. Then will come the Livingston meeting, four days, with two $1000 stakes: the Billings meeting, four days, with four stakes of $1000 each; the Boze- man meeting, five days, with two stakes of $1000, and four of $500, then Big Timber, whose stakes will be announced later, then Great Falls where four $1000 purses are offered; then the Montana State Fair at Helena, opening October 1st and continuing five days, with five stakes of $1000 ^ach, and then the meeting at Missoula will wind up this excellent circuit with four days of racing closing October 11th. during which there will be four stakes of $1000 each. Here are eight weeks of harness racing provided for with no less than twenty-seven stakes of $1000 each for trot- ters and pacers. All these races will be on the three heat plan. Each member of this enterprising circuit has a good track, plenty of stable accommodations and good hotels, and there is excellent shipping facil- ities and no long, expensive jumps. Five per cent entrance, and five per cent additional from first and second horses only. Read over the advertisement in this issue. March 10, 1906] <&toe gveeiiEV attb &p&ti&txtP6r. Rae Felt's f. by Edward B.. dam Lady F F Frymire's s. f. Minnie F. by Nearest, dam Lulu ^ErTestl Mammon's br. f. Clara C. by Bayswater WErSstd T ^mmon^s fflSS Geers by Bayswater TCWdG!?morrrs\bi.SSaBG. by Zombro. dam Wil- TimeKlTby Alta Vela, dam Mamie Wilkes^ L L. Greene's b. c. Alasandro by Bonnie Direct, dam Alix B. by Nutwood Wilkes. L. L. Greene's b. f. Carmela by Alta Vela, dam Grace ^Griffltlf & McConnell's bl. f. by Bonnie Direct, dam V^wrHSGrbayhaRm0'rsyb0'fMDooksie McMillan by Athablo. aaSrsLeLtiejbHEHaestings' bl. f. Lady H. by Coronado. dam Ladv Gossiper by Gossiper. F. Halm's bl. f. Gold Leaf by Chas. Derby, dam Nel- lie Emmoline by Leo. Corbett. J. W. Haile & Co.'s b. f. by Demonio, dam Olita by "Hradtraoor. J. W. Haile & Co.'s br. f. by Demonio, dam May Norris by Norris. E. P. Heald's bl. c. Tommy Murphy by Monterey, dam Honor by Fordstan. *Matt Harris" b. f. Dorothy Searchlight by Searchlight, dam Velma by Philosopher. J. B. Iverson's.bl. c. Iverno by Robin, dam Ivoneer by Eugeneer. J. B. Iverson's b. c. Baron Wilhelm by Barondale, dam Wilhelmina II by Eugeneer. J. A. Jones' bl. s. Chehalem by Capt. Jones, dam Daisy Q. Hill by Altamont. •Mrs. C. D, Jones' bl. f. Guywaldo by Guy McKinney, dam Waldo by Waldstein. T. F. Kiernan's s. c. Guywood by Pacheco Wilkes, dam Daisy Nutwood by Nutwood. *F. J. Kilpa trick's b. f. McKinney Belle by Wash- ington McKinney, dam Zora by Daly. *J. H. Kelly's br. f. by On Stanley, dam Sister C. by Conn. La Siesta Ranch's b. c. Mogolore by Iran Alto, dam Lady Belle Isle by Eros. M. L. Lusk's b. c. Zeloso by Zombro, dam Sallie Brooks by Doc Button. J. J. McMahon's b. f. Jubilee by Prince Nutwood, dam Lucy L. by Gen. McClellan Jr. J. W. Marshall's b. c. Aerolite by Searchlight, dam Trix by Nutwood Wilkes. W. Mastin's b. f. Dora by John A., dam Rosalin by Falrose. Jas. McGillivrav's b. f. Nora by Falrose, dam Nora S. by Sable Wilkes. D. S. Matthew's b. f. Valentine B. by Edward B.. dam Miss Ronie by Torix. W. W. Mendenhall's b. f. Maytime by Stam B., dam Elsie Downs by Boodle. W. J. Miller's br. f. Ellen M. by Guy McKinney, dam Kit by Dexter Prince. J. A. Milton's b. c. Bay Guy by Guy McKinney, dam Princess Alice by King Dent. M. A. Murphy's b. f. by Zombro. dam Nellie Bly by Woolsey. M. A. Murphy's b. f. by Zombro, dam Maid of Monte- rey bv Monterey. J. H. McKim's gr. c. Athol R. by Athablo, dam Edith R. by Milton R. *G. McCann's b. f. Emma A. by John A., dam Fidelity by Falrose. R. O. Newman's bl. c. Andy by Robert Direct, dam Dewdrop Easier by Robt. Basler. L. R. Palmer's foal by John R. Conway, dam Belle bv Alex. Button. E. T. Parker's b. f. Zolahka by Zolock, dam Nau- lahka by Nutford. Geo. H. Parker's br. c. Diedrich by Direct Heir, dam Maybreaker by Nutbreaker. F. W. Perkins' b. c. by Athamax. dam Garry Pattis by Pittick. •William Price's s. f. May Belle Dillon by Sidney Dillon, dam Palo Belle by Palo Alto. H. J. Ring's bl. f. Maid of California by Bonnie Di- rect, dam California ^Maid by Waldstein. John J. Sangster's* b. c. Directrome by Monoclnome, dam Jennie S. by Directum. E. E. Sherwood's b. c. Zom Woolsey by Zombro, dam Queen Woolsey by Woolsey. Thomas Smith's b. f. Marguerite Hunt by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Daisy S. by McDonald Chief. H. P. Smith's b. c. Monte Norfolk by Montesol, dam Bessie Norfolk by Duke of Norfolk. W. L. Spoor's br. f. by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Mabel McKinney by McKinney. G. E. Stickle's b. f. by Stam B., dam Vesper Filly by Silver Bow. G. E. Stickle's b. c. by Stickle, dam Cornelia by Cor- nelius. S. S. Stiles' b. c. Geo. H. Fox by Mokelumne. dam Belle Mac by Ensign's Golddust. Mrs. E. J. Schwart's b. c. Judge Nusbaumer by Mar- vin Wilkes, dam Lucy B. by Alex. Button. *J. J. Summerfield*s b. c. Lord Dillon by Sidney Dil- lon, dam Roblet by Robin. *S. Siljan's br. f. Martha H. by Iran Alto, dam Ida Belle by Dawn. L. H. Todhunter's b. c. by Zombro. dam The Silver Bell by Silver Bow. Frank S. Turner's ch. c. Dr. Wm. S. Jennings by F. S. Turner, dam Caritone by Antion. •Valencia Stock Farm's b. c. El Captain by Direct Heir, dam Rosedrop by Sidney. Jas. C. Wallace's bl. f. Hallie Hayes by Kewanna, dam Ophelia by Alfred. Geo. L. Warlow's b. c. Nogi by Athablo, dam Cora Wickersham by Junio. Geo. L. Warlow's b. f. Soisette by Guy McKinney, dam Narcola by Athadon. N. K. West's s. c. Morewealth by The Commonwealth, dam Union Made by Baymont. G. W. Wlhalon's bl. c. Billy Grissim by Prince Nut- wood, dam Delia W. by Carmichael's Prince. R. G. White's bl. c. General Nogi by Strathway, dam Snow Flake by Gen. Logan. C. H. William's bl. c. Oro W. by Del Oro, dam Royal Net by Royal Sid. T. D. Witherly's b. c. T. D. W. by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Abaca Callendine by Wilkesdale. S. B. Wright's s. f. Olive Dillon by Sidney Dillon, dam Maud Fowler by Anteeo. by Anteeo. S. B. Wright's b. f. Winifreda by Lynwood W.. dam Hattie Fowler by Robin. •J. H. Wagner's c. Don Gentry by John R. Gentry, dam The Donna Inez by Stranger. J. W. Zibbell's b. c. Teddy Mac by Tom Smith, dam Kate Lumry by Shadeland Onward. MATINEE AT SANTA ANA. A NEW AND NOVEL STAKE. A large crowd saw some excellent sport at the Santa Ana track, March 3d, when the Orange County Driving Club held its matinee. The judges were Messrs. Geo. Ford and A. J. "Wood, the starter was Mr. W. E. Baker, while Messrs. A. E. Waern and W. W. Walker acted as timers. The Orange County Driving Club is only two years old, but has already won its way into popular favor by its method of furnishing the lovers of "good horse flesh" clean sport. Betting is not tolerated at the track, and the meetings are all conduced in such a manner that the public gives its support and endorse- ment. The results of the day's races were as follows: The three-minute trot was won in straight heats by tables and won in straight heats In 2:28 and 2:26*4. In the 2:45 pace Mr. G. Moesser's Baldy was the winner. Best time, 2:33. The star attraction of the day was the 2:45 trot in which there were but two starter, but keen rivalry existed as Mr. Chandler's Flash has beaten Mr. Wag- ner's McKinney on two former occasions after close finishes. This time the McKinney horse turned the tables and won In straight heats In 2:28 and 2:26*. There were three heats in the 2:40 trot. Eli, owned by Mr. N. Nicholas, won two out of the three, how- ever, the last heat by a nose in 2:29%. the fastest heat of the race. The 2:30 pace went to Mr. McNeil's Prince in straight heats. Time, 2:27 and 2:26. It is the earning capacity of thoroughbreds which gives them the greater part of their value. It is not surprising that thoroughbred yearlings bring such good prices at auction when it is within the capacity of a two-year-old to win over $100,000 in one year in stake races. Trotting and pacing colts would have just as high a value had they the same opportunity to win such an amount. Every good stake offered for tro'.ting or pacing colts therefore deserves the patron- age of stallion owners and breeders, as the larger the earning capacity of colts the better prices they will bring, the higher stallion fees can be raised, and the more breeding will be done. One of the best of the new stakes for trotters and pacers that has been offered in recent years is the Stallion Representative Purse, which has been inaugurated by the Horse World of Buffalo. When Manager C. R. Bentley of that publication was on this coast a few weeks ago he outlined to us the features of this purse, the con- ditions of which the proprietors of the journal have since completed and published. The purse is for the foals of mares bred this year to nominated stal- lions, regardless of ownership. Stallions to be eligi- ble must be named on or before December 1st, this year. The nominating fees for stallions are graded: For those whose service fee is $35 or less the nomin- ating fee is $30: for those whose fee is $50 and not less than $40, it is $50; for those whose fee is $75 and not less than $60, it is $75, and for those whose fee is more than $75 the nominating fee is $100. All private stallions shall also pay $100, Every foal of 1907 from mares bred to these nominated stallions in 1906 will be considered as entered in this purse, and there wil not be one cent to pay on them until April 1, 1910, when they will be three years old. On that date a payment of $25 will be required from owners who wish to keep their foals eligible to the event, which amount shall in each instance be added to the original guarantee of $7500. No further pay- ments will be required until the day before the race, when $100 must be paid as a starting fee in the trot- ting division and $50 fee in the pacing division, which amounts are also added to the purse. The purse will be divided 80 per cent to trotters and 20 per cent to pacers. The money divisions will be 60 per cent to the winner, 25 per cent to second and 15 per cent to third. Both the trotting and pacing events will be for three-year-olds only. This purse has great possibilities. Every stallion owner should nominate his horse in it, as winning the race will be a great card for the sire of the win- ner. Should 500 stallions he nominated at an average fee of $40 each, the purse would reach $20,000 with- out any further addition, and the payments on three- year-olds with the starting fees would make it a richer stake event than the Kentucky futurity. "We hope that many of our California stallion owners will nominate their horses in this purse, as no bettei means of making a horse popular with breeders has been devised than this one of making all his colts eligible to a big purse without cost to the owner un- til the colt is three years old. RACES AT PLEASANTON NEXT SATURDAY. The horsemen at Pleasanton do not propose to al- low St. Patrick's day to pass without celebrating. They have been given the use of the famous track there by Mr. Ronan, the owner, and have arranged a program of three races which will be worth going to see as the horses are believed to be very evenly matched and there is no doubt but each and every one will be driven to win. Some of the horses are roadsters in use every day and others are green track horses on which much time and money has been spent. All may not have race horse speed, but their owners will not be convinced of this fact until after the races are over. Mr. Hansen, proprietor of the Pleasanton Hotel. will give a handsome silver cup to the owner of the horse that has the fastest average for two winning heats. Millard Sanders, who knows the racing game and appreciates the fact that it is a most difficult proposition to win races while keeping one's horses in the slow class will .give a silver cup for the horse that has the slowest average for two winning heats. The entries to the races are as follows: First race — ■ Fred Hellwig names Fred W. C. L. Griffith names Tom Sharkey Thomas Ronan names Blrdman J. C. Kirkpatrick names The Judge Joshua Chadbourne names Hattie C. Second race — A. Goulart names Hal Welcome Larkin Locke names Husker R. C. Peach names Roan Dick Sears Enos names Unknown G. A. Davis names Unknown Third race — M. V. Perry names John L. Fred Nagel names Ijnknown Lee Wells names- Major C. L. Crellin names Searchwarrant L. A. Colestock names Orlana The Great Falls. Mont., association has offered $1000 for 2:20 trotters, and $1000 for 2:14 pacers. The three-heat plan will be adopted for races on the Montana circuit this year. Statistics show that the baby trotters were un- usually plentiful during the season of 1905. seven two-year-olds entered the 2:30 list, ju? times as many such youngsters as earned a i 6 ®tt£ ^veebev anii gtpavt&man Maech 10, 1906 HOOF BEATS. There will be four brushes on the speedway in the park next Sunday between horses owned by rnem- [ the San Francisco Driving Club; Some splen- did sport is promised as the horses are all closely matched. The fun will begin at 1 o'clock. De Lance Truax of Alameda purchased a Flower City cart this week from the San Francisco Wheel and Novelty Company, which he will use in driving a full sister to Robert I, 2:0S% that he owns. Dr. F. H. Shanks of Susanville, Lassen county, has ordered a McMurray sulky built to order for him at the factory. Marion, O. The order was made through the Kenney Manufacturing Company, and will be up to date in every particular. Mr. J. M. Ferguson, of Santa Cruz, owner of Inferno, three-year-old race record 2:15, by Diablo, drove this pacer over to Aptos Farm one day last month, and saw Sandy Smith working the horses he is preparing for the sale to take place in San Francisco soon. Among those Sandy worked that day was a fine look- ing bay mare five years old by Cupid 2:18, own brother to Sidney Dillon, and out of Lilly S. by Speculation. This mare is a trotter and is a full sister to Venus 2d 2:11%. Mr. Ferguson accepted Sandy's invitation to work Inferno a mile with her. The track is a half mile oval and rather slow, but they made the mile in 2:31 with the last quarter in 35 seconds, a 2:20 gait. Mr. Ferguson thinks this mare is a good pros- pect for a 2:10 trotter, and says that Sandy has as fine a lot of good looking, good gaited horses as he ever saw. Charles De Ryder has in his stable for sale a seven- year-old stallion bred at Palo Alto by Mendocino, out of Princess by Nutwood. This horse has trotted a mile in 2:1S% with two months' work, and is offered for sale on account of the illness of his owner. Horse is city broke and well enough bred for a sire. Will be sold reasonably. Alta Vela, 2:1114. son of the great Electioneer, and one of the most perfect as well as one of the most beautifully gaited trotters that ever wore harness, will be in the stud this year at the Park Stable, Twenty-fourth avenue and Fulton street, this city, close to the Casino. Hans Frellson has him in charge and the horse is in fine condition. Nutwood Wilkes, 2:16%, sires money-getters. His son North Star, 2:13%, won more money than any horse on the Pacific Slope last year, being unbeaten, and winning the three richest trotting stakes given for three-year-olds. His daughter, Trix, producer Mona Wilkes, 2:11%. winner of the three-year-old pacing division of the Breeders' Futurity and his laughter. Miss Idaho, 2:09% won two seven-heat .■aces. Blood will tell. George Algeo of Alameda, who recently purchased •the Nutwood Wilks stallion T. C, 2:30, from Martin Carter, is showing him to numerous visitors at Ala- meda track and has already booked a number of mares. This young horse is one of the best bred ones ever produced on the Nutwood Stock Farm and is a fine individual and fast. His get. though not very numerous as yet, are all fine looking and very prom- ising. ' Louise Carter, a two-year-old filly by him, is not only one of the best trotting prospects but one of the most beautiful fillies soon on the Pleasanton track this year. George W. Berry, superintendent of Mr. A. B. Spreckels' Napa stock farm, was in the city this week and reports that up to March 1st twenty-one foals had been dropped this season at the farm, all strong lusty looking youngsters. While Mr. Berry's time is taken up with the thoroughbreds he still has a strong love for trotters, and took the occasion to run over to Pleasanton last Wednesday. He saw Millard Sanders drive S. Christenson's two-year-old colt C. F. Kapp a full mile in 2:37%, w'ith the last quarter in 36 seconds, and says there is a young stake winner if he ever saw one. He also held his watch on Mart Rollins' bay gelding. Charley Belden, by Lynwood W., while Joe Cuicello stepped him through the stretch in 30% seconds, and then repeated the performance in the same notch. A sweeter-gaited trotter George says he never saw. When Dan Misner was at San Bernardino last fall he traded for Mr. Horace Orear of this city the lat- ter's handsome black mare Mayola for a three-year- old gelding by Zolock 2:05%; whose dam is by Ray- mon 12007, second dam a full sister to Valentine 2:22, by Kentucky Clay Jr., third dam Queen, a mare brought to this state from Iowa, whose pedigree is not known. The Zolock gelding is a large, open gaited fellow that gives every prospect of being a fast trotter. Misner has him at Pleasanton and will put him in shape for Mr. Orear to drive on the road. A pouring rainstorm spoiled the Livermore Horse Show, last Saturday, and kept several hundred people at home who would have otherwise attended. About fifty horses that were on the ground the day before w-ere shown, but more than twice that number that had been entered were not on hand. The Livermore association is entitled to better luck next time. place. Count Hannibal is coal black, with a beautiful glossy coat, stands 16 hands and weighs 1100 pounds. He is sound in every particular and has the best of legs and feet. His dam is by Secretary, son of Direc- tor, second dam by_Alcona Clay 2756, third dam Flora Belle by Alcona 730. fourth dam Fontana, dam Qf 3, including Silas Skinner 2:17, sire of Ole 2:10%. Through his sire, MeKinney, he traces twice to Hambletonian 10 and twice to Mambrino Chief, while through his dam he traces six times to Hambletonian 10 and six times to Mambrino Chief. His third dam, Flora Belle, was a good race mare in her day, and his fourth dam, Fontana, dam of that great horse, Silas Skinner and two others, was one of the best mares ever imported to California' from Kentucky. His fifth dam was by that wonderful sire, Abdallah 15, and she was also a producer, being the dam of Bay Chieftain 2:2S%. Count Hannibal thus has five standard bred dams, rather unusual at the present day, and back of that his dams are strictly through- bred for sixteen generations. Count Hannibal should become a great sire of speed. He sired a few colts at three years old, which are now yearlings. They are all exceedingly promis- ing, both as to speed and good looks. Their owners have entered them in the colt stakes and intend to train them. He is yet untrained but shows great bursts of speed. It is confidently believed he can now show a 2:20 gait. His season in the stud will end on June 1st as it is intended- by his owners to train and race him this year. NEW ENTERPRISE IN YOLO COUNTY. Iran AJto, 2:12%, is, we believe, the only son of Senator Stanford's great horse Palo Alto, 2:08%, that is standing for service in California. Iran Alto has been a great race horse himself. His sire was one of the greatest ever produced at the Palo Alto farm, and his dam was a champion in her day. Besides all this, Iran Alto is a producer of early and extreme speed. H. S. Hogoboom has this horse at Woodland, and he should be patronized. John O'Keefe of this city will drive his pacing mare Centereye an exhibition mile at Pleasanton next Sat- urday during the matinee races, in an effort to beat 2:10. Siva 4, 2:13%, the beautiful daughter of Guy Wilkes 2:15%, and the first four-year-old trotter to win the $10,000 M. & M., foaled on February 18 a fine bay stallion, with star and both hind feet white, by Parole 2:16. Much should rightfully he expected from this blue-blooded young aristocrat. Siva will again be bred to Parole. Wayland W. 2:12% will be at Petaluma every Tues- day and Wednesday during the season of 1906. The sire of Bolivar 2:06%, etc., is in fine condition. COUNT HANNIBAL. One of the grandest individuals ever sired in this state by MeKinney is Count Hannibal, whose like- ness is on the title page of the Breeder and Sports- man this week. This horse was bred by Prof. E. P. Heald, president of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, and is still owned by him in partnership with Mr. L. Leadbetter of Napa, who will manage the horse during the coming season at that By referring to the advertisement in another col- umn, a reproduction of a picture of a very fine Hack- ney stallion, called Manchester, will be seen. Some idea of the conformation and style of this horse can be formed from the picture, although he is a heavier animal than the photograph would lead one to imagine, as he weighs 1300 pounds and stands fifteen hands and two inches in height. Manchester heads the Woodland Hackney stud of Messrs. DePue & Sprague, whose farm is at Woodland, Tolo county. He was twice a blue ribbon winner at the New York Horse Show, and horsemen who have looked him over say that he is a very fine model of a coach horse sire. The breeding of carriage and coach horses is attracting more attention in this country at the pres- ent time than at any previous period, the United States Government even being interested to the extent of aiding in establishing an American breed of car- riage horses. Many of the most successful breeders have secured good results by mating trotting bred mares to Hackney stallions and Messrs. DePue & Sprague are pursuing this course. They have secured as manager of their stud Mr. A. H. Brinton, a man who is thoroughly acquainted with the breeding as well as the education and management of carriage horses. Mr. Brinton states that Manchester bears a strong resemblance to and comes nearer being the type of the sensational Hackney horse Forest King than any horse he has ever seen. Forest King, it will be remembered, took the champion ribbon at the recent National Horse Show in New York and is considered the best Hackney ever imported to this country. Owners of mares of the carriage or coach type should patronize Manchester, and as the fee asked is very low — $25 — the experiment can be tried with small expense. Woodland Hackney Stud has carriage pairs, saddle horses and gig horses for sale and invites cor- respondence. Address A. H. Brinton, manager, Wood- land. It is a pretty good test of the popularity of a stal- lion when his get sell readily. Woodland Stock Farm has sold a number of the get of Nushagak this year at good prices at private sale. They -were all two- year-olds, and buyers are content to wait until they mature. Nushagak gets fine-bodied colts that have Ciod legs and feet. He has sired a big money-winner and magnificent trotter in Aristo, 2:08%. The owners of Monterey colts and fillies are all highly pleased with them, as they show speed in nearly every instance. P J. Williams owner of the fastest son of the great Sidney, has the horse in the stud in Alameda county, and breeders should not overlook this fact. Monterey has sired a four-year- old 2:10 performer, and is producing speed from all classes of mares. Wllleroo 28021, the son of MeKinney, formerly owned by Mr. Frank Burke of this city, is now in the stud at Hamlet, Ind.. where he is owned by J. F. Fancher, who purchased him from Mr. Burke last lall. In casting about for a high-class stallion, breeders should remember that Zolock. 2:05%. the fastest en- tire son of MeKinney. is in the stud at Pleasanton. Zolock is sure to lower his record if he is raced. Last year he suffered from three quarter-cracks, which every horseman who saw them said would stop most any horse, but Zolock paced his fastest miles when they were very bad and never flinched. He is game as they make them and is already a great sire. San Franciscans who have mares they would like to breed to a good stallion this year, but do not want to send them away from the city, have the oppor- tunity to mate them with I Direct 11 : 1 :; > i . one of the best bred horses in California, as well as one of the fastest Dan Leiginger of SOI Devlsadero street has him In charge, and will be pleased to show him at any time. HEDON SQUIHE A Hackoey Coaeh Type Makch 10, 1906] 3£ft# ^veeiiev tmb gkpcvxsxnan || THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. || j|S3 By RALPH H. TOZEB, ffl The decision -of the Ascot Park stewards in the cases of Durnell, J. J. McCafferty and J. W. Brooks will not do the turf any good. Either Durnell or McCafferty were guilty or not guilty of the charges preferred against them, and in the case of the latter there is no middle ground. The law Is explicit in the matter, and says that anyone found guilty of administering drugs to a horse to stimulate it in a race is ruled off the turf (not may be). According to the testimony of three veterinaians of good repu- tation, the clever jockey-trainer had "doped" The Huguenot good and plenty. Durnell's crime was even more serious than McCafferty's, in the minds of most persons. He had run Alderman Batt in heavy train- ing shoes one day, when he was beaten away off, and when he won, a very short time later, and against pretty much the same horses, the flyer wore racing plates. If a worse case of fraud or "Biblical running" than this can be found I would like to hear of it. Durnell ought to have been ruled off for life, as well as McCafferty, and a fair board of stewards sliuM see no other course open to them. The and year's suspension meted out is farcical.' The sum spoken of is perhaps but a tithe of the amount won through the fraud practiced upon the public, and probably the strings of horses will be turned over to some friend and trained upon the plans of Messrs. Durnell and McCafferty, working no hardships what- ever upon these turf buccaneers, who will in all likeli- hood be at their old trade again when their term is up with new schemes to fill their own pockets at the expense of the fair name of racing. Great good would have resulted if these men had been ruled off for life and kept off all race tracks, and the Ascot Park track would be talked of as a place where justice was dealt out, no matter how high or mighty were the offenders. It appears that McCafferty owed George Rose a large sum of money, and not desiring to lose it, it would not have caused much of a stir if the Texas turfman had been exonerated and his horses allowed to. earn the coin for the obliging pen- ciler who owns a large slice of Ascot stock and con- trols another large slice. Another thing that is hurt- ing the Ascot track is the knowledge possessed by the general public that bookmakers control this course and dictate the policy of the management, or at least try tQ, A manager should not be hampered as Manager Brooks is, and should be given power to manage the institution, not told that he can do this, but he mustn't do that. The charges against Brooks made by Boots, Van Meter et al., of the horsemen's association, were passed over by the Board of Stew- ards as in the main untrue, but a few little things he did were deplored. I suppose one of the things was the cashing of a check so that a turfman could claim a certain horse. I want to say right here that I do not consider that Brooks did anything wrong if he did cash this check. Horses are there to be run up or claimed, and to my mind it is no person's busi- ness where the money is secured that buys the horse by the claiming route or the run-up route either. It is my belief that horsemen should change their Ideas anent the selling race business and adopt the English idea — that it is a compliment and not a slap when a man runs up or claims your horse. These races are made for selling platers, and when a person enters a handicap of stake horse in a selling race for about a fourth of its value, and is run-up to something like the right price, he should not squeal "Spite!" but should come to a realization that there are some wise and courageous men in the game that know their business. There must be a decided change at Ascot if the racing is not to be made suffer, It must be seen too that the bookmakers lose control, that the manager is all that the name implies, and that they have a Board of Stewards with no judges upon it or to sway it in any manner. The judges may be lynx-eyed, but they should not be judge and juror, as in the past. It is un-American; unfair and against the constitution of the country. "With a rectification along the lines spoken of above confidence in "the game" may be restored, but it will go to the demnition bowwows with different cliques doing the tug-of-war act with the manager and with stewards who will not hew to the line. * * * Several high-class performers have come up from Ascot recently, the list including the Bannockburn- Miss Lynch colt, Horace E. (pronpunced by experts to to be the best two-year-old on the Coast), Ray Egan and Native Son (the two good Stover colts), and Lu- cian (a winner last Tuesday). .* * * Leslie Coggins sold his good three-year-old Abe Meyer this week, and is now out of "the game," as far as ownership is concerned, * * * Prince Brutus defeated a good field of sprinters at City Park, New Orleans, last Tuesday, and old Bon Mot, a former winner of the Los Angeles Derby In the colors of "Doc" Rowell, won a fast mile race. This ancient galloper seems to have secured his second wind, and is running some nice races these days. * • • It is understood that Dick Dwyer will do the start- ing at Seattle this season, and with a doing away with the syndicate ring that has been the curse of racing at new places, the metropolis of the Northwest should have far and away the best meeting in Its history. » • • W. D. Randall's most excellent Salvator stallion, Salvation, sire of ChantiHy, Preservator, Shellmount and other good winners, will make the season at C. W. Clark's place, San Mateo, at $50, with return privi- leges, and at this figure he should be well patronized. • * • Frankfort, Ky., March 6.— The Kentucky Senate to- day adopted the Chinn bill for the creation of a State racing commission to control the running rac- ing tracks of the State. Frankfort, Ky., March 6.— Representative Simmons to-day reported that all copies of his bill to suppress poolrooms have been stolen from the records of the State Senate. Investigation will be made. SOME EARLY RACE TRACKS. R. M. Laycock writes as follows- regarding some of the early race tracks and racing in this country, which will be read with interest: , Race street (then called Sassafras) was once a race course where Philadelphia horses were speeded, and later, when the population of the city became greater, a two-mile track was laid out in the tract of land now bounded by Race, Eighth and Spruce streets and the Schuylkill river. It was a circular course, and wound about among the trees. Pacers were the race horses of those days, trotters being considered horses of base breed. To saddle or bare- back was the racing rig, for there were no vehicles that were not so heavy as to constitute a great handi- cap to the horse pulling it. ''^Vvatson's Annals, volume 1, page 277, under the liTe of "Sports and Pastimes," says horse racing started at a very early date and brought with it the usual ''"evils" hard to control, evidently meaning gam- bling and drinking. Continuing, Watson says: They were at an early date performed out on the street, so popularly called because of it being a street lead- ing to the race grounds, cleared for the purpose through the forest trees." In 1726 the grand jury presented: "That since the city has become so very populous, the usual custom of horse racing at fairs in the Sassafras (Race) street is very dangerous to life; it is an evil to erect the booths in that street and sell all sorts of liquors." Thomas Matlack says in his recollections: "In the early days the woods were in commons, having a circular course ranging through the trees. All genteel horses were pacers; a trotting horse was deemed a base breed. All the Race-street races were mostly pacing races, to saddle or bareback." In 1761 the first public advertisement of a race at Governor's Woods was published. The racing con- tinued up to the year 1775, but after the war such races were made unlawful. Porter's Spirit of the Times, dated December 20. 1856, says: "The first time ever a horse trotted in 'public' for a stake was in 1S18, at Baltimore, and. that was a match against time for $1000, in which Boston Blue trotted against time (three minutes) and won cleverly." ■ Old Hunting Park was probably the first inclosed race course in Philadelphia, but writers differ as to the. date of its building. Coates' "History of the American Trotting and Pacing Horse" is authority for the statement that Hunting Park was established in 1S2S. Wallace in his researches gives an account of a race on May 15. 1828, when Screwdriver went to the saddle three miles in 8:02. and on May 21, 1828. Ephriam Smooth beat Topgallant in a three- mile race, to saddle, in 8:02, over the course This would indicate that the course was built the year previous, or in 1827 James B Welsh of Roxborough (still living) states that when a boy of twelve years (1822) he lived in the locality of the track, which was then called "Allen's Race Course." after the proprietor of the hotel at the track, Samuel Allen He states that most of the races at that period were to saddle, and he still has a vivid recollection of the old-time races, when such performers as Topgallant. Charlotte Tem- ple, Columbus, Sally Miller and Mount Holly were the stars.. He is of the opinion that the first mile to harness, trotting, was made over the course by Sally Miller on November 21, 1834. This mile is on record in Chester's Records. In the American Turf, which gives an account of racing in the United States, it is stated that Columbus on his second voyage brought several horses for breeding purposes. The early settlers of the American colonies in 1610 brought several horses. The early statutes of all the New England colonies imposed penalties on horse racing in 1778. But the Narra- gansett pacer became a distinct breed early in colonial times. In 1S01 an advertisement appeared in the Columbian Sentinel and Massachusetts Federal an- nouncing a race at the park of Joel Herrman, one and one-half miles north of Haverhill bridge. The first regular running race meeting of which ac- count was kept was in New England, and occurred In 1665, when Governor Richard Nicolls inaugurated a race course at Hempstead Plains, L. I. Among the first tracks built in the United States was the one at Harlem, N. Y. Lt was there that Yankee trotted to saddle in 2:69%, August 21, 1806, it being the first time on record that a- horse beat three minutes. It Is also recorded by an unknown turf writer that Boston Blue, In 1810, trotted three miles under saddle at Baltimore. This conflicts with Porter's Spirit of the Times, which places the performance of Boston Blue In 1818 at Philadelphia. Hunting Park, Philadelphia, and Centervllle, L. t., appear to have been the next tracks built. At Cen- treville on September 7, 1829, in a two-mile heat, Bowery Boy is credited with going the distance undev saddle In 5:04%, and in October of the same year the pacer Stranger paced to saddle two miles in 5:10. At Hunting Park, Ocotber 14. 1829, St. Peter trotted four miles to harness In 11:23, and on October 18, 1829, Whalebone trotted under saddle In 11:17. ami the same day Topgallant reduced the record to 11:04. Baltimore is credited with having a race course as early as 1S30; Charleston. S. C, in 1S37. Union Course, L. I., had races in 1S33. Beacon Course. N. J , was probably in existence prior to 1839. There was a race track at New Orleans in 1S41; at St. Louis in 1853. and at San Francisco in 1854. On July 2, 1839, Aaron Burr trotted to wagon over CentreviUe Course, beating Columbus in 2.44 }2. Dread', under saddle, went a mile at Hunting Park in 2:51 on October 21, 1831, and Topgallant is credited with a mile in 2:43% to saddle at Jamaica L. I., in 1821. JAPAN EUYING HORSES IN AUSTRALIA. The Sydney Stock and Station Journal says that Mr Masuda, a Japane&e horse buyer, has been in Australia several months buying horses, and his movements have been so rapid as to be almost un- traceable. He made points 10 miles off the railroad, in the wilds of North Queensland in twenty-four hours, buying horses for army and breeding purposes. One day he is inspecting horses in Victoria; soon after he is seen in Queensland buying horses from Bergl, Australia. Then in a day or two he is back again in Sydney where he had his headquarters for the general superintendence of affairs The animals he secured were shipped to the Far East, lot after lot, in a dozen steamers, until they reached the num- ber of 10.139 They consisted of 104 stallions, 200 superior hacks (apparently for the use of officers). 3337 remounts and 6498 gunners. The comparative ratio of horses and mares being 56.44. Judging from the manner in which he ^bought this live stock, it seems to have been his intention to get a great num- ber of mares to utilize for breeding purposes after the termination of the war, but to avoid any objec- tion on the part of the public, regarding the exporta- tion of mares, he started by taking about 20 per cent mares and SO per cent geldings, and gradually in- creased the percentage of mares until at last he took only mares. Just as he expected, public opinion was aroused against the exportation of breeding stock. But by that time, he had already got what he wanted, and then started to buy stallions. The stallions he pur- chased consisted of eighty-three thoroughbred, eight half-bred, and thirteen Clydesdales, and the choice he made in securing these stallions was governed by consideration of the classes and qualities of mares he had previously obtained. In selecting stallions he made two distinct divisions, viz : Stallions for the breeding of utility horses, and stallions to mate with superior mares to breed horses suitable for stud pur- poses. In examining horses the Japanese buyer fol- lowed an admirable principle. As to remounts and gunner's horses, a defect of any description, even the slightest, insured rejection; but in securing stal- lions, the chief feature sought was the animal's suit- ability for breeding purposes, and defect of an un- hereditary nature were freely passed. COMING BACK TO RACE. For the first time in the history of trotters four American-bred horses arrived back in this country after being taken to Europe, writes- Palmer Clark. D. J. Raybould, the Toledo trainer, who went abroad some time ago in charge of a number of trotters and pacers, returned with Katherine A., 2:11%; Evelyn W., Sandalwood, and another. The first named will be raced in this country next season, while the rest are to be sold. The daughter of Wiggins was considered a good racing proposi- tion during the training season of 1904, out she proved rather a disappointment. During the grand circuit "meetings at Empire City and Brighton Beach that year she was pitted against Sweet Marie and Aristo. and the best she did was to come in a close second at the latter track, when the other two trotted a dead heat in 2:08%, a world's record. It was reported that Mr. Raybould would take the place of Eddie Mitchell in the stable of Louis Winans of London as trainer and driver, but it is now an- nounced that George H. Ketcham, the former owner of Cresceus 2:02%, will drive Mr. Winan's horses the coming season, and the theatrical horseman will be seen in the sulky quite extensively on the Continent. Gonzales Tribune: A San Francisco horse buyer has been here several days this week buying draft horses for the city. Although he has been offering the highest prices paid for many years, the farmers do not, as a rule, care to sell, for they will need them all to harvest the expected big crop. Almaden, 2:22%, will make the season of 1906 at Whisky Hill, in charge of M. L. Lusk. The address of Mr. Lusk will be 631 K street, Sacramento. FAIR DATES CLAIMED. At the meeting of the North Pacific Fair Associa- tion held last week at Portland the following dates were agreed upon: Seattle Sept. 3 to 8 Salem Sept. 10 to 15 North Yakima Sept. 17 to 22 Spokafce Sept. 24 to 29 Walla Walla Oct. 1 to 6 Lewiston Oct. 8 to 13 Everett was given the privilege to select such dates as they may decide on. MORGAN", CHARLES, alias Jack Henderson, pins of Sydney, Australia, please write Frank Taverna, 88 I Street, Sydney, Australia. ®He gfc&frer emir *&p0vt#man [Makch 10, 1906 TALK ON THE AMERICAN COACH HORSE. At the recent convention of the livestock breeders want to run little errands, you can drive them, and in that way you are developing them; and if they show any unusual action or speed or style, there ACTION AND HOW TO BREED IT. It is pretty well understood at this stage of the held at Columbia, Mo., Norman J. Colman, editor of is always some sharp man who keeps his eye on them horse-breeding business that action of the sensaf i Colman's Rural World, spoke on horse breeding, the following being a portion of his remarks: ""The United States Government has established a breeding farm in Colorado, for the breeding of the American trotting-bred coach horse; a horse to be sixteen hands high, of good style, of good color, of good size, of god breeding, and after a commission was appointed to endeavor to secure the highest type of such a horse, a horse that could be useful for all purposes, and particularly for a coach and a road, park and carriage and farm horse, and after ad- vertising for a typical coach stallion and receiving letters from all sections of the country, saying the writers had just such a stallion, and after a thor- ough examination the commission finally selected a horse that was raised upon Missouri pastures, fed upon Missouri corn and oats and hay. and drank Missouri water. That horse was a Missouri -bred horse, and I had the honor of breeding it. (Applause.) "Now. then, what sort of horse fills the bill best for the average Missouri farmer? What sort of a horse should be bred to be most useful to the farmer? What type of horse Is in greatest demand? Will bring the highest price in market? That is the ques- tion that you want to consider. If the farmer Is going to erect a building, he is careful beforehand to study the size that he wants, the style he wants, the purpose for which he wants it. He has that all in mind. He would not think of going on in a helter- skelter way to put the building together. I want to know, when you come to breed a horse, if you should not have the type of horse in your mind that you want to breed; you should know something about the size you want, the color you want, the action that you want, the temperament you want, the purposes and will pay good prices for them and men like tiTlrt „„_ Kq *,.„„„_-.«.* j , J? ~ . * , i Kina can be transmitted from ancestors anrf then good horses. Our fairs are not successful unless we _ "*" ^^^^rs ana then have the attraction of races. Man was created to carrift(l on to perfection as a horse reaches maturity, admire, next to a beautiful woman, a beautiful horse. or a close imitation of it can be acquired after care- Kentucky is noted for its beautiful women and mag- ful training by horses that were bred from stock nificent horses, and you will never find a Kentuckian used for an entirely different purpose, says an ex- whose admiration doesn't turn in that direction, and change. It has been so difficult for people in ordinary people from other States are much Jike Kentuckians circumstances to obtain, at reasonable prices, horses in that respect. that Possess the heredity action that many breeders "In raising horses, it is just like raising any other and dealers have set about the education of stallions kind of stock; the young stock especially should have and "stags" in the hope of catching an appreciative good care and good treatment; they should be housed in the winter, especially over night; they should have good feed. I have found no forage that produces so much growth in the young animal as alfalfa hay; it is an indispensable thing to have on every farm. "I might talk to you a great deal more about rais- ing horses and raising colts, about breeding them. The great law is. as I have stated, that like produces like, or the likeness of some ancestor. There is a great deal in that 'some ancestor.* That is why pedigree is essential. Sometimes an animal will be produced like an ancestor which existed four, five, six or even ten generations back. I have known of horses that have been marked like their ancestor six generations off, even to glass eyes, when none of their progeny had been marked in this way before. This law of breeding is a most mysterious law — hence, you want pedigree. You want to know the history of the generations preceding the animal which you market. That they have been more or less successful is now a matter of history; in fact some of the most phe- nomenal prices have been obtained for horses taught to act high within a few weeks or months after their selection as likely pupils. On the other hand not a few breeders who have tried to produce high-step- ping horses by mating coaching stallions with any old mare have found to their cost that the system is a failure. Further, it has been proved time and time again that it will not do to select as a sire a stallion that can only act high in front, and it is a, waste of time to mate mares with him that only possess similar action or no action at all. Too little attention has been paid to hind action. Many breeders do not seem able to see that a stallion or mare moves poorly behind so long as the knees flash up and down sen- sationally. When they- do realize it they resort to all sorts of dodges to improve it, and generally end breed from. . You want to be very careful. If you are going to marry, you are careful. You study the °y persuading themselves that nobody else will ever history of the family with which you are going to notice the defect, and that the sire will rectify what unite. You want to know whether the men have is wrong. been of good character, and whether the women have Action largely depends upon that of the stallion, of for which you can use it, and after determining in been of good character; whether there has been any course, but unless a mare has it to some degree It your own mind what you want, then go to work and weakness in the family. Another thing that we ]s ridiculous to suppose that the male can transmit breed it. don't pay enough attention to, and that is, we want lt all. That the sire will transmit most of his de- "What sort of a horse is that? I think that nine good mothers. good dams, of all kinds of stock. You fects, however, is thoroughly understood by practical farmers out of ten would say, 'for my purposes— to have never seen a great man that did not have a good breeders of long experience. If he paddles or "dishes" mother, a mother of ability, in some lines, either with his hind feet, spreads his hind legs, goes in a natural or acquired; and these young men who have stilted manner, etc., the chances are that his colts not married should bear in mind that if they want will do the same. their children to be an honor to them, they want to Everything that causes the sire pain and trouble marry women with good minds and good morals and in action will surely "come through," as the saying good ancestors and good physical development, goes. Action is the result of nervous tension and Everything depends upon a good mother — every farmer knows that. I know it from the breeding of horses for the past forty years." go to church, to ride to the village postoffi.ee, to drivt in the buggy, in the cart, before the carriage, any- where and everywhere, the horse that I want to work upon the farm, must be intelligent, of good color, good action, proper spirit, about sixteen hands high and weighing about 1200 pounds.' That is the horse that the Government has decided to breed. That is the horse that can be used upon the farm in any way that you think proper — in plowing, in harrowing, in cultivating, in hauling, under the saddle, he is just the horse that you want; but how- few of us think of breeding just such a horse! We will be satisfied with some nondescript that has no action, no pedigree, no breeding; one not registered; and the farmer who lives nearest will patronize that horse when perhaps a few miles farther there is a horse duly registered, of good size and action and good style; one that is a pleasure to drive, to breed, a pleasure to handle. The farmer will neglect the latter because it costs a little more to breed to him. That sort of work, here in Missouri, ought to be RACING WITHOUT BETTING. Mr. J. M. Johnson, the new president of the New England Trotting Horse Breeders' Association is, ac- cording to the Boston American, firmly of the opinion that light-harness horse racing can be made popular w-ithout betting. His views, according to the Ameri- only shows its most pronounced form in colts high strung and nervously constituted. A lunk moves in- variably like a poor plow horse, and no amount of training or trouble with patent appliances will im- prove his gait. In selecting a sire to get high-acting colts, the breeder should note his action all around, from the side and from front and rear views. He must not only move high, but with precision, giving the one, two, three, four rhythm; and most important of all! he must go straight on every leg. not paddling in or dishing outwardly. His hocks must be lifted with can, are: He shows that in the States of Maine, Vermont snap, his fetlocks must flex sharply and he must put and portions of New York and Canada, crowds flock one hind foot well under his body so as to sustain to the tracks to see the races with never a thought nis weteht while his front legs have time to snap abandoned. If I can establish and root in your minds of there being any betting on the results, as there UP and out, so that his front feet go to the ground the necessity of forming an idea of what horse you want, and if I can likewise establish in your minds the idea that the great law of breeding, that like produces like, or the likeness of some ancestor, you will be more careful as to what you breed — as to what stallion you patronize, because like does pro- duce like. 1 The farmer is well situated for breeding the trotting horse. I think it is the best class of horse to work, and I work two teams continually of stand- ard-bred rotting horses on my farm for all kinds of work, and although not quite as large as I have been describing, yet I have found them very suitable for all kinds of work on the farm. I say the farmer is well situated for raising the standard-bred trot- ting horse, and he can raise his colts at such a sea- son of the year as to scarcely feel their cost. Some will say, T don't want to breed my mares in the spring, because I have my farm crops to take care of.' If you have no more mares than are necessary to do your work, perhaps it is necessary to breed them later. Some of the best horses I have ever raised have been born in the fall; they run with the dam during the winter, when there is not much work to be done, and are then turned out and weaned In the spring. They have the green herbage to feed upon and are no trouble to wean. I think every farmer should keep a half dozen mares, because if you raise the right quality of horses there is always a demand for them. It costs no more to raise them than it does to raise steers, and they will bring double, treble and sometimes quadruple the price if of the right quality. I have eighty head now on my farm. Horses are no more trouble to raise than so many sheep, if you have pasturage for them. It is true I have a never-falling stream of water running through the center of my farm, so that I am not compelled to water them; and I want to tell you that a good sream of water fed by springs that run con- tinually during the year Is a most valuable feature on a farm. Every stock breeder knows that — he does not have to depend on windmils or gasoline engines, or anything else. The price of standard- bred horses is very satisfactory always, if they are of proper quality. How many of them, even those raised by farmers, have brought several thousand dollars each? If a farmer has been able to raise Mie of these he has got a mortgage-lifter, or a good :um of money to deposit In the bank. I don't want • o tfo Into it for gambling purposes (and most of ■ iem do not). You can use the colta on the farm when they are about two or three years old; If you is none. All of this is in country sections where there is not the population to draw from, as has the tracks in the vicinity of Boston, and the managers of the tracks are satisfied to average five starters to a class, while here the fields run from five in the fast classes to a dozen and fifteen in the slower events. The one great reason why the public keep away from the races whenever pool selling has been stopped can be laid to the horsemen themselves, as in their gneral talk they have led the public to believe that without speculation the racing can be of no account. This is proven by a poor play coming to a theater. In no time the news gets all over the city, with the result that there is no attendance, but a good show cimes the week following, and the house is packed every evening. When the public finds that the racing Is just as good, the finishes equally as clcss, the drivers trying as hard to win, when there is no pool selling as when there is, then will the grandstands be filled. Mr. Johnson correctly gives the facts when he says that not 1 per cent of those who attend the races at Readville ever buy a pool on the result of a race nor even go down under the grandstand where they are sold. Thousands attended the bicycle races at Charles River Park a few years ago, and there was no op- portunity to buy pools, or bookmakers there to take money on the events. They went to enjoy the sport. It is not betting that causes the crowds to go to base- hall games, nor to see college football played. Last season at Readville there was no pool selling. In the Massachusetts stake Sadie Mac was made to trot in the fastest time ever made by a flve-year-old, 2:06%. Then, too, the three-year-old event was the best ever seen so early In the racing season as the month of August. Twelve started, and the winner, Katherlne L.. was obliged to trot In 2:12% to barely win over a half dozen which finished right at her saddle each heat. Get the best horses to be had in the country; judges who will make the best horse win, and race right to rule; have hotly contested racing; advertise the attractions to be seen, and there Is no doubt the public will know a good thing when they see It and patronize the tracks. Jay Bird, twenty-eight years old, has just been announced once more as a public stallion at Maple- hurst Farm, near Paris, Ky. 'This Is his twenty-fifth consecutive season In the stud. lightly as though he was on springs. Pounding with the front feet will not do; neither will the straight up-and-down pumping of the knees and the consequent short movements of the shoulders. He must literally tread on air and bounce as would a rubber ball, so to speak, and he must do it all as if he liked it, not because he is forced to do it. The entrancing aspect of a high-acting stallion as he looks about him while at the top of his gait can not well be described on paper, t must be seen to be thoroughly comprehended. The action of a mature stallion shown to halter, just as he is starting off on a trot, will show plainly what is means by elas- ticity and aspect. While the first cross of a high-acting stallion with a low-acting mare Is somewhat unsatisfactory as a rule, in some cases the back breeding of the mare has helped her to produce to such a cross a fairly presentable offspring. But it is the se;ond cross on such a mare that tells the story in behalf of the sire's action. The foal from this secend trial is much im- proved in action over her first produce, and on many stock farms can to-day be compared four, three, two, one-year-olds and sucklings, the younger of which have the desired action naturally, while the older colts have to go under training to improve the little they possess. Many of the mest successful breeders in the United States have secured high-acting horses by .mating mares that had natural action with Hack- ney stallions that possessed this qualification In & superlative degree. Breeders should select mares with the Hackney conformation a near as possible, and that have plenty of nerve force and intelligence. The good Hackney is certainly the typical high actor, and the breed can be improved by the introduction of strains of good trotting blood that has- proven en- durance as well as other desirable qualities. —I o Secretary C. M Jewett states that the New Eng- land Trotting Horse Breeders' Association will revive the old-time Stallion Produce stakes that were a feature of the Breeders' meetings at the old Mystic Park in the early days of the association's history. Such an event Is "stake" in the exact meaning of the word, as the prize will not be a stated sum, but for the entire amount subscribed. The event differs from the futurities of the present day In that each stallion owner contributes a sum equal to that of the service fee of his stallion, which goes to form the nucleus of the stake; then each nominator of a colt by the stallion entered pays a nomination fee of $1, likewise a stated amount some few days prior to the race. MAKCH 10, 19C6J ©He gvee&ev unit gtpurtssmcm 9 PROF. REDFIELD EXPLAINS HIS THEORY. The theory of Dynamic Development as advanced by Prof. C. L. Redrield through the columns of the turf press has attracted much attention. The ma- jority of breeders and turf writers have attacked the deductions of the professor, and in some in- stances without understanding just what his theory is. In the last number of the Horse World appeared the following explanation of the theory from the pen of Prof. Redrield himself: There have been quite a number of criticisms of the theory with which my name has become associated. Many of these are so wide of the mark that they are called criticisms only by courtesy. Some are merely vituperation. Instead of replying to these various comments in kind I think that it will be more en- lightening to review some of the essential elements of the theory and some of the facts used in support of it. The theory relates to the inheritance by offspring of the characters acquired by parents. I have pointed out that the characters which an animal acquires are those which he develops by exercising them, and con- sequently that an acquired character does not mean the acquirement of a new character, but the develop- ment of a character already in existence. 1 have, therefore, substituted for "acquired character" the term "acquired development." I have also pointed out that a development acquired by exercise is in its na- ture dynamic, hence I have used the term "dynamic development." Here we have a new term based on the definition and a process of reasoning. The term is used because it is believed to be explanatory. So far no one has attacked this process of reasoning as unsound, nor has anyone demonstrated that the term "dynamic development" is inaccurate, improper or misleading. The next step was that if the dynamic developmen. acquired by the parent is inherited by the offspring, then the amount of such inheritance should be pro- portional to the amount of the acquirement. ' This simply means that if the child is to inherit the dynamic development which the parent acquires, then the parent should acquire the development before he begets the child. Or, to state the matter in an- other way, the child can not inherit anything which the parent acquires after the child is born. This last argument has been characterized as unas- sailable, and I do not see how it can be disputed. At all events no one has arisen who has attempted to deny its reasonableness. I then pointed out that as dynamic development is acquired by exercise, and as active animals continue to exercise during their whole lives, therefore old and active animals have acquired more dynamic devel- opment than have young or inactive ones. In other words. I argued that the amount of dynamic develop- ment which an animal has acquired is a quantity to be determined by considering the age of the animal and the degree of its activity taken together. From this I drew the conclusion that if acquired dynamic development is transmitted from parent to offspring, then those animals which have, by natural inheritance, a fine dynamic quality, must be descended from a line of progenitors which were either old or highly developed by special training. Here we have the final step of the main part of the theory. If the theory is to be attacked at all this is the point at which the attack should be di- rected. Tet of all the mass of criticisrrj leveled at me not a single writer has attempted to show or has hinted that this argument is unsound. In fact, as far as I am aware, no one has attacked the main part of the theory in any way whatever. There has been much bluster and talk about the theory being com- pletely demolished, but if there has been any serious argument advanced against the foregoing line of rea- soning I will be thankful for having my attention called to it. The steps in this reasoning are simple and easily followed, and the theory stands today ex- actly as I published it three years ago. What I have had to say since has been in the way of illus- tration and explanation. Before I take up the secondary part of the theory I will turn my attention to some of the things which I have set forth as facts. I have said that I took 1000 registered standard stallions alphabetically from the Index-Digest of the Register, and calculated the ages of their sires at the times when these registered stallions were foaled. From these I determind that th average time between generations in the male line was 10.43 years, which would give the average age of sires as 9.43 years at time of service. I then said that, making all reasonable allowances for er- rors, the average time between generations in the male line might be set down as between ten and eleven years, and that this period might be used as a standard in testing the age part of the theory. So far no one claims to have tested the accuracy of my cal- culations; no one claims that the figures I gave were wrong; and no one has said that these figures cannot properly be used as standard. Yet if I am to be con- troverted one of the first things to be done is to dis- pute the accuracy of my standard. I then took the entire list of 2:10 trotters as an ap- propriate class of animals to be used in testing the inheritance of dynamic development, and I calculated the ages of their male progenitors for four genera- tions. The number of animals involved was over 5000, and I gave the average time between generations In the male lines for the production of our 2:10 trot- ters as being approximately 14.00 years. This Is an average of nearly 40 per cent over the standard aver- age determined from the register, and my explanation of this remarkable difference was that It Indicated the Inheritance of acquired dynamic development. So far no one has disputed the accuracy of my compu- tation, and no one has attempted to give any othe; explanation of such an unusual divergence from the natural order of things. Am I right or am I wrong? If I am wrong will some one please come forward with a better explanation? I then separated from the others the most promi- nent sires — those animals which by reason of the extra fine quality of their inheritance became great progenitors and founders of families, and I found that they were by sires and grandsires averaging over fifteen years of age. My explanation was that the still higher ages of the sires of extra choice ani- mals was a further indication that the superior amount of dynamic development which old animals have over young animals was transmitted in a su- perior degree, to their progeny. So far no one has reviewed the horses which I selected as great pro- genitors for the purpose of showing that I acted dis- honestly or unfairly in making my selection. No one has said that the ages of the sires and grandsires of great progenitors was other than I gave them. And no one has offered any explanation other than the one I gave. I then went to the Trotting Register and deter- mined as accurately as I could the percentage of registered stallions which were sent to the track and given standard records. Taking those registered stal- lions which were contemporaneous with the sires and grandsires of our 2:10 trotters. I estimated that about 10 per cent were given records. I then compared this with the percentage of record horses among the sires and grandsires of our 2:10 trotters, and I found that the latter were from three to seven times as numer- ous as in the standard. In other words, I found that the 2:10 trotters were descended from male pio- genitors which were trained and raced much more than the average horse of the trotting breed was trained and raced. My explanation was that the de- velopment which these progenitors acquired was transmitted to offspring. No one has disputed my statement that 2:10 trotters come more from devel- oped than from undeveloped progenitors, and no one has attempted to give a different explanation of why it should be so. I then divided the male progenitors of the 2:10 trotters into two classes — those having records and those having no records. I found that those having no records entered the pedigrees of the fastest horses at a higher average age than those having no records. My explanation was, that development in ancestors is important to the production of fast descendants, and that unless this development is obtained by train- ing and racing it must be obtained by many years of life before breeding. No one has disputed what I stated to be a fact, an i no one has given any other explanation of this fact. Tet this is a matter to which critics should pay special attention if it is to be shown that the facts do not square with the theory. The secondary part of the theory involves an ex- tention of a previously well known principle of her- edity. It is well know that certain characters are transmitted by sex, that is, from sire to son or from dam to daughter, and never from sire to daughter or from dam to son. Characters which are thus trans- mitted by sex are called "secondary sexual charac- ters." The beard on the face of man, the heavy neck on the bull, and the ornamental feathers in the tail of a rooster are secondary sexual characters. The peculiarity about these secondary sexual char- ture is an ordinary character transmitted by that ani- mals but always develop after the animal becomes mature. The theory is that development acquired as the result of exercise while the animal is imma- ture is an ordinary character transmittd by that ani- mal equally to progeny of both sexes; but that de- velopment acquired after the animal is mature fol- lows the law relating to other characters and becomes a secondary sexual character. It is also well known that a male which is castrated while immature never inherits the secondary sexual characters which his sire had. From the fact that an animal does not reproduce until after he has arrived at sexual maturity it fol- lows from this that the age of the sire has nothing to do with 'the qualities of a daughter or a castrated son, and that the age of a dam has nothing to do with the quality of an uncastrated son. Also that while an unusual amount of development acquired by a young male will affect his daughter and castrated sons, any development acquired after maturity will affect only uncastrated sons. Likewise, early de- velopment in females will affect sons and daughters alike, but late development will affect only daugh- ters and castrated sons. So far no one has analyzed this argument, and no one has presented reasons why this theory should not be true. Several biologists have conceded that the argument is logical and believe it is sound, while some others admitting its reasonableness have doubted the fact. I have cited a long series of facts bearing upon this point and Dr. Haworth of the University of Kansas has furnished other facts, all of which sup- port the theory. No one has cited facts- to the con- trary, but a number of writers on the horse have given long lists of fast mares and geldings by young and undeveloped sires and have called that a refuta- tion of the Redfield theory! It is certainly quite re- markable and very amusing to see would-be critics straining themselves to demolish the theory, and really doing nothing more than furnish examples of one part of it. As Illustrating this part of the theory I have said that old and highly developed horses have become the best parents of sires, and I have given many ex- amples illustrating It. The most conspicuous example Is the case of George Wilkes, who was trained longer and more than any other horse before being put to breeding, and I have said that his sons form the most remarkable group of sires that has been produced. No one has denied this statement and no one has at- tempted to show that this case is not applicable to this part of the theory. The theory holds that while the age and the ing received In mature life does nol laugh- ter as an individual it goes through her and affects her sons. In support of this I cited the daughters of George Wilkes and said that their ungekled sons were better trotters than tli.ii- .laualn,.,-, sons. No one has denied this statement and no one has given a similar case showing contrary results. As carrying out the logical deductions of the theory, I have said that the undeveloped sons of an old and highly developed horse are much better as sires of mares and geldings than they are as sires of stallions, and that the same qualities pertain to all stallions which are trained when voung but whii h are permitted to get "soft" after they are mature. I have cited the sons of George Wilkes, and a long list of other horses as examples of this. No one has attempted to show that this is not a legitimate deduc- tion from the original premises of the theory and no one has cited the cases of any horses which have not followed the rule with exactness. The theory is quite simple in its main features, and is easily understood. It is only in its deductions that it appears complicated. I have, from time to time, given many of these deductions and have cited num- erous cases in which the production of trotters has borne out these deductions. I have done this for the purpose of showing that the theory furnishes the groundwork from which we can determine, with a high degree of accuracy, nearly every result of a dynamic character. Beginning with the old development theory, with which every one is familiar, the new theory declares that the age of the animal and the conditions of its development at the time of breeding are elements which must be considered. To this it adds that de- velopment which occurs in the youth of the parent is of the ordinary kind and is transmitted In the way in which all development is supposed to be trans- mitted, but that development occurring after the ani- mal is mature is transmitted in a special way — from sire to son and from dam to daughter. (In this last castrated sons are classified with daughters.) The next item of the theory is that a large amount of that kind of development which is originally trans- mitted by sex may, and in later generations does, become transmitted in the ordinary way. The final point of the theory is that added age in the parents increases the length of life of the offspring and thus furnishes a groundwork upon which still greater de- velopment may be built. There is nothing difficult or abstruse about this, and no one caring to understand it need have any diffi- culty in doing so. If it is true it has great value to breeders. If it is not true they can quickly determine that fact from the records of the trotting horse. I have gone deeply into these records and have had a good deal to say about the most prominent horses which go to form the breed. Critics have found that I once confused two horses of the same name and gave the date to one of them which really belonged to the other, and they have found perhaps a half dozen other errors of the same magnitude. On such a basis as this some of these critics have gone into frenzy over my "unreliability," but at the same time they have been very shy about attacking the essence of the theory on its merits. In what I have already said herein I have pointed out this essence and have indicated what needs to be answered if the theory is to be refuted. Their attention is again called to the fundamental arguments and facts bearing upon the theory and they are invited to review and analyze the specific points mentioned. THE NEW YORK MARKET. The New York Commercial of February 21st con- tained the following items: The number of horses shipped to the New York market during the past ten days has been phenomenally large. Heavy^ business horses are selling easily at $160 to $225, and well- matched pairs of heavy draughters are offered at $500 to $650. The light harness classes are showing in- creased strength on a broader demand from all quar- ters. Well-acting drivers are in demand at $300 to $650, and, if trained by professional stables and have exceptional style and action, bring from $850 to $1100. Fiss. Doerr & Carroll's regular weekly sale on Monday at the East Twenty-fourth street mart disposed of over 400 head of fine commercial horses. A large crowd of buyers were on hand, and the bid- ding was spirited. Among the offerings which were well liked and brought very satisfactory prices were a carload of heavy draughters from Ohio; fifty-six head of choice delivery wagon horses from Iowa: two carloads from Indiana, among which were some well-matched heavy working teams, and a carload from Missouri weighing from 1200 to 1550 pounds, and suitable for express and heavy delivery work. A flve-thousand-dollar free-for-all will be given by the Wisconsin State Fair management if the owners of Hazel Patch and The Broncho will consent to enter. Wisconsin people think that Hazel Patch is unbeatable despite the fact that the mare was victorious in both of the races In which she met him last season. In their minds, however, this does not count. The Wisconsin Fair management Is willing to let the race go if these two will enter, although, of course, none of the other free-for-all pacers in the country will be barred. In fact, they will be welcomed with open arms, but the people of Wisconsin do not believe that a free-for-all would be a race up to its name without Hazel Patch and The Broncho. This pair certainly drew a big crowd at the last fair at Milwaukee. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet &tte gveefrev crofcr *&pavt&tnan [March 10, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. I -Jane 1— Closed season for black bass. March 10— San Franoisoo Ply-Casting Club. Saturday Classifi- cation Contest No. 2. Stow lake, 2:S0 i>. m. March U— San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Sunday Classifi- cation Contest No. 2. Stow lafce, 10 a. m. April i-Sept. Iu. Ont. 16-Feb. 1— Open season for taking steel- bead in tidewater. April 1-Nov. l— Trout season open. April 1-Nov. 1— Open season for taking steelhead above tide water. Sept. 10-Oct. 16-Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season for salmon. Sept. 15-Aprll 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oct. 16-Nov. 15 -Close season for taking salmon above tide. water. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open season for crabs. Nov. I5-Sept. 10 — Season open for taking salmon above tide *-»ter. Gun. Feb. 15-July 1— Dove season closed. Feb. 15-Sept. 1— C osed season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Feb. 15-Oct. 15— Closed season for quail, ducks, etc March II— Empire Gun Club. Blue rocks. Alameda Junction. March II— Capital City Blue Rook Club. Kimball & Upson grounds, Sacramento. March 18— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleslde. March 25— Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside, March 25— Vallejo Gun Club. Blue rocks. Near Flosden Sta- tion. April I— California Wing Club. Live pigeons. Ingleside. *prll l— Blue Rock Gun Club. Grounds foot of HUh street, Alameda. April 14, 15— Los Angeles Gun Club. 18th semi-annual tourna- ment. $500 added money May 26, 27— Pacific Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third annual blue rock tournament. Vallejo Gun Club grounds, near Flosden Station. June 19, 22— Interstate Association. Grand American Handicap target tournament. $1000 added money. Elmer E. Shaner, Sec- retary-Manager, Plftsburg, Pa. Oct. 15-April 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. March 7, 10— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburg, Pa. F. S. Steadman. Secretary. Entries close Feb. 25. March 8, 10— Colorado Kennel Club. Denver, Col. T. W. Bar- tels.Seoretary. Entries close March 13, 16— Buffalo Kennel Club. Buffalo, N.Y. S. P. White- Secretary. Entries close March 14, 17— Passaic County Fi*h and Game Protective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas. Matthews, Secretary. Entries close March 17— Bull Terrier Club. San Francisco. Entries close March 21, 24- Wolverine Kennel Club. Detroit, Mich. K. G. Smith, Secretary. Entries close March 10. March 30 31— Haverhill Kenuel Club. Haverhill, Mass. A. A. Balch, Secretary. Entries close April 11, 14— Southwestern Kennel Club. Los Angeles. George R. Albers Secretary, Los Angeles. Entries olose Aprils. April 18.91— Seattle Dog Fanciers' Association. Seattle, Wash. Chas. McAllister, Secretary. Entries close April 25, 28— Portland Kennel Club. F. E. Watklns, Acting Secretary. Entries close May 29, 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L I. Entries close June 1 2— Ladles Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed, Secretary. Entries olose June 6, 9 -San Francisco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench show Fred P. Butler, Secretary. Entries close June 9— WiBsahickon Kennel Club. Wissahlckon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary. Entries close Sept 3, 5— Miami Valley Kennel Club. Piqua, O. Edwin A. Hlatt, Secretary. Entries close Sept. 8, 6— Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J.Leo, Seoretary. Entries olose Sept. 8— Cedarhurst Kennel Club- Cedarhurst, L.I. Jno. G. Bates, Seoretary. Entries close Sept. 29— Bryn Mawr Kennel Club. Haverford Pa. Henry D* Riley, Seoretary, Stafford, Pa. Entries close AT THE TRAPS. The card for local blue rock shooters tomorrow will be the opening shoot, for this season, of the Empire Gun Club at the Alameda Junction grounds. Four events are programmed as outlined in last week's is- sue. The indications for a large attendance are promising. Among the shooters there will be a num- ber of new recruits. The California Wing Club live bird shoot last Sun- day at Ingleside was carried out under favorable weather conditions and with an attendance for the club's initial shoot that argues a lively pigeon trap season for 1906. In addition to the regular 12 bird club race there has been added an extra 12 bird race for medals and prlzzes, as outlined in last week's issue. This makes a total of 1GS birds per member, as against the indi- vidual quota of 100 pigeons for many past seasons. The innovation, no doubt will add a decided impetus to the sport. A strong lot of birds Supplied was the cause for a number of goose eggs in several ambitious scores. As it was, twelve shooters, practically 50 per cent, who participated in the opening event were in the money division of the $75 club purse. They were: Pete J. Walsh (29 yards), 12 straight; T. Prior (27 yards), 12 straight, and Phil B. Eekeart (28 yards), Dr. A. T. Derby (28 yards), E, Donohoe (29 yards), C. C. Nau- man (30 yards). Dr. A. M. Barker (29 yards), N. L. Nielson Jr. (26 yards), Ed Schultz (28 yards), each of who- scored 11 pigeons out of the 12. Harvey Mc- 7 (30 yards), guest, 11 birds. e afternoon the club members shot In a medal ze contest at 12 pigeons. Guests were eligible -lde pool or birds as desirable. Sixteen guns competed in this race, as against 25 entries' in the morning club shoot. Harvey McMurchy of Fulton, N. T.. was the only shooter to score straight. Messrs. T. Prior, Walsh, M. O. Feudner and Ed Schultz each graseed 11 pigeons. Seven shooters scored 10 birds, Messrs. Donohoe, Dwyer, Bekeart, Nauman, Duzan, Webb and Turner. Nine was the record for Nielson and Barker, S for the ex-San Diegan shooter, Fano, and Roos put a cravenette overcoat over half a dozen pigeons only. The same distance handicaps prevailed as were in vogue during the forenoon. In the final pool shoots at seven pigeons luck in odd numbers prevailed with McMurchy, Dwyer, Walsh, Fano and Nauman; all scored straights and divided the purses. In the club shoots, A. J. Webb, the crack blue rock artist, tried his gun on "feathers." Being somewhat out of practice at pigeons, he failed to connect with three of his two dozen. When he strikes his "gait" there will be something doing. A summary of scores follows : Club match, 12 pigeons, distance Handicap, $.75 added, high guns — *■ Prior, T 27 yds— 212511112111— 12 Klevesahl, E 27 yds— 011121120221— 10 Bekeart, P. B 2S yds— 2222*2222222— 11 Roos, A. ..." 24 yds— 112100120122— 9 Murdock, W. E 28 yds— 220211122021— 10 Prior, J. K. Jr 26 yds— 1*2111212201— 10 Derby, A. T. Dr 2S yds— 11112111111)1— 11 "Slade" 28 yds— 1102*1101212— 9 Donohoe, E 29 yds— 122212210122— 11 Naumann, C. C .30 yds— 112212222120— 11 Barker, A. M 29 yds— 121112111022— 11 Webb, A. J 28 yds— 220122222221— 11 Feudner, M. O 30 yds— 022222222022— 10 tMcMurchy, H 30 yds— 2*1111121212— 11 Turner, Frank 25 yds — 2*1011100001 — 6 fLayfield 30 yds— 2010002200*2— 4 Nielsen, N. L. Jr 25 yds— 2121211*2122— 11 Walsh, P. J 20 yds— 111221111112— 12 f Troy, J. S 30 yds— 01212222**20— 8 Gerstle, W. L 24 yds— 122202111201— 10 Schultz, E 28 yds— 211221222101— 11 f Dwyer, R 30 yds— *21212112111— 11 Fano, E. A 26 yds— 110112001120 — 9 Duzan. W. E 24 yds— 202111021211— 10 "Black" 29 yds— 012222*20022— 8 *Dead out. fGuest. Club medal and prize match, 12 pigeons, distance handicap — tMcMurchy 211122222112—12 Donohoe 111101111021—10 fDwyer 211110012211—10 Bekeart 222222*02222 — 10 Roos *2OQ112,1;O0-1O.-— A Nauman 2HliTO^2^^10: Prior, T 2-2l6Tl211122— 11 Walsh 111011111122—11 Feudner, M. O :...:... 221222222022—11 Duzan ."........... 111121012201—10 Nielsen 021220211021— 9 Webb 211212202101—10 Turner 211111111100—10 Schultz, E .112211201212—11 Barker 0122210221*1— 9 Fano • . .201001120222— 8 Pool shoot, 7 pigeons, high guns — Dwyer 2112111— 7 Walsh 1112121— 7 McMurchy 0211120— 5 Fano 1221122— 7 Nielsen 1222102— 6 Nauman ' 2111111— 7 Pool shoot, 7 pigeons, high guns — Dwyer 2111111— 7 Walsh 1012101— 5 McMurchy 1121122— 7 Fano 2201020— 4 Nauman 1121220 — 6 The Capital City Blue Rock Club Friday evening, March 2, reorganized for the season with a member- ship of fifty enthusiastic shotgun artists, and electeld the following officers: President, John N. Blair; sec- retary and treasurer, E. D. Adams; captain of team, Andrew Just. The opening shoot was to have taken place last Sunday, but at a conference between several of the members it was dcided that rain would probably pre- vent an enjoyable day's sport and 'the shoot was post- poned until tomorrow morning. It is to take place upon the Kimball & Upson- Company's ground on the Riverside road, which was fifitted up with traps dur- ing the week. Regular contests will be held every other Sunday until the end of the season. The members will con- test for three medals upon every occasion. The first Is the Kimball & Upson medal, the second is the trophy offered by the Washington Gun Club, and the third is an award of three medals to be given for the three-man team shoots. Each award must be won three times to become the permanent property of the contestant. Some of the members have to their credit one or two medal victories scored last sea- son. grounds and some excellent sport was enjoyed by those who participated. The threatening and rainy weather kept the attendance down, only about fifteen of the forty odd members being present, but they made up in enthusiasm what they lacked in num- bers, and Washington's birthday was fittingly ob- served. The highest score was made by Mont. P. Chubb, who broke 250 out of 296 targets, which made his average 85 per cent. He was accordingly awarded the first merchandise prize, a gun case. Chubb also won first honors in the second merchandise shoot, his trophy in this instance being another gun case. The Peters trophy was carried off by Charles Lukens, who broke 24 out of 25 targets, with Chubb a close sec- ond with 23 breaks. In the first merchandise contest C. F. Hersee won the second prize, 100 shells, the third prize in this event, a hunting coat, going to Chas. Lukens. In the second merchandise shoot Chas. Lukens won the second prize, a shooting jacket. Chas. Hersee took the third prize, a hunting knife, while M. F. Pierce consoled himself with the fourth prize, 50 shells. Luncheon was served on the grounds at noon and a continuance of the shooting was only stopped by the rain of the afternoon. The scores made were as follows: Chubb, shot at 296, broke 250, 85 per cent; Lukens, 302-247-82; Hersee, 292-206-71; Holmes, 176-124-70; Mudge, 131- 85-65; Dugan, 110-86-76; Gernish, 96-63-65; Parr, 95- 51-64; Boberick, 62-37-60; Whittemore, 41-30-73; Kirkpatrick, 30-19-63; Pierce, 25-15-60; Lyman, 20- 15-75. Among the visiting shooters at Ingleside last Sun- day at the Wing Club shoot were: Harvey Mc- Murchy of Fulton, N. Y.; W. A. Layfield of Wilming- ton, Del.; J. S. Troy and Starter "Dick" Dwyer. The Fresno Gun Club held its best shoot in many months on February 25th. There was present a large crowd of spectators, and fifteen shooters, the most in a long time. A feature of the day was the first ap- pearance of a lady shooter. Mrs. Phalen, wife of one of the members of the club, tried in two events, and acquitted herself with credit, breaking five tar- gets out of a possible ten in the first event, and eleven out of a possible fifteen in the second. The scores were as follows: Targets— 10 10 15 20 20 20 20 20 20 Eilert S .. 13 .. IS 15 16 17 16 Eilert 15 Phalen 7 .. 11 Schlueter 11 .. 17 18 18 14 17 Garner 10 6 5 16 IS 12 15 16 .. Mrs. Phalen 5 . . 11 Weinberg 8 .. .. 13 13 14 9 .. .. Gouguet 6 . . 9 . . . . -. . . . 11 9 Wotton 9 9 12 8 10 . . 19 Holdsclaw S .. 14 19 19 17 18 .. Lewald 6 . . . . 13 . . 12 . . 14 Dumas 9 8 9 .. .. Lowery 12 . . . . 11 . . French 16 Meyer 10 . . IS 12 '"Slim" 7 .. .. 16 The Folsom Gun Club's big medal shoot, billed for February 18th, was postponed by reason of stormy weather. On Washington's Birthday several mem- bers made the«following averages: M. Surbaugh .S46, P. Joerger .640, E. Kipp .572, J. Biggs .640. The Riverside Gun Club held its first shoot of the year on Washington's Birthday. The event called to- gether a good number of clay bird artists, including visitors from Los Angeles, Ocean Park and Ontario. Los Angeles was represented by Smith, Justins, Quinn and "Vaughn; Ocean Park by Bungay, and Ontario by Walker and Diebert. Justin and "Vaughn were representatives of ammu- nition houses, hence their scores were not counted. This gave first money to Bungay of Ocean Park. For the locals, Dr. Taber made the best record, getting 67 birds out of a possible 75. The scores in detail were as follows: Events 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 Targets 10 15 10 15 10 20 10 10 15 10 Smith 9 14 9 14 9 IS 8 7 14 8 125—110 Justins 10 14 9 14 8 17 6 10 15 7 125—110 Vaughn S 13 10 13 9 18 10 10 14 10 125—115 Bungay 10 14 7 14 10 IS 6 9 14 10 125—112 Quinn 9 14 S 13 S 11 7 10 13 9 125—104 Walker 9 12 7 14 9 IS 9 S 12 8 125—106 Drew 6 9 6 11 50— 32 E. Deibert 8 12 9 13 10 20 9 S 13 9 125—111 G. Deibert S 12 7 10 50— 37 Kinnear 6 10 — 6 "Council" 13 13 .. 30—26 Dr. Taber 10 12 10 17 10 S .. .. 75— 67 Raymer S 12 7 12 7 5 .. .. 75— 51 B. Taber 7 9 10 16 9 9 . . . . 75— 60 Jones 7 4 .....'."... . 26— 11 McCormick 4 10^- 4 Edwards 7 10— 7 Verrill 1 10— 7 The first tournament shoot of the Redlands Blue Rock Club was held February. 22rid at the club The Santa Rosa and Sdnoma county sportsmen who are members of the gun clubs that enjoy the sport of smashing blue rock pigeons, are anticipating the com- ing season with much pleasure. Last year the Santa Rost club members smashed thousands of blue rocks at the various team and trophy shoots and an inter- esting program of events is being arranger for this year. o The people of Reno and Plumas county, California, will Invite President Roosevelt to hunt bear in the Grizzly Valley in Plumas county, California. March 10, 1906] ®Jte gvee&ev atib gtporfc&mtm 11 GOSSIP FOR SPORTSMEN. Trout Spawn Controversy. Morrill and Elliott, who have a permit from the County Commissioners to take trout spawn from the Truckee river for the California Fish Commission and a number of private interests in California, have declined to stop work at the command of the At- torney: General and the State Fish Commission. They declare they hold a permit from Washoe county, Ne- vada, and that they will continue to operate until it is revoked. The State Fish Commissioners, backed up by the Attorney General, say they are the only persons who have authority to grant spawn-taking permits. The County Commissioners of Washoe county reply by charging that at the time the permit was issued the State Fish Commissioners had not qualified and that under the law they were given authority to issue the permit. In the summer. It is quite likely that next year no GROUSE AND WILD TURKEYS OF THE UNITED fishing will be allowed till June 1st. The number STATES, AND THEIR ECONOMIC VALUE. of nimrods in our city, according to our dealers in fishing tackle, is greatly on the increase. By Sylvester D. Judd, Assistant United States Bio- logical Survey. The largest halibut ever caught by Tacoma fisher- men wsa brought in February 26th by the steamer Edith. The fish was 13 feet and 3 inches in length, weighing exactly 972 pounds. It was sent East and will be put on exhibition in Chicago. The halibut was caught on a hook and the fishermen had great diffi- culty in landing it. Snipe and Mushrooms. Game Warden George Neale of Sacramento says he has found from long experience that there is an intimate relation between mushrooms and snipe. He declares that when the weather is too cold and sun- less to cause earth-worms, which are dainties for snipe, to come to the surface of the ground, it is too cool for mushrooms. When there is no mushroom weather, therefore, there are no snipe afield. It is a fact that this season's mushrooms have been very scarce and snipe scarcer. Salmon in Monterey Bay. Schools of salmon have made their appearance in the bay off Monterey City. On the 2nd Inst, three large fish were caught. During the last week salmon have been caught, more or less, daily; no catches of large numbers, however, have been reported. This is rather an early appearance of the fish for they are not very numerous in the bay, generally, until about the end of April. Other varities of salt water fish, particularly smelt and king fish, are very plenti- ful and big hauls have been made by the market fishermen. Possibly this plentitude of the small fry may have something to do with the early arrival of the salmon. Perch and Black Bass. Many anglers have indulged in fishing for perch recently in Lake Chabot, which variety of fish Is plentiful in the lake and proves to be an exxceedingly toothsome panfish. But the catching of perch has only a soothing effect to the real sport that comes on April 1st, for while some skill is required to catch a perch, after being hooked he comes up like a dish- rag. The perch season opened on February 15th, and in the meantime many good catches have been made at the lake. Those who have been fishing there have been overjoyed to find that the black bass planted there two years ago are propagating very fast, one angler catching no less than twenty in an afternoon, other catches of from one to a dozen be- ing reported. Of course these fish are immediately re- turned to the water, as It is unlawful to take them before June 1st. The club holding the sporting privileges of the lake are just now In a quandary as to what course to pur- sue in the matter of taking fish. The opening seasons for perch and bass conflict, the former being three and a half months ahead of the latter, and it is im- possible for an angler to try for perch without being as likely to catch bass. The club, which issues per- mits at $2.50 per season, to pay the expenses of a keeper, did not know until the first dozen permits had been issued, that the bass were so numerous, and just as likely to be caught as the perch, otherwise no fishing would have been permitted until June 1st. On the other hand the perch dominate the lake, having thrived there for years, and they make better eating In the spring when the waters are fresh than later This afternoon and tomorrow morning the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club members will meet at Stone lake for the second contest in the classifica- tion series, 1906. The projected preserve for the California Anglers' Association on Waddell creek is now a fixture. At a recent meeting of the Board of Directors arrange- ments were made to acquire for a number of years a lease of fishing privileges on about four miles of the stream. Stockton anglers recently met and organized the Stockton Anglers' Association. A. N. Buell was elected president and A. Kaiser secretary. Game Protective Association Organized. A meeting was held recently at the Dry Creek school house, at which steps were taken to organize a fish and game protective association similar to the one lately organized in Healdsburg. The following sportsmen signed the membership roll: I. S. R. Tev- endale, A. J. Gallaway, W. S. Kelly, Charles J.. Whit- lock, J. H. Hall, G. Zambrino, Ira C. Jones, George C. ones', W. O. Block, George W. Parker, Arthur Burn- ham, M. P. Kelly, Clyde Clark and R. H. Bagley. Membership petitions are being circulated and a meet- ing to effect permanent organization and elect offi- cers will be held today. A Big Jew Fish. Considerable excitement was caused early last Sun- day afternoon at Coronado Beach when it was seen that a fisherman on the pier had hooked a large fish which proved that Janles W. Waller's customary luck has evidently not deserted him, as in company with A. B. Shaw and E. R. Niles he succeeded after a struggle lasting three hours in bringing in a three hundred and eighty-seven pound jew fish. This re- markable catch deserves special mention as the sefl. bass had been less numerous during the past few weeks In the Coronado waters. Mr. Waller bore the honors modestly, as with him it is in the nature of an old story, as he and Mr. Shaw are intrepid fisher- men and have to their credit many monsters of th« deep. Mr. Waller succeeded in carrying off the tro- phies for the best catches of scarbina during the past two summer seasons. The jew fish proved a great at- traction on the lawn of Del Coronado, where a large crowd gathered to see it, and several snap shots were taken. During the afternoon it hung suspended from a line in front of the hotel and was viewed by large numbers of persons, including the usual Sunday crowds that visit Coronado. But three brief weeks hence and the anglers will be off to the streams. The first of April falls on a Sunday, too, and that means the exodus of an army to the troutlng waters. Up to date the rains and pleas- ant weather argue most favorable conditions, but the enthusiasts will be on pins and needles, watching the weather from day to day. A heavy storm the last week of this month is liable to cause an attack of heart failure for some of the rodsters. Game Warden Reed reports steelheads running this year very large, weighing from fifteen to sixteen pounds, as against from eight to nine last year. MrM. Shebley, on Thursday, got 50,000 eggs from seven salmon. Superintendent Shebley, Game Warden Reed, Su- pervisor Miller and J. F. Helms were at the Powder Mill dam on the San Lorenzo, Santa Cruz county, the afternoon of Washington's Birthday, and In about two hours some seventy steelheads jumped the dam, many of them landing in the trap. It was a great sight to watch the fish make a jump, then miss it, and after several repeated attempts jump the in- tervening five feet to the stream above. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Coast Show Judges. The San Francisco Kennel Club had secured Mr. George Raper for May. When the dates were changed to June Mr. Raper, provided the change did not pre- vent, was still the club's selection. Seattle will endeavor to have Ben Lewis as the "all- rounder." For Portland Mr. James' Mortimer has been invited to judge all classes. Los Angeles, with James Cole, about closes the selection of Eastern judges, for, unless we have been much misinformed, San Jose and Santa Cruz will depend on home talent. Fox Terriers at Boston. Harry Lacy says of the breed at Boston last week: "The judging the first afternoon did not create much enthusiasm except perhaps in the terriers, where Mr. Lynn turned them around a bit from New York. Puppy dogs, smooth, Sabine Raven, Warren Seaman; Novice, S. Raven, Warren D'Orsay; Limit, N. All Blue, Warren Recorder, the Philadelphia winner. In open, Sabine Recruit had to give way to Wandee Knight, Recorder third. The latter two winners. Puppy bitches, Warren Destiny beat two, Sabines Favor and Fairplay. Novice, Sabine Facile, Warrens Destiny and Berilla; Limit, Sabine Figent, Wandee Music, W. Destiny; Open, W. Doris, Sabine Figent, Warren Jenny, Doris and Figent Winners. In wires, they were turned round. Puppy dogs, E. Prevail. Novice, repeat. Limit, E. Pennant, Rowsley Jester, Radnor Criterion, Rowsley Joker. Open, Selwonk Top- per.per, Pennant, Rowsley Jester, W. Coastguard, Hill- crest Friar. Puppy bitches, E. Precision. Corey Hill Wire, Hillcrest Flox. Novice, Precision, Flox and Warren Balance. Limit, Rowsley Courtley, Siren and Hope, Prescilla reserve, same open. Mr. T. S. Bellin of Minneapolis, Minn., judged Fox Terriers, and also Bull Terriers at New York. Mr. Jas. J. Lynn of Port Huron, Mich, judged Fox Terriers at Boston. Bull Terrier Importation. J. I. Sparrow received this week a likely looking Bull Terrier bitch from a London breeder. Wild Rose, the new one, is by Kingdom Wild out of Rosa Glenn. Glenn is a sister to Champion Cothouse Trot- ter, he by Bloomsbury King. Rose was eighteen days on the trip and shortly after arriving here whelped eight puppies, all now doing well. Chader Wild Is the sire of the litter. Crockett Kennels have ready several well broken young English Setters for sale. These dogs are bred in the purple and thoroughly broken by a reliable trainer. Among the recent good ones arriving here Is a grand specimen of the Chesapeake Bay Dog, which S. Chrlstenson received originally from a Cleveland breeder and then turned over to a trainer, who thor- oughly broke the new comer on ducks. The Ruffed Grouse, Vegetable Food. — The vegetable food of ruffed grouse examined consisted of 11.79 per cent of seeds, 28.32 per cent of fruit, 48.11 per cent of buds and leaves, and 0 86 per cent of miscellaneous vege- table matter. Grain was not found, though no doubt it would be eaten if obtainable. In fact, Major Ben- dire says that grouse procure it along roads from the droppings of horses. (Life Hist. N. A. Birds (I), p. 26, 1892.) The seed element of the food Is mast and miscel- laneous seeds. The mast— 5 33 per cent— consists of hazelnuts, beechnuts, hornbeam seeds, chestnuts and acorns. The last, furnishing by all odds the largest supply, includes those of the scrub oak, scrub chest- nut oak, white oak and red oak. Acorns are often swallowed whole, half a dozen to a dozen at a meal being not uncommon .Beechnuts also are taken whole, and from 20 to 60 are sometimes found in a crop. Miscellaneous seeds make up 6.46 per cent of the entire food. Like many other gallinaceous birds, the ruffed grouse takes some leguminous seeds, though fewer than might be expected. The kinds known to have been eaten are the tick- trefoil, so abundant in the edge of woods frequented by grouse, and vetch. Winged seeds are often sampled, such as those of the hemlock, the pitch pine and the maple. The following miscellaneous seeds are taken by the ruffed grouse: Blackberry lily, beggar-ticks, chick- weed, sheep sorrel, sedge,, violet, witchhazel, beech- drops, avens, persicaria, forest weed and jewel weed. The list is interesting mainly for what it does not contain. Further investigations may show that the ruffed grouse, like the bobwhite and other so-called granivorous sepcies, is fond of ragweed, sunflower and grass seed. A grouse taken in British Columbia during October showed a peculiar liking for the apparently dry husks of geum seeds, no fewer than 500 appearing in its crop. Buds and Leaves. — The ruffed grouse spends most of its feeding time in browsing and berry picking. It thus secures, respectively, 48.11 per cent and 2S.32 per cent of its food. The country boy knows where it resorts for budding, and often bags it without the aid of a dog or hammerless gun. The buds and foliage of poplar, birch and willow form 20.20 per cent of the entire food. Budding is most practiced in win- ter and early spring, when many other kinds of food are buried in snow. Birch and poplar buds form by far the largest share of this cold-weather diet. Ed- ward A. Preble says that in Canada in spring the sitting hen grouse leave the nest, fly. to poplar trees, rapidly fill' their crops with buds, and then hurry back to their eggs. He thinks that the males, having plenty of time to spare at that season, prefer to search for choicer food. The crop of a hen bird that he shot at Fort Chipewyan, Athabasca, May 29, 1901, was filled with young leaves o"f poplar. The number of buds to a meal is surprising. A grouse shot at Pamer, Mich., December 15, 1894, contained 300 poplar buds. When engaged in budding, grouse take both flower buds and leaf buds; grown leaves of poplar also are eaten, and, not infrequently, the flattened petioles that catch the wind and give the leaves their char- acteristic quiver. Populus balsamifera, P. remuloides, and P. grandidentata are among the species on which they feed. Birch buds also are a staple; they are taken from the canoe birch, the gray birch, the yellow birch and the black birch. Everybody who is familiar with New England woods has seen the grouse at dusk balancing on the ends of birch branches and snipping off buds. As with the poplar, both leaf buds and flower buds are taken. A grouse shot- in Quebec, December 18, 1896, had filled its crop with 200 cat- kins of the canoe birch. As a rule birds appear to prefer the male to the female flowers. Baird, Brewer and Ridgway are authority for the statement that in Maine the buds of black birch are so freely eaten that they impart to the bird's flesh a distinctive and agreeable flavor. The ruffed grouse feeds also on the buds and leaves of different species of willow, as Major Bendire (Life Hist. N. A. Birds (I), p. 66, 1892) and other authors have reported. A bird. shot on Roseau river, Minnesota, October 20. 1896, had eaten twenty willow flowers. In budding, the grouse often clips from a fourth to half an inch of a twig which bears two or three buds In addition to the buds and leaves of willow, birch and poplar, browse from miscellaneous plants pro- vides the bird with 27.91 per cent of Its food. Such relatives of the willow as the alder, hazel, beech, ironwood and hornbeam furnish a part of the above. Apple trees on outlying parts of farms are favorite sources of supply. This fact, noted by many ob- servers and confirmed by the present investigation, has given rise to considerable discussion as to whether or not the tree are seriously injured by the budding. Dr. Clarence M. Weed says: "The ruffed groue. however, is capable of inflicting real damage by a too close pruning of buds, and cases are known where apple orchards located near woods have been rendered useless by them." (Birds In Their Relation to Man, p. 40. 1903). Mr. C. J. Maynard states that he took 180 apple buds from one crop, and says that in Massachusetts at one time a bounty of 25 cents was of! tain towns for the birds' heads. (Birds of ' 12 ©itc Qvve&ev ant* gtporiamau [.March io, 19C6 N A p 3S Miss M. E. Paine of Royalston. : describes her - 5 ruffe g ise s the buds oi apple . help rather than a damage. Last bill, between pas- itirely budded. I * u rmlnal buds were = . iany minutr on s rmlnal buds wer* td grew rat I the fruit hung in clusters - be . ;he branches droop to the ground. Iu ien apples occupied fully as much room _ tves ne looked at the tree we, barrels of apples on it. all nearly perfect and fair, just the result • -.rimming. This year it was not so badly bu : 5£ snow in winter. Many small buds far- ther back in the branches b tve started again this yea, - tl fruited, owing to the bud ::. - -ars in succession. No tree could have been more entirely budded, but the grouse can not . the outmost terminal buds, as a rule: their weig - great." The present investigation of stomachs revealed only an insignificant percentage of apple buds, probably _.use most of the grouse examined were shot in places remote from orchards. The bird has been ■vn to eat also pear and peach buds, and prob- ably would not refuse cherry buds. From one crop, leaves of blackberry or raspberry were taken, and bud twigs of blueberry and other species were not at all uncommon. The twigs severed by the sharp- edged bill of the grouse are all about the same length. one-third of an inch. They appeared in the stomachs as little whitish sticks, from which digestion had re- moved the bark. The extent to wnlch the ruffea grouse browses on leaves and twigs suggests an herbivorous mammal rather than a bird. The ruffed grouse feeds on leaves and buds of the mayfiower, and likes exceeding the leaves of the part- ridge berry. It nips off also leaves of both red and w-hite closer, to the extent of 1 per cent of its food. It is partial to the leaves of sheep sorrel, which it cuts across as sharply as if by a pair of scissors, but it eats yellow sorrel with less relish. It appears to like dandelion greens, and has a queer taste for the fronds of ferns. In its relation to conifers it differs widely from the spruce grouse, for it derives there- from only an insignificant percentage of its food, while the spruce grouse obtains nearly 50 per cent. Spruce needles ad foliage of arborvita have been seen in several stomachs. Edward A. Samuels believes that the ruffed grouse will eat leaves of evergreens only when all other food is lacking. (Our Northern and Eastern Birds, p 3S7. 183L) In Alaska, E. W. Nelson found the bird feeding exclusively on spruce buds. He states that the flesh becomes disagreeable from this pitchy diet. (Nat. Hist. Coll. in Alaska, p. 131, 1888.) The effect of highly flavored food on the flesh of game birds has already been referred to. The ruffed grouse buds the highly poisonous laurel (Kalmia latifolia). On this subject Alexander Wilson writes: "During the deep snows of the winter, they have recourse to the buds of alder, and the tender buds of the laurel. I have frequently found their crops distended with a large handful of these latter alone: and it has been confidently asserted that, after having fed for some time on the laurel buds their flesh becomes highly dangerous to eat. partaking of the poiscnous qualities of the plant." (Am. Ornith., vol. II, p. 319, 1S31.) Dr. John H Brintcn of Jefferson Medical College has known several cases of glossitis (inflammation of the tongue) caused by eating grouse that had fea on laurel (Warren, Birds of Penn.. p. 10S. 1S90). ana Dr. N. Shoemaker has also known of serious Illness from the same source (North Am. Med. Journ.. I pp 321-322. 1826). V. K. Chestnut, department specialist on poisonous plants, gave an extract made from laurel leaves to a chicken, which he subsequently killed and fed to a cat The cat was seriously affected, but ultimately recovered. In Philadelphia in 1790 the public was alarmed over the possibilities of laurel poisoning, and the sale of these birds was for a time forbidden Dr. B. H. Warren shot ten birds when the ground was deeply covered with snow, and found their crops stuffed with laurel buds (Birds of Penn- sylvania, p, Not more than half a dozen stomachs of the 20S examined by the Biological Sur- vey contained fragments of this plant, the explanation probably being that only a few stomachs were col- lected in late winter, when birds most resort to it. Four of the birds that contained laurel were used for food, with no evident ill effect. One of these had eaten fourteen grams of laurel, nearly all leaves, with only a few buds. The leaves had been clipped into bits as If by scissors. Investigation of this habit of the grouse, known to be a common one, is much needed. The maple is often selected for budding, and sometimes the spicebush. Flowers are sometimes plucked by browsing grouse. Aaters and red clover have been identified In their food, and the green ovary of bloodroot wa found In a bird's crop by Amos W. Butler. The following plants also are in the list of browse of this bird: Heuchera, chlckweed. catnip, clinque- foll, buttercup, speedwell, saxifrage, liveforever, meadow rue, smilax. horsetail rush, azalea, false goat's bear' . aster, cupweed. Fruit. — The ruffed grouse Is pre-eminently a berry eate^. Not only dees It consume more fruit than the hot 'hlte, but It Is our most fruglvorous game bird. than one-fourth of Its yearly food — 2S 32 per -consists of fruit, distributed as follows: 3.82 rose hlpa 2.46 per cent poison Ivy and aumac, 3.01 per cent grapes, and 19.03 per cent miscellaneous fruits. The taste for rose hips, seedy and husky as they are. and often beset with fine bristles which irritate the human skin and would seem really dangerous to internal tissues, is one of the singular freaks of bird feeding. It reminds one of the cuckoo's liking for caterpillars which are so bristly that its stomach becomes actually felted and sometimes pierced by the stiff hairs. Rose hips hang on the bushes throughout the winter, accessible to the hungry grouse as they journey about In the snow for food, and are usually swallowed whole. The bird likes grapes also No less than 3.01 per cent of the year's diet consists of them, and in No- vember they make 17.2 per cent of the total food for the month. All experienced sportsmen know of this taste, and during this month they always count on getting their best shooting in the vicinity of heavily fruited grapevines. The wild grapes with small ber- ries, such as Vitis cordifolia. are especially liked, but also large grapes are greatly relished. The species from which cultivated varieties have been derived (Vitis labrusca) appears to be commonly selected. Thirty to forty grapes are often swallowed at a meal. From this taste one might expect the grouse to com- mit depredations on cultivated grapes, but no reports of such damage have come to the Biological Survey. Like many other birds, the ruffed grouse eats the berries of sumac and other species of Rhus. This food contributes 2 46 per cent of the year's diet. Among the non-poisonous sumacs seLected ara tiit dwarf sumac, the staghorn sumac and the scarlet sumac. Not uncommonly from 300 to 500 berries of the dwarf sumac are swallowed at a meal. This lik- ing for the dry and apparently non-nutritious sumac is another curious freak of bird appetite. Probably. as with the bobwhite. the seeds are broken up in the gizzard and the inclosed meat, or endosperm, set free for digestion. The immunity of the bird from poisoning by poison sumac and poison ivy, which also it eats, is interesting. That these seeds retain their virulence after being eaten was shown in the case of an investigator in the Biological Survey who was poisoned while examining stomachs of crows that had fed on poison ivy berries. At times the ruffed grouse eats many of these berries, as proven by one collected by Prof. 3. A- Forbes at Jackson, m.. De- cember 9, ISO, which had eaten 280 of them. Where grouse are numerous, poison sumac is usually less abundant than poison ivy, and consequently it ap- pears less frequently in stomach examinations. One hundred and sixty poison ivy berries were taken from the crop of a ruffed grouse shot by Dr. A. K. Fisher at Lake George, N. Y, October 24. 1S92. Miscellaneous fruits amount to 19.03 per cent of the annual food. The two favorite kinds are the part- ridge berry and the thorn apple (variosu species of (Crategus). both of which were eaten by forty of the 208 grouse eaxmined. At least two species of thorn apple are used for food — the cockspur thorn and the scarlet thorn. These apple-like fruits afford a nutri- tious food. At Peterboro, N. T., the writer observed grouse coming to thorn-apple trees during November and well into December That they take large num- bers at a meal is shown by an individual obtained at St. Vincent. Minn., which had eaten thirty-eight. W. Bf. Kobbe says that grouse eat with great relish the small wild crab apple of the Northwest (Auk. XVn. p. 351. 1900). They enjoy cultivated apples. seldom missing a chance at trees on the edge of woodlands. At Chocorua. N H.. in October. 1S9S, some of the birds killed in old orchards of abandoned farms had fed principally on apples. After thorn apples and partridge berries, a number of other fruits are also staples. The large brilliant clusters of the mountain ash are acceptable, and the delicious win- tergreen berries, with scarlet skin and snowy- pulp, are also relished. The bayberry is a favorite food wherever accessible. In grouse stomachs one often finds nothing but the little round granules contained in the waxy drupes of this berry. Blueberries also are eaten In large quantities. A bird killed at Cho- corua, N. H. July 25. 1S92. had eaten a hundred blue- berries and one killed at Chateaugay. N. Y.. in Sep- tember, contained about 300. The high-bush black- berry and the huckle-berry also are eaten, as well as the cranberry. Dr. A. K. Fisher found twenty-one whole cranberries in a bird shot at Lake George, N. Y.. November 2. 1901. The extent to which black- berries are sometimes eaten is shown by the fact that the stomach of a grouse contained about S00 black- berry seeds. Another bird had eaten over a hundred sarsaparilla berries. An explanation of the delicious flavor of the ruffed grouse appears in Its varied and highly flavored diet of fruit, herbs and seeds. In addition to the fruits already noted the following kinds found in the birds examined may be named, though the total number mentioned in this bulletin is probably not a fourth of the complete list of fruits eaten by this bird: Greenbrier, hairy Solomon*s seal, smooth Solomon's seal, blackberry, black raspberry, raspberry, domestic cherry, cultivated plum, wild black cherry, wild red cherry, elder, red elder, black haw, nanny berry, withe rod. maple -leaved arrow, high-bush cranberry, mountain cranberry, snow- berry, feverwort, black huckleberry, black alder, flowering dogwood, bunchberry, cornel silky cornel. pepperldge. mulberry, bittersweet, manzanlta, bar- berry, Virginia creeper. The seeds of most of these berries pass through the digestive tract unharmed and are capable of ger- minating. Thus the grouse assists In planting many fruiting trees and shrubs, the heavy seed of which must be disseminated mainly through the agency of animals that feed on them. Food of tho Young. — The young of most birds are far more Insectivorous than adults, a statement that applies to gallinaceous birds, though to a less extent than to passerines. More than &5 per cent of the diet of eight grouse chicks examined, none of which was more than a fourth grown, was insects. Seven adults collected in the breeding season had consumed only 30 per cent of insects. Newly hatched chicks eat the largest proportion of insects. As they grow older they gradually become more frugivorous and granivorous. Three chicks, only a day or two old, collected by Prof. S. A. Forbes at Waukegan. EI* June 9. 1876, proved to have been exclusively insec- tivorous. They had eaten cutworms, grasshoppers, Lampyrid beetles, ants, parasitic wasps, buffalo tree hoppers and spiders. A grouse about a week out of the shell, collected by F. H. King, had eaten a white grub, seven spiders and thirteen caterpillars (Trans. Wis Ag. Soc., vol. 24. pp. 472-473, 1SS6). It should be noted, therefore, that the ruffed grouse, though only slightly insectivorous when adult, as a chick destroys great numbers of insects, and deserves much more credit from farmers than it usually receives. (To be continued.) TRADE NOTES. A Good Score. The Ontario and Quebec Challenge Shield, which was competed for at Ottawa, Ont.. on February 24th was won by W. J. Johnstone of Ottawa with a score of 95, Mr. Johnstone using "New Schultze." Fred Coleman's Marvelous Shooting. The many friends of Fred Coleman of Philadelphia will be Interested and pleased to note some of his magnificent work at live birds and "Best Rocks" in England. He has been across the water the past few months teaching the young idea how to shoot, and proving conclusively the superiority of the Parker gun. L'p to January 2S Fred had shot in 25 sweeps, and either divided or won every one. Fred Coleman has shot under the name of "Alfred Daniels." and uses only the "Old Reliable Parker Gun." At Leeds. Jan. 12 (at Lightcliffe Gun Club), in match with W. Pickles, acknowledged champion shot. North of England. Fred Coleman scored 45 out of 51. at 31 yards, and W. Pickles 44 out of 51 at 2S yards rise. At Kirkheaton Cricket. Dec. 11, in match with J- Sykes (grounds near Manchester), at best rocks. Fred Coleman scored 15 out of IS to Sykes" 7 out of IS. at 30 yards rise. On Dec. 15. in match -with J. Iddon (at Lightcliffe Gun Club), Fred Coleman scored 37 out of 48, at 31 yards rise, to Iddon's 32 out of 47 at 30 yards rise. At Leeds. Nov. 2S— 24 out of 25 at 31 yards: 25th bird dead out of bounds. At Manchester, Nov. 27—23 out of 25. At Metthoioyd, Nov. 26— S straight, one barrel. At Leeds. Nov. 29—19 out of 20. at 2S yards rise. At Leeds, Nov. 29 — 19 out of 21. At Audenshaw. Dec. 19—37 out of 40. at 30 yards rise. (Near Manchester.) At Gisbumoe, Dec. 2S— 47 straight, at 29 yards rise. During week Nov. 26— Mr. Coleman shot at 105. scored 100; 5 dead out of bounds. During week of Dec. 22. shot at 100; scored 90: 7 dead out of bounds: 3 missed; at 30 to 31 yards rise. At Barnsley, Jan. 3—14 out of 15; 1 dead out of bounds. At Barnsley, Jan. 3 — 24 out "of 25, at 29 yards rise. At Heckenwick. Dec. 5 — 11 straight, with one barrel. At snipe, near Manchester, 47 out of 50; which is best score ever seen in north of England at these fast birds. At Grayson, Jan. 25, at best rocks, 28 out of 30, at 31 yards rise. Winchester Supplemental Chamber. This handy and simple device permits the use of the popular pistol cartridges in the high-power rifles chambered for the .30 Winchester. .30 IT. S. Army. .303 Savage, .303 British. .32-40 Winchester. .32 Win- chester Special. 35 and .405 Winchester cartridges without change or readjustment of the rifle, except the sights. The "Winchester Supplemental Chamber is inserted in the rifle barrel, the same as a regular cartridge, and. as it is extracted from the rifle in the same manner as an empty shell, it does not interfere with the instant use of regular ammunition For short-range shooting or indoor target practice it gives excellent results, which makes it a valuable addition to every sportsman's equipment. It is also an aid to attaining proficiency in the use of a regular hunting rifle at a minimum expenditure for ammunition. The Winchester Supplemental Chamber is made to take teh following cartridges: The .30 Winchester, .30 U. S. Army. .303 Savage, .303 British. .32 Winchester Special, and .32-40 Winchester caliber chambers take eiiher the .32 Smith & Wesson or .32 short Colt pistol cartridges. The 405 Winchester caliber chamber takes the .41 short Colt D. A. pistol cartridge. These cham- bers are patented, and manufactured by the Win- chester Repeating Arms Company, and they recom- mend the use of Winchester smokeless powder cart- ridges with the supplemental chambers, as black- powder ammunition will soon foul barrels having such quick twists as the above mentioned. Those desiring to purchase these chambers will find them on sale by all sporting goods dealers throughout the United States, the list price being 60 cens each. March 10, 1906J ®Jt£ grcetrer cmo grppvistxtan 13 MONTANA FAIR AND RACING CIRCUIT STAKES CLOSE APRIL 10, 1906. $125,000 IN STAKES AND PURSES. BUTTE ALL HARNESS RACtS TO BE ON THE THREE-HEAT PLAN Aug. 22-Sept. 4 2:14 Trot 81000 2:20 Trot 1000 2:30 Trot 1000 2:10 Pace 1000 2:18 Pace 1000 2:25 Pace 1000 Three-year-old Trot 600 Three-year old Pace 600 RUNNING STAKES (1) 6 Furlongs. 3-year-old 8300 (2) 7-8 JUlle. Batte City Stake 50O (3) 1 Mile. Miners' Colon Stake 300 (4) 1 1-4 Miles. Elks' Bandlcap 600 (6) 1 Mile, Woman * Club Derby 300 (6) 3 4 Mile, Last Chance Stake 250 For complete list of Harness Parses and Condi- tions write A D. G ALIiRAlTH Sec. LIVINGSTON Sept. 5, 6, 7, 8. 3:30 Trot 81000 3:18 Pace 10U0 Three-year-old Trot 300 Three-year-old Pace 300 RUNNING. 1 Mile, Livingston Derbv 850C For complete list of Purses and Conditions write J M SEAMAN. Sec BILLINGS Sept. 10, 11, 12, 13. 3:16 Trot 91R0O «:30 Trot 1000 2:14 Pace lOtiO 2:18 Pace 1000 RUNNING. 6 Furlongs, Billings Derby 8600 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write W. B GEORGE, Sec. HELENA MONTANA STATE FAIR— Oct. 1, 2, 3. 4, 5. RCNNINC BOZEMAN Sept 18. 19, 20, 21, 22. 2:16 Trot... ©inoo 3:14 Pace. . SI O00 2:24 Trot IOO11 2:23 Pace... 100O Thtee j ear-old Pace 500 Th ee-j ear-old Trot .",* BOO Two-yea. -old Pare fioo Two-year-old Trot 500 RUNNING. 1 1-4 Mile Bozemaa Derby 500 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write J N" SMITH, Sec. HARNESS. 2:16 Trot S1000 2:30 Trot 1000 3:14 Pace lOOO 2:25 Pace 1000 1 1-4 Miles. Helena Handicap 81000 1 Mile, Montana Derby 500 1 Mile, .Montana stake, for Montana bred 3-year-oldB 500 3 -4 Mile, H. A. My er Hotel Stake, added 350 Conditions at Helena— All harness races 3 (n 5 unless otherwise specified Entrance 3?;. payable $10 May 1. $10 Juoe 1 310 July I. with b% additional from money wioners. Anyone wishing to enter a horse July 30 may do so by paying h% 0: stake. For Entry Blanks and Conditions write J. W. PACE, Sec. BIG TIMBER Sept. 13, 14, 15. Stakes wsll be an-onnced later- For ccpy write F. S. DOCTHtTT. Sec GENERAL CONDITIONS for Eutte, Bozeman, Livingston, Billings, Big Timber, Great Falls and Missoula. All harness races snail be on the Three Beat plan. Money divided at the end of ach heat unless otherwise specified on programs. Money divided 50,25,15,10. Entrance 5?;. payable as follows: 15» April 10 when et> tries c!o>e: 1% May 1; l%Junel: i?oJulyl, and last payment Augnsl 1, when horse most be named, ana uLless otherwise specified 5.%' additional will be deducted from the_nr*r and second money winners only in each heat Horse distancing the field entitled to first and fourth money. Horses not finishing within 100 yard> of the winner in any heat will be barred from farther competition In the event American Trott ng Association Rules to govern, except hopples not barred on horses over three years old Notice— Each member of the Circuit has good traek. plenty cf Mable accrmmcdauons and good hotels and every assistance will be given horse- men to get the bei-t of shipping accommrdations. The Circuit is arraEgfd ith no dates corflictfng. and no long jump? or doubling over road. Each member reserves the right to declare eff or reopen as a purse any stake not filllne satisfactorily by refunding entrance money, and to poslporje or c 11 off races in case or bad weaiher. Books, auctions and mntuals will be used. For Turther particulars and Entry Blanks address the local Secretaries or the Circuit Secretary. TWO HARNESS AND TWO RUNNING RACES DAILY. Pres., R. D. STEELE, Bozeman. Circuit Sec., A. D. GALBRAITH, Butte. GREAT FALLS Sept. 25. 26, 27, 28.29. i:13 Pace. 81000 >:18 Trot. .. SIOOO 1:18 Pace... IOOO 2:30 Trot... lOOO RUNNING. L 1-2 Ml'e§. Great Falls Derby 8500 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write ALLEN PIfcRSK. Sec. MISSOULA Oct. 8, 9. IO, II. 2:16 Trot 81000 2:14 Pace ..81000 2:30 Trot 1000 3:25 Pace... IOOO RUNNING. 1 1-4 Mile* Missoula Derby 8500 1 Mile Montana >iabe for Montana bred Three->ear-olds 500 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write K C. MULRONET, Sec TEXAS FEVER IN CATTLE. A publication will soon be issued by the U. S. Department of Agriculture on the subject of Texas fever, a disease which has been a very serious obstacle to the development and prosperity of the cattle industry of this country, es- pecially in the South. Some years ago it was conclusively proven by the ex- perts of the Bureau of Animal Industry, after extensive investigations, that this disease, which is also known as sple- netic fever and Southern cattle fever. Is transmitted by the cattle tick, and that without this Texas fever tick there would be no Texas fever. Later expe- riments have been made with the ob- ject of determining the best methods of eradicating the ticks and preventing the disease. The results of these vari- ous investigations are presented in Bul- letin No. 78 of the Bureau of Ani- mal Industry. The bulletin contains valuable information for stockmen concerning practical methods for eradi- cating the Texas fever tick from both the animals and the pastures, and also describes measures to be adopted for the prevention and treatment of the disease itself. The cattle tick Is not only the car- rier of the Texas fever infection, but is a parasite which deprives cattle of much blood, retards growth, reduces the milking capacity, and induces an irritable state known as "tick worry." It therefore becomes manifest that the extermination of this tick will be of " Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombauif's Caustic Balsam t Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy -ad Positive Cure for Curb, Splint Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Eingboce and other bony tumors. Cores all akin diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Diphtheria. Removes all Bunches from Horses or Cattle. As a Human Remedy 'or Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc.. 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If we allow an indi- vidual weight of 600 pounds for all classes of animals, including stock, beef and dairy cattle, there is a de- crease in value of at least $1.50 per head for the estimated 705,000 south- ern cattle annually marketed under these conditions, which amounts to a loss of $1,057,500 each year. This de- creased value reacts and fixes the valu- ation of all cattle which remain in the infected territory. Thus, it is estimated that there are in the quarantined area four and a half millions of cattle east of the Mississippi and eleven millions west of that river, which at a reduc- tion of $1.50 per head will give the enormous shrinkage in value of $23.- 500,000, directly chargeable to the cattle tick. This should be regarded as an unnecessary reduction in the assets of the infected country. The above figures do not include the decrease in flesh and the lack of de- velopment of the infested animals, nor the expense to the Federal. State, and local governments for enforcing the quarantine regulations. The shrinkage in the milk production of cattle har- boring many ticks will average one quart per day, and the loss occasioned at 3 cents per quart for the S75.000 ticky dairy cattle out of more than 4.000,000 dairy cattle below the quar- antine line would amount to $26,250 per day, or, counting 300 milking days for each cow to the year, to $7,875,000 annually. It has also been calculated that approximately 387,500 animals die each year of Texas fever, and at an es- timated value of $15 per head this means a loss of $5,812,500 per annum. If all these losses are taken into ac- count, it will be seen that Texas fever is responsible for a loss of about $40.- 000,000 annually to the stockmen of this country. These appalling losses and annual sacrifices of the cattle raisers it Is believed can be entirely effaced, in time, by methods outlined in this pub- lication, and at a small proportionate cost, for, with the general application of the measures described, the cattle tick may be wholly exterminated. Every dollar wisely expended In this work will be returned many fold dur- ing each succeeding year. One of the difficulties encountered by the cattle raisers in fighting the plague is In confusing the Texas fever tick with the various other ticks occa- sionally found on cattle, but which are entirely harmless so far as the trans- mission of the disease is concerned. For this reason a brief popular descrip- tion of the various ticks found on cat- tle, together with colored illustrations showing their appearance in different stages, is contained in this publica- tion. The Department of Agriculture has just issued the annual regulations for the prevention of the spread of Texas fever, effective February 1. On and after that date cattle are not allowed to be moved from the quarantined area to other parts of the country except by rail for immediate slaughter and under certain conditions prescribed in the regulations. Most of the cattle in the Southern States are immune to Texas fever, but as they are infested with ticks they dis- seminate the disease, which is very de- structive to other cattle. It is there- fore necessary to observe strict regu- lations during the greater portion of the year to prevent the spread of the infection to nonlnfected areas, as se- rious losses would surely follow. During the winter months the danger of infection is so diminished that cattle are permitted to be moved from the quarantined area under less stringent regulations than at other seasons of the year. The open season applies dur- ing the months of November, Decem- ber, and January, to all localities, and for the states of Virginia and North Carolina the time is extended to March 15th. The quarantined area for 1906, as prescribed in the regulations just is- sued, includes the following territory: The whole of the states of Arkansas. Louisiana. Mississippi. Alabama. South Carolina and Florida, the Indian Ter- ritory, all of Georgia except a few northern counties, the southern half of California, the southeastern half of Oklahoma, the eastern half of Texas. the southern half of Tennessee, a few counties in southeastern Kentucky, the eastern three-fourths of North Caro- lina, and the southeastern part of Vir- ginia. Southern cattle which are properly dipped or otherwise satisfactorily treated under government supervision I and freed from ticks may be shipped 1 without restrictions. In some of the states and territories which are quarantined on account of I this disease the local authorities are 1 putting forth efforts to exterminate the ticks which infest the cattle. This work is mainly conducted In localities contiguous to the quarantine line, and when the cattle ticks are eradicated from a given district the quarantine line Is changed and shipping restric- tions are removed. Copies of the above-mentioned bul- letin and regulations may be obtained from the Chief of the Bureau of Ani- mal Industry, Washington, D. C. VETERINARY ADVICE FREE Or. 6. A. Tuttle, a veterinary ear- peon of long experience has writ- ten a bo*'fc entitled "-Veterinary Experience" on the diseases of. horses, giving Evmptoma and treatment in plain terms. It is fnlly illu5trated with diagrams showing the skeleton and circa- latory and digestive systems with, (references that make them plain. -Tells how to buy a horse and know whetherit 13 pound or not. Exery hor=e owner should have one. 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I used two bottle of your Spavin Cure I hare been using her all summer and up to the present time has not shown any lameaess. I think you have a remedy of considerable merit, especially when you take Into consideration my horse is 15 years old Yours very truly, M. E. JUSTICE. "SAVE-THE-HORSE" permanently cures Spavin. Ringbone (except low Ringbone), Curb, Thoroughpln, Splint, Shoe Boll, Wind Puff, In- jured Tendons and all lameness without scar or loss of hair. Horse may work as usual. $5 (in per °.ottIo, with a written guarantee as binding to protect you as the best legal talent could make It. Send for copy and booklet. At druggists and dealers or express paid. Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y. Formerly Troy, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission SL, S. F. FOR SALE. Will sell, on account of 111 health, the follow- ing trotting bred stock, at private sale, at a rea- Honablo price: ORKNEY WILKES by Mambrino Wilkes dam by Speculation. Orkney Wilkes 1b the sire of Swanhilda 2:1* %mlle 1:01, In third heat of raoe. Tv»o producog brood mares, MAUD S. by Jim Mulvena, dam of Swanhilda; MAGGIE Mc by Abbotsford Jr.dam by Speculation. Maggie Mo is the dam of 3id Abbot, 4-year-old trial 2:18. Alsoooltr >y Orknej Wilkes, Sldmoor and Dio- tpp., Tvt .. yearlings by Dictatua, perfeot nily pacer from Maud S.; one horse -pie Mo. trotter. . r .nformatton oall on or address W. L. MCDONALD, Box 82, Concord, Oal. Early Closing Stakes OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM, SEPT. 10 TO 15, 1906 ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 15 But Letters Postmarked May 16 will be Accepted Illihee Stake, for Two=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 $ 400 Valley Stake, for Three=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 500 Merchants' Stake, for 2:25 Pacers, 2 in 3 1000 Greater Salem Stake, for 2:15 Pacers, 3 in 5 .. 2000 Rural Spirit Stake, for 2:10 Pacers, 2 in 3 700 Oregon Stake, for Two=>ear=old Trotters, 2 in 3 400 Inland Stake, for Three=year°old Trotters, 2 in 3 .. 500 Farmers' Stake, for 2:27 Trotters, 2 in 3 1000 Lewis & Clark Stake, for 2:17 Trotters, 3 in 5 2000 Capital City Stake, for 2:12 Trotters, 2 in 3 700 f*r\TU,T"|'rnp|/"\l«'C. Entrance fee 5 per cent of stake and 5 percent additional from money vvnt/lllvliu* winners, payable 2 per cent May 15, when horse must be named, and 3 per oent September 1. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent of stake. Horses not winning a heat In three shall not start in the fourth heat, except in a Held of eight or more starters, then he must win a heat In four or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall shall have a right to a share of the stake aooordlng to their rank at the close of the last heat. Right to transfer or substitute entry in the stakes open to August I to horses eligible May 15, subject to approval. The board reserves tlie right to declare off and return first payment in any stake that does not fill satisfactorily. Right reserved to deolare two starters a walk-over. When only two start they may contest for the en- trance money paid in, divided 70 per oent to first and SO per oent to 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 enti- tled 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. Two Consolation Purses of $500 Each. Free entrance will be given to non- winning starters in the Greater Salem Stake for 2:15 pacers, and the Lewis and Clark Soake for 2:17 trotters, mile heats, 2 in 3, provided there are eigrht or more starters in each of the original stakes. W. H. DOWNING, President, F. W. DURB1N, Secretary, Shaw, Oregon. Salem, Oregon. Trap For Sale. A FINE, STYLISH, STRONGLY CON- structed, high Trap, with brake, in splendid condition; oan be secured at a bargain for cash. Cost $425; buit to order. Owner leaving city See it at once at HULDA STABLES, 1530 Fell Street, Park Panhandle. BROOD MARES FOR SALE. EVELINE by Nutwood 6001 FOR SALE. PETRINA. chestnut mare by Piedmont; dam by imp. Glengarry. She is the dam of Lady Petrina 2:27 and Is now in foal to Nutwood Wilkes. Price 8200. EESRINA ohestnut filly, yearling, fine individ- ual with good trot ing action, by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Petrina; entered in the Breed- ers Futurity Stakes, $7000 Guaranteed, and the Oooldent,Stake. Price $200. Bay Colt by Leoco, dam Julia G. 2:23M by Daly. A handsome, hlgli-olass youngster In every respect. Prioe $125. To see the animals and for further particulars addresa F. W. KELLEY, Breeder and Sports- man, 36 Geary St., San Franolsoo. TOR SALE. Palo Alto Bred Trotting Stallion Coming 7 years old; mahogany bay; lb% hands; weight 1050. Sire, Mendocino; dam, registered mare Princess by Nutwood, dam of Allejandre 2:15^, etc, A clean-galted, level-headed trotter. With two months' work this winter trotted a mile in 2: 18&. A handsome horse and perfectly sound. Will be sold reasonable on account of illness or owner. For particulars address CHAS. L. DE RYDER, Pleasanton.Cal. Horse will be shown at track, is thoroughly city broke. PONY WANTED. 12 to 13 hands high; must be hand- some, sound, gentle and thoroughly reliable tor children to drive. Address A. S., Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco. TRAINING AND BOARDING STABLES DKT1SADERO AND FULTON 8TS. (X408 Fulton Street) Horses Called Por, Clipped and Delivered AT POPULAR PRICES. BUSINESS HORSES FOR HIKE. I have opened a new Boarding and Training Stable near the above corner, and will board and train for raolng, road use or matinee driving, a limited number of first-class horses at reasonable rates. Have good tooatlon, brand-new stable and everything first-class All horses In my oare will reoolve the best of attention. Phone: Park 573, jt (j, CABNEY, NELLIE FAIRMONT )A11 safe LySwooaW. EVELINE (registered) Is dam ot Ole 3:10VS, Tie tam 2:19, Maud Fowler 2:31$c and Koblet3:lS, the dam of Bonalet 2:09^, champion three- E ear-old pacing ally. ,1 — ' NHlxm FAIRMONT, dam ol Zambra. world's champion for 5 miles, 12:24. ALAMEDA MAID (registered) Is out of Oakland Maid 2:22 by Speculation. For prices and particulars address S. B. WRIGHT. Santa Rosa, Oal. FAST PACER FOR SALE. ALFRED D. 21121 By Longworth 2:19, son of Sidney (sire Sid- ney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon 1:58*4). Dam, Ferndale Belle by Judge Salisbury, he by Nutwood, etc ALFRED D. 3:12M stands 16 hands and weighs 1150 lbs. He is sound and a racehorse that is much faster than his record. Has paced miles close to 2 minutes. Address Mrs. A. G. DIETZ, 5403 San Pablo Ave., Oakland, Cal. POR SALE. The great broodmare MABEL by Naubuc Dam of Direotly 2:03*f (two-year-old champion record 2:07?i), Reybel (trial) 2:10 as a vhree-year- old and several others with trials b-?low 2:30. Mabel is In foal to Bonnie Direct 2:05^. This oross should produoe a world-beater. For price and particulars address I. D. CUNNINGHAM, Haywards, Cal. FOR SALE. The standard registered two-year-old colts as follows: NDTTLE B. 39634, foaled 1904. by Ked Nuttle 22357 by Red Wilkes; dam Cameline by Direct Line 22117 by Director; nest dam Camilla by Antevolo. NDTTLE BAKSTOW 39636, foaled 1904. by Red Nuttle 22357; dam Dell tfarstow by Nut- wood Wilkes; next dam Delia by Startle Both of the above are good prospective trotters, and while they have never been handled they show good aotion. They are both good Individ- uals and will be sold cheap. Address MARCUS BLANCHARD, 673 S. First St., San Jose, Cal. PRIVATE SALE. ANE THREE-YEAR-OLD STALLION BY ^ MoKlnney 2:11M- Two yearling oolts by Kinney Lou 2:07J£. One yearling colt by Red Nuttle 22367. Twelve standard mares and fillies. I will stll at bargain and will offer inducements on the lot. o. B. BLANCHARD, San Jose, Cal. Deposit Your Idle Funds WITH THE Central Trust Company of California 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. You can open a Savings Account by mail With any sum large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-2% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Interest paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. BROOD MARES TO LEASE. Onaocountof leaving the county, I will lease two of the best producing brood mares in the State: BABE, dam of Just It2:19yj. winner of Oooi- dent-Stanfordpaceof 1905; trial 2:13. Babe is by Danton Moultrie 17064, he by Guy Wilkes, dam Carrie Malone, full sister to Chas. Derby and Klatawah2:05% (3-year oldchampion). Her dam was by Soudan 5103, half brother to Stamboul 2:07Vi, champion trotting stallion in his day; sec- ond dam by Nutwood 60C,half brother to Maud S. 2:08&, queen of the turf In her day; third dam by Owen Dale, the handsome son of Belmont, the: foundation of the California trotterjfourth dam by Old Gray Eagle, four-mile runner. FINNS MALONE. dam by' Anteeb, second' dam the dam of California Nutwood by Geo.M. Patchen Jr.; third dam. the Chioago Mare. Both of the above madttvill foal by Maroh 10th to J. R. C. In answerlnffilease state what horse you intend to breed to. T*or particulars address, THOS. P. KELL, No. Do So Market St., San Jose, Cal. By McKinney 2:11H; dam, Lady Washington. In every point he shows his breeding; has good style and action. Stands 16 hanas, weight 1200 pnunds. His get bring big prices. Will make the Season at Rose Dale Stock Farm, Fee, 830 for season. Far further pertlcularg address ROSE DALE STOCK FARM, Santa Rosa, Cal. FOR SALE. DAY MARE, THREE YEARS OLD, BRED J-* by Mr. Meek of Haywards. Sire, Wm Harold; dams by Direct, Mambrino Wilkes, Woodburn and Williamson's Belmont. Fair size, good style and looker; trotted half at matinee, Jan. 29th. in 1:22 to high-wheel road oart Can trot a 35 gait on track or road any day without any rigging or boots. Sound and tough and as well able to be put to work as many 4 or 5 year olds. Prioe 8200. Apply to Breeder office. FOR SALE. A HANDSOME PAIR OF COBBY BUILT -"- ooal bla«k Geldings; five years old; 15 2' hands high- By a son of MoKlnney out of stand- ard bred mares. This Is a thoroughly high-class park or road team and has style and manner! that would win in a show ring. They are broken to stand, walk and trot; are fearless of all objects on road and steam oars; guaranteed to drive sin- gle or double, or on the lead in four-ln-hand, and sound and kind In every particular. Address H. R. RAND, The Renaissance, corner Franklin and Fell Sis., San Franolsco, Cal. FINE LOWLAND PASTURE. Sediment Soil. Stock Stabled in Storms. JNo Wire Fences. RANCHO CALAO, MOUNTAIN VIEW. OAL, 672-680 11th Ave. Baok or The Chutes. All kinds of Horde. bought and sold. THE Z1BBELL STABLE Z1BBELL St SON, Proprietor*. San Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and handling all kinds of Fanoy Hones, A few Nloe Rigs on hand. Take «ny oar going to the Chute.. Tel.: Weil 258 March 10, 19C6J f&he gveebev axtb ^pcvtuman 15 TOOMEY TWO-WHEELERS Give Best Results For Racing and Training Purposes. Low Seat Racer Sulkies the Fastest and BeBt in the World Pneumatic Pole Carts tor Team Work on both Road and Track Pneumatic and High Wheel Jog Carts lor Road Use Send for latest Catalogue to CANAL DOVER, OHIO, V. B. A. S.T00MEV&C0., O'BRIEN & SONS, Coast Agents, Golden Gate Avenue and Folk Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CSL. Season 1906. CHARLES DERBY 4907 Leading Sire on the Pacific Coast. $50 THE SEASON, CJTHTT T TTT'T^T T Best son of Bertha, dam of Don Olllilj W Ihljlj Derby 2:04 1=4, Diablo 2:09 1=4, Owyho 2:07 1=4, etc. Paaturage So per month. Not responsible for accidents or escapes. For further particulars address $50 THE SEASON. OAKWOOB PARK STOCK FARM, Danville. Cal. SEYMOUR WILKES REG. No. 0232. Race Record 2:08 1-2 The Fastest Son of Guy Wilkes And Sire of the Sensational Trotter Monroe ',':iny; and Joe Eviston (3) 2:33 Will make the Season of 1906 at Lakeville, Sonoma County, Gal. SEYMOUR WILKES earned his record in a hard fought race and was a game racehorse. No horse in California can show a greater proportion of large handsome, strongly built and well- boned colts. They all look alike, and in nearly every instance are square trotters. SEYMOUR WILKES is by Guy Wilkes, his dam Early Bird by Playmail; recond dam by Odd Fellow, third dam by a son of Williamson's Belmont, fourth dam by Blacknawk 767. He weighs 1200 poauds stands IS hands high and is one of the most symmetrical horses in California. Several of his get are in San Francisco and will be shown to prospective breeders with pleasure, Tormc it\r> itto Cancnn t^H ®50 TO INSURE. Mares can be shipped direct to ranch ICilua 1UI lUC OCdSUll Sonoma Queen 2:25. Sonoma May 2:29M, all trotters with records made In 1905 The following are the only colts that ever had any training. They have worked as follows: R W P 2:I2vt. Charles Belden 2-A3H. Sonoma Girl 2:15. Sly B. (3) 2:16^. Dumont S. 2:17, Ayeress 2:18, Sonoma May 2:19K, Jim V. 2:25, Ella V. (3) 2:21, Clipper W. 2:22, Sonoma Queen (3)2:1" Sonoma Star (3) 2:s7'/2. Dennis 2:30, Frank G. (2) 2:30. Will make the Season of 1906 at Santa Rosa. SERVICE FEE 935. H. A CARLTON, Owner, Santa Rosa, Cal THE PERFECTLY GAITED TROTTING STALLION Reg. No 22449 ALTA VELA 2!11 Sire, ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 in 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar l:50Jf. Dam, LORITA 8:1^'^ (dam of Alta Vela 2:1134 and Palorl 2:24%) by Piedmont 2:17^; Second dam. Lady Lowell (dam of Lady well 2:16% and Lorlta 2:12%) by St, Clair; Third dam, Laura, dam of Doc, sire of Occident 3:16*£, Will make the Season of 1906 at THE PARK STABLE Twenty-fourth Avenue and Fulton Street, San Francisco, California. TERMS FOR THE SEASON, $35. Breed to the best galted and fastest son of Electioneer on the Pacific Coast. Address all communications to F. GOMMET, Owner. HANS FRELLSON, 24th Ave. and Fulton St., San Francisco. STALLION OWNER! If You Need a Stallion Card or Stock Catalogue Compiled and Printed, Stallion Poster, Stallion Service Book, a Cut of Your Horie. a Horse Rook of any kind or a Tabulated Pedigree, Get It where you can get the CHEAPEST and BEST. FOR SAMPLES AXD PRICES ADDRESS MAGNUS FLAWS & CO., 358 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ILL. Closing Out at Private Sale Of tlOLO Sacramento Valley Stock Farm Stallions, Brood Mares, and Young Stock Suitable for Training. °H- Sc"H2?l^T°fluIy1|?fI'k;?,??5tt?i^-^? Sidney Dillon; 1st dam. Guy- below 2:20), by Director ^17 -"irrt a.™ ,-am' ^'scara (dam of 5 in list, 4 the great stallior . Pancoast arid o?he ^ww (dam of„6 in li3t- including 413 (sire of Maud S);4th dam Belli ?7da ™ f f SJT,S an? dams)' by HaroId MeCurdy's Hambletonian 2-26 ™ and other nl B*lmon!' s™ of Nutwood, Mambrlno Chief 11; Stn dai Belle Lut J r?en?me*S,re,B~ and dams)' b* Imp. Bellfounder and Lady Allport bv taWn, ?"!" riB/0V'KS,h son ot he is as great as hfs pVi^. ^excVed. ''Auriough 'n1ve\ ^in^ nl? rshe=„hti^d°ytofa^ch%^sidreeraPteIotn AS * ™™^ "»«Mr Prefer a E to which female line trace such great ones as Ali-vnne r/i™ 3 £? £?noesf Alcantara, Palo Alto, and m^yXr grat ones%i L°^Mf '™y)' ™*"2' *^ale line down to lincess hive ea?n produced lie'dams of trot" o?*co„£hr9ma^ ^ t^ tVnacLhe StUd ' * W°rthy °f 'heSopyp0oUrt^rttyallt1o0neanrnkeahlo,w r^ Si brood mare), by The Moor; 1st dam, Floweret (dam of ■> ?i r S» gr|at,e^ ' I'fo'S %SPff^S[«VmViltR- "*■>■ ^ Elec'ione^:^! da^Ma^flower 2.30% (dam of Wildflower, Manzanita, etc.), by St. Clair 16B7?^ J-uaynower The sire of this Ally represents Electioneers most famous speed nrn ducing line, the Electioneer-Beautiful Bells cross. The dTm of this filiJ represents a great performing and producing line that first m°de Electlonier famous through the great Wildflower, Manzanita, etc., the Electioneer C flower cross. This filly was bred to Dillcara in 1905. and thTradhrVw or the produce will be composed almost exclusively of the greatlst hT„orti1„2f of the greatest producers in the trotting world. Her produce fSm Inch ™ei"S 5? racTnT ""* °f the h'SheSt ValUe for b^nTpurpo's'es^as AUSO SOME TWO-YEAB-OLIS out of dams whose pedigree is given above s„» able for training and breeding purposes, and entered in Futurity Stakes" One grand 2-year-old stallion. ^uiuniy btalces. Addresa SACRAMENTO VALLEY STOCK FARM, Care of BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal. Woodland Hackney Stud De PUE & SPRAGUE, Owners 324 Pine Street, San Francl.co Breeders of HigTi-Class Carriage Horses Breeders of High-Class Saddle Horses Stud Headed by MANCHESTER Registered American Hackney Stud Book 201 Twice "Winner of Blue Ribbon in New York Horse Show Carriage Tea,ms, Sa.ddle Horses and Gig' Horses For Sale. Correspondence Solicited. A. H. BRINTON, Manager WOODLAND, CAL. ALMADEN 2:22 W lr DIRECT 2:05 U Dam by McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 A perfect colt trotter, winning the Breeder two-year-old stake in2-22W In 1903 aDd Oooldent Stake {7 heats) in 1904. Will make the Season at Whisky HIM in obarge of M. L. LUSK. Address &31 K St., Sacramento Cal. Service fee $40. T33.o TliorouslilDreci Stallion SALVATION The Great Son of SALVATOR, and sire of CHANTILLY, PRE* SERVATOR, SHELLMOUND and many other winners. Will make the Season at Mr. CHAS. W. CLARK'S FARM, SAN MATEO. TERMS: $50 for the Season. JiTfiSSSg'J.f.n^?^ Maros 'aken 08r6 r w, D. RANDALL, EmeryvlUe, D. W. DONNELLY, San Mateo, Pays $5000 Yearly. Qeary Street, San Franolseo, Cal. FOR SALE CHEAP. Imported Belgian St ion Will be sold very cheap en i out stook farm. Severe ard bred mare by piedrt C. L. JONES, Box "'of-ing .ad- 16 <&Ue gvee&ev tuto ^pcvt&xnatt L MARCH 10, 1V06 KITSTCXTErSr 3L-OXT IN THE X^EJAID RACING! BILLY BCCB. 3:07 1-4 KINNEY LOn 2:07 3-4 3 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON HAWTHORNE 2:06 1-4 Kl N N EY LOU 2.074 OF THE champion sire Will make the Sea.on of 1906, commencing February lit, ending July l.t, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. tfrms S10O $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in ioal. BUDD DOBLE, San Jose, Cal. New California JocKey Glnn OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHAEF For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S- P. Ferry, foot of Market Street— leave at 13, thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladles and their escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. For farther Information, pedigree and description address PHONE) JOHN 2481. MENDOCINO 22607 iJI^rrayI RECORD (THREE-YEAR-OLD) S:19K | # XM. 1/ «* V» *« *W * * -. ^..,„o.^,,»„„.^nsna«l: Idollta(2y.o>2:21W. (3y.o.)2:12. (a)2|0?H. Leonora f Ionian Jr 188i; third dam, Ullda (thoroughbred) by Imp. Mango. JoaTs are good size, floe lookers, bold and pure galted and easily developed. SERVICE FEE tor Season ot 1906, 876; usual retnrn privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 19.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11. 1900. Bred at PaloAlto Stock Farm. or her day, and as well as her daughter Helena Is a great broodmare. 8ERT1CE FEE tor Sea.on ot 1906. »4U; mml retnrn privilege. ma^ruuTp^^^^ injury or escapes. Address all communications to ^^ ^^ ^^ farm Stanford Untyerwlty. "anta Clara Co , Cal McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS Standard the World Over. ^-Address tor printed matter and prices W. J. Kenney 631 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. PHENOL SODIQUE heals SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast, Keep Handy for Accidents. Iff^S^Ssg^EKKsl °n DOgS, i^->~'ST^*„,r3i~~/i,'c ■ Jess." ^3»»* For Sale By All Druggists, Recomm naed by this - publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. Mc Kinney, 2!11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, S500.00 byOwen Dale, sod of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST Is a dark bay, 15.3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds: well formed and of kind disposition. In his blood lines are represented the greatest strains of tbe American trotter. •Will make the Season of 1906 at San Jose, with return privilege in case horse remains In California. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T W BARSTOW, San Jnge. Cal THE STANDARD TROTT1NQ STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Terms, S40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 is by Hambletonian Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes 2:084- Phoebon W. 2:C8?,£, Robert I. 2:0gi£ and 7 others in the 2:15 list); dam Anna B lie (3) 2:274 (dam of Robert I. 2:08?i. Maud Murray 2:12, MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 In 2.30 list and dams of 8 MURRAY M. 2:14 is a handsome five-year-old bay stallion with small star and black points. In his three-year-old form he stood 16 hacd< and weighed 1125 lbs., and Is a natural, square-galted trotter. He Is a horse of grand finish, plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back, strong loins and stifles good feet and legs. His breeding is excellent, and with his Individual- ity he presents a popular and spec --producing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes in the show ring. Excellent pasturage at reasonable rates For further particulars address PROF. II. H FREE HAN, University Station, Los Angeles, Cal. NEAREST 35562 KINNEY WILKES Sired by McKINNEY 2:11*. sire of Sweet Marie 2:04*. Kinney Lou 2:07«, Charley Mac 2:07*. Hazel Kinney 2:09*. The Romin 2:094, Dr- Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05*, Zolook2:05*, You Bet 2:07 Jennie Mac 2:09 eto. First Dam, hazkl WILKK-j 2:1 1*, a great race mare by Guy Wilkes 2:15*. sire of F.ed Kohl 2:073£, Hulda i':084. Lesa Wilkes 2:09. Seymour Wilkes 2:084. eto , and dams of Antezella 2:104. K^therine A: 2:11*. etc.. ero , and grand at WOODLAND RACK TRACK To a limited numberof approved mares. FEE 850. with usual return privilege. Address C. A, SPENCER, Woodland, Cal. E. P HRILO. Otrinr. 21 P>>4t St.. San FrancUco. Cal. R. AMBUSH 41840 Rec. (3) 2:141 SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARK, 2 miles east of San Bernardino. Add. EBBS. - G- W. BWNEIL, Rejlagds^ LEONARD STATION, Santa Cruz County. For cards containing tabulated pedigree, etc , address JAMES T. LEONARD. Rural Delivery No 3, YVateonvllle. Cal I DIRECT 2:12 1-2 (Officially Timed in 2:08: In a Race) Will make the Season of 1900 at DAN LIEGINGER'S STABLES, 801 Devlsadero Street, Sao Francisco. I DIRECT Is one of the best bred of all the sons of the great Direct 2:05%. Bisdam IsFran- cescaby Almont (dam of Sable Frances 2:15%. Guycesca 2:20 and the sire Earl Medium, sire of 6 standard performers); next dam Frances Brfckeorldge by Sentinel 2S0, full brother io Volunieer. As an Individual I DIKECT is perfect, and with his breeding be cannot help trantmlttlnfr speed. Tormc <5A FOR THE SEASON, LIMITED TO A FEW APPROVED MARES. For partlc I CI HIS $d\J ulars address DAN LIEGINGER, 801 Devlsadero St,, San Franr>ro. Or MABRY SfaMAHAN, Owner. 207 Sanson." St.. San Fnr Pedigrees Tabulated and typewritten rfady for frpmirg. VT* BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 80 Geary Stt Francisco, California. 18 ©he gxetfoev emir ^cxi&xmxn 1 March 10, 1906 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Parbott, Esq..) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 <«"> will serve a limited number of Approve* Mares, Season 1906 EEE - - - *75 Kednotlons made t. r two or more mares. Manajer, WALTER SEAL*. MoKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON J Reg- No. 34471. Great Race Horse and Producing Sire. ZOLOGK 2:05! THE CHAMPIO NUTWOOD Tire of early and extreme speed Ml Sire GUI WILKEB 2:15« WILKES Mbte*M-=«i r.'« '/•% e"oh\mplond«nr«.S1ar.o^ ge Idlngof the snrnooD WILKES Is tlie slreot John A Mo- NUTWOOl. «i ar.old8 ln 2:30 list), Tidal w.™ »-09 Mis Idaho &09M Who Is It 2:10M, Stanton SS£«SJ»«aSgJto- -e s,red W,V.i !lollo*:15;andMls.Wi»n2:«5M. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. MARTIN CARTER. Nu-wood stock Farm Has lo Three- Ve»r-old» that worked trials la 1905 »• follows: LILIAN ZOLOOK 3:14, KINNKY WOOD 2:1S. CLKOPATRA 8:15, RED LOOK 2:18. 70LLIE 2:18, INACGUKETTA 2:22, HYLOCK 2:25,MAJELLA 2:25, ADA LANTE 2:26. BOLOCK 2:27, and 3 Two-Year-Olds a. follows: WENZA a-jS4 BONNIE JUNE 2:27, IZALCO 230, and 12 others now In training: that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. SIRE OF Ambush(3) 2:14| Delilah (3) 2:14| Bystander 2:I4| Sherlock Holmes 2:15| Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 ZOIOCK'S Sire is the Great MoKINNEY 2:11 1-4 ttib Tin-m is the ereat broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 ... « rS o.i^i-i rt«mnr 7r>r OCK 2-05W Zephyr 2:07*; second dam the great broodmare SSB^^lS'Sio^ASiai^oiaTOWai*, Delilah (3) 2:14'/,. Ed Winshlp 2-15, win«?» mat Pi 2-1? Dixie's 2!27 and grandam of Coi. Green (trial) 8:1054. third dam Echo Belle9 IrJndam oi ScoS *15H1 I by Echo 4*62; 4th dam b, Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, Is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. AH his oolts are good-hoaded, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for aocldents or escapes. Alto, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCOs $,6 Terms for the Season »<*° HENRY DELANEY. Race Traok. Pleasanton. Cal. Season" starts February lBt and ends Jane 1st. Mares will be cared for in any manner desired, but by ZOLOOK 2:05^; dam GIPSEY. dam of Gazelle 2-11V4. Delilah 2:14H and three more In the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:1454. NUSHAGAK 25939 of Mccracken's Blaokhawk^ ^^ Umltea to ,orty outside mares. jl _ - —, ,» i 2-Year-01d Record PRINCE ANSEL 2201 St Clair 16675. Fee S30 Woodland, Cal. Both Stallions will make the Season of 1906 at Race Track, c A SPENCER, Manaeer, Woodland, Cal. ALEX BROWN, Owner. Walant Grove. Cal. A High-Olasa You-ns MoB.inney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 t A handsome son o, McKlnney f Sir* 1 by the great ^™l?%^^Z\^l ag great broodmare (dam of George W'sWngton *16X; ^m<™D»| nV»L0fMl, d.mol Scotty Silo* Third dam. Jenny Llnd (dam of Prlnoe Al «n ^J™^ "ood-galted blaok five years old. He ?«.,& .oTo^tmlV^llJ^sVc^nuCs^ae/andwl.. be trained for season. Terms, S25 for the Season; usual return privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 oYrn^K^^ Good pasturage $3 per month. THOMAS SMITH, Both of the above 1()21 ,,„OJ.K,a st . Vail>jo. Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05i SIRE OF BONALET (3) 2:09«, In winning race-World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3), trial (trotting) 2:1154 (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECT'S first orop prepared to raoe. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mareB and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturaee, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2.50 per week. Separate paddocks and stallB if desired. A good runway for yearlings, inoluding green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good oondltion. Running water in all paddocks and fields. DR. E. G. MCCONNELL 70S SUTTER ST.. SAN FRANCISCO. C. L. GRIFFITH, PLEASANTON, CAL. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE SEASON OF 1906 AT PLEASANTON at an nrmirrn I en I '-world's record made in i 897. XlflR rlllNIrK I'nM/l The r»iteit.O«nnst aiul JloitComlmnt EtIIIflll, lit* ill «.~,i aim iuu»l> uuun. Kace Horao In Turf History. (MORNING STAB 2:03. JOE POINTER 2:05*{, Sire of {^DNfcY POINTER 2:07M. SCHLEY POINTER 2:08*, etc Horsed at my barn. More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California 3 By SIDNEY 2:19 3-4 (sire of 19 In 2:15 list and 106 in 2:30 list and sire SidDey Dillon, sire LOU DILLON 1:5854. World's Champion); dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; next dam Sarpy Mare by Echo 462. SIDMOOR 2:l73i Is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual in every respeot. He is one of the best produoing Boneof Sidney, and with the right oross will get Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Ra°eddTr*CK and at Pacheco- Fee $30 for Season. **"""' jqhn OTT, Pacheco, Cal. Usual Return Privileges. SIDMOOR 2:17 SIRH OF ENOCH 2:12Vi. GENERAL 2:14^. TEDDY THE KOAN 2:1 7*. LITTLE M l»J !: 'l(. MARCHIONESS 2:29. LILLIAN »I™"K« ■i-ii'i sod TIP OQOANDO (trial) 2:09V',. BID ABBOTT (trlaf) 2:18. JAKE E. (trial ball mile) Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:59* Hal Ulllard 2:04g Star Hal *»«» Hal Cnaffln 2.05* Elastlo Pointer ~MH New Richmond 2.07* i^mradM:'::::::::::::::::::|i !!SH99!s:::::::::::::::::::|iH Silver Hal AIU eto. 6 produoing sons, 2 produoing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of Star Pointer I:B9M Hal Pointer 2:04 Klaatio Poinier 2:06>>4 Cloud Pointer 2:24M Tennessee Pointer 2:24^ 2 producing sons 6 produoing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO CONSTRUCTOR 39569 Bv McKINNEY 2:111. Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares. FULL BROTHER TO TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 ,„eJanDedverV4m.DSrrrVe'>;u?a? 7easo"n8 f^the5 sTd" UVa^dVsev.ral mares when three years old and all of hla got are of good size and good lookers «,„„»,„ Pol Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee »25. with usual return privilege. or further particulars r.ddress *#_ii_l_ /-*> I BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McKINNEY 2:11*. sire of SWEET MARIE 2:01*. Kinney Lou 2:073i. Charley Mac o.n7>- w»7«l KInnev 2-09W. Th- Roman 2:09V4. Dr. Book 2:10. Coney o rS*i'.hln» Male °°06W You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09 Zolock2:051 S:ni™ AILEEN2-26V4 (dam of Mowltza 2:20*. Sister 2:20 and *hE2:$S8 MILTON" (£mWo0f0dLO°o' DI°LLON 1:58H. Red- ISsS»^ serve a limned number of maresat *"°c™lJ> '^^^V.nn^ . pl.a.anton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Rec. 2:121 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 ahorse whose first ten oolts oan beat that? . „„„„,,vn n»T Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, CAL. -s^. For further particulars address FEE $40 ...■-. H. 8. BOGOBOOtt, J20 due when mare Is bred and . , , Woe4Is>o4, C« MPayoble when mare le known to be 18 foal. March 10, im6] <£ite -givee&ev on© Sportsman 19 DUCK SHOOTERS! QUESTION- =Why is it that so many excellent wing shots cripple fine birds? ANSWER—Because they don't use BALLISTITE which never fails to kill clean. REMEMBER=-0ne (1) dead bird in the pocket is worth two (2) in the tule. BAKER & HAMILTON SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SACRAMENTO SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. OF ALL HORSE OWNERS AND TRAINERS 75 PER CENT USE AND RECOMMEND Campbell'sHorse Foot Remedy THIS illustration shows the double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 8300 list gun. If This feature, together with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder If We build everything from a featherweight 5|-pound 20 gauge gun to a lOl-pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. 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Horses without records, or with records slower than 3:12 1J£%" Payments are doe in easy instalments as follows: 1 April 10 May 8 June 5 July 2 I $75 $100 $100 $100 50 75 75 90 40 50 60 75 30 40 40 40 20 30 SO 30 Aug. 21 $125 110 75 50 Horses with records of 3:08M to 2:09 2:09m jo 2:10 2:10Vi to 2:11 2:11H' to 2:12 Horses without reo-1 ords, or with rec- ! ords slower than I 2:12 J Positions will b9 drawn for before the first race, but in the seoond and third raoes the horses shall start as they floished in the preceding one. Horses not flaishing within one hundred yards of the winner in any race will be barred from further competition. Only Horses Named on or Before April 10th can Start in the CHARTER OAK $10000 Purse, as there is No Substitution. Purses 2. 3 and 4 will be divided as follows: 1st RACE 8500 to winner. 8125 to second, 875 to third. 2nd RACK, 85H0 to wiuner, 8125 to secoud, 875 to ihlrd. 3rd RACK, 8400 to winner, 8125 to second. «75 to third. Entrance in Purses 2. 3 and 4 is 5 pjr cent of purse, and nothing additional from winners, payable in the following instalments: April 10 May 8 June 5 July 3 Aug. 21 $20 I $20 I $20 For Entry Blanks and information address $20 $20 ALBERT H. MOONE, Secretary, Charter Oak Park, HARTFOKD, CONN. Early Closing Stakes OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM, SEPT. 10 TO 15, 1906 ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 15 But Letters Postmarked May 16 will be Accepted lllihee Stake, for Two=year=oId Pacers, 2 in 3 Valley Stake, for Three=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 .... Merchants' Stake, for 2:25 Pacers, 2 in 3 Greater Salem Stake, for 2:15 Pacers, 3 in 5 Rural Spirit Stake, for 2:10 Pacers, 2 in 3 Oregon Stake, for Two=>ear=old Trotters, 2 in 3 ... Inland Stake, for Three=year=old Trotters, 2 in 3. Farmers' Stake, for 2:27 Trotters, 2 in 3 Lewis & Clark Stake, for 2:17 Trotters, 3 in 5 Capital City Stake, for 2:12 Trotters, 2 in 3 $400 500 1000 2000 700 400 500 1000 2000 700 rrtXiniTIfMUC Entrance fee 5 per cent of stake and 5 per cent additional from money L/VjINUl 1 IVJINO. winners, payable 2 per cent May 15, when horse must be named, and 3 per oent September 1. Money divided 50. 25. 15 and lOperoant of stake. Horses 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 lii»as In tour or go to the barn. Horses so ruled out shall shall have a right to a share of tne Htak according to their rank at the close of tuelastheat. Right to transfer or subsutute entry In the stakes open to August 1 to horses eligible May 15, subject to approval. The board reserves ih« right to declare oH and return first payment In any stake that does not fill satisfactorily. Right reserved to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start they may conest for the en- trance inooev paid In. divided 70 percent to first and 30 par cant to second horse. Ahorse distancing the Held shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys only, and In no other case will a horse be enti- tled 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. Two Consolation Purses of 8500 Each. Free entrance will hi given to noo-wlnning starters ia the Greater Salem Stake tor 2:15 paoers, aod the L^wis aod Clark Stake (or 2:17 trotters, mile heats, 2 in 3, provided there are eight or more starters in each of the original Btakes. W. H. D0WNINCJ, Presid:nt, F. W. DURB1N, Secretary, Shaw, Oregon. Salem, Oregon. STALLION OWNER! ir Yen Nbed a Stallion Card or Slock Catnlociir. Compiled and Printed, Stallion roster, Stallion >.Tvlee nook, a Cut <>f Your Hone.a Morse Book of any kiiiM or a Tabulated ; :rce. 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If not at your druggist's, order direct. 50c and SI, Our free booklet, "Veter- nary Pointers," will be invaluable to you. Write for it now. WELLS MEDICINE CO. , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St„ Lafayette, Ind D E. NEWELL, General Agent for Pacific Coast 619 Ml as lot. St., San Francisco. Cal THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in California. Owners desiring to have horses handled and put in condition for sale or racing are invitel to correspond with the undersigned P JAS. THOMPSON, Pleaaanton, Cal. RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Medal At California State Fair 1892. Every horseownerwio values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on hand, ft improves and keeps . Pacing, half mile heats. Tommy Lawson 1 1 Paul D. Kelly 2 2 Senator Foraker 3 3 Time — 1:15, 1:12. Trotting, half mile heats. Silver Russell 1 1 ony 2 2 Time— 1:24 1:21. Pacing; half mile heats. Prlee Oh So 2 1 1 Nelly's Baby 1 2 2 Tomniy Mar- 3 3 3 Time— 1 :26 1 24, 3 23. Trot or pace, half mile heats. :'. 1 pacer) 1 1 James V. (trotter) 2 2 Time— 1:16, 1:13%. RAIB. E. F. Binder of Riverside has recently received from Galesburg. Illinois, three fine two-year-olds, one a colt by Allerton 2:09%, the other two fillies by Ex- pedition. that he has obtained permission from her owner to use her as a pacemaker for Mack Mack 2:12% in his early work. Mr. Shreve is the owner of a yearling colt by Diablo 2:09% out of Ferina, that he has regis- tered as "Senator Helman," and says if good looks and size count for anything he will do justice to his name. Al. McDonald drove a gray trotter by James Madi- son, owned by Constable Groom of Danville, a quar- ter in 33% seconds last week at Pleasanton. This horse is an excellent prospect. The Kenney Manufacturing Company at 531 Valen- cia street, has the agency for a gearless gas engine that is the newest and the best thing on the market. Just the thing to have in the stable or on the farm for chopping feed or pumping water. It only costs a hundred dollars with a discount for cash. Geo. Fox of Clements, Cal., writes us that it was not his mare Bessie Pancoast that was sent East to be bred to Cresceus 2:02% three years ago, but her daughter, Silpan, by Silver Bow 2:16, that made the trip and returned with two fillies by the champion trotting stallion and is due to foal again to him about the 25th of next month. This makes these fillies still better bred, as they have two crosses to Robert Mc- Gregor 2:17. The expression of every person who visits Pleas- anton, and sees the colts and fillies by Bonnie Direct 2:05%, is one of admiration. They are invariably handsome and fast. The stallion McKinley 2:29 by McKinney, owned by John W. Martin of Woodville, Cal., weighs 1400 pounds and has trotted a quarter in 32 seconds. Mr. Martin believes he is the fastest big trotter in the world. The fast pacer C. E. Hasey by Don Derby 2:04% was sold last week by Chas. De Ryder of Pleasanton to Mr. Easterbrook of Denver. This pacer is a com- ing 2:10 horse, having shown a shade better than that in his work and will be raced by Mr. Easterbrook, One of the most promising youngsters at Pleasanton track is a three-year-old colt by Bonnie Direct 2:05%, dam a mare by imported Sain, Barney Schreiber's great thoroughbred stallion, second dam Morgiana by Gen. Benton, third dam Lady Morgan by Ham- bletonian 10, fourth dam by Etxton Eclipse, fifth dam by Young Traveler. This colt was bred by Mr. C. L. Griffith who also bred his dam, and there is probably not another colt bred like him in the entire country. Mr. Griffith bred the Gen. Benton mare to Sain to get a filly and succeeded, and then bred the Sain filly to Bonnie Direct in the hopes of getting another filly. At the sale of the Griffith estate horses in 1902, the Sain filly was purchased by Dr. Rae Felt of Eureka, Humboldt county, and the Bonnie Direct colt was foaled his property. He has sent the youngster to John Quinn at Pleasanton, who is training him, and the colt is showing up well. Dr. Felt first decided to call this colt Sain Direct, but has changed the name to Bonnie Sain, a more euphonious cognomen. The colt is entered in and eligible to start in the three- year-old division of the Breeders' Futurity this year. Jacks are ready money in Missouri. At an auction sale held at Smithton in that State, March 6th, twen- ty-seven head of jacks averaged $S60. The top price of the sale was $1600, and but four brought less than $600. Californians who are trying to buy good jacks for $500 or less should make a note of this. Quite a number of good mares have been sent to Nutwood Stock Farm during the last two weeks to be bred to Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, sire of John A. Mc- Kerron 2:04%. Among them were Operetta by Long- worth 2:19, owned by Mr. Coombs of Alameda, Chari- vari 2:20% by Sterling, owned by Chas. Hug of San Francisco; Mora Mac by McKinney, owned by Dr. Dunn of Oakland; Bee Bee by McKinney, owned by Bruce Cornwall of San Francisco; Twenty- third, by Director 2:17, owned by Capt. C. H. Williams of Palo Alto, and several other well bred matrons. The imported Percheron Norman stallion Ulema was found dead in his stall on the morning of the 16th inst. Ulema had been purchased from Oscar Harris of San Francisco by Messrs. Meyn & Jensen of Livermore but ten days before his death and his loss is a heavy one to his new owners as well as to the breeding interests of Livermore Valley. The mare Walda by Waldstein. nominated in Breed- ers' Futurity No. 6, and owned by Mrs. C. L. Jones cf Modesto, foaled a fine filly by Carlokin (3) 2:20%, last Thursday morning. Word was received from W. G. Durfee at Los Angeles that Carlokin trotted a mile in 2:16% last week. This son of McKinney is im- proving right along and looks as if he would soon be a good one in the 2:10 classes. Babbie, the full sister to Cavalier 2:11%, owned by Mr. H. W. Meek, is working nicely for Chas. De Ryder at Pleasanton. She stepped a mile out in 2:15 one day last week. While you are looking over the list of trotting stall ic. nuti ■ ■ 1 onti mplati I breeding of Dad Ti ■ 1 1 coll Kenneth «'.. n lios< rd 1- 2: IT. He is by McKii nej ' 1 1 l . . arid lis ■ :■ 1 03 Cresco and has produced three foi m< 1 ■ ■■ hile 1 »aci is 1 rainii ■■■ ■ lis! this yeai Kt m ■ th C. is good gh to breed any mare in California to. Lexington, Ky.. March 10. — George Spear, the former trotting horse driver, who, it is alleged, made the affidavit on which Murray Howe seized the Mem- phis Gold Cup won by E. E. Smather's Major Delmar, and which is just now the bone of contention in the big scandal of the trotting turf, made an emphatic denial here to-day that he knew or had anything to do with the alleged doping of Lou Dillon in the race, and said he could not understand how his name was ever connected with the affair. Spear said he knew absolutely nothing about the matter except what he had seen in the newspapers, and had not made or sworn to any affidavit tending to show that the mare had been doped before the race, and that he had acted for Smathers in the matter and attended to the alleged act. He also denied the report credited to him that Peter Duryea had acted as the betting commissioner for Smathers on the day of the race and said that he had never neard Duryea's name men- tioned in regard to the affair until he read the ac- count in the trial of the breath of promise suit in New York, which was suddenly dropped by Sara Maddern several days ago. DEATH OF A NOTED PIONEER. Martin J. Burke, one of the early pioneers of Cali- fornia, and a man who has been prominent in the affairs of San Francisco for more than half a century, died last Tuesday, in his ninety-sixth year. He was the father of Mr. Frank H. Burke of this city, and up to a few months ago was a constant road driver, nearly always driving a pair of trotters. Martin J. Burke was in many respects a remarkable man, and one of the few of the fast diminishing band of the earby-day pioneers who could *speak from personal experience of San Francisco at the height of the gold rush. He was born in Ireland early in the last cen- tury of an English mother and Scotch father. He was educated in England for the practice of surgery and was at the time of his death a member of the Royal College of Surgeons. He was also a graduate pharma- cist and before coming to California, after leaving England, he had practiced medicine for eight years at Milwaukee, Wis, In 1S49 he sailed for San Fran- cisco, doubling the Horn, and landed here in January, 1S50. Believing that there was as certain a fortune in the city of San Francisco as there was in the gold fields, he determined to remain in the city, and "estab- lished himself in a pharmacy, devoting himself also to the practice of his profession. From his first arrival he took an active part in the affairs of the city gov- ernment and was recognized as one of the leaders in civic life. When the Vigilance Committee was organ- ized Dr. Burke became chairman of the executive sub- committee and in that capacity was active and prom- inent, making his name a terror to evil doers. With the disbandment of the last Vigilance Com- mittee in 1S56, he was made Chief of Police, a position that he held for ten years. After his retirement from that office he entered the firm of Hoogs & Madison, and on the death of Mr. Hoogs the name was changed to Madison & Burke. The firm was established in 1S58 originally, and was one of the first firms in the city to do a rent collecting business. His fortune was reported some time ago as being over $1,000,000, ac- cumulated in the real estate business. Red McKinney, a well bred son of McKinney 2:11%, will make the season of 1906 at the City Stables, Tulare. Cal. The dam of this stallion is Bonnie Red, daughter of the great Red Wilkes, second dam Bonnie Belle, dam of five standard performers and two producing sons by Almont 33. third dam Alice Drake, dam of three standard performers and two producing sens and two producing daughters, by Alexander's Norman 25. fourth dam by Pilot Jr. 12. Red McKinney is undoubtedly one of the best bred McKinney stallions ever raised in this State. He is now a four-year-old, a rich mahogany bay, stands nearly Hi hands high and weighs 1100 pounds. He is said to be a show horse, which one would expect from his breeding, as he comes from families that have been noted for producing handsome horses. His service fee will be only $30, which is ridiculously low for a horse of his individuality and breeding. MAY DAY RACES AT DIXON. "Si nator" Henry Helman is training at Pleasanton the three-yearrold filly, Carrie Shreve, owned by Mr. A. H. Shrove of Cathlamet, Washington. This filly is by Zombro 2:11 and out of Ferina. the dam of Sophia 2:16 Helman says she is a trotter all right and that he expects great things of her in the near future. She trots so steadily and with so much speed The two-year-old trotting race to be given at the Dixon track May 1st closed with the following entries: Grant Chadbourne's bay gelding. Thomas D.; T. C. Horigan's black colt, Ringlight:. Alex. Brown's brown gelding. Prince Lot; W. C. Kufer's brown filly. The Bloom, and Rush & Haile's brown filly, Annabel. The two-year-old pace has up to this time received but three entries as follows: E. D. Dudley's chestnut colt. Dr. Millar: H. B. Robben's sor'rel filly, Diablo Maid, and Rush & Haile's Edna Earle. For the three-year-old trot there has so far been entered Alex. Brown's bay filly, Red Blossom, and J. A. Kilkenney's bay gelding. Dr. Douglas Hyde. For the three-year-old pacing stake there is only one entry. H. B. Robben's bay horse, Smiley. It has been decided by the management to leave the list for the last three events open until April 2, and if no further entries are made for these two three-year-old events before that date they will have to be declared off. The list is now open until April 15th for the named race, for which the following have already been named: Little Dick, Hoyt's Mare, Sleepy Joe. Mickey Free. Autorious. Suisun, Ingo. Ben Bolt, Mona, Coop- er's gelding, Chaser, Smiley and Happy Jack. March 24, 1906] ®Jm greifrer axit Qpoxxsitnati LOS ANGELES HORSE SHOW. The Pasadena open air horue show, which came to a successful ending March 10th. was so well man- aged that a clean profit of $20^9 resulted. The Los Angeles people now propose to make their horse show Jiext month even more successful. It will be held at Fiesta Park. Los Angeles, on the evenings of April ISth, 19th and 20th. and the afternoon of April 21st. Prizes for this exhibit will aggregate $5000. The plans as outlined by the association call for a tent show and when the alterations of Fiesta Park are completed as proposed it will be transformed into one of the most charming horse show grounds in California. It is planned to cover the grand stand with a canopy, reaching out to a tent 100x200 feet, which will inclose the exhibition ring, all entrances for horses being in the rear connecting with the tent stables. Myriads of electric lights will make the in- closure as bright as day, and the arrangement of the grand stand will afford a charming spot for social courtesies and all functions properly a part of a horse show. The arrangements for the exhibition will be under the guidance of Secretary and Director A. E. Ash- brook, assisted by the following ofli Col. John H. Norton, president; Fenl. K. ttuti vice-president; Byron Erkenbrecher, second vice- president; "W. J. Doran, treasurer; O. Rey Rule, as- sistant secretary. Directors: Byron Erkenbrecher, John H. Norton. Howard G. Bundrem, Ferd. K. Rule, John G. Mott, W. J. Doran. Judges: John K. Pallister, Yorkshire. England; J. M. Kuykendall, Denver, Colo.; D. Boylard, Los An- geles; L. G. Waring. Riverside; W. J. Hogan, Louis- ville, Ky. Ringmaster. O. P. Updegraff, Topeka, Kan. Veterinary. Dr. J. A. Edmonds. the first brush must be sent to the secretary by May 3. J. H. Campbell donated a silver cup for competi- tion, making a total of eleven trophies. The cup committee reported that the Morosini Cup will be awarded to the horse winning the greatest number of heats regardless of the gait of the horses. The Frazier Cup will be awarded on a point system similar to that in vogue at Empire track. The Execu- tive Committee and Board of Directors Cups will be set aside for trotters and pacers respectively. As no horse will be eligible to win more than one cup, the winner of the Morosini Cup will be barred from winning either of the latter two prizes. The Schuyler Cup will be reserved for teams, and the remainder of the trophies will be devoted to competitions for points in rotation according to classification. It was decided that in view of the difficulties in speedway racing no horse shall be expected to go against its record. As the point competition prohibits walkovers, no horse will be permitted to go over the course alone. It was decided that as the horse is counted as a point winner and not the driver the points won by a horse in case it is sold during the season shall be credited to its new owner. The distance flag question provoked a warm debate. It was decided that in brushes where more than five horses start it will be 75 yards, and where less than this number start the distance shall be 50 yards. A recall bell will be used in the future, so as to avoid the difficulties of past seasons. The Question of a permanent headquarters was held over until the next meeting. The treasurer's report shows a balance of $935 in the treasury, with no outstanding bills. A LIBERAL PROGRAM. Charter Oak Park, Hartford, Conn., is advertising the most liberal harness racing program ever offered. It pays the winners most and costs the losers least. It is progressive, in advance of the times, and de- pends on your support to make such liberal condi- tions so popular that they must become common. You can name your promising trotter in a $10,000 en- gagement for $20, and if he continues promising start for $150. If you have a good horse for sale such an engage- ment increases his value out of all proportion to the cost. The average full paid up entrance in the Charter Oak Stake is about 3 per cent, and there is nothing additional from winners — no fine for coming in front, but liberal reward for winning any race or any po- sition in any race. The classes are believed to afford engagements that will satisfy the greatest number of horses likely to be in training — fast and slow classes for trotters and pacers. If you wish to see such programs continue and be- come general help make this one popular and put money in your own pocket by filling out an entry blank and mailing it on or before April 10th to Albert H. Moone, secretary. EVERY HEAT A RACE. The New England Trotting Horse Breeders' Asso- ciation announces in this issue six rich early closing stakes to be decided at its Grand Circuit meeting. These stakes close Tuesday, April 10th. and are all to be on the three heat plan, every heat a race, the stake to be divided into three equal purses, and these purses to be cut up into three moneys. The leading stake is the Massachusetts, which is for 2:14 class trotters. A total of $9000 is offered for this class, $3000 for each race, of which $2100 goes to the winner of the heat, $600 to second and $300 to third. The Blue Hill for 2:30 class trotters and The Ponkapog for 2:10 class trotters are for $4500 each, divided into three purses of $1500 each, $1050 to first, $300 to sec- ond and $150 to third. The Readv'ille for 2: OS class trotters, The Norfolk for 2:08 class pacers, and The Neponset for 2:06 class pacers are for $3000 eacn. divided into three purses of $1000 each, of which $700 to first, $200 to second, and $100 to third in each heat. The entrance fee to these stakes will be 5 per cent of the purse, and nothing deducted from the winners of any part of the purse. Another splendid feature of these stakes is that owners may enter more than one horse in any event, if trained in the same stable, and only one per cent additional will be charged for each horse so entered. While but one horse in the same ownership will be allowed to start, this condition will enable an owner or trainer to enter two or three horses in a race and to start the best one. All the conditions are fully set forth in the advertisement which appears in our business columns. NEW YORK ROAD DRIVERS. Road driving and speedway brushing in New York will be more popular than ever this year. The Times of March 14th says: One of the best attended meetings in the history of the organization was held last night by the Road Drivers' Association at the Hotel Cadillac, when plans for the Speedway parade, horse show, and brushes to be held on Saturday, May 5, were decided upon. This is one week earlier than originally intended. The route of parade will be similar to that of last year, and the Old Guard's Band was engaged for the occasion. The first matinee brush will be held on Thursday. May 10. An effort was made to change the day this year to Saturday, but the success of last year influ- enced the members to retain Thursday. Entries for ABOUT HORSES. Now that for some little time the horse trade has been drifting towards the horse repositories, or auc- tion places, a few7 notes as regards their customs may not be out of place. The advantage of these reposi- tories is that the seller there finds that quick sale which is the saving of much expense in keeping a horse until a private customer can be met with. On an average the prices realized at an auction are lower than any dealer, breeder or other person usually ob- tains in private sales, hence the expert buyer, who knows a horse when he sees one, will naturally go to the cheapest market. Then there are guarantees at auctions which differ naturally from those of any dealer or private vendor, and the auction guarantees possess the supreme advantage of keeping all parties free from litigation in cases where horses do not turn out satisfactory. One of the chief rules observed in all first class repositories, in the description of the horse, is the importance of the word good, hence a "good" harne'ss horse must be sound in wind and eyes, and fully capable of doing his work. If found not to be answering this warranty, he can be returned within forty-eight hours of purchase, the auctioneers then acting as arbitrators between seller and buyer, the while holding the money paid by the buyer before the horse was delivered. Unless the vendor voluntar- ily takes back the horse, the latter is then tried by those appointed by the auctioneer, and the party found to be in error pays the expenses. If it is ruled that the horse does not answer the description given by the vendor, the buyer gets all his money back from the auctioneers. The guarantees of wind and eyes and other things covered by the word "good" are so relia- ble that the writer has seen a dealer pay over $1,000 for a good looking animal without any previous knowl- edge of the horse, and without seeing him more than the short time the horse is in the auctioneer's hands. Cart and van horses are usually guaranteed as "good workers," which terms are interpreted by auc- tioneers as quiet in harness, able to draw and back a load, sound in wind and eyes, and capable of being worked. From these notes it will be seen that a good repository is a proper place to buy in, but if the buyer is not an expert, he should call to his aid someone who is, and then he can not go far wrong. An intri- cate knowledge of horses is not possessed by many (though no one will own it) and only those who have thoroughly studied the subject are competent to make selections. — W. R. Gilbert. DROPPED SOLE, OR PUMICED FOOT. the heels of good length and turned, with calk set back on the web. the clips drawn up oi quarter, and the weight taken off the front quarter and toe of the foot. In adjusting such found necessary to apply the nails well back to the heel, and thereby obtain a pressure feet part of the foot. By placing | ilk well back, as described, we remove the pressure from the diseased part, and place the center of gravity more directly under the foot and leg, thereby enabling the weakened laminae to attain its former strength. This method always prevents the horse from stum- bling, and if proper precaution is taken by the groom or stableman in applying poultices and swabbing clothes to the fot and coronary band, a growth of new horn will be noticeable. A very good plan is in such cases, to place a layer of thin sole leather between the foot and the shoe particularly at the weak portion, and if there be a separation between the outer wall and the internal foot, splendid results can be obtained by filling the same with a salve of some kind that will stimulate a growth, covering the whole up with oakum. Again, the plan of a wet swab placed around a coronary band serves largely to bring about not only a healthy but a speedy growth of horn. This is a subject which even the most practical among the shoers have rarely confronting them, and, consequently, less concerning this trouble is known than many of the different diseases or defects that come under our daily notice, writes a shoer in the Horseshoer's Journal. The dropped sole, or pumiced foot, is known among scientists as a form of founder, or larninitis, and is caused in many cases by the same abuses which create the latter trouble. The horse's weight is suspended by the laminae. The bottom of the internal foot, always in contact with the sole, does not in the case of the foundered horse, pr^ss equally on all portions of the foot. The back part of the laminae remains more sound than the that part which surrounds the toe. and the weight of thf horse being suspended by those laminae, the naturae consequence is, when an equal distribution of it is not present, that the toe naturally takes an up- ward turn while the sole is caused to drop, and the sole becomes like a piece of pumice, hence the word, "pum- iced," is used in this case. The practical farrier, acquainted with this form of disease of the foot. Is never wanting for a rem- edy that will bring about natural conditions. The first thing necessary to do is to obtain a proper dia- gram of the foot, which is done by rasping away all of that fungus growth which Is usually attached to the wall of the toe. The sole being weak and dropped, cannot be treated as In ordinary feet. The foot must be level, as nearly as the case will allow, the heels usually having the growth, which is removable. The shoe should have a broad web all around to the heels, ABOUT RINGING. A well-informed turfman has suggested a plan to eliminate "ringing." He says: "No intelligent horse- man can deny the fact that the frequency of the cases is due mainly and mostly to the carelessness of track secretaries who accept entries without the necessary information for a thorough and complete identifica- tion of the horses as well as of the men making the netries. For the sake of getting a large list of entries and correspondingly big sums of entrance money, the track managers do not even comply with the existing rules, deficient as they are, in the matter of recording their entries. The latest ringing case is an example. "An unknown man drives to the , Johnstown, Pa., track, applies for a blank, enters a pacer named Mil- dred, pays his entrance fee, borrows a sulky from some one, wins the race and walks away. He says the mare was sired by Moquette 2:10. He goes to another track, enters the same way ana says sne was a daughter of Millwood, and disappears with a portion of the purse. Absolutely no thought is given as to the identity of the man and horse and no ques- tions asked. As long as some one has to win the money, what does it matter to the track managers who it is? If a rule be passed imposing heavy fines, or even expulsion of the association and its members who accept entries without the necessary details for further identification, and who, for the sake of the extra income of entrance fees, do not reject those whose statements look suspicious, even the boldest will hardly dare to take the risk. "The parent associations should prescribe a form of entry blanks and demand that track managers accept entries to their meetings only when the said blanks are properly and satisfactorily filled. In case of failure, the track managers should be held equally guilty with the parties who do the actual ringing. The following detailed information should be de- manded: 1. Name, color, sex, sire, dam, her sire and by whom bred. 2. By whom the said entry was last owned. 3. Three most distinctive marks, besides the size. 4. If the entry has a mark, when, where and in what race it was obtained, and if a record against time, to be so stated, with necessary documents. "The breeding of some few horses may not be known, and in rare cases, the owner or trainer making the entry may not know the name of the breeder, but there could not be any single instance in which the parties will not know1 the last owner of the horse, nor be unable to give the marks asked for. "With the above in the list of rules and regulations of the two associations, and backed by heavy fines and suspensions of both the parties concerned and track associations, will make the ringing of horses on trotting tracks almost an impossibility. For the good of the game, leading trotting turf weeklies should "take up this matter and push it until something is done against the ever-increasing evil." — Kentucky Stock Farm. BOERS AND THEIR HORSES. The Boers' horses, says an English writer, are sel- dom stabled, never groomed, and rarely fed: they pick up their living as best they can off the veldt. Some of the richer and more humane Boers give their ani- mals shelter at night, and in summer, when the herb- are is scorched to nothing, give them a feed of mealies (Indian corn) or oat hay. Nevertheless, the Boer ponies have wonderful staying power, being able to cover from thirty to fifty miles a -lay lor days to- gether. The Boer never rides at a trot — always al a walk or a canter, or at the gait, peculiar to South Africa, called "trlppling," between a fast walk and a slow trot. It is a very pleasant gail for tile rtdi I very easy to the horse. An Indispensable part o£ his gear is the rawhide halter, with a loose end about four feet long. When the Boer off-saddles, tin end is wound twice round the horse's foreleg, just above the knee, and knotted fast. Thus secured, the animal can graze comfortably, but cannot run away. The Boers never hobble their horses. The si the Boer is diametrically opposed to that taught in English riding-schools, with no grip anywhere, hut depending entirely on balance. He affects very short stirrups, sticks his feet well home In the irons, and at right angles to the horse's body; he mounts and dismounts with lightning rapidity and there Is not a more docile or better trained animal an1. hand laid gently on Its neck, and the Boc it Is hardly more — stops dead instantly. CCite $veei*zv emir gppjortemiwi [March 24, J9C6 CERTIFICATION OF AMERICAN BOOKS OF RECORD. The i Cor the Certification of Associations of Breeders of Pure Bred Live Stock and Books of Record of Pedigrees, as adopted by the United States irtment of Agriculture, are as follows: In accordant e with paragraph 473 of the Act of Congress entitled "An act to provide revenue for the government and to encourage the industries of the United States." approved July 24, 1S97. authorizing the Secretary of Agriculture to "determine and certify to the Secretary of the Treasury what are recognized breeds and pure bred animals." and amended by the act i ss approved March 3. 1903, entitled "An act regulating the importation, of breeding animals." the following regulations are hereby prescribed for the certification of association of breeders of pure bred live stock and books of record of pedigrees: 1. Any association in the United States desiring certification by the Secretary of Agriculture to the Secretary of the Treasury, under the provisions of paragraph 473 of the act of July 4, 1S97 (amended March 3. 1903), shall submit the following: (a) If incorporated, with capital stock, a statement showing amount of capital stock and number of shares, the names of incorporators, names and resi- dences of directors and officers, names and residences of shareholders with the amount of stock held by each, and a copy of its charter. (b) If unincorporated, or if incorporated without stock, a statement showing the names and residences of officers and directors, and the names and resi- dences of members. An association incorporated without capital stock shall submit a copy of its char- ter. (c) Each association shall submit a copy of its constitution and by-laws and rules of entry, and copies of all blank forms used in the conduct of its business, such as applications for registry, certificates of registry, transfer, etc., of its financial condition on the thirty-first of December preceding date of ap- plication. 2. (a) Each certified association shall submit, on or before February 1, 1905, copies of the published volumes of its book of record, if such have not already been filed with the department. If the association has not yet published a book of record, such a publication must be submitted on or before February 1, 1906, otherwise certification may be withdrawn. When a volume of the book of record is published, a copy shall be forwarded to the Department without delay. The Department advises that at least one volume be published annually; however, in cases where circum- stances make it impossible to do this, a statement shall be submitted showing how often the book of record will be published, and this statement will be considered and acted upon according to its merits. The schedule so adopted shall be adhered to, but the interval allowed between the publication of any two volumes shall not exceed four years. (b) On or before February 1st of each year, each certified association shall submit copies of its con- stitution, by-laws, rules of entry, and all blank forms used in the conduct of its business, such as applica- tions for registry and transfer, certificates for use in the importation or exportation of animals into and from the United States, etc., and a statement showing the names of foreign pedigree-record associations and books of record of pedigree with which it is affiliated, with the names and addresses of the secretaries of such associations and custodians of books of record. (c) Should any association fail to act in conform- ity with any or all of these regulations, notice shall be sent at once to such association. Failure to comply within thirty (30) days ater the sending of such notice, or to submit reasonable explanation for the delay shall be regarded as sufficient ground for the withdrawal of the certification of the Secretary of Agriculture. (d) Statements made under the provisions of these regulations shall be on oath by the secretary of each association. (e) Each association in the United States which has, or may have, the certification of the Secretary of Agriculture shall hold all its books open to inspec- tion by the Department at any time, should such in- spection be deemed necessary. 3. When the certification of a book of record pub- lished in a foreign country is requested, the custod- ian shall submit a complete set of the published vol- umes of said book of record to date of making appli- cation, with the indorsement of a certified association in the United States. The Department reserves the right, however, to be governed in all cases by the Lvlce of representatives of the United States abroad, if the necessity for such a course exists. 4. Custodians of foreign books of record now on the certified list should supply volumes of their books o frecord needed to complete the Department sets and submit additional ones as Issued. 5. All books of record, official papers, reports, and other communications submitted under the provisions «.f these regulations should be addressed to the Chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry. 6. The following American horse associations and hooks of record have been certified to the Secretary of the Treasury to date: American Trotting Register Association — Wm. H. Knight, secretary, 355 Dearborn St., Chicago, 111. American Association of Importers and Breeders of i hi Draft Horses — J. D. Coonor, Jr.. secretary, Wabash, Ind. Clevel nd Bay Society of America— R. P. Stericker. retaiy, 80 Chestnut ave., West Orange, N. J. American Clydesdale Association — R. B. Ogllvie, tp (y, 'Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. Coach Horse Society of America — Duncan -\ VV It. secretary, 2112 Michigan ave., Chicago, 111. il French Draft Horse Association — C. E. Stubbs, secretary, Fairfield, Iowa. German, Hanoverian and Oldenburg Coach Horse Association of America — J. Crouch, secretary, Lafay- ette, Ind. American Hackney Horse Society — A. H. Godfrey, secretary, P. O. Box 111, Madison square. New York City. American Morgan Register Association — H. T. Cutts, secretary. Middlebury, Vt. Oldenburg Coach Horse Association of Amrica — C. E. Stubbs, secretary, Fairfield, Iowa. Percheron Society of America — Geo. W. Stubble- field, secretary. Union Stock Yards, Chicago, 111. French Coach Horse Registry Company — Chas. C. Glenn, secretary, Columbus, Ohio. The Tei-cheron Registry Company— Chas. C. Glenn, secretary, Columbus, Ohio. American Saddle Horse Breeders' Association — I. B. Nail, secretary, Louisville, Ky. American Shetland Pony Club — Mortimer Levering, secretary, Lafayette, Ind. American Shire Horse Association — Chas. Burgess, secretary, Wenona, 111. American Suffolk Horse Association — Alex. Gal- braith, secretary, Janesville, Wis. The Jockey Club — James E. Wheeler, registrar, 571 Fifth ave., New York City. JUDGES BECOME AUTOMATONS UNDER THE RULE. AMERICAN 2:10 TROTTERS ABROAD. (Horse Review.) Susie S. goes to Europe, the announcement of her sale to Mr. Louis Winans, of Brighton, England, being made in our news columns this week. While she was twice beaten last year, her record of 2:09% was the fastest made by any three-year-old of the season and her performances were such a-s to stamp her one of the greatest trotters of her age that has yet appeared before the public. There was, therefore, every reason to believe that the daughter of Moko would train on to a very low record at maturity, especially as she possessed the physique which warranted such an ex- pectation. Her loss to the American turf is, there- fore, a considerable one. However, what is our loss is the gain of Europe and Mr. Winans, who, we trust, will be rewarded as well in her purchase as he was in that' of Alta Axworthy 2:10^. It will be remem- bered that he bought that great filly shortly after the close of her remarkable three-year-old campaign, and that last season she won the trotting championship race of Europe. If Susie S. should duplicate this achievement it wrill be a remarkable thing. In the connection it is interesting to note that Susie S. won last year's three-year-old Review Futurity, while Alta Axworthy also won that of the year before, previous to which she had won the two-year-old division in 1903. Susie S. is the second of last year's new 2:10 trot- ters that has been sold to the Europeans, A. Penn 2:08%, whose sale for export we announced some time ago, having been the the first. According to our count she is the twenty-eighth 2:10 trotter to "cross the water," the list being as follows: Stallions — Onward Silver 2:05%, Tommy Britton 2:06^, Caid 2:07%, Jupe 2:07^, Gayton 2:08%, Tre- vilian 2:08%, A. Penn 2:08%, Poindexter 2:09, Dillon Boy 2:09%, Idolita 2:09%, Baron Rogers 2:09%, B. B. P. 2:09%, Ellard 2:09%, Que Allen 2:09%, Athanio 2:10, Brownie Wilton 2:10, Kirkwood, Jr. 2:10, Senator A. 2:10. Total, 18. Mares — Dolly Dillon 2:06%, Belle Kuser 2:08, Derby Princess 2:08^, Dulce Cor 2:08^, Countess Eve 2:09%, Susie N. 2:09%, Neeretta 2:09%, Bonnatella 2:10, Contralto 2:10. Total, 9. Gelding — Lord Clinton 2:08%. Of these the stallions Tommy Britton 2:06%, Ellard 2:09%, and Athanio 2:10 are dead, while the mare Derby Princess 2:08% has returned to America. As horsemen are generally aware, no geldings are raced on the continent, the demand being exclusively for stallions and mares which can be used for breeding purposes after their retirement from the turf. Euro- pean breeders of trotters seem to be strong believers in the maxim "Breed to the Winner," and very few stallions, in special, are used by them unless they have won distinction as race horses. The influence in the evolution of European trotting breeding which the blood of the 2:10 stallions and mares enumerated above — and it may be possible that we have over- looked one or two that belong in the list, which has been compiled from memory — cannot but be immense. Most of them have been taken there in the last ten years (in fact we think that Ellard 2:09%, the first 2:10 trotter shipped abroad, did not go until 1S95 and he died at sea) and their produce is as yet young; but despite this several of the stallions have already achieved great success, especially Caid, whose get have done extraordinarily well. He was last year the leading sire of the Austro-Hungarian turf, fifteen of his sons and daughters — of which none was older than five years — winning 12S.500 kronen, or about $32,000, this being over $5,000 more than was won by the get of any other sire. His heaviest winner was the five-year-old Ama Z., who captured 29,000 kronen, or over $7,000, besides making the fastest record ever made by an Austrian-bred trotter. It is Austria and Austro-Hungary which have taken the lead in importing American 2:10 trotters, the great majority of those above noted having been taken there. Italy ranks next, and to her belongs onward Silver 2:05%, the fastest and the highest- priced ($21,000) trotter ever exported. One or two have gone to Russia, notably Baron Rogers 2:09%. whose get are doing splendidly. Several of the ex- American 2:10 stallions have found their way from Austria to Russia and to Germany, while, we believe. Senator A. 2:10 was once, and possibly now is, stand- ing in Belgium. Rules regulating harness, shoeing,, methods of sulky construction and other features which should be left to the individual will never take the place of compe- tent officials in the judges' stand. Proper enforce- ment of the old rules serve to make good racing, but President Johnston and his associates act as though they believe that they can legislate brains into racing officials. The new rule forbidding drivers carrying watches while driving in a race is rendered useless because of the clause giving judges the right to waive it in individual cases. Undoubtedly there have been cases where drivers have consulted their watches in order to determine whether or no their horses would go out of their class provided they won the heat. Com- petent judges would be able to note such cases or fraud and would act accordingly. Modern drivers have depended for years on their watches to inform them of pace and it will take a long time for them to learn how to judge the rate of speed without a watch. Deprived of the watch as many races are apt to be lost because of ill-judged rating of pace as were liable to be lost because of a desire to avoid a handicap. Geers invariably drives with a watch in his hand and knowing the. ability of his horse to a second he has won many a race by'1 riot being over-anxious at the half because certain horses were ahead of him. A glance at his wratch has, time and again, revealed the fact to him that his competitors were racing faster than the ability of their horses to go the mile would warrant and he has remained as quiet as the Sphinx, knowing full well that in the succeeding half the others would "come back" to him, and he w^ould he first at the wire by maintaining the same rate of speed in the second half of the mile. A watch in a case like that has insured the public a better race, a better contest than if all the drivers had gone to the half as fast as they could and come home as best they could. A few more rules like this one and the judges can as well be mere automa- tons. Deprived of the right of initiative, they wi.. merely have the power to time the heats and announce the results and racing will degenerate in the same ratio as the judges are made effective. Possibly some day men will be at the head of the National Association who will realize that they can better earn their salaries than by merely' rattling; around loudly at each meeting of the association. As it is they fool themselves more than the men who are responsible for high-class sport as it exists today. — Chicago Horseman. WILL ABATE THE EVIL. Harness racing in Great Britain has made great progress in popularity during the past few^ seasons, owing to the intelligence with which it is directed by the Association of Trotting Horse Owners of that country, an organization embracing in its membership the ablest and most thoughtful and energetic horse- men of England. This association has recently adopted a new code of trotting rules, which show an appreciation of the necessity of good methods and attention to strict discipline which is not too fre- o.uently manifested in this country, where the sport is far more advanced. These rules have been formulated to meet and to remedy the abuses and annoyances which have been experienced in the conduct of har- ness racing, and they go right to the source of the trouble, without any equivocation, applying the sort cf treatment that will abate the evil without the ne- cessity of a second application. For instance, in the case of a driver failing to ap- pear on the track when the race is called, one of the most frequent, annoying and unnecessary causes of delay, our own rules provide that the delinquent driver may be fined or that the judges may consider his horse drawn. Our British cousins have experi- enced the same trouble, but their method of preventing it is much more simple and efficacious. They provide a large electric stable bell, which is rung when it is time for the drivers to get ready, and when a second bell is rung ten minutes later the gates of the track are shut and no horse is thereafter allowed to go on the course. The horse which finds the gate closed is disqualified for the race and is as much "out of the running" as though he had not been entered. Under the administration of our own rules bearing upon the point, a fine of five or ten dollars is the utmost pen- alty imposed, and more usually the offending driver is let off with a reprimand, neither the fine nor the re- buke having the least effect in abating the evil. The British method, howrever, cannot help being most salutary, as the driver who realizes that the barrier will fall before his horse in case he is not on the track when called, will generally be there ten minutes ahead of time. This is only one of the methods which our English friends have adopted to reform abuses in the sport. All are equally summary and direct. There is no tem- porizing or palliating anywhere, but the prompt, in- exorable application of a remedy which will go right to the root of an evil and prevent its recurrence. Some of our trotting managers have reason to pattern after the ways of our friends on the other side. — Trotter and Pacer. ■ Sober up on Jackson'a Napa Soda. A gentleman who resides at Eureka, Humboldt county, and breeds several mares every year, Informs us that Eureka is an excellent location for a well bred stallion that has a low record and is a producer of speed. There are many well bred mares in Hum- boldt county, and while there are several well bred young stallions there, the breeders would very much like to have a stallion such as the one described located there and would give him a large patronage. Makch 24, 191 6 J ©J« Qxeetisv anii grportsmcm 9 THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. By RALPH II TOZBB, The Ascot Park meeting ended last Saturday and there was a marked increase in the attendance at Emeryville all this week. Advices from the south indicate that the association cleaned up $125 000 on the season, which means a shade less than $1,400 per day profit during the session of ninety days. As Manager Brooks had a fourth interest in the profits at last a /counts, he will reap a clever harvest. Con- sidering the track would never have been built but for Brooks and that it was a case of "all going out and nothing coming in," the first season, Brooks' share is none too large. George Rose is reported to have lost $75,000 on the season at booking, others less, but the only winner reported among the pencilers there is Ray Offitt, credited with being $30,000 to the good. This speaks well for the form of the Los Angeles racing, and shows that the judges must have kept the horsemen well in line all the time, otherwise there would be more than one bookmaker a winner on the season. At Emeryville there is just about the reverse to report. The vast majority of the pencilers are well ahead on the season, while the plunger "on the outside" that can show a balance on the rght side of the ledger is as rare as flowers in Alaska in February. Of late the Emeryville bookmakers have secured the coin steadily and in large bunches, while the true form of a host of the horses has been con- spicuous by its absence. Ralbert's running is a record at zigzagging probably never excelled, and it is laugh- able that the judges should take tickets as evidence that the horse was trying when he lost. Few owners there are that do not possess a friend or two amongst the pencilers, and the latter would provide tickets in thousands if necessary, provided they are en- lightened as to whether the zigzaggy flyer is to finish first or last. It seems Mr. McCafferty has been very liberal in the past with his entries at a certain track in the Middle West, and appreciation of that liberality may cause the running of the halter man's horses to be seen in an all too lenient a light to suit the racing public, who believe that in-and-out running should not be tolerated for a moment. * * * " J. Schas, of Jordan Valley, Or., has purchased of the Emeryville feed man, Stoerer, the chestnut mare. Princess Zula. four years old, by Take Notice-Prin- cess Zeika, by Rey del Sierras. Barney Schreiber leads the winnings owners at Emeryville with about $33,000 to his credit. As the second man has not reached the $18,000 mark, the genial German will doubtless head the list at the end of the season by fully $12,000. A number of his horses are to be shipped to Memphis to-morrow. The Seattle meeting is to run from June 1st to September 1st this season. H. H. Egbert will be presiding judge, with Fred Mulholland and Robert Leighton as associates. As Dick Dwyer could not arrange it to do the starting there, Ed. Duke will probably be called upon to do the barrier raising. It is announced that there will be no syndicate book tolerated at the coming meeting, but the management is so used to the 1 to 2, 2 to 2 and 3 to 2 prices the belief is prevalent that after a short trial there will be a relapse into the old order of things that has dis- gusted the thinking public thoroughly. The old say- ing that "a sucker is born every minute" is not al- together untrue, for I understand the races are fairly well patronized at Seattle, even under the sure-thing system of booking that has prevailed. * * * David Boland was "boosted" from $500 to $1,000 by C. Stubenbord last Monday when he won, but he was retained by Owner Fountain. David has come to be almost as lively an acrobat as Ralbert, which is saying much. * * * Barney Schreiber's Missouri-bred colt, Horace E.. the fastest two-year-old in California, was raised on cow's milk, his dam, the fleet Miss Lynah, dying a few weeks after Horace E. was foaled. As the great Ruinart, best son of St. Carlos, was raised on the same diet, the question arises, isn't it the proper caper for breeders to use cow's milk as food for foals instead of mare's milk? * * * The appeal of C. E. Durnell was heard by the Pa- cific Jockey Club stewards last Tuesday, with the result that the young turfman was not only not wanted, but the penalty was changed from a sus- pension of one year and a $1000 fine to ruling off the turf for life. Blacksmith Wm. Roth reiterated his story to the stewards of the governing turf body — that both New Mown Hay and Alderman Batt had worn training shoes in races, and when set for the coin had on light racing plates. Of course, one hates to see a young man like Durnell go to the bad, be- cause he was rated as a clever trainer, but if he was to resort to the trick of which he was convicted he would try others, and such men are dangerous to the best interests of the turf. Durnell was not lack- ing in "gall" and energy, and had he trodden the right path would almost surely have reached the pinnacle of fame and incidentally have acquired a fortune. He got into trouble years ago in California, and later was placed under the ban in France, his re- instatement in the land of the Gaul hardly being cold before he is caught playing bad tricks in Los Angeles. J. J. McCafferty was aJso ruled off for life by the Pacific Jockey Club stewards for "doping" The Hu- guenot, but this will hardly stand, as McCafferty had decided to take his medicine (a year's suspension and a $1000 fine), and had not appealed his case. However, the rules of the governing turf body gave the Los Angeles stewards no right to inflict the pen- alty they did. The rules are explicit, and say that any person found guilty of "doping" a horse is ruled off the turf. There are no "may be's" about It. Mc- Cafferty and President Williams, it is understood, had trouble years ago, when Racine was racing in Mr. W.'s colors, and it was never patched up. Mc- Cafferty was a noted rider in those days. This is a mixed case. Even the McCaffertys are divided into warring factions. The above decisions, reversing the Los Angeles stewards, comes as a surprise to most persons, but I very recently wrote my opinion of the decisions in this journal, and* it appears that the stewards of the governing turf body take the same view of matters that I expressed. It was that either the men were guilty or not guilty. If guilty, there was no middle ground, such as the Los Angeles stewards took. The evidence against them was conclusive, and the pun- ishment meted is just. THE HORSE IN DAYS GONE BY. Those who are fond of the horse may be interested in some scraps of information gathered from a little book, which was published in 1726, a copy of which the writer picked up in a shepherd's hut on an Austra- lian sheep run, entitled "The Farrier's and Horseman's Dictionary." The author was evidently a man of great erudition, and his method of approaching his subject and treating it, so far as it was understood in those days, emphasizes much of the simple wisdom, as well as the errors and superstitions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Many of his precepts have not yet been improved upon, and though it is probable that our standard of requirements in the matter of horseflesh, and our knowledge of what is honest in dealing with it, has improved much since the days in which he wrote, yet one cannot but feel that his sin- cerity is unimpeachable. He lets us into the secrets of the jockey and horse dealer with such apparent and ingenuous faith in our appreciation of the trouble, he has taken for us, that though we may not feel in- clined to allow our help to use the means he describes to make our horses seem other than they are, we can- not find it in our hearts to quarrel with him on the score of the benefits which he wishes to confer on them. The Horse, he tells us in defining the "noble Beast," is a Creature by Nature valiant, strong and nimble, and of all other Beasts the most apt and able to en- dure the most extreme Labour. The quality of his composition being so moist that extreme Heat will not dry up his Strength, and extreme Cold freeze the warm Temper of his Spirits. He is gentle and loving to Mankind, docile, and when an impression is fixed in his Brain, not apt to be forgetful. He is wakeful above most other Beasts, and will go through his Labour with a most empty Stomach. He is generally cleanly and of a grateful Scent. The book is a very quaint and curious little collec- tion of partly forgotten lore, and contains among other things "Direction for the Knowledge of Horses, or Instructions how to make a right Judgment of their Goodness and Imperfections," some of these directions being so very ludicrous and unexpected that it is worth while to quote them, if not for equine at least for human amusement. Some of the definitions, too, are full of unconscious humor, and a few of the prescriptions would be quite sufficient to make a modern horse's hair stand on end, or "become up- right," as the little book quaintly puts it, in treating of a cure for horses whose hair is in the habit of assuming this unusual position. There are directions for almost every possible situation in which a rider might find himself, and the paces of the horse are particularly considered in treating of the education he ought to receive. If his movements are not suffi- ciently brisk, the "Aid of the Tongue" is strongly recommended, this being a sort of "agreeable Clack- ing, or a certain Sound, which the Horseman makes in striking his Tongue against the Roof of his Mouth when he would animate the horse, and sustain him, and make him work well in the Menage." If, how- ever, he is so lethargic as to be unmoved by this gentle mode of encouragement, we may fear that he is attacked by the "Sleeping Evil," a disease which will end by making him "sleep continually and deprive him of Memory, Appetite, and all Alacrity of Spirit; white and dun horses are most subject to this Distem- per, which proceeds from cold." In order to effect a cure for it, we must "keep him continually awake by Noises and Frights. Then bleed him in the Neck and Palate of the Mouth, and let his drink be water, in which Camomile, Wheatblack Star, Bran, Salt and Vinegar have been boiled; make it lukewarm, and it will not be improper to put Parsley seed and Fennel seed into it. Also perfume his head and make him Sneeze, and anoint the Palate of his Mouth with Honey and Mustard. Bathe his legs, and stop his hoofs with Bran. Salt and Vinegar boiled together. Apply it as hot as it can be borne, and let the stable he lithsome and full of noise. You may also hold to his Nose Volatile Spirits or Salts, as Sal Amoniack and Hartshorn." When the horse has sufficiently en- joyed this treatment, we are led to infer that he will be perfectly cured — unless perchance he should not survive it — and his mettle and spirit will return in all their pristine vigor. Now, there are some persons, we are told, who con- found "Fleryness with Vigor or High Mettle," and the definition of the two qualities Is worth recording. "Fleryness is an earnest and immodest desire of Horses to go forwards, and are subject to fret, tram- ple and dance, through the Desire they have to gallop, nor will suffer any horse to go before them. Such Horses are good for nothing but to fatigue the rider and themselves. A vigorous and true mettled Hor?e is one that Is very cold in his actions, but very obedi- ent to the Spurs; whose sides are all very sensible; though we can not say but Fiery Horses are some- times very high mettled; but it is their fault to be so. with this fretful and fiery Disposition." There is a charming disregard of grammar and sequence about these remarks, born of the days when each man was a law unto himself as to the way in which he should express his thoughts, for as long as his general drift was intelligible to his readers, the average author of two centuries ago recked little of an occasion and local obscurity in style or expression. Yet the author evidently writes for all sorts and con- ditions of horsemen and horsewomen, both the most cultivated as well as professionals of a lower type, and he does not disdain to give us among other things ;i recipe to "Make an old Horse seem young," to "Make a white star in a horse's forehead or elsewhere." to "Make a red or a black star," or to "Dye a mane or tail red or scarlet, yellow or gold." The method of making an aged horse seem but six years old would today call forth so much just indignation from hu- mane societies that I will not venture to quote it. Though I fear that some of the directions are but too well known in certain quarters, but the quaintly cal- lous way of stating these directions reminds us of the fact that our great great great grandfathers were far less timorous on the subject of pain in animals than are we. As to the beautiful colors we may pro- duce in our horses* manes and tails "by boiling them in the Dye," to be done by means of a charcoal brazier, held up to the proper height from the ground, with a board between it and the horse's body as a humane precaution against the heat, we are hardly likely to appreciate them, unless scarlet manes and tails should come into fashion again. , There is, however, much humanity as well as world- ly wisdom about the following directions for feeding a horse, but though the substance of them is well known, the method of stating them is charmingly naive: "If there be any particular meat or drink that you would have the Horse eat, that you know is good for him, and he refuses it, do not thrust it violently upon him, but win him to it by gentle Means and Allurements, especially when he is most hungry and dry, and always give him less than he would have and in order to bring him to it sooner, to mix that he loves most with that he loves least, till both become alike familiar. And by this means the Horse will not be a stranger to anything that is good and whole- some." A last piece of advice as to the management of horses on secret expeditions might be very useful to couples about to elope, should they intend to ride away on horseback. The hint comes in connection with a little dissertation of the "Cry" of the horse, which is at any time unpleasantly loud, and might be exceedingly disastrous in its results to a lady, the success of whose hopes depended upon a silent trans- port. This cry or neigh is not a sound which is heard so very often, and yet accidental circumstances may arise at any moment to produce it, more probably per- haps when silence is especially desired than at any other time. So the author counsels his readers "fairs" to "tie a list of woolen cloth in many folds about the Tongue, and he will neither Neigh nor make any extraordinary Noise with his Voice, when you are upon any expedition that you would not have your horse to Neigh or make a Noise." — W. R. Gilbert in Stock Farm. MERIT PUBLIC CONFIDENCE. There never was a time in the whole history of trotting racing when more was required of the men who conduct trotting meetings, and every driver, trainer, owner and racing manager should unite in an effort to elevate and build up the sport. The public, in all parts of the country, have shown that they are willing and anxious to extend their patronage to trotting meetings, and it is the duty of racing men to see that the sport is kept clean and respect- able. No association can expect to retain the confi- dence of the public and allow the most flagrant viola- tions of turf laws to go unheeded. Racing must be conducted honestly and fairly, and if those most directly connected with the conduct of meetings will stand up firmly for clean racing, there is no danger of trotting racing losing any friends. Trainers and drivers are most vitally interested in the success of trotting racing, and they should come to the front and stand shoulder to shoulder with race managers in an effort to eliminate everything of a questionable character which has crept into the conduct of race meetings. The parent associations, by their recent actions, have shown a disposition to take some forward steps along the line of Improving the sport, and every trot- ting-horse man should stand up for everything which tends to improve and benefit the sport. There never has, in the whole history of the sport, been a series of successful race meetings held by an association which allowed sharp practices and wrongful motives to prevail. There is only one successful way to con- duct a trotting meeting, and that is to conduct It honestly, and insist on clean and honest racing. No association can hope to succeed which winks at a violation of turf laws, and no driver or owner will be successful by violating the rules of honest racing. Make trotting racing so respectable and attractive that all of the better class of people will be attracted to race meetings, and there will be no danger of trot- ting racing losing any of its present popularity — Western Horseman. Bayswater Wilkes 2:24»b is making the season of 1906 at the Dixon Driving Park, in charge of Dick Wright. He has sired such fast ones as Kelly Brlggs 2:09% and Friskarina 2:13% as a three-year-' is one of the best bred horses in California 10 ®he gveebev anb *&p0vt&tnan [March 24, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. COMING EVENTS. Rod. Jan. 1-June I— Closed season for black bass. Feb. 1-Aprll 1— Close season for steelhead. March 24-SanFraaoisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Classifi- cation Contest No. 3. Stow lake, 2:30 p. m. March 25-San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Sunday Classifi- cation Contest No. 3. Stow lake, 10 a. m. April I-Sept. to. Ont. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- head In tidewater. . April 1-Nov. l— Trout season open. April l-Nov. 1— Open season for taking steelhead above tide water. Sept. 10-Oct. 16-Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close season Tor salmon. Sept. 15-April 1— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oot. 16-Nov. 15 -Close season for taking salmon above tide, water. Oot. 16-Feb. 1— Open season for steelhead In tidewater. Nov. 1-Sept. l— Open season for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide *-ater. Gun. Feb. 15-July 1— Dove season closed. Feb. 15-Sept. 1— Closed season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Feb. 15-Oct. 15— Closed season for quail, ducks, etc March 25— Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. March 25— Vallejo Gun Club. Blue rocks. Near Flosden Sta- tion. March 25— Capital. City Blue Rock Club. Kimball & Upson grounds, Sacramento. April 1— California Wing Club. Live pigeons. Ingleside. <\prll 1— Blue Rock Gun Club. Grounds foot of Hi^h street, Alameda. April 8— Empire Gun Club. Blue rocks. Alameda Junction. April 14, 15— Los Angeles Gun Club. 18th semi-annual tourna- ment. $500 added money. April 22— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. May 26, 27— Paciflo Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third annual blue rock tournament. Vallejo Gun Club grounds, near Flosden Station. June 19, 22~Int erst ate Association. Grand American Handicap target tournament. $1000 added money. Indianapolis, Ind. Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary-Manager, Pittsburg, Pa. June 20. 24 -Northwest Sportsmen's Association. Blue rocks and live birds. Walla Walla, Wash. Sept. Interstate Association shoot. Blue rocks. Ingle- side. Elmer E. Shaner. Manager. Pacific Coast Handicap under auspices of S. F. Trapshooting Ass'n, A. M. Shields, Secretary. Oct. 15-April 1— Open season for English snipe. Oct. 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. March 14, 17— Passaic County Fish and Game Protective Asso- ciation. Paterson, N. J. Jas. Matthews, Secretary. Entries close Maroh 21,24— Wolverine Kennel Club. Detroit, Mich. K. G. Smith, Secretary. Entries close March 10. March 28, 31— Wisconsin Kennel Clr.b. Milwaukee. Jos. Mel- senheimer. Secretary. Entries close March 30 31— Haverhill Kenuel Club. Haverhill, Mass. A. A. Balch, Secretary. Entries close April 4, 7— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburg, Pa. J.Stewart Laycook, Secretary. Entries close April 9, 10— St. Louis Collie Club. St. Louis, Mo. John A. Long, Secretary. Entries close April 11, 14— Southwestern Kennel Club. Los Angeles. George R. Albers . Secretary, Los Angeles. Entries close April 3. April 13, 14— Merrimack Valley Kennel Club. Lawrence, Mass. Albert Mitchell, Secretary. Entries close April 28— Ball Terrier Club. San Franolsco. Entries close April 21. May 23, 26— Seattle Dog Fanciers' Association. Seattle, Wash. Chas. McAllister, Seoretary. Entries olose May 29, 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L. I. Entries close May 30, June 2— Portland Kennel Club. F. E. Watkins, Acting Secretary. Entries olose May 22. June 1 2— Ladies Kennel Association of Mass. Mrs. L. M. Speed, Secretary. Entries close June 5, 6— Ladles Kennel Association or America. Mineola, Long Island. Miss E. M. Clark, Secretary. Entries close June 6, 9 -San Francisco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench show Fred P. Butler, Secretary. Entries close June 9— Wlssahickon Kennel Club. Wissahickon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary. Entries olose Aug. 22, 23— Asbury Park Kennel Club. Asbury Park, N. J. A. F. Cottrell, Secretary. Entries close Sept. 3, 5— Miami Valley Kennel Club. PIqua, O. Edwin A. Hiatt, Secretary. Entries olose Sept. 3,6— Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J.Leo, Seoretary. Entries olose Sept. 8— Cedarhurst Kennel Club. Cedarhurst, L.I. Jno. G. Bates, Secretary. Entries olose Sept. 29— Bryn Mawr Kennel Club. Haverford Pa. Henry D- Riley, Seoretary, Stafford, Pa. Entries close AT THE TRAPS. The opening club shoot for 1906 of the Union Gun Club was a strong enough attraction to bring fifty shooters out to the Ingleside trap grounds last Sun- day. Weather conditions were excellent and good scores were the rule. A pleasing feature and strong indication of the growing popularity of the sport was a large representation of "new recruits." Class shooting seems to work well at the Union shoots. A departure from stereotyped match features is the mixed style of two events, as will be noticed below. If there is anything that will give a shooter the eye for distance, time and flight, these events should develop those qualities. Another agreeable feature was the presence of a number of veteran shooters, sports- men who have been prominent figures at many shoots here, and elsewhere, for the past two decades. The winners in the various events were as follows: Eevent 1, champion class— Otto Feudner 25 straight. "Dick" Heed 24, Emil Holling 24, Edgar Forster 22. First class — M. J. Iverson 22, D. Daniels 21, Dr. Pitres 20. Sec md class — J. Scott Leary 22, E. Hammond 21, F. Kni x 19, W. Janssen 19. Third class — B. Patrick "\upt 18, Geo. Barber 16. 2 — Feudner won the champion class medal for the month on 23 breaks. Iverson won the first class medal, repeating his initial season's medal win of 1905, breaking 24 out of 25. C. F. Harvey annexed the second class medal with a score of 24. Bert Pat- rick cracked 20 targts and won the third class medal. The open to all event honors were annexed by Feudner, Daniels and Reed in the order named. The Shields trophy race had 39 entries. Clarence Nauman and Ed Schultz tied on 24 breaks each, under the conditions, excellent scores. Shooting off the tie at 20 yards Schultz broke 19 to Nauman's 18. This trophy will be the final property of the shooter scoring the most wins in the race this season. A sum- mary of scores follows: Eevtn 1 — Club shoot — 25 targets, members only, 16 yards, entrance 75 cents, class shooting, $60 added ($15 for each class), 3 moneys, 5-3-2. Eevent 2 — Medal shoot — 28 targets, members only, entrance 50 cents, four medals, class shooting. Champion class — Event 1. Event 2. Reed, R. C #4 ;;. ,22 Forster, E. L #22 ' ' : 22 m Nauman, C. C '21 22 Feudner, M. 0 25 23 Hawxhurst, L 21 19 Holling, E 24 21 First class — Daniels, D ' 21 23 Murdock, "W". E 17 18 Pitres. Dr. E 20 16 Kelly, H - 19 22 Iverson, M. J 22 24 Donohoe, E 14 21 Second class — Lewis. T. L 14 13 Hauer, J. B 17 14 Knick, F 19 17 Harvey, C. F 18 24 Hammond, E 21 21 Jacobsen, H. P 16 19 Frankel, C 15 23 Janssen, ~W. .' '. 19 Gill, R. C , IS 12 Deary, J. S 22 19 Bruns, J 13 13 Fisher. 0 13 13 Third class — Patrick, B 19 20 Sylvestr, Dr. A. J , 14 15 Pickersgill, L , 14. 16 Lynch, J 7 13 Bodkin, Dr .9 11 Johnson, W. H 15. 19 Biller, J 11 7 Haupt, F 18 16 Hodapp, F 7 .. 14 Settin, R & . 5 Barber, Geo ^Tf - 14 Finnie, Dr 13 12 Cark, Jos 15 Yl Mastick, R 13 10 Dwyer, J — 4 Terrill * 16 21 Schultz, E. * -. 20 — Schultz, F. * 20 McMurchy, H. * 22 — Nauman, C. C. * 22 — Hawxhurst, L. * 23 IS Jacobsen, H. P. * 20 Johnson * — 20 Carter, F. L. * — 20 *Targets only. Event 3 — Open to all — 5 doubles at 14 yards, 15 singles at 16 yards, $5 added, class shooting, 25 per cent of entrance money added, entrance 75 cents, three moneys, 50, 30 and 20 per cent. McMurchy, 7 doubles, 11 singles, broke 18 out of 25; Hauer 5-11-16, Pickersgill 6-12-18, Iverson 6-11-17, Jacobsen 5-15-20, Nauman 8-12-20, Terrill 6-S-14. Feudner 9-14-25, Reed 7-14-21, Lewis 4-13-17, Dr. Pitres '5-14-19. Daniels 7-15-22, Hammond 4-13-17, Knick 4-10-14, Janssen 7-9-16. Hawxhurst 6-14-20, Johnson 2-13-15, Ed Schultz 8-11-19, Haupt 5-13-1S, Holling 8-12-20, Carter 5-9-14, Donohoe 6-11-17. Eevent 4 — A. M. Shields' trophy race, open to all, 25 targets, entrance 50 cents, distance handicap, 10 targets, 16 yards, 9 and 10 breaks, balance at 20 yards; 7 and S, IS yards; 5 and 6, 16 yards. Sylvester, Dr 7-16 yds, 12-18 yds— 19 Haiier 7-16 yds, 7-18 yds— 14 Pickersgill 7-16 yds, 9-18 yds— 16 Iverson 10-16 yds, 11-20 yds— 21 Jacobsen 7-16 yds, 11-1S yds— IS Nauman 10-16 yds, 14-20 yds— 24 Terrill ■ S-16 yds, 13-18 yds— 22 Feudner, M. 0 10-16 yds, 12-20 yds— 22 Pitres, Dr 5-16 yds, 9-16 yds— 14 McMurchy 10-16 yds. 11-20 yds— 21 Hammond 6-16 yds, 10-16 yds— 16 Barber 6-16 yds, S-16 yds— 14 Lynch 4-16 yds, 7-16 yds— 11 Janssen 6-16 yds, 9-16 yds — 15 Hawxhurst 9-16 yds, 14-20 yds— 23 Schultz, E 9-16 yds, 15-20 yds— 24 Biller, J 5-16 yds, 6-16 yds— 11 Mastick 3-16 yds, W Donohoe 9-16 yds, 10-20 yds— 19 Bruns 6-16 yds, 11-18 yds— 17 Holling 9-16 yds, 13-20 yds— 22 Patrick, B 6-16 yds, 15-16 yds— 21 ^eY*S '■'' 7"16 }'ds. S-1S yds— 15 Bodkin, Dr 5-16 yds, vV ^arter S-16 yds, 12-18 yds— 20 i;eaury "• S~16 yds> 13-18 yds— 21 *}sher S-16 yds, 5-18 yds-13 trrVey ■ 6-16 yds, 14-16 yds— 20 Sar.Dr:.:-' rrr -«>-» Reert s"le y^ 7-18. yds— 15 Forster 'p"t 8~16 y &povt&n>j.n [March 24, 19CU TRIMMING. Mr Harding Cox, ... a very recently published work, proclaims his views on the fixed question of the pre- paration of rough-coated dogs for show with no un- ain sound. He says: "For many years past, the question of the prepara- tion of dogs for exhibition has been of absorbing rest, and has given rise to the airing of views that tncally opposed to one another. Person- I have always been in favor of allowing a very hand to those whose commendable wish it is to -how their dogs trim, taut, neat and well favored. I would only draw the line as follows: 1 No mutilation of any kind, either by cutting, burning, or breaking of any sensitive portion of the dog's anatomy. . "2 No dye or coloring matter to be used, except a dry 'shampoo for the purpose of cleaning the coat: such substance to be removed before the dog enter, the vins. "Apart from this. I would allow any and every ma- nipulation of the coat tending to make it trim and '""Why1 forbid cutting, singeing, breaking, etc.. of the coat' 'you might as well expect a man to go un- kempt of locks and unshaven of chin: or ask an ex- hibitor of high class trott.ng horses to _ bring ; tas charges into the ring with long ha.r on the fetlocks. coat undipped, or mane unkempt. You cannot breed dogs of the rough-haired varieties to maintain a coat of constant and uniform length and appearance, and unless such coats are properly tended and manipu- lated the appearance of the wretched animals is archaic and prehistoric. Why are Poodles the only exception to this illogical and unnecessary rule? Why are all other breeds denied the right of coiffure. In the matter of mutilation, no one is likely to disa- gree with Mr. Cox, writes John Brown in The Asian, n may be assumed that he does not refer to the dock- ing of the tails of certain breeds, such as Irish, Welsh, (Uredale, and Fox Terriers, and Field and Cocker Spaniels, which is not a cruel process and cannot by any possible means deceive a show judge. Nor would he allude to such merciful and necessary operations as the removal of dew-claws, or of warts from lips or tongue. Illegitimate mutilation, now that crop- ping" has been definitely interdicted and is illegal (in Great Britain), would be usually in connection with ear-carriage, as, for instance, to make a naturally prick ear assume the button fall. The operation here would not be very painful; but such mutilation would very rightly be debarred, if only for the reason that it is undesirable to breed from strains with heredi- tary defective ear-carriage. The same argument might of course be advanced in the case of coats which rendered much trimming essential: but not with the same force, and the point will be referred to later It is in the matter of Mr. Harding Cox's sec- ond postulate, and the remarks which follow it, that there will be most room for difference of opinion. This postulate is not very well expressed. A dry shampoo is not a dye or coloring matter that it should be excepted from that category; nor is it clear why a shampoo should be removed before the dog enters the ring; what is there in a shampoo to re- move' As a matter of fact what Mr. Cox refers to is the not uncommon practice of cleansing the coat of white dogs, such as Fox-Terriers, by means of some such substances as magnesia or chalk. In the case of colored dogs, the question of cleanliness is not ot great moment, but a white dog is another affair. Washing just prior to a show softens the coat, and weather and other circumstances may render a bath undesirable or inconvenient. Dry cleaning therefore possesses certain advantages; and as long as the substance used does not give a fictitious value to the texture of the coat there is no reason why ma- terial other than soap should not be employed. But if employed, it must of course be removed before exhibition. Dyeing or artificially coloring the coat, should of course be interdicted. It is taking an unfair ad- vantage if white hair, where there should be no white, is concealed in this way; or if any specially admired color, such as the brilliant black and tan of a Black and Tan Terrier, or the red of the Irish, is the result of extraneous means. Washing a dog does n'ot deecive a judge; he knows that a white dog must be washed to appear clean; but a dyed dog is obviously a fraud And coloring matter may not be confined to the coat; there are such things as "dudley" or "but- terfly" noses, which the art of the expert faker can conceal by artifices very rightly tabooed. So far then. Mr Cox can be implicitly followed. It is when he says that he would permit of manipulation, including and singeing, that many will disagree with him. , , The arguments of dissentients are mainly three. Firstly it is contended that the trimmed coat is cal- culated to deceive the judge. Secondly, it is held that artificially manipulated dog acquires a fictitious value i" wh:>l. It has no real claim. It may appear well enough In the ring, but Its appearance is un- natural; and breeding from such dogs, because they happen to be prize winners, perpetuates defects. And thirdly, It is claimed that the trimming practice places amateurs at a disadvantage with profession- ala , | .Die to put a dog down in a show condl- ii. m to which no amateur can aspire. These argu- ments are not without their force, but they are by no n anf wholly truths. It 1 1 very doubtful whether any good judge Is ever . , , .1 by the trimming process. Judges of rough- ... i breeds are usually men with considerable ex- e of such breeds, and that experience tells i,i r,ni of coats they wear In a natural state. ,,,, themselves prepared dogs for show and , .hem both au naturel and as they appear in the People who advance this argument should re- member the profound truth lying under the words spoken by a Scotch merchant, "there's no an honest mon in the world, a ken it by mysel." It should also be remembered that although good preparation will accomplish a great deal, it will not accomplish everything. If a dog's coat, which should be hard, is hard but there is too much of it, skillful grooming will effect the necessary reduction of the super-abundance; but no amount of trimming will render a soft coat hard. Trimming will not hide the curl in the coat if the coat should be straight. Re- moval of the silky top knot will not conceal the silky hair beneath. Be exhibits trimmed ever so wisely, by their signs shall judges know them. A dog with not too good a jacket, manipulated by an expert, has no doubt won in the past and may often win again; but this does not necessarily signify that the judge has been deceived. It is conceivable that a dog may win in spite of a defective coat and not because of it. There are other points to take into consideration, the coat may not be up to standard, but feet and legs, head and ears, and general make and shape may be high class. Some judges of some breeds, such as wire Fox Terriers, lay such stress on coat that no poor-coated specimen can win whatsoever their ex- cellencies in other directions; but some judges again will attach to coat the prominence indicated by the marks in the standard of points, and provided the coat is not so defective that it amounts to positive disqualification who can blame them? Moreover, although a dog's coat may be anything but first class, and may have been liberally manipulated, the other exhibits may be still worse, and the dog may win because, with all its faults, it is the best in the ring. It is not thought that the argument with reference to breeding possesses much force. Now and then, perhaps, a novice may employ the services of a dog, which should not be at stud at all on account of coat defects, but novices may be wanting in judgment in many other directions. Experienced breeders, for their own sakes, will always be specially careful in the matter of coat. Owners of large kennels, and pro- fessional men, do not want to be troubled with coat preparation more than they can possibly help. They will all aim at coats demanding a minimum of at- tention, and a stud dog which fails in this particular is not at all likely to be largely patronized. On the subject of the third point, it will, of course, be admitted that the amateur is at a disadvantage with the professional expert, but it is not solely in the matter of coat that he is so. The expert will put a smooth-coated breed, where the question of trimming does not come into play, into the ring in a manner that no novice can approach. There are all the mat- ters of condition and handling in the ring which can- not fail to tell. A professional trainer will train a racehorse better than an amateur, but that is no argu- ment in favor of horses not being trained at all. A very little examination will make contentions such as these look foolish. On the whole, Mr. Harding Cox seems to have the best of it. As long as shows continue, and rough- coated breeds require some attention to make them look their best, trimming will prevail. It is permis- sible to pull out, or groom away, dead hair, and who is going to distinguish between dead hair and live after a dog has been prepared? And so and if live hair can be removed with finger and thumb why not cut it? Men would not relish the finger and thumb process at the hands of a barber, and if dogs could speak they also would prefer razor and scissors to the annoyance to which they are at present subjected. In the ring the result would be the same, to the dog it would make all the difference in the world. tifully illustrated book information of value to every devotee of the shotgun. Temptations for Anglers. Never in the history of. angling on the Pacific Coast did the angling fraternity have opportunity to inspect as complete and varied a stock of tackle and' anglers' sundries as may at present be seen in the sporting goods emporium of Messrs. Clabrough, Gol- cher & Co., No. 538 Market street, San Francisco. A full description of the many recent devices and improvements in rods, reels, etc., etc., would be much too lengthy for ordinary space. A new idea in Leonard fly rods is a beautiful split bamboo creation, 4% ounces in weight, perfect in action, finished in dull dark olive lacquer, ferrules and reel seat oxidized, snake guides, aluminum rod case, in fact a dream of perfection in fly rods. An- other style of rod that will be a favorite is the "Duplex." a light rod, that can be made a two joint rod if desired by substituting a specially made ferrule. A rod with a sliding grip, for use either as a bait or fly casting rod should be seen to be appreciated. A collection of Aleocks. imported Scotch. John Benn's, and other celebrated makes of flies has never been excelled by a sporting goods house on the coast; fly-books, reels and these latter are in tempting variety, style and price, and invite the inspection of eevry devotee of the gentle art. One of the Best. Did It ever occur to you when out in wet weather that a good way to avoid an exasperating balk — when the triggers are wet and your finger slips, was to use a single trigger gun. At the initial shoot of the California Wing Club this season there were five Hunter Arms Co. single trigger guns in use — twenty-five guns were entered in the club race. These guns are fast becoming favorites— they do not balk nor double. By the way, do you ever wrap your trigger guard or the front trigger so that the recoil of your gun will not lacerate or jam your finger? The "Hunter One-Trigger" renders those recoil sorenesses Impossible. The one-trigger attachment can be put on any grade of L. C. Smith guns, either new or old. Send to The Hunter Arms Co., Fulton, New York, for a catalogue. Besides a full description of the one-trig- ger mechanism, there is also contained in the beau- Good Tidings From an Old Firm. One of the neatest looking and most serviceable casting reels ever offered to trout fishermen is the $3.50 reel recently introduced by Shreve, Barber & Co., 739 Market street and 521 Kearny street, San Francisco. This reel is also a first-class bait fishing reel. A new pattern of salmon reel now in stock is already a great favorite with a number of anglers. Another reel that is in demand is one that can be easily taken apart; it is simple in construction and perfect in action. A Montague City made combina- tion rod is a new idea that appeals to discerning anglers. Rods wrapped in steel tinsel — or rather steel ribbons, is a new idea for a combination of strength and lightness. "Duplex" and other makes of rods for all kinds of fishing are on hand. Fly books in many styles and a complete line of imported and American made flies, John Benn's flies, silk and linen lines, and all of the thousand and one things needed by the angler are on hand in a variety that can not help but be satisfactory to the most exacting fisherman. Elk Outing Goods Company. The attention of sportsmen is called to the recent venture of four well known local sportsmen who have opened at No. 20 Geary street, this city, a complete and up to date sporting and outing goods store. The new firm is composed of Mr. J. Harry Scott, a popular ex-official of this city and a well known business man. Mr. E. J. Kaplan, formerly with Will & Fink, the Skinner Arms Company, and manager of the Olympic Arms Company — a gentleman identified with the sporting goods business in this city for the past fifteen years; Julius Bruns, formerly with the E. T. Allen Company, the Skinner Arms Company and the Olympic Arms Company — a popular sports- man and prominent trap shot for twenty years past — and Mr. F. L. Bonn, recently with the Skinner Arms Company and Olympic Arms Company. The experience and trade acquaintance of the members of the new firm is a guarantee that the wants of sportsmen will be looked after and catered to in a manner mutually satisfactory. The location of the store is a central and conven- ient one. The new quarters will be thoroughly fitted up and in running order early during the coming week. A large stock of guns, pistols, rifles, ammu- nition, fishing tackle of every description, a complete line of outing goods — in fact everything for sportsmen and sportswomen will be kept in stock or made to order. One of the specialties of the Elk Outing Goods Co.' will be "ladies' outing goods of every descrip- tion." Further and special announcements will appear in the Breeder and Sportsman later on. Ho Wanted Something Good. A telephone message was received by Baker & Hamilton, this city, on last Wednesday, from Los Angeles. "Billy" Clayton of Kansas City ordered 250 Selby factory loaded shells — loaded with Ballistite powder. He used the shells yesterday in a live bird match. Sim Glover broke 96 straight and 188 out of 195 at New Bedford, Mass., February 8th. At Boston, February 10th, he broke 63' straight and 145 out of 150 — with Ballistite. "Good shots shoot good powder." A Grand Winchester Showing for 1906. The shooting recently done with the Winchester "Leader" shells is in a way quite remarkable, both on account of the very high scores made and also be- cause perfect scores have been duplicated in different places, which is rather unusual. For instance, at the Kansas City tournament the high professional average was won by Chas. G. Spencer, shooting a Winchester "pump" gun and Winchester "Leader" shells, the com- bination Mr. Spencer always uses. At this tournament Mr. Spencer wound up his great work by scoring his last 100 straight. The first and second high amateur averages at this shoot were also won with Winchester "Leader" shells, the scores being very high. An inter- esting feature of this tournament was the brilliant shooting done by Mrs. Adolph Topperwein, the wife of Ad. Topperw-ein, the world's champion rifle shot. Mrs. Topperwrein scored 99 out of the 100 she shot at, which is probably the highest score ever made by a lady at a regular shooting tournament. Both Mr. and Mrs. Topperwein always use Winchester guns and Winchester ammunition. At the Florist Gun Club tournament, held at Phila- delphia, C. E. Mink, shooting a Winchester "pump" gun and the "Leader" shell, made the only perfect score of 100 straight, winning first high amateur av- erage for this shoot. The second and third averages were also won by shooters that used the Winchester products. At the Detroit, Michigan, Gun Club tournament, John R. Taylor won the high professional average, C. V. Phellis being second. Alex Tolsma captured the high amateur average at this shoot. In addition to winning the high average in the professional class, Mr. Taylor also won the Gillman & Barnes trophy, which is emblematic of the International Champion- ship at live birds. All the above shooters used the reliable, time-tried "Leader" shells, and in addition Mr. Taylor used a Winchester "pump" gun. With the winning of the Gillman & Barnes live bird trophy, every live bird and inanimate target trophy, all the championships, and all the world's records are now held by shooters that used either Winchester "pump" guns or Winchester "Leader" or "Repeater" shells when they captured the same. This is a record that no other arms or ammunition manufacturer can boast of, or has ever been able to. March 24 1906, <&t\e gveedvv ano gtpari&mcm 18 American Trotlii Reclster PUBLICATIONS. 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Vol. V, 1889, " All other volumes out of p For 1905 -Vol. 21 Coutalns'summaries of races; pedigrees of new performers; 3:10 lists: list of all 3:30 trotters; list of all 2:25 pacers; great table of sires; list of all named dams of standard performers;Stable of champion trotters; fastest records, etc. Vol. XXI, 1905. single copies, prepaid — $4.00 Vol. XXI, 1905. 10 or more, each, f . o. b 3.35 Vol. XX, 1904, 'single copies, prepaid 4.00 Vol. XIX. 1903, single copies, prepaid — 4.00 Vol. XVIII, 1903, single copies, prepaid... 4.00 Vol. XVII, 1901, " " " ....400 ' 4.00 .... 4.00 .... 3.00 .... 3.00 .... 3.00 .... 2.50 " 2,50 THE REGISTER Vols. Ill to XVI, inclusive (eicept Vol. XIII) in one order, t. o. b 860.00 Single Volumes, prepaid 5.00 Vols. I, II and XIII are out of print. REGISTRATION BLANKS will be sent upon application. Money must accompany all orders. Address American Trottmg Reg, Association 355 Dearborn St., Room 1108, CHICAGO, ILL. Or BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL Deposit Your Idle Funds with the CentralTrustCompany of California 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. Good always,0 everywhere. $100 Reward, for any lame- ness, curb, splint, founder. distemper, etc., (where cure is possible) that is not cured by TUTTLE'S ELIXIR Greatest horse remedy in the world. Tuttle'a Family Elixir invaluable for human bruises, pains, rheumatism, etc. Send for free 100 page book,"Veterinary Experience." The perfect horseman's guide. Every disease symptom and its treatment. Tattle's Elixir Co.. 52 Beverly St, Boston, Mass. Mack & Co. . San Francisco and F. W. Braun, Los Angeles, California Agents. BROOD MARES TO LEASE. ■ On account of leaving the county, I will lease two of the best producing brood mares in the State: BABE, dam of Just It 2:191-$. winner of Occi- dent-Stanford paceof 1905; trial 2:13 Babe is by Danton Moultrie 17064, he by Guy Wilkes, dam Carrie Malone, full sister 10 Chas. Derby and Klatawah 2:05.16 (3-year old champion). Her dam was by Soudan 5103, half brottier to Stamboui 2:01 y%, champion trotting stallion in his day; sec- ond dam by .Nutwood 601, half brother to Maud S. 2:08?i. queen of the turf inner day; third dam by Owen Dale, the handsome son of Belmont, the foundation of the California trotter; fourth dam by Old Gray Eagle, four-mile runner. FANN) MALONE. dam by Anteeo, second dam the dam of California Nutwood by Geo.M. Patchen Jr.; third dam. the Chicago Mare. Both of the above mares will foal by March 10th to J. R C. In answering please state what horse you intend to breed to. For particulars address, THOS. P. KELL, No. 95 So Market St., San Jose, Cal. Jurt £i\e*igkj \ and just as they want it. The right way to salt animals is to let them help themselves. Compressed Pure-Salt Bricks I inonrPatentFeeders.fluppiyreflned dairy ealt. I They mean animal thrift. Th4. Young Hal 2:10' t, Hal O 2:10, and 5 more In 2:15 list. Dam. OZORA (dam or Young Hal2:10',». Stralhdalo 2:30. and dams of Citation 206, Strathllne 207U, Baiaja 2:H'/J. Reality 2:I7H and Blaolillne 2:22) by Smuggler 2: 15' Angeles, Cal. New England Trotting Horse Breeders Association Boston, Mass. READVILLE GRAND CIRCUIT MEETING Entries Close Tuesday, April 10, 1906 ALL CLASSES WILL BE EVENTS OF THREE RACES OF ONE MILE. EARLY CLOSING PURSES. No. 1— The Blue Hill, 2:30 Class Trotting $4500 Divided: $1050 to first, 8300 to second, $150 to third— each race. No. 2— The Massachusetts, 2:14 Class Trotting $9000 Divided: $2100 to first, $600 to second, $300 to third— each race. No. 3— The Ponkapoag, 2:10 Class Trotting $4500 Divided: $1050 to first, $300 to seoond, $150 to third— each race. No. 4— The Readville, 2:08 Class Trotting $3000 Divided: $700 to first, $-200 to second, $100 to third— each race.; ■ No. 5— The Norfolk, 2:08 Class Pacing .$300tf Divided: $700 to first, $200 to seoond, $100 to third— each race. • No. 6— The Nep3nset, 2:06 Class Pacing $3900 " Divided: $700 to first, $200 to second, $100 co third— each race. la all classes horses mast be named at the time of the closing of entries. The Entrance Fee will be Five Per Cent of the Purse with Nothing Deducted from the Winners of Any Part of the Purse. More than one horse, if trained in the same stable, may be entered in a olass, and one percent of purse additional will be oharged for each horse so named; but only one horse in the same owner- ship will be allowed to start. Any horses of a plural entry which may be separated from the stable Irom whloh they were named will be eligible to start by paying a sum, in addition to that already paidon the horse, which will equal the full five par cent entrance fee. Conditions. Taa rules of ths National Trotting VssjalatioQ (if which this Association is a member) will govern, except that horses not fiatshtng within one buidred yards of the winner in any race will bB ruled oat of further competition in the event. Racing will bagin at 2:30 p. m The po U.t ions of oon ten ling horses will badrawafor the first race of every event, but in the sec- ond they will start as they finished in the first, and in the third a* thay finished in the second. Forfeits will be due in amounts and on dates as follows: Classes No. 1 and 3 Each additional horse APRIL 10. sjo 9 SO 18 MAY 10. 830 9 70 18 20 6 June 9. 845 9 90 18 30 6 Jolt 10. 860 9 HO 18 40 6 August S70 9 130 IS Classes Nos. 4. 5 and 6 Each additional horse.. in SO 6 Nominators will not be held 11 able for forfeits falling due after they have declared out in writing. The American Horse Breeder Futurities— $7000 for Three-year-old Trotters, $1000 for Three-year- old Pacers, and $2000 for Two-year-old Trotters— will be raeed at this meeting. All entries, requests for Information, etc., to be made to the Secretary. JOHN M. JOHN30V, President. C. M. JEWETT, Seoretary, Readvillf, Mass* Stakes for Two-Year-Olds Offered by the California State Agricultural Society to be given at the CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR, 1906 ENTEIES CLOSE MAY 1,1906 The A. B. SPRECKELS STAKE for Two-Year-Old Trotters $1000 The BEN RUSH STAKE for Two-Year-Old Pacers 1000 ENTRANCE PAYABLE AS FOLLOWS: $20 od May 1, 1906; $20 addi- tional if not declared out on or before June 1, 1906, and $10 additional if not declared out on or before July 1, 19 J6 Declarations (to declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made CONDITIONS. Distanoe to be one hundred yards. Right reserved to rejeot any or all entries. Five per oent of the amount of the StaHe will be deduoted from each money won. The Board of Direotors reserve the right to declare two starters a walk-over. When only two atari they may oontest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 66?a per oent to the first and 33H Per cent to the seoond. Ahorse 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. The Board of Directors reserve the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses- 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 raoe. Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Associa- tion (of which this Association is a member) to govern. For Entry Blanks and further information address the Secretary. BEN F. RUSH, President. ALBERT LINDLEY, Sec'y State Ag'l Society, SACRAMENTO, CAL. THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION RED MCKINNEY By MoKINNEY 2:11^. First dam, BONNIE RED by Red Wilkes: seoond dam, BONNIE BELL bj Almont 33; tbird dam, ALICE DRAKE by Alexander's Norman; [ourth dam, VILY by Pilot Jr. 12. RED McKINNEY is Tour years old. a rich mahorany Day. stands 15.3% bands, weighs 1100, and is a show borse- Has sho'/S and Lorlla2:12«) by St. Clair; Third dam Laura, dam of Doo, aire of Occident 2:163£. Win make the Season of 1006 at THE PARK STABLE Twenty-fourth Avenue and Fulton Street, San Francisco, California. TERMS FOR THE SEASON, $35. Breed to the beat gaited aod fastest son of Electioneer on the Pacific Coast. Address all communications to F. BOMMET, Owner. HANS FRELLSON, 24th Ave. and Fullon St., San Francisco. Woodland Hackney Stud De PUE & SPRAGUE, Owners 324 Pine Street, San Francisco Breeders of High-Class Carriage Horses Breeders of High-Class Saddle Horses Stud Headed by MANCHESTER Registered American Hackney Stud Book 201 Twice Winner of Bine Ribbon In New York Horse Show Carriage Teims, Saddle Horses and Gig Horses For Sale. Correspondence Solicited. A. H. BRINTON, Manager WOODLAND, CAL. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C. 2:30 Trial 2:20 Sire. NUTWOOD WILKES 3:16^, sire of John A. McKerron 2:01 W. Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:09M, Who Ib It 2:10»«. Stanton Wilkes 2:104, Cresoo Wilkes S-.UQy, etc , eto. Dam, ZETA CARTER by Director 2:17, sire dams of John A. McKerron 2:04(4, Ozanam 2:07, Little Thome 2:07^. Leonardo 2:08«, etc, etc.; second dam, Llda W. 2:I8M (dam of Nutwood Wilkes 2:164. eto ) by Nutwood 600, greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived; third dam by Qeo. M. Patohen Jr. 31; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont. T. C Is one of the best bred young stallions In California. A two-year-old Oily by him has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and Is as handsome as a picture. T. C. will make the season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with usual return prlvllvge. Excellent pasturage for mares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for < tabulated pedigree and other Information. I will take a few horses to train for roaO GEORGE T. ALGEO, 1207 Eagle Ave., All 16 (£h£ $ve ebev tntb gtjxcrrtsmcm LMARCH 24, U06 LOU inVT THE XJ3BA.33 HAWTHORNE 2:06 1-4 BILLY BUCK 3:07 1-4 KINNEY ton 2:07 3-4 \£ I IV I |V I r-\Z I .TNI I 0-tf^^3 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON rxlliE^LY LUU ^,U n of the champion sire Will make tbe Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. TERMS S10O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal, For further Information, pedigree and description addresB PHONE: JOHN 2481. BUDD D0BLE, San Jose, Cal. MENDOCINO 22607 n^nRRAY RECORD (THKEE-VEAK-OLD) 2:19}$ Sireof Monte Carlo 2:07»4 (to wagon 2:08H); Idollta (2y. o.) 2:2!^. (3y.o.)2:12, (a) 2:09^. Leonora 2:12^, Polka Dot 2:14vi, eto Bay Stallion, I5.3/3 bands; weight 1190 pounds; hind feet and ankles white; foaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 135. son of Hambletonian 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO (3)2:19!^. Eleotant 2:19!4 Morocco 13 y.o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904, 2:17H; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie W (3j 2:17}^, Hyperion 2:2l&, Memento 2:2bH, Mithra (p)2:14M) by Hamble- tonian Jr 1882; third dam, Gilda (thoroughbred) by imp. Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Eleotioneer's youngest and best sons With very limited opportunities tn the stud he has proven his worth by producing such racehorses asMoate Carloand Idolita. Three new additions to his 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performers. His foals are good size, fine lookers, bold and pure galted and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, 875; usual return privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 16.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11. 1900. Bred atPalo AltoStook Farm. Sire, McKINNEY 8818 (record 2:1 1M). First dam, HELENA 8:11^ (damof Wildnutling 2:11^; Dobbel 2:22, Hvtta (trial 2:12j by Electioneer 125: second dam, Lady Ellen 2:29V£ (dam of six in list, iooludtng Helena 2:11^. Ellen Wood 2:14^) by Mambrino 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont ( Williamson's) - MoK EN A has proven a remarkably sure f >al getter. He should make a great sire as he is a floe individual and bred right. His sire, McKlnney, a game and fast racehorse and sire of game and fast racehorses His dam. Helena, one of the fastest and earnest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters tbe world has yet known. Hlssecond dam, Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as well as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. i SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, $40; usual return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Mares may run on pasture at $5 per mooth. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for Injury or escapes. Address all communications to , PALO ALTO STOCK FARM, Stanford Unlvernlty. *>anta Clara Co , Cal. and LOW PRICES. McMURRAY SULKIES and J0GGINQ CARTS STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. ^-Address for printed matter and prices W. J. KENNEY 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal, ■ I II II M ft II ■ RACING! New California Jockey Club OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP For Speolal Trains stopping at the Track take S P Perry, foot of Market Street— leave at 13, thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking In last two cars, which are reserved for ladles and their escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. PHENOL SODIQCE lioals SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast. Keep Handy for .^g™8 Accidents. - - „ INSTITUTE .Of W TOE NC2£.^ FRAKCE «« SENDLSODIOjM SJS!23 Cure* ^M MANCE & SCRATCHES ■aK£S~~gS&S;£l3 O" Bogs. r-a C"«*™„.0lSEASES OF ANIMALS ■^--* •! For Sale By All Druggist!. Recomm naed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. Mc Kinney, 2.11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 t slros, be Is the sire of Bolivar 2:0r,'4, Nellie R. 2:10. Arthur W. More co 12, John A. 2.i2-\. ForreBt W. 2:14#, Inland w. 2:10. Al Sandy J:19%, Maud Sears 2:21, Bonlln Wilkes 2:20%. Wavland W. will make the Season of 1906 at SANTA ROSA, at MoOregor & Hockins' stables. Term* $40 for the Season. Pasture J3.00 per month. ' wner. MONTEREY 2:09 1-4 (Sire or IRISH 2:08(4, Fastest Four-Year-old Pacer of 11*04 By SIDtfET (grandsire of Lou Dillon t:58V4); dam, HATTIB (also dam of Montana 2:16) by Commodore Be mont 4140 MONTEREY 2:09H stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and Is one of the finest Individuals on this Coast. FEE. 860 fur the Season. V.OC r VV/X I T C B^ montbrkt 2:09$*. T UOL IVI I I C- Dam, LEAP TEAK 8:26 (full sister to lago 2:111 by Tempest 1881 son of Almont 33. YOSEMTTE is a very high-class young trotter, and as he will be trained this year he will be allowed to serve only six choice bred mares FEE, 835 for the Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leased a doe, roomy barn with 14 large bos stalls on Sherman street, four blool.3 from the race traok, Alameda, and am prepared to do publfo tra'ning. Would like to get two good trotters and a promising three year-old to pr.pare for the races this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. Ttie Tlxoiro'u.sli.torecS- italllon SALVATION The Great Son of SALVAT0R, and sire of CHANTILLY, PRE- SERVAT0R, SHELLMOUND and many other winners. WILL MAKE THE SEASON AT Mr. CHAS. W. CLARK'S FARM, SAN MATEO. TPDMQ< CRD fnr tho Caacnn with return privileges. Mares taken oai ILnlllo. OuU IUI IIIK OCdoUII, ot at reasonable rates. Apply to I) W BONNILtV San Mateo, or XT. D. RANDALL, Fmeryvllle. Dwnrrrf»P»C TafllllflTPil acd type written ready for framing rCUIglCCa laUUiaiCU Write for prioes. Breeder AND Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. March 24, 1906] f&he gveeitev emir gtjxcurtemcm 17 FOUR BIG ►-*'-*. f { EARLY I closing] GUARANTEED STAKES! Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. ENTRIES TO CLOSE MONDAY, APRIL 2, 06 Otily CALIFORNIA STAKES $2000 PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES 2000. SUNSET STAKES 1000 QOLDEN GATE STAKES..: 1000 T-**7-o I»er Ooia.t to Enter. For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class For Pace s Eligible to 2:20 Class . For Free=for=AII Trotters For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class ENTRANCE DUE AS FOLLOWS: 2 per cent April 2, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by May 1, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 per cent additional if not declared by July 2, 1906. Declarations (to declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary, aod will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made. On July 1, 1906, nominators, by the payment of an additional 2 per cent, have the right of substituting another horse or transferring their entry to another member of the Association In place of the horse named in the original entry, but the horse so substituted must be eligible to the class in which substitution Is made on July 1, 1908. Liberal Stakes for other classes will be announced later. E. P. HEALD, President. T. W. KE1LEY, Secretary, 36 Geary St., S. F. The following Stallions, owned by W. A. Clark Jr., will make a public season: Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Bon Voyage Two-year-old Record 2:15 Three-year-old Record.. 2:12^ Timed In a Race 2:10% WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (88500) FOR 1905. BON VOYAGE (3) 2:12?£ is by Expedition 2:I55£ by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erln2:243£; second dam Farce 2:29v^ by Prlnceps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150 For breeding, Individu- ality and racing qualities be Is unsurpassed. He Is a rich bay In color with blaok points, stands 15.3 hands and when matured will weigh 1300 pounds. Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. where he will be limited to twenty ontslde mares. Wft inr +U(* Caocnn USUAL RETURN" PRIVILEGES, or money refunded should mare iiO\f 1UT lUC ocaiUll. noL prove In foal. A rare chance to breed good mares to an excep- tionally hlgh-olass and highly bred young stallion. TRIAL 2:12 (at Four Tears Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By EXPRESSO 29199 (half brother to Expressive (3) 2:12%) by Advertiser 2:1514, son of Electioneer 125; ^am ALi-HA 2:23% (dam of Aegon 2:i8M-slre of Ageon Star 2:11 hi, etc ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22; second dam Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 In list and 3 producing sons and 7 pi-ouucing daughters) by Mambrino Chief II, etc. Terms for the Season $25 HIGHLAND Is a grand looking young stallion, seven years old. His breeding Is most fashion- able, and his immediate ancestors are producers of race winners with fast records. He is beauti- fully galted and has a perfect disposition. Does not pull or want to break at speed, and oan be placed at will in a buashof horses He Is a hlgh-olass inr-e and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trotted a quarter in 31 seconds over the Pleasanton race track HIGH ■ .A n*d is a ooal black horse with one white hind ankle, stands 16.1 hands high and weighs close to 1200 ponnds. Address all communications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Greatest Son of McKinney 2:ni BONNIE McK. 36569 (Trial 219) Sonof MoKlnney 2:11^ and Bon Stlene 2:14% by Stamboul 2:07%. Will make the Season of I9ufi at PLEASANTON Fee S50 BONNIE McK. Is a grand individual aod a fast trotter with perrect legs and feet. All mares bred to him In 1906 will be nominated In Breeders Futurity without expense to owner. Address GEO. A. KKLLT, Pleasanton, Cal. 2 2 O DQ fMcKlnney 2:11^. Sire or Coney 2:02 Sweet Marie 2:04M and 38 more in 2:15 70 in 2:3J fAloyone2:27 {?£, ™" k«s 2:22 b? Hamb. 10 Sire of (Alma Mater artha Wilkes 2:08 b* Mamb- Patchen \ Gov. Sprague 2:20% by Rhode Island .Rose Kenney by Mamb. Messenger \ Ma 61 [ Rose Sprague. .2:llJi Dam of McKinney Grandam of Fereno 2:05% Stamboul 2:07% Sire or .,,,„,,.,„ l Stamboulette 2:10* L Bon niene ». i*% * Ellert 2:11 j Sultan 2:24 by The Moor \ Fleetwlng by Hamb. 10 dam of 2 In list Dam of Bonnie McK. (trial) . .2:19 j etc. Rnn Rnn 9-M f Simmons 2:38 by Geo. Wilkes LB°nB0Q2-^am"or 1 Bonnie Wilkes 2:29* Bonnie Direct 2:05* ... . .. by G«o. Wilkes Rector 2:10 Bon Sllene 2:14% Bonnie Steinway trl)2:08% dam of 4 in list ZOMBRO 2:11 Will make the Season or 1906 At LOS ANGELES, CAL. Fee, 850 for the Season. With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse and mare does not change ownership. Money dua at time of service. or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is tha sire of eleven standard performers as follows: Zephyr 2:07*, timed separately In a race in 2:03%: Charley T. 2:13%. trial 2:10%: Italia 2:14%. over half-mlie traok. trial 2:08%; Bellemont- three yearsold. record 2:155£, trial 2: 1 1 ?i ; Zombowyette 2:16*. trial 2:14%: Zenobla 2:19, trial half fn VS\hy% Tee De« Cee 2:19% trial 2:13%: Ladv Zombro 2:24, trial2:10; Lord Kitchener 2:24%. trial 2:19%: Zealous 2:26%, trial 2:20: Nina BonIta2:27. ZOMBRO has won more first prizes In the Bhow rlne than any California stallion, and his get have sold for more money during the past three years. He Is the only horse living or dead that ever won fortv heats to standard time as a three-year-old. His get are all large, beautifully rormed and endowed with great natural speed The choicest pasture for mares. Address GEO. T. BECKERS. 3949 Flgueroa St , Los Angelei, Cal. THE STANDARD TROTTING STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Terms, $40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 Is by Hambletonlan Wilkes 1679 (aire of Phoebe Wilkes 2:U8";. Phoebon W 2*8'.;. Robert I 2:08i£ and 7 others In the 2:15 list); dam Anna B'lle (3) 2:27y, (dam of Robert I. 2:08"; Maud Morraj 2:12. MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 In 2.30 Hat and dams of 8 MURRAY M. 2:14 Is a handsome five-year-old bay stallion with small star and black points. In his three-year-old form be stood 16 band-i and weighed 1125 lbs., and is a natural, square-gaited trotter. He is a horse of grand finish plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back, strong loins and stifles good feet and legs. His breeding Is excellent, and with his Individual- ity be presents a popular and spee i-produoing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes in the show ring. Excellent pasturage at reasonable rates. For further particulars address PSOF H. 8 FREEHVN. University Station. Los Angeles. Cal. NEAREST 35562 (RECORD 3:32>il— Sire of AIodo (4) 2:0dH (trial 3:0030' Just It (3) 2:19*4 'tMal 2:12V4), High Flv (2) 2:34^ (trial 2:12'/4 last ha'f In 1:00^) aod full brother to the great John A. McKerron 2:04V£, the second fastest stallion In the world. By NUTWOOD WFLKKS 2: 16^, sire of John A. McKerron 2:04^ (second fastest stallion In th« world), Tidal Wave 2:09, Mis* Idaho 2:09M- Who Is It 2:1U^ Stanton Wilkes 2:104. Cresco Wilkes (4)2:10*£. Georgfe B. 2:12^. North Star (3) 2:13J{, winner Paolflc Breeders Futurity Stakes $6000 Guaranteed of 1905 and 32 In 2:30 list; dam IKUAR, the greatest produofng daughter of Director; second dam Annie Titus by Echo 462: third dam Tiff iny mare (dam of Gibraltar 3:22m by Owen Dale, son of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST Is a dark bay, 15 3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds; well formed and or kind disposition. In his blood lines are represented the greatest strains of the American trotter. Will make ths Season of 1906 at San Jose, with return privilege in case horse remains In California. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T W BAR8TOW, 8an Jnie. Cal. KINNEY WILKES Sired by MoKINSTEY 2:11^, sire of Sweet Marie 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07^, Charley Mac 2:073* Hazel Kinnoy 2:09^ The R iman 2:09&, Dr. Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05M. Zolock 2:05'* YouBet2:07 Jennie Man 2:09 etc First Dam, BAZKL WILKKS 2: 11^. a great race mare by Guy Wilkes 2:15!*, sire of Fed Kohl 2:07^, Hulda v":08!4, Lesa Wilkes 2:09, Seymour Wilkes 2:084, eto, and dams of Aotezplta 2:10H, K*tnerlne A: 2:11^. eto., eto., aud graud*ire of John A. MoKerron 2:04^; second dam, Blanche (dam of Hazel WIikes2:ll>i. Una Wtlkss2:15 Guvsoo 2:24. Native Son 2:26',i and SllverSpray 2:28) by Arthur ton 36i; third dam, Nancy by Gen. Taylor. ohampion30-mlle trotter of the world. KINNEY WILKES Is a very h .ndsomi. we 1 m -de bay stallion, standing 15.3 and weighing 1100 pounds. He Is one of the best bred of the McKinney a. Will make the Season at Fee $25. J HE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKINNEV 2:111^— greatest sire of his age; dam, the great broodmare DAISY S. (dam of four In list) by McDonald ChleT 3583, son of Clark Chipf 89; second dam Fanny Rose, great brood mare (dam of three with records better than 2:18) by Ethan Allen Jr. 2993; third dam, Jenny Llnd (thoroughbred), dam of Prloce Allen 3:27. Will make the Season of 1908 at WOODLAND RACK TRAOK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE 850, with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENDER, Woodland, Cal. E. P H"! \TjT>. Ovi<*r. 2 t P i«t St.. S*n FrancUoo Cal. R. AMBUSH 41840 Rec. (3) 2:14 j SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARK, 2 miles east of San Bernardino. Address g. W. B0NNELL, Redlands. LEONARD STATION, Santa Cruz County. For oards containing tabulated pedigree, etc, address JAMES T. LKONABD. Rural Delivery No 3. Wal.onvllle. Cal. I DIRECT 2:12 1-2 (Officially Timed in 2:08 In a Race) Will make the Season of 1006 at The Zibbell Stable 07 2 Eleventh Avenue, San Francisco. I DIRECT is one of the best bred of al 1 the sons of the great Direct 2:0S%. His dam is Fran cescaby Almont (dam of Sable Frances 2:15H. Guycepca 2:26 and the sire Earl Medium, sire of 6 standard performer*); next dam Franceh Brtckenridfe by Sentinel 2H>, full btctber to VoJunieer. As an Individual I DIKECT Is perfect, and with his breeding he cannot L.etp tranf-mlttingspeed. Tormc t^ft FOR THE SEASON, LIMITED TO A FEW APPROVED MARES. For partic- lCrillS $OV ulara address MVItKY MoMAHAN, Owner. 207 SanAome St.. San FrancUco. Pedigrees Tabulated and typewrlttpn ready for framing. Wri BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Gear;. Francisco, California. 18 ©he gveefrev troir gtpxrrtemcm [March 24, 1906 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW.SAN MATEO, CAU (f "operty of John Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 <«•■> will serve a limited number ot Approved Mares, Season 1906 FEE --- $75 Reductions made I- r two or more mares. Manager, WAI.TEB SEAI.Y. THE CHAMPION NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16 SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED Sire GUY WILKES 2:15« Dam I.IDA W 2:18Ji by NDTWOOD ....2:18J£ NUTWOOD WILKES 22116 is the only stallion that ever produced two three-year-olds in one season wlthreoordsot 2:13 and 2:13M respective y. Who Is It 2 : 12, ex-ohamplon throe-year-old gelding of the world, reduoed his record to 2:10m. JolinA Me- Kerron 2 :04H (2:12M as a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe ot George Wilkes. NUTWOOD WILKES is the sire of John A. Mo- Kerron 2-MYi (sire 3 two-year-olds in 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 2-09, Miss Idaho 2:09M. Who Is It 2:10H, Stanton Wilkes 2:10^4, Creseo Wilkes (4) 2:I0J£, Georgie B. 2-12M Claudius (4) 2:13!4, North Star (3) 2:13^, Bob Inger'soll (4) 2:14?i, and 32 in 2:30 list. His sous Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09M and Cavallero 2:09M , His daughters produoed Miss Georgie 2:103i. Mona Wilkes C3) 2:114, Lady Mowry (4) 2:12H, Caroline L. 2:H&. Iloilo 2:15, and Miss Winn 2:15^. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of IBM at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, fr»m Feb. 1st to July 1st. Can CKft FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges if horse remains my property Tee 90V Good pasturage at S3 per month. Bills payable before removal of mare. Stock well oared for, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. Young Stock by NUTWOOD WILKES for sale. Send for Tabulated Pedigree. For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CASTER, Nutwood Stook Farm, Irvlnston, Alameda Co., Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 Sire of ARISTO 2:08^, winner of Occident and Stanford Stakes of 1903. Sired by SABLE WILKES 2:18, sire of 42 In 2:30; dam. FIDELIA (dam of Fldette 2:28^, dam of Mary Celeste 2:1?M) by Direotor2:l7; second dam by Reavla Blackbird 2:22; grandam by Lancet, son of McCracken's Blaokhawb. Fee 850, limited to forty outside mares. 2-Ye&r-01d Record 2!20i Sired by DEXTER PRINCE (sire of Eleata 2:08^, LtsoDJero 2:08M. James L. 2:09H, Edith 2:10, etc); dam, WOODFLOWER (dam of Seyles2:153£) by Ansel 2:20, son of Electioneer; second dam, Mayflower 2:30'/a (dam of Manzanita 2:16, Wildnower (2) 2:21, and eight producing daughters) by St Clair 16675. Fee 830. Both Stallions will make the Season of 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A. SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX. BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL .A. Higli-Olass Tovrng MoKinney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A handsome son of McKInney. Sired by the great McKInney 2:11^, greatest sire of the ag dam, the great broodmare Daisy S (dam of Tom Smith 2:13^. General Vallejo 2:224$. Little M» c ( 2:27, and Sweet Rosie 2:28^ . by McDonald Chief 3583. son of Clark Chief 89; seoond dam, Fanny Ros i great broodmare (dam of George Washington 2;163£, Columbus S.2:17) by Ethan .Mien Jr 299 third dam, Jenny Lind (dam of Prince Allen 2:27, alsodamof Fanny McGill, dam of Sootty 3:194$ Trilby 2:2130- GENERAL. J. B FRISBIE la a handsome, good-gaited blaok, five years old. He a full brother to Tom Smith 2:134<; shows McKInney spaed and will be trained for the races th season. Terms, 825 for the season; usual return privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 Sire of Dilltcau 2:!5!$. George Washington 2:16?£ (sireof Steila 2:154$, Campaigner 2:26^ and Princess W. 2:29^), Trilby 2:21?i and Sweet Rosie 2:284*. By McDonald Chief 3583 (sireof 4 and sire of damsof 7 In 2:30); dam. Venus by Mambrlno Patchen 58. Terms, W20 for the Season: usual return privileges, Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horses at my barn. 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal, More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. 3 By SIDNEY 2:19 3=4 (sireof 19 in 2:15 list and 106 in 2:30 list and sire Sidney Dillon, sire LOU DILLON 1:58)4, World's Champion); dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; next dam Sarpy Mare by Eoho 482. SIDMOOR 2:17j£ Is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual in every respect. He is one of the best produoing sons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. SIDMOOR 2:17 Sire of enoch 2:1.: genekai, 2:14h. teddy tub hoan 2:1714, little miss 2:171<. marchioness 2:29, lillian sidmore 2:24 and TIP OOUANDO (trial) :::oie .. SID ABBOTT (trial) 2:18, JAKE F, (trial half mile) 1:05. uuu *,A.,WU DtDDU, Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Addre"B IAUAI „__ _ . usu-i Rdum priv^ JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:111, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares, FULL BROTHER TO TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 First data DAISY S. (dam of Tom Smith 2: ISM. General Vallejo 2-204$, Little Mao 2:274$, Sweet Rosle2:28?i) by MoDonald Chief 3583; seconddam Fanny Rose (dam of ColumbusS. 2:i7, George WaabliyinQ 2:ifi_^, who Hired Stella 2: 16'/;. Campaigner 2:26 n, etc ; third dam Jenny Llnd (dam of Prlnc- Allen 2:27 and also dam of Fanny McGill, dam of Sootty 2:194$, Trilby 2:21 J£, etc ) CONSTRUCTOR Is one of the handsomest sons of the great Mo Kinney on the Coast. He stands 15b,aiAds24$ Inchesover the withers and 15 hands 34$ Inches over the loins and weighs 1100 pounds. Ho i aver made a regular season In the stud, but was bred to aoveral mares when three years old and 11 of his get are of good size and good lookers. :'ill Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. ervice Fee §25, with usual return privilege. For farther particulars address JAS. A. SMITH. 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. MoKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05 Reg- No. 34471. Great Race Horse and Producing Sire. Ambush(3) 2:I4| Delilah (3) 2:14J Bystander 2:14| Sherlock Holmes 2:15j Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 Has 10 Three-Year-Olds that worked trials in 1905 as follows: LILIAN ZOLOCK 2:14, KINNEY WOOD 2:15, CLEOPATRA 2:15, RED LOOK 2:18, ZOLLIE 2:18, INAUGURETTA 2:22, HILOCK 2:25, MAJELLA 2:25, ADA LANTE 2:26, BOLOCK 2:27, and 3 Two-Year-Olds a« follows: WENZA 2:24, BONNIE JUNE 2:27, IZALCO 2:30, and 12 others now in training: that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. ZOLOCK'S Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (by Gossiper 2:14?i), dam of ZOLOCK 2:05^, Zephyr 2:07^; second dam the great broodmare Glpsey (by Gen. Booth 2:304$). dam of Gazelle 2:114$, Delilah (3) 2:14*4, Ed Winship 2-]5, Wlllets (mat.) 2:17, Dixie S 2:27, and grandam of Col. Green (trial) 2:104$, third dam Echo Belle (grandam of Conn 2:154*) by Echo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, Is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. All his colts are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Mares will be cared for in any manner desired, but Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO by ZOLOCK 2:06!-^; dam GIPSEY. dam of Gazelle 2:1I!4, Delilah 9:14^ and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14^5. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track. Pleasanton. Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05{ SIRE OF BONALET (3) 2:09^, In winning race— "World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3), trial (trotting) 2:11^4 (last hair 1:03). Only two o[ BONNIE DIRECTS first orop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton--Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or ba sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, $2.50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good oondition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. DR E. G. MCCONIMELL 70S SUTTER ST.. SAN FRANCISCO. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE SEASON OF 1906 AT PLEASANTON STAR POINTER 1:5} Sire of • •••WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN 1897 The Fastest, Gamest and Most Consistent Kace Horse In Turf History. MORNING STAR 2:03, JOE POINTER 2:05W, SIDNEY POINTER 2:07M, SCHLEY POINTER 2:08^, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:5914 Hal Ulllard 2:04J£ Star Hal 2:04»i Hal Chaffln 2:05m Elastic Pointer 2:0615 New Richmond 2:07K Hal Braden 2:07K Storm .2:0814 Brown Heels 2:09* Laurel 2:09M Silver Hal 2:10 eto. 6 produoing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of Star Pointer 1-59W Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastic Pointer .." ' 2-0614 Cloud Pointer 2:2-1 a Tennessee Pointer ...[ ,2:24i£ 2 produoing sons 6 produoing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager. Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McEINNET 2:11W. sire of SWEET MARIE 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07?i. Charley Mac 2-073i, Hazel Kinney 2:0PM. Tha Roman 2:09 14. Dr. Book2:io, Cone 2-02, China Maid 2:054.f. You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09. Zolock2:05M Dam, AILEEN 2:X64$ (dam of Mowitza 2:204$, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:33, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 2:164$. sireof damsof Directum Kelly 2:08m. Grev Gem 2:09/,, W. Wood 2:07, eto. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:584$, Red- wood 2:21'/, Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:20',$) by Milton Medium 2:254$ (sireof 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium 2:3242, sireof Nancy Hanus 2:04, eto. GRECO Is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only race as a colt, and has shown miles in 2:2Uslnoe in his work, and is a sure 2:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares ct WlOO THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address r rn is. De RYDER* Manager, PleasantoD, Cal. £ j£fM8i .sail IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IRAN ALTO'S sire and dam have both held ohampion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produced a aolt that was a world's record breaker, and his grandsire has sired several trotters that broke world's records No other horse with a record as fast as IRAN ALTO'S can olaim this. At nine years he had sired ten colts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse 2: 12»4, Thomas R. 2:15, Vendome2:!7, Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25— all atfour yearsold. Who oan name a horse whose first ten oolts oan beat that ? W1U Make the Season of 10Q6 at WOODLAND, CAT,/ FEE $40 For further particulars address $20 due when mare Is bred and H. s. HOGOBOOtf. 920 payable when maro is known to be in foal. 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FOR THE GRAND CIRCUIT MEETING Sept. 3, 4. 5, 6, 7, 1906 ANNOUNCES THE FOLLOWINQ EARLY CLOSING EVENTS: No 1 " The Charter Oak" 2:09 Class Trotting $10,000 ij"' o 2:30 Class Trotting 2,000 « "o 2:08 Class Pacing 2,000 N°' 4 2:20 Class Pacing..'. 2,000 ENTRIES CLOSE TUESDAY, APRIL 10, 1906 When Horses Must Be Named in All Events. Charter Oak Park Is a member of the National Trotting Association, which rules will govern. H°PLlaoflHynor n?m?nator ceases when written notice ot withdrawal Is lodged with the Secretary. Payments are due In cash on dates speclfled. Each Event will consist of Three Races of One Mile each. No. 1. The Charter Oak $10,00 0 For trotters eligible to the 2:09 Trot. April 10, 1906, divided as follows: 1st RACK S2000 to winner, SGOO to second $MOO to third. 2nd RACE »2000 to winner, S600 to second, S400 to third. 3rd RACK, S2000 to winner, S600 to second, $4uO to third. ilOOO to horse standing best in summary at end or tbe third race. He will be declared the winner of the Charter Oak In case of a tie between two or more horses for first place in the summary, they shall trot oft the tie uatil the winner is decided. HANDICAP ENTRANCE ACCORDING TO RECORD. THE SLOWER YOUR RECORD THE LESS YOU PAY. Horses with record of 2:0S!-i to 2:09, 5°0. Horses with record of 2:4)9)4 to i:lo, 4",,. Horses with record of 2:10>i to 2:11, 3% HorseB with record of 2:11?^ to 2:12, 2%. Horses without records, or with records slower than 2:13 114%. Payments are due in easy instalments as follows:- Horses with records of April 10 May 8 June 5 July 2 Aug. 21 3:08M to 2:09 $75 $100 $100 $100 $125 2:09)4 to 2:10 50 75 75 90 2: I0!4 to 8:11 40 50 60 •2:11*4 to 2:12 SO 40 Horses without reo-l ords, or with rec- ! 30 SO 30 40 ords slower than f 2:12 J Positions wilt b3 drawn for before the first race, but in the second and third races the horses shall start as they finished in the preceding one. Horses not finishing within one hundred yards of the winner in any race will be barred from farther competition Only Horses Named oa or Before April 1 0th can Start in the CHARTER OAK $10,000 Purse, as there is No Substitution. Purses 2. 3 and 4 will be divided as follows: 1st RACE, S500 to winner. $125 to second, S75 to third. 2nd RACE, IS 5 OO to winner, Sl'25 to second, *75 to ihlrd. 3rd RACE, S400 to winner, 8135 to second, *75 to third. Entrance in Purses 2, 3 and 4 Is 5 pjr cent or parse, and nothing additional from winners, payable in tbe following instalments: April 10 May 8 June 5 July 3 Aug. 21 $20 «30 I 820 820 $20 For Entry Blanks and information address ALBERT H. MOONE, Secretary, Charter Oak Park, HARTFORD, CONN. Early Closing Stakes OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM, SEPT. 10 TO 15, 1906 ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 15 But Letters Postmarked May 16 will be Accepted Illihee Stake, for Two=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 $ 400 Valley Stake, for Tbree=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 500 Merchants' Stake, for 2:25 Pacers, 2 in 3 1000 Greater Salem Stake, for 2:15 Pacers, 3 in 5 2000 Rural Spirit Stake, for 2:10 Pacers, 2 in 3 700 Oregon Stake, for Two=year-old Trotters, 2 in 3 400 Inland Stake, for Three-year=old Trotters, 2 in 3 500 Farmers' Stake, for 2:27 Trotters, 2 in 3 1000 Lewis & Clark Stake, for 2:17 Trotters, 3 in 5 2000 Capital City Stake, for 2:12 Trotters, 2 in 3 700 j-*y-v|kj|-vw^p1/-vfcjQ Entrance fee 5 per cent of stake and 5 par cent additional from money \_/V/IN Ui 1 Iv/FlO! winners, payable 2 per cent May 15, when horse must be named, and 3 per oent September I. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and lOpsrcjnt of stake. Horses 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 shall have a right to a share of fe stak- according to their rank at the close of the last heat Right to transferor substitute entry In thestakesopcn to August I to horses eligible May 15, subject to approval. The board reserves the right to declare off and return first payment in any stake that does not fill satisfactorily. Right reserved to declare two starters a walk-over. When only two start they may contest for the en- trance inooov paid in, dlvldel 70 par cent to first and 3u p^r cent to second horse. Ahorse distancing the Oold shall be entitled to first and fourth moneyRonly, and in nn other case will a horse be enti- tled to more than one money. Other than speolfled. rules of the National Trotting Association, of which this Association Is a member, to govern, except hippies not barred. Two Consolation Purses of 8500 Each. Free entrance will ba given to non- winning- starters in the Greater Salem Stake for 2:15 pacers, and the Lswis and Clark Stake for 2:17 trotters, mile heats, 2 in 3, provided there are eight or more starters in each of the original stakes. W. H. DOWNINQ, President, F. W. DURBIN, Secretary, Shaw, Oregon. Salem, Oregon. Fin try Blanke can be had from the Secretary or at the office of the Breeder [An Pedigrees Tabulated Toghill Stud jjuLEixniiO (Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER and typewritten readyfortramlog Write for prices BRBEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 38 Geary Street, San Francisco, California Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager, Menlo Park, Cal. PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty recognize the famous COURT into which tor twenty-fl e years carriages have driven. 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Ladles oan go and return to stable d not have their horses frightened by automobiles •*r cars. NO MORE DISTEMPER. There's absolutely no need of a case of distemper, pinkeye, or any conta- gious catarrhal diseases among your animals. DR CRAFT'S DISTEMPER & COUGH CURE can not fail to prevent and cure— no pay if it fails. If not at your druggist's, order direct, 50c and SI. Our free booklet, "Veter- inary Pointers," will be Invaluable to you. Write for It now. WELLS MEDICINE CO, , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind D E NEWELL, General Agent for Pacific Coast 619 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in- California. Owners desiring to have horses handled and put In condition for sale or racing are Invite 1 to correspond with the undersigned JAS. THOMP80N, Pleasanton, Cal. RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Medal At California Statu Fair 1892. Every horse owner who values his stock should constantly have a sup- ply of it on. hand, ft mproves and keeps tock in the pink of ondltlon. /laabattan Pood Co 1 253 Folftotn St., San Fr: nclsco Ask your grocers or dealer* for It. Positively Cores Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C p. kkktei.1, Manager March 31, 1906] ®he gvcebev cmfc J&ptfvtsmmt 8 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPO&TSMAN P. W. KELLEY, Proprietob. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast, office 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 447. fELEPHON'B: Black 586. Taiml- One Tear 83, Six Months 91.75. Three Months 91 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 38 Geary St., San Francisco, California. Communications must be aocompanled by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guar- antes of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, March 31, 1906 Stallions Advertised. TROTTING BRED. ALT A VELA 2:11%.. Hans Frellson, San Francisco, Cal. ALMADEN 2:22% M. L. Lusk, Sacramento, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT 2:05%.. C. L. Griffith, Pleasanton. Cal. BONNIE McK. 36569 Geo. A. Kelly, Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:12% Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. CHAS. DERBY 2:20 Oakwood Park, Danville, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. «3RECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. * DIRECT 2:12% Dan Lieginger, San Francisco, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12% H. S. Hogoboom, "Woodland, Cal. ^ZALCO H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEY LOU 2:07% Budd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R. D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. LTNWOOD W. 2:20%...H. A. Carlton, Santa Rosa, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11% Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622, Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. MONTEREY 2:09%... P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo. Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman, Los Angeles.Cal. NEAREST .2.22% T. W. Barstow, San Jose, Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16% Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20%.. C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R AMBUSH 2:14% G. W. Bonnell. Redlands, Cal. RED McKINNEY W. R. Murphy, Tulare. Cal. SIDMOOR 2:17% John Ott, Pacheco, CaL STAR POINTER 1:59% Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. STILL WELL Oakwood Park, Danville, Cal. T. C. 2:30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal. TOM SMITH 2:13% C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936. ..Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto. Cal. WASHINGTON McKINNEY Rose Dale Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Cal. WAYLAND W. 2:12%..W. C. Helman, Santa Rosa, Cal. YOSEMITE P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. YOUNG HAL 2:10%.. I. C. Mosher. Los Angeles, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05% H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. GREEN'S RUFUS Baywood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER. .Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. MANCHESTER 201 A. H. Brinton, Woodland, Cal. THOROUGHBRED. SALVATION D. W. Donnelly, San Mateo, Cal. California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacific Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903 — $10 due April 1, 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting:. Stake No. 4, $6000, foals of 1904 — Starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days before the meeting. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. T„ Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. T.. Aug. 13-18. Readvllle, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. T., Sept. 10-15. Columbusr O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. THE STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, at its meeting last week deposed Secretary Albert Lindley and elected in his place Mr. J. A. Filcher. During the year that Mr. Lindley held the position he has made a good official and aimed to raise the tone of the State Fair to a higher plane than that on which it had been conducted for some time previous. What objections the directors, or those who voted to oust him, had, was not stated by them, but doubtless politics of some sort had much to do with it. The new secretary is a gentleman of ability and excellent reputation. He had charge of the California exhibits at the St. Louis and Portland expositions, and is an expert at the gathering and placing of exhibits, as well as managing fairs. That he will make a good secretary is certain if he is allowed to manage the office of secretary, as he should be. The State Board of Agriculture has the opportunity to make the fair of 1906 one worth attending. One bad step it has taken is in fixing the day of opening on Saturday instead of Monday. This is in the interests of Sacra- mento alone, and compels the Woodland people to move their date back a week, much to their disadvan- tage. Director F. H. Burke of this city, who was unable to be present at the meeting, sent in several suggestions that the board should have adopted, but they were turned down. Governor Pardee is the one who will be held responsible by the people if the fair of 1906 turns out a failure, as he has the opportunity to appoint six new members of the board who will unite with other members in making the fair what it should be. The terms of six directors have expired but as the Governor is a candidate for re-election he will probably let matters drift as they are rather than to incur any enmities. In the meantime few will envy Mr. Filcher his job. THE CALIFORNIA CIRCUIT is assuming shape. At a meeting of the directors of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Association, held at the office of Secretary Kelley. 36 Geary street, last Tues- day, letters were read from secretaries in different parts of the State and it was concluded by those present that the California circuit would surely be a go and that it would be about as follows: Los Angeles for the week ending July 7. Fresno for the week ending July 21. Salinas for the week ending July 28. Breeders' fall meeting for the week ending August 4. Santa Rosa for the week ending August 11. Wodland for the week ending August 18. State Fair beginning Saturday, August 25, and ending Saturday, September 1. This will make a circuit of seven weeks and as at all the places mentioned there are good mile track and good purses will be given the circuit will be worth training horses for. All that now remains is for the associations at the above places to arrange and an- nounce their programs, and just as soon as this is done, horsemen all over the State will begin working their horses with the intention of entering in them. The very wet winter has kept the horses back a great deal, but they are probably all the better for it, as there are very few lame horses now at any of the tracks. TWO STAKES OF $1000 EACH for two-year-olds have been offered by the California State Agricultural Society. The stake for trotters has been called the A. B. Spreckels Stake in honor of the last president of the society, and the one for pacers is called the Ben Rush Stake in honor of the present president. The value of these two events should make the list of two-year-olds in training by August 1st a large one. There are 125 two-year-olds in the Breeders' Futurity on which payments were made March 1st. Out of these there should be a large number put in training for the two State Fair Stakes. The two- year-old trotting division of the Futurity is worth $1000, and the two-year-old pacing division $750, with additional sums for the owner of the sire and the dam. Consequently a two-year-old trotter that can win the Breeders' Futurity and the A. B. Spreckels Stake will earn $1000, and the two-year-old pacer that can win in the Futurity and the Ben Rush Stake will earn $875. These sums will be pretty fair for a two-year-old to earn in two starts. Entries for the two State Fair stakes close May 1st. A DISPATCH from Riverside. Cal.. states that Stanton Wilkes 2:10%. sire of Cavaliero 2:09%, died there last Wednesday from blood poisoning, the result of a seemingly trivial injury sustained a few days previous. Stanton Wilkes was the property of Mr. A. W. Bruner, and his death will be a severe loss to him. Stanton Wilkes was a very fast pacer, much faster than his record. He had shown better than two-minute speed for a half mile in his work-outs, and since his retirement to the stud has been looked upon as one of the coming sires of great speed in Cali- fornia. The only one of his get to start is Cavaliero 2:09%. Stanton Wilkes was sired by Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%. his dam Ava 2:34 by Dan Voorhees 2:23%. second dam Sweet Meat by Gen. Knox 2:31%. third dam Belle by Black Hawk 5. He was a dark chestnut horse with one white hind ankle, standing an inch over 16 hands and weighing nearly 1300 pounds. NEXT MONDAY. April 2d, a payment of $10 must be made, if not made before, on all three-year-olds entered in the Breeders' Futurity for this year. Re- member this stake has a guaranteed value of $6000. and will probably be worth more, but you cannot win any part of it with your colt unless this payment is made, as lie cannot start. You have made all the payments so far, and it would be very unwise to allow this payment to lapse and thus lose all chance for any part of the big purse. We know of several fast colts whose speed was not developed until a few months before the race last year, that might have won had they been kept in the two-year-old stakes. It may be the same with the three-year-old stakes this year, so the proper thing to do is to make the payment, stay in, and try for the money. THE DATE OF CLOSING of the four big stakes offered for the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Association's fall meeting has been postponed until May 1st. The very wet winter, and the almost "con- tinuous rain during the month of March has kept the horses in their stalls the greater part of the time since the year opened, and it was not fair to the owners or trainers to close these big stakes as first advertised on April 2d, for very few- have much idea up to this time as to what the capabilities of their green horses are. By the time of closing, May 1st, the dates for the California circuit will all be selected and programs announced, and this will be a further adventage to horsemen. On Friday night of last week the well known trainer, Al McDonald of Pleasanton, shot and killed Joseph Mello, a young business man of that town. Mello was a widower whose wife died four or five months ago. About that time McDonald married a young lady of Santa Rosa and rented Mello's house at Pleas- anton, the latter taking a room in the house. On Fri- day night McDonald and his wife quarreled over her desire to attend a skating rink, and McDonald left the house. His wife attended the rink and the hus- band went home and hid behind a lounge in the sit- ting room. When she returned Mello came in the house with her. McDonald rose from his place of con- cealment, words passed between the two men, and McDonald states that Mello raised a chair and struck him. He drew a pistol and shot Mello, the latter dying in a very short time. McDonald gave himself up to the officers of the law and was taken to Oakland, where he is now confined in the jail there. At the inquest held by the coroner on Tuesday of this week the jury charged McDonald with murder. No date for his trial has thus far been set. There were no witnesses to the affair except McDonald and his wife, neither of which testified before the Coroner's jury by direction of counsel. In referring to the coming season on the New York speedway, the Trotter and Pacer says: "The free- for-all class promises to attract special interest this season, as James A. Murphy with his fleet pacers. Don Derby 2:04% and Free Advice 2:10%, will find a formidable competitor in Charlie Weiland's Sir Albert S.. who acquired a race record of 2:03% at Lexing- ton, Ky.. in 1902. and the following week at Memphis, in a match against Prince Alert, he forced the hop- pled gelding to pace a half-mile in 57% seconds. In this particular match Sir Albert S. drew the outside position and led Prince Alert the first quarter in 28% seconds, where he went to a break. Notwithstanding this break. Prince Alert was forced to pace the half in the record-breaking time for a race for a half-mile of 57% seconds in order to win. Sir Albert S. turned up lame, but a after a long rest of nearly three years he is as sound as a gold dollar for speedway pur- poses, and Weiland will be on deck when the free- for-all dashes are arranged, and the horse that beats the California bred gelding will certainly be obliged to go a record-breaking half over the Harlem drive." The Kenney Manufacturing Company. 531 Valencia street, sold two of those long-shaft McMurray carts, one to Al Schwartz, the other to V. Verhilac. The for- mer is driving his mare Clara L. to the new vehicle and says she can speed faster to It than to any sulky she was ever hitched to. Mr. Verhilac made the same report after he had driven his mare Gertie A. to the cart. Kenney has a second-hand Toomey and a sec- ond-hand McMurray cart for sale. To prevent ringing in harness horse racing Is the purpose of a bid presented to the Ohio lower house by Representative George Reed, of Wood county. It recites that "Whoever colors, changes, marks or dis- figures or changes the name of any trotting or pacing horse for the purpose of entering classes which they are not eligible to enter shall be fined nol $500 or be imprisoned six months or both.' f&he ^reeifev ant* &p&vt&man [March 31, 1906 APTOS RANCH SALE. "Tuesday, April 10th, is the date fixed for the sale of'the horses from Aptos Ranch, the property of Mr. A. ■ F.. Spreckels, The place is at the St. Lawrence Stables .at .423 Post street, .formerly occupied by W. Bridge. Fred H. Chase & Co., who will manage this getting such a centra] location for the disposal of this splendid consignment of young horses, and will fit up the place so that it will be by far the neatest, most comfortable and most con- venient place for a horse auction ever seen in San The big building in which the St. Law- re~n ■ were situated is to be torn down and a new modern structure erected in its place, but Chase & Co. have secured the use of the building for this sale, and are already at work clearing out the vast room and having seats arranged to accommo- date the large crowd that is certain to 'be present. Chase & Co. are to erect in this city a fine large umersall for the sale of horses, the land having al- ly been purchased, and it was intended that the Aptos Ranch sale should inaugurate its opening, but sei eral unavoidable circimstances have" delayed the construction of the huilding, and Mr. Chase has se- cured the St. Lawrence Stables for the sale. There are twenty-five horses to be sold, all bred at Aptos Ranch. There are twenty-three trotters and two pacers in the consignment, and a finer or better bred lot of horses has ndt been sent to a sale in this city in years. Sandy Smith, the well-known trainer, has had them in charge at the ranch track for the past three months, and has driven them daily on the roads about Aptos, where steam and electric cars, automobiles and motorcycles are familiar sights. The horses are from two to five years old, good lookers, of good size, and sound. There are eleven by Cupid 2: IS, own brother to the great Sid- ney Dillon, sire of the world's champion, and him- self sire o'f five with records below 2:17. Nine head are by the great stallion Dexter Prince, who died last year, -and has sixty-six standard performers. among them Lisonjero 2:08*4, Eleata 2:0S*£, James L. 2:09%, and other noted fast ones. Three head are by Aptos Wilkes, own brother to Hulda 2:08*£, and two are by Altivo 2:1S^, own brother to Palo Alto 2:08%. Among the horses catalogued is a bay mare, own sister to Venus 2:11%; a bay gelding, own brother to Psyche 2:16%; a chestnut mare, own sister to Harold D. 2: 11*4; a chestnut gelding, half brother to Zambia 2:14%; a brown mare, own sister to the Cupid mare now owned by Budd Doble, who says she is the fastest thing he ever sat behind, and many more that might be particularized had we space this week. Aptos Ranch has never bred for quantity. Twenty-five or thirty foals per year is about the limit at the farm, but the rule has been for quality. The brood mares are fine individuals, and size, sound- ness and conformation have been the qualities first in mind. Speed has been produced there, and of a high order. The mares Dione 2:07%, Hulda 2:0SM>. Venus II 2:11%, Zambia 2:14%, Lottie Parks 2:16%, and Psyche 2: 16% were all bred by Aptos Ranch, and are all trotters. The pacers Harold D. 2: 11% and Belle Dawson 2:16%, besides -many others, were also bred at this farm. Many of the best and fastest road horses that go over the San Francisco roads and through the park speedway first saw the light of day down at this beautiful stock farm on Monterey Bay. A full and complete catalogue of the horses to be sold has been printed and can be had by application to Fred H. Chase at 1728 Market street, this city. The horses to be sold are the following: Sired by Cupid 2:18. Bay gelding. 1902, dam Emma S. by Speculation; bay mare, 1902, dam Princess Louise by Dexter Prince; bay mare. 1902, dam Lady Ashcat by Aptos Wilkes; bay mare, 1900, dam Lady Ashcat by Aptos Wilkes; chestnut mare, 1901, dam Livingston Mare by Dexter Prince; bay gelding, 1901, dam Erosine by Bros; chestnut mare, 1901, dam Countess by Mc- Kinney; bay mare, 1901, dam Lillie S. by Specula- tinii, chestnut mare, 1902, dam Sen Sen by Dexter Prince; hay gelding, 1902, dam Satella by Aptos Wilkes; brown mare, 1902, dam Countess by Mc- Kin'ney. Sired by Dexter Prince. Brown mare, 1902, dam Erosine by Eros; chestnut gelding, l!*02, dam Galata by Stamboul; bay gelding, L902, /2. Dear Breeder and Sportsman: Let me say a few words in your paper in praise of Wayland W. 2:12%. I was in Petaluma a short time ago, when Chas. Northup said to me: "Rustic, have you seen Hellman's horse, Way- land W.?" "No.11 "Well, go to the Brick Stable and look him over and then tell me what you think of him." So at the first opportunity I met Mr. Hellman by appointment and together we walked down to the stable to see his stallion. Wayland W. as he was led out first impressed me as a horse perhaps a little too big for a carriage stallion and a little too big. for a great trotter. But the more I looked at him fore and aft, before and behind, now on one side, now on the other, the more I was impressed with the symmetry of the horse. The smooth, soft outline of his figure, the carriage of his neck, the poise of his head, the set of his tail (as if held up by a crupper before it fell to the floor), the "tout ensemble," the general appearance of Wayland W. was to me that of a high-class thoroughbred. The closer my scrutiny, the more muscular, the taller and broader this grand horse became. All horsemen know that the Hambletonian has a big bony head, broad between the eyes, jowls wide apart, big nostrils, good pointed ears, but not a fine head. Wayland W. has as fine a head as any thor- oughbred; a pointed muzzle in repose; a thin pointed ear, as thin as a piece of cardboard; a mild, intelli- gent eye, rendered so by years of training and devel- opment in his ancestors and in himself; a neck as long, as flat, as fine as a thoroughbred, he carries it "Like crested leader proud and high, tossed his beamed frontlet to the sky." Flat backed, no droop to the loins ; muscles well let down on the arms, stifles and gaskins; good flat legs on small, sound black feet. (I never saw a great race horse with big feet, reader, did you?) After my scrutiny was over I turned to Will Hell- man (a very modest man by the way) and said: "There, Hellman, is the finest American trotting horse, take him for all in all, I ever saw. I will send a mare to him. If you had him in Kentucky you would be getting $100 a season for his services if you asked it. Where does Directum, $300 a season, lay over your horse, considering opportunities? Where does Directum outbreed him? What did Alfred G. do here in the stud? In Kentucky $150 the season where he sired Charley Herr 2:071/4." Great horses do not have to depend on pedigree. A great horse is like Richard III, who said: "I am myself alone — I have no brothers." I consider By Holly, Joseph Cairn Simpson and Governor Stanford the three greatest horsemen I ever knew, or our gen- eration has seen. All three picked out first the indi- vidual, next the pedigree. By Holly won race after race, running, trotting or pacing with all kinds of breeding. . Joseph Cairn Simpson picked out of com- parative obscurity Bonnie Scotland, A. W. Richmond, and bred Marian, one of the greatest dams of race horses America has ever known. Governor Stanford turned his back on Messenger Duroc, all pedigree and no horse, and bought for half the money Electioneer. Hence I say, breed to get what you want in the indi- vidual, not in the pedigree, unless it is absolutely supported by the sire. I would that I owned Way- land W., but as I don't here's to his genial owner; may he win fame and fortune from his horse. RUSTIC. THE REDFIELD THEORY. [While every horseman who has seen Wayland W. will vouch for his individuality, it must not be con- sidered for a moment (and we know our correspond- ent, Rustic, did not intend to convey the impression) that his pedigree is lacking. He is by Arthur Wilkes 2:2iSy2, a son of Guy Wilkes (Geo. Wilkes-Mambrino Patchen) that was out of a mare by Arthurton (Ham- bletonian-American Star). The second dam of Arthur Wilkes was Old Lady by the Black Hawk horse David Hill Jr., and the next dam a daughter of William- son's Belmont. So much for the sire side of Way- land W.'s pedigree. His dam is the great brood mare Lettie, that produced Welcome 2:10^ (sire of two in the 2:15 list), Wayland W. 2:12% (sire of Bolivar 2:06Vi and five more in the 2:15 list), and Maud Sin- gleton 2:28% (dam of one in the 2:15 list. The next dam was Mary, one of the greatest of brood mares, she having two daughters that produced two 2:15 performers. Mary is not only the dam of Lettie but she is the dam of Grace, dam of Daedalion 2:08%, Creole 2:15 (sire of Javelin 2:08%) and Eagle 2:19%. A stallion that has a trotting record of 2:12%, that is by as well bred a producing sire as Arthur Wilkes, is out of a great brood mare whose dam is a great brood mare, can be considered to have an excellent pedigree. The idea Rustic doubtless intended to con- vey was that where a breeder found an individual as good as Wayland W., that had accomplished what he has on the race track and in the stud, there was little use in looking up pedigree, and we "agree with him, but as Wayland W. has the pedigree qualifica- tion also we have taken the liberty of referring to it, and know that Rustic will not consider we are "butting in" or trying to complete a piece of finished work. It is only for the benefit of some of our readers who may not be familiar with Wayland W.'s breeding, that we have added these lines. — Ed. B. & S.] ■ Casper Redfield, whose original theories about heredity " have attracted much attention from the breeders of harness horses since he began publish- ing them to the world through the medium of the turf papers, has written many articles explaining his ideas, but like the writings of many persons who thoroughly understand their own theories, these articles have not been clearly understood by the average reader. Mr. Redfield's ideas are plain enough to anyone who will sit down and carefully study them, but the lay reader generally wants some- thing that he can grasp during a casual reading. A subscriber to the Breeder and Sportsman who has read Professor Redfield's articles has prepared from them the following epitome of the Redfield theory, -which he thinks will make it clear to the average reader. The editor of this journal has read nearly all the published articles of Professor Redfield and believes that this epitome is a correct though condensed interpretation of the "dynamic develop- ment" or "old-age" theory advanced by the professor, and which he is trying to substantiate by facts from the records: - Redfield Theory of Dynamic Development. Relating to inheritance by offspring of the charac- ters acquired by parents. 1. Characters which animals acquire- are those which are developed by exercising them. 2. An acquired character does not mean a new character, but the development of one already exist- ing, and were better called "acquired development." 3. If dynamic development acquired by parent is inherited by offspring, then the amount of such inher- itance should be proportional to amount of acquire- ment. 4. If offspring is to inherit dynamic development which the parent acquires, then the parent should acquire the development before he begets the off- spring, for the offspring cannot inherit anything which the parent acquires after offspring is born. 5. Dynamic development being acquired by exer- cise, and active animals continuing to exercise throughout their lives, therefore: Old and active animals have acquired more dy- namic dfcvelopment than young and inactive ones possess. In other words, its transmission depends upon age and activity, and therefore if acquired dynamic de- velopment is transmitted, it is to be expected from a line of progenitors either old or highly developed by special training. The facts establishing above were derived from comparison of records of ages and produce or 1000 registered standard stallions. Secondary Part of Theory. 1. It is well known that certain characteristics are transmitted by sex; that is: sire to son or from dam to daughter, but never from sire to daughter nor from dam to son. Characteristics thus transmitted are called "secondary sexual characteristics." 2. Development acquired as the result of exercise while a horse is immature is an ordinary character- istic and is transmitted by the animal equally to progeny of both sexes, but development acquired after the animal is mature becomes a secondary sexual character. It is well known that a male, castrated while im- mature, never inherits the secondary sexual charac- teristics which his sire had. 3. From the fact that an animal does not repro- duce until after he has arrived at sexual maturity, it follows that the age of the sire has nothing to do with the qualities of a daughter or a castrated son; and The age of a dam has nothing to do with the quali- ties of an uncastrated son; and Any development acquired after maturity of a sire will affect only uncastrated sons; and Late development in females will affect only daughters and castrated sons; therefore, a. Old and highly developed horses have become the best parents of sires. b. Undeveloped sons of an old and highly devel- oped horse are much better as sires of mares and geldings than as sires of stallions. c. Development which occurs in the youth of the parent is of the ordinary kind and is transmitted in the way in which all development is supposed to be transmitted, but d. Development occurring after the parent is ma- ture is transmitted in a special way — namely, from sire to son and from dam to daughter or from dam to castrated son. 2. Age in parents denotes length of life in off- spring, and thus furnishes ground work upon which still greater development may be built. o — Horsemen who have attended the Canadian ice races this winter say the amount of enthusiasm which the public displays is simply amazing. At some of the meetings the attendance has averaged 5,000 per- sons, and this with the thermometer many degrees below zero. win Durfee drove the Zombro gelding Zomont a half in 1:05 ^ i i:c-i w-k at Los Angeles, and Walter tenped tin- five-year-old Zombro mare Ger- ough the Btretch in 20% seconds. This Is one of the best gaited trotters in the State. ned by Lee Mayberry. The long continued wet spell has had a bad effect on horses used In those parts of the country where roads are poor. Mild fever has been very prevalent in some sections, and liverymen have had difficulty in keeping enough horses in commission to carry on their business. Maid of Del Norte, the handsome daughter of Del Norte 2:08, owned by Mr. C. A. Harrison of Victoria. B. C, has been bred to Star Pointer 1:59*4. Maid of Del Norte will be raced this year. J. E. -Smart has been appointed secretary of the British Columbia Agricultural Association at Victoria, B. C, where preparations are being made for a big fair this year. March 31, 1906] ©Jte $ve$bev tmb &p&vt&tmxtx 5 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. At last Saturday's meeting- of the Agricultural Society J. A. Filcher, who has represented California as Commissioner to the St. Louis and Portland Expo- sitions, was elected to succeed Albert Lindley as secretary of the society. Director Charles W. Paine of Sacramento took the initiative. After an attempt to leave to Director Thomas Fox, as superintendent of the park, the ap- pointment of a secretary, Mr. Paine made the motion that the office of secretary be declared vacant on April 1st. He said that an industrial State Fair should be held this fall; that the only way to effect this result was a change in the management; and, in reply to a question from Director "Wilson, stated that he was prepared to place in nomination another can- didate. "I want to know why Lindley should be thrown out," demanded Mr. Wilson. "If you can show me how the society will be in any manner benefited I will vote for the motion." Director William Land said that he had nothing against Mr. Lindley, but that the society needed a promoter who could go out and get exhibits; someone with influence who was up in this line of business. He said that there is not enough to employ both a secretary and a promoter. The directors had been criticised. The fair two years ago was "rotten" and he was sorry to be the superintendent of the pavilion. "We have for this place a man who was sent to Ore- gon and St. Louis and has done great work. That is the man." Director George W. Kingsbury of San Francisco came forward for the defense of Mr. Lindley and said: "We elected a man to this office with a hammer hung over his head. Go where he might and do as he would he had no assurance from month to month that his place was a permanent one. We have as good a secretary as we ever had or ever will have. If you will let him alone you will find him competent to do the promoting." Director Wilson said: "When Lindley assumed the duties of this office the society was $100,000 in debt and on everybody's black book. Through his legisla- tive knowledge and his acquaintance with newspaper men he accomplished the result that was desired. We are now out of debt and have the new grounds well started. This is due more to the work of Lindley than any man in California. "I cannot see wherein he has failed, and the gov- ernor, apparently, does not think the society is going to the dogs. There is no good reason for this action. It is done simply to make a place for someone else who must be taken care of. The same gentlemen who are trying to throw him out today failed in a similar attempt several months ago because they did not have the votes, and I hope they have not the necessary number today." Director Land affirmed that the Legislature had been moved to make appropriation for the society through the efforts of Directors Rush and Fox and the late B. W. Cavanaugh. At this point Mr. Lindley arose and said: "I was positive that an effort would be made to throw me out today, and equally sure that I would not try to stop it. I have known that the undercurrent of feel- ing against me was strong, but I did not hand in my resignation because I wanted to be fired. I feel that I have done as much for this State Fair as honest effort and my ability would allow, and I have the satisfaction of knowing that I tried conscientiously to elevate its tone and lift it out of the condition in which I found it. I wish my successor and the society all kinds of success." President Rush took the vote on the question of Lindley's dismissal, and the result was as follows: For Lindley's dismissal — Directors Rush, Fox, Paine, Land, Stabler and Howard — 6. Against Lindley's dismissal — Directors Wilson, Kingsbury, Rose and Whitaker — 4. Director Burke was absent and Director Jastro asked to be excused from voting, saying that he knew nothing of the conditions. Director Paine made a motion for the election of J. A. Filcher at a salary of $200 per month. He stated that he had no personal feeling in the matter and knew nothing of Mr. Filcher, whereupon Director Kingsbury retorted that he would not propose for an important position a man about whom he knew noth- ing. Mr. Kingsbury stated that he had heard some things about Filcher that he did not like, and sug- gested that the board ascertain something about him from the Chamber of Commerce, which had several times assisted the society and was entitled to some consideration. The vote was taken, and Filcher was elected by the votes of Directors Rush, Fox, Howard, Paine, Land, Rose, Stabler and Wilson. Directors Kingsbury and Whitaker were excused from voting. Mr. Lindley was asked if he would remain in the office for a period sufficient to instruct his successor in the details of the office. Mr. Lindley assented, saying he would be willing to do anything to help the society. Director F. H. Burke of San Francisco had con- veyed in a letter to H. A. Jastro a number of recom- mendations that were read. He suggested that Ad- mission Day be not included; that an effort be made to secure the labor of county prisoners at the fair grounds; that provision be made at the grounds for campers and university students. He also recom- mended the investigation of the number of horses stabled at the track and the amount derived from this source. He expressed a desire that better pre- mium ribbons be given exhibitors, and suggested that rosettes might he made by university co-eds or orphan asylum children. For the State Fair he ad- vises bronco-busting and steer-riding contests. He affirms that $2000 for music during the fair is exces- sive, and suggests the employment of Indian bands. He spoke of the success of miners' drilling contests for prizes. Mr. Burke says he has learned that the same sew- ing exhibits have taken annual awards of $325 for several years past. A similar complaint is made in regard to floral displays. In regard to revision of the premium list for track exhibits. Director Burke suggests the addition of prizes for sheep shearers and farming implements and that sweepstakes of $50 be offered in all thor- oughbred and standard-bred classes. The recom- mendations were referred to a committee. The society fixed the date of the next State Fair, selecting August 25th to September 1st, inclusive. Director Wilson suggested that the State Fair be held from August 30th to September 8th, inclusive, but some of the members decided that time must be given the stock owners to reach Portland on Sep- tember 8th. It was then suggested that the Fair begin on Saturday. August 25th, and end on Satur- day, September 1st. This was the week finally selected. Director Fox stated that he believed that the track would hereafter be self-sustaining, and that the in- come at present was almost as much as the amount required for track supervision. It was ordered that the board request Professor Carlisle to act as a judge of live stock, Governor Sparks of Nevada and some other expert to be selected. Governors Pardee of California and Cham- berlain of Oregon were suggested as honorary asso- ciate judges. The next meeting of the board will be held on April 9th. — Sac. Union. TRACK AND ROAD. DIRECT 2:12'/2 GOES TO OGDEN. Mr. Mabry McMahan of this city has sold his stal- lion I Direct 2:12% to Mr. A. G. Fell of Ogden, Utah, and the horse will be shipped to his new home this week. Mr. Fell, accompanied by his trainer, Mr. W. H. Goan, has been on a tour of the western country in search of a stallion well enough bred and with good enough individuality for the stud, and with speed enough to race in his class, and after examin- ing a number of stallions finally settled on this hand- some son of Direct 2:05Y2. We congratulate Mr. Fell on his selection. I Direct is one of the best-bred stal- lions ever sired by that great sire of speed and race winners, Direct. His dam is Francisca, dam of I Direct 2:12%, Sable Frances 2:15%, Erosmont 2:22 and Guysisca 2 : 26, by Almont 33, second dam Frances Breckenridge, grandam of Tuna 2:12% by Sentinel 280, third dam by Bayard 53, fourth dam Luna by Swigert's Lexington, fifth dam Eagless by imported Glencoe, sixth dam by Gray Eagle, seventh dam by Medoc, and on to the twenty-fourth dam, the famous Layton Barb mare. I Direct took his record in a race, and was sepa- rately timed in 2:08%, when he finished second to the famous ringer Walter K. at Santa Rosa, the latter winning the heat in 2:08. He is a double-gaited horse, trotting on the road up to a 2:40 gait, and being a square, even trotter. When called on for speed he goes easily and naturally into a pace. It is his new owner's intention to train and race I Direct after a short season in the stud this year, and many horsemen here believe the horse can lower his record. Mr. McMahan has used I Direct on the road foY the past three years and has found him an ideal road horse. Owners of standard-bred mares in Utah will find I Direct a fine individual, perfectly dispositioned, royally bred and very fast. He is a member of the family that has "the winning habit," and no better horse will be found to breed their mares to, as he will get race horses. BELIEVES IN ADVERTISING. Editor Breeder and Sportsman — I have to thank you for sending Mr. D. Bonham down here in answer to my advertisement. He has bought my mare Petrina at the price advertised, and I have just shipped her to him at Hanford. I may add that I am now a thorough believer in advertising. I was interested in reading in your last issue of Mr. Ronan's record in breeding mares. I think I did pretty well here myself, viz.: In 1899 I received Gossiper 2:1434, and the four brood mares, Zetta, Lizzie R., Fanny Vasto and Lizzie H. from Senator Fair's Sonoma ranch .and in 1899 these mares foaled four oolts, in 1900 four uolts, in 1901 four colts, in 1902 four colts, and in 1903 three colts, Fanny "Vasto having missed; total nineteen out of a possible twenty colts. Yours truly, S. T. CORAM. Ferndale, Humboldt county, will hold a fair and race meeting this year, opening on Monday, Septem- ber 10th, and closing Friday, September 14th. At a meeting of the directors held last week, the secretary was instructed to send out entry blanks for the two and three-year-old stakes, trotting and pacing. The events are open to trotters and pacers owned in Hum- boldt, Del Norte and Mendocino counties on January 1st, 1906. The association will add $100 to the total entrance fee paid if four or more start, $75 if three start. $50 if two start, and $25 if a walkover. The entrance fee is $15, payable as follows: $2.50 at the time of entry, April 1st, 1906; $2.50 on or before May 1st, 1906; $2.50 on or before June 1st, 1906; $2.50 on or before July 1st, 1906, and $5 on or before August 15, 1906. The races will be mile heats, best two in three. The total entrance and added money will be divided among the winners at the ratio of 60, 30 and 10 per cent if four start, same ratio if three start, and at the rate of 65 and 35 If two start. Mr. E. A. Branscom, of Xorwalk, Cal., is breeding two mares to Zombro 2:11 this year. They are full sisters, and sired by Conifer. The well known trainer J. B. Stetson, formerly of Denver, has moved his string of four horses from the Los Angeles track to Santa Rosa. Officer Van Keuren of this city has sent his mare Mattie B. 2:15 by Alex Button, to Modesto, to be bred to that splendid young stallion Ed McKinney. Remember, the date of closing of the four early closing guaranteed stakes offered by the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Association has been post- poned until Tuesday, May 1st. Mr. Robert Lee Bettner of Riverside, Cal., a polo enthusiast, and one of the best players of this game on the Coast, contemplates starting a polo pony breeding farm, using the small California mustang mares as matrons. The Portland, Ore., Horse Sale Company has been organized to conduct horse auctions and will give its first spring sale at Irvington Park, Portland, May 2d, 3d and 4th. M. D. Wisdom is president and G. A- Westgate manager. Mr. Armes of Chicago, who purchased Zealous 2:26^ by Zombro last year from W. G. Durfee of Los Angeles, states that the man to whom he sold her drove her a trial mile in 2:11 last year, and that she will doubtless get a low record this year. Three high class pacing mares were bred to Zom- bro 2:11 last week. They were Miss Williams-2:09%, Arabella, trial 2:10, and Cleone, trial 2:12*4. The mare Mary Scott 2:24%, owned by Mrs. Nelly Coo- vert of Vancouver, was also mated with Zombro last week. Mr. J. H. Jack, formerly of Bisbee, Arizona, but now a resident of Berkeley, Cal., purchased last week from Mr. R. P. M. Greeley of Oakland the brood mare Winnie Wilkes 2:17% by Rey Wilkes. The mare is in foal to Lecco 2:09% and will be bred thift year to Star Pointer 1:59%. Mr. J. H. Jack offers for sale or trade his lumbei business at Bisbee, Arizona, the advertisement ap- pearing on another page.. Mr. Jack will trade -for a ranch within fifty miles of Berkeley, Cal., wherehe is now living at 1431 Spruce street. He will take stand- ard bred trotting mares in part payment. Those new McMurray training carts that W. J. Kenney has just received from the factory are especially adapted for training or matinee racing. By the way many of the eastern amateur driving clubs are now designating carts as the hitch for matinee racing, as wagons are not only expensive but not so safe for an amateur driver as a cart. Zolock 2:05%, the fastest entire son of McKinney, will be taken to the Oregon State Fair Grounds after the close of his season at Pleasanton. He will reach there soon after. June 1st, and should be well patron- ized by the Oregon breeders as he is not only a magnificent individual, a great race horse and one of the best bred MeKinneys living, but he is proving a great sire. W. J. East of Fortuna, owner of the stallion Cas- siar, will enter two of that horse's colts in the stakes at the Ferndale Fair this year. In the three-year-old race Evelyn E. will be entered. This animal, it will be remembered, won the two-year-old colt race at the Ferndale fair last year and made an excellent showing. In the two-year-old race Mr. East's entry will be Cassine. The new Panhandle Stables, of which the well known horseman. T. C. Cabney, is proprietor, are located at 1225 Fell street, between Devisadero and Broderick streets. Take either the Haight, Hayes or Ellis street cars. At these stables horses are bought, sold, boarded, trained, gaited or exercised at popular prices. Neat and commodious box stalls are provided for those who desire them for their horses. Call up phone park 436 and ask Mr. Cabney about boarding or training your horse. One day last spring, just before Lou Dillon was shipped East, some gentlemen friends of Mr. Doble were at the San Jose track to see the queen in her last work-out before leaving California. One of the party remarked that he had never seen Kinney Lou in action and and requested Mr. Doble to move him up a little that he might get a line on his way of going. This the driver of Goldsmith Maid readily consented to do, stating, however, that he had given the horse no fast work in over a year. After jogging two or three miles the great son of McKinney was turned the right way of the track and jogged around into the stretch and started up just before the seven- eighths pole was reached. Then it was that those visiting horsemen and others saw the purest and most perfect piece of trotting machinery that had ever been their lot to witness, as Kinney Lou. without being driven, stepped thnt last eighth in 15 seconds and no one who saw the performance was more surprised than Mr. Doble when he looked at his watch and saw that he had ridden a two-minute gait when he had no idea of showing better than 10 speed. He has ever since wondered how Lou would have trotted that day had him to make an effort. 6 <£\ic &veei>ev axxp grpjcrrtsmmt March 31, 1906 1 NOTES AND NEWS. M Don't miss the sale of the Aptos Ranch horses if you want something- choice at your own price. They will be sold Tuesday evening, April 10th, at the St. Lawrenct S s 423 Post street, this city. This is right down town, and the finest place to hold a sale in San Francisco. To show that the Salinas race track is only next to PJeasanton as a winter training track, it need only that last Monday the track was in fairly good shape for some fast quarters and the following day the trotters and pacers were getting their lessons as though there had been no rain for a month. In foct the horses are as well along in their work there as at Pleasanton. Feter Weber, the well known veteran trainer, who has had a half century experience with both trotters and runners, and who could once drive with the be?t of them, will leave Monday for New York in charge of four harness horses owned by Mr. F. J. Kilpatrick. who is shipping them there for use on the road. Among them is the fast pacing mare Virginia 2:09 by Bob Mason. She should show the way to some of the best ones on the famous New York speedway when she is right. Mr. Weber trained horses for Mr. Kilpatrick's father many years ago, and drove his mare Lucy Walter in a $4000 stake for three- year-olds won by the Palo Alto filly Wildfiower by Electioneer at Morris Park. New York, in 1S82. Melvin Keefer. proprietor of the Hotel Julian of Woodland, and Chas. Spencer, superintendent of the Woodland Stock Farm, were in the city this week and attended a meeting of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Association. They report that there will be a fair and race meeting at Woodland in Au- gust, the week before the State Fair opens. The outlook is for one of the best meetings ever held at this popular track. There are quite a large number of horses in training there and all the trainers say that it is a first class winter track, and can be used whenever it is not raining. Los Angeles has a good horse of the Hal tribe in Young Hal 2:10^4, which Mr. I. C. Mosher will make the season there with. Young Hal is by the great pacer Hal Dillard 2:04%, and is out of the great producing mare Ozora by the old champion Smuggler 2:15%, second dam another great brood mare, Odd Stocking by Happy Medium 400, and third dam the famous County House Mare, dam of Nettie 2:1S by American Star 14. Young Hall is a game race horse and a natural pacer, going without the straps. He stands 15.3. weighs 1100 pounds and is a beautiful mahogany bay. This is his first season in the stud, but he cannot help being a sire of great speed and game race horses. The work of raising a sum of money among the citizens of Red Bluff sufficient to save the race track and fair grounds there from relapsing into farming land, is progressing satisfactorily. Chairman T. H. Ramsey of the Reorganization Committee reports that more than half the sum necessary has already been secured. A carload of mules were purchased at Biggs, Butte county, last week for shipment to Cook's Inlet. Alaska, where they will be used in packing materials to the mines. The price paid for the mules was $185 per head. The three-year-old division of the Kentucky Fu- turity has not been shortened. It is still best three In five. Billy Andrews has great hopes of the four-year-old pacer by John R. Gentry, out of Star Pointer's sister, Vllette. The Los Angeles Herald says: Hazel Patch, which raced at Agricultural Park and decisively beat Zolock, the coast sensation, has been sold by J. W. Flack to W. W. Fleming of Winnipeg, Canada, for $9000, and will be shipped to his new owner at once. The sale was consummated in Chicago last week, and in com- menting upon it the Milwaukee Sentinel says: "Hazel Patch 2:02%. the fastest harness horse ever owned in Wisconsin, and one of the fastest in the world, has been sold by J. W. Flack for $9000 to W. W. Flem- ing of Winnipeg, Manitoba, delivery to be made April 1, 1906, at Milwaukee. Flack has ordered the horse shipped from Los Angeles' and he will doubtless ar- rive in Milwaukee some time within the next ten days. One of the conditions of the sale is that Hazel Patch be started against The Bronco or any other horses that may enter the $2500 free-for-all at the Wisconsin State Fair in 1906. Mr. Flack is confident the black stallion can go in 2:00 in 1906 and lower the colors of any horse now racing. The new owner of Hazel Patch will fill all engagements made for exhibitions by Hazel Patch. Flack will now devote his time to training Hazel Dell, the two-year-old sister of Hazel Patch. She has speed and under Mr. Flack's training may develop into a great race horse." LEADING BROOD MARES. The Montana Fair and Racing Circuit for 1906 will offer $125,000 in stakes and purses. The first meeting on the circuit will be at Butte, opening August 22. There are three $1000 stakes for trotters and three for pacers, besides smaller purses. The Butte meeting will continue ten days. Then will come the Liv- ingston meeting .four days, with two $1000 stakes: the Billings meeting, four days, with four stakes of $1000 each; the Bozeman meeting, five days, with two stakes of $1000 and four of $500. then Big Tumber, whose stakes will be announced later: then Great Falls, when- four $1000 purses are offered; then the Montana State Fair at Helena, opening October 1st and continuing Ave days, with live stakes of $1000 each, and then the meeting at Missoula will wind up this excellent circuit with four days of racing closing October llth, during which there will be four stakes of $1000 each. Here are eight weeks of harness racing provided f"i" With no lesa than twenty-seven slakes of $1000 each for trotters and pacers. All these races will be on the three heat plan. Entries close April 10. It Li said Dial Major ]\ iv Johnston and other stockholders ot the American Trotting Register Asso- cfatlo i favors compulsory registration. The question •me up for consideration at the next annual ■a of the stockholders, February, 1907. The idea pulsory registration has been growing for the Hve years. Donlon Bros, of Los Angeles have at last won in the courts their long fight with the Southern Pacific Company to recover damages for the death of Charley D. and the injury to another horse. They were ship- ping these horses .from Salinas to Sacramento in 1902, when the car in which the. horses were was struck by another at Niles. The Donlon Bros, sued for $5000 damages for the loss of Charley D. and $3000 for the injury to the other animal. In the Superior Court of Los Angeles county they w7ere awarded $600 damages. The railroad company ap- pealed, but the Appellate Court has affirmed the de- cision. Entries close Tuesday, April 10th, for the big early closing stakes of the Readville Grand Circuit meet- ing. See the advertisement in this paper. Don't fail to enter your two-year-old in one of those $1000 stakes offered by the California State Agricul- tural Society. The A. B. Spreckels stake of $1000 is for two-year-old trotters. The Ben Rush $1000 stake is for two-year-old pacers. At the recently held sale of trotters and pacers at Cambridge City. Ind., the pacing filly Princess Manlove, said to have paced a quarter in 27^ sec- onds, half a mile in 1:00 and a mile in 2:10% last year as a two-year-old, was bid off by "Will J. Davis, the Chicago theater manager, at $5,000. According to advance advices at the English Hack- ney Show, held in London, March 6 to 9, there were in all 660 entries and the prize money amounted to $10,000. Representatives of many foreign govern- ments were on hand to make purchases. Diplomatist, the stallion imported to this country by Eben D. Jordan and later sent back to England where he won the championship at London last year, changed hands at $5000 and other high prices were recorded. Tom Sharkey, one of the active members of tne New York Drivers' Association, and who participates in a series of spirited brushes during the drivjng season on the famous Harlem Drive, received a cable from Ireland week before last, announcing the sad news of the sudden death of his father, James Sharkey, who lived to the ripe old age of 82 years. Mr. Sharkey had always enjoyed the best of health up to the date of his death. Mrs. Sharkey is well and hearty and is 73 years old. She, together with eighteen children, survive the husband and father. Tom was the sixteenth child, the baby boy of the family being brother Jack, who is just past 25 and who is associated with him in business in New York. There are many traditions assigned to the color of horses, although, as a matter of fact, it is of very little consequence, and no rule can be laid down as to any special merit belonging to any. For a long time prejudice attached to a white horse on account of the fabulous tradition that they could not stand the cold, because white is a non-conductor of heat, a hypothesis at once controverted by the fact that polar bears, which habitate the regions of eternal cold, are white. The same prejudice existed against black horses, on the other extreme, as black is a conductor of heat, a black horse would succumb to the enervating heat of summer. In this age of the world it is needless to say that the color of a horse has nothing to do with his constitution. The powers of endurance may be just as great in a white horse as in a black, and in a black as of any other color. The diversity and university of color in horses is a provision of nature, and the cause of it can not be explained by finite minds. Why there should be more bay horses than brown, more browns than gray, more grays than black, is a problem that the human mind cannot solve. No more can it explain why the union of a black sire with a gray dam may result in a hay. chestnut, brown or black offspring, or a union of two of a color may produce the opposite color. mder restraint, al Columbus last fall in 2:05%" la Hi-' way the owner ■•( a pacer eligible t«> the 2:12 class is advertising in defiance of turf law. A hint to the race committee: "Hereafter none but the judges of the race in progress, the clerk of the course and three timers shall be allowed in the judges' stand during the pendency of a heat. Any association convicted of violating this rule shall be fined in any sum not exceeding $100." A correction of a slight error in Mr. Parlin's book. "The American Trotter." was made editorially in this paper last week, changing the number of standard speed performers that Beautiful Bells was entitled to at the close of 1903. in the first and second genera- tions, from 219 to 229. writes "Griffin" in American Horse Breeder. The mistake occurred in a paragraph relating to Alma Mater, and the compiler expressed some astonishment at the fact that the daughter of Mambrino Patchen was in the lead of all the others by this test, her total being 27S, while that of Dolly was 256, Miss Russell 254, Beautiful Bells, as cor- rected, 229. and Green Mountain Maid 226. The change put the daughter of The Moor in fourth in- stead of fifth place. This seems to be a very fair criterion of merit, probably the best that could be devised. I find that the performances of the two years since 1903 have changed the relative standing of Beau- tiful Bells among turf matrons very greatly to her advantage, and the quintette now rank as follows: Alma Mater 2SS, gaining 10; Beautiful Bells 276, gain- ing 47; Dolly 270, gaining 14; Miss Russell 262, gain- ing S; Green Mountain Maid 229, gaining 3. It is easy to see that at this rate of progress Beautiful Bells will soon take the lead of all, and very likely by the close of the present season. Should she and Alma Mater keep up the same gain as in the past two years this table at the end of the approaching season would be, respectively, 299 and 293 in favor of the California mare. This leading pair are the youngest of the five, and were both foaled in 1872. hence the race between them is a very pretty one. Beautiful Bells has been badly handicapped through her sons being so short- lived as a rule, while Alma Mater suffered similarly in the early death of her greatest son, Alcyone. How- ever, the daughter of The Moor is entitled to expect numerous increments from Adbell. Bow Bells, Chimes, Elastic Bell and Belsire, and some of the get of her dead sons are likely to be heard from. For Alma Mater the most likely sources of increase are Alcan- tara, Alfonso and Allandorf, but they cannot be very prolific. It is virtually certain that Beautiful Bells will be the first brood mare to pass the 300 mark in the first and second generations. Alma Mater is also likely to attain this distinction, but the chances of any other matron doing so is small. Director and Onward cannot contribute much more to the list for Dolly, nor Nutwood for Miss Russell, and the sons of Green Mountain Maid are practically out of it. RACES AND POLO PONY SHOW. The spring race meeting, match polo and polo pony show, under the auspices of the California Polo and Pony Racing Association, will be held today and Wednesday, weather permitting, at Francis J. Caro- lan's "Crossways," Burlingame. The Presidio band will be in attendance. Major G. L. Rathbone is presiding judge and the stewards of the association are F. J. Mackey, Thomas A. Driscoll and Francis J. Carolan. The racing program and entries follow: First race, three-eighths of a mile — Montera. F. J. Carolan, 147 pounds; Midlove, C. W. Clark. 155; Leash, J. A. Lynch. 143. Second race, half a mile — Bas Blancs. C. W. Clark, 144 pounds; Wonderful. R. Spreckels, 143. Third race, one mile — Carololly, R. Spreckels. 145 pounds; Ethel G., C. W. Clark, 143. Interval for lunch. Fourth race, three- sixteenths of a mile, for polo ponies, to be ridden by amateurs: Mufti, F. J. Caro- lan; Jack Rabbit, W. S. Hobart; Julia, J. Lawson; Kids, C. S. Tobin. Fifth race, three miles, catch weights. 150 pounds minimum — Honoma, R. Spreckels; Bobby, J. O. To- bin; Cakewalk, D. W. Donnelly; Beau Lrummel, F. J. Carolan. Sixth race, one-quarter of a mile — Leah, J. A. Lynch, 148 pounds; Peggy Williams, F. J. Carolan. 152; Bas Blancs, C. W. Clark, 156. Match polo at 3 p. m. for presentation trophies: Reds — P. Clagstone, P. Martin, C. Tobin, J. Lawson. Whites— E. J. Tobin, F. J. Carolan, R. M. Tobin, W. S. Hobart. At 3:30 p. m. the San Mateo county hounds will meet and throw off at Crossways. J. Keating, hunts- man. The program of classes for the open-air polo pony show, to be held on Wednesday, is as follows: Judge, E. Duplessis Beylard. Class" 1 — Heavyweight polo ponies. Class 2 — Light- weight polo ponies; ponies that have been played in match games. Class 3 — Heavyweight green polo po- nies. Class 4 — Lightweight green polo ponies; ponies never played in match games. Class 5 — Polo ponies to be judged by performance only. Class 6 — Open cup for the best polo pony in the show. Class 7 — For po- nies that have raced at the California Poly and Pony Racing Association race meetings. Class S — Polo pony sires. Class 9 — Poly pony dams. Class 10 — Sire and three of his get. Class 11 — Dam wffh foal at foot. Entries to the above classes close Monday. April 1st, to Paul Clagstone, San Mateo. FAIR DATES CLAIMED. It is reported that Mr. L. V. Harkness, proprietor of Walnut Hill Farm. Donerail. Ky.. recently refused $60, (ion fur his great speed sire, Moko. At the meeting of the North Pacific Fair Associa- tion held last week at Portland the following dates were agreed upon: Seattle Sept. 3 to 8 Salem Sept. 10 to 15 North Yakima Sept. 17 to 22 Spokatie Sept. 24 to 29 Walla Walla Oct. 1 to 6 Lewiston Oct. 8 to 13 Everett was given the privilege to select such dates as they may decide on. March 31, 1906] ®j« gveebev imt* ^povxsman THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT. By BILPH H. TOZER, Up to this season the turf writers have had con- sidearble to write about in the line of large winnings of newly-developed "plungers," but this year the big winners are conspicuous by their absence. True, such men as John Lyons and Del. Fountain have hit the bookmakers hard at times, the former on Corrigan and the latter on Boloman and David Boland more than once, their winnings running as high as $10,000 on a race, but the pencilers have more than evened up the score and the balance is beyond doubt on the wrong side of the plungers' ledgers. Indeed, since the death of "Pittsburg Phil" (George E. Smith) the American turf has no "plunger" in its ranks that steadily deplete their bank-rolls as he did. The reason for this can easily be found in the fact that while "Pittsburg Phil" would not make a wager until he thought he saw a horse that "shone out in the light," or in other words completely out- classed its field, and was at a pleasing price, the vast majority of heavy turf operators play nearly every race on the card, the result being that they are playing against a percentage that is certain to land them a loser. Steve L'Hommidieu makes and loses annually three or four big fortunes. Just at present his boat is reported as riding on the crest of the wave of success, but it will surprise no one to hear of her being swamped in short order. "Plunger" McManus, at present booking at the Emeryville track, is again basking in Dame For- tune's smiles, but he secured most of his capital through his booking operations, and not through "plunging." An ex-brick layer named O'Brien, hail- ing from Chicago, has made a fortune of perhaps $100,000 with the proverbial "shoestring." He will scarcely average two bets per racing day, and his wagers are generally of the "place" and "show" var- iety. The wrecks of "plunging" craft that strew the racing shore are fifty times as numerous as the noble ships that weather the financial storms for a number of years. I see nearly every day men that not so very long ago possessed fortunes ranging from $50,000 to $150,000, in their time the most sought-after men around the race courses they frequented, and today they are glad to make a $2 wager and their opinions on races are not considered worth anything. A few of the "plungers" came to a realization, ere they struck the rocks, that the booking end of the game was the best, and thus "saved their bacon," but. as said before, the heavy players "on the outside" that "lasted" are exceedingly scarce. Walter B. Jennings left for the East last Tuesday night .and his horses preceded him. Mr. Jennings had a fairly successful season at Emeryville, winding up second on the list of winning owners, with nearly $1S,000 to his credit. Thomas Kehoe, the big eutttleman, died a few days ago at Ogden, Utah, where he made his home for several years. Mr. Kehoe, a brother-in-law of McCornick, the great Salt. Lake breaker, was an ardent admirer of the thoroughbred horse, and on his ranch in Idaho bred quite a few gallopers with win- ning ways, the best probably being Gold Bug. by Pittsburg-Mollie S. Mr. K. owned Emma Skaggs (by Norfolk), the grand dam of Gold Bug, and also had Pittsburg on his place. A few years ago he bought imp. Paladin of John Mackey, who was an old and highly-esteemed friend, and whenever the old cattleman was in the city he would attend the races, if they were in progress. Mr. Kehoe's friends in California were legion, and they will be exceedingly sorry to hear of his passing. WHERE THE TROTTING STALLIONS ARE STANDING, The coming Memphis meeting will be conducted under the auspices of the Western Jockey Club, it was decided and announced last Tuesday at New Orleans. This will result in the City Park track (Corrigan's course) running until April 7th, if, in- deed, not longer. The book is made up until April 7th. The Western Jockey Club will place several of the Corriganites on their outlaw list and prevent them from running at Memphis. The dispatches hint that a settlement of the turf war between the Western Jockey Club and the American Turf Asso- ciation seems farther off than at any previous period. Black Art, a winner at Emeryville in good com- pany, captured a five-and-one-half-furlong race at Hot Springs last Tuesday, and II Dottore. by Brutus- Installation, won again at the Fair Grounds track, New Orleans, on the same date. SURPRISES FOR BREEDERS. Charles T. Boots has about deteumined to take his good long-distance horse, Borghesi, to Melbourne, Australia, to try for the cup there. He expects to ship several other flyers also, and will have the honor of pioneering the Australian racing way for America. -, — — The writer is in a position to secure a royally-bred stallion of great racing reputation and a number of young winning mares from the best racing families of this country at a bargain not often met with. He is in close touch with most of the owners at Emery- ville track, and is prepared to execute commissions and pass on pedigrees of thoroughbreds for anyone desiring to embark in the breeding industry either on a large or small scale. Only those will be selected that come up to his ideas regarding conformation, pedigree and turf performances. W. Miller, who was regarded as about the best rider at Los Angeles this season, piloted three din- ners at Benning (Washington) last Wednesday. Tommy Burns rode two on Tuesday and one Wednes- day. Knapp had not distinguished himself up to Thursday. Sam McGibbon will act as clerk of the scales at the coming Seattle meeting, which begins June 16th and ends September 1st. He will also be secretary of the Petaluma meeting over Stover's track. The law of inheritance and the influence of atavism are such that breeders of trotting stock are often sur- prised with the results of their breeding ventures. These surprises are often disappointments, but fortu- nately they are sometimes of an opposite nature. It sometimes happens that a mare of pleasing conforma- tion and good size, which appears to possess unusual merit when used for breeding purposes and mated with first-class stallions, fails to produce anything that, so far as individual merit is concerned, is the equal of herself. On the other hand, it has not infrequently hap- pened in the past, and will undoubtedly occur again, that mares which are far from ideal in size and con- formation, and so far as can be judged by gait and appearance, do not possess unusual merit or an un- usual amount of nerve force, have produced such noted trotters as George M. Patchen 2:23^, Hopeful 2:13%. Ralph Wilkes 2:06%, Sweet Marie 2:04%, and many others of note that might be named. When mares that are mated with good stallions fail to produce animals that are equal in speed, con- formation and in other valuable qualities, to them- selves, it will generally be found by learning the char- acter of their ancestors, near or remote, that some of those ancestors were lacking in merit. In cases of mares that appear to be lacking in merit, but sur- prise their owners by producing a much more valua- ble class of animals than other mares which appear to be their superiors, so far as can be judged by their looks and gait, it will be found by analyzing their pedigrees and learning the character of their ances- tors, that the inferior appearing mares really pos- sessed an inheritance that was superior to the better looking ones, that had failed to meet expectations as producers. Following is an example: In February, 1905, Ex- cursion, an eight-year-old mare by Expedition 2:15% was sold at auction for $90. Her dam was by Harold; second dam the great brood mare Pera. by Alexan- der's Belmont 64, and third dam Neta, by Woodford, thoroughbred son of Kosciusko by Sir Archy. In 1903, two years before she was sold for $90, Excursion produced a foal by Jay McGregor 2:07%. This colt, now three years old, is claimed to be a trotting won- der. It is announced that he has trotted a half this season in 1:07%. and a quarter in 32^ seconds, a 2:10 clip. He is owned by G. A. Staples of Alexandria, La. Judging from the speed that this colt is showing, the actual value of his dam for brood purposes was greater than many of the fast record mares that some wealthy breeders would have considered prizes at fifty times the amount that Excursion sold for. Those who select for brood purposes mares that show great merit combined with a good pedigree, will undoubtedly get a larger percentage of prizes, or at least a smaller percentage of blanks, than those who select solely on merit; or others who are governed in their selection by pedigree alone. The man who selects his mares solely on pedigree, regardless of merit, however, is quite as likely to get as large a percentage of fast trotters or pacers as the one who. in selecting, is governed entirely by the merit shown by the animal, and pays no attention whatever to the combination of blood lines in her pedigree. It is true that an apparently good pedigree in both sire and dam is not always a sure guarantee of super- ior merit in the offspring, but it is as sure a guar- antee as can be obtained. The animals whose pedi- grees terminate at both ends in stout thoroughbreds. like those of Nutwood 2:18%. Expedition 2:15%. Al- cantara 2:23, Alcyone 2:27. Mambrino 2:21%. Del- march 2:11%, Anteeo 2:16%. and others which might be named, are, in our judgment much more liable to prove successful as speed perpetuators than those whose pedigrees on the dam's side end with some animal that is not bred from high-class race-winning stock, because the former have inherited less of the elements that are detrimental to speed. The second and third dams of R^ dyk's Hamble- tonian, the greatest of all perpetuators, were by run- ning-bred sires, and his fourth dam, Jin Black, whose breeding has never been given, possessed unmistak- able thoroughbred characteristics. There is little doubt that the second dam of Electioneer was by Iron's Cadmus, and from a running bred mare. If Captain Lewis, a man of unquestioned veracity, did not tell an absolute and unexcusable falsehood, the third dam of George Wilkes was imported from Eng- land, and her endurance as a roadster indicates that she was highly bred. It has been stated upon appar- ently good authority that this imported English mare was driven by Parson Stule one hundred miles in one day. — American Horse Breeder. (Horse Review.) It was fifteen years ago that the first mile in 2:10 was trotted by a stallion, the epochal performance having been achieved by Allerton at Independence, la., September 4, 1891. Since that day seventy-one other entire horses have joined him in the "select list," including Stamboul 2:07%, whos record is not, for technical reasons, officially recognized. As was printed in the Review last week, no less than eighteen of these 2:20 stallions have been sold abroad, their roster being as follows: Onward Silver 2:05%, Tommy Britton 2:06%. Caid 2:07%, Jupe 2:07%, Gayton 2:08%, Trevilian 2:08%, A. Penn 2:08%. Poindexter 2:09. Dillon Boy 2:09%, Idolita 2:09%, Baron Rogers 2:09%, B. B. P. 2:09%, Ellard 2:09%. Que Allen 2:09%, Athanio 2:10, Brownie Wilton 2:10, Klrkwood Jr. 2:10, Senator A. 2:10. Three of these, Tommy Britton 2:06%. Ellard 2:09% and Athanio 2:10, hav€ died since exportation, while seven others, as follows, have died in this country: Ralph Wilkes 2: 06%, Stamboul 2:07%, Grattan Boy 2:08. Askey 2:08%, Palo Alto 2:0S%, Altao 2:09% and Pamlico 2:10. This makes a total of twenty- five that are now beyond the reach of American breeders. There remain, there- fore, forty-seven which are, or should be, available. But some of them, for various reasons, are not in public service, while among those which are there are a number whose owners seem averse to affording the public any information as to their whereabouts, own- ership, fee, etc., etc. We have, however, been able to locate some forty-three of them and present the following list, which, if not absolutely is nearly cor- rect, of the States in which they are now located: Kentucky, 7 — Rythmic 2:06%, Charley Herr 2:07. Jay McGregor 2:07%, *Peter the Great 2:07%, General Forrest 2:0S, Walnut Hall 2:08%. Dan Cupid 2:09%. Massachusetts, 5 — *Bingen 2:06%, Kremlin 2:07%, Dare Devil 2:09, Alliewood 2:09%, Benton M. 2:10 (?). Ohio, 4 — John A. McKerron 2:04%, Lord Vincent 2:0S%, Strader H. 2:09%, Hesperus 2:09%. Illinois. 4 — Redlac 2:07%, George Muscovite 2:08%, *Allerton 2:09%, Tom Miller Jr. 2:10. Minnesota, 3 — *Cresceus 2:02%, 'Directum 2:05%, *Arion 2:07%. New York. 3 — Fred Kohl 2:07%, Directum Kelly 2:08%, 'Oakland Baron 2:09%. Indiana, 3 — *William Penn 2:07%, Crescent Route 2:08%, Boreazelle 2:09%. California. 2 — Kinney Lou 2:07%, Monterey 2:09%. Missouri, 2 — Early Reaper 2:09%, Serpol 2:10, Maine, 2 — Nelson 2:09, Early Bird 2:10 (?). Delaware, 1 — Admiral Dewey 2:04%. Georgia, 1 — Lecco 2:09%. Iowa, 1— Lockheart 2:08%. Montana, 1 — Direct View 2:08% (?). Nebraska, 1— Pat L. 2:09%. Pennsylvania, 1 — Moquette 2:10. Tennessee, 1— Pilatus 2:09%. West Virginia, 1 — Baron Bell 2:09. Wisconsin, 1 — The President 2:09%. *The askerisks indicate horses that are also sires of 2:10 trotters. As above said, this list is substantially correct, but not absolutely so. We have queried (?) the names of several horses whose whereabouts we are not entirely sure of. It is also possible that several of the stallions listed are not in public service at present. The list, however, will afford a good idea of the opportunities which the breeders of the various States now have of patronizing 2:10 trotting stallions. It must be confessed that these are not by any means as extensive as they should be. Of the forty -five States of the Union, only nineteen possess 2:10 stal- lions, and nine of these possess but one each. Stud- ents and statisticians have been for some years point- ing consistently to the fact that the production of 2:10 stallions is inadequate. Last year saw a decided improvement in this respect, however, when eight were developed — the largest number for many seasons. The recent scarcity has, undoubtedly, been due in considerable degree to the great depression which affected the breeding industry a decade ago, resulting in the gelding of innumerable colts that would other- wise have been kept entire. The indiscriminate keeping of colts entire is cer- tainly not to be encouraged, but no more is their indiscriminate castration, which has cost many a breeder heavily. A weedy stallion can be reduced .to the ranks of geldings whenever it becomes advisable; but no gelding can ever be made into a stallion. Breeders are often heard to express regret that such- and-such a trotter was ever gelded, as he would have made a valuable sire. The moral is that well bred colts should be well tried out before the ecraseur Is called in. The extremely fast stallion is the most valuable and profitable of all light-harness horses and it is doubtful if the supply is ever adequate to meet the demand. No breeder should ever lose sight of this all-important fact. BEST FOR SPRAINS AND SPAVIN. The second circuit at the far East bids fair to be a good one this season. It begins at Benning (Wash- ington), then there will be racing at Kenilworth track. Buffalo, at Toronto, Montreal, Providence and Salem, N. H. Concord, N. H., Aup. 25, 1902. The Lawrence-Williams Co , Cleveland, O : Please send me litbograpbsof the celebrated horses (all of them) to advertise GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM. We know it to be the best remedy for spavin and ■prains. GEO. F. UNDERBILL. An Eastern paper says: "Ed Benyon has finally given up Jessie Benyon. the roan daughter of Moko, and she will be bred to Walnut Hall 2:0s%. As ;■ two-year-old she was second to Grace Bond In the Kentucky Futurity, and t he next week was again second to her in 2:14Vi. In the three-year/- old Futur- ity she was fourth and was separately timed two heats below 2:12. Last season she was unable to get to the post, and now retires without a record. Her turf career would undoubtedly have been brilliant had she not been foaled with a leg which was almost malformed, which was the ultimate cans. br< ak'lmvn." There is no bettor place In the world to i horses than on American farms where the n do farm work and raise a colt. 8 ®tte gveeirev atib $p&xt#man [Mahch 31, 1906 TEN CROSSES TO, HAMBLETONION 10. What of it? Does it signify anything? Are such matters worthy of attention? Would ten crosses to any other stallion be equally valuable? Here are a few of the many reasons why owners boast of "Ten crosses to Rysdyk's Hambletonian," as well as the chief features of his history and career in the stud, all of which may be old, but mighty good reading for all that. >| Rysdyk's Hambletonian was foaled in 1S49 and died in 1S76. He was the greatest sire of his generation, and the family established by him is a long ways ahead of any other family of light harness horses. Hambletonian served 1,920 mares, siring 1,334 foals. Not one of these foals was a chestnut or a sorrel. This is the first of his many remarkable qualities to attract the attention of thoughtful students. It is written of his great-grandsire, Messenger, that he never begat a chestnut or sorrel foal. Imported Bellfounder, sire of the dam of Hambletonian, came of a long line of bay- horses. It has been frequently stated that Hamebletonian was not a trotter. This is a mistake. As a four-year- old he trotted a mile in 2:4S% over Union course. Many of his descendants can do no better in this year of our -Lord 1906. It has also been stated that Ham- bietonian's immediate ancestors were not trotters. His sire. Treadwell's Abdallah, trotted a mile as a four-year-old in 3:10. His dam, the Charles Kent Mare, as a four-year-old, trotted a mile, to saddle, in 2:42, and right out of a butcher's cart at that. Abdallah, the sire, was naturally a trotting horse. The Kent Mare, dam of Hambletonian, was naturally a trotting mare. Imported Bellfounder, sire of the Kent Mare, was wholly a trotter — came from a family of trotters, and was not advertised as good at any other gait. Bellfounder, as before stated, was wholly a trot- ting horse. He stood 15% hands high, his neck was long and fine, his head well formed, and his feet and legs first class. His trotting action was very pure, with just enough knee and hock action to please, and he could trot a mile in 2:40. Nowhere have we ever been able to learn that Bellfounder was noted for anything in the way of speed excepting the al- ready stated fact that he was a trotter. It was not claimed of him that he could run fast, could pace fast, could draw immense loads, etc., and it has never been stated that Bellfounder was not a trotter. Abdallah (Treadwell's) was a trotter and the sire of trotters. One of his sons, and the fastest and best, was out of a mare by King's Bellfounder, son of Im- ported Bellfounder. His only son to become a sire of 2:30 speed was Hambletonian, and he was out of a daughter of Imported Bellfounder. Belmont, the greatest son of Alexander's Abdallah, had for a granddam a daughter of Brown's Bellfounder son of Imported Bellfounder. Examine the pedigree of Hambletonian from any standpoint; trace the various lines of breeding to some remote cross, and everywhere the selfsame fact comes prominently to view, to wit: That Ham- bletonian was trotting bred; that even though his ancestors were English-bred horses, belonging to the thoroughbred, or running, type, yet many of them were capable trotters. It is trot, trot and trot, all the way through Hambletonian's pedigree, and when one stops to realize this fact it quickly brings one around to the belief that Hambletonian was pre- destined to establish a family of trotters. Had the Charles Kent Mare been physicially able to stand training and given the attention usually bestowed upon trotters showing promise, it is quite certain that she could have secured a fast record. In an early issue of the Kentucky Stock Farm it was stated that some time after her exhibition of speed to saddle, over Union course, Long Island, when-she trotted a mile in 2:42, the Kent Mare was again started under saddle, trotting the mile in 2:30. It should be remembered that at the time this per- formance was reputed to have taken place, not a single horse had trotted a mile in 2:30 in a race. The Charles Kent Mare produced eleven foals, the first being a filly that, in time, became the dam of Green's Bashaw, a noted Western sire of trotters. Below appears a list of the Kent Mare's foals: 1S44, br f Belle (dam of Bashaw 50)... By Tom Thumb 1845. blk c (gelded) By Tom Thumb 1847, ch f (died at four years old) By Abdallah 1848, br f (died at four years old) By Abdallah 1849, b c Hambletonian By Abdallah 1850, br f (no history of) By Young Patriot 1861, lost foal By Black Hawk 24 1852, br c Tippoo Saib By Brooks' Black Hawk 1853. ch c (died young) By Fiddler 1856, b c (gelded) By Plato 1859, b c By Almack The mating of the Kent Mare with Treadwell's Abdallah was certainly fortunate. Bred to other stallions, she produced other colts, none of which became noted as sires. The same holds true regard- ing her dam, One Eye, by Bishop's Hambletonian, who was mated with a number of stallions, yet the foal sired by Imported Bellfounder is the only one among the number that became famous. Hambletonian was a Messenger — Bellfounder horse. He was inbred to Messenger, a thoroughbred stallion showing an inclination to trot. Mambrlno, sire of Messenger, was certainly more than an ordinary trotter, a& his owner at one time offered to wager one thousand guineas (about $5000) that Mambrlno could t' ot fourteen miles in an hour. Mambrlno (the Amer! van-bred horse bearing that name) is reported as hlv'ng been "a slashing gaited trotter." He un- doubt 51y Inherited his trotting action from his sire, er. Three sons of Mambrlno established of trotters, to wit: Abdallah sired Hamblo- 10 ; Mambrlno Paymaster sired Mambrlno . II, and Almack sired Grlnnell's Champion. h the male and female line Hambletonian traced to Blaze, the famous son of Flying Childers, as- Messenger and Bellfounder both traced through the male line to Blaze, Bellfounder being one remove farther from Blaze than Messenger. As Bellfounder also traced to Blaze through the female line, the pro- portion of Blaze blood in Messenger and Bellfounder was practically equal. Even though the strains of blood referred to all had their origin in either the Darley or the Godolphin Arabian, or, to be more exact, in both stallions, it may be well to add that even during the time of the American revolution English horses were capable of trotting fifteen miles within an hour, and that such horses were descen- dants of Darley Arabian and Godolphin Arabian, to whom Hambletonian traced in his remote blood lir-es. To the writer's notion, nothing that can be written of Hambletonian is more to his credit as a sire of speed than the fact that the Year Books give him credit with forty standard performances, all of which are trotters. These records range from the 2:17% of Dexter to the 2:30 of Pickering. Only one other stallion, known to students of the light harness horse, equals this showing, and the one referred to is Stam- boul, sire of fifty-one 2:30 performers, all of which are trotters, and this horse is out of a daughter of Hambletonian 10, and his great-grandam was sired by Abdallah, the sire of Hambletonian. Stamboul also carried an additional cross to Hambletonian, through the dam of his sire, Sultan. But the fact that Hambletonian was the first horse to sire as many as forty standard performers, all trotters, and that one of his daughters became the dam of the only other stallion with an equal number of trotters, and no pacers among his standard performers, is, to our mind, one of the strongest arguments that can be produced regarding the wonderful trotting in- heritance possessed by Hambletonian 10, and by him bequeathed to his descendants. For over thirty years the writer has been a fairly close student of matters pertaining to the breeding of horses, and during that time he has never learned of any stallion the equal of Hambletonian in what should be considered the greatest proof of a stal- lion's greatness, and that is that Hambletonian is the only founder, of a family of horses which was equally prepotent through the male and female lines, and whose most noted sons were equally prepotent in both lines of descent. Other stallions, noted as hav- ing established a particular type of horse, were only fertile through the male line, requiring an outcross to retain their prestige in after generations. The Hambletonian blood has been doubled, trebled, quad- rupled, etc., with the very best of success. The in- bred Hambletonians are the popular horses of the day. They are the winners of rich stake races or substantial purse races, and of ribbons at the mati- nees or the horse shows. They form practically all of. the recent additions to the extreme speed list. They are absorbing the new standard lists. They are outnumbering all other applicants for registration. Shortly they will be the only breed of horses known to breeders of trotters. Hambletonian never sired a 2:10 trotter. Such an animal was not known at the date of his death. However, the first 2:10 trotter was sired by one of his sons, as was likewise the second. The greatest sire of 2:10 speed is Gambetta Wilkes, a grandson of Hambletonian. The only sire of three trotters with records as fast as 2:06 and better is Chimes, a grandson of Hambletonian. The greatest sire of 2:10 trotters is McKinney, a great-grandson of Ham- bletonian. The fastest pacer in the world traces to Hambletonian through both sire and dam. The champion trotting stallion, the champion trotting gelding, the champion trotting mare, the champion trotting yearling, the champion trotting two-year- old, the champion trotting three-year-old, the cham- pion trotting four-year-old, the champion five-year- old trotter, and numerous champions at various ages and styles of going, all trace to Hambletonian 10 through the male line. As 2:10 is considered the extreme speed test, it may be learned by those interested that of the 258 trotters with records of 2:10 or faster, 231 are male- line descendants of Hambletonian 10. Take the 2:10 trotters of 1905, if you please. There were thirty- three additions to this list last season, thirty-two of them being male-line descendants of Hambletonian, while the odd one, tracing through the male line to other sources, marches back to Hambletonian through the female line. Something like 2100 additional standard performers (including trotters and pacers) were added last season. Of this number, nearly 1600 trace through the male line to Hambletonian, and by this is meant the direct male line, and not through the dam of either a sire, grandsire, great-grandsire, etc. Take the case of Prodigal, one of the leading sires of new standard performers. This stallion traces to Hambletonian 10 through the male line, but not through the "direct male line," as his sire is a member of the Mambrlno Chief family, though the sire of his dam was a son of Hambletonian. Were one to tabulate the pedigrees of all the new standard performers of 1905, it would doubtless be learned that practically every one of these newcomers traced through some line to Hambletonian 10. We would almost be inclined to lay a wager that at least 98 per cent of the trotters traced at least once to the stallion referred to. Each year but adds to the great- ness of the Hambletonian cross. Ultimately every 2:30 trotter, every 2:26 pacer, will carry one or more lines tracing to Hambletonian 10. This is Inevitable. One may declare that there is too much "Wilkes" talk, too much "Electioneer" talk, too much of any- thing that traces to Hambletonian, but the facts warrant the assertion that in time even those who do not fancy the Hambletonian family will be obliged to use horses tracing to Rysdyk's great stallion for racing and pleasure driving. It will either be this, take to the automobiles, the saddle horses, or pattern after Daniel O'Lury, In conclusion, it may be interesting to present a- table showing the stud services of Hambletonian, who made twenty-four public stud seasons, which gives the number of mares served each season, serv- ice fee received and number of foals resulting from such service: Year. 1851 1852 1853 1854 1855 1856 1857 1858 1859 1860 1861 1862 1863 1864 1865 1866 1867 1868 1869 1870 1871 1S72 1873 1874 1875 Age. 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 IS 19 n 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 Hares. Fee. Foals. 4 None 3 17 $25 13 101 25 78 8S 35 62 89 35 64 S7 35 64 87 35 63 72 35 54 95 35 65 106 35 79 98 35 6S 158 35 111 150 75 92 217 100 148 193 300 128 105 500 75 72 500 42 -sick - 22 500 IS 22 500 16 30 500 26 30 500 24 31 500 20 32 500 24 24 500 0 Totals 1,920 S30S.100 1,334 Note No. 1. — So many friends having mailed us tabulations of a favorite colt or filly, showing a cer- tain number of crosses to Hambletonian 10, and the unusual per cent of these tabluations tracing ten times to the same stallion, has at length compelled "Columbus" to harken to the oft-repeated assertion, boastingly though it *vas made, "And what do you think of that?" "Ten crosses to Hambletonian" and "What do you think of that?" chasing through one's mind so many times, is quite apt to create trouble. The reader has it in the foregoing paragraphs. Note No. 2. — The table presented above was taken from some paper devoted to the light-harness horse, but so many years ago that we have no remem- brance of which journal it was published in, so can not give proper credit. It appears in one of our scrap books, without credit. — Columbus, in Western Horse- man. OPPORTUNITY. An unequalled opportunity is knocking at the door of every breeder of the trotting horse on the Pacific Coast, the opportunity of a lifetime and one that may knock but once. Not since the boom days have trot- ters and pacers of merit, youngsters of promise and any light harness horse of "class" been in so great demand in the East. The visible supply falls far short of the demand and the scarcity of first-class material has caused an increase in values that has brought the present range of prices up higher than at any time since the days of the boom. The many auction sales held in the East during the past winter sale season have been stupendous successes. Every animal of merit that has been offered has brought full value, and this is particularly true of youngsters of promise. The announcement of the annual "Blue Ribbon" sale of Fasig-Tipton Company, to be held at Cleve- land, Ohio, the week of May 14th to 19th, occupies a prominent place in our advertising columns this week. It is The Opportunity, and every California horseman with material ready for the market should grasp the opportunity and consign his stock to this, the greatest of spring sales. By so doing he is as- sured of every requisite that goes to make a great sale — a great market, good company and the presence of every buyer of prominence in the East, and at a time when the demand is good, and prices rule high. The man who .takes advantage of the situation, ships his stock to the Cleveland sale ready to show its true worth, will reap the harvest. But the time is short, and prompt action is necessary. Write to- day to Fasig-Tipton Company, Madison Square Gar- den, New York City, and tell .them what you have to sell. It will pay you. DATES FIXED FOR BIG STAKES. Readville. Mass., April 2, 1906. Editor of Breeder and Sportsman: Dear Sir — We are much gratified to learn from trainers that they have been quick to grasp the opportunities that our series of Early Closing Purses coupled with our short system of racing afford for starting a horse twice at our meeting, thus giving it two chances at big purses for the cost of one shipment. So many trainers have written us that they would start a horse in the Blue Hill and Massachusetts events, or the Norfolk and Neponset events if two days were scheduled between the races, that we have, in ad- vance of our usual custom, arranged that the Early Closing Purses shall be raced in the following order: Monday, August 20th, the Blue Hill, 2:30 class, trotting. Tuesday, August 21st., the Norfolk, 2:08 class, pacing. Wednesday, August 23rd, the Ponkapoag, 2:10 class, trotting. Thursday, August 23rd, the Massachusetts, 2:14 class, trotting, and the Readville, 2:08 class, trotting. Friday, August 24th, the Neponset, 2:06 class, pacing. Very truly yours, C. M, JEWETT, Secretary. March 31, 1906J Mhe gvee&ev anft Jjtpxjrtsmcm 9 OILED ROADS IN CALIFORNIA. The making of road surfaces by means of oil is peculiarly a feature of California ingenuity, says the Sacramento Union. The spectacle so common to the Californian is looked upon with perplexity by the visitor who does not understand the absence of dust, the smooth resilient surface, and the impermeability to water. Then when it is explained to him that these admirable features are due to oil, he examines the road with a new interest as illustrating a kind of roadmaking of which he has heard, but which has not yet been introduced to the world outside of Cali- fornia. But its advantages are so great that it must destroys,: the- qualities- in. the oil that- are- necessary - to the making of a good road. In a general way it may be said that the whole question resolves itself' irttq a study of soils. Tou must know the road that you are working upon, and you must modify your conditions to suit its individuality. HAGGIN STALLIONS FOR PUBLIC SERVltfi?? ./(Kentucky, Farm. .- 5j d Breeder.) Yielding to the pressure ^brought to bear upoi Mr. J. B. Haggin. owner of the magnificent 1 Per haps^ the, very best roajLJs.a macadam treated dorf Stud near Lexington, . has .'l-'i, 0 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 0 — 23 2 2 2 2 0 2 2 2 * 2 2 2 2 9 0 2 o 1 0 1 1 1 2 2 0 — 20 Total— 88 DOINGS IN DOGDOM Signs of the Times, The San Jacinto Gun Club has issued invitations to all the gun clubs in Southern California, and all sportsmen within reaching distance for its annual blue rock tournament, which will be held on the club grounds at San Jacinto, April 18, 19 and 20. The shooting will be open to all, with a handicap to ex- perts There will be several team shoots open to members of organized clubs, and cups will be offered to teams and individual shooters, together with a number of merchandise prizes in the sweepstakes and several cash prizes. The Monarch Gun Club of Reno, Nev. held the initial club shoot on March 17th. The main event was at 16 live birds, the scores were: H. Cohn 14, D. Brown 13. L. Sauer 12, G. Sauer 12. F. Quinn 9, M. Parrott 8. H. May 7, T. Stapleton 5. J. O'Brien a. The Reno Journal states: The prizes were a pig s head and a bottle of hair tonic, which were declared bv the members of the club to have been appropriate awards. Another shoot will be held in the course of a few weeks. SPECIAL MEETING OF THE INTERSTATE ASSOCIATION. up the Wandee Kennels and dispose of his string of Fox Tei Mr. Harley arrived here last week for a stay of about ten days. Pressure of business is alleged as the reason tor the move. Mr. Lyndon joined -Mr. Harley here, coming direct from the Buffalo show, and will arrange for the dis- posal of all of the dogs now at Menlo Park, possibly- more than 100 in number, where Wandee Kennels are located. This news will, no doubt, be received with much regret by the Coast fancy, for Mr. Harley was a staunch supporter of our shows and a thorough sportsman. As to the fancy for the breed, we believe, notwithstanding all Mr. Harley has done here, his re- tirement will leave the Fox Terrier cult in the hands of several fanciers who will maintain the high stand- ard achieved by Coast dogs. Mr. Harley can retire with the satisfaction of breeding a dog that carried the Wandee colors to the front against the strongest competition the United States could muster one year Field and Fancy in a recent issue offers the think- ing fancier a significant statement to consider. This, following the paragraphs concerning English judges. prompted by the selection of home talent entirely ag0 "Wandee Knight, whose most recent win, the for the Westminster Kennel Club show, is a sign of challenge Cup at Buffalo, was the fitting close of a the times that heralds a coming change long desired by dogdom at large. We know of not a few Coast fanciers who will heartily agree with the facts as set forth below, for they have found that, although "dis- tance lends enchantment" in some things, it don'.t go in the doggy game. The statement we refer to is the following: "One of the favorite expressions of the English doggy writers is the term "Dollarland," which is taken to mean the United States. One of the leading Eng- lish weeklies goes so far as to use the heading "Dogs in Dollarland" over its American terns, and the expression is continually used in this and other papers' regular columns. The use of the term ought to cause our fanciers to stop and think, for it shows very plainly what English dog people think of this Averages Reported. country. They seem to have an idea that Americans Des Moines. Ia„ March 14th to 16th. — W. R. Crosby, were put on the earth for the sole purpose of buying flrst general average, 561 out of 600. shooting "New New York— A special meeting of the stockholders of the Interstate Association was held in the offices of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company. 170 Broadway. Xew York City, on Friday, March 2. The meeting was called to order at 10 o clock a m with President J. A. Haskell in the chair. The roll call showed the following members pres- ent: Union Metallic Cartridge Company, by A. C. Barren- Winchester Repeating Arms Company, by S. G Lewis: Parker Brothers, by W. F. Parker: E. I. Du Pont Company, by J. T. Skelly; Lafln & Rand Powder Company, by J. A. Haskell; the Peters Car- tridge Company, by T. H. Keller, and the Lefever Arms Company, by A. H. Durston. The Remington Arms Company was represented by A. C. Barren by proxy. A. W. Higgins of the Laflin & Rand Powder Company W. R. Clark of the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and L. C. Parker of Parker Brothers were also present, as was Elmer E. Shaner. secretary- manager of the association. The minutes of the annual meeting, held at Oak- land. X. J„ December 14. 1905, and those of the adjourned annual meeting, held in Xew York City. December 14 and 15. 1905, were read and approved. The association reiterated its resolution to add $500 to each of the subsidiary tournaments, and expects that each of the clubs holding the subsidiary tourna- ments will add $500 also, making a total of $1 000 added to each. On reconsideration the motion made at the annual meeting of 1905. covering program advertising at fixed rates, was annulled. Mr. W. P. Markle tendered his resignation as a member of the tournament committee, and his resig- nation was accepted. He had severed his connection with the Hoyt Metal Company, and therefore was no longer in a business way interested in association matters. Mr. Harvey McMurchy of the Hunter Arms Company was unanimously elected to fill the tourna- ment committee vacancy. Mr. L. B. Fleming was elected to fill the vacanc: on the handicap committee, consequent on the death of the lamented Will K. Park. It was decided that the entrance fee to the Grand American Handicap championship events shall be $15. The following resolutions were unanimously- adopted: "Whereas. In view of the loss we have sustained by the decease of our friend and associate. Mr. Will K. Park, and of the still heavier loss sustained by those who were nearest and dearest to him; there- fore, be it phenomenal homebred dog's career in Mr. Harley's string. Wandee Florence, a daughter of Knight, is regarded by many Eastern fanciers as a coming champion; she certainly was a sensation this spring in the East. Of the stars in the kennels Coastguard and Lucretia are for sale and in fact the majority of the dogs will be offered for sale. Mr. Lyndon will in the near future locate in the vicinity of Xew York" and devote, his attention to Fox. Irish. Bull and Scotch Terriers, in which breeds he is without a peer in this country today. TRADE NOTES. remarkably poor, specimens of dogs for very wonder- fully high prices, and the word that they use to indi- cate America is only one of the indications of what they think of us. That they have geen given good reason to think as they do there is not the slightest doubt, but is it not time tha we woke up to the fact that we are being played for suckers? Great credit must be given to the English people. E. C." (Improved); L. R. Barkley, Chicago, 111., first amateur and second general average. 559 out ot 600. shooting "DuPont"; Don Morrison, third general average. 553 out of 600. shooting "Xew Schultze"; H. C. Horton. Fonda, la., second amateur average, 549 out of 600, shooting "DuPont." F. A. Weather- head, Red Oak, la., won Iowa State Championship Cup with 96 out of 100. shooting "DuPont": Charles for they have certainly played their cards well — so Spencer won the prize for experts above 90. per cent well, in fact, that even to-day there are people in this country who think that any imported dog can beat a home bred to a. standstill. This idea has been fostered and. promoted very largely Jv the English handlers, who by their periodical trips of purchase to the other side, are able to keep the wolf from the door. These men have outlived their usefulness. A few- years ago they were a necessity, for when we did not have any good dogs here we naturally had to go to England for them, but things have changed, and we now have both knowledge and dogs enough to stand by ourselves. There is enough breeding stock in practically every with 97 out of 100, shooting "DuPont"; John Burmis- ter. Spirit Lake, la., won the Ottumwa Diamond Badge with 46 out of 50, shooting "DuPont." Fiddling Avoided. A pleasing and none the less important feature of the many good ones embodied in the Hunter One- Trigger gun is the fact that the shooter using this now favorite combination, the L. C. Smith gun built to order or afterwards fitted with a single trigger, can maintain a firm, steady grip on both barrels. There is no relaxing, no regripping, no reaccommo- dating oneself to the different length of stock, nor to a different trigger in a different place and of a breed right here in the United States to produce dogs different shape. A sportsman can hardly appreciate, as good, if not better, than those that are being untji he has tried the Hunter. One-Trigger, just how- brought over here now, but we see mto have gotten the habit for importing. If Americans would only remember the slur — yes, the insult — that is thrown in our face twenty times a week by the use of the term "Dollarland" they would never again send to the other side for a dog. Of course, wise and careful importation will always be a good thing, but the indiscriminate way in which it is now being done much of a benefit this firm, steady grip is. In other words, while he is "fiddling" around, adapting himself to the changes in the two-trigger gun. his bird, or target, is rapidly moving out of range. While, on the other hand, the one-trigger so completely does away with all these handicaps that in every case it means a better and a surer shot. For inanimate target shooting the Hunter One- does not nearly repay the expenditure of money that Trigger is commended for many reasons. it involves. In one or two breeds, to be sure, we have not stock enough to breed what we want, but this is the exception, not the rule, and in most cases you can get just as good here as you can on the other side, and for about one-tenth the price. Eng- lishmen think that an American can and will pay any price — the higher the easier to sell — and it is dollars to doughnuts that you will not get any very great bargain when you buy in England. Remember the term "Dollarland." support the American breeder, and, above all, be a breeder your- self, and it will not be many seasons before we will have the best dogs in the world. It will also then be no longer necessary for the A. K. C. to pass rules that will be protective of the breeders for this country. At the Vallejo Gun Club shoot. March 25th. Harvey McMurchy. shooting an L. C. Smith single-rtigger gun. broke 59 out of 60 — two twenties and a nineteen — dusting his last bird. Entries Close Soon. It Is well to bear in mind that entries for the Bull Terrier Club's one day show will positively close on April 21st. Get your entries in early, it will save the bench show committee lots of time and trouble. The list of specials and cups will be worth trying for. The show, it is claimed, will count four points. Winners will show again, of course, either on the circuit or surely at the June show. Losers will go to the June show, if to no others, just to find out what a better judge will say about their dogs. Stilleto Kennels. Mr. ('has. Reld Thorburn has applied for the name of Stilleto as a kennel name. One of the recent litter. a dog puppy, out of Meg MerrtUes II by Bloomsbury Baron, was sold this week to a visiting Eastern fan- Clei for a good price. History Repeats Itself. The Golden Gate Gun Club shoot at Ingleside. March 25th. took place under the handicap of a heavy- gale of wind. Emil Holling broke 96 out of 100 targets, using a Remington gun and U. M. C. ammunition. M. O. Feudner broke 89. Edgar Forster *7 and Ed Schultz 85 each out of 100. Four of the winners in the first class used U. M. C. products exclusively. Three of the winners in" the second class used (J. M. ('. shells. The three winning guns in the third class used U. M. C. ammunitl :xi Lusively. Two of the three high and tie guns in the Shields trophs race used t". M. (' shells. C. C Nauman, the final winner, won with IT. M. C. shells. The entire list of contestants numbered 35, when It ;„ taken Into consideration thai 26 out of this num- i„ | were users of r. M. C. ammunition, to the exclu- sion of all other makes, it is a sufficiently noteworthy showing i"' Hi.- ft Hi- i lucts "f the U. M. C. ,1,1 renders II i :essary i" further extol the per- fection and accuracy ot this ilways .liable ammu- nil ion. i.i, ctives are now pu th( plain business nl of the da: ■ I urse "innings: j100 WM distributed In 1 1 1 - ■ four • lasses— champion. Hrsi and tl tmount $75, - Stilleto Kennels, with that remarkably line bitch three fourths pi til «"ent to users of Meg Merrilies II and Woodlawn Baron, 0 vigorous ,|,e p -,i c ammui young stud dog. one that will go in the very best company, as a ini' ■!• us, can be reckoned as one of the best Bull Terrier kennels on the Coast. Entries lor the Southwestern Kennel Club show in Los Angeles. April 11-14, will close on April 3. Th.. Vailejo ('on, ' in1, dpi i ': i h 25th. 20 of whom used U M. C. "Acmi ■■ ■■ ' Ml M,,;,. of far reaching popular) , , ,-,„,, | 0 . veil justified 1*0 the showing of u. M. C. ammunition 13 ©*te Qveebev cmfc §tjwrt»»>att LMARCH 31, 1906 GROUSE AND WILD TURKEYS OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THEIR ECONOMIC VALUE. By Sylvester D. Judd, Assistant United States Bio- logical Survey. The Rock Ptarmigan. The rock ptarmigan (Lagopus rupestris) inhabits arctic America from Labrador to Alaska (includjng Aleutian chain, where the willow ptarrm- . mknown). It is similar to the latter bird, but smaller and has a black line from the bill to the -eye. by which it ii V be distinguished. This bird nan the willow ptarmigan and prefers elevated situations. Owing to .its size and fewer numbers it is far less impor- tant to the people of the north as an art.cle of food than the willow ptarmigan. Besides the typical La- eopus rupestris of arctic America, the rock ptarmi- t North America include the Fsinhardt ptar- (L. r. reinhardi), o£ Greenland and Northern Labrador; the Welch ptarmigan (L. welehi), of New- foundland and four forms found in the Aleutian Islands— L. r. nelsoni, L. r. atkhensis, L. r. townsend, and L. evermanni. Food habits.— No stomachs of the rock ptarmigan have been available for examination. In Alaska, dur- ing May, E. W. Nelson found it feeding on berries of the preceding season. (Nat. Hist. Coll. Alaska, p. 136, 1S87- 18S8). Major Bendire says that the sub-species Lagopus rupestris reinhardi feeds on insects, leaves, berries, including the crowberry (Empetrum nigrum), tender leaves of the dwarf birch and white birch, wil- low buds, and sorrel. (Life Hist. N. Am. Birds (I), p. SO, 1S92.) Samuel Hearne notes that the rock ptar- migan eats the buds and tops of the dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa). (Journey to Northern Ocean, p. 416, 1795.) Kumelien examined a crop that was crammed with sphagnum moss. (Bull. 15, TJ. S. Nat. Mus., p. 83, 1879.) The White-Tailed Ptarmigan. The white-tailed ptarmigan (Lagopus leucurus) is found above timber line in Alaska, in the mountains of British Columbia, and in the higher Cascades south to Mounts Hood and Jefferson. It ranges south along the Rocky mountains through Colorado to northern New Mexico. LTnlike the other species, this ptarmigan has no black feathers in the tail. Writing of this bird in ^Colorado, W. W. Cooke says that it breeds above timber line, virtually under arctic conditions, and that -only in most severe winters does it descend into timber. He records that it breeds at from 11,500 to 13.500 feet altitude, and wanders up to the summits of peaks 1.000 feet higher. Nesting takes place early in June and is similar to other ptarmigans. In win- ter, when the birds descend to lower altitudes, the sexes are in different flocks. The white-tailed ptarmigan is a trusting creature, lacking the fear necessary for self-preservation. Clark P. Streator, while employed by the Biological Survey in the Cascade mountains of Washington, reported that one could approach within ten feet of it, that miners killed it with stones, and that it was very good fcr food. In Colorado public sentiment is strongly in its fa- vor, and it is protected by an absolutely prohibitory law. The ptarmigan is one of the sights pointed out to tourists in the Colorado mountains. Its status here may be contrasted with that of the willow grouse in the north, where thousands are killed by Eskimos and Indians. Killing birds for food, however, even by wholesale, has its excuse, but wholesale slaughter for millinary purposes, such as has overtaken the ptar- migans in the Old World, is unpardonable. A single shipment of ptarmigan wings in Russia consisted of ten tons. (Engelhardt, A Russian Province of the North, 1899.) , Food habits. — During winter in Colorado, according to Professor Cooke, they subsist, like other ptarmigan, largely on willow buds. The stomachs of two birds collected at Summitville, Colo., in January, 1891, at an altitude of 13,000 feet, were found to contain bud twigs from one-third to one-half inch long, but the kind of bush from which they came could not be de- 'termined. Doctor Coues. quoting T. M. Trippe, states that the food of this bird is insects, leguminous flow- ers, and the buds and leaves of pines and firs. (Birds of trie Northwest, p. 427. 1874.) According to Major Bendire, the flowers and leaves of marsh marigold (Caltha leptosepala) and the leaf buds and catkins of the dwarf birch (Betula glandulosa) are eaten. (Life Hist. N. A. Birds (I), PP. 85-86, 1892.) Dr. A. K. Fisher examined the stomachs of two downy chicks collected on Mount Rainier, Washington, and found beetles and flowers of heather (Cassiope mertensiana) and those of a small blueberry. The Wild Turkey. The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo), our biggest game bird, was formerly abundant over a wide area. It has been exterminated throughout much of its former i ge, tnd unless radical measures are taken it will become extinct in a few years. The typical Meleagris gallopavo is restricted to Mexico; but four geographic races have been recognized within the i States. These are the wild turkey of the n States and the Mississippi Valley (Meleagris llvestrls); the Florida turkey (M. g. osceola); the Rio Grande'turkey (M. g. Intermedia); and the Merrlam turkey of Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and the tableland of northern Mexico (M. g. merriaml). In early colonial days it was numerous in Massachusetts, coming about the houses of the settlers in large flocks. It Is now totally extinct in New Ingland. It Is hard to realize that at the begin- ning of the nineteenth century turkeys were so abun- dant that they sold for 6 cents apiece, though the i ones, weighing from 25 to 30 pounds, some- brought a quarter of a dollar. A' big wild tur- ..owadays would not long go begging at $5. It r food value as food that has made It worth to hunt turkeys to the very point of extermina- tion. So-called sportsmen go out In the late summer ostensibly to shoot squirrels, but really to pot tur- keys on the roost. Another . practice is to lie in ambush and lure the game by imitating the call note of the hen in spring. The writer has personal knowl- edge of such methods of hunting in -Virginia and Maryland, and they are largely responsible for the extermination now imminent. Trapping- turkeys in pens— a-very simple matter — has also accelerated the destruction of the species. William Brewster found the turkey breeding in North Carolina among the conifers at 5000 feet alti- tude, and also in- the hardwoods at low .altitudes. Edward A. Preble, of the Biological Survey, discov- ered a turkey's nest, in June, 1S93, in Somerset county, Pa., .which contained fourteen eggs. William Lloyd states that the Texas turkey __breeds twice a year. He found a nest, May 29, containing eight eggs. The chicks, like those of the tame turkey, are very deli- cate, and are especially sensitive to wet. Audubon says that during wet wreather they are fed by their mothers with the buds of spice bush, much as human youngsters are dosed with quinine. (Ornith. Biog., vol. 1, p. 7, 1S31.) When the chicks are two weeks old they fly up and roost on low branches writh their mother. At this age they have weathered most of their early perils. During the last of December, 1902, along the Roanoke River, near the North Carolina iine, the writer found turkeys in typical turkey country. Few of the plantations here are under a thousand acres, and many include three or four thousand. Along the river are lowlands, often flooded during high ■water. Several hundred yards farther back is a bluff, the old river terrace, which marks the begin- ning of the uplands. A part of this bluff, half a mile long by an eighth of a mile wide, consists of a slate outcrop, much elevated above the rest and varying from 50 to 150 feet above the river. It is locally known as "the mountain," and is heavily for- ested with pine and oak. The turkeys were found on the backbone of the "mountain," among white oak trees, where fresh droppings and places where the birds had scratched in the dry oak leaves to the depth of two or three inches were visible. So recently had the birds been there that the humus had not dried. The scratching places were from 15 to 18 inches in diameter and circular in shape. In the growth of white oaks there were fully fifty scratching holes, as many as five being found writhin one square rod, where the birds had made diligent search for acorns. A turkey dog was sent ahead and soon flushed a bird, which came flying by, looking like a giant ruffed grouse. All through the woods were turkey blinds, some made of young pine trees and others, more elaborate, of logs. Most of the turkeys killed here are*shot by calling them up to these blinds. In a patch of rank broomsedge and briers a 20-pound gobbler sprang into the air and was shot while mak- ing off in clumsy fashion. It had not had time to eat much, and the stomach and crop contained seven dipterous larvae, the remains of white-oak acorns, and about a hundred flowering dogwood berries. On the 15th of June. 1903, two broods of young about the size of game hens -were seen. Food Habits. — The Biological Survey has examined, in all, sixteen stomachs and crops of wild turkeys. These were collected during February, March, July, September, November, and December. They con- tained 15.57 per cent of animal matter and 84.43 per cent of vegetable matter. The animal food consisted of insects — 15.15 per cent — and miscellaneous inverte- brates, such as spiders, snails, and myriapods — 0.42 per cent. Grass hoppers furnished 13.92 per cent, and beetles, flies, caterpillars, and other insects 1.23 per cent. The 84.43 per cent of the bird's vegetable food was distributed as follows; "Browse," 24.80 per cent; fruit, 32.98 per cent; mast, 4.60 per cent; other seeds, 20.12 per cent; miscellaneous vegetable matter, 1.93 per cent. The wild turkey is very fond of grasshoppers and crickets. William Hugh Robarts has observed a flock of a hundred busily catching grasshoppers. (Am. Field, vol. 55, p. 42, 1901.) Vernon Bailey, of the Bio- logical Survey, killed a turkey at Corpus Christi, Tex., in May, 1900, that had eaten a large number of grasshoppers and a sphinx moth. During the Ne- braska invasion of Rocky Mountain locusts, Professor Aughey examined the contents of six wdld turkey stomachs and crops collected during August and September. Every bird had eaten locusts, in all amounting to 259. (First Rep. Ent. Com., App. II, p. 46, 1878.) The. wild turkey has been known also to feed on the cotton worm. (Alabama argillacea). (Fourth Rep. Ent. Com., p. 88, 1885), the leaf hoppers, and the leaf-eating beetles (Chrysomela suturalis). The grasshopper (Arnilia sp.) and the thousand-legs (Julus) form part of the turkey's bill of fare. Tad- ploes and small lizards also are included. Besides the bird shot on the Roanoke, already men- tioned, the stomachs and crops of four other Virginia turkeys have been examined by the Biological Sur- vey. One of these contained only small quartz peb- bles. Another bird had eaten only a few grapes and flowering dogwood berries. .A third had made a re- spectable meal. Ten per cent of its food was animal matter and 90 per cent vegetable. The animal part consisted of one harvest spider, one centipede, one thousand-legs (Julus), one ichneumon fly, two yellow- jackets, on grasshopper, and the katydids. The vegetable food was wild black cherries, grapes, ber- ries of flowering dogwood and sour gum, two chest- nuts, twenty-five whole acorns (Quercus palustrls and Q. velutlna), a few alder catkins, seeds of jewel weed, and 500 seeds of tick-trefoil. Another turkey, also shot in December, had eaten a ground beetle, an ichneumon fly, two wheel bugs, ten yellow-jackets, a meadow grasshopper, seventy-five red-legged grass- hoppers, a few sour-gum berries, some pine seeds (with a few pine needles, probably taken accident- ally), several acorns, a quarter of a cupful of wheat, and a little corn. One turkey, collected December 23, 1899, in North Carolina, had eaten half a -pint of dogwood berries. Its crop contained also a few pine needles. Four Florida wild turkeys also were examined. Nearly 100 per cent of their food was vegetable. The animal matter wras found in two birds and consisted or the useful predaceous ground beetle and the injurious twelve-spotted cucumber beetle; also caterpillars, grasshoppers, -and one centipede. This is the only record of the first-mentioned grasshopper's occur- rence in Florida. A third turkey had eaten half a pint of long-leafed pine seeds. Many of these seeds were germinating, and some of them had cotyledons more than ah inch long. The Florida bobwhite also is very fond of these pine seeds. The same bird had eaten three thimblefuls of grass seed, twelve spice- bush berries, twenty berries of the wax myrtle, two liev-oak acorns, and fifteen acorns of the Spanish oak. Another turkey had taken twenty-five tubers of the ground nut — some of them exceeding an inch in length — and the berries of false Solomon's seal, southern tupelo, and wax myrtle. Half a pint of the fruiting panicles of a grass (Muhlenbergia sp.) was taken from the crop of a New Mexican turkey shot in November in the Manzano Mountains. It had eaten also grass blades, seeds of cheat, pinon nuts, and seeds of other pines. Although grain was found in only one stomach, the writer observed turkeys on the Roanoke bottoms in December. 1903, feeding on corn after the crop had been harvested. During November and December half of the food of the turkey is fruit. The kinds most frequently eaten include, besides those already mentioned, myrtle holly, mulberries, wild strawberries, blackberries, cedar berries, and holly berries. On San Francisco Mountain, Arizona, Dr. C. Hart Mer- riam found turkeys in August feeding on wild goose- berries. A month later, at the same locality, he found them living on pinon nuts. (N. A. Fauna, No. 3, p. 89. 1890.) In Arizona E. A. Goldman found a flock of 150 young and old- turkeys that roosted in one place. The gobblers were at this time in a sep- arate flock. These birds were feeding on nuts of the pinon, a staple Indian food of the West. They ate also juniper berries. (Auk, vol. 19, p. 123, 127, 1902.) On the upper Gila River, New Mexico, in November, 1873, H. W. Henshaw found turkeys very numerous and feeding almost exclusively upon grass seeds and grasshoppers, the crops of many birds being fairly crammed with the former. Major Ben- dire says that the Florida turkey feeds on white-oak acorns, chinquapins, chestnuts, pecan nuts, black per- simmons, fruit of prickly pear, leguminous seeds, all cultivated grains, and tender tops of plants. (Life Hist. N. A. Birds, I, p. 114, 1892.) Wild turkeys feed also on mountain rice, mesquite beans, sedge, pOa grass, and composite flowers. Florence Merriam Bailey, in writing of the wild turkey in New Mexico, says: "Mr. Vilas, a cattleman of the country, told us that in the fall they go down to the nut pine and juniper mesas in the Glorieta region and, gathering at the few springs that furnish drinking places, are shot down by wagon loads by the Mexicans. The only specimen we obtained was taken July 27, at over 11,000 feet. Its crop and giz- zard held mainly grasshoppers and crickets, but also grass seed, mariposa lily buds, and strawberries, while its gizzard contained in addition a few beetles." (Auk, vol. 21, p. 352, 1904.) The wild turkey consumes both insect pests and seeds of weeds, but now is nowhere abundant enough to have much effect on agriculture. The domestic turkey's habit of hunting grasshoppers and of "worming" tobacco shows what might be expected from the wild species were it sufficiently numerous. o The Blue Jay. For several years there has been a warfare against the bird known as the blue-jay, and bounties have been offered for the heads of dead birds. A few years ago the sportsmen of Grass Valley formed a club and offered two and a half cents for the head of each bird that was brought to them. That year more than three thousand birds were killed and a bounty paid for them. Two years ago half that num- ber were disposed of. An effort was made to have the Supervisors offer a bounty, but it was argued that they were of benefit to the farmers in a measure, as they destroyed many of the young birds that de- stroy fruit. A citizen who felt that the killing of these birds in the manner described was not right, wrote to the Department of Agriculture to determine if possible if the blue-jay was such a menace to other birds as had been alleged. The answer came back that hun- dreds of blue-jays from different parts of the country had been sent to the department, and that the stom- achs of these birds had been examined. "Although the blue-jay has been accused," says the department, "like the crow, of eating corn and young birds and eggs, it has been found that he prefers mast, seeds of trees, such as acorns, etc., and 22""per cent of his fod consists of grasshoppers, caterpillars, etc., so that he does more good than harm." Farmers and hunters in the country below Grass Valley do not agree with the Department of Agricul- ture examiner. One farmer stated that he was obliged at times to protect his chicken houses against the inroads made upon the nests of eggs, and that they have been known to carry off small chickens. The sportsmen claim that they destroy the nests of quail and eat the eggs, and are a menace generally. It is likely, therefore, that in spite of the decision of the department at Washington that the blue-jay does more good than harm, the people of that part of the country will consider it an enemy and continue to kill It. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. March 31. 19C6J <&i\s gsreeoer auo grputftemcm 18 ill $1.25 $1.00 ,75 50 .35 .25 Rock Island Sheep's Wool Sponges, in all sizes, for vehicle washing and harness cleaning. Ai harre=s dpalfrs. or delivered on receipt of price. S. ADDERLFA', 307 Market St., S. F , Cal. Kendalls T What horseman does not know the standard cure? Infallible when taken in time for Ringbone, Curb, Splint, Spavin. Never two opinions as to its powers. Bone Spavin Entirely Cored. Kenton, Ohio, Feb. 20, 1905. [ Dr.B.J. Kendall Co., Enosbargr Falls, Vt. Gentlemen:— I bad a fine horse which 1 priced at 8200.00, wblch got a Sons Spavin almost half the size of a hen's ■-.:..-. 1 used two I bnttlea of your liniment and en- tirely removed the Spavin and >w no one can tell one limb om another. Tours truly, Lawrence Althauser. I Price SI; 6 for $5. Greatest known liniment for fam- ily use. All drug- gists. Accept no substit ute . " Treatise on the Horse" free from druggists or Dr. B. J. Kendall Co., Enosbnrg Falls, VL BROOD MARES TO LEASE. On account of leaving the county, I will lease two of the best producing brood mares in the State: BABE, dam of Just It 2:194. winner of Ocol- dent-Stanford paceof 1905; trial 2:13 Babe is by Danton Moultrie 17064, he by Guy Wilkes, dam Carrie Malone, full sister to Chas. Derby and Klatawah 2:05V4 (3-year old champion). Her dam was by Snudan 5103, half brother to Stamboul 2:07V4, champion trotting stallion In his day; sec- ond dam by Nutwood 60C, half brother to Maud S '-': '■"•:'_ queen of the iurf in her day; third dam by Owen Dale, the handsome son of Belmont, the foundation of the California trotter; fourth dam by Old Gray Eagle, four-mile runner. FANNT MA LONE, dam by Anteeo, second dam the dam of California Nutwood by Geo. M. Patchen Jr ; third dam. the Chicago Mare. Both of the above mares will foal by Maroh 10th to J. R C. In answering please state what horse you Intend to breed to. For particulars address, THOS. P. KELL, No. 95 So Market St., San Jose, Cal. Tongue End STOCK GET JUST ENOUGHS THE RIGHT TIME; CQMPRE55ED PURE-5ALT BRICK5 AND PATENT FEEDER5: if No waite.no neglect.ali convenience. Ymr dealer Ins itWrite us for the book. BELMONT STABIE-SUPPLY CO. PATENTEES MANUFACTURERS BrooKlyn, N.Y. '_.., FOR SALE. 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O'Kaoe and J, a. all of Ban Franciaob. 14 ®its grceocr nito giportsmtm iMAROH 31, 1*6 HIGH CLASS YOUNG HORSES From the Celebrated APTOS RANCH PROPERTY OF MR. A. B. SPRECKELS To Be Sold J\jt Auction TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1906 By FRED. H. CHASE & CO., Live Stock Auctioneers, At ST. LAWRENCE STABLES, 423 Post Street ass racing prospeotF, :£8J Specially Fitted Up, Comfortably Seated and Brilliantly Lighted for This Occasion. There are twenty-tbree Trotters and two Pacers in the consignment, all bred at Aptos Ranch, cemptitirg tardfeme roadsters and high-cl all thoroughly broken and accustomed to the sight of steam and electric cars end aut( mobiles. 1 hey were sired by CUPID 2:18, sire of five trotters with records from 2:11 J to 2:16}, own brother t.o the great Sidrey Dillcr, sire of Leu Dillon 1 DEXTER PRINCE, sire of Lisonjero 2:08J, Eleata 2:08J, James L. 2:09£ and 63 more with standard records. ALTIVO 2:18 1-2, own brother to Pilo Alto 2:08} and sire of Albuta 2:1U and four more in the list. APTOS WILKES, 'ull brother to Hulda 2:08J. The choicest lot of horses sent to an auction sale in San Francisco in years. Can b2 seen at stablep, Siturday, April 7th. Catalogues now ready and will be mailed on application to FEED H. CHASE & CO., 1728 Market St., San Francisco. ®®®®®®®©®®®®®®@®®®@®@®®®©©©®®^@®®@®®€®@@®@®®®@®®®®®@^©®@©®®®®®®®@©® ® ® © © © © © © © ©. © © © © © © © © ©@®®@© fflgascD ALSO- "DOWN EAST" AUCTION BOSTON, MASS. MAY 21-26, 1906. a THE "BLUE RIBBON" SALE °- May 14=19 CLEVELAND GREATEST OF SPRING SAIES. THE EASTERN MARKET. At no time since "boom days" has the Eastern market been in better condition than at present. The demand for race prospects and promising youngsters far exceeds the supply, and trotiers and pacers of merit are bringing more money today than at any time in years. The East cannot supply the demand, and California horsemen should take advantage of the situation and ship their horses to ihe 'Blue Ribbon" sale. The results will be more than satisfactory ® ® ® ® ® ® © ® ® ® ® © © ® ® © THE The coming sale promises to be one of the best 1906 ever held at Cleveland. We have enough "BLUE sensational consignments to attract buyers RIBBON" from eve-y section, tf you want to sell in a great sale, in a great market, and when the demand is good, WRITE TODAY to FASIG-TIPTON COMPANY! MADISON SQUARE GARDEN® NEW YORK CITY® A GOOD HOLSTEIN. Albert Meister, the well known Sac- ramento dairyman, whose establish- ment is located just east of the city, is the owner of a cow that has a claim to more than ordinary distinction. For a matter of three weeks the animal has averaged a daily yield exceeding ten gallons of milk Over and beyond this, the cow one day last week attained a record of ninety-seven pounds, which is over twelve gallons, or forty -eight quarts— sufficient in itself to supply a score 'd, witn mil direction* for ; rSt nd for descriptive circulars, nluls, etc. Ad dross iwrerce-WilHams Co., Cleveland, 0 1 Remedy for Rheumatism, Throat, etc. it in invaluable. pleased with the performance of the animal, which is named Belle of Val- ley Mead and is a Holstein, six years old last June. In speaking of the cow's breeding and development recently Mr. Meister said: ■Belle of Valley Mead came into my possession about four years ago, in company with a dozen other heifers. She was bred by Karlen & Co., a firm in Wisconsin famous for developing fine Holsteins. I am not in the thoroughbred business, nor am I a breeder, but I take great interest in the development of thoroughbreds. "The performance of Belle of Valley Mead is not an official test, but it establishes to my own satisfaction the value of breeding to line. The most desirable quality in a cow of late has become the percentage of butter fat. In this case the average is 3.2 per cent. "The animal has been given no special care, but has been turned out with the rest of the herd. She has been fed, as the others are, with hay, bran and middlings, and allowed to eat as much as she would. She has been milked three times a day. "Belle of Valley Mead is very large and strong looking even for a Holstein, has never been sick a day and has never gone dry since she came into my possession. "Her breeding is perfect, and her pedigree, which is in my possession, shows a long line of ancestors remark- able for the quantity of milk they yielded. The dam of her sire gave as much as 112 pounds of milk, but this not an official test. "'Mechthilde'a Careme Golan t ha, her Sire, SOW for $3000, Her dam was El - gin Belle VII. I expeel that Belle of Mead will keep up this average i"! two or three weeks before dropping bai 1. -Saci amen to I'nion, BIG BRONZE GOBBLERS. G. M. McKeown regarding turkeys and turkey management at the Wagga ex- perimental farm, New South "Wales, attention is directed to the importance of bronze blood in improving common stock. '"The pure (bronze) gobblers are re- markably prepotent and will rapidly improve the quality of any flock into which they are introduced. The ap- pearance of the young stock is greatly improved, they mature earlier, and the weight, quality and flavor of the flesh are strongly influenced for the better by the introduction of bronze blood. For some years many gobblers six months old have weighed alive from twenty- three to twenty-five pounds, while some at nine months have reached twenty-eight to thirty-one pounds. Pullets have been bred to weigh sixteen pounds at eight months, and gobblers, which have been sold from the farm, have been reported by their buyers as weighing thirty-nine and forty pounds before they were two years of age." Good Roadster For Sale Five years old, sired by Nutwood Wilkes; dam Merle M. Pacer, well broken. Plenty of speed. A higb-olass roadster in every respeot. Address or apply to GHAS Dk RYDER, Pleasanton, Cal. Or W- M. SHELDON, 01 Chroniole Bldg., San Francisco. In a rei enl published statement by IFOR SALE. PETRINA. chestnut mare by Piedmont; dam by imp. Glengarry. She is the dam of Lady Petrina2:-^7and Is now in foal to Nutwood Wilkes. Price 8200. KESKINA chestnut Ally, yearling, fine individ- ual with good trot Ing action, by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Petrlna; entered in the Breed- ers Futurity Stakes, $7000 Guaranteed, and the Oocldent Stake. Price $200. To see the animals and tor further particulars address F. W. KELLEY, Breeder and Sports- man, 36 Geary St., San Franolsco. FOR SALE. Will sell, on account of ill health, the follow- ing troitinsr bred stock, at private sale, at a rea- sonable price: ORKNEY WILKES by Mambrino Wilkes dam by Speculation- Orkney Wilkes is the sire of Swachllda 2:13 Va mtie 1:01, in third heat of race. Twoproduciog brood mares. MAUD S by Jim Mulvena. dam of Swanhilda; MAGGIE Mc by Abbotsford Jr dam by Speculation Maggie Mc is the dam of 3id Abbot. 4 year-old trial 2:18. Also colts by Orknej Wilkes, Sidmoor and DIc- tatus Two yearlings by D.ctatus, perfeot matches; one Ally pacer from Maud S.; one horse colt from Maggie Mc. trotter. Foi farther information call on or address W L. MCDONALD. Bos 82, Concord, Cal. FAST PACER FOR SALE. ALFRED D. 2A21 By Longwcrili 2:19, son of Sid ey (sire Sid- ney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon 1:58»4) Dam Ferndale Belle by Judge Salisbury, he by Nutwood, eto ALFRED D. 3:12^ stands 16 hands and weighs 1150 lbs He is sound and a racehorse that is much faster than his record. Has paced miles close to 2 minutes. Address Mrs a c, dietz, 5403 San Pablo Ave., Oakland. Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED STALLION SBRVIGE BOOKS (POCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Most Complete Book of the kind published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St.. San Francisco 673-680 II lb Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE ZIBBELL Sc SON, Proprietor*. San Fhancisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Handling all kinds of Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand. Take iiDy car going to the Chute*. Tel.: West 360 March 31, 19>6, ®hs gvecbev aixb ^ovtemmt 15 DO YOU WANT TO RENT A STALL A WHOLE RACE TRACK? The owners ol the MOUNT DIABLO RACK TRACK, located near Concord, Cat , are con- structing 50 new and up- to date stalls After April 1st tnty will be prepared to rent stalls to trainers and others as may be required Also they will entertain proposiiioDS for the lease of the track and grounds as a whole for a term of one or more years . Improvements now in course of construction, to cost about $4000 will result In making this track one of the very best all-the-year-round tracks on the Coast For pertloulars address IRA B. KILGORE. Concord, Cal WasMDgton HcKinney 357S1 By McKinney S:11J{; dam, Lady Washington. In every point he shows his breeding; has good style and action. Stands 16 hancis, weight 1200 p unds His get briog big prices. Will make the S«»son at Rose Dale Stock Farm Kec, S30 for 8«hBod. Fer f nn h. r pertlcalars adrtrenn RO>E DALE STUCK FARM Santa Rosa, Cal. HIGH-CLASS ROAD MARE FOR SALE A VERY HANDSOME BAY MARE; STANDS •"• 16 hands high; weighs about 1100 lbs ; abso- lutely sound, gentle, kind disposition, afraid of nothing; city broken; stylish, rood action; a square-gaited trotter and about 5 years old. Will be sold reasonable. For further particulars address J- H. MASTERSON, Crossley Bldg. San Francisco. Cal. $10 Paymenton Three-Year-Olds Due April 1, 1906 (and Must Be Made Not Later than MONDAY, April 2d) in tlxo Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes No. 3, $6000 Guaranteed TO TAKE PLACE THIS YEAR PACIFIC COAST TROTTING H0KSE BREEDERS ASSOCIATION FOR FOALS OF MARES COVERED IN 1902 TO TROT OR PACE AT TWO AND THREE YEARS OLD ENTRIES CLOSED DECEMBER 1, 1902 $3250 for Trotting Foals, 81750 for Pacing Foals, $800 to Nominator! of Dams of Winners and 8200 for Owners of Stallions. Starting Pay ments-$35 to start in the three-year-old pace. $50 to start 1q the three-year-old trot All starting payments to he made tea days before the Srst 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. Address all communications to the Secretary. F. P. HEALD, President. F. w KELLFY =^aol-a^ar,/ qs <^,„... o» o ^ w. rwcimY, secretary, 36 Gaary St., San Francisco. New England Trotting Horse Breeders Association Woodland Hackney Stud Boston, Mass. READVILLE GRAND CIRCUIT MEETING Entries Close Tuesday, April 10, 1906 ALL CLASSES WILL BE EVENTS OF THREE KACES Or ONE MILE. No. No. No. No. No. No. EARLY CLOSING PURSES. 1— The Blue Hill, 2:30 Class Trotting $4500 Divided: $1050 to first, 8300 to second, $150 to third— each race. 2— The Massachusetts, 2:14 Class Trotting .... $9000 Divided: $2100 to first, 8600 to second, $300 to third-each race. 3— The Ponkapoag, 2:10 Class Trott.ng $4500 Divided: $1050 to first, $300 to second, $150 to third— each race. 4— The Readville, 2:08 Class Trotting $3000 Divided: $700 to first, $300 to second, $100 to third— each race. $3000 5— The Norfolk, 2:08 Class Pacing Divided: $700 to first S20O to second, $100 to third— each race. 6— Th2 Neponset, 2:06 Class Pacing $3J00 Divided: $700 to first, $»00 to second. $!00 to third— each race. Ia all classes horses must be named at the time of the closing of entries. The Entrance Fee will be Five Per Cent of the Purse with Nothing Deducted from the Winners of Any Part of the Purse. More than one horsa, if trained in the sama stable, may be entered in a class, and one per cent or purBe additional will be charged for each horse so named; but only one horse in the same owner- ship will ba allowed to start. Any horses of a plural entry which may be separated from the stable from whioh they were naoied will be eligible to start by paying a sum, in addition to that already paid on the horse, which will equal the full five p?r cent entrance fee. Conditions Tnerutesof thj N"icioiil Tottlag vssiclatUa (if which this Association is a member) will govern, except cai; harsei nit tlutshtusr wit bin one hu id -ed yards of the winner In any race *tll be ruled oatoffjrchjr competition In the event. Rasing will begin at i: 30 p m The positions jfTjiitenliag ho^es will badrdwifjr the first race of every event, but in the sec- ond they will start as they flilsned in tin first, aid In the t^ird as they finished in tha second. Forfeits will be due in amounts and on dates as follows: De PUE & SPRAQUE, Owners 324 Pine Street, San Francisco Breeders of High-Class Carriage Horses Breeders of High-Class Saddle Horses Stud Headed by MANCHESTER Registered American Hackney Stud Book 201 Twice Winner of Bine Ribbon in New York Horse Show Carriage Teams, Saddle Horses and Gig Horses For Sale. Correspondence Solicited. A. It BRINTON, Manager WOODLAND, CAL. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 204 1-2 T. C. 2:30 Trial aao APRIL 10. Clauses No. 1 and 3 830 Each additional I. orse 9 Class No. 2 Each additional horse.. Classes Nos. 4. 5 and 6 Each additional horse.. oO 18 6 May 10. 83i> 20 6 JU.VE 9. 30 6 JlJLY 10. 860 40 6 August 7 870 SO 6 Nominators will not be b sld liable Tor f jpfalts falling due after thay have declared out in writing. The Am9rican H >rse Breeder Futurities— $7000 for Three-year-old Trotters, SIO^O for Three-year- old Pacers and SJ000 for Two-year old Trotters— will be raeed at this meeting. All entries, requests for information, etc , to be made to the Secretary. JOHN M. JOHNSOtf. President. C. M. JEWETr, Secretary, Readv lle. Mass. Stakes for Two-Year-Olds Offered by the California State Agricultural Society to be given at the CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR, 1906 ENTEIES CLOSE MAY 1, 1906 The A. B. SPRECKELS STAKE for Two-Year-Old Trotters- $1000 The BEN RUSH STAKE for Two-Year-Old Pacers 1000 ENTRANCE PAYABLE AS FOLLOWS: $20 or, May I, 1906; 820 addi- tional if not declared out on or before June 1, 1986, and 810 additional if not declared out on or before July 1, 19 J6 Declarations (to declare out) must be mailed to tbe Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made CONDITIONS. Distance to be one hundred yards. Right reserved to reject any or all entries. Five per oent of the amount of the Stake will be deducted from each money won. The Board of Directors reserve the right to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start they may oontest for the entrance money paid in. to be divided >>>*,' percent to tbe first and 31H Per cent to the second. Ahorse distancing the fljld shall ooly be entitled to first and fourth moneys, but In no other case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. The Board of Directors reserve the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses. 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 Otherwise than as herein specified in these conditions. Rules of the National Trotting Associa- tion (of which this Association is a member) to govern. For Entry Blanks and further information address the Secretary. BEN F. RUSH, President. ALBERT LINDLEY, Sec'y State Agn Society, SACRAMENTO, CAL. Sire NCTTTOOI WILKES 3:16y,. sire of John A. McKerron S:01«. Tidal Wave 200 Mlc» Idaho 2:09M, Who Is It 2:10«. Stanton Wilkes fclOtf, Cresco Wilkes S-'l3s>: etc etc ' Dam ZETA CARTER by Director 3:17, sire dams of John A. McKerron "Viw bzanam 2-07 Little Thome 2:07*. Leonardo 2:08*. etc.. etc: second dam. Llda w 2™8* (dam of NuTwnnd Wilkes 8:164. etc ) by Nutwood 600, greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived 1- third dam S, Geo. M. Patohen Jr. 31; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's ' Belmont T. C is one of the best bred young stallions in California. A two-year-old Oily by him has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and is as handsome as a picture 1 - U. Will TJ2&t£6 to6 Season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with nsual return prlvllvge. . Excellent pasturage for mares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for card containing tabulated pedigree and other Information. I will take a few horses to train for road or track GEORGE T. ALGEO. 1207 Eagle Ave., Alameda, Cal. THE PERFECTLY GA1TED TROTTING STALLION Reg. No. 22449 ALTA VELA 2111 Sire, ELECTIONEER, sire of 166 in 2:30 and grandsire of Major Delmar 1:5834. Dam, LORITA 8:18V4 (dam of Alta Vela 2:11^ and Palorl 2:21V4) by Piedmont 2-17M- Second dam. Lady Lowell (dam of Ladywell 2:1614 and Lorita 2-12W1 bv St Clair*' Third dam Laura, dam of Doc, sire of Ocoldent 2:I65£. ' ' Will make the Season of 1906 at THE PARK STABLE Twenty-fourth Avenue and Fulton Street, San Francisco, California. TERMS FOR THE SEASON, $35. Breed to the best galted and fastest son of Electioneer on the Pacific Coast Address all communications to F. OOMMET, Owner. HANS FRELLSON, 24th Ave. and Fulton St., San Francisco. Season 1006. CHARLES DERBY 4907 Leading Sire on the Pacific Coast. $50 THE SEASON, 5"\TT]\T/\a7ET/I\ Bestso"of Bertha, dam of Don o iiuu vv nt±j±j Derby 2:04 M> Diabl0 2:09 K Owyho 2:071-4, etc. $50 THE SEASON. OAKWOOD PARK STOCK FARM, Danville. Cal. (By CH AS DERBY 41)07) Pasturage 15 per month. Not responsible for accidents or escapes. For further particulars address LYNWOOD W. 32853 RECORD AS A 2-YEAR-OLD 2:20 1-2 Sired by GUY WILKES; dam, the great brood mire LINDALE by Sultan Jr. 12771. LYNWOOD W. was a sensational colt trotter and is fast provlDg himself to be a sreatslre although ho never covered but eight standard bred mares prior to 1905. Still he has to his oredlt Dumo?lL-:30™.!'?p,e,r-/ i:24*' Sonoma Queen 2:25. Sonoma May 2:29k. all trotte.-s with records matte Id 1 y' folloi A yen Sonoma Star (3) 2:s7%. Dennis 2:30, Frank G. (2) I Will make the Season of 1906 at Santa Rosa. H A. CARLTON, Owner, Santa R- 16 cfttte gxee&ev awfc *&p&vt&man [March 31, 1906 IKT THE IL/ESAID RACING! HAWTHORNE 2:0G 1-4 BILLY BUCB. 2:07 1-4 KINNET LOIT 2:07 3-4 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON OF THE CHAMPION SIRE KINNEY LOU 2:07 Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at AGRICULTURAL PARK, SAN JOSE, CAL. TERMS S10O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal, For further Information, pedigree and description address PHONE: JOHN 2481. BUDD D0BLE, San Jose, Cal. MENDOCINO 22607 RECORD (THREE- YEAR-OLD) 2:19}£ SlreofMonte Carlo 2:07 Sf (to wagon 2:08^4); Idolita (2y. o.) 2:21}^, (3y.o.)2:12, (a) 2:09ii, Leonora 2:12^, Polka Dot 2:14^, etc Bay Stallion, 15.3^ bands; weight 1190 pounds; hind feet and ankles white; foaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 125, son of Hambletonian 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO (3) 2:19^£, Electant 2:19*4 Morocco (3 y. o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904, 2:17^; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie W- (3) 2:17^. Hyperion 2;213£, Memento 2:25*4, Mithra (p) 2:14^) by Hamble- tonian Jr. 1882; third dam, Uilda (thoroughbred) by imp. Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Electioneers youngest and best sods With very limited opportunities in the stud he has proven his worth by producing such racehorses as Monte Carlo and Idolita. Three new additions to his 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performers. His foals are good size, floe lookers, bold and pure gaited and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, 870; usual return privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 18.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11, 1900. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, McKINNEY 8818 (record 2:11^)- First dam, HELENA 2:11*4 (damof Wlldnutling 2:11*4; Dobbel 2:22, Hyita (trial 2:12) by Electioneer 125; second dam, Lady Ellen 2:29^ (dam of six in list. Including Helena 2:11M, Ellen Wood2:14M) by Mambrino 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont (Williamson's). McKENA has proven a remarkably sure foal getter. He should make a great sire as he is a fine Individual and bred right. His sire, McKinney, a game and fast raceborse and sire of game and fast racehorses. His dam, Helena, one of the fastest and earnest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters the world has yet known. His second dam, Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as well as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, 840; usual return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Mares may run on pasture at 85 per month. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for injury or escapes. Address all communications to PALO ALTO STOCK FARM, Stanford University. «anta Clara Co . Cal. McMURRAY New California JocRey CI OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S. P. Ferry, foot of Market Street— leave at 12 thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladles and their escorts. Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. Price Low. McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. •SSS^Address for printed matter and prices W. J. KENNEY 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal, Sales-Agent for California. PHENOL SODIQUE hoals SORES, CUTS and BITES Man and Beast. lllilllltill MANCE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. ■-.^^OlSEjlSESOF ANIMALS ^ J ~""*=S1 By All Druggists. a"'CE brother's * wHrm| Recomm naed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. McKinney, 2.11% World's Leading Sire of Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 r©ca. Jtallion SALVATION The Great Son of SALVAT0R, and sire of CHANTILLY, PRE= SERVAT0R, SHELLM0UND and many other winners. Will make the season at Mr. CHAS. W. CLARK'S FARM, SAN MATEO. TERMQ' CCn fnr tho Qoacnn WITH RETURN PRIVILEGES. Mares taken care I Emtio. OuU IUI NIC OtdoUlli of at reasonable rates. Apply to D. W. DONNELLY, San llnl or W. D. RANDALL, Emeryville. DV»H ■ f**rV»P»C T*lF»1l1«lt*»H and type written ready for framing rCUI^lCCS laUUiaiCU Write for prioea. Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Francisoo, Cal. March 31, 1906] Qthe gveeirev anit gtjwurtsmcm 17 FOUR BIG ~* J EARLY J ( CLOSING* GUARANTEED STAKES! Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. ENTRIES TO CLOSE TUESDAY, MAY 1, 06 Only Tliree I»©r Ooaat to Enter. CALIFORNIA STAKES $2000 For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES 2000 For Paces Eligible to 2:20 Class SUNSET STAKES 1000 For Free=for=AII Trotters GOLDEN GATE STAKES 1000 For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class decl^ed^y July 2DT1906AS FOLLOWS: 3 Per cent May 1, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 per cent additional 'if not Declarations (to declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary, and will not be aocepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration Is m«rto On July 1, 1906, nominators, by the payment ot an additional 2 per cent, have the right of substituting another horse or transferrin? their entrt tn anniher , horse named in the original entry, but the horse so substituted must be eligible to the class In which substitution is made on July 1 1006 memberof the Association in place of the Liberal Stakes for other classes will be announced later. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary. 36 Geary St.. S. F. The following Stallions, owned by W. A. Clark Jr., will make a public season: j Rf^lM IVJ I C IWI Lf IR^AQ f-TV 1 9-1CI'\ Bon Voyage Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Two-year-old Record 2:15 Three-year-old Record.. 2:12& Timed In a Race .2:10^ WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (S850O) FOR 1905. BON VOYA.GE (3) 2:12?i la by Expedition 2:153£ by Electioneer 125; dam Bon Mot by Erin 2:24^; second dam Farce 2:29^ by Princeps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150 For breeding, individu- ality and racing qualities he is unsurpassed. He Is a rich bay In color with black points, stands 15.3 hands and when matured will weigh 1200 pounds. Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON RACK TRACK. where he will be limited to twenty outside mares. CCA tai- fhP Cpqcnn USUAL RETURN" PRIVILEGES, or money remnded should mare <50v lUT lllc oCaSUlI. not prove in foal. A rare chance to breed good mares to an excep- tionally high-olass and highly bred young stallion. TRIAL 2:12 (at Four Years Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By ESPRESSO 29199 (half brother to Expressive (3) 2:l21/2) by Advertiser 2:15^. son of Electioneer 125; nam ALrHA 3:23% (dam of Aegon 2:l8M.sire of Ageon Star 2:11^, etc ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22; second dam Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 in list and 3 producing sons and 7 prouUciDg daughters) by Mambrino Chief 11, etc Terms for the Season $25 HIGHLAND Is a grand looking youug stallioo, seven years old. His breeding is most fashion- able, and his immediate ancestors are producers of race winners with fast records. He is beauti- fully gaited and has a perfect disposition. Does not pull or want to break at spped, and can be placed at will in a bunch of horses He Is a hlgh-cla^s hor^e and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trotted a quarter in 31 seconds over the Pleasanton race track HIGHLAND is a coal black horse with one white hind ankle, stands 16.1 Lands high and weighs close to 1200 ponnds, Address all communications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. * fMcKlnney 3:llX... U Sire ot 55 I Coney ^ I Sweet Marie K [ aod 38 more in 2:15 y H 70 in 2:3) " 2 Z. I 0[Bon Silene 2:14%... Dam of CQ BDnnie McK. (trial). 2:02 2:04 >< f Alcyone 2:27 Sire of Martha Wilkes 60 in 2:30 Rose Sprague Dam of McKlnney 2:11^ Grandam of Fereno 2:05% rStamboul 2:07% Sire of j Stamboulette 2:10m " ] Ellert 2;ii etc. I Bon B on 2:26 Dam of Bonnie Direct 2:05!* Rector Q;\o Bon Silene 2:14^ Bonnie Stelnway trl)2:08% (Geo Wilkes 2:22 by Hamb. 10 \ Alma Mater by Mamb.'Patchen [ Gov Sprague 2:20% < by Rhode Island (.Rose Kenney by Mamb. Messenger /Sultan 2:24 by The Moor ( Fleetwing by Hamb. 10 dam of 2 in list (Simmons 2:28 by Geo. Wilkes 1 Bonnie Wilkes 2:29** by Geo. Wilkes dam of 4 in list ZOMBRO 2:11 Greatest Son of McKinney 2:111 NEAREST 35562 Will make the Season of 1906 At LOS ANGELES, GAL. Fee, $50 for the Season. With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse aod mare does not charge ownership. Money due at time of service, or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is the sire of eleven standard performers as follows: Zephyr 2:07^, timed separately in a race In 2:06%: Charley T. 2:13%. trial 2:10%; Italia 2:14%. over half-mile track, trial 2:08%; Bel lemon t- three years old. record 2:153£, trial 2:1 1$£; Zombowyette 2:16^. trial 2:14%: Zenobla 2:19, trial half In 1:05% Tee De* Cee 2:19% trial 2:13%; Ladv Zombro 2:24, trlal2:10; Lord Kitchener 2:24%. trial 2:19%: Zealous 2:26%. trial 2:20: Nina Bonlta2:27. ZOMBRO has won more first prizes in the show rim* than any California stallion, and his get have sold for more money during the past three years. He Is the only borse living or dead that ever won fortv heats in standard time <*s a tbree-year-old His get are all large, beautifully formed and endowed with great natural speed The choicest pasture formares. Address GEO. T. BECKERS. 3949 Flgueroa St , Los Angeles, Cal. (RECORD 2:22%)— Sire of AloDe (4) 2:09 tf (trial 2:06?i)" Just It (3) 2:19% (trial 2:12%), High Fly (2) 2:24^ (trial 2:12%. last half in 1:00%). and full brother to the great John . McKerroo 2:04%, the second fastest stallion in the world. By NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16%, sire of John A. McKerron 2:04% (second fastest stallion In the world), Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:09^, Who Is It 2:10!*. Stanton Wilkes 2: 10M. Cresco Wilkes .(4)2:103£, GeorgieB. 2:12'4. North Star (3) 2:13^, winner Paclflo Breeders Futurity Stakes S6000 Guaranteed of 1905. and 32 in 2:30 list; dam INGAR, the greatest producing daughter of Director; second dam Annie Titus by Echo 462: third dam Tiffany mare (dam of Gibraltar 2:22%) by Owen Dale, son of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST Is a dark bay, 15.3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds: well formed and of kind disposition. In his blood lines are represented the greatest strains of the American trotter. Will make the Season of 1906 at San Jose, with return privilege in case horse remains in California. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T. W KARSTOW. San Jose. Cal. THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKINNEY 2:11!*— greatest sire of his age; dam, the great brood mare DAISYS, (dam of four in list) by McDonald Chief 3583, son of Clark Chief 89; second dam Fanny Rose, great brood mare (dam of three with records better than 2:18) by Ethan Allen Jr. 2993; third dam, Jenny Llnd (thoroughbred), dam of Prince Allen 2:27. Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited numberof approved marcs. FEE 850, with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, Woodland, Cal. E. P HEALD, Owner. 21 Put St.. S»n FrancUco Cal. THE STANDARD TROTTING STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANGELES. CAL. Terms, §40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 Is by Hambletonian Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes 2:08%. Phoebon W 2:08?4', Robert I 2:08^ and 7 others in the 2:15 list); dam Anna B'lle (3) 2:27% (dam cf Robert I. 2:08J£ Maud Murray 2- 12 MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 In 2.30 list and dams of 8 MURRAY M. 2:14 is a handsome five-year-old bay stallion with small star and black points. In his three-year-old form he stood 16 hand and weighed 1125 lbs., and is a natural, square-galted trotter. He Is a horse of grand flaish plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back, strong loins and stifles good feet and legs. His breeding Is excellent, and with his individual- ity he presents a popular and spee -producing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes in the show ring. Excellent pasturage at reasonable rates For further particulars address PttOF H B FREE*1\N. University Station, Los Angoles. Cal. R. AMRUSH 41840 Rec. (3) 2:14| SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARK. 2 miles eait Of Ss>n Bernardino. Addresg G. W. BONIrtU, Redlands. KINNEY WILKES Sired by McKINNEY 3:1 1 ^ sire of Sweet Marie 2:(\4vi- Kinney Lou 2:07?.£, Charley Mac 2:07V Hazel Kinney 2:09^ Trie R >m*n 2:09^, Dr. Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05 w Zolock 2:05W You Bet 2:07 Jennie Ma<- 2:09 etc. First Ham. HAZKL WILKKS 2:1I}<. a erreat race mare bv Guy Wilkes 2:15 Vf. sire of F ed Kohl 2:07%, Hulda-':08V£. Lesa Wilkes 2:09. Seymour Wilkes 2:084. ptc , and dams of Autez*-lla 2:104, Kitherine A: 2:11!^. etc, etc , aud grand ire of John A. McKerron 2:04V£: second dam, Blanche (dam of Hazel Wilkes 2:1 lif Una Wilki, James L. 2:09j<, Edith 2:10, etc.): dam, WOODFLOWER (damof Seyles2:15%) by Ansel 2:20, son of Electioneer; seoond dam, Mayflower 2:30(4 (dam of Manzanita 2:16, Wlldflower (2) 2:21, and eight producing daughters) by St Clair 18675. Fee 830 Both Stallions will make the Season or 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX. BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL .A. High-Olasa Xou.ng McK-inney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A handsome son of McKlnney. Sired by the great McKlnney 2:ltM. greatest sire of the ag dam, the great broodmare Daisy S (dam of Tom Smith 2:13!4, General Vailej > 2:22>4 Little N% c( 8:27, and Sweet Rosie 2:^8^ < by McDonald Chief 3583 son of Olark Chief 89; seoond dam, Fanny Kost great broodmare (dam of George Washington 2:16^, Columbus S 2:17) by Ethan .Allen Jr 299 third dam. Jenny Lind (dam of Prince Allen 2:27, also dam of Fanny McGill, damof Sootty 2:19^ Trilby 2:21&) GENERAL J B FRISBIE is a handsome, good gaited black, five years old. He a full brother to Tom Smith 2:13^; shows McKlnney spaed and will be trained for the races th Terms, 825 for the Season; nsual return privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 Sire of Djlltcau 2:1514, George Washington 2: I6?£ (slreof Stella 2:1554, Campaigner 2:26^ and Prlnoess W 2:29j<), Trilby 2:21 J£ and Sweet Roste2:28tf. By McDonald Chief 3583 (slreof 4 and sire or dams of 7 In 2:30); dam. Venus by Mambrlno Patchen 58. Terras, 820 for the Season: usual return privileges. Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horses at my barn. 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal, More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. i ■ I I WE l i If 1 SmB OF ENOCH 2:12(4, GENERAL 2 : 1 1 i ; . TEDDY 1 in: KOAN :::!- LITTLE MISS 2:17',, MARCHIONESS 2:29. LILLIAN MDMORE 2:24V4 and TIP OIJDANDO (trial) 2:00'/,. SID ABBOTT (trial) 2:18, JAKE P. (trial half mile) l:OS. By SIDNEY 2:19 34 (sire of 19 In 2: 15 list and 106 In 2:30 list and sire Sidney Dillon, sire LOU DILLON dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; next dam Sarpy Mare by Eoho SIDMOOR 2:17S£ Is a dark bay stallion and a grand Individual in every respeot. He Is one of the best produolng pons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Fee $30 for Season. Aad"'a Usual Return Privileges. JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:111. Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares. Full Brother to TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4. First dam DAISY S. (damof Tom Smith 2: 13^, General Vallejo 2:20*4, Little Mao 2:27H, Sweet Roale 2:28i£) by McDonald Chief 8588; seoond dam Fanny Rose (dam of Columbus S. 2; i7, George Washington 2:16?^, who aired Stella2:151£, Campaigner 2:26M. eto ; third dam Jenny Lind {dam of Prlno" Allen 2:27 and also damof Fanny McGill, dam of Sootty 2:19^, Trilby 2:21 ?i, etc ). C INSTRUCTOR Is one of the handsomest sons of the great MoKinney on the Coast. He stands 15 bauds 2<4 inches over the withers and 15 bands 3V4 inches over the loins and weigh* 1 100 pounds. He never made a regular season In the stud, but was bred to several mares when three yearsold and 'ill of his got are of good size and good lookers. mil Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. e vice Fee $25, with visual return privilege. For further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Georgia St., Vallejo, Cal. McKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05 Reg. No. 34471. Great Race Horse and Producing Sire. SIRE OF 2:l4 Has 10 Tbree-Year-Olds that worked trials In 1905 »■ follows: LILIAN ZOLOCK 2:14, KINKKV WOOD 3:15 CLEOPATRA 3:15. RED LOOK 2:18 ZOLLIE 2:18, INAUGI/RETTA 2:22 HYLOCR 2:25, MAJELLA 2:25. ADA LANTE 2:36. BOLOOK 2:27, and 3 Two-Year-Olds an follows: TPENZA 2:34, BONNIE JUNE 2:27, IZALCO 2:30, and 12 others now In training that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. Ambush(3) Delilah (3) Bystander 2:14| Sherlock Holmes 2:15^ Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 ZOICCH'S Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (by Gossiper S:143£), dam of ZOLOCK 2:05VL Zephyr 2:07^; second dam tne great broodmare Glpsey (by Gen. Booth 2:30!/,). dam of Gazelle 2:lli4, Delilah (3) 2:14>4, Ed Winshjp 2-15 Wlllets (mat.) 2:17, Dixie S 2:27, and grandam of Col. Green (trial) 2:10^. third dam Echo Belle (grandam of Conn 2:15M) by Eoho 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 hands, is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. All his ooltB are good-headed, and there has never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season cf 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Raoe Track. Pleasanton. Cal, Season starts February 1st and ends Jane 1st. Mares will be eared for in any manner desired, but by ZOLOCK 2:05^; dam GIPSEY. dam of Gazelle 2:1114. Delilah 3:14H and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:l4y2. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05{ SIRE OF BONALET (3) 2:09^, In winning race— World's Record for age and sex. BONNIE ME (3), trial (trotting) 3:11% (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECT'S flrst orop prepared to raoe. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton--Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horae die or ba 8old, service fes for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 par week. Feeding and pasturing, $2 50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pisturage is sufficient to keep them in good condition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. E. G. MCCONNELL 70S SUTTER ST.. SAN FRANCISCO. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE SEASON OF 1906 AT PLEASANTON STAR POINTER l:59J Sire of ....WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN 1 897. The F&.teat, Gamest and Most ConlUtent Kace Horse In Tarf History. MORNING STAR 2:03, JOE POINTER 2:05',, SIBNEY POINTER 2:07)4, SCHLEY POINTER 2:08^, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:59« Hal DUlard 2M;i Star Hal 2:01K Hal Cnaffln 2:05X Elastlo Pointer 2-My, New Richmond 2:0?!4 Hal Braden 2:07M Storm *08Vi Brown Heels 2:09* Laurel 2:09M Silver Hal 2:W eto. 6 produolng sons, 2 produolng daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of Star Pointer 1:58W Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastlo Polni er 2:06!4 Cloud Pointer 2:24K Tennessee Pointer 2:24^ 2 produolng sons 6 produuing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1000. Sire, McKINNKY 2:1I«, sire of SWEET MARIE 2:0lM. Kinney Lou 2:07&, Charley Mac 2-073i Hazel Kinney 2:09M' Td Roman 2:09^, Dr. Book 2: 10, Coney 2*02-' China Maid 2:05!4. You Bet 2:07 Jennie Mao 2:09 Zolook 2:054 Dara.AILEEN 9i'46% (dam of Mowitza 2:20*4. Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2-3J trial 2:20) by Anteeo 3:16& sire of dams of Dlreotum Keiiy2:08W. Grey Gem 2:09^, W. Wood 2:07, etc. Grandam LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:58(4. Red- wood 3:81 Vi. Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:26^) by Milton Medium 2:25J4 (aire of 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium 2:32!4, sire of Nancy Hanus 2:04, eto. GRECO Is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only raoe as a colt, and has shown miles in 2:20 since in his work, and is a sure 2:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of maresE-t MIOO THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address r CHAS. De KYDKK. Manager, Pleasanton, Oal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IK AN A UTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam bjtb produced a oolt that was a world's record breaker, and htB grandsire has sired several trotters that broke world's records Ni other horse with a reoord as fast as IRAN ALTO'S can claim this. At nine years he hid sired ten oolts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse S:13tf Thom is R. 2:15, VeDdomQ2:17, Dr. Frasse'a Sister 2:25— all at four yearsold. Who oan name a horse whose first ten oolts oan beat Lhat T Will Miln? the Season or 1906 at WOODLAND, OAL. $40 For further particulars address FEE $20 due when mare is bred and $20 payable when mare Is known to be in foal. 11 S, BOGOBOOU, Woodland, Oa March 31, 1906] ®Ue gvee&zv ants gpovxaxnan 19 IMPROVE YOUR SCORE BY SHOOTING CAMPBELL'S BALLISTITE Look up the Winners of Last Year's Tournaments And See what BALLISTITE Won. 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(IMPROVED)" LAFLIN & RAND POWDER CO. 170 Broadway, New York City, CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS, Agents, San Francisco, Cal. .*>^*J\»*\. Clabrough, Golcher & Go. GUNS 'un Goods rami (or Catalog**. FISHING Tackle 538 MARKET STREET, S. F. These ar« the Brands of FACTORY . . LOADED SHELLS PACIFIC CHALLENGE SUPERIOR EXCELSIOR VOL. XLVIII. No. 14. Jli GEARY STREET. SAN FRANCISCO, SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1906. SUBSCRIPTION THREE DOLLARS A TEAR A QUARTETTE OF APTOS RANCH HORSES To be Sold April loth by FRED H. CHASE £ CO. -Bay Mare, own sister to Venae 2:11* 2—0116311101 Gelding by Dexter Prince out of dam of Zambia 2:HJi. by Stamboul. 3— CbestDut Mare, own sIMer lo Harold D 2-11**. 4— Bay Mare by Dexter Prince, dam by Chris Smltb. 5— The Farm Training Track. 3 &h€ gveebsx axiit ^pctvi&nxan [April 7, 1906 HIGH CLASS YOUNG HORSES From the Celebrated APTOS RANCH PROPERTY OF MR. A. B. SPRECKELS T?5&^£ TDESDAY EVENING, APRIL 10, 1906 By FRED. H. CHASE & CO., Live Stock Auctioneers, At ST. LAWRENCE STABLES, 423 Post Street Specially Fitted Up, Comfortably Seated and Brilliantly Lighted for This Occasion. There are twenty-three Trotters and two Pacers in the consignment, all bred at Aptos .Ranch, comprising handsome roadsters and high-class racing prospects, all thoroughly broken and accustomed to the sight of steam and electric cars end automobiles. They were sired by CUPID 2:18, sire of Eve trotters with records from 2:11 J to 2:16J, own brother to the great Sidney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon 1:58J BEX lER PRINCE, sire of Lisonjero 2:08£, Eleata 2:08}, James L. 2:09J and 63 more with standard reccrdB. AIiTXVO 2:18 1-2, own brother to Palo Alto 2:08| and sire of Albuta 2:1H and four more in the list. APTOS WILKES, full brother to Hulda 2:08J. The choicest lot of horses sent to aa auction sale in San Francisco in years. Can be seen at stables, Siturday, April 7th. Catalogues now ready and will be milled on application to FEED H. CHASE & CO., 1728 Market St., San Francisco. ® * « S 9 @ © a ®®@©®©®®©©©©©©©©©®©©@®©®®©®®©©©®®®®©^©®®®®@©©©®@©®©®®@®@®®©@®@®®®®gf ® © © © © © © © © © THE "BLUE RIBBON" SALE Cleveland, o. Hay 14-10 GREATEST OF SPRING SALES. an THE EASTERN MARKET. At no time since "boom days" has the Eastern market been in better condition than at present. The demand for race prospects and promising youngsters far exceeds the supply, and trotters and pacers of merit are bringing more money today than at any time in years. The East cannot supply the demand, and California horsemen should take advantage of the situation and ship their horses to the 'Blue Ribbon" sale. The results will be more than satisfactory ALSO- "DOWN EAST" AUCTION BOSTON, MASS. MAY 21-26, 1906. THE The coming sale promises to be one of the best 1906 ever htld at Cleveland- We have enough "BLUE sensational consignments to attract buyers RIBBON" from eve-y section. If you want to sell in a great sale, in a great market, and when the demand is good, WRITE TODAY to © © © © © FASIC-TIPTON COMPANY! MADISON SQUARE GARDEN© NEW YORK CITY© © @@©©©®." MONTANA FAIR AND RACING CIRCUIT STAKES CLOSE APRIL 10, 1906. $125,000 IN STAKES AND PURSES. ALL HARNESS RAGES TO BE ON THE THREE-HEAT PLAN BUTTE Aug. 22-Sept. 4 2:14 Trot. 81000 2:20 Trot 1000 2:30 Trot 1000 2:10 Pace. ... 1000 2:18 Pace 1000 2:26 Pace 1000 Three-year-old Trot COO Three-year old Pace COO RUNNING STAKES. Openlog Handicap 8500 Butte City gelllog stake 800 Miners' Union Stake... 300 Elks' Handicap COO Woman's Clnb Stake for 2-year-olds.. 300 Labor Day Handicap 1O0O For complete list or Harness Purses and Condi- tlons write A. IJ. GALBRAITH, Sec. LIVINGSTON BILLINGS Sept. 5, 6, 7, 8. Sept. 10, 11, 12. 13. 2:20 Trot 81000 2:16 Trot... 8100 0 2:18 Pace 1O0O ! 2:30 Trot 1000 Three-year-old Trot 300l2:l*Pace lOOO Three-year-old Pace 300 RUNNING. 1 Mile, Livingston Derby 8500 For complete list of Purses and Conditions write J M. SEAMAN, Sec :18 Pace 1000 RUNNING. I Furlongs, Billings Derby 8500 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write IV. B. GEORGE, Sec. HELENA MONTANA STATE FAIR— Oct. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. HARNESS. 2:16 Trot 81000 2:30 Trot 1000 2:14 Pace 1000 2:25 P«*ce 1000 RUNNING. 1 1-4 Allies. Helena Handicap 81000 1 Mile, Montana Derby 500 1 Mile. Montana stake, for Montana bred 3-year-olds 500 3 4 Mile, H.A.Myer Hotel Stake, added 250 Conditions at Helena— All harness races 3 In 5 unless otherwise specified. Entrance 3°£, pa; able $10 May I, $10 June 1. $10 July 1, with tt% additional from money winners. Anyone wishing to enter a horse July 30 may do so by paying b% of stake. For Entry Blanks and Conditions write J. W. PACE, Sec. GENERAL CONDITIONS for Butte, Bozeman, Livingston, Billings, Big Timber, GreM Falls and Missoula. AM harness races shall be on the Thru Beat plan. Money divided at the end of each heat unless otherwise specified on programs. Money divided SO, 25, 15, 10. Entrance5%, payable as follows: 1% April 10 when entries close: \% May 1; l%Junel; 1% July I, and last payment Augusl 1. when horse nv ,t>t be Darned, and ULless otherwise specified h% additional will be deducted from the first and secontl money winners only In each heat. Horse distancing the field entitled to first and fourth money. Horses not finishing within 100 yards of the winner In any heat will be barred from further competition In the event American Trotting Association Rules to govern, exc» pt hopples not barred on horses over three years old NO'' ice— Each member of the Circuit has gooo track plenty rf stable accommodation?- and good hotels, and every assistance will be given horse- let the bet-t of shipping accommrdo tlons. The Circuit is arranged » lib no dates conflicting, and no long jumps or doubling over road. Each orves the right to doolare off or reopen as a purse any stake not filllne satisf actor! It by refunding entrance money, and to postpone or c '11 In caseof bad weather. Books, auctions and mutuals will be used. For further particulars and Entry Blanks address the local Secretaries -cult Secretary. TWO HARNESS AND THREE RUNNING RACES DAILY. °ies., R. D. STEELE Bozeman. Circuit Sec, A. D. GALBRAITH, Butte. BOZEMAN Sept. 18, 19. 20, 21, 22. 2:16 Trot .. S1O0O 2:14 Pace. ..81000 2:24 Trot ... 100O 2:22 Pace... lonn Three-year-old Pace 500 Three-year-old Trot fino Two-year-old Pace 500 Two-year-old Trot 500 RUNNING. 1 1-4 Mile Bozeman Derby 50O For Entry Blanks and Conditions write J. IV 8MITH, Sec. BIG TIMBER Sept. 13, 14, 15. Stakes wsll be announced later. For copy write F. s. DOCTHKTT, See GREAT FALLS Sept. 25. 26, 27, 28.29. 2:13 Pace.SlOOO 2:18 Trot. .. SIOOO 2:18 Pace.., 1000 2:30 Trot.... lOOO RUNNING. 1 1-2 Mt!es, Great Falls Derby S5H0 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write ALLEN PIKRSE, Seo MISSOULA Oct. 8, 9. IO. II. 2:16 Trot 81000 2:14 Pace ..Siooo 2:30 Trot lOOO 2:25 Pace... 1000 RUNNING. 1 1-4 Mile*. Missoula Derby 8500 1 Mile Montana stake for Mootana bred Three-j ear-olds 500 For Entry Blanks and Conditions write E. C. MOLROSET, Sec. APRIL 7, 1906] Whe gveebev cmbr gipxyrtsmcm 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, PROPRIETOR. Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast. 36 GEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 44-7. f elephone: Black 586. Terms -One Year 83, Six Months SI. 75. Three Months St STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. Kelley, 36 Geary St., San Franclsoo, California. Communications must be aocompanled by the writer's name and address, not neoessarily for publication, but as a private guar- antee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, April 7, 1906 Stallions Advertised. FORTY-TWO THREE- YEAR-OLDS had the pay- ment of $10 made on them April 2d in the Pacific Breeders' $6000 Futurity to be trotted and paced this year, and it is possible that all the returns are not in yet, as a few of the far distant points in "Wash- ington and Southern California have not been heard from. The full list of eligibles will be printed in the Breeder and Sportsman next week and will show a big field of very highly bred colts and fillies. The three-year-old stakes are the feature of harness racing on this Coast, the Breeders' Futurity, the Oc- cident and Stanford Stakes being of such value that a great deal of interest is taken in them, not only by the breeders and owners, but by the general public. Last year North Star by Nutwood Wilkes won all these stakes and placed over $5000 to the credit of his owner, Mr. J. B. Iverson of Salinas If Califor- nia could have a big stake for trotters — not less than $5000 — still greater interest would be aroused in the breeding, training and racing of harness horses. The $2000 stakes given by the Breeders' Association and the Oregon State Fair are the principal inducements to racing aged horses on this Coast, and, were there a couple of $5000 stakes, one for trotters and an- other for pacers, the probability is that neither would cost the association giving them any money at all, as the entries would pay the purses. TROTTING BRED. ALMADEN 2:22*4 M. L. Lusk, Sacramento, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT 2:05*4-. C. L. Griffith, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE McK. 36569 Geo. A. Kelly, Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:12% Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. CHAS. DERBY 2:20 Oakwood Park, Danville, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. <5RECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND. Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12*4 H. S. Hogoboom, Woodland, Cal. ""ZALCO H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEY LOU 2:07% Budd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R. D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. LYNWOOD W. 2:20%... H. A. Carlton, Santa Rosa, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11*4 Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622. Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. MONTEREY 2:09*4-.. P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman, Los Angeles. Cal. NEAREST . 2.22*4 T. W. Barstow, San Jose, Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16% _. Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20%.. C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R. AMBUSH 2:14*4 G. W. Bonnell, Redlands, Cal. RED McKINNEY W. R. Murphy, Tulare. Cal- SIDMOOR 2:17% John Ott, Pacheco, CaL STAR POINTER 1:59*4 „ , Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. STILLWELL Oakwood Park, Danville, Cal. T. C. 2 :30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal. TOM SMITH 2:13*4 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936. ..Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto, Cal. WASHINGTON McKINNEY Rose Dale Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Cal. YOSEMITE P- J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. YOUNG HAL 2:10*4-. I. C. Mosher, Los Angeles, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05% H. Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. GREEN'S RUFUS Baywood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER. -Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. MANCHESTER 201 A. H. Brinton, Woodland, Cal. California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacifio Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903— $10 due April 1, 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- ^re the meeting. Stake No. 4, $6000, foals of 1904 — Starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days before the meeting. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903 — $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907. foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Aug. 13-18. Readville, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. Y., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. ENTRIES CLOSE ON TUESDAY NEXT for the big stakes of the Hartford Grand Circuit meeting at Charter Oak Park. The Charter Oak $10,000, first won by Director 2:17, is for 2:09 class trotters this year. There is a $2000 stake for 2:30 class trotters. $2000 each for 2:08 class and 2:20 class pacers. Horses must be named in all these events at the time of entry. Look at the new and novel conditions of these stakes, fully set forth in the advertisement in this issue. Note the Welch plan of handicap en- trance to the Charter Oak. If your horse has a rec- ord of 2:08*4 to 2:09 you must pay an entrance fee of $500 in this race, in installments, which is the usual 5 per cent and no more. But if your horse has no record or one slower than 2:12 you will only have to pay 1% per cetn entrance. It looks like a good plan and one that will be popular. Don't forget that Tues- day next, April 10th. is the date of closing entries. VOLUME TWENTY-ONE of the Year Book has been in almost constant use in this office since It ar- rived from Chicago a week ago, and is so much su- perior to any previous volume that the writer wants to thank the compilers for the many improvements. If anything ever filled a long felt want it is this volume. MR. A. E. ASHBROOK. manager of the Los ngeles Horse Show, is in San Francisco interesting horse owners in the show and securing entries to the vari- ous classes. Mr. Ashbrook was formerly proprietor of the Horse Show Monthly, published at Kansas City, but is now owner of Bit and Spur, a very hand- some and well edited monthly published at Chicago. READY FOR THE AUCTIONEER. APTOS FARM HORSES, twenty-five in number. will be sold at auction in this city at 423 Post street, by Fred H. Cha?e & Co.. on Tuesday evening next. This i.s the most important sale of trotting bred horses held in this city for some time, and as they are ill four and five -year- olds, in good order, thoroughly broken and ready to work, there should be a lively demand for them. No better bred or better looking lot of horses has been seen in a salesring on this Coast. Their breeding is up to date. Eleven of them are by Cupid 2: IS. own brother to Sidney Dillon, the sire of the world's champion. Cupid was a good race horse — one of the gnmest ever seen.' In the stud he has had no access to outside mares, and as Aptos Farm has not raced any horses for years, the Cupids have had little oportunity. However, five of his* get have started in races and all have been winners and secured records below 2:17, They are the trotters Venus II 2: 11 *i. Zambia 2:14%. Psyche 2:16*4, Lottie Parks 2:16% and the pacer Belle Dawson 2:16*4. Among those by Cupid in this sale there are some very high class prospects. A sister to Venus II 2:11*4 is one of them; a picture of her is to be seen on the front page of this paper. Another is a gelding, a full brother to Psyche 2:16*4, whose picture is given READVILLE'S ENTRIES will close Tuesday next. April 10th. There are six stakes with an aggregate of $27,000, and all are to be on the three heat plan, every heat a race. The divisions of the money are all stated in the advertisement which appears in our business columns this week, and horsemen who own trotters or pacers they intend racing over east or sending to the Blue Ribbon sale should enter them in these stakes. The entrance fee is five per cent and there will be nothing additional deducted from money win- ners. BAY GELDING, BROTHER TO PSYCHE 2:16^ herewith. Another is a mare out of Princess Louise by Dexter Prince. A very toppy animal is the four- year-old mare by Cupid out of Lady Ashcat by Aptos Wilkes. This is a great bred one. A five-year-old full sister to the last mentioned is well turned and very level headed with a splendid disposition. She is worth $500 as a family mare, but will develop into a fast trotter. The Dexter Princes are nine in number. All horse breeders know of Dexter Prince, one of the best stallions ever used at Palo Alto Farm, and a horse that added great value to the trotting stock of this State. He has been dead two years, and breeders who obtain fillies by him will secure great brood mares as sure as they put them to breeding. Three of the get of Dexter Prince in the sale are shown on the title page, and here is another one out of Lady BAY MARE BY DEXTER PRINCE-LADY APTOS Aptos that is a high-class trotting mare. The sister to Harold D. 2:11*4 is faster than the latter was with the same work. Mr. Dunlap .who purchased Harold D. for $260 at the .last Aptos sale, sold him for $3200 last fall in Philadelphia, and the horse is expected to beat 2:05 this year. Three head in this sale are by Aptos Wilkes, the very handsome brother to Hulda 2:08%, and two are by Altivo 2:18%. own brother to Palo Alto 2:0S%. The twenty-n>-e head catalogued to be sold have not been trained to show great speed, but as is the cus- tom at Aptos Farm, are simply broken thoroughly and gaited. A dozen of them could be taken to a good mile track and driven to standard records to- morrow and there are several that could beat 2:20. There are seven or eight great prospects in the con- signment, and buyers who want good, sound animals to drive on the road or to race on the tracks, east or west, well bred enough to grace any stock farm in America, should attend this sale on Tuesday even- ing next, at the St. Lawrence Stables. 423 Post street. The horses will be there today and can be looked over. EARLY CLOSING STAKES AT WOODLAND. The Woodland Trotting Meeting, "> be held the week ending August 18th, has announced four early closing stakes as follows: $1000 for trotters eligible to 2:24 class. $1000 for pacers eligible to 2:20 class. $500 for three-year-old trotters of 2:30 class. $500 for three -year-old pacers "f 2r27> class. Entrance " per cenl May 1st, 1 per cent Jun-- 1st. and 1 per cent July 1st. The advertisement with full conditions was received too late for this issue but will appear next weel Woodland will have one of the biggest and best meetings in the history of the track. C. secretary. 4 ®h£ gv&ebsv atib gtp&vt&man [April 7, 1906 §g§£Hi '¥?=: zn "aSSiES i& la sr SSS sr ti Sc3 zr ts SeS sr tei^ss t3S^§3 men who visit the State Fair track at Sacra- mento : the praise of it as a winter it is every bit as good as the winter training;, and dries off As it is a much wider and better appointed it should get to be a very popular training track, as the Pleasanton track y over-crowded all winter. During the year 1905, there were 947 trotters added to the list of standard performers. Of these 161 were out of mares with standard records, while the remain- ing- 7^6 were from mares that have never succeeded in getting their names among the list of heat winners where the time was 2:30 or better. The chestnut stallion. The Hangman 2:26%, full brother to Cresceus 2:02*4, is now at the Ketcham Farm, Toledo. For the past two years he has been doing stud service as the property of Louis Winans of Brighton, England. Hawthorne 2:06% foaled a dead filly by McKinney 2:11% recently. The foal was carried twenty days over the usual time. An offer of $2500 had been made for This filly at weaning time. Dariel 2:00%. holder of the world's record for pac- ing mares has been shipped to Minnesota from Roch- ester, X. Y., to be bred to Dan Patch 1:55%. It is reported that the sensational filly, Sadie Fogg, that trotted a trial at Lexington last fall in 2:09%, will be laid over until 1907 and not raced as a four- year-old. Mr. Joseph Markey. who for the past five years has been a member of the Horse Review staff, has sev- ered his connection with that journal in order to ac- cept a position with Mr. E. E. Gray, of Hinsdale, 111., the well-known broker and dealer in light-harness horses. J. R. Dimmick of irialein, Oregon, owns a two-year- old trotter by Diablo 2:09% that is an excellent pros- pect. The colt is being trained by J. T. Wallace. Mary Lou 2:17. the dam of Budd Doble's great stai-. lion Kinney Lou 2:07%, was mated with Chimes la^t month. Hal D., the son of Brown Hal, owned by Homer Davenport and T. L. Davidson, was burned to death near Salem. Oregon, March 26th. together with five fine brood mares. Mr. Davenport's Arabian stallion was 'he oiih horse saved from the fire. L. B. Lindsay reached Salem last week with Mr. S. S. Bailey's stallion Tidal Wave 2:09 and Ama A 2:10% and Vinnie Mann 2: 11%. Tidal Wave, who is a magnificent son of Nutwood "Wilkes out of an own sister to Coney 2:02 by McKinney, will make the season at Salem. In a business letter to the Breeder and Sportsman Mr. Geo. W. Ford of Santa Ana writes: "We have been having the greatest rainy season seen in this county for years. The feed is simply fine, and we will surely have fat horses this season. If Los Angeles has a spring or fall meeting, Santa Ana will surely be in a three days' meeting the week before. Our (rack is kept in the best condition although there is no regular trainer on the track and has not been for some time, but the farmer boys go down to the track once a week and work out their road horses in 2:2"> 2:30. They will give a meeting on May 1st. At twenty horses are entered in the differ- ent classes. This will be a record meeting and as there are many horses now in training in Southern California which cannot go to the rates, this meeting will give them an opportunity to get records. I don't know of any ' ■ that will be campaigned this in. lien is no trainer here to shape them up. There never was a better opening than Santa Ana affords toda; but tin ' ne that has done 'hing in life I" slmw b ralliei One of the best made geldings in California is the full brother to Psyche 2:16% that will be sold at the Spreckels sale of horses from Aptos Ranch. He is by Cupid 2: IS out of Emma S. by Speculation, sec- ond dam Jenny, the dam of Hulda 2:08%. He is a square trotter and fast for the work he has had. Mr. James Coffin's mare Carrie Malone. dam of Cas- rrle B. 2:18, and own sister to Kla- tawah . s. Derby 2:20, etc.. by Steinway. foaled a strong robust filly by Kinney Lou 2j07% on last month. Mr. William Clay! was In San gran- der with Shreve & tdlng silversmiths the Pa- polo trophy ever is to cost (2500, bi pul put up fi i, ;ii the polo do 1 1 Is probable that ! may compete for ilendid trophy, the will be : bl i H nicks with essfully that breed- a fiord lo overlook the fact. Alta Vela 2:11%, i >er in California, is making the season of 1906 in this city in charge of llson on Twenty-fourth avenue and Fulton ir the Casino. Breed a good mare to /Vita you will surely get a good colt. ii ■ is a royally bred mare, four years old, and Hiie that is fast enough to train for the races. After her racing days are over she is well enough bred to mate with the highest priced stallion in America. She was sired by Cupid 2:18, own brother to Sidney Dillon. Her dam is Princess Louise (trial 2:17 as a three-year-old) by Dexter Prince, second dam' by Echo, sire of the dam of Direct 2:05^4, and third dam a full sister to Venus, the dam of Sidney Dillon. The four-year-old pacing mare by Dexter Prince out of Sunrise II by Gossiper Jr., that is No. 10 in the Aptos Ranch catalogue, is an own sister to Har- old D. 2: 11%. the pacer that Henry Dunlap marked last year over East, sold for $3400 and has gone back to train and drive this year. The filly is faster than her brother with the same work. Seven weeks of continuous racing on the North Pa- cific Circuit this year. There are ten purses of $1000 each, two of §2000 each and a large number of $500 each for harness horses. See circuit advertisement in this issue. Entries close May 15th. Animals, as a rule, should not be offered on the market for sale until they are five years old. Many a small breeder who has a three-year-old filly will find it more profitable to, send her to a good stallion, raise a foal from her when she is four, then after the foal is weaned take her up and fit her for sale as a five- year-old, than he will to let her go barren and sell her when she is but four years old. The foal should pay the cost of service fee and keep of the animal and she will generally bring from $50 to $100 more as a five-year-old than she would in her four-year- old form. The stallion number of the American Horse Breed- er is a very handsome edition of this excellent jour- nal. It was issued March 27th. H. B. Freeman of Sacramento, has returned from Los Angeles, where he has been spending the winter, and is making up a string of horses to train on the State Agricultural Society's track. The chestnut gelding by Dexter Prince out of Calata. dam of Zambia 2:14%. by Stamboul, to be sold at the Aptos Ranch sale, is a high class horse, and a fine trotting prospect. He is No. 3 in the catalogue. The Kentueky Futurity for the foals of mares bred this year has had 1200 mares nominated. This puts $6000 into the stake for a starter. The date set for Butchers' Day this year is Wed- nesday. May 23d. The program of races will soon be announced. Knights of the cleaver are scouring the country for trotters and pacers to win with. Now that the weather is good and the roads dry Alameda county breeders should drive over to the Alameda track and take a look at Geo. Algeo's stal- lion T. C. 2:30 by Nutwood Wilkes. He is one of the best bred ones standing for service in California. Mose Hart has three horses at work at Pleasanton. They are Vic Schillar 2:11% and a full brother and sister, three and four years old respectively, by Nut- wood Wilkes out of a mare by Gaviota, son of Elec- tioneer. All these are trotters and the two young- sters look like great prospects, while Vic Schillar seems i" be better than ever in his life. Greco, son ««f McKinney out of a daughter of the dam of Lou Dillon, comes from champion families on both sides. He is trotting like a 2:10 performer for Chas. De Ryder, and those who wish to breed mares to him should apply right away, as it looks as if Greco would g<> to the races and get the money this year. i o veil bred and grand looking sons of McKinney -•ill1., are in the stud at Vallejo this year. They ure Constructor and Gen. J. B. Frisbie. full brothers. Their first, second and third -lams are a.11 meat brood ma res. The blood of Nutwood Wilkes is ivimuvih-iI the Over. Two mares have been sent from Russia to < dim t" be bred to John A. McKerron 2:n will be most libi i al nn i depi ndfng out; a piopi ranti ed. ive propose '■- hold ■ the ! mount offered, tl III pi ei -Ml and lhe*IItt h that ked of thi ho si ■ and horsi men ivll! make << oi ever: help bold thi old Cl< ■ ■ ai I n line. Tours truly, Sonoma and Marin county breeders have an oppor- tunity to secure the services of an elegantly bred son of the great McKinney in McMyitle, a four-year- old stallion that John Gr'mes has placed in the stud there at the low fee of ?30 the season. McMyrtle is out of a mare by Iran Alto 2:12% (son of Palo Alto 2:0S% and Elaine 2:20), and, his second dam is Nettie Nutwood, dam of that good trotter Hillsdale 2:15, by Nutwood 600. This is a great combination of blood — Wilkes through McKinney 2:11%, Electioneer through Palo Alto 2:08%, and Nutwood, the greatest of brood mare sires, through one of his daughters that has produced a 2:15 trotter. McMyrtle is said to be a very handsome horse and a naturally fast trotter. J. A. Thompson of Berkeley purchased a new Mc- Murray cart from the Kenney Manufacturing Com- pany this week, to drive his Dexter Prince mare in. and his brother, D. C. Thompson, bought one of the same kind to hitch his Mendocino colt to. Frank Wright of Sacramento purchased a royal blue 42-pound cart from the San Francisco Wheel and Novelty Company this week. It is a Houghton and a beauty. Owyho 2:07%, son of Owyhee 2:11 and Bertha by Alcantara is making a season in the stud over east, but will be trained again for the races this year. BONNIE Mc. A Sou of McKinney that will be Raced East this Year APRIL 7, 1906] ®tiv i§veei>ev mx£> §v*»Msmcm BIG MONEY FOR TROTTERS AND PACERS. SENSIBLE FEEDING OF HORSES. CARE OF THE FOAL. The amount of money hung up on the other side of the Rocky Mountains for harness horses this year promises to surpass anything in the history of the trotting turf. The futurity events include the Ken- tucky $14 000 stake, the Hartford $15,000. the Horse Review $10,000, the Kentucky Stock Farm $7,500, and the American Horse Breeder $10,000. In addition to these big futurity events early closing stake races have been announced by several of the larger meet- ings that will amount at an enormous sum. In the West. Hamline will have two $5,000 shtnkes, Milwau- kee probably thn e $5,000, and Libertyville two of a like amount, while the state fairs of Nebraska, Kan- sas Missouri. Illinois, and Indiana, will have a great number of $1,000 purses. The State Fair Association of New York has just announced its earlv closing stakes amounting to a total of $18,000, to be raced for at the grand circuit meeting to be held during the week of September 10 as follows: The Empire State. $10,000, 2:14 class trotting. The Chamber of Commerce, $2,000, 2:09 class trot- ting. The Syracuse, $2,000. 2: OS class pacing. The Lakeside. $2,000, 2:11 class pacing. The Onondaga, $2,000, 2.17 class pacing. The change of the name of the $10,000 stake was due to the fact that this year it is appropriated by the State instead of by the citizens of Syracuse, when it was known as the Syracuse Driving Club stake. Secretary Bentley of Buffalo announces for the an- nual grand circuit meeting: The Preparation. $1,000, for three-year-old trotters; the Lafayette Hotel, S2.000, for 2:16 trotters: the Queen City, $2,000, for 2:07 trotters; the Empire State, $10,000, for 2:10 trot- ters; the Introduction, $1,000. for three-year-old pac- ers; the Iroquois Hotel, $2,000, for 2:16 pacers; the Liquid Veneer. $2,000, for 2:04 pacers, and the Domin- ion of Canada, $5,000. for 2:08 pacers. Poughkeepsie follows Buffalo the week of August 13-17 with a much strongr card than that of 1905. The capital prize is $3,500, the Oakland Baron, for 2:10 trotters. Is'ext in value is the Nelson, $2,000, for 2:08 pacers; then $1,500 for 2:15 and 2:1S trotters, 2:1S and 2:11 pacers, and $1,000 for three-year-old trotters of the 2:30 class. At Readville the next week the following great list of stakes is presented: The Blue Hill, 2:30 class, trotting. $4,500. The Massachusetts, 2:14 class, trotting, $9,000. The Ponkapoag, 2:10 class, trotting, $4,500. The Readville, 2:08 class, trotting, $3,000. The Norfolk, 2: OS class, pacing, $3,000. The Xeponset, 2:06 class, pacing. $3,000. For the Columbus grand circuit meeting $10,000 is offered for the 2:18 trotters, $5 000 for the 2:15 pacers, and $3,000 each for 2:09 trotters and 2:07 pacers. While matters are yet in rather an indefinite shape at Cincinnati and Detroit, the $10,000 Ohio stake for 2:09 trotters and the $10,000 M. and M. for 2:24 trot- ters will undoubtedly be given as usual. At Cleveland there is some doubt as to whether a meeting will be given, but an effort is being made to secure a subscription from the citizens large enough to insure the promoters against loss— as no betting can be done there. About $18,000 is rung up in purses and stakes for the three weeks' Overland Park (Denver, Colo.) meet- ing, scheduled for June 16 to July 7. These are the 2-20 trot purse $2,000; three-year-old pace, $500; 2:20 pace, $2,000; $2:09 pace, $1,000; 2:24 trot, $3,000: three-year-old trot, $500; 2:13 pace, $1,500, and 2:30 trot, $1,000. The Montana Fair racing circuit hangs up $125,000 in stakes and purses, while the good little half-mile circuit known as the Cedar Valley, in Iowa, will hang up $30,000. The North Pacific Circuit, comprising tracks in Oregon, Washington and Idaho, has advertised $50,000 worth of purses. The California circuit is expected to be of about six or seven weeks' duration with at least $30,000 to trot and pace for, and perhaps more. Altogether it looks as if there will be plenty of opportunities for harness horsemen to make a little money this season, judging by these rich purses, and these are not all, by any means, being simply a hastily prepared summary of the earlier closing events already announced. o HOBBLES NOT BARRED AT READVILLE. \t the last congress of the National Trotting Asso- ciafon the rule barring hobbled horses from com- petition in races was repealed, hence the Readville Association omitted from its conditions the usual clause stating that the hobble rule would not be en- forced. Hobbled horses will not be barred at Read- ville or elsewhere, this year. H. A. WATTERSON, Contractor. Cleveland, Ohio. Troy Chemical Co.. Binghamlon. N. Y. .,,«„„ Dear Sirs: Your "Save-the-Horse" is the best thing I ever used I had a trotter, and the best talent in the country pronounced him worthless. He had two bone -Bavins, so sore and lame it was impossible to trot a mile. I used Save-the-Horse according to directions, and drove him every day. , ,,„„ __,. H» afterwards took a matinee record of 2:13* and was a very consistent race horse; his legs did not seem to bother him in the least. I. got $400 more for the horse than I paid. Respectfully yours, H. A. \V Al 1 tirtb'-JA. ' Monterey 2:09%, sire of Irish 2:08%, will have one or two more 2:10 performers this year if they start. We hear of several by this son of Sidney that are trotting like future money winners. Monterey is standing at the moderate fee of $50 for the season and his time is divided between San Lorenzo and Alameda, "Write to P. J. Williams, his owner, at San Lorenzo, for pedigree. On this topic in reply to a query, the Micl Farmer has the following sensible suggestions: It is impossible to lay down any hard ami fast rule about the feeding of horses, since it is a kind of work which requires a vast amount of skill on the part of the feeder. It is a well-known fact that given the same amount of feed and the same amount of work to accomplish with a team, one groom will have his horses fat and sleek, while those used by another will look only ordinary or even positively bad. Other things being equal, however, the kind and amount of feed makes a difference in the results, and in the growing of horses, the results depend very largely upon the proper nutrition of the foal from the time it is dropped until maturity is reached. Of course the work which the brood mare is required to do and the condition which she is in enter into the problem of feeding her during the period of ges- tation. Touching the problems as a whole, Professor Henry says: "While in foal the mare does not necessarily re- quire food different in quality from that fed at other times, but the quantity should be somewhat larger, all conditions being equal. Those used for breeding purposes only will do well without grain when on nutritious pasture, but if the grass is insufficient, some additional feed in the shape of grain should be given. Working mares are more sure of bringing good foals than those idle in .pasture, providing judgment is used in handling and feeding. They should be worked with regularity, the labor never being severe or taxing, nor should the nature of the work ever be such as to make long intervals between feeds, for then great hunger may be followed by surfeiting. Idleness is the bane of horses' rearing and should be avoided whenever possible. To place the mare in a box-stall and confine her there without suitable exer- cise, while supplied an abundance of feed, is to adopt a practice only too common and one carrying large risk. Abundance of exercise must always go with liberal feeding. "As to the kind of feed for the mare in foal, oats lead, j'et shorts and bran may be fed with economy and beneficial results; mashes can be given occa- sionally, and where possible cooked feed may be sup- plied at night, three times a week. Through the use of proper foods the bowels will be kept in a natural condition, and should be a little loose rather than otherwise at times of parturition." While it is important to feed the mare well enough to insure a maximum flow of milk for the foal, yet it is important that the foal be kept growing to his limit by the feeding of some supplementary ration if necessary. When this practice is resorted to in the pasture, the method described by Splan, who is an authority on the care and development of trotting bred horses, is as good as any and is given as follows: "With the colts all out to grass and doing well, it is time to separate the oldest of them from the young- est and commence feeding them grain, which is done in this way: Build a pen in some suitable place, which is the most convenient, making it high enough so that the mares will not try to jump it, and have the space from the ground to the bottom rail or board sufficient to allow the foal to pass under. Put in a handy gate or bars, then an ample feed trough. Lead your mares and foals singly into this enclosure and let them eat together two or three times and they will soon learn where the food is. Take out the mares, shut up the gate, leave the colts in. Keep a good supply of oats there, and you will find the foals there regularly, running in and out, getting their rations. To induce the dam to loiter about this place, keep a large lump of rock salt near it and occasionally a mess of oats, and there is no further trouble. In this way, at wean- ing time, which is at the age of five months, the colts have learned to eat, and the result is that when they are taken away from their dams they do not miss them so much. "Now we put on the halters and keep them on, leading the foals more or less while weaning them. Leave them in their boxes, two or three together, several days, and have the boxes open into a nice grass paddock. Let them run out and in, give them oats mixed with bran and sorghum cut up fine, and in a few days more turn them out in the fields, away from their dams, where there is plenty of grass and water, and a large trough with feed in it constantly. They have been in th habit of taking milk a great many times a day, and they need food just as often. The best way is to keep plenty of mixed food for them, using cracked corn and oats, also unthrashed oats run through a cutting-box. then mixed with bran and water enough to moisten it to make the bran adhere to the oats. "A fair allowance of grain for the colt, measured in oats, is as follows: "Up to one year of age, from 2 to 3 lbs. "From one to two years of age, 4 to 5 lbs. "From two to three years of age, 7 to S lbs. "While an ample allowance of such roughage as hay. straw and stover should be supplied, it should always be less than the animal would eat had it free access to this provender. The colt, like the mature horse, should not be allowed all the roughage it can consume, for such oversupply tends to gorge the digestive tract with inert matter, and may work last- ing injury. "Liberal feeding must be counterbalanced by an abundance of outdoor exercise. In no other way can colts be ruined so surely and so permanently as by liberal feeding and close confinement. Each day from three to ten hours should be spent In the open air, according to the conditions of the weather and other circumstances." The instant the foal has been delivered see that the membranes, by which it is enveloped, are broken, so that the youngster can breathe, then if the dam is disposed to give it proper attention leave the foal to her care but have an attendant near by; watch them closely, unobserved by the mare, until the foal gets on its feet or makes an effort to do so, says the Horse Breeder. If the foal be strong and healths it will soon attempt to take nourishment, but the first efforts will probably be extremely awkward and un- successful. In some cases the assistance of one or two attendants may be required to enable the foal to -■ '■ its first meal. The next important matter is to see that the bowels (or rectum) are evacuated. Should there be symp- toms of constipation inject, per rectum, by means of a family rubber bulb syringe, a gill of Iuke-warm water with which two great spoonfuls of glycerine or sweet oil has been mixed. Glycerine mixes more readily with water than does sweet oil, but either is good. If neither oil nor glycerine is at hand, clear water alone will answer. In giving the injection u=e only sufficient pressure on the bulb to throw the liquid up to the obstruction, which will require but little force. Should the first injection not produce the desired result in one hour, give another, using a half pint of water and continue doing so at intervals of one hour until the desired result is obtained. See that the mare has the best quality of food, and it is also advisable to 'take the chill' from her drinking water for a day or two. ALL OFF WITH GLENVILLE TRACK. The racing bill having been defeated in the Ohio Legislature, there will be no racing at the famous Glenville track at Cleveland this year. Vice-President W. G. Pollock, of the Cleveland Driving Club, in an interview after the defeat of the bill, said: "The defeat of the pool selling bill ends racing for Cleveland. At our annual meeting in April we will wind up the affairs of the company and make the necessary arrangements to cut the park up into building lots. I can't think of any other use it can be put to. I don't see how the matinees can be ex- pected to support the track, so everything in the fast horse line in Cleveland will be called off." H. K. Devereux's comment was: "It means the end of the track, and also an end to matinee racing. It is an impossibility to keep such a valuable plant in operation without some revenue -coming in, and it is equally impossible to hold a race meeting unless pools can be sold. It is all off with the Glenville track, and the place where the kings and queens of the harness world once held sway will soon be dotted over with dwellings." ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. SOUTHERN OREGONIAN— Queen Wilkes, the dam of Dexter Princess 2:24*4, "was by Mambrino Wilkes 60S3, out of the Stowe mare by Ned. D. S. M., Ryde, Cal. — Hattie W, bay mare, 16 hands, foaled 1SS3, is by Alaska 14,429, son of Elec- tioneer. Her dam is Sallie Coward by May Boy, son of John Nelson, second dam Young Mollie by Toung Lodi. son of Lodi. third dam Old Mollie by St. Clair. The dam of Alaska was Lucy by Washington, son of Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31. N. D. Dutcher, Santa Cruz. — Bay Frank 2:20 was bred by D. Grover of Santa Cruz. His sire was Tor- nado 2417, son of Index, he by Keokuk 546. The dam of Tornado was said to be by Black Warrior. John Quinn of Santa Rosa has quite a large string of horses at Pleasanton track, but like all the rest of the trainers has not been able to do much fast work owing to the long continued rainy spell. In his string are Nellie R. 2: 10, owned by Long Bros.; a two-year-old Sidney Dillon, owned by Dr. Summerfield, who has already trotted a quarter in 40 seconds; Dr. J. W. Jesse's pacing filly that can pace better than a 2:20 gait; R. W. Peterson's trotter. R. W. P., that has worked a mile in 2:13, and is a promise as a money getter the coming season; H. B. Smith's mare, Ayeress, another green trotter, who can show a two- minute gait: Robert Duncan's green pacer, that has shown a mile in 2:16; a pacer and trotter owned by Dr. Felt, that will be raced this year. There are thirteen classes for trotters at the Boston Horse Show, with the first prize in each J100. The veteran trainer Charles Marvin has eighteen head of horses in his stables at Lexington, Ky. Crescent Route 2:08%, by Cresceus. has been sent to Harrle Jones, the Rushvllle, Ind., trainer. TBI SB. CBATTS REMEDY. li is a matter of good judgment and good business to he able to handle promptly and effectively the ailments of stock. It is particularly important to be able to treat the class of Infectious and ca1 irrhal dis- eases which include distemper, colds, rough, eplz grippe, pinkeye, etc, No class of stock diseases causes greater trouble or loss. Dr. Craft's Distemper and Cough Cure, which Is ad- vertised regularly In this journal, has for years been put out under a positive guarantee to prevent and cure these diseases — to prevent them If used early enough, to promptly cure in any case. It has been sold so long and used so widely as to leave no doubt as to its merit. Tt will pay to have on hand for emergency. If you will drop a card to the proprietors, they will send you free their valuable pamphlet, "Veterinary Pointers." Address Wells Medicine Co,, 13 Third St., Lafayette, Ind. o ' rin n hot day drink Jackson's Napa Soda lemonad** and he refreshed. 8 ©He gveebev anl* gpcxtetnmt [APRIL 7, 1906 SECRETARY FILCHER HAS IDEAS. Mr. J. A. Filcher, the new secretary of the California State Agricultural Society, was interviewed last week and asked as to what his policy in the office would be and replied as follows: "My idea Is that the first thing to do is to leave the very efficient assistant secretary in the office to attend to its affairs and start out on a campaign of the whole State to present to the commercial and agricultural and all affiliated interests the claims of the State Fair; to induce the people, from San Diego to tht- extreme north, to awake to realization that the State Fair is theirs; to get them to make exhibits and to attend the fair— people always follow their exhibits. I would have every section make exhibits of those things peculiarly representative of them, from mining to stock-raising, from mechanics to forestry, from dairying to commerce, and so on. "I believe that the fair should be presented to them delocalized and as an institution of the State as val- uable to the people as it should be of interest ana information to the visitors to the State. Even if there were none of the latter, still I claim the fair is of inestimable value to the people as a means of ac- quaintance with the resources of the State, concern- ing: which there is not that full understanding and mutuality of concern that there should be. "I would have the people understand that the fair is to enter upon a new era, all the past mistakes and lailures being wiped out, so to speak, and a new- beginning made. If one county can be interested deeply by such a pilgrimage, another can, and so on until a sense of pride and a spirit of honest emula- tion is enkindled all over the State. "Then after the fair I would seek to find out what is being done in advance in experiment and in dis- covery and publish it in a monthly bulletin to be issued under authority of the society, and through the press sent among the people. Thus, if a man has succeeded in a particular branch of culture of twenty acres, the facts and conditions under which he at- tained the end should be given to all the people In such bulletins. Then I would have the statistics re- quired to be gathered, collated, and with fair deduc- tions published fully throughout the State. I would want to have the society come into close touch with the educational institutions, and especially the State University, in its relation to agriculture and all its affiliated industries and developments. "In this brief way my idea may be outlined, though it needs greater elaboration. I realize that it is a heroic task I undertake, but it can be accomplished. I will have a great deal to learn about the business, I know, but feel that I can grasp it. "The board meets on the 11th of April, and then I shall lay the plans I have in view before it, and if they meet the views of the board I will go to work. I shall, of course, subject my ideas to modifications or amplifications which the board may see fit to suggest. In the meantime I will go over the affairs of the society, familiarize myself with them, and prob- ably will receive much enlightenment that may prove of higher practical value than the views- I now enter- tain." GRANDAM OF JAY BIRD. During my many years' experience with horses I have met with some very pronounced cases of won- derful intelligence, some of them very interesting. One of the most interesting cases was that of the old roan mare Lady Franklin, grandam of Jay Bird, sire of Allerton 2:09%. She was the most intelligent and one of the most peculiar horses I ever came across. Her full history was published in the Breeder some five of six years ago, yet there are some facts con- nected with the mare that have never been pub- lishd. Lady Franklin was sired by Esty's Black Hawk, he by Vermont Black Hawk, her dam being Lady Ellen by Sherman's Black Hawk. She commenced her career on the turf on Long Island in 1854, trot- ting races against Flora Temple. Miller's Damsel. Chicago Jack and other first class horses. All her races trotted previous to 1863 and after 1864 are re- ported in Chester's Trotting Manual. Some five or six races which she trotted in the South during the Civil War are not reported in that work. I purchased the mare of Charles Logan, at Co- lumbia. S. C, the spring of 1863, and took her to Montgomery, Ala., where I was engaged In business connected with stage and transfer lines. The mare was then sixteen years old. From the first I found that she was a very peculiar mare in many ways. She often reminded me of a natural "old maid." She had some of the most singular traits that I ever saw In a horse. She was like a regular recluse. She would never tolerate a stranger around her, yet a fe- male or child could do anything with her. My little boy three years old was missed one day. He could not be found high or low. After a long search one of the men passing the mare's stall saw the little fellow lying asleep in the the corner. The old mare would allow no one to go into the stall to get the child until I came after him. Although the mare was in South Carolina, a slave stale, and was raised in New Hampshire, a free-soil state, a negro couldn't get tvithln six feet of her. She would drive a darkey out of her stall with teeth and toe nails. I was always obliged to have a white man care for her. With a strange man behind her for a driver she would sulk and dp nee a "can-can." In ,'.11 her twenty-five or thirty years she was driven by only two drivers. Hiram Woodruff and my- self. She trotted her last race before I purchased her £ r.g Island In 1868. She was never on a track hat time until 1863, when I took her to the Montgomery to prepare her for her two-mile Aj Boon as she struck the track she became nervous and got off her feed. For four days she wouldn't eat three quarts of grain a day. She knew there was to be a race for her, and it upset her. Three days before the race I took her into her box in town, stripped off all the blankets and turned her loose. At once she cooled down and commenced eating like a dog, thinking the race was over. I never took her to the track or gave her any track work until the day she was to trot her race. Her two-mile race at Montgomery, Ala., October, 1863, was one of the most remarkable races trotted in those days, forty-three years ago. She won the first heat by a throat-latch in 5:06. The second heat the two mares were head and head during the whole two miles, the heat being a dead one in 5:05Mr- The third heat was a perfect fac-simile of the second until twenty yards from the wire, when with a supreme ef- fort the grand old mare stuck her nose over the core, a throat-latch ahead, in 5:05. I took the old mare to Cincinnati, where I trotted her in five or six races. Having no home for her, it was with reluctance that I parted with her to Charles Ligget, who had a fine stock farm at Glendale, Ohio, with the written understanding that she should never have another strap of harness on her as long as she lived. She had a good home. Lady Franklin was bred to Mambrlno Star, he by Mambrino Chief, and she produced three foals, Cottage Girl 2:28, trial 2:14; Glandale Maid, never trained, and Lady Frank, dam of Jay Bird, sire of Allerton 2:09%. Lady Frank was foaled May, 1874. I parted with Lady Franklin, No- vember, 1864. Eight years after, 1872, I went to Glen- dale for the express purpose of seeing the old mare once more. When I reached the place I was informed that old Lady Franklin had gone blind; that she woul4 tolerate no one around excepting her regular attendant, and that she had become very vicious. I went to her box, opened the door. She was standing over in a far corner of her stall. I called her by her pet name, "Carrie." In a flash the poor old mare pricked up her ears and felt her way to me, and rubbed her nose on my face, and as plainly as any animal could say it said, "I know you, old friend." She knew me after a separation of eight years. What wonder the tears ran down my cheeks like rain at sight of the old mare, yet she had as good a home and as good care as I could give her. Lady Franklin died May, 1875. I visited her grave in 1877, and I broke her daughter, Lady Frank, dam of Jay Bird, that spring, and drove her in a three- year-old race at Hamilton County Fair, October, 1877. Seven horses started in that race, among the num- ber being Maud S. 2:08%. It was the first race that the latter started in. She won the race in 2:37%, 2:37. All of Lady Franklin's foals inherited her charac- teristics, not one of the characteristics of their sire, Mambrino Star, being transmitted to them. Lady Frank was a perfect image of her dam in conforma- tion, color, and she inherited all the good qualities and these qualities she transmitted to her son Jay Bird and he transmitted his good qualities to his progeny. Three-fourths of his get were roans. Allerton in- herits the characteristics of his sire Jay Bird, and has his formation, excepting his color, which is brown. I had a headstone placed over Lady Franklin's last resting place with the inscription: Lady Franklin, Foaled 1848. Died 1875. A Faithful Servant and Friend. — G. P. Floyd in Horse Breeder. back to 1712 in the time of the Emperor Peter the Great; who was struck by the excellence of the mares and sent Dutch stallions into that locality. Since then the breed has been perpetuated most carefully so that true types are now the rule. The village of Shukavka, where these horses are bred, is right in the center of Count Orloff s property at Khrenovoy. Count Orloff's fast trotters were trained by short brushes — four turns over a course of 1400 feet, the turning about being done at a walk, then the horse sent into a stride quickly. To develop endurance the horses were generally driven by the Count him- self to Ostrov, a village twelve miles from Moscow. In front of his Moscow mansion the Count had built a race course, a little over a quarter of a mile, the ends of which were marked by four jawbones of whales. Old-timers allege that the Count's trotters used to make this distance in less than thirty sec- onds, and they remember that a servant used to hold up a timepiece the size of a soup plate. Horse after horse was raced along this short stretch to sleigh or drosky. THE RUSSIAN ORLOFFS. It has become quite customary in America to speak of all Russian horses as of the Orloff breed. Of course this is an error. Russian horses are of several strains, and bred for a variety of purposes. The Orloff strain owes its popularity and general excel- lence to the untiring efforts of Count Alexis Orloff- Tchestmensky. The Count was a remarkable man and came of a noble family. His mental power and energy were tremendous. He was a successful gen- eral and statesmen and did much to promote the interests of his country. His especial delight was the improvement of horses and dogs. He picked every horse in his stud personally, wrote their pedigrees in his own hand, and by the most careful system of mating produced a race of horses which have be- come famous the world over for endurance and dis- tinctive character. The Count recognized the Arab as ideal, but bred from it to adapt the progeny to the requirements of European life, increasing the size of body, strengthen- ing Its muscles and increasing its coat so that it could withstand the rigorous climate of Russia. His idea was to retain "its general beauty, nobleness and en- ergy. He first mated the pure bred Arab Smetanka with a large-boned Danish mare, thus producing the horse Polkan 1st, of larger frame than its sire. This Polkan was mated with a large Dutch mare, which breed at that time was celebrated for its trotting qualities, and the product of this cross was Barass 1st, ;m elegant trotter from which the whole Orloff breed originated. The Count then introduced English thoroughbred blood, producing light and heavy trot- ters. These combinations of blood were only decided upon after prolonged experimenting with rich ma- terial the Count had in his stud from as far back as 1772, three years before he owned Smetanka. In his complete stud were Arabs, Persians, Turkish horses, Armenians, Bulgarians, Caucasian, English, Dutch, Danish, Mecklenburg, Spanish, Neapolitan, Polish, Ukraine and Crimean horses. The Russian horse of the Orloff type includes the well turned saddle class, the Orloff race horse and the Russo-Arab horse. The Russian light draft horse, or Bltlug, is produced In the provinces of Tambov and Vorenej, near the river Bltiug. Its origin dates A COMMENDABLE LAW. A bill intended to abolish the cruel trade in broken down horses has been signed by the Governor of Massachusetts and is now a law, going into effect April 21. Its provisions are as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person hold- ing an auctioneer's license to receive or offer for sale or to sell at public auction any horse wrhich by reason of debility, disease or lameness, or for other cause, could not be worked in this Commonwealth without violating the laws against cruelty to animals. Section 2. It shall be unlawful for any person to lead, ride or drive on any public way, for any purpose except that of conveying the animal to a proper place for its humane keeping or killing, or for medical or surgical treatment, any horse which, by reason of debility, disease or lameness, or for other cause, could not be wrorked in this commonwealth without violat- ing the laws against cruelty to animals. Section 3. Any licensed auctioneer violating any provision of this act shall forfeit his license, and any person violating any provision of this act shall be punished by a fine of not less than five nor more than one hundred dollars, or by imprisonment for not less than six months. A similar law in every State would be a boon to the horses which, through one cause or another, fall into the hands of the "hawkers" of horses commonly called "plugs." WELCH'S PLAN. Andy Welch, says a Cincinnati paper, came West on several missions. One was to renew the lease of the grounds at Oakley Park to the Losantiville Golf Club, and another was to get a trainer for his five- year-old trotting stallion Vice Commodore. He secured George Hayes of Lexington to do this, and the well-bred horse will be campaigned this fall. Mr. Welch thinks that this will be a great year for harness racing sport. "I expect a big entry list to the Charter Oak $10,000 Stake, and many owners will take a chance at the handicap entrance fee," he said. "I expect sixty entries to the stake, and it will take that number to break even, as no percentage will be taken from the winners. The plan of three heats, each of a mile, has won out, and it will be used at Readville and Providence, and, of course, at Hart- ford. It was abandoned last year, as the horsemen insisted on having uniform racing. As to the stakes for the Oakley meeting, that is a matter that has not been decided. We will wait and see how the owners take to the Charter Oak plan. I have made arrange- ments to get the Oakley track in shape beginning on the first of the month, as many trainers have applied for stable room there and intend to do all their train- ing there. A matinee club will also hold races there once a month. We will secure a good man to take charge of the track." COLORADO CIRCUIT. The Fort Collins, Colo., horsemen entertained repre- sentatives of the Northern Colorado Racing Circuit, ten in number, at The Northern, March 19, at which time officers were elected as follows for the Northern Colorado Circuit: President — W. J. Gallegan, Loveland. Vice-President — A. L. Camp. Jr., Greeley. Secretary and Treasurer — H. A. Galbraith, Fort Collins. Dates were arranged as follows: Greeley, August 23, 24, 25; Longmont, August 30, 31; Loveland. Sep- tember 3, 4, 5: Fort Collins, September 12, 13, 14; Brighton, October 2, 3. 4, with Laramie and Douglas, of Wyoming, filling out the last two weeks of Sep- tember, making seven weeks racing in all. This was a very interesting circuit last year, and, with the addition of the Wyoming meetings men- tioned, will be a strong one this year.— READVILLE'S GRAND CIRCUIT, AUG. 20-25. By some inadvertence the dates of the Readville Grand Circuit Meeting was omitted from the adver- tisement now appearing In this paper. Most people would know anyway, but for the benefit of any who may not, we will state that the big Readville Meet begins on Monday, August 20 and continues through five days. The Dexter Prince mare owned by Jos. Columbet of San Jose, foaled a colt a few days since by Galindo, the son of- McKlnney 2:11% shipped to New Mexico last week. This is Galindo's first colt and Is a fine, strong, lusty fellow, a natural trotter, and a credit to his young sire. APKIL 7, 1906J ©tte gvee&ev cm& gtpovtstnan 9 lfj THOROUGHBRED DEPARTMENT, ijj fc\y By RALPH H. TOZEB, SjAl ffi EMil The best horses of Barney Schreiber, including the wonderful Dr. Gardner, were sent to Memphis late last week, and if they ship safely the Doctor will almost surely win the Tennessee Derby and the other big two-year-old fixtures at the Tennessee metropolis. Schreiber says St. Louis is growing so rapidly that it is only the question of a few years when his "Woodland's farm at Bridgeton will be so valuable he will probably realize ah immense sum for the domain of 800 acres in the beautiful Florissant Valley (one of the loveliest spots in the w-orld). He will then take Horace Greeley's advice, "Go West; young man, and grow up with the country," though his western trip will be only into the interior of Missouri, perhaps twenty-five or fifty miles, where the blue grass is as plentiful as in Kentucky's most famed region. The genial Don Bernardo expects to race on a large scale every season in California, and annually leaves in California those horses not con- sidered good enough for the Eastern campaign and also the cripples of the stable, therefore it is possible he will lease or buy a farm not far from San Fran- cisco for this purpose, but he is a firm believer in Missouri's excellence as a breeding ground, and would not exchange for a farm in Kentucky, nor for one in this State. In Bannockburn Schreiber has a young stallion that threatens to become America's premier sire within the next three years, judging by the phe- nomenal performances of Dr. Gardner and Horace E., undoubtedly in the first flight of horses three and two years of age respectively. Bannockburn "fig- ures" to be a great sire. He is in the first place a magnificent individual of good size, he had speed and lung and heart power that enabled him to win at the longer distances run in his day as well as at the shorter. His sire, Hayden Edwards, was perhaps the most successful of Prince Charlie's sons at the stud in America, opportunity considered. I am counting those bred in America when I make this assertion, for Hayden Edwards hardly surpassed imp. Pirate of Penzance or imp. Wagner as a getter of superior performers, though he was better than Salvator or Autocrat. The dam of Bannockburn was Bettie Blaise, by imp. St.- Blaise, whose sons and daughters have won something like $1,100 000 on the American turf, and St. Blaise, a Derby-winner, was premier sire of this country once or twice. On the sire's side Bannockburn traces straightaway to the unbeaten Eclipse without a break in the success chain as fol- lows: Hayden Edwards, Prince Charlie Blair Athol, Stockwell, The Baron, Irish Birdcatcher, Sir Her- cules, Whalebone, Waxy, Pot-8-os. Eclipse. Hayden Edwards' dam was Nannie Bay, by imp. Glenelg, who was premier sire of America twice, if memory serves, and would have been famous had he begotten but Firenzi and Los Angeles. Glenelg was by the good sire Citadel, son of Stockwell, thence traces to Eclipse without a flaw in the chain. Nannie Bay's dam was by the premier sire, Lexington, greatest of all Amer- ican bred stallions of all time, while her dam was Tokay, an extra good producer by the top-notch sire, imp. Yorkshire, next dam the famous Miss Martin, by Garrison's Zinganee. On the dam's side Bannock- burn is bred on just as successful lines. Bettie Blaise, his mother, is spoken of above. She was by St. Blaise, Derby-winner, he by Hermit, Derby-winner and several times England's leading sire, with a stal- lion service fee as high as $3,000 at one time. Hermit was by Newmlnster, several times England's premier stallion, he by another premier, Touchstone, then the great sires and racers, Camel. Whalebone, Waxy, Pot-8-os, Eclipse. St. Blaise's dam was by Marsyas (sire of the Derby-winner, George Frederick, and of Albert Victor as well), he by Orlando (many times premier sire of England and close to the top longer than any horse in stud history). Then come crosses in St. Blaise of Gladiator (second in the Derby and sire of Queen Mary and Sweetmeat in England as well as a host of winners in France). Bettie M., second dam of Bannockburn, was by imp. Saunterer, a horse that lived but a short time in this country, I be- lieve, and had but few to represent him on the track or in the stud. He was a son of the great cup horse Saunterer and a grandson of Irish Birdcatcher, while imp. Saunterer's dam was Tested, by Touch- stone. The third dam of Schreiber's great stallion was Lida Gaines, by War Dance, the greatest sire of good racing and producing mares of his time in this country, as was his sire, Lexington, before him. Then comes Gossip, by Lightning (another son of Lexing- ton) and Gossamer, by imp. Glencoe, a premier sire in this country. The beauty about the pedigree of Ban- nockburn Is the large number of successful sires that figure In the tabulation in the first five removes, while his first twelve or thirteen dams were producers of great note. In short, Bannockburn is bred on as nearly perfect lines, according to my theory, as a horse could be, is a magnificent individual, and was a race horse of rare speed and plenty of stamina. I am writing a book on breeding that will set forth all my views on this subject, and while It may, like the Lowe plan, be called "a system," it will be nothing like as hard to understand as Is the work of the late Australian. * • • The Emeryville stewards have done some good work of late and I feel pleased over It, because attention was called to the zlgzaggy running of the animals (Ralbert and Briers) in this journal on more than one occasion. Their entries have been refused on account of inconsistent running. Saturday action was taken in. the Ralbert case and Monday It was decided to refuse Briers' entry in future. The owners of these animals can consider themselves extremely lucky that they were not ruled off the turf, for the running of late of Ralbert and Briers has never been beaten for inconsistency. * * * Jockey Robinson has a great following these days and the prices on horses he rides is materially les- sened when compared with the prices when ridden by other boys. W. Miller is doing the best riding at Bennings, as he did at Los Angeles. Last Monday he piloted three winners. John Schorr, the Memphis brewer, has offered J. O. Keene $20,000 for his con- tract on Radtke, but this did not tempt the Kentucky turfman, and the best he can hope for is first call on the clever Chicago lad's services. This is one season when no "phenom" has been developed in the riding line in this part of the world. Last season W. Davis made his mark and previous to that E. Welch, W. Knapp, Buchanan, Eugene Hildebrand. Redfern, Jay Ransch. Bullman, J. Martin, Piggott, Jenkins Tod Sloan, Spencer, "Skeets" Martin and Clawson made their first great "reputations" in the land by the sunset sea, further enhancing them at the East and in foreign lands. "Patsy" Duffy and Cy. Holloway, many years ago, made the beginning of their great fame in California, while Isaac Murphy, Hamilton and Eddie West, famous colored pilots all, helped their "reps" materially through riding the Baldwin and Haggin horses in the Middle West and far East. * * * Weber and Co. shipped their strings to New York last Monday afternoon. It includes the grand looking Sombrero colt, George S. Davis, for which they paid $5,000 to Harry Storer. The Himyar stallion. Him- self, a great horse a few seasons ago, was left behind, and I am commissioned to sell him to any breeder desiring a horse of royal breeding coupled with excel- Inet conformation and first-class racing reputation. He ran six furlongs in 1:12%, a mile in 1:39 and one mile and a quarter miles in 2:06, defeated the best horses in training in this country, and was intended for Rancho del Paso Stud, John Mackey being in love with the horse and last summer getting the Japanese government's representatives (which had purchased him) to take a half-brother to Dick and Ort Wells in exchange for Himself. Domino, Plaudit and Fara- day, sons of Himyar, all greatly distinguished them- selves at the stud, and doubtless Himself will also, if the opportunity presents itself. This is the best line of Touchstone in America, in fact except through St. Blaise and his sons it is about the only line of it in this country. The very speediest animals in Amer- ica came from the Himyar, Alarm, imp. Eclipse brand of the Touchstone family. * * * There arrived last week at Bakersfield from the Del Paso ranch at Sacramento thirteen carloads of blooded horses, which were unloaded at Kern and taken at once to the Stockdale ranch. The shipment, was made directly under the supervision of Superin- tendent Jastro, and included many of the finest horses on the famous northern breeding farm. In the thir- teen cars there were 137 mares and colts, 151 colts and fillies and three stallions. The shipment to Kern county means that blooded horses will be raised at the company's Stockdale ranch on a more extensive scale than before. — Bakersfield Californian. * * * ADD THOROUGHBRED DEPT Eureka is in line to have a running meet, with plenty of horses, good sized purses, regular book- makers and all the rest of the accessories. It will take place about the Fourth of July and will be under the auspices of the Stablemen's Union. The union, at Its own expense, recently sent one of Its members, John Haddican, to San Francisco, to see what could be done in the matter of inducing the owners of horses to send the animals to Eureka. The greatest kind of encouragement was received, and after re- ceiving the report of Mr. Haddican It is the plan of the Stablemen's Union to pull off a meet during the week of July Fourth. There will be four days of racing. WHAT SOUNDNESS MEANS. A satisfactory definition of sound or soundness is not easily given. There is no other word that con- veys quite the same meaning. A person is said to have a sound body, or an organ is said to be sound when it is healthy. The term as it applies to the horse includes a little more. The horse is sound when he is healthy, and when his conformation Is such that he has not had and is not likely to have any tendency to any particular disease. The term "sound" as used by veterinarians and dealers is often loosely construed. It may mean anything from free- dom from lameness or not windbroken; to an appar- ently healthy condition at the time of examination. There is no fixed technical or legal definition that Is uniformly recognized. The English definition of un- soundness, while defective In that it is wholly based upon the usefulness of the animal. Is one worthy of being repeated, and is as follows: "Any disease, or alteration or structure from disease or accident, which does interfere or may In its ordinary course interfere with the animal's usefulness Is unsoundness, and furthermore, slightness of disease or facility of cure. Is no qualification as regards such unsoundness." An animal which may have had diseases that have been cured, or may have some disease at the time of examination that does not interfere with his use- fulness for some purposes, Is then said to be "ser- viceably sound." In some places "servlceably sound" refers only to wind. A vice Is not necessarily unsoundness, but some of them lead to unsoundness, and may therefore be con- sidered as part of the examination In the selection of an anlroal. Vices are such traits of character or such habits as have the tendency to produce disease, or to lessen the usefulness, mar the appearance, interfere with or make dangerous the handling, or cause the destruction of property. Before examining the horse, the purchaser should decide upon the character of the service for which the animal is intended, whether for slow draft, heavy or light harness, saddle or combination. The class or type, size, age, gait, sex and color should be approximately settled. Ample time should be taken in the selection of a horse. This can usually be done when the animal is obtained from the dealer or producer, but seldom allowable at public sales or sales stables. At a public sale the horse is sold as sound, "serviceably sound." or at the "end of the halter." When the horse is sold as sound, the purchaser has the privilege of returning the animal if found to be otherwise within ;l day or two. If sold as "serviceably sound," the term applies merely to wind and the ability to do work. In some cases the special disability is mentioned. If sold at the "end of the halter," the purchaser takes all the chances on the number and character cf the diseases that may be present. SMATHERS FILES HIS ANSWER. New York. March 26. — Elmer E. Smathers has, through his attorney, John J. Adams, served an an- swer to the charges that he did not win the Memphis Gold Cup in an honorable manner. In the answer the allegations in the complaint are denied, and for a further, separate and distinct de- fense Mr. Smathers sets up the following: "That the Memphis Gold Cup, mentioned and re- ferred to in the plaintiff's complaint, was offered as a prize or trophy for free-for-all trotters to wagon, driven Tay amateur drivers, at the Memphis Trotting Track, near Memphis, Tenn., in 1902. That the said cup was offered upon certain terms and conditions, made and published, and, among others, the condi- tion that it was to be annually contested for at the annual meeting of the Memphis Trotting Association until twice won by the same driving club, and when so to become the property of such club. "That in the annual contest therefor in the year 1902, defendant, representing the New York Driving Club, won with Lord Derby. That in 1903 C. K. O. Billings,, representing, or pretending to represent the Memphis Driving Club, and driving the mare Lou Dillon, won the said contest. That in the year 1901 the defendant, driving the horse Major Delniar, and representing the New York Driving Club, again fairly and honestly won and was entitled, as representative of the said New York Driving Club, to receive the cup, and the same was thereupon presented to him as the representative of the said New York Driving Club." The answer states that the defendant turned the cup over to his driving club, and that the club after- ward presented the cup to Mr. Smathers, and that he is now the lawful owner of the cup. For a second defense to the action, Mr. Smathers, on information and belief, says in his answer that the action is not brought or instituted, or is not main- tained or prosecuted by the Memphis Trotting Asso- ciation, the plaintiff named in the action, but on the contrary, the same is brought and is being maintained by Murray Howe, claiming to be the secretary of the Memphis Trotting Association. It is further claimed that the Memphis Trotting Association never author- ized Murray Howe, by resolution of its board of directors, or otherwise, to bring, Institute, maintain or prosecute the action. In the closing paragraph of the answer Mr. Smath- ers demands that the complaint be dismissed and the costs and disbursements of the action be awarded to him. GEERS HAS A GOOD TROTTER. The bay stallion Pulsus, now in Ed. Geers' stable, made a remarkable campaign on the Southern tracks last season, starting in ten races and winning all of them, says Chicago Horseman. He first appeared at Murfreesboro, Tenn., on August 30, winning the 3:00 trot, taking a record of 2:20. His next appearance was at Shelbyville, Tenn., September 7, when he won the 3:00 class; best time 2:29%, and two days later he annexed the free-for-all, stepping a heat In 2:23. The following week found him at Columbia where he started three times within five days, winning the 3:00, 2:40 and free-for-all, trotting a heat In the latter race in 2:20%. He next turned up at Florence, Ala., September 20, In the 2:45 trot, which he won, as he did the 2:25 class three days later. His victorious career for the season was terminated at Birmingham, Ala., where he won the 2:15 class, on October 24, and three days later took the 2:18 trotters Into camp, taking his record of 2:15 Vi in the final heat. Pulsus Is a bay stallion f*aled 1901. by Egotist. 5018, dam Dame Prudence, by Hinder Wilkes 8685: second dam Dunlora, dam of Kingward 2:25, by Kins Rene, 1278. He was bred at Clover Bottom Farm. Donelson, Tenn. Geers Is confident that the son of Egotist Is one of the best trotters In sight and he will be liberally entered in the Grand Circuit early closing events. The largest mare ever raised in Oregon was the one bred and raised by Sol King of Corvallls, and exhibited by him at the Portland Fair last year. The mare was four years old when exhibited and weighed 2670 pounds. She died while on exhibition at the Fair. The day before she died, her owner. Mr. Todd, was offered $4,000 for her. He refused the offer be- cause he had her on exhibition In a tent and at 10 cents a sight was taking In $200 to $300 per day. She died very suddenly and from unknown c Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle thf> 10 ©He gveebev cmfr *&pavt&xnan [APRIL 7, 1906 &Sc2^&ScS53&!c^3&Sc&s3raSc^s3S3as3t<»Sc&s3t9 3Cs§33iSS3S]fi ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Condncted br J. X. De WITT. GAME BIRDS FOR MARKET. A question that has been touched upon by several State tribunals hi recent years and one that has g to the doctrine that the spirit or tl - in lavs were to he construed as so-called private ownership of fish or game, was disposed of by Attorney General Atkinson of W State : isl week. In an interesting opinion, addressed to the State Auditor, lie lays down the dictum that there is noth- ing in the Washington game law to prevent the rais- in.: birds in captivity and selling them in market. What pertains to game may be equally icahle to lish. The opinion in full is as follows: In reply to your inquiry of March 24. submitting a letter from Charles A. Kinnear. the same having been referred to you as the officer who issues State hunt- ing licenses, which letter reads as follows: Price lists and information concerning the raising in confinement of pheasants ad quail for their plum- age, for the market and for bench show purposes, have been sent to me from pheasant farms in Illinois, Indiana, New York and Toronto, Canada. The in- formation they give shows that the raising of certain varieties of pheasants for the market, and especially for their plumage (which is purchased by the millin- ery headquarters) is enormously profitable. "While I have no thoughts of entering into the busi- ness of raising pheasants for the market myself, the subject upon investigation is very interesting, and I have had inquiries from individuals, farmers and poultry raisers in various parts of Eastern Washing- ton, for the names of Eastern firms who can supply pheasants, and information concerning the raising of the same, and also if there is anything in the laws of Washington which prohibits the offering for sale upon the open market of pheasants which have been hatched and reared by a hen in captivity. "I, therefore, in behalf of several farmers and other individuals of the State who desire to raise in cap- tivity pheasants, grouse or quail for the market and for bench show purposes, ask the following question: "In your opinion is there anything in the laws of the State of Washington prohibitory to the offering for sale in the open market of grouse, pheasants or quail that have been hatched and reared by a hen in captivity?" I have to advise you that the statutes regulating the hunting, killing and selling of wild animals and wild birds in this State relate and depend, specifically in title and body, on the word "game." In the con- struction of these laws it then becomes necessary in this instance to know the proper definition of that term. The English and American Encyclopedia of Law. volume 14. page 654, gives he following defintion, viz: "Game has been defined as birds and beasts of a wild nature, obtained by fowling and hunting. Game is a general term for animals or birds of a wild nature usually pursued or sought by sportsmen for amusement." Relating to the definition, see also Gunn vs. State, 89 Georgia. 341: and People vs. O'Neal, 71 Michigan, 385. Relating to the same, volume 2 (A. & E. Enc. of Law) records that such wild fowls or birds as wild geese, which have been brought into captivity and have become domesticated and have lost their power or disposition to get away, are the property of the person who tames them, and are not considered as game. The same authority indicates that pheasants which have been reared by a hen (chicken), having never been wild, are objects of property and are to be con- strued as domestic fowls rather than game. (See Amory vs. Flyn. 10 Johns. (N. Y.) 102; also Reg. vs. Garnham. 8 Cox C. C. 451, 2 F. & F. 374; Reg. vs. Corey 10 Cox, C. C. 23.) It is a well-known principle of law. in States gen- erally, that wild birds or animals which have been kept in captivity and have become more or less do- mesticated, when reclaimed by the art and power of man, are the subject of qualified property and are, as a general rule, under the protection of the law the same as any other property, and are at the disposal of the owner for using or selling as he desires. This seems to have been the law for thousands of years in civilized countries, and it would seem to have been the sensible principle to follow; for without doubt all animals and birds were once wild in ferae naturae slate, and by the application of this principle all peo- ple have tamed and acquired domesticity in animals and fowls from the game state from elephants and horses and cattle down to chickens and canary birds. It Is my opinion thai our laws in this State cover- ing the subject were Intended by the Legislatures to strictly to gi ■ meaning animals ami birds In their wild' free, roving State, and these statutes were not Intended in any manner to llm'.t or prevent any probable or possible occupation or Industrial de- velopment relating to the growing and raising and domesticating of any kinds of birds or animals for food products and the general use of the people. I therefore conclude that there Is nothing in our State ga ne laws as they stand at present, that will prohibit private raising of grouse, pheasants, quail and similar birds when they have been hatched and reared n captivity, nor Is there anything to prohibit .le In the Open market. be argued that this construction of the law ' con.pllcnte and moke difficult the work of game to enforce the protection of regular game. If this should prove to be true, it may be argued that future legislatures should be able to establish addi- tional laws to assist in distinguishing the sale on the market of these domesticated, or semi-domesticated birds, from those of real game. It would seem that the raising of domesticated pheasants, quail, etc., should largely accommodate and make plenteous gen- eral markets for the use of the people who are not specially of the hunting class, and should, therefore, be advantageous to the protection and growth of real game, and be entirely pleasing and satisfactory to all concerned. Bob Whites in the South. The melodious call of the famed Eastern "pa't- ridge," "Bob-bob-white! bob-white!" has recently stirred up a number of Hollywood citizens who were familiar with the cheery piping of the little brown fellows. What did it mean? Surely there were no bob white quail in that section of the state. Some imi- tator of the calls of wild birds must be in the hills practicing his art was the explanation offered by a citizen of the Los Angeles suburb to a group of people who had gathered on Franklin boulevard, between Vine and Gower streets, and were trying to solve the mystery of the sounds so well known to most every person from way "back east." The calls were again heard during the evening. It seemed incredible that the beautiful notes were genu- in, but genuine they were, and to the eastern people who heard them it was indeed a rare treat. Probably this is the first bob white call that has ever been heard in that part of the state, and in view of this fact several people who heard the musical notes of the Eastern quail were in a quandry to find, a solution to the mystery. It was cleared up later on, however, when it was ascertained that A. G. Bartlett of Vista del Mar. who has just completed an aviary on his beautiful estate, where he will endeavor to propagate the differ- ent species of quail, received a shipment of tw'o dozen bob white quail a few days ago from the East. In transferring the little brown beauties from the shipping crate to the aviary about a dozen escaped and flew to the hills back of his estate, where it is hoped they will multiply and stock the hills in that vicinity. It is also hoped that any chance hunter who may come upon these little strangers from the east while roaming the hills in Hollywood will not mistake them for the California valley quail and shoot them during the open quail season. Should he do so he wrould be liable to a heavy fine, for bob whites are so scarce in this state that it is against the law to destroy them at any season of the year. Partridges and Grouse Domesticated. For over 400 years the turkey has held the record of being the bird most recently domesticated, but through the efforts of Dr. Hodge of Clark University, Worcester, Mass.. another bird now lays claim to the distinction. For nearly two years Dr. Hodge has been busy with the task of domesticating the partridge or ruffed grouse, until he is now certain that they can be made tamer than barnyard fowls. His dream is that in ten years they may be a common sight on big estates such as those along the Hudson river, in pub- lic parks, and even in the woods adjoining cities. Of the 300,000 animals and birds described in the text- books, only 100 have been domesticated, and most of this work was done before the dawn of authentic his- tory. The dog, it is said, was the first animal tamed, and Dr. Hodge believes that children had much to do with this, as he also believes that today they may play a large part in the domestication of wild animals and birds. Dr. Hodge has demonstrated by his experi- ments that it is as easy to raise partridges as chick- ens, and says they are about as tame. He began his experiment with 12 eggs, which he took from nests 60 miles apart, in order to avoid close interbreeding in case the birds reached maturity. Cochin bantam hens were used to mother the eggs, and every one was hatched. Five chicks died of pneumonia within the first ten days, cne was killed in the nest the first day, and two were killed by cats. The other four lived to become vigorous, healthy birds, beautiful and tamer than the ordinary barnyard hen. Two wild birds which had flown against the windows in the city were added to the stock, and the six birds grew up to- gether, the wild birds rapidly becoming as tame as those reared in captivity. The food given the part- ridges was as near as possible like what they would find In the woods. For the first few weeks they got Insect food. Then he game them "partridge custard, ' a dish composed of eggs and milk beaten together and baked solid, but although the birds liked it, it brought on septic fever and was cut out of their diet. ■ The eagerness of the birds for Insects convinced him of the practical value of taming them. When allowed free run of the lawn and garden, they were more efficient than careful gardeners in getting rid of insect pests. The birds ate also fresh chlckweed, dandelion seeds, and all kinds of fruits, with the exception of peaches and pears. PROTECTION FOR STRIPED BASS. The California Anglers' Association propose to in- duce the legislature to put a close season on striped bass. This will be a move in the right direction. These fish are of secondary importance to the salmon as a commercial proposition and under existing cir- cumstances it is but a mere question of time, and a short time at that, before they will become, for commer- cial purposes, exterminated. The shipment of striped bass from San Francisco to all principal Coast, West- ern, Eastern and Southern points, and in fact across the Atlantic, too, in cold storage, to European ports, is a draft that no waters, however prolific of fish, can stand. In these shipments total weight and not minimum size is the desideratum. Another good move contemplated bv the associa- tion is an effort to induce the location and fitting up of a striped bass hatchery. This is a new depart- ure, we believe, in fish propagation, but considering the almost phenominal egg capacity of the female bass and the rapid hatching of the young— within about 48 hours after spawning, the project seems a feasible one. Marysville FlyjCasting Club. The Marysville Club is now fully organized with a full quota of officers, a large membership and a con- stitution and by-laws. A easting platform and other essential aids to the sport will be located in Ellis lake and a series of fly- casting contests will take place, the initial meeting being scheduled for April 22. Santa Clara Hatchery. A number of the Santa Clara Supervisors and members of the" Santa Clara Fish and Game Pro- tective Association made their first visit to the fish hatchery maintained by the county at Brookdale recently. The party was headed by Dr. A. M. Barker of San Jose, president of the association. The visitors IWT" "J6 latSSt methods <* stripping eggs from steelhead, and the young fry in various stages of development. They were entertained at dinner bv Judge Logan, who donated the site for the hatches and has offered the Santa Clara Association a site for the clubhouse it proposes to build at Brookdale A concerted effort is to be made by the counties of fanta ^r"z' Santa Clara and Monterey to increase the facihties of the hatchery and populate Monterey bay and mountain streams with fish. Last week Marysville sportsmen had excellent sport snipe shooting In the nearby marshes where the birds were very plentiful. The close season on English snipe began on the 1st Inst, and prevails until October 16th. FISH LINES. - In spite of the unpropitious weather conditions pre- ceding the opening of the trouting season on Sunday last many local anglers-the knowing fellows, made good catches and enjoyed the first thoroughly as they were entitled to for the orthodox observation of this most important day in the calendar of sports- men. * Reports from Marin county are many and various, it would be far easier to enumerate the stay-at-homes than to list only a fair proportion of those who went forth equipped with rod and creel and that in the teeth of a north wind. On the Lagunitas some nice catches of fair sized trout were made, as is usually the case on the open- ing day. A well known local angler, who hails from William street, was caught on neutral territory and run off Shortly afterwards he met a couple of anglers— both in the jewelry business. He warned the two going up stream, they made a detour and fished way above the obstruction. They had eighty fish in their baskets when they came back to the city. But all this is poaching. The Tamalpais Club members who went out were: W. W. Richards, John Seibe, Billy Berg and T W Osborn. George Walker tried the Paper Mill near Camp Taylor and caught a number of fine fish. Jas. Lynch and Jas. Thomson fished Schell creek and landed IS fair sized fish. That they are skilled bait fishers is shown by the fact that those who went after them on that water, save W. Hucks, who caught one 10-inch fish, all returned unrewarded. Frank Marcus, Bert Harwood, Paul Wick and Ed Conlon fished the creek in Green valley, above White Horse lake. They caught a lot of nice fish. About 50 Vallejoites and others were also In that section, everybody catching fish. The water was very clear. From San Jose the reports are meager. From this point, usually, an army of anglers journey to the many streams in the Santa Clara valley. Many were out last Sunday, in keeping with past traditions, but judging from the following account in the Mercury results were rather disappointing: "The wise old fishermen who know that it is im- possible to secure a basket of trout when the streams are so high, and who were too knowing to take ad- vantage of the removal of the law's ban yesterday, - will read with chagrin the success of one fishing party. Four well-known local rod wielders, Fred Robbins. Gil Robbins, S. Bertucci and J. Tanks, secured 120 trout in the upper part of the Guadalupe creek. They averaged between 6 and 8% Inches in length. They report the stream very high, but that the fish are numerous and bite freely. Other fishing parties who have returned are not boasting of their catches, 'so it Is understood that very few were as successful as the Robbins party. The present opening of the trout season Is unpre- cedented In late years in the height of the streams. Fly casters usually remain at home when the streams are so roily, but some fishermen make medium catches with bait." The Guadalupe was reported to be a trifle lower than the Los Gatos Sunday morning. The Coyote was booming and very muddy. Nearly all fishing trips planned for Sunday were canceled. Some left for Hotel Santa Tsabel at Smith's creek and a num- APRIL 7, 1906] ^eable weather of that fmall w • ,?n°! at the iniUal Sh00t was ra»-er small but in the trap shoot between those present he club trophies changed hands. Wiley Parker cap- tunng he diamond medal of the first class, Holmes the gold medal of the second class, and WilTon gotting the leather prize. Following were the scores Clanton 13, Everdmg 14, Wilson S, Loufbourrow 13. At the Seattle Gun Club shoot. March 25th low fh»T ?Tl the rU'e at the Int^bay traps, when the first half of the medal contest was shot off Gar- rett and Black made the good score of 23 out of a shoo', t6JL ?owTr-- The second ha,f ot the ■nedal T, \ ? place Apr" lst- The sc°res follow - 11 ™ 1^ f5 tarsets-Moore 5, Reed 5. Gardner 11. Taft 16. Eagleson 11, Eddy s. Garrett 23, Willis 16 Green 17, Ford 20. Beattie 15. Lau 21. Matt 17. Hardy Btaaw [ April 1906 THE IRISH WATER SPANIEL. DOINGS IN DOGDOM. Doubles .everal of our Coast s*->- s« as much for Irish Water Spaniels^ *« own work but the following by C E. fright i „sh Shooting Times Is a bit too good t P giving as it *°^°ZtoT'i™JsTorn what the the breed as a working dog. It seems wrlter states that ^ there s «££«£ to, ^ X^^^SS H,l tether. Ustnkes £ ^ Jrfsf Wa^V^leltf'irthe past decade fi h°ave had some ^S^t^S^ descendants, some indiMduals equa u> s states: . ? "t It Irish Water Spaniel; as a matter of h Tn»mv which go to make a dog for work. ""The standari as laid down by the Irish Water Spamel Club is a very fair one. and shouW not be a point all judges go for. I have no he^to » saving that a coat such as you see on a bench winner cannot be kept on if a dog is worked and exercised ta and out of the season, as constant exposure to he weather will very soon take the color out of any coat 7 fearing it a brownish shade over the exterior, instead of a dark liver. Texture of coat is another point that is overlooked, and a novice can judge by simply passing his fingers through the coat of an Irish Water Spaniel wither he coat is one that is going to resist the weather on such a dav as we so often get during a shooting Sason-a fine wetting rain all day Leg- eat™ is a very fine point when you can keep it on hut where would the leg-feathering be on any of our hench dogs after a week or two at work in some of our hedgerows in Hampshire? Being solely interested with this good old breed for working purposes, although all my dogs have done their share of win- ning under such judges as Messrs. Gresham, Daintree. Raper, and Nicholls, I cannot say more than this— that, after having shot over all breeds, I have for the last five years discarded all others and used the Irish Water Spaniel for all work. I have had a lot of shooting on the East Coast, and no matter whether we were partridge shooting or at flight for duck, my Irish Water Spaniel was always equal to the occasion, and helped to swell my bag, especially on the marshes after duck. For three years I rented nine miles of water shooting; this was the hardest shooting for dogs that I ever had. Our bag was never a heavy one, but what we did secure we thoroughly earned. This shooting consisted of nar- row strips of rough cover along an old canal— a rare place to test a dog's working qualities. After a few turn's at it, I was delighted to find the amount of real sport that we were to have off this shoot, and my dogs soon learned which way to turn their quarry to push it out to the gun. I tried a brace of Cockers over this shoot, thinking that, as they were smaller, the work would be easier to them; but they could not stand it. During the hard weather, it was a sight to see a dog leap half-way across the canal after a duck and force Us way back through the ice. I well remember being out after odd cock pheasants one very rough day in January. We were shooting H wood near a large lake. A cock went away down- wind badly hit, and fell some sixty yards out in the water. The keepers between them had three brace of Retrievers, but not one of these dogs would face the ice and water. To my astonishment they were going to launch a boat out; but I worked an Irish Water Spaniel bitch that was with me; she went straight out and retrieved the bird, which was ocular demonstration of what a good dog could do. An Irish Water Spaniel, to my way of thinking, is par excellence the one-man dog. When out for a rough day. he is all there, and seems to lake a delight ,11 doing all the rough, dirty work. I often wonder he is not used more by single-handed sportsmen and keepers. I always break my dogs to work as Spaniels, return to heel at shot, drop to hand, and steady to heel. When driving, a good dog of the correct type can retrieve a hare or a bird out of rough places with ease, and his coat Is such that thorns and brambles do not touch him. with the result that he always takes the shortest cut in and out to retrieve his game, and does not waste time by looking for a soft place. o L. G. Bennett of Dawson recently became the owner of an Irish Water Spaniel bitch puppy out of Win. Bay's Ch. Rowdy Girl by Win. Wattson's Ch. Dennis C. This puppy Is one of the best bred Span- iels on the Coast and is teeming with promise of becoming a high class specimen of the breed. -o Ou^ Eastern contemporaries seem to have some little bother In getting Coast dates right. o J; mes Cole will be a very busy man on the Coast clr jit this year. i o— Ta.kaon'i Napa Soda cleanses the itomach and d«r* tha aya claar. Los Angeles Show. Entries for the Los Angeles show closed on Tuesday with a list in excess, by a good margin, of last year's entry. A number of recent arrivals will be benched and the competition in Bostons, Collies, Fox Terriers and Bull Terriers promises^ to be keen. In Collies George Albers is credited with having a young dog that "will take a lot of beating" to down. Setters will be well represented, one or two entries coming from as far north as the Puget Sound region. A num- ber of dogs have been entered from this city and San Jose, as well as other points. Without being in re- ceipt of exact data, before going to press, we ire in- clined to believe the show will be a four point one, for which, if such be the case, the Los Angelenos are to be congratulated. Enthusiasm and co-opera- tive work to bring off a successful show are factors that will win in the long run and can not but re- dound to the general benefit of Coast dogdom. The elimination of any consideration of the bench show "parasites" is another factor that should be an exam- ple for all Coast clubs to follow. There is enumerated in the premium list no less than 57 cups as special prizes, most of them sub- stantial trophies and with but few exceptions for open competition to be won outright. These prizes have been donated by some of the principal business houses in Los Angeles and vicinity. There is a full classification in St. Bernards (rough), Pointers, English Setters, Irish Setters, Cockers, Collies, Bulldogs, Bull Terriers, Bostons, Fox Terriers and English Toy Spaniels. Field Spaniels, Dalmatians, French Bulldogs, Scotch, Black and Tan, Airedale Terriers, Dachshundes, Pugs, Poodles, Pomeranians, Yorkshire and Maltese Ter- riers, Chow Chows, Chihuahuas (rough and smooth) Greyhounds, St. Bernards (smooth), Mastiffs, Blood- hounds, Foxhounds, Gordon Setters and Chesapeake Bay Dogs have but one class — open for both sexes. Great Danes, Irish Terriers, Toy Poodles and Japs have a mixed classification. We regret to note that so valuable a breed as the Irish Water Spaniel^ has been overlooked entirely. There are enough good ones on the Coast to have induced some recognition of the breed by the southern club. The same might also be said of Gordons — just one class and no specials for this breed is not very en- couraging to the few breeders and fanciers who have been sending their Gordons to different shows and would, we know in several instances, have sent en- tries to Los Angeles. The officers of the club are: Paul Piepers, presi- dent; W. K. Peasley, vice-president; Ed. Greenfield, vice-president; Kingsley M. Stevens, vice-president; Geo. R. Albers, secretary; Wm. Kennedy, treasurer. Bench show committee: Wm. J. Morris, chairman; Jas. Ewins, H. F. Anthony, Ed. Greenfield, Wm. Ken- nedy and R. C. Halsted. Show Club Incorporated. The Portland Kennel Club was incorporated last month, for the "purpose of holding bench shows." The capital stock is $600 and the incorporators were: J. Wesley Ladd, E. F. Tucker, Henry Ladd Corbet-, Frank E. Watkins, J. C. Zan and Henry Berger, Jr. San Jose Show. The dates announced for the Santa Clara Kennel Club show are May 10th, 11th and 12th. James Cole of Kansas City will judge all breeds. At a meeting of the club held recently an arrange- ment of trophies to be awarded was made. Some 51 silver and cut glass trophies have already been do- nated by fanciers of San Jose and vicinity, while splendid prizes have been given by the Santa Cruz, San Mateo and San Francisco Kennel Clubs. To this list the Santa Clara Country Club has added 15 trophies, making a total of 69 prizes. The prizes have been confined to silver, gold and cut glass only, mer- chandise prizes being barred. The bench show committee is composed of W. H. Carmichael M. Perry, Phil C. Meyer and Harry Dohle. J. C. Befrett will superintend the show. This means much for smooth sailing and a big show in the Garden City, for the gentlemen named are sports- men and enthusiastic fanciers and have had a show experience, both as exhibitors and officials, that will count. Among the San Jose dogs that will be sent to Los Angeles, it is reported, will be seen several young Bulldogs bred by Chas. Harker, O. J. Albee's Collies, the good black Cocker Bobby R., owned by Val Ruh, and Norman J. Stewart's Airedale Terriers. In connection with the bench show there will also be a cat show. Premium lists were promised for this week. Advices from Silkwood Bull Terrier Kennels state that Silkwood Peggy recently whelped to Cro3'don Czar a litter of seven (four dogs). Silkwood Kit is taking care of five puppies (or what is now left of the litter) by Silkwood Duke. Silkwood Belle is heavy in whelp to C. Czar. Among the recent purchasers of Silkwood Bull Ter- riers are Miss Jennie Crocker, who now owns a hand- some Silkwood Jean pup; Edward Cross has a bitch puppy from the same litter; A. Meyer of Oroville and Commander Holcomb of the Independence each have young bitches from the litter. A. S. Rosenberg lost recently by theft, it is be- lieved, a fine young dog by Czar out of Jean. Good News. Mr. Harry Lacey, of the American Stock-Keeper, is now well on the way to full recovery from a recent illness, we are pleased to inform our readers. Mr. Lacey, who is personally known to many of the Coast fanciers, is too good a sportsman and of too much value to dogdom at large to be away from the helm, of our Boston contemporary for any great length of time. Mr. Lacey's ailment was an affection of the eyes that made necessary an operation. All's well that ends well, and congratulations are now in ordor. American Fox Terrier Club. The above named club has recently issued the Am- erican Fox Terrier Club Book for 1906— a little work full or interesting information to the Fox Terrier fancy. It contains data concerning the club's trophies and stakes, a list of winners going back to 1887, rules and the club standard and a list of members. The com- pilation is a credit to the club and the author. COMING EVENTS. Bull Terrier Club Show. The club officials are working hard for a strung list of entries and will no doubt bring out a representative showing of the breed. The list of specials is a tempt- ing one and comprises a number of handsome cups. Entries close April 21st Rod. Jan. 1 June 1— Closed season for black basa. April l-Feb l— Open season for steelbead. April I-Sept. 10, O.t. 16-Feb. 1— Open season tor taking steel- head In tidewater. April l-Nov. l — Trout season open. April l-Nov. l— Open season for taking steelhead above tide water. April 7— San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. Saturday Classifi- cation Contest No. 4. Stow lake 2:30 p m. April 8— San Francisco Fly-Casting Club Sunday Classifi- cation Contest No. 4. Stow lake, 10 a m. Sept. 10-Oct. 16 -Close season in tidewater for steelhead. Sept. 10-Oct. 16— Close reason for salmon. Sept. 15-Aprfl l— Open season for lobsters and crawfish. Oet. 16-Nov. 15 -Close season for taking salmon above tide, water. Oct 16-Feb. l— Open season for steelhead in tidewater. Nov. 1-Sept. 1— Open reason for crabs. Nov. 15-Sept. 10— Season open for taking salmon above tide f-'ater. Gun. Feb. 15-July l— Dove season closed. Feb. 15-Sept. 1— C osed season for mountain quail, grouse and sage hen. Feb. I5-Oet. 15— Closed season for quail, ducks, etc. April 1-Oct. 15— Close season for English snipe. April 8— Empire Gun Club. Blue rocks. Alameda Junction. April 8— Vallejo Gun Club. Blue rocks. Near Flosden Sta- tion. April 8— Capital City Blue Rook Club. Whisky Hill grounds, Sacramento. April 14. 15— Los Angeles Gun Club. 18th semi-annual tourna- ment. 8500 added money April 15— Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. April 23— Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside, May 6— California Wing Club. Live pigeons. Ingleside. May 6— Blue Rock Gun Club. Grounds foot of Hl5h street, Alameda May 26, 27— Pacific Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third annual blue rock tournament. Vallejo Gun Club grounds, near Flosden Station. June 19, 22— Interstate Association Grand American Handicap target tounament. $1000 added money. Indianapolis, Ind. Elmer E. Shaner, Sscretary-Maaager, Pittsburg, Pa. June 20, 24 -Northwest Sportsmen's Association. Blue rocks and live birds. Walla Walla, Wash. Sept. 7, 8, 9— Interstate Association shoot. Blue rocks. Ingle- side. Elmer E Sbaner. Manager. Pacific Coast Handicap under auspices of S. F. Trapshootlng Ass'n, A. M. Shields, Secretary. Oct. 15-Aug 1— Deer season closed. Bench Shows. April 4, 7— Duquesne Kennel Club. Pittsburg, Pa. J.Stewart Laycock, Secretary Entries olose April 9, 10— St. Louts Collie Club. St. Loula, Mo. John A. Long, Secretary. Entries olose April 11, 13- Atlantic Ciiy Kennel Club. Atlantic City, N. J. Thos H. Terry, Secretary. Entries close- April 11, 14— Somhwestem Kennel flub. Los Angeles. George R Albers Secretary. Los Angeles Entries olose April 3. April 13. 14— Merrimack Valley Kennel Club. Lawrence, Mass. Albert Mitchell, Secretary Entries close April 05 28— Mississippi Valley Kennel Club. St. Louis, Mo. Geo. Muoson, Secretary. Entrits close April 28— Bull Terrier Club Sac Francisco Entries close Aprit 21. Dr W. H. Watkins, Secretary, 1505 Stockton street, San Francisco, May 9. 12— Vancouver Kennel Club. Vancouver, B. C. — Secretary. Entries close ■ . C. K C. rules. May 10. 12— Santa Clara Kennel Club San Jose, Cal. Norman. J. Stewart, Secretary. Entries close May 16. 19— VIotoria Kennel Club. Victoria, B. C. Seoretaiy. Entries dose ■ . C. K. C. rules. May 19— Chester Kennel Club. Chester, Pa. S. Crozer Robin- son, Secretary. Entries close May 23, 26— Seattle Dog Fanciers* Association. Seattle, Wash. Chas. McAllister, Secretary. Entries oluse May 29. 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Brighton Beach, L I Entries close May 29, June 1— Montreal Canine Association Montreal Can. .Secretary. Entries close . C K C rules. May 30— Dayton Pointer Club. Dayton, O. .Secre- tary. Eotrles close May 30. June 2— Portland Kennel Club, tary. Entries olose May 22. June 1 2— Ladies Kennel Assoofation of Mass. Speed, -Secretory. Entries olose June 5, 6— Ladles K**nnel Association of America. Mineola, Long Island. Miss E. M. Clark. Secretary. Entries close June 6. 9 San Franoisco Kennel Club. 10 tn annual bench show Fred P Butler, Secretary. Entries olose — ^— June 9— Wlssahlckon Kennel Club. Wlssahlckon, Pa. J. Ser- geant Price. Secretary Entries olose Aug. 22. 23— Asbury Park Kennel Club. Asbury Park, N. J. A. F Cottrell, Secretary. Entries dose Sept 3, 5— Miami Valley Kennel Club. PIqua, O. Edwin A. Hiatt, Secretary. Entries close ■ Sept. 8. 6— Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J.Leo, Secretary. Eotriesclose Sept. 8— Cedarburst Kennel Club Cedarhurst, L.I. Jno. G. Bates, Seoretary. Entriesolose . Sept. 29— Bryn Mawr Kennel Club. Haverford Pa. Henry D1 Riley, Saoretary, Staflord. Pa. Entriesolose Field Trials. Deo. 8— Continental Field Trill Club. Pleasant Garden or Lexington, N O. John White, Seoretary. ■ American Field Futurity. Entries for second Futu- rity Stake olose July 1, 1906. For Setter and Pointer puppies whelped on or after January 1, 1B05, Amerloan Field Publishing Co, Chicago. F. E. Watkins, Secre- Mrs. L. M. APRIL 7, 1906. ear=old Trotters, 2 in 3 400 Inland Stake, for Three=year=old Trotters, 2 in 3 500 Farmers' Stake, for 2:27 Trotters, 2 in 3 1000 Lewis & Clark Stake, for 2:17 Trotters, 3 io 5 2000 Capital City Stake, for 2:12 Trotters, 2 in 3 700 |"*/"xxjr\TqpT/'\KTQ. Entrance fee 5 per cent of stake and 5 per cent additional from money v vli Ul X IV/11 Oi winners, payable 2 per cent May 15, when horse must be named, and 3 per cent September 1. Money divided 10. io, 15 and 10 per csnt of stake. Horses 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 shall have a right to a share of tne stak according to their rank at the close of the last heat Right to transfer or subs'ltute entry in the stakes open to Au?jst I to horses eligible May 15, subject to approval The board reserves ihe right to declare off and return first payment in any stake that does not fill satisfactorily. Righ' reserved to declare two start^'s a walk-over. When only two start they rray con estfnrtheen trance moaev paid in dlvldel 70 percent to first and 30 per cant to aacood horse Ahorse distancing t)ie field shall be entitled to first and fourrh moneys only, and in nnoiher casewilla horse be enti- tled to m^re than one money Other than specified rulesof the National Trotting Association, of -*hicb this Association is a member, to govern, except hopples not barred. Two Consolation Purses of 8500 Each. Free entrancB will bs given to noa-sianing starters in the Greater Salem Stake or 2:15 pacar?, and the Lewis and Clark Stake for 2:17 trotters, mile heats, 2 in 3 provided there are eight or more starters in each of the original stakes. W. H. DOWNING, President, F. W. DURBIN, Secretary, Shaw, Oregon. Salem, Oregon. Entry Blanks can be had from the Secretary or at che office of the Breeder and Sportsman. CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C. 2:30 Tn^i aao Sire NUTWOO'i WILKES 2:16^. sire of John A. McKerron S:01H. Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:<.9M, Who I- It 2:10"*. Stanton Wilkes 2:10^. Cresco Wilkes 2:09% etc .etc. Dam, ZETA CARTtR bv Director 2:17, sire dams of John A McKerron 2:04J4, Ozanam2:07, Little Thome 2:07>4. Leonardo 2:08ii, etc., etc.; second dam. LldaW. 2:18}* (dam of Nutwood Wilkes 2:1614 etc j by Nutwood 600. greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived; thlrddamby Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont. T. C is one of the best bred young stallions In California. A two-year-old filly by him has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and Is as handsome as a picture T. C. will make the season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with usual return prlvilvge. Excellent pasturage for mares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for card containing tabulated pedigree and other information. I will take a fewhorses to train for road or track. GEORGE T. ALGEO, 1207 Eajjle Ave., Alameda, Cal. ^0 ^VoP ^^^ Hcgfstcrcd Trade Mark * % -^k ^^, "™ SPAVIN CURE % n O. A. DAViS. I liue::ti' ■> *. a co. UKALS MM BlON JTJ OCT 39 to f^cX^fv^. H.UC {H^ id. -L^-t^^^-Ji_ H» fC^c-v-U^-^ ,fprS ~tCZr^ Vf >^6vm ^L*-=-/ Mr^~ ** A<4-<- f unfit, o^ ^*-^_ /C^r^_ /v-^susLJ-? - b/Ut (l£ t^Lsti, stitA — A««^5 Atv<_ ^/>-«~~ *- <^o«^ -tt?^^> $5 AA PER BOTTLE. 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Copy of guarantee, book and letters on Puff, Broken Down Injured Tendons, and all iame- every kind of case sent upon application All druggists and dealers, or express paid ne^s without scar or loss of hair, work as usual. Horse may TROY CHEMICAL CO., Binghamton, N. Y. FORMERLY TROY, NEW YORK D, E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco Insure Your Stock Against Distemper The remedy that can not fail to cure these and EPIZOOTIC similar aliments Is Db CRAFT'S DISTEMPER FJMiEiK & COUGB CURE. Relied upon by leading stock- cocljh «nd men everywhere GKIPl'E Always supplied under an absolute guarantee. Handled bv most druggists or sent direct Price 50c and SI. Our free booklet, "Veterinary Pointers," Is loo valuable to be without. Write for it today. WELLS MEDICINE CO. , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind D E NEWELL., General Agent for Pacific Coast 519 MIhuIol St., Had Francisco. Cal Three legged Horses^ Lrcnot curiosities by any men., s. The country is full of them. The fourth leg is there ail rifcht but it is not worth anjihiog because of a curb, splint, spavin or other like bunch. Yru can cure the h<--rse of any of these aim ents and put another sound leg under him Ly the use of Qui tin's Ointment* wmMfe, It Is time tried and reliahle. When a home In cared with Qu Inn's Ointment ho stars cured. Mr. E. F.Burke oJSprtrmneld,Mo.,\vrteBa9 iollows* "I have been uplngQulnn'aOlntmenirorneveral years and have ef- fected many marvel<>ua cures; it will go deeper and* causeless pain than any blNterl ever uued. Thought It tny duty 1 or the benefit of horses to recommend your Ointment, lam never without It " This la thepen«ral virdictbvall who five Qulnn'BOIntmonl a trial. For curbs, sMlnt9, epavins. wind puffs, aDd al. bunches It is unequaled. price S t per bottle at all drugdsta or Eentby mall. Send for circulars, testimonials. &c W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N. Y. VIUTOK VtKlLUAC Proprietor JAMES M. McGKATH Manager DEXTER PRINCE STABLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Cor. of Grove and Baker Streets, Just at tbe Panhandle Entranoe to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Deviaaclero Street Cars) Beat located and healthiest Stable In San PranolBoo. Always a good roadster on hand for sale. Oaretul and experienced men to oare for and ezerolae park roadsters and prepare horaea for traok use. Ladles oan go and return to liable d not have their honei frlehtenad by automobile* «r 0*r». McMyrtle By McKINNEY 2:11 1=4 Dan, MYKTLKDALE (half sis- ter to Hillsdale 2:15) by Iran Alto: 2nd dam, Nettle Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15) by Nutwood: 3rd dam by Willlan son's Belmont. One of the handsomest bods of the great McKinney. Has size, style, quality and speed as well as the best and most fashionable blood lines. Four years old. Season of 1906 at nay stable. D Street, Petalama. Terms: $30 for the Season, with return privileges. Address JOHN GRlME-s, Petaloma THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TBACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in California. Owners deslrlDg to have horses handled and put In condition for sale or racing are Invite J to correspond with the undersigned JAS. THOMPSON. Pleaaanton, Cal. FOR SALE OR TRADE. Lumber Yard at Douglas, Ariz. On Railroad avenue; modern double-decked lumber shed; five-room modern house, ail im- provements; four office rooms; lime bouse; 2'0 feet outside shed-, and other building-.; Herring Hall safe, eto Price J65O0. Will trade for ranch within fifty miles of Berkeley. Standard-bred trotting stock brood mures taken. Address J. H JACK, 1431 Spruce St.. Berkeley, Cal. BROOD MARES FOR SALE. NELLIE FAIKMONT by Fairmont Both safe In foal to ALAMEDA MAID by EroaJ Ljnwood W. NELLIE FAIRMONT, dam of Zambra, world's champion for 5 mi leu, 18:94. ALAMEi A MAlD(reglatered) is out of Oaklaod Maid 2:22 by Speculation. For prices and particulars address S. R WRIOHT. Santa Roea, Cal. P*»H i o-rppc T*i hi i ! a tpH and type wrrtten ready /or 'pam!c r'euigreca i auuiaLcu Wrlt0 {0T prIoegt breeder 3P0HTBMAN, 38 Gear; Street, 8an Franolico, Cal. 14: ®tte givecOcr nnD gtjmvtsmtm [April 7 i»i6 The Dairy Handbook of The Cali- r,.rnia Promotion Committee's hand- - is just from the press and contains much valuable information I ho are contemplating going into that industry. While the hand- book is not a complete text book on the subject of dairying, it gives the at points in connection with the industry at 3 much information as the inquirer desires to know when eontei an investment. The houses and feed are treated under separate sub-heads, to- -, with much other data which will be found especially valuable. These handbooks of The California Promo- i lit tee are most desirable lit- tle brochures, and can be obtained from the Committee at a cost of 5 cents each, which merely covers the cost of production. Other handbooks of the Committee are Tree Planting and Poultry Raising. Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombautit's Caustic Balsam i Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy ^id Positive Cure for Curb, Splint Sweeny, Capped Hock, Strained Tendons, Founder, Wind Puffs, and all lameness from Spavin, Xingbone and other bony tumors. Cures all skin diseases or Parasites, Thrush, Dipbthen°, Removes all Bunches fromHorseo or Cattle. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc, it is invaluable. Everv bottle of Caustic Balsam sold is Warranted to give satisfaction. Price SI 50 per botile. Solil by druggists, or sent by ex- press, charges paid, vritn full directions for Its use. tlTSend for descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc. address *The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 A. G. FORSBERG H. P. FORSBERG Forsberg Bros. Fashionable Tailors. . . . PRICES RIGHT 36 QEARY ST Phone Blick 4711 Room 29, Third Floor BIN FRANCISCO Tuttle's Elixir Well nich infallible cure for Colic, curb, splint, spavin and other common horse ail- ments. Our long-time stand- ing offer of $1C0 Reward for failure, where we say i( will cure, has never been clnimed. All droccists sell it. Tattle's Family Elixir, the pr<.-r>t household remedy. Tattle's American Worm Powder cures. American Condition Powders. White Star and Tool Oin!menL 100 pace book, "Veterinary Experience." free. Be your own horse doctor. Makes plain the symp- toms, gives treatment Send for cr py. TCTTLE'S ELIXIR CO., 52 Beverly St.. Boston, Mas*. Mack & Co. , San Francisco and F W, Braun, Loa Angeles, California Agents. FOR SALE?" A Handsome Bay Mare, 4 years old, by Mon- tesol; dam, Lady Bird by Win wood. Thor- oughly broken; gentle; shows speed enough to make a good prospect for the races>; a trot- ter. Price $400 Jtay Mare by Judge, son of Sidney; dam. The Moor Off Mare; In foal toMoate-ol. Stands nearly 10 bands; a htgn-cla>s road mare, gen- tle, thoroughly broken. Not only a good roadster bu t a good brood mare Price $J50. Address or apply to P. FOLEY, St. Charles street and Eagle avenue. Alameda. IfteylicKIt As tlieywivntit. COMPRESSED I PURE-SALT BRICKS f PATENT FEEDERS. — - The sane, economical, handy Jway of salting animals. Write us for Booh. ."BELMONT 51ABLE 5UPPLY (0 f NTFX| MANUFACTURERS' BROOKLYN. NY. 81.25 $1.00 ,75 50 .35 .25 Rook Island Sheep's Wool SpoDges in all sizes, for vehicle washing and harness cleaning. At ban e-s dealers, or delivered on receipt of price. S ADDERLEY, 307 Market St., S. F , Gal. RACING! W™ New California Jockey CM OAKLAND TRACK Six or More Races Each Week Day RAIN OR SHINE Toghill Stud (Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER No Racing Monday, April 9 ONE DAY ONLY RACES COMMENCE AT 2 P. M. SHARP For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S. P. Ferry, foot of Market Street— leave at 12, thereafter every twenty minutes. No smoking in 'ast two cars, which are reserved for ladies and ■' heir escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and ast races. Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked" for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager, Menlo Park, Cal. PHENOL S0DIQUE ARE YOU BLIND lieals SORES, CUTS and BITES ON Man and Beast, Keep Handy for Accidents. Cures MANGE & SCRATCHES on Dogs. 5SSKC:^r^?^45^^=-'; By All Druggists. DO YOU WANT TO RENT A STALL A WHOLE RAGE TRACK? The owners of the MOUNT DIABLO RACK TRACK, located near Concord, Cal., are con- ducting 50 new and up-to-date stalls After April 1st thty will be prepared to rent ••tails to trainers and others as may be required. Also they will entertain propositions for the lease of the track and grounds as a whole for a term of one or more years. Improvements now in course of construction, to oost about 3-1000 will result in making this track me of the very best all-ihe-year-round tracks on (.he Coast For particulars address IRA B. KILGORE, Concord, Cal. Absorbin Cures Strained Puffy Ankles, Lymphangitis, Bruises and Swellings, Lameness and Allays Pain Quickly ithout Blistering, removing the I hair, or laying the horse up. $2.00 per bottle, delivered, with full directions. Book 9-B free. ABSORBINE.JR., formankind, $1.00 Bottle. Cures Strains, Gout, Varicose Veins, Etc. Mfd. only by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F., 54 Monmouth Street. Springfield, Mass. Porsaie by Mack & Co Langiey AMlohaelsCo. Redington & Co., J. 0*«ane and J. A. MoKerroo, all of San Franoiaco. HIGH-CLASS ROAD MARE FOR SALE A VERY HANDSOME BAY MARE; STANDS Jl 16 hands high; weighs about lluO lbs; abso- lutely sound, gentle, kind disposition, afraid of qo thing; oily broken; stylish, pood notion; a -quare-galted trotier and about 5 years old. Will bn sold reasonable. For further particulars address J H. MASTEkSON, ^ Crossley Bldg, San Franolsco, Cal. a?y-«80 nth Ave. Back of The Chutea. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. Recomm naed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. Deposit Your Idle Funds WTf H TH E Central Trust Company of California 42 Montgomery St. SAN FRANCISCO. THE ZIBBELL STABLE Z1BBEXL & SON, Proprietors. San Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Tr»lnl-5 ana Handling ill klnd« of Fancy Hortra. A few Nloe Riga on hand. Take scy car goinc to tbe Chutea. Tel.: Weat U8 You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sura large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-2% on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Interest paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. to the fact that wna Lever interest you take In racing, whether you are a Breeder OWl*ER Trainer JOCkEY/ Bookmaker Bettuh you should never enter into a discussion, whether backed up by money or not, without having in your pocket, or within easy reach, a copy of "Goodwins' Official Turf Guide " It you do this YOU WILL NEVER LOSE because every page of the ' Guide" is compiled from official sources and it therefore can be de- pended upon for accuracy. 5J CENTS A DAY or $20 a year is all tt costs to become an annual subscriber; this includes all paper bound Issues, published about twice a month from March to November, and an '■Annual," in two volumes, handsomely bound in half morocco. Subscriptions accepted at the office of this paper wi hout extra charge, r>r at offloe of publi- cation 1440 Broadway. New York Single, paper bound, copies also for sale at 503, 55c, 81, $1 50 or $2, according to issue, and individ- ual "Annuals' at $6, $8, $10 or $14, according to binding. Trap For Sale. A PINE, STYLISH, STRONGLY CON- structed, high Trap, with brake, in splendid condition; can be secured at a bargain for cash. Cost $425; buit to order. Owner leaving city See it at once at BULDA STABLES, 1530 Fell Street, Park Panhandle. FOR SALE. Will sell, on account of ill health, the follow- ing trotting bred stook, at private sale, at a rea- sonable price: ORKNEY WILKES by Mambrlno Wilkes dam by Speculation. Orkney Wilkes is the sire of Swauhllda 2:13 V, mile 1:04, in third heat of race. Two producing brood mares. MADD S by Jim Mulvena. dam of Swanhllda; MAGGIE Mc by Abbotsford Jr dam by Speculation Maggie Mc is the dam of Sid Abbot. 4 year-old trial 2:18. Also colts by Orknej Wilkes, Sidmoor and Dic- tatus Two yearlings by Dictatus, perfect matches; one QUy pacer from Maud S.; one horss colt from Maggie Mc. trotter Foi further Information call on or address w l. Mcdonald, Bos 82, Concord, Cal Take Haight, Hayes or Ellis Street Cars. T. C. CABNEY, Prop. Phone: Park 436 PANHANDLE STABLES Horses Bought, Sold, and Clipped AT 1'ot'lLAK FKICKS. Horses Boarded, Trained, Gaited, Exercised. 1225-1227 FELL STREET Bat. Devlsadero and Broderlck Streetr, SAN FRANCISCO. APRIL 7, 1906J fRhe gveebev tmfr gtytft-fesmau 15 f^N ORTH PACIFIC FAIR CIRCUI T-* Seven Weeks of Continuous Racing. Two or More Harness Races Each Day, with Liberal Purses. Full Program Published Later. EVERETT, WASHINGTON AUGUST 27 TO SEPTEMBER 1 i:J0 Trot, S In 3 85°? 2:25 Trot, 2:2-i Pace, 2:12 Pace, soo 5110 800 DAN CURRIE, Secretary. SEATTLE, WASHINGTON SEPTEMBER 3 TO 8 2:20 Trot, 2 In 3 SI 000 2:20 Pace, 2 in 3 100O A. T. PAN DE VANTER, Secretary. WASHINGT'N STATE FAIR NORTH YAKIMA SEPTEMBER 17 TO 22 2:15 Trot, 2 in 3 S1000 2:12 Pace, 2 in 3 l°oo G. A. GRAHAM, Secretary. Entries to above stakes close May 15, but letters poB money winners, payable 2 per cent May 15, when horse Wrf for Stake Bnok. OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM SEPTEMBER 10 TO 15 2-year-old Trot, 2 in 3 $ 400 3-year-old Trot. 3 in 3 boo 2:27 Trot, 2 in 3 " moo 2:17 Trot, 3 in 5 2.100 2:12 Tmt. 2 In 3 ..; 700 2-year-old Pace, 2 in 8 400 3 year-old Pace 2 in 3 '.*'. 500 2:-i5 Face, 2 in 3 1000 2:15 Pace. 3 in 5 ' 2000 2:10 Pace, 2 in 3 "* 790 A consolation stake of 85C0 (free entrance) will be given for non-winners in eaohof the $2000 stakes, pro- vided there are eight or more starters in the original stake. The two and three-year-old stakes are for colts owned in the district January 1, 1906. F. W. DTJRBIN, Secretary. SPOKANE INTERSTATE FAIR, Sept. 24-29 2:16 Trot, 2 in 3 sinoo 2:12 Pace, 2 In 3 1000 R. H. COSGROVE, Seorelary. WALLA WALLA, WASH. OCTOBER 1 TO 6 2:17 Trot 2 In 3 81(00 2:12 Pace, 2 in 3 1000 A. C. VANDEWATER, Secretary. ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 15, 1906 LEWISTON, IDAHO OCTOBER 8 TO 13 2:15 Trot, 2 in 3 8600 2:10 Paoe, 2 in 2 coo C. W. MOUNT, Secretary. tmarked not later than May 16 will be accepted. Entrance 5 percent of stake and 5 per cent additional from must be named, and 3 per cent August 15. <•»!•>/"» M. D WISDOM, Circuit Secretary, Portland, Oregon. TOOMEY TWO-WHEELERS Give Best Results For Racing and Training Purposes. Low Seat Racer Sulkies the Fastest and Best in the World Pneumatic Pole Carts for Team Work on both Road and Track Pneumatic and High Wheel Jog Carts for Road Use Send for latest Catalogue to S. TOOMEV &G0. c«^-»5*?b. OHIO, C. S A- O'BRIEN 6 SONS, Coast Agents, Golden Gale Avenue ami Polk Street, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Stakes for Two- Year-Olds Offered by the California State Agricultural Society to be given at the CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR, 1906 ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 1, 1906 The A. B. SPRECKELS STAKE for Two-Year-Old Trotters $1000 The BEN RUSH STAKE tor Two-Year-Old Pacers 1000 ENTRANCE PAYABLE AS FOLLOWS: $20 on May 1, 1906; $20 addi- tional if not declared out on or before June 1, 1906, and $10 additional if not declared out on or before July 1, 1906 DiclaraHona (to declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made CONDITIONS. Distance to be one hundred yards. Rlgttt reserved to rejeot any or all entries. Five per cent of the amount of the Stake will be deducted from each money won. The Board of Directors reserve the right to declare two starters a walk over. When only two start they may contest for the entrance money paH in, to be divided 66-i per oent to the first and 31M Per cent to the second. A horse distancing the fl^ld shall only bn entitled to first and fourth moneys but in n-> other case will * horse be entitled to more than one money The Board of Directors reserve the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the po Ition or the horses. 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 Otherwise than as herein specified In these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Associa- tion (of which this Association Is a member) to govern. For Entry Blanks and further information address the Secretary. New England Trotting Horse Breeders Association Boston, Mass, READVILLE GRAND CIRCUIT MEETING AUGUST 20, 21, 22, 23, 24=. Entries Close Tuesday, April 10, 1906 ALL CLASSES WILL BE EVENTS OF THREE RACES OF ONE MILE. EARLY CLOSING PURSES. No. 1— The Blue Hill, 2:30 Class Trotting $4500 Divided: 81050 to first, $300 to second. $150 to third— each race. No. 2— The Massachusetts, 2:14 Class Trotting ... $9000 Divided: $-2100 to first, $60u to second, $300 to third— each race. No. 3— The Ponkapoag, 2:10 Class Trott.ng $4500 Divided: $1050 to first, $300 to second, $150 to tblrd— each race. No. 4— The Readville, 2:08 Class Trotting $3000 Divided: $700 to first. $200 to second, $100 to third— each race. No. 5— The Norfolk, 2:08 Class Pacing $3000 Divided: $700 to first $.'00 to second, $100 to ihlrd— each race. No. 6— rh; Nip >nset, 2:06 Class Pacing $3500 Divided: $700 to first $200 to second. $i00 to third— each race. In all classes Uu risen mast be aimed at the time of the closing of entries. The Entrance Fee will be Five Per Cent of the Purse with Nothing D^dujted from the Winners or Any Part of the Purse. More than one horse, if trained In the same stable, may be entered in a olass, and one per oent of purse additional will be charged for each Dorse so named; bat only one horse in the same owner- ship will bi allowed to start. Any horses of a plural entry which may be separated from the stable from whloh they were named will be eligible to start by paving a sum, in addition to that already paid on the horse, which will equal the full fire v .t oent entrance fee • Jonditeons Theruiesof thj National Tmtlag vssjclatioa (if whioh this AssDclatlon is a member) will govern, except this tnr-ies ait tiiishing within oae buidred yards of the winner In any race * ill be ruled out of firther oompstition In the event. Racing wilt begin at 3:30 p m The oosf tloas if ooatenlla^ hTs93 will ba drawn for *,be a>st race or everv event, but In the sec- ond they will start as they fiilsh^d iu tha. first, and In the third as they finished In the second. Forfeits will be doe In amounts and on dates as follows: BEN F. RUSH, President. ALBERT LINDLEY, Sec'y State Af I Society, SACRAMENTO, CAL Woodland Hackney Stud De PUE & SPRA0UE, Owners 324 Ploe Street, San Fraoclaco Breeders of High-Class Carriage Horses Breeders of High-Class Saddle Horses Stud Headed by MANCHESTER Registered American Hackney Stud Book 201 Twice Winner of Bine Kibbon in New York Horse Show Carriage Te^ms, Saddle Horses and Gig Horses For Sale. Correspondence Solicited. A. H. BRINTON, Manager WOODLAND, CAL. STALLION OWNER! If You Need a Stallion Card or Stock Catalogue Compiled aDd Printed, Stallion Poster, Stallion Service Book, a Cut of Your Horse. a Horse Rook of any kind or a Tabulated Pedigree, Get It where you can get the CHEAPEST and BEST. FOR SAMTLES A>"D PRICES APDRESS MAGNVS FLAWS & CO., 358 Dearborn St., CHICAGO. ILL. Classen No. 1 and 3 Bach additional orse April 10 830 9 May 10. $30 9 70 18 20 6 June 9. 845 9 90 18 30 6 Jolt 10. ■ 60 9 llo 18 40 6 August 7 870 9 13l> Kach additional horde IS 18 fill Each additional horse.. 6 6 Nomina torn will not bs tnld II able for f >rf«1ts falling due after they have declared out In writing. The American Hirse B-eeder Futurities— $7000 for Three-year-old Trotters, $10L0 for Tbree-ytar- old Pacers and*J000 for Two-year-old Trotters— will be rased at this meeting. All entries, requests f or information, eto., to be made to the Secretary. JOHN M. JOH.VSCC*. President. C. M. JEWETT, Seoretary, Ready, llb. Mass. Season 1006. CHARLES DERBY 4907 Leading Sire on the Pacific Coast. S50 THE SEASON. STILLWELL (By CHA8. DERBY 4907) Pasturage $5 per month. Not responsible for accidents or escapes. For further particulars address Best son of Bertha, dam of Don Derby 2:04 1=4, Diablo 2:09 1-4, Owyho 2:07 1-4, etc. $50 THE SEASON. OAKWOOD PARK STOCK FARM, Danville. Cal. Crabbet Arabian Stud SUSSEX, ENGI ANI>. CRABBET PARK. THREE BRIDGES, and NEWBUILDINGS, SOUTH WATER. The largest breeding stud of Arabian horses in the world. The conditions under wh horses are bred at Newbulldings produce a type unrivalled for quality and LardiDe-s Tn knowledge of the breed gained by the owners In Arabia enables them to guarantee p the choicest strains, some of which are now extinct in the East. Stallions and mure supplied to breeders throughout the Colonies and on the Continent. A few mares sulti haiita and quiet In harness generally for sale. For further particulars address GUY CARL-ETON, Mamger, Carpenters, Southwater, Sussex, 16 <&he gvesbev cmi* gpavtsiman f Aphil 7, lt06 jKiiixnxnE^sr HUNT THE X^ESAID HAWTHORNE 2:06 1-4 BILLY BUCK 3:07 1-4 KINNEY LOn 2:07 3-4 Lf I IV I IV I E7\/ I aOI I 0-A%^3 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON r\IIMI\ILY LUU ^.Un of the champion sire Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st) ending July 1st, at IAWEENCE STOCK FARM One Mile East of Law.-ence Station, and Six Miles from San Jose. TERMS 9510O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal, BUDD D0BLE, San Jose, Cal. For further Information, pedigree .-mil rieforlptlun PHONE: SUBURBAN 499, SAN JOSE. MENDOCINO 22607 RECORD (THREE-YEAR-OLD) 2:19^ Slreof Monte Carlo 2:07>i (to wagon 2:084); Idollta (2y. o.) 2:21«. (3y.o.)2:12, (a) 8:09 a, Leonora 2:12)4, Polka Dot 2:14^, etc Bay Stallion, 15.31 ; bands; weight 1190 pounds; hind feet and ankles white; roaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 125. son of Hambletontan 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO (3)2:19^, Electant 2:19V4 Morocco (3y.o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904, 2: 17^; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie VV (3j 2:1?^. Hyperion 2:21^. Memento 2:25^. Mithra (p) 2:14^) by Hamble- tonlan Jr 1882; third dam, Gllda (thoroughbred) by imp. Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Electioneers youngest and best sons With very limited opportunities In the stud he has proven his worth by producing such raoehorses asMonte Carloaud Idolita. Three new additions to his 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performers. His foals are good size, floe lookers, bold and pure gaited and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1900, 875; usual return privilege. MCKENA 39460 Brown Stallion; 16.2 hands; weight 1350 pounds; foaled April 11, 1900. Bred atPalo AltoStock Farm. 8lre, McKINNEY 8818 (record 2: 1 1}*)- First dam, HELENA 2:11^ (damof Wildnutling 2:11^1 Dobbel 2:22, Hyita (trial 2;12j by Electioneer 125; second dam, Lady Ellen 2:294 (dam of six in list, including Helena 2:11^. Ellen Wood 2:14^) by Mambrlno 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont (Williamson's). McKENA has proven a remarkably sure f al getter. He should make a great sire as he is a floe Individual and bred right His sire, McKInney, a game and fast racehorse and sire of game and fast racehorses His dam, Helena, one of the fastest and earnest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters the world has yet known. His second dam, Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as welt as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906. S40; usnnl return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Mares may run on pasture at 85 per month. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for injury or escapes. Address all communications to PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Stanfnr-I Ui verglty. «»nr* Clara fn , C»I McMURRAY POINTS: Perfect Construction, Light Weights, Great Strength, Easy Running, and LOW PRICES. McMURRAY SULKIES and JOuGINQ CARTS Standard the World Over. ^-Address for printed matter and prices W. J. Kenney 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. Sales-Agent for California. American Trottii Booster PUBLICATIONS. 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Address American Trotting Reg. Association 355 Dearborn St., Room 1108, CHICAGO, ILL. Or BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL fltillEtnltDllir 35751 By McKinnev 2:ll}-4; dam. Lady Washingion. In every point he shows hfs breeding; has good siyle and action. Stands 16 hanas, weight 1200 p unds. His get bring big prices Will make the Season at Rose Dale .stock Farm Ket>, 830 for senson. Fer further pertlcnlars adrlreee ROSE DALE bTUCK FARM Sanla Rosa, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED (POCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Most Complete Book of the kind published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 3fi OftArr St.. San Francl.co Mc Kinney, 2.11% World's Leading Sire cf Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 ^|Fees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2. per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 10 miles from Cuba. Mention this journal j when writing. ©lit Smptr? ditg JanttB, CUBA, NEW YORK. McKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION UNIMAK 40936 y McKinney 2:1]J; dam Twenty-Third by Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15}) by Nutwood 600. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PALO ALTO, Cal. Usual return privileges or money refunded at the option of the owner ol the mare. Terras, $40 for the Season, e To Close June 1st Address or apply to CAPT. C. H. WILLIAMS, _ Box 151, PALO ALTO, CAL Excellent Pasturage at Reasonable Ratea. No barbed wire. BeBt of oare taken of Mares, Id any manner Owners may desire. LYNWOOD W. 32853 RECORD AS A 2-YEAR-OLD 2:20 1-2 SI .'ed by GUY WILKES; dam, the great brood mare LINDALE by Sultan Jr. 18771 LYN WOOD W. was a sensational colt trotter and Is fast proving himself to be a great sire although ho never oovered but eight standard bred mares prior to 1005. Still he has to his oredlt Dumonl 5.2:80. Clipper W. 2:24*, Sonoma Queen 2:25. Sonoma May 2:29*. all trotte.-s with records l lie following are the only coltB that ever hBd any training. They have worked as follows, H . W. P 2:12*. Charles Belden 2:I3X. Sonoma Girl 5:15, Sly B. (3) 2:16*. DumontS. 2:1 18. Sonoma May 2:10K. Jim V. 2:85, Ella V. (3) 2:21, Clipper W. 3:2;!, Sonoma Queen (3)' 3:88' ! ". '.ir (3) 8:«?j;, Dennis 8:30, Frank G. (2)2:30. I E FEE «2S. ■<2) Will make the Season of 1U06 at Santa Rosa. MONTEREY 2.09 1-4 *&&°' (Sire of IRISH 2:08^, Fastest Four-Year-Old Facer of 1904). By SIDNEY (grandalre of Lou Dillon 1:584); dam, HiTTIE (also dam of Montana 2:16) by Commodore Be mont 4140. MONTEREY 2:09*i stands 15 3 hands, weighs 1200 lbs. and is one of the Quest individuals on this Coast. FEE, 860 for the SeaBon. vac r nil i t r Ry monteret 2:09^. T wO E_ IY1 I I C- Dam. LEAP TEAK 3:26 (full sister to Iago2:ll) by Tempest 1881 son of Almoin 33. YOSEMiTE is a very high-class young trotter, and as he will be trained this year he will be allowed to serve only sis choice bred mares FEE, 825 for the Season. Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. I have leased a flue, roomy barn with 14 large bos stalls on Sherman street, four blooLs from the race track, Alameda, and am prepared to do public tra'ning. Would like to get two good trottera and a promising three-year-old to prepare for the races this season. For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. Race Record 2:101=4 Reg. No. 0410 YOUNG HAL By the great paoer, HAL DILLARD 2:04^ (sire of Fanny Dlllard 2:03?i. Hal B. 2:044, Hal Clipper 2:07^. Cambria Maid 2:084- Young Hal 2:10H. Hal C. 2:10, and 5 more in 2:15 list. Dam. OZORA (damof Young Hal 2:i0v{. Strathdale2:30. aud dams of Citation 2 06, Strathline 2:07M Baraja 2:144. Reality 2:17^ and Blacklfne 2:22) by Smucgler2:15'4; seooud dam, Odd Stocking (damof Sprlnglock 2:19Mi Happy Russell 2:21^. sire nf 32 in 2:30, etc.) by Happy Medium 400; next dam, County House (damof Nettie 2:18) by American Star 14, etc Will make the Season of 1906 at Agricultural Park, Los Angeles. Terms, $25 for the Season, with usual return privileges. YOUNG HAL 2;10^ Is a very handsome mahogany bay horse, stands 15 hands 3 Inches and weighs 1100 pounds. Goes without straps is a game race horse, and one of the best of the great Hal family. This Is his flr.it season In the siud and he should prove a great sire of extreme pacing speed. Good pasturage and excellent care taken of mares, but no responsibility assumed for accidentsor esoapes. For further particulars addreBS I. O. MOSHEK. 666 West 36th St., Los Angeles, Cal. H. A. CABLTON, Owner, Santa Rosa, Cal. ALMADEH 2:22 1-4 It DIRECT 2:05 1-4 Dam by McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 A perfect colt trotter, winning the Breeder two-year-old stake In 2:82M In 1903 and Occident Stake (J heats) In 1904. Will make the Season at Whisky Hill In oharge of H. L. LUSK. Address 631 K St.. Saoramento Cal. Servloefee840. April 1906] f&he gvesbev an& gtptfrtemcm 17 FOUR BIG J EARLY > CLOSING? GUARANTEED STAKES! Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. ENTRIES TO CLOSE TUESDAY, MAY 1, 06 Only Tliree r»er Cent to Enter. CALIFORNIA STAKES $2000 For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES 2000 SUNSET STAKES 1000 QOLDEN GATE STAKES 1000 For Pace s Eligible to 2:20 Class For Free=for-AII Trotters For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class ENTRANCE DUE AS FOLLOWS: 3 per cent May 1, 1906; 1 per cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 per cent additional it not deolared by July 2, 1906. Declarations fto declare ou'l must be mailed to the Secretary, and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration Is made. On July 1, 1906. nominators, by the payment of an additional 2 per cent have the r'ght of substituting another hnrse or transferrins their entry to another member of the Association in place of the horse named in the original entry, but the horse so substituttd mast be eligible to the class in which substitution is made on July 1 1906. Liberal Stakes for other classeB will be announced lattr. E. P. HEALD, President. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, 36 Geary St., S. F. The following Stallions, owned by W A. Clark Jr., will make a public season: Champion 2 y.o. Stallion of 1904 Champion 3 y.o. Stallion of 1905 Bon Voyage Two-year-old Record 2:15 Three-year-old Record. . .2:12a£ Timed In a Race 2:1«4 WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY (88500) FOR 1905. BON VOY \GE (3) 2:12*£ Is by Expadltion 2:159£ by Electioneer 125; dam Boa Mot by Erin 2:242£ second dam Farce 2:29^ by Prlnceps 536: third dam Roma by Golddust 150 For breeding, individu ality and racing qualities he is unsurpassed. He is a rich bay In color with black points, stands 15.3 hands and when matured will weigh 1200 pounds. Season pf 1906 at PLEASANTON RACE TRACK. where he will be limited to twenty outside mares. *EA fn- 4U* Cancftn USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGES, or money refunded should mare 3)3U IOT luC ocaaUll, not prove in foal. A rare chance to breed good mares to an excep- tionally high-olass and highly bred young stallion. TRIAL 2:12 (at Fonr Years Old) BONNIE McK. 36569 (Trial 219) Sonof MoKlnney 2:11^ and Bm SHene2:l44 by Stamboul 2:074 Will make the Season of 1906 at PLKA.-sANTON Fee «50 BONNIE McK, Is a grand individual and a fast trotter with periect lees and feet. All mares bred to him In 1906 will be nominated In Breeders Futurity without expense to owner. Address GEO. A. KELLY, PleaBanton, Cal. Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By EXPKKSSO 29199 (half brother to Expressive (3) 2:124) by Advertiser 2:15*£, son of Electioneer 125; ^amAL^HA 2:334 (dam of Aegoo 2:i8*i. sire of Ageon Star 2:1 1H. etc ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22; second dam Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 in list and 3 producing sons and 7 pi-ouuclng daughters) by Mambrlno Chief II, etc Terms for the Season $25 HIGHLAND Is a grand looking young stallion, seven years old. His breeding Is most fashion- able and his immediate ancestors are producers of race winners with fast records. He is beauti- fully galted and has a perfect disposition. Does not pull or want to break at spped, and can be placed at will in a bun^h or tnrse* He Is a high-class hor^e and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trotted a quarter in 31 seconds over the Pleasaoton race track HIGHLAND is a coal black horse with one white hind ankle, stands 16.1 Lands high and weighs close to 1200 ponnds. Address all communications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Greatest of McKinney Son 2:111 Will make the Season of 1906 Fee, $50 for the Season. At LOS ANGELES, CAL. With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse aid mare does not change ownership. Money due at time of service. or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is the sire of eleven staodard performers as follows: Zephyr 2:07^, timed separately In a race In 2:081$; Charley T. 2:134- trial 2:104 = Italia 2:144. over nalf-mlie track, trial 2:084; Bellemont- three years old. record 2:1*^, trial 2:1 1?^: Zombowyette 2:16M. trial 2:144: Zenobla2:19, trial half In VJ&Vi Tee Dee Cee 2:194 trial 2:134; Ladv Zombro 2:24, trial 2:10; Lord Kitchener 2-244. trial 2:194: Zealous 2:264. trial 2:20: Nina Bonlta2:27. ZOMBRO has won more first prizes in the show rin at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited numberof approved marps. FEE 850, with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, Woodland, Cal. E. P HtE\LO. Ovnar, 21 Put St.. S»n Franc!*co. Cal. R. AMBUSH 41840 Rec. (3) 2:14| SEASON 1906. FEE $30. At ASSOCIATION PARK, 2 miles east of San Bernardino. Address us u W1 and 38 more in 2:15 70 In 2:3J r Alcyone 2:2? f Geo Wilkes S:82 by Hamb. 10 ! Sire of 1 Alma Mater fMcKlnney 3:11J< \ Martha Wilkes 8:08 by Mamb. Patchen slre <" 60 In 2:30 ,__,„ -„.„..,„, Tnnev 9-02 ' ( Gov. Sprague 2:20i. ! SweeytMar.e::::::;:::2;M«iR«-sprag]ueni.o. j^^^r**.*,.,* McKinney 2:11^ by Mamb. Messenger Grandam of Fereno 2:054 r stamnnui s*07U / Sultan 2:24 by The Moor [Stamb0U Slreof iFleetwlngbyHamb. 10 j Stamboulette 2:10m dam of 2 ln list I Ellert 2:11 etc, rwi R-m o.m f Simmons 2:28 by Geo. Wilkes 10 Dam of {Bonnie Wilkes 2:2?X Bonnie Direct 2:05^ Rector 2:10 Bon SUene 2:144 Bonnie Stelnway trl) 2:084 I [Bo SUene 2:144... Dam of Bjnnie McK. (trial). by Geo. Wilkes dam of 4 in list THE STANDARD TROTTING STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1006 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANOELES. CAL. Terms, $40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 Is by Hambletonian Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes 2:084- Phoebon W 2:08^. Robert I 2:08*£ and 7 others in the 2:15 list); dam Anna B lie (3) 2:274 (dam r>f Robert I. 2:08=1 Maud Murray 2:12 MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 In 2.30 list and dams of 8 MURRAY M. 2:14 4 You Bet 2:07 Jennie Mar* 2:09 etc. First nam, llAZKl. WILKKS 3:11^. a ereat race mare by Guy Wilkes 2:15*4, sire of F ed Kohl 2:07?£, Hulda ■•>:084. Lesa Wilkes 2:09. Seymour Wilkes 2:084. etc . and dams of Antezella 2:104, K'«therlne A: 2:11^. etc., eto , and grand. Ire of John A. McKerron 2:044: second dam, Blanche (dam or Hazel Wilkes 2:11'^ Una Wilkes 2:15 Guvson 2:24 Native Son 2:264 and Silver Spray 2:28) bv Arthurton B6"»; I bird dam, Nancy by Gen Taylor. ohamplon30-mlle trotter of the world. KINNEY WELKES is a very h inlsome. we 1 nude bay stallion, standing 15.3 and weighing 1100 pounds. He Is one of the best br.d of the McKlnneys. Will make the Seanon at LEONARD STATION, Santa Cruz County. rCC 3>iO. por oards containing tabulated pedigree, etc , address JAMES T. LEONARD, Rnral Delivery No. 3, Watfonvllle. Cal THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION RED MCKINNEY By McKINNEY 2: 11 14. First dam, BONNIE RED by Red Wilkes second dam, BONNIE BELL bs Almont 33; third dam, ALICE DRAKE by Alexander's Norman; fourth dam, VILY by Pilot Jr. 12. RED McKINNEY Is four years old. a rich mahogany Day. stands 15.34 handa, weighs 1 100. and is a show horse Has sho«?n great upo^d with very little wor*. His breeding shows him to be one of the best bred Bona of the great McKinney. Will make the Season of 1906 at the CITY STABLES. TULARE, CAL. FEE $30, with return privileges. W. B. MURPHY, Owner. JOE D*LL. Manager. Pedigrees Tabulated and typewritten ready for framinf. Write ' BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 86 Geary Street, Sao Francisco, California. 18 @foe gveebev atxit ^pcnci&mati [April 7, 19C6 THE BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (r -operty of John Pabhott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 ™> will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1906 FEE --- 875 Reductions made f r two or more mares. Manater, WALTER SEAU. THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2:161!=™ - McKINNEYS FASTEST ENTIRE SON J Reg- No. 34471. ZOLOCK 2:05 Great Race Horse and Producing Sire. by NUTWOOD. ...2:18?i NUTWOOD WILKES 23116 is the only stallion that ever produced two three-year-olds in ore season wlthrecordsol 8:13 and 2:13)4 respectively. Who la It & : 13, es-ohampion three-year-old gelding of the world, reduced his record to 2:10M- John A. Die- Kerr on 3:04^ (2:12^ as a three-year-old) is the fast- est trotter of all the famous tribe of George Wilkes NUTWOOD WILKES is the sire of John A Mo- Kerron 2:04)4 (sire 3 two-year-olds in 2:30 list), Tidal Wave 2:09. Miss Idaho 2:09M. Who Is It 2:10«, Stanton Wilkes 2:10)4, Cresco Wilkes (4) 2:I08£. Georgie B. 2-12W. Claudius (4) 2:13)4, North Star (3) 2:134, Bob Insersoll (4) 2:143£, and 32 in 2:30 list. His sons Nearest and Stanton Wilkes have sired Alone (4) 2:09M ard Cavaliero 2:09H His daughters produced Miss Georgie 2:10*£. Mona Wilkes (3) 2:1114. Lady Mowry (4) 2-.UH, Caroline L. 2:149i Iloilo2:15,and Miss Winn 2:15)4. NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. Rffo t?(l pOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges if horse remains my property FCC J>av Good pasturage at $3 per month. Bills payable before removal of mare, stock well cared for, but no responsibility assumed for accidents or escapes. loon; Stock by NUTWOOD WILKES for sale. Send for Tabulated Pedigree For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CARTER. Nutwood Stock Farm, Irviniton, Alameda Co., Cal. NUSHAGAK 25939 Sire of ARISTO 2:08^, winner of Occident and Stanford Stakes of 1902. Sired by SABLE WILKES 2:18, sire of 42 In 2:30; dam. FIDELIA (dam of Fidette 2:284, dam of Mary Celeste 2:17^) bv Director 2:17; second dam by Reavls Blaokbird2:22; grand am by Lancet, son of McCracken's Biaokhawk. Fee 850, limited to forty outilde mares. 2-Year-Old Record 21204 Sired by DEXTER PRINCE (sire of Eleata3:08X, Ltsorjero 2:08«, James L. 2:09*, Edith 2:10, etc.); dam, WOODFLOWER (dam of Seyles2:15^) by Ansel 2:20, son of Electioneer; second dam, Mayflower 2:30)4 (dam of Manzanlta 2:16, Wildflower (2) 2:21, and eight produoing daughters) by St Clair 16675. Fee 830. Both stallions will make tbe Season of 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A. SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. ALEX. BROWN, Owner, Walnut Grove. Cal. PRINCE ANSEL .A. Higli-Olass Young McKlnney GENERAL J. B. FRISBIE 41637 A handsome son of McKinney Sired by the great McKInney 2:11^, greatest sire of the age dam, thf g>-eat broodmare Daisy S (dam of Tom Smith i:l3H- *^Q 'fal Vatlej » 2:224 Little Mac ('■*) 2:27 and Sweet Rosle 2:>8\i - bv MoDonald Chief 3583 son of Clark Chief 89; second dam, Fanny Rose, great broodmare (dam of George Washington &16& Columbus S 2:17) by Ethan .Mien Jr 2993; third dam. Jenny Lfnd (dam or Prince Allen 2:27, alsodamof Fanny McGlll. dam of Sootty 2:194; Trilby 2:213£) GENERAL J B FRISBIE U a bandsome, good-gaited black five years old. He is a full brother to Tom Smith 2:13^; shows McKinney speed and will be trained for the races the season. Term*, 835 for the Season; usual return privileges. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622 Sire of Diiiican 2:15'4, George Wasnington 2:103£ (sireof Stella 2:154, Campaigner 2:26^ and Princess W 2:29^>, Trilby 2:2i& ana Sweet Rosle 2:28^. By McDonald Chief 3683 (sire of 4 and sire of dams of 7 In 2:30); dam Venus by Mambrlno Patchen 58. Terms, 820 for the season: nxual return privileges. Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horse- at my barn. 1021 Borgia St , Vall*»jo, Cal, More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. Ill II mMmMM ■ ■ 19 in 2:15 list and % I II fl I UP MM I M f in 2:33 list and sire Sidney m I llll ^% m ■ ■ m j dillon 01 U If IUU I Llll 4 SIRS OF KNOCH 2:131/,, GENERAL 2:14)1, TEDDY THK KOAN 'i:\1V,, LITTLE MISS 2:17i<. MARCHIONESS 2:29. LILLIAN MDMIIRE 2:2I'J and TIP OODANDO (trial) 2:09'/,. SID ABBOTT (trial] 2:18, JAKE F, (trial ball mile) l:OE. dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; nest dam Sarpy Mare by Eoho 462, SIDMOOR 2:17JK Is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual in every respeot. He Is one of tbe best produoing sons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon speed. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Address JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. Fee $30 for Season Usual Return Privileges. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:1 1 J, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares, Full brother to TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 First lam DAISY S. (dam of Tom Smith 2:13M. General Vallejo 2-204, Little Mac 2:274, Sweet Rosle 2:2*>X) by McDonald Chief 3583; second dam Fanny Rose (dam of Columbus S. 2: [7, George Washington S:16S£i wboslred Stella 2:15',$. Campaigner 2:26^. eto ; third dam Jenny Lind (dam of PfiOOe Allt-n 2:27 and also dam of Fanny McGlll, dam of Scotty 2:194, Trilby 2:21 ii. etc ). JONSTRUCTO& is one of the handsomestsons of the great MoKlnney on the Coast. He stands 15 ijamls 24 laches over the withers and 15 hands 3Lj laches over the loins and weigh* 1100 pounds. H never made a regular season In the stud, but was bred to several mares when three years old aa1 all of his got are of good size and good lookers. Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. Tor further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Georgia St.. Vallejo, Cal. Ambush(3) 2:l4| Delilah (3) 2:l4| Bystander 2:I4| Sherlock Holmes 2:ISJ Dixie S 2:27 Conchita 2:29 Has 10 Tliree-Ye<*r-OJdf! that worked trials Id 1905 as follow*): LILIAN ZOLOCK 2:14, KINNKT WOOD 3:15, CLKOPAT8A 3:15, RED LOOK 2:18, ZOLLIK 2:18, IN*0GUKKTTA 2:22, HYLOCK 2:25, MA, FELL A 2:26, ADA LANTE 2:26. BOLOOK 2:27, and 3 Two-Year- Olds a* follows: WENZA 2:24, BONNIE JUNE 2:27, IZALCO 2:30, and 12 others now In training: that can show quarters In from 33 to 36 seconds. ZOLOCKS Sire is the Great McKINNEY 2:11 1-4 His Dam is the great broodmare GAZELLE 2:11 1-2 (by Goasiper 2:14J£) dam of ZOLOCK 2:05^, Zephyr 2:07}<; second dam the great broodmare GiDsey (by Gen Booth 2:30*4) dam of Gazelle 2:114, Delilah (3) 2:144, Ed Wioship 2-15, Wlllets (mat.) 2:17, DiileS 2:27, and grandam of Col Green (trial) 2:104. third dam Echo Belle (grandam of Conn 2: 15*4) by Echo 462; 4th dam by Lummox and 5th dam by Grey Eagle. ZOLOCK stands 16 bands. Is a beautiful brown and a horse of grand proportions. All his colts are good-headed, and tbere bas never been one that went lame. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Season starts February 1st and ends Jane 1st. Mares will be cared for In any manner desired, but Terms for the Season, $75. no responsibility for accidents or escapes. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO by ZOLOCK 3:OSt(; dam GIPSET. dam of Gazelle 2:11%. Delilah 2:1414 and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14%. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY. Race Track. Pleasanton. Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05{ SIRE OF BOXA1.ET (3) 2:09~i, In winning race— World's Record for age and Bex. BONNIE HIE (3), trial (trotting) 2:11% (last naif 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECTS first orop prepared to raoe. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 per week. Feeding and pasturing, 82.50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, including green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good condition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. OR. E. G. MCCONNELL 70S Sutter St., San Francisco. C. L. GRIFFITH, PLEASANTON, CAL. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE SEASON OF 1906 AT PLEASANTON STAR POINTER 1:59) • ■WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN 1897. The Fastest, Gamest and Most Consistent Kace Horse In Turf History. Blre of f MORNING STAR 3:03. JOE POINTER 2:05^, [SIDNEY POISTEB 2:07l{, SCHl.tY POINTER 2:08><, etc. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 1-2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:59M Hal Olllard 2:04ii Star Hal 2:045£ Hal Cbaffln 2:05K Elastio Pointer 2:064 New Riohmond 2:07X Hal Braden 2-smn Storm .2:0854 Brown Heels 2:09X Laurel 2:09« Silver Hal 2:10 BtO. 6 producing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Heels Dam of Star Pointer l:59u Hal Pointer 2:04 Elastio Poimer 2:06H Cloud Pointer- 2:24^ Tennessee Pointer 2:243t* 2 producing sons 6 producing daughters Service Fee - - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. Get the Blood that. Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McEINNBY 2:11H. sire of SWEET MARIE 2:04^. Kinney Lou 2:0??4. Charley Mac 2:07=£, Hazel Kinney 2:094, Th* Roman 2:094. Dr. Book 2:10. Conev 2:02, China Maid 2:05^. You Bet 2:07. Jennie Mao 2:09. Zolock 2:054 Dam, AILKEN 2:«64 (dam of Mowitza 2:204, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:32, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 2:164. sire of dams of Directum Kelly 2:08W. Grey Gem 2:094, W. Wood 2:07, eto. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:584. Red- wood 2:214. Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:264) by Milton Medium 2:254 (sire of 2 and dams of 5) by Happy Medium 2:324. sire of Nancy Hanus 2:04, eto. GRECO is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only race as a colt, and has shown ml lea In 2:20 since In his work, and is a sure 2:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares £.t «100 THIS SK'.-uon, Correspondence solicited. Address (HAS, De RYDER, Manager, Pleatianton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IRAN alto'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and hts dam and gran- dam both produced a oolt that was a world's record breaker, and his grandsire bas sired several trotters that broke world's reoords No other horse with a record as fast as IRAN ALTO'S can claim this. At nine years he had sired ten colts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse 2:124. Thomas R. 2:15, Vendome2:l71 Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25— all at four years old. Who can name a horse whose first ten colts can beat that? Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, GAL. FEE $40 For further particulars address 820 due when mare Is bred and H. S. HOGOBOOtf. S20 payable when mare Is known to be In foal. 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No. 2 $10U0 Guaranteed Stake for Pacers Eligible to 2:30 Class. Xo. 3. $ 500. Guaranteed Stake for 3-year-old Trotters, 2:80 Class. No. 4 $ 500. Guaranteed Stake for 3-year-old Pacers, 2:25 Class. Liberal Stakes -will be Announced Later for Other Classes. ENTRANCE DUE AS FOLLOWS: 3 per cent on May 1, 1906; 1 psr cent additional if not declared out by June 1, 1906, and 1 per cent addi- tional if not declared out by July 2, 1906. In Stakes Nos. 1 and 5 on July 2. 1906 nominators, by the payment of an additional 3 per cen\ have the right to substitute another horse, or transferring their entry to another person, in place of the horse named in the original entry; but the norse so substituted must be eligible to the class in which substitution is made on July 2, 1906. Declarations (lo declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made. Member National Trotting Association. For Entry olanks, full conditions, etc., address or apply to Or BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 Geary St San Francisco. SH^JEJINTOIEJH, W oodland, Cal Early Closing Stakes OREGON STATE FAIR SALEM, SEPT. 10 TO 15, 1906 ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 15 But Letters Postmarked May 16 will be Accepted Illihee Stake, for Two=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 Valley Stake, for Three=year=old Pacers, 2 in 3 .... Merchants' Stake, for 2:25 Pacers, 2 in 3 Greater Salem Stake, for 2:15 Pacers, 3 in 5 Rural Spirit Stake, for 2:10 Pacers, 2 in 3 Oregon Stake, for Twc=> earmold Trotters, 2 in 3 .. Inland Stake, for Three=year=old Trotters, 2 in 3. Farmers' Stake, for 2:27 Trotters, 2 in 3 Lewis & Clark Stake, for 2:17 Trotters, 3 in 5 Capital City Stake, for 2:12 Trotters, 2 in 3 $400 500 1000 2000 700 400 500 1000 2000 700 f*0 ISinTTIOlM^i* Entraoce fee 5 per cent of stake and 5 par cent additional from money vvll UX X IvllO. winners, payable 2 per cent May 15, when horse must b9 named, and 3 per oent September 1. Money divided 50. 25, 15 and 10 per cant of stake. Horses not winning a heat In three snail 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 shall have a right to a share of the stak according to their rank at the close of the last heat. Right to transfer or subsiitute entry in the stakes open to August 1 to horses eligible May 15, subject to approval. The board reserves the right to declare off and return first payment in any stake that does not fill satisfactorily. Righ' reserved to declare two starters a walk-over. When only two start they may cnniest for the en trance money paid in. divided 70 par cent to first aad 30 per cent to second horse Ahorse distancing the field shall be entitled to first and fourth moneys only, and in no other case will a horse be enti- tled to mire than one money Other than specified rules of the National Trotting Association, of ^hich this Association Is a member, to govern, except hopples not barred. Two Consolation Purses of $500 Each. Free en trance will ba given to n on- winning" starters in iheG- ■ai'isr 3ihii S for 2:15 pacsrs, and the Lewis and Clark Stake for 2:17 trotters, mile heats, 2 in B, provided there are eight or more starters in each of the original stakeB. W. H. DOWNING, President. F. W. DURBIN, Secretary, Shaw, Oregon. Salem, Oregon. Entry Blanks can be had from the Secretary or at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. 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MEDICINE CO. , Chemists & Germologists, 1 3 Third St., Lafayette, Ind ..WELL, General Agent for Paclflo Coftlt, 519 Mlulon St., San Francisco, Cal ^m WV^H ^^ Resistered Trade % t>esr Sir's :- Replying to yourVof the" 11th Inst. ^ About two years ago a very fine, well bred mare. I own. got what seemed to he a bad sprain of the off for* fetlock which made her very lame, I blistered her and let her run out for about four months, when I took har up she waB better but still lama and got worae when worked, 1 then tried another kind of blister with about the came results. Last Spring T bought a bottle of your Save-the-Horse from your agent in this city Mr Newel J , after treating the mare with this for about two weeks I gave her some alow driving, she Improved very much and by the tins I had usea Up the bottle I was able to arive- her twenty or thirty mileB without* any apparent bad effects, she now goeB oour.d; I also with 'the Ban* qottle removed two wind galls from her hind legs. 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TROY CHEMICAL CO., Binghamton, N. Y. FORMERLY TROY, NEW YORK D, E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent, 519 Mission St., San Francisco On in in Ointment Will Make A Horse Over; ill pu t sound legs under him and I will save him from the cheap hawker and trader. It is thel standard cure for Spavins, Curbs, Splints, Wind puffs and all the various lumps and bunches of like kind. Keep it always on hand and you will be prepared when trouble comes. Leading horsemen everywhere know it and use it. Mr. H. H. Clark, Fredonla. N. V., writeBi "The bottle of Qui nn' s Ointment purchased from you about two years ago removed a curb and thorouphpin and did it for good. My hone's leg Is as smooth as ever." I Price $1.00 per bottle. Sold by all druggists or sent by mail* I Write for circulars, testimonials, etc W.B. EDDY A COMPANY, WHITEHALL, N. Y. APKIL 14, 1906] f&he greebcv mtfr gt^rcivismtut 3 THE WEEKLY BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN F. W. KELLEY, Propreetob. Turf and Sporting Authority ot the Pacific Coast. —office — ■ 36 QEARY STREET, SAN FRANCISCO. P. O. BOX 44.7. Telethons: Black 586. Tecmi- One Year S3, Six Months 81. 75. Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE. Money should be sent by postal order, draft or by registered letter addressed to F. W. KELLEY, 36 Geary St., San Francisco, California. ._ Communications must be accompanied by the writer s name ana address, not neoessarily for publication, but as a private guar- antee of good faith. San Francisco, Saturday, April 14, 1906 Stallions Advertised. TROTTING BRED. ALMA DEN 2:22*4 M. L. Lusk, Sacramento, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT 2:05^..C. L. Griffith, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE McK. 36569 Geo. A. Kelly, Pleasanton, Cal. BON VOYAGE 2:12% Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. CHAS. DERBY 2:20 Oak wood Park, Danville, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 James Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. GRECO Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. HIGHLAND Ted Hayes, Pleasanton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 2:12*A H. S. Hogoboom, Woodland, Cal. "■'ZALCO H\ Delaney, Pleasanton, Cal. KINNEY LOU 2:07% Eudd Doble, San Jose KINNEY WILKES R- D. 3, Watsonville, Cal. LYNWOOD W. 2:20%... H. A. Carlton, Santa Rosa, Cal. McKINNEY 2.11*,i Empire City Farms, Cuba, N. Y. MAMBRINO CHIEF JR. 11622, Thos. Smith, Vallejo, Cal. MENDOCINO 2:19% Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. McKENA 39460 Palo Alto Stock Farm, Cal. MONTEREY 2:09*4... P. J- Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. MURRAY M. 2:14. Prof. H. B. Freeman, Los Angeles.Cal. NEAREST .2.22*4 T. W. Barstow, San Jose, Cal. NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16% ......... _. Martin Carter, Irvington, Cal. NUSHAGAK 259"39 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. PRINCE ANSEL 2:20%.. C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. R AMBUSH 2:14% G. W. Bonnell, Redlands, Cal. RED McKINNEY W. R. Murphy, Tulare. Cal. SIDMOOR 2:17% John Ott, Pacheco, CaL STAR POINTER 1:59V* £"'\Z. * " " " n i Chas. De Ryder, Pleasanton, Cal. STILLWELL Oakwood Park, Danville, Cal. T. C. 2:30 Geo. T. Algeo, Alameda, Cal. TOM SMITH 2:13*4 C. A. Spencer, Woodland, Cal. UNIMAK 40936... Capt. C. H. Williams, Palo Alto, Cal. WASHINGTON McKINNEY Rose Dale Stock Farm, Santa Rosa, Cal. WILLIAM HAROLD 2:13*4.. H. W. Meek, San Lorenzo. YOSEMITE P. J. Williams, San Lorenzo, Cal. YOUNG HAL 2:10*4-. I. C. Mosher, Los Angeles, Cal. ZOLOCK 2:05*4 H. Delaney, Fleasanton, Cal. ZOMBRO 2:11 Geo. T. Beckers, Los Angeles, Cal. HACKNEYS. GREEN'S RUFUS Baywood Stud, San Mateo, Cal. SQUIRE OF CHESTER. .Toghill Stud, Menlo Park, Cal. MANCHESTER 201 A. H. Brinton, Woodland, Cal. California Stake Payments Due in 1906. Pacifio Breeders' Futurity Stakes. (Payments should be made to F. W. Kelley, secre- tary, 36 Geary street, San Francisco.) Stake No. 3, $6000, foals of 1903— $10 due April 1. 1906, and starting payment of $50 on three-year-old trotters and $35 on three-year-old pacers ten days be- fore the meeting. Stake No. 4, $6000, foals of 1904 — Starting payment of $35 on two-year-old trotters and $25 on two-year-old pacers ten days before the meeting. Stake No. 6, $7000, foals of 1906— $5 due May 1, 1906, and $5 due October 1, 1906. Stanford Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Stanford Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— $10 due June 1, 1906, and starting payment of $20 ten days before State Fair opens. Stanford Stake of 1907, foals of 1904— $10 due June 1, 1906. Occident Stake. (Payments should be made to Albert Lindley, sec- retary, Sacramento.) Occident Stake of 1906, foals of 1903— Starting pay- ment of $50 due 30 days before the race. OAKWOOD PARK STOCK FARM has been sold. This great nursery of trotters and pacers, located at the foot of Mount Diablo, three miles from Danville, Contra Costa county, the home for so many years of Steinway and one of the greatest bands of brood mares ever got together on one breeding farm, has passed to a new owner, and the grandly bred horses and blooded cattle will be sold. The new purchaser, Mrs. Lena Humphrey of Bolton, Cass county, Mo., may transform it into a pleasure resort, to be run in connection with the new electric railroad, which is planned to scale Mount Diablo. The lands of Oak- wood Park Stock Farm extends over hill and valley for 5000 acres of some of the richest land in Contra Costa county. The purchase price is not stated in the dispatch announcing this sale but it is in the neighborhood of $400,000. This farm was founded by the late Daniel Cook, and at his death was continued by his brother, Seth Cook, at whose demise it passed to Mr. and Mrs. John P. Boyd, Mrs. Boyd being a sis- ter to Mr. Cook. The stallion Steinway was purchased in Kentucky by Samuel Gamble as the premier sire for the founder of the ranch and at the same time and afterwards many fine brood mares were pur- chased in the East and elsewhere to mate with him. Steinway proved a great sire, and at his death last year was the sire of 14 trotters and 25 pacers in the list, among them such champions as Klatawah 2:05% at three years. W. Wood 2:07, Agitato 2:09, Cricket 2:10, etc. Seven, of Steinway's sons have sired stand- ard speed and his grandsons are proving that his blood breeds on. Among the sons of Steinway that are known to fame are Chas. Derby 2:20 (sire of Don Derby 2:04*4. Much Better 2:07*4. Diablo 2:09*4. Derby Princess 2:08%, etc.); Saraway (sire of Win- field Stratton 2:05%); Strathway 2:19 (sire of John Caldwell 2:0S% and Toggles 2:08%),. and many others that we have not space to mention. The daughters of Steinway are also proving great producers and have given to the turf such record holders as Stanley Dillon 2:07%, Tuna 2:08%, Ben F. 2:07%. Confienza 2:12*4, William Harold 2:13%, sire of Janice 2:08%, etc., etc. At the farm now Chas. Derby is the pre- mier, and he is a worthy successor to a noble sire. There is also a great young horse by him out of Bertha, therefore a full brother to Diablo and Don Derby. This horse is called Stillwell. and at the ranch they consider him the best of all Bertha's foals. The list of brood mares is a long one, and the proportion of speed producers among them is large. Space will not permit their mention here. There are also a number of thoroughbreds and Cleveland bays on the Oakwood Park Stock Farm, and two or three hundred head of pedigreed cattle — mostly Devons and Shorthorns. Oakwood Park Farm is one of the largest, best ap- pointed and most beautiful country seats and breeding farms on the coast. From it have come some of the greatest trotters and pacers this State has pro- duced, and the dispersal of the horses will be a mat- ter of regret to every admirer of the light harness horse in California. At the same time it will give small breeders the opportunity of a lifetime, and if the stock is offered for sale they will be ready to pick up the many good ones that will be offered. TRACK AND ROAD. THE GRAND CIRCUIT FOR 1906. Detroit, Mich, July 23-Aug. 4. Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 6-11. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.. Aug. 13-18. Readville, Mass., Aug. 20-25. Providence, R. I., Aug. 27-Sept. 1. Syracuse, N. T., Sept. 10-15. Columbus, O., Sept. 17-22. Cincinnati, O., Sept. 24-29. PROGRAMS SHOULD BE ANNOUNCED for the different meetings to be held on the California Cir- cuit this year. Los Angeles, Fresno, Salinas, Santa Rosa and the State Fair should get their programs ready and publish them early. Entries need not close early, but the programs should be out so that horse- men may know what to train and when to get ready. So far nothing has been announced but the early closing stakes of the Breeders and the Woodland associations, and a couple of colt stakes for the State Fair. Trainers would like to know what classes are to be given. There is no use training a hois- with a record of 2:12 if no faster classes than 2:14 are to bo offered. We hope the secretaries in places that intend t" give meetings will see the force of this argu- ment and announce their programs. THE NEW SPEED TRACK noM building In Gold" n Gate Park is beginning to show the Immense amounl of work that has been done on it and is assuming shape. Superlntendenl Mi Dan n thinks it will be c ileted i" hold matinee racing over by July 4th and while that date may be a little too close to have everything ready, the facl thai the track will b< r< idy to s] d over this summer has made many a horse- man begin looking around On- a trotter •>> pacer thai. Is East i nough to beal soi I he s. When com- pleted the new track will be one of the mosi popular pleasure resorts of our beautiful park. W. H. Lumsden of Santa Rosa will again send his two Bonnie Direct fillies Bonalet 2:09% and Bonnie Me over to Ed Benyon to race this year. Dr. Shanks of Susanville has received his 1906 model McMurray sulky, the first of the new year's sulkies to be received in California. Kenney, of 531 Valencia street, coast agent for the McMurray vehicles, says this is "just what the doctor ordered." The Houghton Sulky Company advertises its vehi- cles in this issue of the Breeder and Sportsman, hav- nig established an agency with the San Francisco Wheel and Novelty Company at Sixteenth and Val- encia streets, this city. This company makes the Houghton sulky, one of the new things for 1906; the Flower City sulky, that has been drawn by so many record breakers and race winners; the Houghton training cart especially desirable for matinee racing: and one of the same name called the No. 6 that has the much desired low seat — sit down, swing around, and you're in; besides many more styles too numer- ous to mention. Go out and see these vehicles. They are all new and up to date. April 10th Kinney Lou 2:07% had been bred to twenty-four mares this year. Of that number Grace Lowry by Diablo 2:09%, Athene by Dexter Prince. Central Girl 2:22% by Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, Patti by Prince Nutwood 2: 12%. and Stella Marvin by Don Marvin 2:22%, were bred last week. The mares Minnie C. by Mendocino 2:19%, dam Ororose by Oro Wilkes 2:11. and Lady Estelle by Athadon (1) 2:27 owned by S. Christenson, and a roan mare by Atha- don, dam Flora P. 2:16 by Dexter Prince, owned by J. O. Scribner, have been sent to be bred to the greatest son of the great McKinney. All these three last mentioned mares will soon have foals by Strath- way 2:19. Prince Direct 2:07%, or Freddie C, as he was called when racing out here on the Coast, is now owned by George Amsden of Richmond, Indiana, and is doing stud duty at his owner's farm. Helen Keyes. the Sidney Dillon mare that went east last year in the Salisbury string, will be taken over again about May 1st by Millard Sanders. This mare is a phenomenally fast trotter and will get a very- low murk some day. Barbed Wire, who broke the world's record on the ice at Concord, N. H., last winter by stepping a quar- ter in 30 seconds on a carefully measured course, has a history equal to that of Little Gyp, formerly owned by Hon. Warren F. Daniel, of Franklin. When a young colt in the pasture Barbed Wire was missing for sev- eral days and was finally found in a maimed condi- tion between a stone wall and barbed wire fence with one of his feet badly cut by the wire. From loss of blood, lack of food and exposure Barbed Wire was in a condition which required careful nursing for weeks. At the end of this time he was thought to be of no special use and was swapped by his owner for a calf. His new owner soon came to the conclusion that his bargain was a poor one and gave Barbed Wire to his doctor in payment of a bill. He was traded around, swapped back and forth until twelve years old, with- out ever being harnessed. Finally one of his owners broke him to harness and found he had remarkable speed, and he has since appeared in many races. He is owned by F. L. Muzzey, of Pittsfield, and is used in the summer as a road horse and is one of the best in that section for the purpose. Barbed Wire is 22 years old and is of Morgan blood. — Trotter and Pacer. Mr. P. W. Bellingall, who bred two fine mares by Secretary to Kinney Lou 2:07%, last year, reports that both have dropped brown fillies that are splendid specimens and natural trotters. Mr. Bellingall keeps these mares at his home place in Oakland and drove them on the road up to within a few weeks of foaling. The one driven the most and fastest has the strongest and largest foal. The Cone Ranch Company. Red Bluff, recently sent to Budd Doble to be trained the three-year-old colt Diamond Mac. by Kinney Lou 2:07%. dam Kitty Mar- vin by Don Marvin. This colt is a credit to his sire, and bears a strong resemblance to him, and is cer- tainly a trotter and a high class prospect. Mr. Doble i? more than pleased with him. Prof. W. L. Carlyle, dean of the Colorado Agricul- tural College, has been commissioned by the Govern- ni' hi to journey to Europe and spend four months in France, Germany, England ami Belgium studying horse breeding methods. Prof. < 'arlyle intends to start .in his peregi ina t Ions aboul .1 une 1. Tli.- next regular in---.-iin.sr of the Board <>f Appeals of Hm' American Trotting Association will he held al the Auditorium Hotel, Chicago, May 1. 1906, at 10 o'clock a. m. for the transaction of such business as may properly !"■ presented to the board for its i eratlon. All new applications and written evl must he received ftl thi office of Secretary W. II. Knight, i !hl later than April 15. II, n, lis, one of I li thoroughbreds in the ■ <<\ .'. and ivlnnei ot manj important races in re- , asons, has been exercised in harness during the ■ ,, I..,-. The objeel was, of coursi strain as mu< h as i Ible oil tos leg - the great stallion has developed Into tempered pleasant driver. (Eta? gveeitev anii *&pjcrvt&man [April 14, 1906 Ai other track that will probably be cut up into Willows, Glenn county. pari) has been bred to Dan Patch 1:55%. |] hold the world's record for speed in- heritance. k S. Turner, proprietor of the Santa Rosa Sto "f the Santa Rosa Race track, i he Breeder and Sportsman to state that there ility of that track going the way of the San Jose track and being cut up into town lots. Such a rumor is said to have been going the rounds Francisco last week, but if so it had no foundation in fact. Mr. Turner has a lease of the . . years, and any sale of the property by the Estate of Henry Pierce, will he subject to that lease. The track is now in first class shape for train- ing and will be kept so this summer. There are ex- cellent accommodations for horsemen. On more than one occasion this winter the Breeder and Sportsman has made reference to Mr. M. Henry's horses in training at Pleasanton. Some of the "wise guys'' of the eastern turf press have copied these items but changed the trainer's name to Myron Mc- Henry, probably thinking the former driver of Dan Patch was in California, and the wild and woolly west did not know how to spell his name. It is M. Henry of Haywards, if you please. The Blair-Baker sale at Indianapolis, which closed March 2Sth. was a complete success. Grace A. 2:12%, chestnut mare by Anderson "Wilkes, sold for $5000; Missal, brown gelding by Directum Kelly, sold for 54001. The Hermit, a five-year-old by Adbell, brought 51250, and Direct Aim, a six-year-old green trotter by the Director General, sold for $2000. These were the highest priced animals of the sale. The first of the Bonnie Directs to put in an appear- ance this year is a very handsome bay filly, foaled the last day of March by Mr. M. Henry's mare Hulda by Guide. It is quite probable that a race meet will be held in Marysville soon after the one which will take place at c'olusa during the latter part of this month. The Yuba and Sutter Driving Club gave a very successful and enjoyable meet last year and an endeavor will be made to repeat it, or have even a better one some time in May. There are a number of fast horses in that vicinity and their owners are quite anxious to have another opportunity to pit their animals against others. There is also considerable talk of some match races for large purses and side bets, and should some of these be pulled off they will add interest to the meet. A committee from the driving club consisting of Colonel E. A. Forbes, Jake Marcuse, R. R. Raish, M. Gomez and G. H. Magruder has been appointed to canvass for funds and arrange as far as possible for a three or four days' race meet. A Denver paper says: The trotting horse Swift B.. sold last y.ar to J. Williams of Boston by J. A. Rich- ardson of this city, will bear watching even if he was a sore disappointment last "year. He had poor feet all season and it was not until late in September that he began to come on. At Cincinnati he raced three heats in 2:08 and looked as good a trotter that day as there was in training. This spring his feet are to all appearances perfect and he is likely to make good the claim of his former owner that he is a 2:05 trotter. Sentiment is the very backbone of breeding and racing the trotter, says an eastern exchange. If it were not for the support of the men who love the horse for himself both would fall to the level of a commercial venture pure and simple. Too much em- phasis cannot be put upon sentiment in considering means to elevate the tone of the sport. The men who give the sport of racing a tone are not the men who are looking to make money out of it, but who re- gard it as a sport which they are willing to pay for if necessary. Of course every man who races horses is anxious to win; and if he is able to make ends meet by his winnings so much the better. There are many men engaged in breeding who have entered into it, not with the idea of making a fortune out of it, but with the hope some <'--i.y of breeding an animal that may win distinction on the track, and many such breeders, too, hope to contribute something to the improvement of the breed. -\ ii. are belonging to Martin Castro of Gonzales re- cently foaled a three legged colt that is a lively and otherwise well developed freak of nature. The left eg "f the colt is absent, and there is only a small lump of skin extending from the shoulder about I ! * in length. The colt is strong and manages to hop about on its three legs with apparent ease. It can Hi down and get up alone and is a rare curiosity. -| ho i seen it say that when the colt moves of the left shoulder work as though ■ Coui th leg. i ' Barry of Portland, Oregon, has sold his Mc- Klnney stallion Nehalem, dam Nada by Gossiper i" -I. Crouch & Son, the well known horse Lafayette, Indiana. His new owners have ime to Kinney Gossip. C. X. Larrabee of Brook-Nook Ranch, Mon- tana, i i :hasi I the Morgan stallion Spokane o breed to his mai es bj the Morgan stallion J u bite -■ Jarnette. Spokane is l r> . i: , weighs 1130 pounds and I a ha rid some seal brow n. The stallion Allandorf, son of Onward and the great brood mare Alma Mater, died March 29th at Haw Patch Farm, Columbus, Ohio, aged 23 years. Allandorf sired thirty-two standard performers, in- cluding Dick Hubbard 2:09%, Emma E. 2:09, Strong Boy 2:11%, Celaya 2:11%, Knott Allan 2:13%, Hugh "Wynne 2:13%. His daughters produced Much Better 2:07%, Christobel 2:11%, Little Better 2:11%, Thorn- way 2:12%. He has thirteen sons represented among the successful sires, they having sired forty-seven performers, afong them Dr. Strong 2:05%, Allanwood 2:09%, Aileen 2:11%, Goldust Maid 2:09%, Kirkwood 2:10, Maggie Hubbard 2:11% and others. 11 ai Dixon will draw a big crowd i ear If thi n eathei is fa \ ora ble, Lasl s ear rain fell dm i aftei i i . ■ ■ ■ I vi py 1'k.s.e to a takei In ai the gate at 25 cents ■ oavi Hlled, as follows: The r-old trotting race are: T. C, A lex Brown's Prince Lot, M. < \ : Rush & Salle's Anlbell. The trot 1 si he following horses ■ i Alex Br'iwn's Red Blossom, Tom Kilkenny's Or, Hyde and J. J. Kilkenny's < I'Riley. The -old pace will bi represented by Rush & i ; Eai l. K. B. Robben's Diablo Maid and ■ ildJey's Dr. Mlllai Oi e or I wo additional robablj be given during the afternoon. The accompanying picture is of the Mendocino stal- lion advertised for sale in this issue at the low price of $500. The picture does not do the horse justice, but he can be seen at Oakland, and we advise buyers in search of a good animal to look him over. He has trotted in 2:18% in his work, but a slight injury prevents his standing training to race. On the road he never shows any lameness, and he is well enough bred to head a stock farm, as his dam is a double producer by Nutwood. Read the advertisement. Hans Frellson is driving a very handsome black mare by Del Norte 2: OS out of a mare by Antrim, sire of Anzella 2:06%, that is an excellent prospect. Hans says he will drive her a mile in 2:15 this sum- mer. She is a trotter. Daedalion is working so nicely for James Thompson that a lowering of his record of 2:08% is being pre- dicted. Jos. Cuicello drove his pacer Ring Rose a mile in 2:11% last Monday, with the last half in 1:04%. This looks like the Falrose gelding is getting ready to win money this year. Cavel Rodriguez has moved Mr. C. H. Wideman's horses from the home place at Gonzales to the Sa- linas track, where he will get them ready for the California circuit. Several Pleasanton trainers who will race on the Grand Circuit would like to hear from some of the Western mile tracks within a radius of three or four hundred miles of Chicago that will give early meet- ings this year. They will go east in May or June and would like to get a few races on mile tracks before the Grand Circuit opens. There are some very fast horses to go that would prove an attraction at any meeting. For instance there are John Caldwell and Tuna, both trotters, and Daedalion, a pacer, all with records of 2:08%, and their trainers would like to start them a time or two before hitting fhe record breakers of the big ring. They don't want to race on half-mile tracks, however, preferring the mile rings. Any mile track circuit in the Middle "West that will be racing before the Grand Circuit opens should send a few entry blanks to Pleasanton. Pique, the dam of Chain Shot 2:06%, Brash 2:14% and two others, and grandam of Red Tell 2:0S%, has a colt by Sidney Dillon. She is owned by Sterling R. Holt, owner of the stallion. The six-year-old mare Maggie N., own sister to Robert I. 2:08% and Murray M. 2:14, is offered for sale for $300. Write to D. V. Truax, owner, 1126 Park avenue, Alameda. The Dexter Princes averaged more than the Cupids at the Aptos Ranch sale, but a Cupid brought the highest price. An owner in California, in advertising jiis "im- ported German Coach stallion." states that "for orch- ard purposes .action and general make-up this horse is unsurpassed." That's going some. Some preliminary races will be held this afternoon at Pleasanton under the auspices of the new Matinee Club, and on Saturday, April 2Sth, a regular program will be given. There'll be some fast miles and the' fun will be worth seeing. Second payment of $5 each is due on each entry in Breeders' Futurity No. 6, for foals of 1906. This stake is worth $7000. If you keep your mare in and she dies or the foal dies you can substitute another or sell your nomination up to January 2, 1907. I Direct 2:12% arrived at his new home in Ogden in first class shape after being aboard the cars 110 hours on the way from San P'rancisco. Like nearly all horses with good, level heads, he is a splendid traveler on the cars and takes matters philosophi- cally, no matter what happens. His new owner, Mr. A. G. Fell, is highly pleased with him. Nearly forty mares have been booked to Star Pointer and up to last week he had served 25. Californians made twenty-three nominations in the Kentucky Futurity for foals of 1906. There was a total of 1200 mares nominated by 447 nominators. The stake was not advertised in this State to any extent, or the representation of California mares would have been larger. There were forty-five mares bred to McKinney and twenty bred to Sidney Dillon nominated. John A. McKerron, at 251-257 Golden Gate avenue, is very busy these days filling orders for high class harness and horse boots. Mr. McKerron made a rule when he started in business many years ago that all work leaving his establishment should not only be what the customer ordered ,but be made of the best material and in the best possible manner. That is the secret of his great success and the reason why the McKerron goods, no matter how well others are made, are always the best in the market. Ask any trainer or horseman who had had experience what goods are the best and he will tell you "McKerron's." The three-year-old colt Cochato by Todd 2:14%, dam Castanea 2:19% by Pistachio, has been sold by Col. A. C. Drinkwater of Boston to a syndicate of Boston horsemen for $10,000. He is entered in all the big stakes and will be trained especially to win the Kentucky Futurity. He started in the American Horse Breeders' Futurity last year and got third money. WILLIAM HAROLD 2:13'4 AT STUD. Mr. W. A. Clark Jr. recently bought a pacer that is expected to be right up in the money winning row this season. The horse is Spill 2:12% over a half mile track last year. J. O. Gerrity went over to Omaha last month and purchased the horse for Mr. Clark, paying $3000 for him. AI Thomas will train him until Gerrity goes east with the Clark string. Spill started green in 1904 and took a record of 2:15%. He started thirteen times last year and won ten raci s, being second in the other three. He is a six- year-old bay gelding by Wawan, dam Achsa Wilkes by Garnet Wilkes, son of Onward 2:25%; second dam Rfchwood's Ivy by Indianapolis 2:21; third dam Mat- lie M unger by Nomad, son of Almont; fourth dam Adela ide by Black Donald, son of Mambrino Chief; fifth dam by Captain Beard, thoroughbred; sixth dam Alida, thoroughbred, by Buford, etc. Wawan, sire of Spill, is by Woodllne 2:19, dam Lavish by Cornelian, son of Princeps; semnd dam Laviana by Stoner Boy, son of Strathmore; third dam Lorena by Volunteer; fourth dam Hawkfn's Messenger mare. Sterling R. Holt has purchased a well bred daugh- ter of Arion 2:07% to breed to Sidney Dillon. A stallion with a fast record, whose sire had a fast record and is grandsire of the world's champion trotter, whose dam has a record of 2:10 and has pro- duced four in the list, is worth breeding to, especially when the stallion is a good individual and has proven himself a sire of speed by having one of his daughters trot to a race record of 2:0S% and a son get a pacing record of 2: 15. For a stallion that has the limited opportunities of William Harold this we consider a great showing and when his services can be had for a fee of $25 the season, he should not lack patronage, and he will not. Mr. H. W. Meek, owner of this stallion, desires that he should have a better oppor- tunity in the stud than heretofore, consequently he has put his fee at this very low figure. William Harold 2:13% is by Sidney 2:19%, sire of 19 in the 2:15 list. 104 in the 2:30 list, and whose sons have sired 90 in the list, including Lou Dillon 1:5S%, and whose daughters have produced 23 in the list, including seven with records below 2:14. His dam is Cricket 2:10 by Steinway 2:25%. She has produced four in the 2:20 list — WiHiam Harold 2:13%, Hopper 2:14%, Isobel 2:19, and Cricri 2:20, and has two more that will enter the list this year. She was a great race mare herself and is proving one of the greatest brood mares in California. With this breeding Williarn Harold would naturally be expected to sire speed, and the fact is that his daughter Janice took a trotting race record of 2:0S%, which she would have reduced materially had she lived, as it was not the limit of her speed by any means. In fact, Millard Sanders, who gave her her record, confidentially believed her capable of lowering her record five seconds. William Harold will he in the stud at San Lorenzo, where excellent pasturage for mares will be furnished at $4 per month. For further particulars address Mr. H. W. Meek at the above named postoffice. Jackson's Napa Soda does not tangle the feet April 14 ISCo] Cju. grvifrnr atx& gppofcxsmcm THREE-YEAR-OLDS IN FUTURITY. APTOS RANCH HORSES SELL WELL. PLEASANTON HAS A MATINEE CLUB. When all returns were in for payments made on three-year-old colts and fillies named in the $6000 Pacific Breeders' Futurity for foals of 1903, it was found that just forty-one had payments made on them April 2d. While it will not be known until the start- ing payments are made on these youngsters just what proportion are trotters and what pacers, the proba- bility is that a large majority of them are trotters. Among those on which payments were made are Mr. E. D.^ Dudley's chestnut colt McFadyen, that won the two-vear-old pacing division last year and took a record of 2:15*. and Judge Brent's filly Magladi, that was second to him. Also F. Gommef s bay colt Prince McKinney. that won the two-year-old trot in 2:33*4, and Mr. J. N. Anderson's bay filly Delia Derby, that was the only other contestant in that division. The complete list of those on which payments were made April 2d: J. N. Anderson's b. f. Delia Derby by Chas. Derby, dam Norah D. by Del Sur. N. P. Batchelder's s. f. by Meridian, dam Corinne Neilson by Clarence Wilkes. Mrs. S- V. Barstow's br. c. Nearest McKinney by McKinnev, dam Maud J. by Nearest. Joseph H. Bohon's br. f. Zona B. by Zolock, dam Hvtu by Happy Prince. Dr. I. L. Bowman's b. c. Diablo B. by Diablo, dam Black Baby by Mirza. — Alex Brown's b. f. Red Blossom by Nushagak, dam Redfiower by Alfred. Thomas H. Brents' b. f. Magladi by Del Norte, dam Laurelia by Caution. Martin Carter's br. f. by Stam B.. dam Lida W. by Nutwood. C. L. Creir.n's ch. f. Bernice by Owyhee, dam Ber- tha by Alcantara. Cone Ranch Company's b. c. by Kinney Lou, dam Kitty Marvin by Don Marvin. Herbert Coil's s. c. Renown by Diablo, dam Golden- rose by Falrose. James Coffin's b. c. Fairhills by Mendocino, dam Marv Osborne by Azmoor. James Coffin's b. f. En Cima by McKinney, dam Lucyneer by Electioneer. Henry Delaney's ch. f. Louise Carter by T. C, dam Ingar by Director. , T. J. Drais' b. c. Drais McKinney by Guy McKin- ney, dam Blanch Ward by Onward. E. D. Dudley's ch. c. McFadyen by Diablo, dam Bee by Sterling. Dr. R. Felt's br. c. Bonnie Sain by Bonnie Direct, dam Sain Filly by imp. Sain. F. N. Frary's ch. c. Roy Dillon by Sidney Dillon, dam Lizette by Abdallah Wilkes. Patrick Foley's br. c. Major Mcntesol by Montesol, dam Lady Galindo by Abbotsford Jr. Russell Gray's b. c. Walter G. by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Bessie C. by Cal. Nutwood. F. Gommet's br. c. Princs McKinney by McKinney, dam Zorella by Detxer Prince. Griffith & McConnell's b. f. by Bonnie Direct, dam Ginger by Steinway. M. G. Gill's br. c. Kinney G. by Kinney Lou. dam Mattie G. by Dictatus. G. W. Hayes' ch. c. Joe Bowers by Silver Bee, dam Bessie by Cornelius Jr. J. B. Iverson's blk. c. Robineer by Robin, dam Ivo- neer by Eugeneer. F. J. Kilpatrick's b. f. Belle of Washington by Wash. McKinney, dam Dalia by Daly. F. J. Kilpatrick's b. f. Lady McKinney by Wash. McKinney, dam Danville Maid by Daly. Mrs. Eva G. Moore's gr. c. Alto Moore by Iran Alto, dam May by Black Eagle. William Morgan's b. c. Crisis by Zombro, dam Nellie K. by Gen. Grant. George P. Machado's b. f. Little Dot by Wm. Har- old, dam Columbia by Clipper. George C. Need's b. c. Golden Baron by Barondale, dam Mary B. by "Wilkes Boy. A. L. Reed's ch. f. Louise Reed by Jim Rea, dam Catinka by Abbotsford. James W. Rea's b. f. Mrs. Weller by McKinney, dam Much Better. James W. Rea's b. c. Alto Kenney by McKinney. dam Irantillo by Iran Alto. Santa Rosa Stock Farm's b. c. Bravo Dillon by Sid- ney Dillon, dam Russie Russell by Bay Rose. Charles F. Silva's b. c. Flyaway by Azmoor, dam Sw'ftbird by Waldstein. Thomas Smith's ch. c. Prof. Heald by Nutwood Wilkes, dam Daisy S. by McDonald Chief. L. H. Todhunter's b. c. Silver Hunter by Zombro, dam The Silver Bell by Silver Bow. L. H. Todhunter's b. c. Gerald G. by Zombro, dam Itella by Sidney. Ed Wright's b. 1 Salva by Dictatus Medium, dam Aunt Sally by Benton Boy. George L. Warlow's blk. c. Stanford McKinney by McKinney, dam Avena by Palo Alto. RED McKlNNEY AND HIS DAM ARE ELIGIBLE. The question having been asked if the stallion Red McKinney, by McKinney, dam Bonnie Red by Red Wilkes 1749, second dam Bonnie Belle by Almont, can be registered, we will state that he can. He is oije of the best bred McKinneys living and we under- stand his owner. Mr. W. R. Murphy, will have him registered immediately. His grandam, Bonnie Belle by Almont 33. is a registered mare and is in the great brood mare list. His dam Bonnie Red was bred by W. T. Withers of Lexington, Ky., and is elegible to registration under rule 1. When she is registered. Red McKinney can be registered under rule 1. One of the best sales of trotting bred horses in San Francisco in years was held at the St. Lawrence Stables, 423 Post street, last Tuesday evening. Mr. A. B. Spreckels had sent up from Aptos Ranch twenty- five head of mares and geldings by Cupid 2:18 (own brother to Sidney Dillon), Dexter Prince, Altivo 2:18*& and Aptos Wilkes, and a nicer, more uniform lot of horses has seldom been led into a salesring in California. Their ages ranged from four to six yrears, and all were well bred and good individuals. These horses had not been developed for speed, but were broken to work single and double, made familiar with the usual road sights, such as steam and electric cars and automobiles, and were in good condition. The well-known trainer, Sandy Smith, shaped them up for the sale, and had put a lot of work on them during the past three or four months. The compliments he received on all sides for the splendid condition of the horses were fully deserved. There was a large crowd present, and it was the general remark that the audi- ence had more "class" to it than any that has assem- bled at a horse sale in San Francisco in years. Fred H. Chase & Co., who had the management of the sale, had fitted up the spacious floor of the stables by- making a big sawdust ring for the horses, sur- rounded by comfortable chairs for the spectators, and although a thousand chairs were in us, as many per- sons had to stand during the sale. W. H. Hord acted as auctioneer and in his usual felicitous manner called for bids and kept the audi- ence in good humor. "Sandy" told the "story" of each horse as it was led out, and impressed everyone with the fact that he was telling the truth and acting fairly with the public and the owner. For the class of horses hold the prices were excel- lent. It must be taken into consideration that ihese animals, while well bred, good individuals and sound, were not horses in training by any means. The ma- jority of buyers present wanted road horses for every day use, and not to drive on the speedway. While there were a half dozen or so racing pros- pects among them, they were not advertised or touted as speed wonders, and the fastest quarter claimed for any one of the- consignment was a quar- ter in 35 seconds, a 2:20 gait. The twenty-five head averaged very close to $336 per head, an excellent showing. The bidding was lively and the sale was all over shortly after 10 o'clock, although the first horse was not led into the ring until 8 : 30. The highest price bid during the evening was $725, which Mr. L. A. Rogers of Fresno paid for the very handsome mare by Cupid out of Lilly S. by Speculation. This mare is a promising trotter and is a full sister to Venus II 2:11%. She has shown a quarter in 35 sec- onds at the Aptos Ranch track. The complete record of the sale is here given: Brown gelding-, 1901, by Aptos Wilkes, dam Chris- tina by Chris Smith, to A. L. Dowler for $200. Brown gelding, 1901, by Aptos Wilkes, dam Niniche by Eros, to A. Ottinger for $250. Chestnut gelding, 1902, by Dexter Prince, dam Gal- ata by Stamboul, to C. C. MfcCafferty for $510. Brown gelding, 1902, by Cupid, dam Emma S. by- Speculation, to J. McCormack for $230. Bay gelding, 1902, by Dexter Prince, dam Psy*che 2:16^ by Cupid, to M. F. Tarpey for $650. Bay gelding. 1902, by Aptos Wilkes, dam Living- ston Mare by Dexter Prince, to D. L. Randolph for $280. Bay mare, 1902, by Cupid, dam Princess Louise by Dexter Prince, to G. H. Shafer for $315. Bay mare, 1902, by Cupid, dam Lady Ashcat by Aptos Wilkes, to J. McCormack for $190. Bay mare, 1902, by Dexter Prince, dam Lady Aptos by Aptos Wilkes, to A. J. Martin for $330. Bay mare, 1902, by Dexter Prince, dam Sunrise n by Gossiper, Jr., to D. A. Ross for $500. Bay mare. 1900, by Cupid, dam Lady Ashcat by Aptos Wilkes, to T. Lunstedt for $280. Bay mare, 1900, by Altivo 2:18%, dam Princess Louise by Dexter Prince, to F. Gommet for $305. Brown gelding. 1900. by Altivo 2:18%, dam Satella by Aptos Wilkes, to C. Graves for $285. Chestnut mare, 1901, by Cupid, dam ^Livingston mare by Dexter Prince, to Geo. Gray for $360. Bay mare, 1901, by Dexter Prince, dam Susie Wilkes by Aptos "Wilkes, to S. A. Holmes for $305. Bay gelding, 1901, by Cupid, dam Erosine by Eros, to D. L. Randolph for $215. Chestnut mare. 1901, by Cupid, dam Countess by McKinney, to J. B. Hoyt for $325. Bay mare, 1901, by Cupid, dam Lilly S. by Specu- lator, to L. A. Rogers for $725. Bay mare, 1901, by Dexter Prince, dam Satilla by Aptos Wilkes, to M. MacMahan for $420. Chestnut mare, 1901, by Dexter Prince, dam Neonta by Steinway. to D. L. Randolph for $265. Brown mare, 1902, by Dexter Prince, dam Erosine by Eros, to T. Barnett for $2S0. Chestnut mare, 1902. by Dexter Prince, dam Chris- tina by Chris Smith, to Mrs. D. H. Bibb for $250. Bay gelding, 1902, by Cupid, dam Sen Sen by Dex- ter Prince, to G. H. Shafer for $415. Bay gelding, 1902, by Cupid, dam Satilla by Aptos Wilkes, to F. Daunet for $175. Brown mare, 1902, by Cupid, dam Countess by McKinney, to Dr. H. M. Berthiaume, for $330 Total for 25 head $S.390.00 Average for 25 head 335.60 Average for 9 head by Dexter Prince 390.00 Average for 11 head by Cupid ■ 323.70 Average for 2 head by Altivo 290.00 Average for 3 head by Aptos Wilkes 243. C3 An enthusiastic meeting of the newly organized Matinee Club was held in the Pleasanton Town Hall, Tuesday evening of last week, at which were present a large number of prominent horsemen and citizens of the town, says the Times of last week. The meeting was called to order by Lee Wells, who stated that the first order of business would be the election of a board of directors consisting of five members. A number of nominations were made and when the votes were counted it was found that the following gentlemen had been elected to look after the destinies of the club: A. F. Schweer, C. L. Crel- lin, J. C. Kirkpatrick. W. H. Donahue, R. C. Peach. The directors then elected A. F. Schweer president, C. L. Crellin vice-president, and W. H. Donahue sec- retary and treasurer. Mr. Schweer took the chair and declared the mat- ter of giving race meetings to be the most important question before the club and called for an expression of opinion from the members. After a lively and interesting discussion it was decided to hold a prelim- inary race meeting April 14th and a regular matinee on April 28th. In the meantime a speed committee will be ap- pointed whose duty it will be to classify the horses and so arrange the horses that a contest will be assured in each of the three or four races which will be given at each meeting. There will be no admission to the track, no betting and no money prizes. Ribbons will be given the winners and it is proposed to offer several cups during the season. There is talk of a valuable cup to be offered which must be won three times before it becomes the prop- erty of the holder. No records or bars will be in- curred at these matinee meetings as they will be held strictly in accordance with section 4 of rule 44 of the American and National Trotting Association which reads as follows: "Records cannot be made or bars incurred in trials of speed where there is no pool selling, bookmaking or other public betting on the event, no money com- peted for, no entrance charged or collected from com- peting horses, no admission fee charged to the gate or grand stand, and no privileges of any kind sold. Such performances shall not be considered public races." HORSE SHOW AND SALES BUILDING. The Board of Supervisors of San Francisco has granted permission to Fred H. Chase (successor to Killip & Co., the pioneer live stock auctioneers) to erect in the centre of the block bounded by Valencia, Fifteenth and Sixteenth streets and Albion avenue a structure to be called an Exhibition Tattersall, to be used for the purpose of holding horse shows, exhibi- tions and auction sales of high grade live stock. The main portion of this building is to be 250 feet long by 125 in width and is to contain a show ring S0xl75 feet, and seats to accommodate 2000 people. There will be 60 box stalls and 90 single stalls and the entire structure is designed to comply with all the health, fire and police regulations of the city of San Fran- cisco. The entrance will be on Valencia street. The erection of this building, which will be com- pleted within a few weeks, will fill a long felt want in San Francisco. There has never been a building here that was a fit place to hold a high class auction sale, and the enterprise of Chase & Co. will be appre- ciated by owners who consign first class stock to the salesring. The plans which Mr. Chase has had drawn up, provide for a building that will be a credit to the city and one where sales can be held in any sort of weather with as much comfort to the audience as though they were seated in a first class theatre. Mr. Chase will begin work on the new building im- mediately, the contract having already been let. HERE THEY ARE AGAIN. Not a month passes that some one does not write to this office asking how to lay out a half mile or a mile track. We have published the directions many times, but here they are again, for the benefit of two "anxious inquirers" this week: Half Mile. — For a half-mile track draw two parallel line, 600 feet long and 452 feet, and 5 inches apart. Half way between the extreme ends of the two 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 a stake as often as a fence post is needed. When this operation 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 of the above driven stakes. The turns should be thrown up an inch or an inch and an eighth to the foot. The stretches may be anywhere from forty-five to sixty feet wide. One Mil-. — For a mile track draw a line through an oblong center 400 yards in length, setting a stake at each end. Then draw a line on either side of the Hist line, exactly parallel with and 417 feet and 2 inches from it setting a stake at either end of them. You will then have an oblong square 440 yards long and 834 feet 4 inches wide. Now f isten a cord or wire 417 feet and 2 inches long to tl your parallelogram and d half circle, driving stakes as often .-is you wish to si I a fei ce post the circle is made at both en Is of yo ir ] you will have two straigl I sides and two half circles, which, measured three feet from the fence, will be exactly a mile, The turn should be thrown up an inch or an inch and an eighth to the foot. California favorite hot weather drink — Jackson's Napa Soda. The big McKinney trotter out of a Guy Wilkes mare, owned by Thos. Murphy of Russia, work< nice mile at Pleasanton last Saturday trotting the distance in 2:17%- He begins to look like a money getter. Centereye, Mr. J. O'Keeffe's fast mare by <~>n Stan- ley, is Improving all thi tlmi al Plea on. H- drove her a mile in 2:ii last week, the i" - ■ ■ on the track up to that time this seaso: Shade 2:10 before the month is oyer. 6 ®h£ gveciiev cmfcr *&pavt#mat\ April 14, 1906 PLEASANTON TRACK JOTTINGS. Monroe Salisbury, who is getting" the East View Farm horses ready to ship east about the first of Hay, has fully recovered from the severe cold he took early in the winter and looks like himself again. A representative of the Breeder and Sportsman carrying a camera approached the veteran's headquarters at Pleasanton track the other day when Mr. Salisbury said: "Do you want to take a picture of the best three-year-old in the country?'" The picture was taker, and will be found on the front page of this Issue. The youngster is not large, but is one of the best formed and best headed trotters ever seen any- where. He is by Directwell out of a mare by Simmons that has a record around 2:12 but whose name could not be ecalled. The colt is much handsomer than his picture, so the reader will know the "king maker" had reasons for his flattering opinion of the young- ster. mile in 2:35 with very little training, the last eighth in 16 seconds. Albertson says he likes her better than anything he has driven since he held the lines over George G. STATE FARM LOCATED IN YOLO. Those Simmons mares are great for producing good looks as well as speed. Mr. Salisbury said to Mr. C. L. Griffith the other day: "You have the satis- faction of knowing you have the handsomest two stallions at the track." He referred to Bonnie Direct 2:05% and Bonnie Steinway, who are half brothers out of Bon Bon 2:26 by Simmons. Bonnie Steinway' s picture on the front page gives some idea of his looks. He is a deep chestnut and a better formed stallion would be hard to find anywhere. He is the best green pacer in California in the opinion of a great many horsemen and will be raced in the East this year. He turned the track at Pleasanton in 2: OS % last year, but has not been asked to show any fast miles this year as yet. Ted Bunch, who by the way is being talked about as one of the coming trainers, worked him a mile in 2:24 last Saturday and let him step through the stretch in 30 seconds flat. The son of Steinway seemed to be going very easily, and he cer- tainly looks like a very high class prospect. Bonnie Steinway was worked several weeks last fall and seemed to thrive on it, as he took on flesh all the time. Col. J. C. Kirkpatrick bought a new pacer last week from Mr. Cook of Irvington. and Trainer James Thompson thinks he has a high class race horse that will do to enter in some of the big pacing stakes. The pacer is a son of Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, first dam Belle Nora by Belnor 5225, son of Strathmore, second dam by Ulster Chief, son of Hambletonian 10, third dam by Black Hawk 767. He was bred by R. Volmer of Alameda county, who sold him to Mr. Cook, who developed him and drove him a mile in 2:15. The day Mr. Kirkpatrick bought the horse Thompson drove him a quarter better than 30 seconds very handily. Mr. Cook received 51500 cash and the Waldstein pacer in the Kirkpatrick string for his horse. Millard Sanders likes Carrie Dillon better every time he drives her and sees something additional to re- mind him of Lou Dillon whenever he lets her step. The picture of her printed this week shows the re- markable similarity of the two mares. Carrie, will look more like her famous relative when she has filled out a little more. She has not the extreme nervous temperament that Lou has, but she has a wonderful amount of nerve force nevertheless. Ted Hayes is rapidly getting a bunch of High- lands that are just about the prettiest and liveliest family of foals one would wish to see. Christobel 2:11*4 was the first to foal, and now She 2:12%, Pattie D. 2:12% and Ruth Mary by Directum 2:05% all have foals at foot. The one out of She is built like a cart horse. Highland's foals seem to be a very lusty lot. Ted says they are on their feet and looking for breakfast as soon a's they arrive, and the strong- est little fellows he has ever seen. Mr. Clark has a very promising sire in Highland. Dan Misner has a big three-year-old pacer by Zolock in his string that is beginning to fill out and is learning how to step. Dan traded for this fellow last fall in San Bernardino. He belongs to Horace O'Rear of this city and when Misner gets him gaited the owner will drive him on the road. Zolo, as they call him. paced a quarter in 48 seconds the other day, and as he is only just broken, he looks like a pretty good prospect. Some of the boys say he is a second Zolock. Misner has a new one that belongs to Tim Judge of San Francisco. This is a mare by Nazote, brother to Azote 2:04%, out of a mare by Palo Alto 2:08%. She was bred at Palo Alto and Mr. Judge picked her up at Chico recently. She looks like a good prospect for a fast trotter. Bon Voyage 2:12% is the most admired horse at the track and Billy Forbes pulls his blanket off many times a day to show him to visitors. A friend of mine who came from "way down in Maine," and is about as good a judge of "hoss flesh" as the next one. looked him over carefully from head to heels Saturday and then remarked: "That's about the most perfect horse 1 ever saw." Bon Voyage's book is full for 1906. After the season is over, Mr. Clark proposes having him trained and along in the fall will start him to lower his three-year-old record. Next year he will be raced through the Grand Circuit. Chas. DeRyder gets more pleased every day with the Hamilton stallion by Meridian. He has a world of speed, is one of the best actors on the track and seems to thrive on work. The Fresno "buckskin mare" by Athadon that worked a mile last year in 2:08% has been put into DeRyder's hands by Mr. Grahan of San Jose, who has her under lease, and DeRyder likes her very much. She certainly has the racing con- formation and looks stout and rugged besides. Ted Hayes has some speed in his string and worked a two-year-old Stam B. Ally a mile in 2:35 last Sat- urday with the last half in 1:16. The filly is one of the nicest gaited trotters, and one of the most business like movers on the track. She will bear watching. Tertius. the McKinney trotter oul of sin- 2:12%, is 'rotting like a race horse. *osh Albertson, who trained ami developed George , j:n;,ilp has some pretty good ones in his siring :\t jleasanton. He worked ■> i ir by Hambletonian .A'ilkes out of an AUamont man- a half in 1:07% with the last quarter in 32 seconds, ami says he can beat this away off. Mr. 1. L. Borden of San Francisco owns this pacer. Mr. Borden lias some very choicely bred trotters and pacers, ami takes as much pleasure in se ling them go as the next man. He has bred and several with last records. Another good pros- pot 'n Albertson's string is a trotter owned by Lav - t Cosgrove of Fresno. It is by Athadown, sou ion, out of the dam of Cuckoo 2:13 by Milton This mare Is a handsome bay and has shown a Jack Curry behind the East View Farm pacing mar* Daphne Direct and Ben Walker driving the same farm's trotting mare Mamie R. 2:15%, worked a mile together at Pleasanton last Saturday. They went to the quarter in 33 seconds, to the half in 1:07, to the three-quarters in 1:40 and came through the stretch like race horses, but Mamie R. went to a break about one hundred yards from the wire and Dahpne Direct finished alone in 2:12% going easily. The other mare's time was 2:15. Monroe Salisbury looked on approv- ingly and expects both these mares to be good in their classes this year. J. C. Kirkpatrick purchased this week from the San Francisco Wheel & Novelty Company a long shaft low seat Flower City speed cart, weighing 45 pounds, that is the talk of the Pleasanton track. It is one of the neatest, most comfortable to ride in, and best made carts ever seen at the horse centre. RACING AT PLEASANTON TODAY. The Pleasanton Matinee Club will hold its first meeting today, beginning at 1:30. There will Le three races as follows: Free-for-all pace — Mr. Helwig's Byron Lace, Mr. McLaughlin's Ring Rose, Mr. Colestock's Peggy, and Mr. Perry's Mike. Trotting, 2:45 class — Mr. Perry's Billy Moore, Mr. McLaughlin's Tonge, Mr. Kirkpatrick's Elden Bells, Mr. Wells' Major. Mixed, 2 : 30 class— Mr. McLaughlin's Kelly, Mr. Goulardt's Hal Welcome, Mr. Peach's Roan Dick, Mr. Ronan's Anguinette. Mr. Kirkpatrick's Charley D. During the afternoon Mr. John O'Keefe will drive his fast pacing mare Centereye an exhibition mile. The track at Lawrence Stock Farm, where Kinney Lou 2:07% now has his home, is rapidly being put into shape since Mr. Doble took possession of the place April 2d. Teams have been working early and late harrowing, grading and widening, and the track is now greatly improved over its original con- dition. It is the belief of all at the farm that in a very short time it will be a first class track to train on. Everything necessary for taking care of the track is on the place, including an abundance of water which flows from artesian wells into tanks ten feet above the ground. An immense barn, 80x150 feet, contains twenty large box stalls, and plenty of room for large quantities of hay and straw, sulkies, carts, etc. In good weather or bad horses can be walked and cooled out inside the barn, out of the rain and wind, and protected from the blazing rays of a summer sun. Excellent paddocks with water and shed in each are appreciated by those who have been located on a run-down and neglected race track, where there was no place to turn out a horse, mare or colt. The State Farm Commission made its selection April 5th of a site for the State, Farm and has chosen a tract of land situated in Yolo county, near Davis- ville, and containing 778 acres of fine land. Professor E. J. Wickson makes the following state- ment in regard to Davisville site: "The selection of the Davisville site for the Uni- versity farm is eminently wise. At the close of my first examination of the farms offered, I considered it as the most available, because of convenience of ac- cess, means of frequent communication, prominence through proximity to main overland and local railway lines and because it so fully answered the require- ments of the law in the character of the soil, ample and established irrigation facilities and because it is so thoroughly representative of wide interior valley conditions. There can be no question that the law passed by the last Legislature contemplates just such a situation, and in its action the commission has directly carried out the law. "In my report to the commission I took into ac- count some other considerations which led me to commend other sites as alternative with that at Davis- ville. One of the other Yolo county sites near Wood- land seems to me to stand first because so many ex- cellent buildings would be acquired with the land and " the utilization of those would save time and money in opening instructional work on the land. Another site which was commended, chiefly because of prox- imity to the university, was the tract near Walnut Creek, but it is was for the commission to decide just what weight should be attached to proximity. It is possible that the confusion of interests in Contra Costa county may have obscured the claims of that site. "The fact remains, however, that Davisville is chosen as the most available from all points of view and most thoroughly representative of irrigated in- terior valley conditions which the law contemplated. It is fortunate that a decision has been reached and that the university can proceed with the equipment and utilization of this the most important single con- tribution which the State has ever made to the de- velopment of agricultural education. It Is fortunate also that the commission has answered w^hat seemed the clear, popular demand that the location be repre- sentative of the great open area of the State, rathet than convenient for the university. Convenience to the university is in fact a matter which should not be too narrowly considered. The university is, and should be, at home everywhere in the State. A grand institution which is studying stars from the top of Mount Hamilton, studying marine life at Pacific Grove and San Diego bay, studying trees at Chico and Santa Monica, studying plant diseases in the Sacra- mento valley and at Whittier, studying fertilizers by use of land at half a doz^n widely separated places in Southern California, studying plants and the use of them everywhere that the university investigators can find places to grow them, killing insects at Visalia, San Jose, Concord and Watsonville, and studying the growth of grapes and the making of wine in San Joaquin and Fresno counties — surely an institution thus localized and distributed in its work can find a home for one of its activities in such a central and accessible district as southern Yolo county. The University of California should not be centralized. It should do everything it can for the people in the place where it can be best done and such a course will make it solid with the people. The commission has reached a decision for which everyone should be thankful." John Howell, the New York trainer, who trained and raced successfully A. B. Gwathmey's fast gelding. Tiverton, and that he gave a race record of 2:04%, Hi is dividing honors for the race record for geldings with Wentworth, has shipped his string to the Hud- son River Driving Park. Mr. Howell has wintered Tiverton, along with a number of others, at Mr. Gwathmey's palatial stables at 141st street, in New York. Another member of Mr. Gwathmey's string (hat Howell will train is the fast horse, Senator Mills 2 : 1 2" i , who has shown his ability on a number of occasions to beat 2: 10 in a race. Howell will also take along with the Gwathmey pair three fast green ones, all owned by different parties. Those who think that Thomas AY. Lawson has lost his interest in horses are mistaken, says a Boston writer. He has consigned sixty-five head to the May sale of the Kasig-Tiplon Co., at Readvilie. simply to make room for (his year's foals at Dreamwold. All told, Mr. Law sou's horse possessions foot up very close to three hundred head. o ' ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. Inquirer. Pleasanton. — The race in which Agitato started at Holton, Kansas, in 1S97, was the free for all pace, purse $600. There were five starters. King of Diamonds by Velocity won the first heat in 2:07%, was fourth the next heat and distanced in the third. Agitato was third the first heat, and won the next two and the race. Bob Riley by Riley Medium was 2-2-3, and got second money; Badge by Silas Wright was 4-3-2 and got third money. Kansas by Karatus was outside the flag the first heat. The time of Agitato's winning heats was 2:13% and 2:09. S. G., Cousins, Cucamonga. — Newlands Hambleton- ian was by Speculation 928. son of Hambletonian 10. The sire of Hambletonian 725 (Whipples) was Guy Miller a son of Hambletonian 10. The sire of The Moor S70 was Clay Pilot 93. Abdallah 15 was known as Alexander's Abdallah. W. L. Vance, Marysville. — Elisa C. cannot be regis- tered as her sire is not registered. Hetlie Case, by Simmons 2:2S, dam Rosa Sprague (dam of McKinney 2:11%), by Gov. Sprague 2:20%, has foaled a bay colt by Moko. the youngster being therefore a full brother to Fereno 2:j05%. The only yearling in Kentucky by the fast pacing stallion Searchlight 2:03Vj. is owned by W. W. Evans of Lexington. It is a filly out of Pearl Onward 2:06%. and Mr. Evans has named her Pearl Light. Her dam and sire are both fast pacers, but the filly indicates an inclination to the trotting gait. Twenty dollars is the price of a ticket entitling the holder to train horses over Belmont Park track, Phil- adelphia, this season. The death is announced, on March 22, of Thomas D- Dewey, a pioneer of Owosso, Mich., and a horseman of wide prominence for thirty years. He formerly owned Louis Napoleon and Jerome Eddy 2:16%, fam- ous sires in their day, and sold the latter to C. J. Hamlin for $25,000, a record breaking price for the time. April 14, 1906] ©tt£ $vcebzv cmb ^povx&tntXn THE AGE OF SIRES. In view of the interest that has been aroused by Professor Redfield's articles on the influence of age on sires the following from the London Live Stock Journal will be interesting reading: There has been a disposition to set aside old horses in favor of young ones, but the arguments are sel- dom reasoned by facts. The small amount of pur- chasing by our own government for India has been restricted from four-year-olds to six. Other coun- tries have followed the same rule, but the policy is really chance all round. The horses, as a matter of course, have not been bred from in time to show any produce, and in buying four-year-olds there has been little opportunity for ascertaining what merits they possess. Of the class such as the buyers of cheap horses go in for, the four-year-old cast off from the racing stables is generally a very poor plater, or otherwise a horse that has never been in training at all, possibly never is sound enough to stand such an ordeal, and, in a piactical sense, not fit to breed from. It is very much the same with regard to other breeds. Foreign governments are for ever wanting to dal with the younger horses, and set aside the matured horses on the score of age. Yet in all breeds it is seen that not more than one in twenty has very great suc- cess. In the highest class of thoroughbreds the fail- ures surpass the successes by a very large majority, and in lower degrees it is still more manifest. How many cheap, moderate horses go to the stud and are never heard of again? Sometimes they are even im- potent. A Lincolnshire Handicap winner was found to be no use whatever after his arrival in South Africa. It is far better policy, and one to be recom- mended to the Japanese and our own colonies forming studs ,to have no age restrictions, like the French in their earlier haras schemes. They bought, it is true, three, four, and five-year-olds that had won good races] but very much oftener the selections were from the 10 and 12-year-old divisions that had both won races and been bred from in England. Gladiator, for whom 2000 guineas was paid, was bred in 1833, was put to the stud as a four-year-old in 1S37, and sold to the French Government in 1S46. That made him 13 years old when purchased, and in his eight years of haras life he as good as made the French turf. The Prime Warden, a very famous buy for France, was bred in 1S34, and purchased in 1847, so he was also 13. He had left his mark in England as the sire of Clothworker, the hardest horse of his day, and of Bassihaw, the subsequent great-grandam of Isonomy, and in France he was the sire of Light, sire of Sor- nette, winner of the Grand Prix de Paris, and the best mare of her day. The Flying Dutchman was 12 when the French bought him. and he lasted 10 years, to get much better stock in the land of his adoption than in the land of his birth. Lanecost was bred in 1835, won every sort of long-distance race and cup until he was seven, was then at the English stud for eight years, in which time, amongst others, he got the St. Leger winner, Von Tromp, and at 16 he was sold to the French to sire extraordinarily good stock, including the speediest and probably the best steeplechase horse of his day, Cosmopolite, Magenta, another great stee- plechaser, and Gustave, winner of the French Two Thousand. He was sold cheap at 16 (£450), 3000 guineas being offered and refused for him four years previously. Ion was bred in the same year as Laner- cost, was second in both the Derby and St. Leger, and was sold to the French in 1851, so he was 16. He got some wonderfully good stock, including Lion, winner of the French Derby, and through a daughter of his came Salvator, winner of the French Derby and Grand Prix, and thought to have been the best horse of his time. Ion w^as in French haras service for seven years, and in England he had got the Derby winner, Wild Dayrell, but that honor was unknown at the time of his purchase, as Ellen Middleton was in foal to him during the year he left England. Fifty others could be mentioned of good mature ages when the French agents selected them, and it could be also shown that the older horses did very much better than the younger ones chosen. It can be seen in our own country, though, that horses have got their best stock when at 12 and over. A very great horse was Harkaway on the turf, but with the very best opportunities he was scarcely a great success until 1850 (then 16), when he got King Tom. Irish Birdcatcher, a very good runner, was foaled in 1833, and lived until he was 27, his death being recorded in 1S60. Nearly all his best stud results were obtained after he was well in his teens. He got Daniel O'Rourke, his Derby winner, in 1848 (i. e., 15 years old), and Saunterer, decidedly his best stayer, in 1851 so was 18 years old. Voltaire ran second in the St. Leger in 1829; got his first St. Leger winner. Charles XII., in 1836 (10 years old), and his second St. Leger hero, Voltigeur, in 1847 (20 years old). Lord Lyon had his best son, Minting, when he was 20; and Stockwell got Doncaster when he was 21. It can be seen, then, that the very best horses and the very best lines in the Stud Book would have been lost if breeders had been afraid of sires being too old. I expect it could be so proved in the breeding of all kinds of animals. The survival of the fittest Is a very apt saying, but the fittest may survive a long time. The old horse on the prairies or moors will keep off the young ones for a very extended period, so will the old game cock against the aspirations of youth. It Is perhaps a breeding problem that Pro- fessor Ewart might explain better than anyone; but r there are these facts to consider, that only a few re- produce their own goodness, and that very often they are in very full maturity when they do so. It teaches a lesson, therefore, that it is safer to try proved material than to experiment on what one knows noth- ing about. The foreign agent may think himself very clever when purchasing a horse for £60, with nothing more than his pedigree and his looks to rec- ommend him, but, on the average of even useful ones of a low class, it Is 20 to 1 against the animal being of any use at all. This is the danger foreign buyers are running into, and it would be much safer for the mto do as the French did years ago, to have) no particular age restriction, and pay their attention specially to the tried horses. Turf performances might have something to do with it, but there are spe- cial advantages now to get horses that have beer passed sound for King's premiums with their per- formances taken note of, and in most cases by the time they are nine years old there is produce in the districts located to them to show value as repdo- ductors. In the higher classes for sires wanted to get racehorses there is no doubt about it. and 12 anc upwards would be nearer the mark than nine. People I know have said that many adult horses will not stand changes of climate, but that is refuted by a good many examples. Morello was 12 when started of for South Africa; he is doing very well, and the same may be said of Damocles, nine years old, and Corlekempe, eight, and winning races in the country of his adoption. The horse is an animal that is very adjustable to climate and difference of man agement, a wondrous instance of that being Diomed, winner of the first Derby. He was at the stud in England from the time he was six until he was 22- Then he was sold to the United States, where he got a good deal of stock, and was said to have founded the trotting breed, and reports differ as to whether he died at 29 or 30. History does not say hwat price was given for Diomed, but it was £1,000; he was a far better bargain than the unknowns all put together when judging results. The Americans have mostly gone in for tried adult horses. They bought Leaming- ton in 1865, and he was bred in 1853. From that pur- chase they won the English Derby with Iroquoise, who was got by Leamington when the latter was 25 years old, so really another Diometed. Australia also has gone in for old seasoned horses that have done much on the Turf and something at the stud, as instanced by Tim Whifner, The Marquis, and Fisherman. The first of these won the Chester Cup in 1862, as a three- year-old, ran a dead heat for the Ascot Cup as a four- year-old, and after Lord Coventry had used him for three or four years as a hunting sire, he was sold to an Australian gentleman in 1871, his age then being 12. The Marquis had won the St. Leger of 1862. served in England for two or three years, and got the useful mare Lady Geraldine, when the Austral- ians bought him, also at 12 years old. Old Fisherman had been standing in England for good eight years before he retired to stud. Then he had a year or two at the Swancliffe Paddocks, Oxfordshire, and was shipped to the land of the Southern Cross when he was 11. ' !*tf*IMI Breeders of foxhounds will entertain the same views about their favorites. The best are invariably got by old seasoned dogs, and certainly not more than one in twenty is considered good enough to breed from. They must be tried in field merit, -and when there is an extra good one it is thought preferable to go on with him than to experiment with a younger gen- eration. Lord Coventry's Rambler was in great re- quest at 11 and even 12 years old. The Brockles by Rallywood was 10 went "Will" Goodall sent out fifty couples of puppies by him, and thereby, it is said, made the Belvoir. Lord Bathurst has had still greater experience with an old one, as his lordship's Crusty was thought vigorous at 12. and was alive this year, when 15 years old, a very remarkable age for a hound. New and young blood may be all very well, but prac- tical knowledge of animals will always suggest that the old ones must not be neglected. influential quarters. We have no desire to deal in personalities nor to unduly censure any man, but in justice to the wel- fare of a sport in the continued success of which we have a deep interest, we feel called upon to ex- press the opinion that John W. Gates, John A. Drake and certain others of their kind have done racing more real harm than almost any other men connected with it of recent years. Both Gates and Drake are wealthy men. Both of them are primarily gamblers in stocks, and they have carried to the race course the same methods used in their deals on the stock exchange. Both of them are supposed to be gentlemen and to associate with gen- tlemen, and yet against each certain charges have been brought that if made against men with less in- fluence would have resulted in their permanent expul- sion from the turf. We know nothing of the truth of these charges, nor do we attempt to judge of the guilt or innocence of the men involved, but we do know that there have been a number of suspicious looking transactions with which the Gates-Drake combination has been more or less intimately connected. We know, further, that the stories of their heavy plung- ings have been a real detriment to the sport of rac- ing, whether or not these stories wrere grossly exag- gerated, and we know still further that if Messrs. Drake and Gates had desired to keep their betting operations a secret they could have done so to large extent. We sincerely hope the announced purpose of the Jockey Club to frown upon plunging and to suppress heavy betting may be carried out to the fullest ex- tent. Let it be carried out without respect to whom it may affect. Let the work of regulation be very thorough, and let it include just as many as deserve to come within the regulation and enforcement of the Jockey Club's rules. — Kentucky Stock Farm. SUPPRESS SPECTACULAR PLUNGING. Reports from New York indicate that the Cassidy- Lansing anti-racing bill has been virtually killed by the Senate Code Committee. All who have at heart the welfare of thoroughbred breeding and racing in- terests will hope that such is the case, and that racing may be allowed to continue in New York State, as it has for the last ten years, under the operation of the Percy-Gray act. At the time that law was passed the racing interests of the East were in desperate straits. The avarice of certain track owners and the dominating influence of the book-making element had combined to bring about a condition of affairs in New Jersey wrhich had caused strong adverse sentiment to racing throughout America. Instead of a sport it had become merely a gambling machine, and, when- ever the elements of sportsmanship which are sup- posed to control it are removed, racing can no longer hope to receive the support, financial or moral, of the masses of the people, nor should it. Unless it can be kept a sport it deserves to die. Those in position to realize the significance of the situation have agreed in the opinion that had it not been for the wise action of the Jockey Club last sum- mer in divorcing all tracks under its control from any connection with the bookmakers, even at the cost of a very large daily revenue, the opponents of racing would have been able to have stopped it altogether. At the time this action was effected we took occa- sion to heartily commend its wisdom, and we are now glad to see the announced intention of the part of the Jockey Club to suppress to the greatest pos- sible extent the heavy, spectacular gambling which has been indulged in of recent years by certain so-called plungers. Some of these men have really made wagers of gigantic proportions. But they have not been as a rule those men about whose betting operations there has been the greatest amount of talk. There are others who seem to have an exagger- ated, unnatural desire for newspaper notoriety, who have secured it by having published stories of their tremendous wagers, whether with or without founda- tion. The wide circulation of such stories has cer- tainly done racing no good In the public mind, and in many Instances has served to arouse opposition In LINDLEY CRITICISES THE BOARD. Sacramento, April 11. — In his final report to the State Board of Agriculture today Albert Lindley, the retiring secretary, took several severe raps at the pol- icy which he asserted has controlled the recent man- agement of the annual State Fair. He remarked that the executive, finance and building commitees of the society are made up entirely of Sacramento directors, with full power to act, and believed such a policy has a tendency to make everything connected with the fair subservient to iocal interests. He ascribed the decline in horse racing to the ascendency of the gam- bling element, and severely criticised the society for giving encouragement to this element. He said it was expected such sport would be conducted in a sportsmanlike manner by this State, but instead it has been entirely subservient to the gambling inter- ests. "A syndicate book," said Lindley, "run on a 75 to 90 per cent basis, such as we have had at our State Fairs of late, is not gambling, but robbery. It would not be tolerated a day on the track of a professional jockey club." Lindley then made a sarcastic reference to the act of the society in putting up a building outside the grounds where liquor and pools were sold, the society in this manner violating the spirit of the law, if not its letter. A STORY BY COLUMBUS. One of the leading lights among trainers and race drivers in the short-grass country died and started on that long journey leading to the gate at which St, Peter presides. A multitude of other pilgrims were similarly gathered before the gate, and the prospect of gaining admittance appeared distant to the short- grass trainer. At length St. Peter spied the fellow, and, pointing at him, said: "Come forth, my man." "You surely don't mean me, good St. Peter," the man replied. "It must be the other fellow, as I never came fourth, fifth money being as good as I ever won." Every once in a while some Eastern turf writer makes the statement when discoursing on the arbi- trary rules governing the registration of trotting horses that even the trotting queen Lou Dillon 1:5S% is not eligible to registration under the present rules. Why not? Rule 1 states that the progeny of a regis- tered horse and registered mare is eligible. Both Sidney Dillon and Lou Milton are registered, so Lou Dillon is eligible under Rule 1. Rule 2 applies to stallions only. She could not be registered under Rule 3 as the breeding of her grandam Is unknown. If Lou Milton were not registered she could be under Rule 4. which states that a mare sired by a registered standard trotting horse can be registered, provided she is the dam of two trotters with standard records. Lou Milton has four standard trotters in the list. So her registration would entitle her champion daugh- ter to registration. Lou Dillon Is standard under Rule 1 and that Is enough. Frank Bower of Philadelphia, is the recipient of a novelty in a horseshoe that is imbedded in a gplld block of walnut cut from a tree that was over fifty years old. James Oirleby of Kansas City, former owner of Directly 2:03**, presented the shoe to Mr. Bower, but can give no Idea how the shoe got Into the wood. A well bred brood mare with a Hal B. colt at foot Is offered for sale. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. Wis gve&sv ciixi* &ip0Zt&man [April 14, 19C6 A GREAT STATE FAIR MEETING. The Minnesota State Fair Association has been breakii I of the older associations le States and the East, in the matter of conditions governing harness races. This was almost on In the country to establish the rule that all races ended with the fifth heat. This year th" use providing for a consolation heat ss where there are over twelve starters for the first heat. The association announces that it will add lti per cent of the purse as a consolation for sion-wii ther distanced or not, to be con- tested r close of the race, one heat only and l] entrance fee. In one pacing event at the last Sta te Fair, seventeen pacers scored down for the word in the first heat. Of course this meant that the association had received more money for en- rance fees than it as paying out in the purse. On the spur of the moment the speed committee decided to offer non-winners $500 to be divided 50, 30 and 20 per cent for a mile dash at the close of the race. Such was the enthusiasm of the horsemen over this action that subsequent discussion decided the man- agement to make this a feature of the entire program for 1906. Secretary Randall is to be congratulated upon this particular condition, and it will not be sur- prising if it becomes as popular as his "no race longer than five heats." There were plenty of trainers who did not like the five-heat proposition at the start any more than they did the condition that horses not standing- for money at the end of the third heat should remain in the barn. The latter proposition has also become very popular, as some trainers found that they still secured a portion of the purse without com- peting when any horse higher up in the summary was distanced or ruled out in the fourth or fifth heat. Very justly, the Minnesota State Fair stands at the head of all associations of its kind in the country. It has been ever ready to lead the way among asso- ciations of its kind when there was work of em- pirical nature to be accomplished. It has found some of its attempts in this line barren of results, and again has met with far greater success than anticipated. In harness racing in particular, Hamline has come to be synonymous with the highest class trotting and pacing races outside of the Grand Circuit. — Horseman. LAST BIG ROUND-UP. Stockmen all over eastern Oregon are interested in the last big round-up of wild horses in the United States which will take place in Douglas county, Wash- ington, April 26 and 27. There are between 15,000 and 20.000 wild horses to catch, and about 400 cowboys and about twice as many persons from different parts of the State will participate in the round-up. A party from Tacoma, headed by John A. Parker and Newton H. Peer, will take part in the sport. "There is a section of country located in Douglas county and bordered on the east by Moses lake, on the west by the Columbia river and on the south by Crab creek and on the north by the Great North- ern railroad, inwhich there are something like 18,000 wild horses," said Mr. Parker to the Oregon Daily Journal. "The area of this tract is about 40 miles square, containing over 1,000 000 acres of land that is principally sage brush, with here and there low- lying sand hills. The horses are of the class known as mustang ponies. They have been put in that country during the past thirty years by horsemen from all portions of the West, who wanted range for their herds. "The round-up will start from Euphrata, and take a course to the eastward, circling around Moses lake. The line of horsemen will there gradually spread out, proceeding southward to Crab creek. When the line of cowboys has been stretched from Euphrata to the creek it will begin to advance across the coun- try to the Columbia river. Immense corrals will be prepared in the vicinity of Euhprata, into which the ponies will be driven. "Many of the horses are branded with the marks of their owners, but there are thousands and thou- sands representing the natural increase of the herds that have not been branded and are as wild as horses ever get. These unbranded ones will be divided among the members of the expedition." IN THE FUTURE. That the near future will furnish a class of trotters and pacers infinitely superior to any that have thus farm been seen is indicated by the number of superior race mares which have been retired to the stud and ma i«d with stallions of extraordinary merit, writes "Hawley" in the Stock Farm. There have been dur- past two or three years at least a dozen mares retired to the breeding ranks who were not only very fast, extremely well galted, but excellent individuals, and from among these there must surely come greater results than have ever been attained in the past. As an example, the roan mare Hawthorne, one of the fastest and - isl trotters of recent years, has in • .i retired and mated with McKinney, and the result Is nol unlikely to be a trotter of more than ordinary capacity. Several of the very fast mares who have ■ i tstlvi members of the stable of Mr. C. K. G. IK vi been mated with John A. McKerron, ; i niaies an, many of them, extremely good i | i. . faultlessly galted, and possessed of ex- peed, it is reasonable to expect great things 1 1 Is from just such breeding as Is rep ■ 11 these mares, Just such mel hods of hi 1 1 in :i in repre* ented in the cases of Hawthorne, i .u. 1 1. Lou Dillon and others that could be menl loned, ti u ery greal trotters will be produced, for these M ..I them, were not only tremen- hlgh class when In active training, but are ndWiduals and extremely well gaited. Haw- thorne is one of the best looking mares I know of, having in addition to much substance, abundant qual- ity, and the result of her mating with McKinney is very likely to be a tremendous success. If Lou Dillon has not been injured by the training which has been given her and by the fast miles she has trotted, she is almost sure to produce some day a very high-class trotter, not because she is the world's champion, but because of her temperament, her conformation, the purity of her gait, and the tremendous dynamic force she possesses. The success of Nancy Hanks as a brood mare indicates very clearly .that great trotting mares or royal breeding can be depended upon to produce great results, always provided that when in training they were not overdone. Nancy Hanks is the dam of one of the fastest, if not the very fastest, trot- ter the world has ever seen in Admiral Dewey, and while it may be too much to say* that the stallion has the wonderful flight of speed possessed by Lou Dil- lon, there are many men who have reason to believe that he is very little her inferior in this respect. Any mare of good conformation who is properly con- structed anatomically, whose speed is natural and of a very high order, and whose breeding justifies the belief that her speed is the result of heredity and not an accident, will, all else being equal, produce a higher type of trotter than a mare" of little or no speed, who is an inferior individual and lacking in ner- vous energy. If this were not true, breeding would not be a scientific problem, for surely a trotting mare who has something to transmit and who comes hon- estly by her speed is more likely to give to her off- spring the qualities so essential in a great trotter than one lacking in every respect. For while it is true that the foal is likely to inherit from a remote ancestor, he is also likely to inherit the deficiencies of his own dam, consequently, the more good qualities possessed by a brood mare the more likely she is to produce great results. EXIT THE HORSE. THE CRAZE FOR SPEED. It is not the intention of the writer to discuss with any degree or particularity the curious, if not edify- ing mania of the automobile people to place the motor car in the projectile, rather than in the vehicle class, although the recent races ,in Florida, when two miles were made in less than one minute, might well be provocative of comment with the inevitable re- sultant suggestion that the brain colleges of tlie country have not yet come into their full inheritance. On the contrary, I would point out that the automobile people are not the only pebbles on the speed-mania beach. A fairly large percentage of the horse own- ers and horse breeders are possessed with the idea that speed is the first and only requisite in a horse. One large breeding establishment has announced that it will mate only mares and stallions that have ac- cepted records of 2:10 or better. Other breeders are proceeding along the same lines, and the buyers are even more desirous of getting speed. Of course It can and will be urged that the breeder, is not to blame, as he must produce what is demanded by the dealers, and the dealers can only dispose of what the buyers want. But there is something to be said in opposition to this apparently logical argument. The breeder who goes in for speed as the sole requi- site of the useful and fashionable horse will eventually find that he has overreached himself. The horse can- not hope to compete with the motor car in the mat- ter of swiftness, and besides there is really little op- portunity off of a race track or speedway to send a horse faster than three minutes. Indeed for all prac- tical purposes in cities the nag that can travel eight miles an hour and keep it up. all day is .a far better animal than one that can- go at 2:10. Where in any city can a horse be driven as fast as twenty miles an hour without a violation of the law? Of courst better time than this is frequently made on the boulevards, but even then it is not only hazardous to the public and the driver, but is wearing on the horse. The demand for high speed in carriage horses is especially unreasonable. No family carriage for town use can safely traverse the streets at a faster gait than ten miles an hour, even on the less crowded thoroughfares and in the parks, and few women care to travel faster than that. Yet in selecting carriage pairs, the average buyer insists that they have the ability to show better than three minutes. To be sure, speed is a desirable attribute, and it may prove ex- tremely valuable in an emergency, such as catching a train or fetching a doctor, but such emergencies are rare; and in seeking speed as the sine qua non the buyer frequently overlooks or condones structural faults that would Instantly condemn a horse with less ground-covering capacity. Veterinary surgeons of the writer's acquaintance, men who know and esteem and appreciate a horse of quality, and are scrupulously careful to have what they regard as the best types in their stables, pay lit- tle attention to the matter of speed when selecting a horse for their own use. "I don't know how fast she can trot," said one who recently purchased a standard mare that was bred in the purple, "and I don't expect to find out. I never have occasion to drive faster than a four-minute gait In the city, or even in the country, and it would not be safe to exceed that in any event. What a man wants is not a horse that can sprint, but one that is sound ami handsome and has the staying qualities. I have no doubt that this mare of mine could show a very pretty turn of speed, but I never expect to urge her, or even let her do her bestt I have another- in my stables that might have been a racer, and while I have had her I don't su ppose she ever went faster than four minutes. The result is that while she is nearly fifteen years old she hasn't a blemish on her and I can drive her fifty miles in seven hours without tiring her. Speed Is all right, but endurance, soundness and style are better." — Exchange. A rather popular cry which has echoed down the years of late with about as much truth and actual coherence as most of the rancous modern cries pos- sess. We have heard it when the railroad and the steam- boat superseded the equine for traveling purposes We heard it still louder when the surface car in cities replaced the old lumbering omnibuses and the bicycle swooped down in the exact inverse ratio of a rocket, and sputtered out along similar lines. We now hear it again at the ad-vent of the automobile and the yell from the airship contingent is already shaping at the base of their throats. As a matter of fact the horse ts still pre-eminent and, apparently, is likely -to so -.continue. Taking the government reports of the United States in 1905 the equine census gave 17,057,702 horses in the country as contrasted with 14,213,837 in 1890, the increase be- ing steadily demonstrated year by year. These figures are not properly appreciated until one looks round a city like New York, makes a mental calculation of the horses withdrawn when power suc- ceeded the horses on the surface car, and in the many freight wagons, omnibuses, etc. This item alone is estimated to amount to 15,000 horses displaced in this one city. Multiply it by the figure representing all other cities, and, grasping this, again look at the steady increase in the number of horses in this coun- try, and realize that "Exit the Horse' is still farther away than it was ten or even twenty years ago. Of course the auto has not yet reached its full antagonism, it has yet to be produced at a popular price, with many other changes, and there is little doubt that its use will be multiplied many times over. Step by step with its development will come the ever increasing army of the horse, not only of utility, but of pleasure, for today there are over ten thousand high-class horses for pleasure maintained in New York alone, with hundreds yearly joinin~ the band. The horse demand is far greater than "the supply- prices are sky high, the export price being now av- eraged at ¥308.99, as against $174.50 in 1892. It should be remembered that the horse ownership of Canada, pro rata to the population, is nearly double that of the United States, and here is where there is a. tremendous field yet to be filled and grown up to 'in this country. Recent sales of general utility horses show phenomenal prices for all types of horses, and, when a European power wants remounts, there is no other country in the world to turn to for a supply but the United States. No other country has the area, or the raw material, to supply more than a single emergency army corps. Thus the cry of "Exit the Horse"' may be left to the sensationalists, who would use it at stated in- tervals even though the above facts were burned into their brain, and staring them in the eye. Truth, fact, common sense, or the self respect which should clothe the utterances of a writer or an editor, have no place iii the modern sensational newspaper office, but for- tunately that type of journal has cried "wolf" so often not the slightest attention is paid it, except by those more ignorant still. These, by slow process, be- come educated in due course,— Sports of the Times. DRIVING CLUB FOR PASADENA. Pasadena is to have a driving club if the efforts of C. H. King and others are successful. The plan is to organize a gentlemen's driving club in which the owners shall be the drivers and if the organizaiton is successfully launched it will probably promote numerous good natured speed brushes between the best horses of Pasadena. It is even possible that an effort will be made to have some street like South Orange Grove avenue set. apart for speed contests, if there should not be too much objection.. Of course, it would not be the .desire. to have any thoroughfare closed for any length of time but it is often the. case in the East that a well macadamized roadway will be placed at the disposal of the owners of fast roadsters for a couple of hours, some afternoon in the week, for tryouts. Mr. King has been busy for some short time in getting the names of those who own fine horses and in enlisting their support for the proposed driving club. While the list has not been announced, it is understood that quite a large number of people have signified their intention to become members of the organization, in case the club is started. — Pasadena Star. AGAIN CHANGES OWNERSHIP. The Valensin Farm, near Pleasanton, has again changed hands, Mr. Frank H. Jermyn, who recently purchased it from James Butler of New York, selling it to W. A. Donahue, the well known attorney of Pleasanton. Mr. Jermyn purchased the place but a few months ago and had begun many improvements, including the remodeling and building an addition to the residence, re-flooi'ing the stalls, building new and repairing old fences, etc., and in fact intended making it an ideal country residence. The death of Mr. Jer- myn's mother in New York a few weeks ago changed his plans, and when he offered the place to Mr. Dona- hue the latter accepted without hesitation, and no one knows the value of property in and about Pleas- anton better than he. A portion of the land will bev rented to the growers of sugar beets, but the track and several paddocks will be retained for the use of horsemen. The stalls are splendidly constructed and in fine order. Millard Sanders now has about twenty young Sidney Dillons there, but will go East with them about May 1st. Mr. Donahue paid. Mr. Jermyn $31,000 for the property, the same price Mr. J. paid for it. APKIL It, 191 BJ ©lie gtccbev cutD §povisman 9 THOROUGHBRED By KALPn DEPARTMENT. H. TOZEB. The long racing season is fast nearing its finish, and there will be a scattering of the forces to the north and east. Petalumas two weeks' session fol- lows on the heels of the Emeryville meet, and June 16th a meeting begins in Seattle, which is to run to September 1st. Denver will have some good racing, beginning late in June, and a hundred or more horses now engaged here will take part in the running at the Colorado metropolis. Montana has a goodly circuit with "mixed meetings" the attraction. The long 'meeting across the bay has been fraught with sad recollections for form-players. There have 'been many instances of Biblical running that the daily papers might have chronicled, as well as more zig- zaggy running than was credited to the runners at Iron Hill or Alexander Island in the palmy days of the turf buccaneers. Finally, the clamor grew so strong that the stewards decided to refuse the entries of the two champion Z-cutters, Ralbert and Briers, but it was not until these horses, by their in-and-out running, had disgusted everyone knowing anything of "form." The action was certainly long delayed, and the stewards ought to have taken similar action in many other cases of inconsistent racing that might have been mentioned. Of late, since the track has been labeled "fast" or. "good" by the racing experts, there has been some show of "true form," hence it can be inferred that track conditions had much to do with the queer showing made by many racers here- abouts. However, most race-goers are convinced that the stewards were entirely too lenient and less lynx- eyed than they ought to be if racing is to be kept clean and forceful; in short, there should be a reor- ganization of the board without delay, and men placed thereon who can distinguish "true form" from rank "in-and-out running" and not allow more than one case of Biblical galloping to pass before they let fall the official axe. * * * It is claimed by "Boots" Durneirs friends that he has been made the victim of the fury of a discharged employe, and that there was nothing irregular in the ■ plating of the gallopers of the young Kentucky turf- man. One thing is certain, and that is the Durnell horses ran more consistently and well than those" of almost any man racing in California, if, indeed, he did not excel all others in the line of consistency. This should be the principal matter for the stewards to weigh when they are meting out justice, and the testimony of a discharged employe should not carry much weight in a case of this sort, especially if it be shown that he bet heavily when the horses lost and practically nothing when they won, as seems to be the case with Durnell, who was declared by the Ascot stewards in the first trial, not guilty of the charges anent the showing of Alderman Batt and New Mot. n Hay. The decision ruling Durnell off for life by the stewards of the Pacific Jockey Club must have come like lightning out of a clear sky, s<5 confident of set- ting himself right and being thoroughly exonerated was the trainer of the Gates horses. By the way, speaking of Mr. Gates reminds me that he thinks much of Durnell, and that he will stand idly by and not retaliate in some manner is not said to be like the iron-willed multimillionaire of the past. * * * Barney Schreiber leaves for the Memphis meeting this evening much lighter of heart and heavier of bank account than when he came to California last November. He left with the satisfaction of having bred and sent to the post the champion two-year-old of the season in Horace E. and by many thought to be the champion three-year-old, Dr. Gardner, winner of his last eight races. In money-winnings the Schreiber horses have overtopped their nearest rivals by more than fifty per cent, which is additional cause for congratulation, aside from the joys that the "yel- low boys" bring to their possessor. In his booking operations Schreiber is also reported "to the good," and altogether the outlook is a most cheerful one for Missouri's b:g breeder who beneath his broad black hat has more than a fair share of gray matter as well as a winning smile and an overwhelming desire to "josh." * * * The Himyar stallion Himself will spend the sum- mer in a grassy paddock at E. S. Paddock's farm, Con- cord, Contra Costa county, Cal. Mr. P. will mate him with four good mares of which he is the pos- sessor, and in all likelihood will like the horse so. much that he will desire to be more than a lessee. * * * Robinson now heads the jockeys' list at Emery- ville, and has a great following these days. * * * A telegram from the East states it is believed Jockey Eugene Hildebrand has eloped with Mrs. May Yeager, wife of the famous "plunger." * * * Superintendent George Berry of Napa Stock Farm writes that nearly all his mares have been mated and are considered safely in foal to the farm's good sires. * * * According to a dispatch from London last Wednes- day, August Belmont of New York purchased the stal- lion Rock Sand of Sir J. Miller for $125,000. This js the second largest price ever paid for a thorough- bred by an American, W. O'B. Macdonough heading the list with $150,000 for Ormonde. Rock Sand won the triple crown of 1903 in England (the Derby, 2000 Guineas, and St. Leger), and besides annexed The Jockey Club Stakes and other rich stakes, his winnings footing up $237,590, and making him third on the list of money-winners in all turf history, Singlass ($280,- 675) and Donovan ($27S,770) alone eclipsing Rock Sand's record in this respect. He is a fine looking big horse, according to the pictures I have of him, a brown in color and by Sainfoin (winner of the Derby) out of Roguebrune, by the unbeaten St. Simon. He stood at the Hamilton Stud Farm, Newmarket, and as the greatest turf celebrity of the past eight or ten years, should prove worth the price paid, large as it is-. Rock Sand's stud fee was 200 guineas, and his book was full at that figure. * » * Prince Andre Poniatowski, who as president of the San Francisco Jockey Club did as much as any one man to elevate the standard of racing in California, and who bred some very good winners, including The Fog and The Mist, is back in America after two or three years' absence in France, where he is a banker connected with the August Belmont institution of New York. * * * Memphis, Tenn., April 11. — The biggest deal of the present turf season was completed to-day, when John W. May, acting for Paul Rainey, the Ohio owner of an- thracite interests, completed negotiations for the pur- chase of Jockey Herman Radtke's contract and the colt Horace E., the latter the property of Barney Schreiber of St. Louis, breeder and bookmaker. Twenty-five thousand dollars was the price paid by May to J. O. and J. H. Keene for Radtke's contract. Horace E brought $17,500. Radtke will ride the Rainey candidate for the Carter Handicap at Aqueduct next Monday Horace E. proved the king pin among Cali- fornia two-year-olds, winning six of eight starts, in- cluding several stakes and purses amounting to $SS50. Mr. Rainey owned the great colt Yankee Consul that died at Lexington, Ky., last fall, after proving to be a speed marvel. * * * It is claimed that in Joe Carey (by Bannockburn- Miss Marion) and Jack Atkin (by imp. Sain-El Salado) Schreiber has two colts superior to Horace E. * * * Imp. Sain heads the "winning stallions" list of 1906 thus far, with over $23,000 to his credit. He will fin- ish close to the top this season. Bannockburn's get have won over $17,000. * * * Jockeys Kunz and Rice were last Wednesday sus- pended at Emeryville for the balance of the season, though Rice will be allowed to ride the horses of Wm. Eagan, his employer. The stewards did not like Kunz's showing on Critical and Sir Edward or Rice's riding of Hector, when he was beaten by Boloman, Lisario and Elevation. In the case of Kunz it looks as if the stewards acted rather hastily, for it was Critical's first start on a dry track and Sir Edward had up a lot of weight and was running against a couple of speed marvels. BIG POLO TOURNAMENT. Coronado, April 10. — Great enthusiasm has been developed over the successful polo games that were recently played on the field of the Coronado Country Club that the club is to have the honor of presenting for competition the most valuable polo trophy that has ever been presented anywhere. To William Clay- ton, president of the club, belongs the credit of secur- ing the trophy, the competition for which is to be international in character. The eup is to *:ost $2500 — and the competition for this handsome prize will be held on the tournament field of the Coronado Country Club. Beyond this, no details have been made, not even the name of the cup having been decided, but the order has been placd. In deference to the wishes of F. J. Carolan and other poloists of California, the conditions governing the competition for the trophy will not be framed until the arrival of F. J. Mackey from England late this month. Mr. Mackey is justly considered the father of international polo, and as he is in touch with the game in Europe his advice will be invaluable. He has brought several teams from England which have competed on the fields at Burlingame and in Southern California. The attention of the world's poloists will be at- tracted to California next winter. In addition to the pracice and tournament field of Coronado there will be four fields in San Mateo county, several more in Southern California, and a new field in Golden Gate Park. San Francisco. A schedule of handicap and match games will be prepared and sent to the polo clubs in this country and Europe. It is expected that George J. Gould, of Lakewood, N. J., and other eastern polo enthusiasts, who have been promising to come West for several years, will come. Honolulu has also promised a team for the competition. First in importance, of course, will be the big tour- nament to be held on the Coronado field. The recent tournament was acknowledged to be the most suc- cessful ever held on the Pacific Coast and one of the best that has ever been held in the United States. The coming tournament will be held during the first week of September. The prizes to be offered at the Coronado tournament have never been equaled in this country, at least, and it is doubtful if such a fine list of cups and trophies has ever been competed for at any polo tournament and polo racing meet. In addition to the new cup, there is also the magnificent John D. Spreckels' trophy, for polo teams, and the A. B. Spreckels' trophy for the racing ponies. Many other prizes and purses will be offered. DUTIES OF STEWARDS AND STARTER. At a meeting of the board of directors of the Ameri- can Trotting Association, held at the office of the association in Chicago on Thursday, April 5. the fol- lowing regulations were passed, under authority of tfce by-laws and ordered placed in force until the meet- ing of the Congress of the American Trotting Asso- ciation in December, 1906: Circuit and Board of Stewards. "A regularly organized circuit shall be composed of not less than five nor more than fifteen associated tracks in membership with the National or American Trotting Association. It may annually recommend for apointment a number of persons from which five shall be appointed (three of which shall constitute a quo- rum), by the board of appeals, or president, pending the action of the board of appeals, to constitute a board of stewards whose powers and duties are defined in Rule 161, as follows: "All decisions and rulings of the judges of any race and of the several associations and proprietors be- longing to the American Trotting Association may be appealed to the board of appeals, or board of stew- ards of a regularly organized circuit, and shall he subject to review by the board appealed to, upon facts and questions involving the proper interpretation and application of these rules, provided that parties to be affected thereby shall be notified as the board shall direct, of a time and place where such appeal may be acted on; and provided further, if the appeal relate to the decision of a race, immediate notice shall have been given to the judges of the race of the intention to so appeal. Findings of a Board of Stewards shall be subject to appeal to the board of appeals so far as re- lates to points involving these rule?." Starter and His Duties. "No person shall be permitted to start a race or a time performance on a track in membership with the American Trotting Association unless he holds a license from said association as starter. "Upon sufficient information as to the good char- acter, knowledge of trotting rules and ability to do the work, a license shall be issued by the board of ap- peals and in vacation by order of the president to a sufficient number of applicants to do the work. "Said starter shall perform his duty according to rules and shall give information as to the rules to track officers and employees when called on, and always endeavor to have racing and time perform- ances conducted according to rule and shall especial- ly warn officials against misrepresentations of correct time, and in all cases where time is suppressed or any other material thing done in violation of the rules, re- port the same to the American Trotting Association with names of guilty parties and witnesses. Upon his failure or refusal to perform his duties his li- cense shall be revoked by the president of the asso- ciation. "Time made in a race or a performance against time shall be a bar unless the starting shall have been done by a licensed starter. ' The starter shall be paid by the member for his services." And Rule 53 of the American Trotting Association was amended so as to read: "None but the judges of the race in question, the starter, the clerk of the course, or secretary, and three timers shall be allowed in the judges' stand dur- ing the pendency of a heat. Any association con- victed of violating this rule shall be fined any sum, not to exceed $100." HAS A GOOD PROSPECT. Breeder and Sportsman: Presuming you are in- terested in promising prospects in the way of addi- tions to the class of light harness youngsters. I write to tell you that I have one of the best bred fillies in California, now a little over two months old. She is entered in the Futurity Stake, and is a great pros- pect for that much coveted prize. Her sire is Monte- sol by McKinney 2:11%; Montesol's dam is Igo by Antevolo 2:19: second dam Daisy May by Nutwood 2:1S, the world's champion mare sire: third dam the Ralston mare by Abdallah 15: fourth dam by Lexing- ton. The filly's dam is Marcelle. sire Fay Wilkes, he by Guy Wilkes 2:15, from Lady Fay by Anteeo; sec- ond dam by Alexander, sire of Alec Button 2:26, by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. Marcelle's dam. Mountain Hare by Young Venture: second dam Rose Clark by Nigger Baby, son of Lance by Eclipse; third dam daughter of imp. Trustee. I believe in this filly we have all the best breeding in the trotting family, backed up by such great horses as Eclipse, Herod and Matchem, as you doubt- less know the three latter mentioned animals are the foundation of the present great race horses. It was with with much regret that I heard of the great McKinney being purchased and sent East, but since seeing Montesol and several of his get, I am convinced that he. McKinney, has left behind him a most fit representative. Enclosed please find my check for $3 as my sub- scription for one year for yoru paper, which please send to my above address. Yours- very truly. MARTIN BURXELL, FAIR DATES CLAIMED. At the meeting of the North Pacific Fair Associa- tion held last week at Portland the following dates were agreed upon: Seattle Sept. 3 to 8 Salem Sept. 10 to 15 North Yakima Sept. 17 to 22 Spokafrie Sept. 24 to 29 Walla Walla Oct. 3 to 6 Lewlston Oct. 8 to 13 Everett wop given the privilege to select su as they may decide on. 10 ®ke gveebev avtb &v&vi$tncm [April 14, 1906 ROD, GUN AND KENNEL. Conducted by J. X. De WITT. SAN FRANCISCO FLY-CASTING CLUB. A^rll1? ™ASY CSr^PT N£ 3' 01»ssifloation Series. Stow Lake, April 7 1906 Wind southwest. Weather, (air Judges T C KlerulfT and E. A Mocker; referee. P. H. Reed; clerk °A Craig Events 12 3 ■ 4 PHEASANT RAISING. Pheasant raising on the small farms in the section tributary to Seattle and on the logged-off. lands of the stale is an idea which has suggested itself to Mr. A. Kinnear, a Seattle attorney, as a means of laiL- asing the incomes of struggling farmers 1 poultry breeders. Mr. Kinnear, being a lawyer, is fully aware that the construction which the .war- dens of the state put upon the game laws presenting the sale of such birds on the open market would, if carried out, prevent the introduction of this new in- dustry in the state. As a lawyer, however, he con- tends that the game laws really do not make any pro- vision against the sale of pheasants, grouse or kin- dred birds raised in captivity. In this, he declares, he has the support of the attorney general of the state, backed by the common law definition of "game" birds and the interpretation placed thereon in other states of the Union. As showing the possibilities of the industry he points out that the value of the various plumage pheasants runs all the way from $5 to $28 per pair; that they are less difficult and no more expensive to ' raise than chickens, and that the market, both for the plumage and the flesh of the birds, is practically Inexhaustible. "I first had my attention drawn to this matter a few months ago," stated Mr. Kinnear, "by receiving from the East some literature on the subject of pheas- ant raising. I don't know how they got hold of my name, but that is not material. I got the literature, read through some of it, and became interested. "I find that in Illinois, Indiana, New York and some of the other Eastern states the raising of pheasants, quail, grouse and other birds of that nature is becom- ing an important industry, and that many fortunes have been made in it, with the possibility for many more; and I wondered why it was not possible for the struggling poultry breeder in our own state, these small farmers over at Colby and Manchester and the western shores of the Sound, who are supporting a family and sending their children to school on the product of three and a half acres of land, to annex this new source of income. "I have noted a few examples of the possibilities of the industry. Wallace Evans, a 19-year-old boy, re- siding in the suburbs of Chicago, now owns about 7609 of these English and other plumed pheasants, giving him the largest pheasantry in the world. It is only a few years since he started out with a single pair. The first year he had seventy-five birds, and the in- crease has been phenomenal. For his Lady Am- herst pheasants he is getting $2S-a pair and cannot begin to supply the demand. Silver pheasants are bringing $17 a pair. Golden $15 to $22, and Mongolian (or English) pheasants, $5 to $7 per pair. The latter "While in Olympia last week in connection with other matters I took this matter up with Attorney General Atkinson, and he gave it to me as his opinion — though not officially — that there is nothing in our state law relating to game birds to prohibit farmers, or anyone, from selling these pheasants and kindred birds hatched and raised in captivity. Notice that the law says, 'any grouse, any pheasant, any quail, found hanging in the market is prima facie evidence that the owner of that market has been guilty of a misdemeanor.' 'Prima facie,' however, means simply 'on its face.' leaving the matter open for proof that the birds are domestic. "If the game wardens of the state insist that these birds, raised in captivity, are still game, they may, with equal reason, class horses and cattle as game animals and prevent their sale in the markets. "Some of the wardens have suggested that a bill be introduced in the legislature empowering citizens to sell these birds raised in captivity, provided they paid a license and tagged the birds they sold. "We con- tend, however, that there is no necessity of people's paying license to do what they have the right to do without such payment, which right is given them by the present law of the state. "In Indiana, New York and Illinois, wrhere the farm- ers have the right to sell these birds, raised in cap- tivity, the game laws are as strict as ours, and as silent regarding the sale of domestic birds. "The game wardens may say, 'Wait and give us a chance to get a start before making the game laws any harder of enforcement.' We believe, however, that there is much more game here now than there i enjoy the privilege of hatching and rearing these birds in captivity, and at will placing the same for sale upon the open market. "I believe this offers a promising field for the poul- try raisers of this section, and from the wording of the law and from my conversation with the attorney gen- eral, the people undoubtedly have the right to engage in this business." Young, c. G... Kierulff, T C... Mocker, E. A.. Newman, G. H. Burpee. L G... Reed, P. H KennifT, J. B. Kirk, H H Re-Entry— Burpee, L. G .. Mocker, E a! .. 90 8-12 91 8-13 90 93 4-12 82 4-12 87 87 4-12 74 8-12 79 8-12 94 88 4-12 86 8-12 87 8 12 87 95 91 83 89 4-1. ■ 95 90 10-12 92 6-12 82 6-12 79 2-12 93 4-12 95 85 73 4-12 6-12 7-12 7-12 1-12 1-12 2-12 4-12 Afri??Ai9C)SC0 w?^ N°'.t edification Series. Stow Lake April 8^ 19U6 Wind, southwest. Weather fine " KennifT and T. H. Reed; referee. Dr. W Events 1 2 Judges, J. B. Brooks; clerk, A. Craig. 3 4 Young, C. G Piatt, Dr. P. L Mocker, P. A Kennifl, J. B Sperry, H B Huyck, Chas Marsden, Jos Sperry. Austin ... Kierulff, T. C. Reed. p. H Newman. G. H . Golcher, H C. !..'.' Brooks. Dr. "W. E Halght.P. M Foulks, Geo.H.. KennifT, c. R Douglass. J. R Hopps, J H Mansfield, W. D. . . Rb-Entries— Huyck, Chas Mocker, E. A.. Piatt. Dr.P. L Marsden, Jos 95 88 81 95 90 82 85 84 91 90 74 91 91 83 4-12 90 4-12 90 4-12 93 8-12 68 8-12 4-12 4-12 8-12 8-13 4-12 8-12 95 84 8-12 90 6-13 4-18 4-12 8-12 89 8-12 86 8-12 90 94 8-12 89"4-J3 92 87 84 8-12 94 4-12 93 4-12 4-13 4-12 -12 96 8-12 90 10-12 88 4- 86 8-12 94 2-12 81 8-12 96 8-12 89 2-12 95 5-12 81 11-12 91 3-12 96 10-12 95 4-13 88 10-12 90 8-12 85 10-12 93 6-13 90 8-12i 95.7 9S.5 96 8 91 8 33.6 87! i 91 5-121 95 3 87 8-13 85 8-13 .... 94 3-13 .... 87 6-12 .... 95 1C-13 89 9-12 mr«^r Event '-D's'ahoe Casting, feet. Event 2— Ao s in the states I have mentioned, where the people ,J;, TSSijJ? rcen'age. Event 3— Delicacy, (a) accuracy percentage -hi,^ =x,fl re»rir,^ tbe=e .'"g percentage. roentage; (e) net Percentage. Event 4-Lure cast The fractions in lure casting are 15ths. Tarpon Fishing. Catching "race horses" with a rod and line, as one of our local anglers has dubbed tarpon fishing, is evidently a means of great sport to fishermen at Tampico, Mexico, judging from the following ex- cerpts from the Monterey News of March 5th: The tarpon fishermen are having good luck just now, one man having had twenty strikes yesterday, out of which, however, he only succeeded in landing one fish. Another fisherman was playing a good sized jack fish, which was displaying unusual energy, when a shark nearly cut the fish in two just below the gills. This occurred near Tamos about twenty miles from the sea, and shows that the sharks penetrate well up stream. After a very successful fishing trip here, the party Fish and Game Protection. The Auburn Fish and Game Club was instituted aobut fourteen years ago by Deputy State Fish and Game Commissioner L. H. Joninon, Andrew Hartzel. now a prominent member of the Sacramento Countv Fish and Game Protective Association, and J. H. Wills. It has at present about twenty-five active members and is doing good work in enforcing the laws for the preservation of fish and game. During its existence about 100,000 trout have been planted in Auburn Ravine, Willow, Clipper and Dry Creeks, as well as 3,000 black bass. Thirteen pheas- ants were also liberated on the C. F. Reed ranch ten years ago, but for some reason did not propagate suc- cessfully. This work has been done by the club at its own expense in the main. variety is the most scary in the woods and the best able to take care of itself. It also lays more eggs than any other. "Ferd Sudow, a pheasant farmer of Poughkeepsie, N. Y.f who is the second largest producer in the world, says he is two thousand birds and two thousand eggs fcehlnd his orders. He is selling his birds for $19 a pair and offering $19 a hatch for the eggs the first season. "These birds are hardy and can be raised on the logged-off lands of the state, among the stumps and small trees. They are much better able to take care of themselves than chickens. They cost hardly as much to raise. While chicken meat sells for 15 cents, pheasant brings from $1 to $2 1 per pound. Chicken feathers sell for 25 cents a pound, while those of pheasants bring as much as 30 cents each feather for ily fish hook and millinery purposes. Amherst, Silver and Reeve pheasants bring as much as $15 each for mounting purposes, and taxidermists handle all the available supply and clamor for more. "To any one who has ever seen the various breeds of pheasants, it would be needless to cfilate on their merits and the great beauty of their plumage. La- dle's who think they are wearing bird-of-paradlse feathers in their hats are really wearing pheasant Illumes, while the plumage of the Hoochee pheasants resembles that of the ostrich. The pheasants are the turkeys of Asia, as the guineas are of Africa and the peacocks of Europe. They are all true turkeys. "Now as to the legal phase of the matter. The crux of the question Is, Are pheasants, grouse, quail and other like birds, raised in captivity, game birds? The state law refers to game birds, and 1" them only. Here is the definition i»f a 'game bird' from Bouvier's law dictionary, coincided in by Wharton: "'Game,' applied lo birds, is any bird fit for food taken from the wild by enfpwllng or hunting.' In Oils connection the law of various slates holds that win n the garr^ pheasant Is put into a coop that bird is still game; but its progeny, the hatch, raised in captivity, are domestic and may be sold in the market the same as ma chickens. "It 1: held that pheasants hatched by a hen are do- 10 Cox C. C. 23; F. and F., 347; 1 F. and P., ,, R, I, C. C, 168). New Southern California Gun Club. Sportsmen in the citrus belt seem inclined to take full advantage of the limited opportunities still open for the acquiring of shooting ground. Possibly, hail- ing from Los Angeles and vicinity, there can be of tourists with Mr. A. Rice of New York left here counted some fifty gun clubs at present, this morning on their way to their northern homes. Among the clubs already established can be found The special train left here at noon today for Tamos, cIuD quarters palatial in comfort and fitting up and where it will await the arrival of the steamer Bertha a s for convenience of location, there is probably noth- and the small boats containing the members of the in= nke " in the United States. A member can leave party. At Tamos the party will board the train and L,os Angeles on an electric car and in an hour or two of comfortable riding he is landed at the club house door. continue on their way. With about twenty fishing boats and outfits, the catches of the party are probably the largest ever recorded here. They all had extraordinary luck, and the conditions could not have been better. Doubtless the experience of the party here will result in bring- ing many more fishermen to these waters next winter. Mr. Rice of New York was the host of the entire party, and it is safe to say that, seldom is such enter- tainment furnished. He chartered the river steamer Bertha and secured every available row boat and fish- ing outfit to be had for his guests. In the matter of sending down Eastern sportsmen to tliis country for their winter fishing, Mr. Rice might be called the patron saint of Tampico. He secured the space in the New York Sportsmen's Show for Tampico, and has personally been responsible for the coming here of many a fisherman. Many of the fish caught here by him and his party will be stuffed and sent to the United States, where they will make excellent ornaments for dining rooms, smoking rooms and so on. A party of people from Chicago arrived at Tampico three weeks ago to remain a few days fishing for tarpon. They will then proceed to Mexico City and other places of interest in the republic. The party consists of seven persons, all prominent in the Chi- cago business world, and among whom are H. H. Mallory and wife and E. H. Brown. Among the expert tarpon anglers who are there at present is Mr. F. T. Reno Getting Into Line Middleton of England. He is an enthusiast and ex- The sportsmen of Reno and vicinity are aroused to peels to remain at Tampico for some little time. The the necessity of immediate action for the protection tarpon fishing is now at its best in those waters. The of fish and the perpetuation of the sport of angling in size of the fish is also running upward, and every fish- the Truckee River with the result that a Fish and erman hopes to break the record of seven feet and Game Protective Association that is intended to cover three inches, established last year. Daniel Heaton the entire western section of Nevada is being projected -i Wichita, Kas., who has been spending several by sportsmen of that city. The Association will have weeks there tarpon fishing, will return by steamer to a local membership of 500 in Reno and the towns of Galveston next week. This is his first trip to those Sparks, Verdi, Carson and Virginia will be asked to waters after tarpon, and he is highly pleased and ex- for msimilar organizations. The object of the asso- presses the Intention of returning next season. Mr. elation will be to guard the mountain streams to pre- Heaton, In company with W. A. Jones of Chicago, vent fishing out of season, to stop the use of grab who has also been at Tampico for some time, have hooks and seines and to secure the passage of laws fished for tarpon at all of the other resorts together, preventing the sale of fish to the markets. It Is and they are unanimous in stating that Tampico of- claimed that unless this Is done the native fish will fers by far the best sport an dfacllltles. soon be exterminated. Apparently not satisfied with the number of gun clubs now in existence in that city and vicinity, a. new one is in process of formation and will be ready for business in a few weeks, or as soon as the pre- liminaries are arranged. Naturally, there will not be much shooting over the new grounds this year but everything will be in readiness by the time the ducks begin to fly next fall. No name has been agreed upon for the new organ- ization as yet, but names are unimportant things any- way. The grounds cover a good-sized territory, for there are no less than 287 acres in the piece and the location is next to the Newport and Pacific Gun clubs, about two miles southeast of Huntington Beach. About 150 acres of the land is marsh, which promises good duck and snipe ground and the dozen men who will make up the membership list are antici- pating good sport when they are ready for it. E. W. Murphy is president and some of the other sportsmen who are interested with him in the ven- ture are J. A. Anderson, Bernard Potter and W. H. Anderson. They have paid something over $150 per acre for the land and this indicates that they have sufficient capital to carry their plans to completion. They will erect a big clubhouse this summer and in- tend to have it fitted with every appointment for the convenience of the members. April 14, 1906] <&hz gjfr««zt*i; onfr QpQxt&xnmi CLUB FISHING PRESERVES. The recent purchase by the San Francisco Fly Cast- ing Club of land along both banks of the Truckee river and the contemplated location of a fishing pre- serve on Waddell creek by the California Anglers' As- sociation has evoked from the press of Truckee and Santa Cruz criticisms of rather a peppery flavor. The Truckee Republican has taken, after reflection, a sensible view of the matter. The Santa Cruz papers have apparently aroused the whole community of that section against the proposed action of the California Anglers' Association. The Santa Cruz Surf calls it "Exasperating Impudence of the Amalgamated Or- ganization of Game Hogs" and alludes in no unmeas- ured terms to "the gradual closing of the fishing waters of the state, despite the fact that the Federal and State governments have been for thirty years stocking the streams and the bays with game fishes, at public expense, for the benefit of the public at large." All this is very fine, in a way, but in the event of a club, or an individual, acquiring title or lease to ground where shooting or fishing may be indulged in, the owner or lessee has the legal right to enforce the law against trespassers and enjoy all of the rights he is entitled to, either under lease or complete own- ership. We sympathize with the "movement" of those inter- ested in keeping Santa Cruz county open, but the rather caustic arguments appearing in the pages of the press of that section, we do not believe, are con- ducive to an amicable settlement of the questions involved. It is true, that for the benefit of the county at large it would be far better, and in fact for sportsmen at large a boon, if the 32 trout streams — and the good hunting territory as well — were open to all and open under conservative and reasonable ordinances that would be satisfactory to all fair minded devotees of rod and gun. and for fish and game protection as well. The sentiment of the majority of the Santa Cruz sportsmen is one of fairness to every interest in- volved. The recent institution of the successful Brookdale hatchery and its enthusiastic support is a strong evidence of that spirit. Instead of kicking up a row through the medium of revolutionary articles, we would suggest, in all can- dor, to the oceanside scribes, whom we know are royal good fellows at heart, an argument devoid of harshness and calling names. The Truckeeites were red-hot in the beginning, about as choleric as the Santa Cruzans are now. In publishing an open letter from Mr. Thos. C. Klerulff, the editor of the Republican very gracefully and with practical common sense gave the following excellent advice to those most interested: "In another column of the Republican is a letter written for the readers of this paper, composed by the secretary of the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. This communication voices the sentiment of the club pertaining to the rumor which was going the rounds here to the'effect that they would not allow anglers, not members of their club, to fish in that part of the river which flows through their tract of land. The letter plainly indicates that the Fly-Casting Club are not looking for dissension, but to the contrary, they want to join hands with the local association for the purpose of enforcing the laws that protect trout fishing in general. The communication conveys a very friendly spirit toward local fishermen, and in strong language condemns the law breaker. It is well for Truckee people to be somewhat far-sighted and welcome strangers with an open hand instead of as- serting "homestead rights" with prominent knuckles. "About three weeks ago quite a sentiment was goinr the rounds here pertaining to certain restrictions that the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club intended to en- force when they took possession of a strip of land that they purchased last winter from Dr. Zimmer. This land was purchased for the purpose of creating a re- serve for the San Francisco club. While this fish question was being argued pro and con among local anglers the Republican published an article which set forth the feeling of the Truckee fishermen toward the San Francisco association upon learning, what they supposed was a fact, of the exclusion from that part of the river of all people not members of their club. The article in the Republican voiced the sentiment of the people residing in this vicinity and the bit of news reached the club headquarters. The secretary of the association, Mr. T. C. Kierulff, sent the following communication to the Republican in answer to the article which appeared in its columns on March 7: "Editor Republican: — In the issue of your paper of March 7th, 1906, is an article headed 'Truckee Fish- ermen Opposed to Fly-Casters' Association Monopoliz- ing Certain Sections of River,' and a statement that a meeting of the Truckee River Fish and Game Pro- tective Association will be called to protest against such a move, etc. "My attention was particularly called to this article on account of the many mis-statements contained in the same. The San Francisco Fly-Casting Club was organized in 1893, and among the objects of the club are to cultivate the art of scientific angling, to assist in the protection of fish in California waters and to promote a true and sportsmanlike spirit among anglers in the catching of fish. "The club has lately acquired the property known as the Zimmer property, lying between Martls and Pros- ser creeks and controls both sides of the Truckee river for a distance of about one mile. It proposes to erect a substantial club house upon its property to accommodate the members of the club, their families and friends. "In the article in your paper the Truckee River Fish and Game Protective Association seems to be bitterly opposed to the acquisition of this property by the club or to the acquisition of any property by any person or club, which would in any way curtail the fishing privileges heretofore enjoyed, and in many in- stances abused, by those who own no portion of the Truckee river and perhaps neve paid a dollar in taxes for the benefit of the county of Nevada, or the state of California. "Since when has it been impossible for any person or association to acquire land and water in Nevada county? No judicial decision is necessary at this late day to determine the rights one may have in, or on, his property, or that the right of the San Fran- cisco Fly-Casting Club to the use of the land and river now owned by it, to the exclusion of any per- son, is as inviolate as is the right of a single indi- vidual, whether poor or rich, to own a home ana to exclude all persons from it. I only mention this on account of the statement in your article that the Truckee River Fish and Game Protective Association are up in arms and are determined that no one shall take away from them the Truckee river, and that some of them have declared they will throw all the guards in the river if molested while fishing. This does not speak very well for the Truckee River asso- ciation. Privileges are not granted by threats of force and violence. "For a long time certain well known anglers and members of the San Francisco Fly Casting Club have endeavored to cause the enactment of laws to better the conditions of the streams of California and the Truckee river in particular, to abate all nuisances along the streams and rivers which interfere with or destroy the fish. I have not noted any action on the part of the Truckee River Association, or any one else in your locality, taken to protect the Truckee river fish, to enforce the laws relating to fish ladders or the dumping of refuse in the stream or in any way to improve the condition of the Truckee river. "To the contrary I have noted with much concern that unless steps were taken by some person or as- sociation to preserve the waters of the Truckee river, or portions of it, within a few years there would be no fishing in this once famous river, and much of this is due entirely to the local fishermen and because many of them fish not for sport of fishing, nor for the keen pleasure of casting a fly upon the water with the constant hope of a strike that means a large fish and a game fight against light tackle, but who fish for a full creel without respect to size or method of fishing and whose only regard is quantity and to whom all fish are money. "Men who fish for the market, who fish with bait and at night, and in many instances fish before the season opens and before the fish are through spawn- ing will have no privileges from the San Francisco Fly-Casting Club. "In the issue of the Truckee Republican of March 10th is a statement to the effect that many anglers can now be seen trodding along the banks of the river, casting their lines in the waters presumably for white fish, and in the same article the Truckee River Fish and Game Protective Association is called upon to re- deem itself by causing the. enforcement of the law prohibiting the catching of trout before the first of April. "Let the Truckee River Association join hands with us in an effort to extend the closed season to the first of May hereafter, when the fish are through spawn- ing, and see that the law is made effective, stop all bait, night and market fishing, and I am sure the man or woman who wishes to cast a fly upon any por- tion of the Truckee River will have no cause to com- plain of any restrictions that are imposed by the San Francisco Fly Casting Club over its preserve. Tours truly, T. C. KIERULFF, Secretary." There is lots of good medicine in the foregoing that may be taken inwardly and digested and with benefit to any pessimistic angler or scribe in need of a spring tonic. TO PROTECT BLACK BASS. anXr °Ver ten P°UndS are ^»-»y eauehfb* The plenitude of black bass in those waters has al Both •■■ irge qi °,nfilhe £2* *?. -"."i* ,d southern are sent the zone of fish depletion cuizens near w„Trhe a"Slf 1 °£ Sacra™'nto have decided to declare V sta, and to effect this they have decided to form a UarcifyaSSTAhSS0Ciati0n'.With headquarter. in°he ™p! So^tart1™:nr.~i'lhaVe THE LOST FISH. [Dedicated to George Walker.] Strolling alone by the Paper Mill, Enjoying the evening breeze, I saw a fisher play a fish Under the willow trees. I knew not what he was playing. But he lost it I could see; And his voice broke the hush of twilight With the sound of a big, big D. It fell with deliberate slowness, With a touch of infinite grief; He rattled it off like a volley. But it brought him no relief. I felt for his loss sincerely, And his rod was broken in twain; I proffered some good Hayden spirit. "Twas not offered in vain. It soothed his ruffled feelings, He dried up the welling tears. "I saw it," he sighed, "I saw it, I shall see it In coming years. I have sought all my life, but vainly. One monster trout to take. Hard fate! In the moment of triumph. My rod (and my heart) should break." It may be that he believed it; It may be he was bereft Of a trout that weighed full twenty pounds. (He said so before he left). It may be he'll hook another, The largest are lost alway: It may be that beyond Jordan He'll catch that trout some day. — C. H. B. o i Strike — if they don't give you Jackson's Napa Soda when you ask for It will include the farmers anri Vi"a to^ofusi' aTVhe Sac~'° river "from Rio Vista, to Colusa. Each member of the association will be pledged to give testimony in the courts against anv uTr'T °i the State fiShe,y iaws which may come under his observation, and to protect and stand by any other member of the association who may be called on to testify m case he be threatened by the fishermen— a method of coercion in vogue with these foreign fish cormorants. The intention of the association is to establish a thorough system of espionage over the inland waters that will prevent a wholesale killing and extermina- tion of black bass by means of the net. Such cases will be followed by a severe prosecution in the courts of all violators of the law. This step is necessitated through the fact that the penalty now outlined by the law is but little detriment to the fishermen, namely, a fine of $200, as las year fishermen who were con- victed of taking black bass with a net and fined $200, openly boasted that they took $400 worth of black- bass the day following the imposition of the fine. The new association has learned of instances where 1S00 pounds of black bass have been taken in one drag of a 1500-foot net, and has also learned that the fish- ermen puncture the mouths of the bass with an awl to represent a hook wound. As the fish command 25 cents a pound in the market, they can afford a $200 fine and then make good money. The system of sur- veillance now being established will be absolute. Every violation of the fish laws will be immediately reported to the executive committee, who will notify the State Fish Commission and the violators will be prosecuted (?) to the full extent of the law. Game Warden George Neal of Sacramento county is thor- oughly in sympathy with the movement, and claims - that it will make the waters of the Sacramento river an anglers' paradise within three years. He states that if the kind of fishing that now exists in the Big Lake country, south of that city, were known in the East hundreds of wealthy tourists who enjoy the sport would come here from all the large Eastern cities on fishing trips. Committees have been appointed on membership and by-laws, and a mass meeting is to be held in Sac- ramento a week hence, when full arrangements will be completed. Santa Cruz Declares Closed Ports. A press dispatch during the week states that Iu Santa Cluz County, a movement looking to the aboli- tion of private fishing grounds on the streams of the county was started when Dr. C. W. Hibbard, repre- senting the Southern Pacific Company; W. W. Rich- ards of San Francisco, and representatives of the local Board of Trade appeared before the Santa Cruz Su- pervisors and asked their support to that end. Strong speeches were made in favor of keeping the streams open to the public, especially since the county and Southern Pacific Company have expended thousands of dollars on the Brookdale fish hatchery, which has stocked the streams with fish as never before. The Supervisors passed a resolution In favor of the move- ment and the Board of Trade and game protectionists of the county will at once start petitions pledging the property owners not to lease fishing privileges. If it is believed that it is to the best interests of all concerned to keep the county open and discourage the establishment of private or club preserves, the meth- ods above stated will be far more conducive to the general satisfaction of all concerned than revolu- tionary tactics and calling names. In fact this is about the only solution of the question — a unification of action for the general good of the county. Shooting Song Birds. Pasadena, Cal., April 2. — Song birds about Pasadena are being shot in breat numbers, especially by Jap- anese, who kill them for food with noiseless blowguns. The local Audubon Society will have warning notices printed In Japanese and circulated so that no Jap may plead Ignorance of the protective laws if arrests are necessary to protect the songsters. District game wardens are keeping watch on men and boys frorr Los Angeles who shoot about this city. ' Ciu* iSrccOcv au£> gym-tan^m I April u, wc6 12 _ ■ — ■ ' DOINGS IN DOGDOM. COMING EVENTS. AT THE TRAPS. 7 „,h« shoot is the Santa Clara County Kennel Club. Rod. The Union Gun Club regular monthly - AdVance sheets ot the San Jose show premium lists Ja»- 1 •"■>« i-Closed season for black bass. Mi.p rock event for Ingleside tomorrow. AQ\ance sneeLs 01 i e o * April l-Feb. 1-Open season for steelhead. were delayed in the mails too long for detaailed not.ce Apffl , aep( ]0_ Qnt 16_Feb ^^ aea3on ,or takIng <{MJ. The 11th semi-annual tournament of the Los An- (hjs wgek prior tQ QUr departure for l0s Angeles. bead In tidewater, geles Gun Club will he held today and tomorrow on exhibitors are referred to Secretary Chas. W ;-Nov. i-Trout season open ' rt,,-rt«: April 1-Nov. 1— Open season lor taking steelhead above tide the Sherman Jf °u™s' the meda, and trophy H. Harker, San Jose, for entries, blanks, etc. water. nUs for wmch only resident shooters of Southern The club announces in the premium list that 55 cups J^C^^T^JIi^io"! nf"' SatUrday C'aSSlfl- alifornia are eligible. They are: and trophies are already donated for special prizes AprlI 29_san Franclsoo Fly-Casting Club Sunday Classlfl. Two men team championship-For Los Angeles Gun „and more t0 hear from... we are pleased to note cation Contest No. 5 Stow lake, 10 a. m. Club's "E. C." Smokeless Powder Co. cup, 25 birds a jQ fanciers have out n the provincial Sept. Met 5 -Close .eason in tidewater for steelhead. man; entrance $2 a team, birds extra. Lup to be con merchandise prizes for specials-no merchan- Sept. 0-Oet 6-Close «.»» for salmon. r at the semi-annual tournaments of the Los Sept. 15-April 1-Open season tor lobster and orawash. Angeles Gun club. Same conditions to govern. En- ^^^"^ Jiif, usltte San Mateo Kennel Club „°"£ '«">'• 15 - Cose season for taking sa.mon above tide, trance money, less price of birds^ goes to benching, which will be loaned for the occasion Oct 16-Feb 1-Open season for steelhead in tidewater, trophy. Trophy goes to team making nisnei ^ through the courtesy of directors of the latter club. Nov. 1-Sept. 1-Open reason lor craDs. Second team, entrance money back, less v The entry fee will be $2.00 and $1.00 for each addi- Nov 15^ept. io_season open for taking salmon above tide birds. _ T ..„.„ r..n tional entry. For a, comparatively, small show the water. Five men team championship— For Los Aneies^ ^^ show committee, we believe, is wise in this Gun. Club's trophy, 25 birds each: entrance Ji.bU a team, Tespect Feb. 15-July 1— Dove season closed. birds included. Trophy to be contested for at t le (jjven that : the entry fee were reduced to $1.00 there Feb. 15-Sept. 1— C osed season for mountain quail, grouse and semi-annual tournaments of the Los Angeles Gun ti bt what there WOuld be more entries sa|e.he°- , ,.„, . , „ _ . , Club Same conditions to govern. Entrance money, « - f first Feb. 15-Oct. 15-Closed season tor quail, duck*, etc. Lluo. Baiue.. holders of trophy. Trophy man n a *o emiy ice iiiu a. « u v April 1-Oct. 15-Close season tor English snipe, •less price of birds goes o holder oJ trop y Were the conditions. April ,4. ,5-Los Angeles Gun Club 18th semi annual tourra" goes to team making highest score. The ajm Qf the Coast kennel clubs should be, among men*_ ibW added monBey Individual championship— For Los An= other objective points, to make NEW fanciers. With Ap.„ ,5_Union Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleslde. Club's diamond medal, 50 birds each, enm _ * • . many clubSi low entry fees will induce new recruits. April 15-Eureka Gun Club. Bine rocks. Eureka, Cal. birds extra. Medal to be contested tot at in G^ ^ ^^ people interested and they will continue April 22-Golden Gate Gun Club. Blue rocks. Ingleside. annual tournaments of the Los Angeles i*u • ^ shQW_ They wiu come baok the following year April 23-Capltal City Blue Rock Club. Whisky Hill gruunds, Same conditions to govern. Entrance mo ne y i ^.^ ^^ ^^ Induce new pe0pie to exhibit at the Sacramento. price of birds, goes to holder of medal. Medal goes t there Js the chance t0 send April 24 26-San Jacinto Gun Club. Blue rock tournament, footer making highest score. Shooter making second > ^ ^ ^ ^ ^l^^^ Live pigeons. Ingles.de. -fuff-LyoTA^-Co. challenge meda, Fifty Mrds ^X^ST^S^L^J^^ST^ .-y-B.ue Hock Gun dub. Grounds foot of H,sh stree, each; entrance $1.00. birds e*J,a- hiect f0 crial- ers— these two classes can and will take care of them- May 13-Emplre Gun Club. Blue rocks. Alameda Junction, shooter making highest score. Medal su oj selves at any stage and invariably do so. Frequently May 13-Vallejo Gun Club. Blue rocks. Near Flosden Sta- lenge under original conditions. Medal suojec ^ ^^ thaf promising £uture supporters of tion. roniDetition at any regular gun club shoot, winner soured at the start. May 26, 27-Paoiflo Coast Trap Shooters Association. Third gettmg U0 from club offering same for competition. th^n££ef£™dd ^ prizes are the bete noir "^J, |>» ™* ™ v.ii„. Gun Club grounds, near * t-„<,,Y,= r>robahlv of the bench show parasites. Bench shows, however, June 19, 22-Interstate Association Grand American Handicap The temptations of the trout streams pi«"» j snnnosed to be for the general benefit of the fancy target tournament. $1000 added money. Indianapolis, lnd. caused the limited attendance at the Empire Gun a e pp ^ jndividual ppoflt_ Elmer RShaner. Secretary-Manager, Pittsburg, Pa. Club shoot last Sunday; but ^shooters were on he ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ & large js ^« «« -N^-«. Sportsmen , Association. Blue recks firing line. Among those present .v. as General ^ * ^ ^ ^ & strjng of_ at ,east> 25 dogs £rom Los Sept. .. 8 9_Interstate Assoclation shoot BluB rot,ks , u. Funston, who has acquired a aenueu .i^ o Angeles. side. Elmer E Soaner. Manager. Pacific Coast Handicap under sport of trap shooting. The scores in four events were ^ ^^ another departure from stereotyped lines auspices of S. F. Trapshoottng Ass'n, A.M. Shields, =eoretary. as follows: and that is the dogs benched at San Jose will be fed Oct. 15-Aug 1-Deer season closed. Club championship race, members only, -o targets ^.^ .^^ ^.^ Mm DQg Biscuits/. These dog bis- Bench Shows. General Funston 18. W. O. Cullen ll Con Roman s, . ^.^ ^ recommended by the leading "vets" in the Apr„ g_ 10_St Lou,g Collje c]ub st Lou,S| Mq John A_ P. Jaeobsen 19, J. B. Hauer 20, Bert Patrick its. lorn Unjted states and have been used with the utmost Long, Secretary. Entries close Lewis IS, Knick 15, J. Peltier 19, Jansen 13, Cunna act on bv a number of the principal Eastern April 11. 13- Atlantic City Kennel Club. Atlantic City, N. J. 16 Dr. A. J. Sylvester 20, Gower 10, Potter 16, L. H. n f ith th practicai man- Thos. H. Terry, Secretary. Entries close Alicia nr aere 7 56o»sanoar inbLiuiiB April 11, H-Southwestern Kennel Club. Los Angeles. George Allen 18. Dr. Gere I. tar™». n^ singles agement of all of the leading Eastern Kenneis. i ne R Albers secretary, Los Angeles. Entries dose Aprils. - Money event, members onb. 25 targets tlosii gie , ^^ ^ them wjthout coaxing or forcing, the flesh of April 13, 14-Merrimack Valley Kennel Club. Lawrence, Mass. 10 doubles), distance handicap, class snooting. dead horses and refuse packing house scraps are not Albert Mitchell, Secretary. Entries close First class Yards. Singles. Doubles. Total, ingredients 0f Old Grist Mill dog biscuits. April 19, 20— New Bedford KeDnel Club. New Bedford, Mass. 2q -q 6 17 . Ceo W. Parker, Seoretary. Entries close Hauer ;„ ,., r 17 April 05. 28— Mississippi Valley Kennel Club. St. Louis, Mo. Sylvester ^ " •" i( Geo. Munson, Secreiary. Entries close Second class. A Popular Judge. April 28_bu11 Terrier Club San Francisco Entries close Cullen .18 S 4 1-, Mr. James Cole is booked for the all-round judge at April 21. Dr. W. H. Watklns, Seoretary, 1505 Stockton street, t rthcon 18 1^ S 20 San Francisco, au IS 6 7 13 Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, Milwaukee and St. May 9, 12- Vancouver Kennel Club. Vancouver, B :C. Pen Funston IS 6 3 9 Louis this spring. This selection gives him probably Se,°/e'"y;, E°lri,es °Iose " — ' CCK' CT rules' Gen. tunston to » " May 10, 12— Santa Clara Kunnel Club. San Jose, Cal. Charles Patrick 18 7 7 14 m0re shows (all breeds) this year than any other K Harker, Secretary. Entrlesclose Peltier 18 9 8 12 bench show judge in America. May IS. 19— Victoria Kennel Club. Victoria B.C. Third class. Mr. Cole is a painstaking official in the ring. His S"re,"y' E"'le"l0i%-^— IT" f' K'C'ru'e?; ■tri.,.,1- 16 10 6 16 . A, ^ * , v. , * May 19— Chester Kennel Club. Chesier, Pa. S. Crozer Robin- KlncK 10 " previous engagements on the Coast have been sealed SOn, Seoretary. Entrlesclose Cunha 1° with the patent of general satisfaction, otherwise his May 23, 26-Seattle Dog Fanciers' Association. Seattle, Wash. Janssen 14 11 ltl services w7ould not have been in request. That he Chas. McAllister, Seoretary. Entries olose Fourth class. knows a dog goes without saying. Personally, we have May 29, 30— Long Island Kennel Club. Jos. M. Dale, Secretary, Roman 14 5 7 found him congenial and enthusiastic in doggy mat- Brighton Beach, LI. Entries close High guns won the club added money in each class. ters. Aside £rom his bench show career he is a May 29. Jun^l-Montreal Canine Association Mratrea^Can. Special handicap cash prize race, open to all, 15 staunch field trial devotee and has the happy distinc- May 30— Dayton Pointer Club. Dayton, O. - , Secre- targets, distance handicap — Cullen, 18 yards, 8; Jan- yon Gf having bred some corking good English Set- tary. Entrlesclose sen. 18, 9; Jaeobsen, IS, 11; Patrick, 18, 11; Allen, 18, ters that have won on the bench and in the field. May.'O. June 2-Portland Kennel Club. F. E. Watkins, Secre- 10; Knick, 18, 9; Sylvester, 18, 10; Cunha, 14, 5; Peli- Further than that, and the desideratum of all con- tarv- Entries olose May 22. ter, 16, 10. ' sistent breeders, his Setters have also produced win- J™ U^T^l^^*—* "' ^ "^ *" "' H. P. Jaeobsen was high gun with 10 breaks in the ners. June 5 6_Ladlea Kftmel Association of America. Mineola, Sweeney medal race. . , Long Island. Miss E. M. Clark, Secretary. Entrlesclose June 6, 9 San Franolsco Kennel Club. 10th annual bench show A meeting of the Capital Gun Club was held re- Bred in the Purple. Fred P Butler, Secretary. Entrlesclose cently at the office of Messrs. Lenfesty & Pichon, Vic- Mr. James G. Chesley has a most promising English June9-Wlssahickon Kennel Club. Wlssahickon, Pa. J. Ser- _£ « B ,, *« 1 *~,3 geant Price, Secretary Entries olose tor.a, B. C. when the following officers were elected getter puppy| that ,s Dred on high c]ass ,ines Tne Au 23_Asbury Park Kennel Club. A.bury Park. N. J. for the ensuing year: President, Dr. E. C. Hart; vice- Princess Mark is bv A. F. Cottrell, Secretary. Entrlesclose president, S. Sea, Jr.; secretary-treasurer, W. N. Len- PuPPy 1S hV Mar* out of Mars Princess. Mark is by ^ 3 5_M)am, Va„ey KenJiel C|ub p|qua| Q EdwIn A festy; captain, F. W. Stevenson. It was decided that Mercury out of Betsy Mark. Mars Princess by Mars Hiatt, Seoretary. Entries olose the "first shoot for the Dominion Cartridge Co. medal out of Thiers' Ruby. Betsy Mark is sired by Ch. Sept. 3. 6-Taunton Kennel Club. Taunton, Mass. A.J Leo, and the Willows cup would take place on April 7th. Qath.s Mark; her dam ,s Ighteneld Sophie. This cross S sepl^ce^arhurs^Ken^Tciub Cedarhnrst, L I. Jno G. has made a record on the Coast as a breeding that has Bates, Secretary. Entries olose The Vallejo Gun Club held a special meeting April been noted ioT the production of Setters that are Sept.29-Bryu Mawr Kennel Club. Haverford Pa. Henry D- 3d to perfect arrangements for the first regular club proiific in quality and stamina. Peach Blossom, Peach KUey. Seoretary, Stafford. Pa. Entrlesclose shoot which will be held at the new range between Mark and Lady as hjgh class pertormers and pro- Field Trials. the Three and Four Mile Houses on next Sunday. M. ducers are noted in the annals of Coast Setters Deo. 3-Continental Field Trill Club Pleasant Garden or A. Clarke, who had been appointed to confer with Mars b ch cinomnatus ex Daphne, she by Toledo Lexington. N. C. John White Secretary. Mnnni?pr T, T Perrv of the Valleio Benicia & Napa ^,, , c ^.^ ^ i.- miJi-.i^i,i-.^-rt American Field Futurity. Entries for secocd Futu- v»l, Fltirir Riflroal ConiDanv st ted that the Blade 0Ut 0f Ch' Cambna- Toledo Blade ^ Rodengo- ri stake close July , 1906 For Sett8r and PotntPr pupple8 Valley h,lectric Kailroal company, statea tnat tne Lnlian Thiers' Ruby by Thiers-Princess Diana. whelped on or after January 1, 1905. American Field Publishing railroad official had kindly consented to make a 10- chas. Heffernan, the genial secretary of the Stockton Co , Chioago. cent fare from this city and to build a platform for Kenne, CIub_ has two Engiish Setter puppies, a dog o the convenience of the club.— Good News. __ and a bitch, by J. M. Golobeck's Ch. Cato Jr., out of Gus Another CoMie c,ub Baraco's Lady Grace. Cato Jr. is by Cato-Maggie F. ' . Arthur W. du Bray, a sportsman known all over CatQ by Merry Monarch out of Brown's Beauty. A meeting was held m Seattle last week for the pur- this country and Canada, is on a brief visit to this M'aggie F by c'n count Gladstone IV ex. Rod's Chaff, pose of organizing a Collie club?' Among those in- ,lty. stopping over whilst on a trip covering the coast Lady Qrace was sjred by Danstone's Pride (Count terested in the new specialty club are: Arthur Mur- Lywas SJ^t^ut°iuy^^^r^to"tlit Danstone-Fairland Queen); her dam is Mar's Prin- ^ McIntosh phi, Kumm GeQrge TintQ T j_ Bra> was here last aooutsij. > ears ago. rnor to tnat Fairland Queen by Cincinnatus Pride ex. ' , ' ' time he had met many of the local and coast sports- Brow„.s QUeen Vic (Antonio-Nellie Bly). Stimson, A. J. Gill, Joseph Bates, A. L. Black, Al men at the traps. Mr. du Bray is one of the leading Giersch, Thomas Beacon, John Hill, Tom O'Connor, live bird shots in this country He Is most enjoyably ■ ■ Louis gteen anfl James Tjnt0 known to many sportsmen under the nom de plume Kennel Clubs Dropped. , . . ,' . , > ~f ... .... . i.i.-h n.,mo tifl** l.ppn sl^nr.H to mimpi-nns „ „ It is proposed to hold an open air show some time of Guacho, nlihh name nas been signed to numerous Oakland Kennel Club, the Pacific Sheep Dog ;, „ sportsmen's pub.ications Club have been during the coming summer. PaSt' from membership in the A. K. C. for non-payment of The club will also put up a breeders' cup at the . , n - j ,.t riiiAn for lQOfi Seattle show next month. Single trigger guns are becoming quite a fad with aues Ior iyuD- r e trap shooting devotees. Among the latest converts ° Igge, trrangement is Dr. A. T. Derby. The owner of a good Pomeranian stud dog is re- k , Na Soda cleanses the stomach and is sens his L. C. Smith to Fulton. N. Y„ to be quested to send his address to Mr. Norman J. Stewart, jmjmuub "*v tted with the single trigger mechanism. San Jose. rendera the eye clear. April 14 1906 1 ffilie gvvcdev auo gportsmcm 13 LAKE TAHOE Its adjoining lakes and connecting rivers, teem- ing with gamy fish, situ- ated in the heart of the Sierras, is IM Angler's Paradise There are ideal camping places, or, if you are oth- erwise inclined, first-class hotel accommodations on (he border of the lake. Ask for booklet. Information Bureau, 613 Market Street, or write CHAS. S. FEE, Passenger Traffic Manager. 431 California St., San Francisco, Cal. SOUTHERN PACIFIC Every Team Owner should be prepared for the common ailments and hurts. Wisest plan to have on hand the approved remedy, the one everybody knows and en- dorses, Kendall's Spavin Cure For Spavin, Curb, Splint, Ringbone, Cuts, Wounds, Sores, Sweeney, Galls, etc. No eq^al in the world. Cured All Ailments. Alhany.N. Y 77PaikAve..Harch8, 1905. Dr. B.J Kendall Co., Enosburs; Falls, Vt, Gentlemen — Pkuse tend me a copy of your •■Treatise on the Hor^eandhis Diseases." I find your Kenoall's Spavin Ctue all ri^ht, I am employed by W. JL Whitney & Co., of Albany and It hascnredall ailments In oar e tables, Spavin, Curb, Ringbone and Hip Diseases, and otiter ailments WILLIE J. iLATJGHTER, Coachman. Price SI; 6 for SS. Greatest known liniment for family use All druggists sell it. Accept do substitute. The great book, "A Treatise on the Horse," free from druggists or DR. B. J. KENDALL CO., Enosburg Falls, Vermont. Second Payment Due May 1, 1906 $5 ON EACH ENTRY Pacific Breeders Futurity Stake No. 6-47000 For Mares Served 1905. Foals of 1906. Stake Closed December 4, 1905. Money 3Di-\7-ic3.©ci: $3000 for Three-Year-Old Trotters '500 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three- Year-Old Trot 1250 for Two-Y**ar-01d Trotiers 200 for Nominator of Da in of Winner of Two- Year-Old Trot 10O to Owner of Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Tro. when mare was bred 91000 for Three-Year-Old Pacers 300 for Nominator of Dam of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace 750 for Two-Year-Old Facem 20O for Nominator of Dumof Winner of Two -Year-Old Pac* 100 to Own*-rof Stallion, Sire of Winner of Three-Year-Old Pace when mare was bred FOR SALE--S500. \ HIGHLY BRED, FINE LOOKING STAL- **■ lion by Mendocino 2:19^ {aire of Monte Carlo 2:07^); dam the registered mare Princess (dam ot Aicyaudrl 2:15*£ aDd Jenny W. 2:2^^), by Nut- wood; second dam, Qaeen by Skeoandoah 926. This horse trotted a Mil mile in 2:18?£ this year with two monibV work: out.owlrg to a slight lnjary.it is feared he will not stand training. Injt.ry so slight as Lot to be noticeable and doea not lame him though driven daily on the road Horse is seven years old, handsome bay in color, anc" In the bands of any go' d man should earn from $1500 to $2500 a year in the stud. Is a floe road horse and a clean-gaited, level-headed trotter Thoroughly city broke. Horse is at Oakland and cat) bp seen b.? appointment. Apply to Breeder and Sportsman, 36 Geary Street, San Franc:sco. FOR SALE. uirnr W chestnut mare IVlrtOLjlL W. SIX TEAKS OLD Sire, HAMBLETOMAN WILKES Dam ANNA BELLK Full sister to Robert I. 2:08ii Price. 8300 AlfO new Bike Boggy, ?olid rubber tires and harness. D V. TRTJaX. 1126 Park Ave . Alam da, Park Street Station. FOR SALE. Will sell, on account of 111 health, the follow- ing trottine bred stock, at private sale, at a rea- sonable price: ORKNEY WILKES by Mambrino Wilkes dam .by Speculation Orkney Wilkes is the sire of Swanhiioa 2:13 V, mile 1:04. In third heat of race. Two producing brood mares. MAUD S by Jim Mulvena. dam of Swanbilda; MAGGIE Mc by Abbotsford Jr dam by Speculation Maggie Mc Is th*- dam of Sid Abbot. 4 year-old trial 2:18. Also colts by Orknej Wilkes, Sldmoor and Dlc- tatus Two yearlings by Dictatus, perfect matches; one Ally pacer from Maud S.; one horse colt from Maggie Mc. trotter For further information call on or address W L. MCDONALD. Boi 82, Concord, Cal DON'T FAIL TO MAKE THIS PAYMENT. REHEWBER THE SUBSTITUTION CLAUSE: "If th3 mire proves barren, or slips, or has a dead foal, or twins, or if either the mare or foal dies before JaDuary 2, 1907, her nominator may sell and transfer his nomination or substitute another mare or foal, regardless of ownership." 8®= Be Sure and Make Payment on Time. E. P. HFALD. President. F. W. KELLEY. Secretary, 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. PHENOL SODIQUE neais Deposit Your SORES, CUTS Wle Funds and BITES Man and Beast, WITH THE fa Keep Handy for Cures KSfr.C **TlSEOTIC AND D^fjS? Isiglllfllilp mange & scratches *»■—,_ Diseases of ahihalS- t For Sale C^iSES^5^ By All Druggist* ^"CE BROTHERS A V/STTE" Recomm uaed by this publication. HANCE BROTHERS & WHITE Pharmaceutical Chemists PHILADELPHIA. RACING! Central TrustCompany of California 42 Montgomery St, SAN FRANCISCO. You can open a Savings Account by mail with any sura large or small. INTEREST PAID SEMI-ANNUALLY 3 1-2 \ on Ordinary Savings 3 6-10% on Term Savings Interest paid on First Deposit from date of lodgment. ARE YOU BLIND to the fact that whatever Interest you take In raomg, whether you are a Breeder Owner Trainer JOCkET Bookmaker Bettor you should never enter into a discussion, whether backed up by money or not, without having in your pocket, or within easy reach, a copy of "Goodwins' Cffloial Turf Guide " If you do this YOU WILL NEVER LOSE because every page of the ' Guide" Is complied from official sources and It therefore can be de- pended upon for accuracy. 51 GENTS A DAY or $20 a year is all it costs to become an annual subscriber; this includes all paper bound issues, published aoout twice a month from March to November, and an "Annual," in two volumes, handsomely bound fn half morocco. Subscriptions accepted at tbe office of this paper wl hout extra charge, ^r at offloe of publi- cation 1440 Broadway New York Single, paper bouLd. copies also for sale at 50*3, 75c, 11. SI 50 or 32. according to issue, and individ- ual "Annuals' at $6, $S, HO or $14, according to binding. New Calitoraia Jackey Clou OAKLAND TRACK SEVEN RACES EACH WEEK DAY RAIN OR SHINE RACES START AT 1:40 P. M. For Special Trains stopping at the Track take S. P Ferry, foot of Market St.; leave at 12:20, thereafter every twenty minutes until 2 p. m. No smoking in last two cars, which are reserved for ladies and their escorts Returning, trains leave Track after fifth and last races. THOMAS H. WILLIAMS, President. PERCY W. TREAT, Secretary. RBINE Removes Bursal Enlargements, Thickened Tissu ., Infiltrated Paris, and any Puff or S..ellinj;. Cures Lameness, Allay s l'a i a wlthoit Ir.y'-if the horse itp. Doi-s not blister, stain or remove the hair. .j.ui a bollix, delivered. Pamphlet 1-C free. AUSORBTXK, .TR., for mankind, gl.OO I bottle. Cures Synovitis, Weepuvt SI Strain*, Gouty or Rheumatic Dc reduces Varl mse Veins, V;-..-. ■<■ ■ lc, Hj urocele. Alleys pain, l>ouk free. Genuine uifd. only by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F , 54 Monmouth .street. Springfield, Mass. For sale by Mack & Co.. LangleyA Michaels Co., Redlngton & Co . J O'Kane and J. A. Mc- Kerron, all of San Francisco ;do you want to rent a stall a whole race track? The owners of the MOUNT DIABLO RACE TRACK, locattd near Concord, Cal , are con- structing 50 new aDd up-to-date stalls After April 1st thsy will be prepared to rent ' stalls to trainers and others as may be required. I Also they will entertain propositions for the lease of the track and grounds as a whole for a term of one or more years. Improvt meets now In course of construction, to cost about $4000 will result in making this track one of the very best ail-the-year-round trackson tbe Coast For particulars address IRA B. KILGORE, Concord, Cal. Take Ealght, Hayes or Ellis Street Cars. T. C. CABNEY, Prop. Phone: Park 436 Trap For Sale. A FINE. STYLISH, STRONGLY CON- structed, high Trap, with brake, in splendid condition; can be secured at a bargain for cash Cost $425; bult to order. Owner leaving city See It at once at HULDA STABLES, 1530 Fell Street, Park Panhandle, PANHANDLE STABLES Hordes Bought, Sold, and Clipped AT POFCLAK PRICES. Horses Boarded, Trained, Called, Exercised. 1225-1227 FELL STREET Bet. Devlsadero anil Broderlt k Street., SAN FRANCISCO. A. 0. FORSBERC H. P. FORSBERC Forsberg Bros. Fashionable Tailors. . . . PRICES RIGHT 36 GEARY ST Phone Blick 4711 Room 29, Third Floor .BAN FR.1SI1MCI HIGH-CLASS ROAD MARE FOR SALE \ VERY HANDSOME BAY MARE; STANDS ■"• 16 hands high; weighs about IPX) Ib8;absb- lutely sound, geotle. kind disposition, armid of nothing; city broken; stylish, pood action;. a square-gaited trotier and about 5 rears old. wf]| be s^ld reasonable. For farther particulars address J H. MAST Crossley Bldg, San Fran 14: &tt* @v*ebev ants ^povt&man [.April 14 19C6 THE SHROPSHIRE SHEEP. The Shropshire sheep is unquestion- ably the most popular of all the breeds, if we may judge by the comparative numbers shown at the various exhibi- tions and equally by the flocks seen on the farms as one passes along the roads In such localities as sheep are usually kept Practically it the farmer's sheep, for it is a hardy animal and bears a fleece wnieh is the staple for the most popular of clothing materials. It is most commonly used by the range shepherds for the production of lambs and market sheep. It is the most an- cient of the long-wool breeds, and was so highly considered as far back as <.hree hundred years ago as to have been selected by the Knglish govern- ment as the best return for some Merinos which were presented by the king of Spain to the king of England. B well deserves its popularity, for it Is a very excellent mutton sheep, and bears a kind of wool which is in permanent demand for the coarser kinds of manufactures, and was still more so at the time when cotton was unknown and linen was the material for making such goods as are now made of cotton. The wool of this breed furnishes the material for the greater part of the coarser clothing of men, and is largely mixed in with the finer wools for the manufacture of women's clothing. The Shropshire has an excellent reputation as a prime mutton sheep, especially for its most desirable lambs for the Easter and Christmas market. Its home is in the best part of Eng- land where agriculture is most highly developed, and it stands at the head of that class of sheep commonly called the Downs breeds. The Downs are a part of Southern England, where the soil and climate combine with the skill and enterprise of the farmers to make their work the most profitable, and as a result of this the value of the farm lands is the highest, and conse- quently rents also. Its qualifications as a farm sheep are various. It is hardy and prolific. One flock in England has been trained to produce two sets of lambs every year, •so that the flock as to its original num- ber really doubles annually; and as this sheep is very precocious, and if well cared fox may be bred as lambs the second year, and increase in this same proportion, the flock is proportion- ately more profitable than one in which the lambs are only singles, the sheep of this breed are easily disciplined and are rarely troublesome on any ordinary farm, and thus may be considered as especially the farmer's sheep. It is easily fed, and when three years old may easily be made to dress twen- ty pounds to the quarter. It is a pro- lific wool bearer. A prize ram had a live weight of over 300 pounds, and his fleece of that year, not quite a year's growth, made HVi pounds. An excel- lent characteristic is that it improves the common sheep when bred to it by reason of its solidity of form and its strong natural vitality. This latter quality tends to the acquisition by the progeny of a pure-bred ram of the spe- cial points of the breed, so that a half- Warranted to Give Satisfaction. GombauM's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy -ad 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 rarasitca, Thrush, Diphtheric. Removes all BunoheB from Horses or Cattle, /aa Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sj rains, 3ore Throat, etc., It is lnraluublo. Every bottle of Oaustic Balsam sold is V.-|irnxntod to Rive sutlst action. Price $1 50 XHr bottle. Sold liy dnj^yints. or eont by ex- - ess, charges paid, with full directions for i uio. tVSend for descriptive olrcular.4, ttmonJaU, etc Address »...e Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0 not at all, to 'the ram itself. The mutton of the Shropshire is next in quality to the noted Southdown, but its half-bred young lambs reared by the writer have brought as much as the thoroughbred Southdown, 'the half-bred ewes bringing as good lambs under the best of care as those of the pure-bred ewes, when coupled with a full-blooded ram— all the better if this is at least three years old. This breed used to have a dark face, but of late this peculiarity has been lost to a considerable degree. — Henry Stewart, in Country Gentleman. 1— o Succulent food increases the flow of milk, but does not materially increase the proportion of water in it. The relative proportions of fat and casein are changed in a marked manner by a change in the ration. An extra yield of butter will naturally follow the use of richer feed if the cow has been well selected. Toghill Stud It is no sacrifice to pay a big price for a cow if you are sure of getting big money back again. Where the loss comes in is in buying a poor cow just because she is cheap. The poorest thing a man can have on the farm is a poor cow. $1.25 $1.00 ,75 .50 .35 Rock Island Sheep's Wool Sponges, in all for vehicle washing and harness oleanln harness dealers, or delivered on receipt of S. ADDERLEY, 307 Market St., S. F , Gal. 25 sizes, g. At price. FOB SALE. Well-bred Brood Mare With Fine HAL B. Horse Colt four weeks old. Write for particulars to MRS S. STORM, 1198 West 46th Street, Los Angeles, Cal , Uolversity. \ and just as they want it. The right way to | salt animals is to let them help themselves. Compressed Pure-Salt Bricks I lnourPateDtFeederB.Buppiyreflned dairy salt. I I They mean animal thrift. They cost but little. I Convenient for you and your I animals suffer no neglect. Ask I your dealer and write us for I booklet. ' Belmont Stable ' f- ■ Put upply Co. I teis.Mfrs. | ooklyn, FOR SALE OR TRADE. Lumber Yard at Douglas, Ariz. On Railroad avenue; modern double-deoked lumber shed; five-room modern house, all im- provements; four offloe rooms; lime house; 2'0 feet outslda shed*, and other buildings; Herring Hall safe, etc Price $6500. Will trade for ranch within fifty miles of Berkeley. Standard-bred trotting atook brood mares taken. Address J. H. JACK, 1431 Spruoe St., Berkeley, Cal. BROOD MARES FOR SALE. NELLIE FAIRMONT 1 „„,,, „„.„ br Fairmont! *•"* ALAMEDA MAID by ErosJ Ljnwood W. NELLIE FAIRMONT, dam of Zambra, world's champion for 5 miles, 12:24. ALAMEDA MAID(reglBtered) is out of Oakland Maid 2:22 by Speculation. For prices and particulars address S. B. WRIGHT. Santa Rosa, Cal. TOR SALE. A Handsome Bay Mare, 4 years old, by Mon- tesol; dam, Lady Bird by Wlnwood. Thor- oughly broken; gentle; shows speed eoough to make a good prospect for the raoes; a trot- ter. Prloe$400. Hay Mare by Judge, son of Sidney; dam, The Moor Off Mare; In foal to Montesol. Stands nearly 16 bands; a high-class road mare, gen- tle, thoroughly broken. Not only a good roadster but a good broodmare. Price $250. Address or apply to P. FOLEY, St. Charles street and Eagle avenue, Alameda. 879-680 Mth Ave. Back of The Chutes. All kinds of Horses bought and sold. THE ZIBBELL STABLE ZIBBELL & SON, Proprietor!. San Francisco, Cal. Boarding, Training and Bundling all kinds of Fanoy Horses. A few Nice Riga on hand. Take soy oar going to the Chutes Tel.: West 360 PEDIGREES TABULATED And ty.pB written Ready lor framing Write for prices. Bhbedib and Sportsman, 86 Geary Street, San Franalaoo, Cal, hvjietxtIjO (Property of Stephen T. Britten) SQUIRE OF CHESTER Blue Roan THE LATEST IMPORTED ENGLISH HACKNEY SQUIRE OF CHESTER A few engagements may be booked for high-class, well-bred mares. WILLIAM WALKER, Manager, Menlo Park, Cal. WILLIAM HAROLD Sire of JANICE 2:08 1-4, world's record (2;24 1-4) for 1 1-8 miles, and DAN BURNS 2:15 1 RECORD 2:13 1-4 SIRED BY SIDNEY 2:19 3-4 Sire ot LenaN 2:0BJf Monterey 2:09M Dr. Leek 2:09H Oddity 2:10m Sldmont 2:I0V4 100 others In 2:30 list and sire ot Sidney Dillon Sire ot Lou Dillon l-.bShi Dolly Dillon 2:06K Stanley Dillon. ...2:07J£, etc. Dam, CRICKET 2:10 Dam of William Harold.. 2:13^ Hopper 214J< Isobel 2:18 Cricri 2:20 Bv Steinway, sire or Klatawah 2-.05K 40 in 2:30 list Terms, $25 for the Season. For farther particulars address or apply to H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. The Houghton Sulky Co. Highest Class Line of Road and Speed Carts Carried In stock. Weight 42 to 65 pounds. Sulkies-Regular and Made to Order 29 to 35 pounds See Our Speedway Wagons PRICE3S ALW^ATS RIGHT SAN FRANCISCO WHEEL AND NOVELTY COMPANY 16th and Valencia Sts., San Francisco f PALACE HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA. TOURISTS and TRAVELERS will, now, with difficulty peoogndse the famous COURT Into which for twenty -fl e years carriages have driven. This spaoe of over a quarter of an acre has recentlp, 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 WHITING ROOM and numerous other modern Improvements, together with the unexcelled Cuisine and the Most Convenient Location in the City— ail add muoh to the ever increasing popularity of thlB most famous HOTEL. VICTOR VERILHAO Proprl et'ur JAMES IYI. McORATH Manage* DEXTER PRINCE STABLES TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Oar. of Grove and Baker Streets, Just at the Panhandle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devlsadero Street Cars) Boat looated and healthiest Stable In Sao Franoisoo. Always a good roadster on hand for sale. Careful and experienced men to oare for and exercise park roadsters and prepare horses for track use. Ladles oan r ) and return to stable d not have their horses frightened by automobile! tr oars, APRIL 14, 19C6] &kc gveebev axxb ^povisnxan 15 Stakes for Two- Year-Olds Offered by the California State Agricultural Society to be given at the CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR, 1906 ENTRIES CLOSE MAY 1, 1906 The A. B. SPRECKELS STAKE for Two-Year-Old Trotters $1000 The BEN RUSH STAKE for Two-Year-Old Pacers 1000 ENTRANCE PAYABLE AS FOLLOWS: $20 od May 1, 1906; $20 addi- tional if not declared out on or before June 1, 1906, and $10 additional if not declared out on op before July 1, 1906 Declarations (to declare out) must be mailed to tbe Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration iB made CONDITIONS. Distance to be one hundred yards. Right reserved to reject any or all entries. Five per oent ot the amount of the Stake will be deducted from each money won. The Board ol Directors reserve 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 66>'3' percent 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. The Board of Directors reserve the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses- 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'clook p. m. on the day preceding the race Otherwise than as herein specified io these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Associa tion (of which this Association is a member) to govern. For Entry Blanks and further information addreBs the Secretary. BEN F. RUSH, President. ALBERT LINDLEY, Sec'y State Af 1 Society, "ACRAMKNTO, CAL. Woodland Hackney Stud De PUE & SPRAGUE, Owners 324 Pino Street, San Francisco Breeders of Hiffli-CIass Carriage Horses Breeders of High-Class Saddle Horses Stud Headed by MANCHESTER Registered American Hackney Stud Book 201 Twice Winner of Bine Ribbon in New York Horse Show Carriage Teams, Saddle Horses and Gig Horses For Sale. Correspondence Solicited. A. H. BRINTON, Manager WOODLAND, CAL. Season 1906. CHARLES DERBY 4907 Leading Sire on the Pacific Coast. $50 THE SEASON. OrnTT T TTT PTT Best son of Bertha, dam of Don Derby 2:04 1=4, Diablo 2:09 1=4, Owyho 2:07 1=4, etc. $50 THE SEASON, OAKWOOD PARK STOCK FARM, Danville. Cal. (By CHA8. DERBY 4907) Pasturage 85 per month. Not responsible for accidents or escapes. For further particulars address CLOSELY RELATED TO JOHN A. McKERRON 2:04 1-2. T. C- 2:30 Trial 2:20 Sire NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16^. sire of John A. McKerron 2:04^, Tidal Wave 2:09, Miss Idaho 2:09^, Who la It 2:10^. Stanton Wllkea 2:10^, Cresco Wilkes 2:09?i. etc . etc Dam, ZETA CARTER by Director 2:17, sire dams of John A. McKerron 2:04>/3, Ozanam2:07, Little Thorne2:07H. Leonardo 2:08!^. etc., etc.; second dam, Llda W. 2:18}* {dam of Nutwood Wilkes 3:16%, etc ) by Nutwood 600, greatest sire of broodmares that ever lived; third dam by Geo. M. Patchen Jr. 31; fourth dam, Rebel Daughter by Williamson's Belmont. T. C Is one of the beat bred young stallions In California. A two-year-old Qlly by him has been one of the sensational young trotters at Pleasanton this winter, and Is as handsome as a picture T. C. will make the season At Alameda Race Track. Fee $30 the Season. with usual return prlvllvge. Excellent pasturage fozmares at reasonable rates. Send to the undersigned for card containing tabulated pedigree and otffer Information. I will take a few horses to train for road or track. GEORGE T. AL6EO, 1207 Eagle Ave., Alameda, Cal. McMyrtle One of the handsomest sons of the great McKinney. Has size, the best and most fashionable blood lines. Four years old. By McKINNEY 2:11 1=4 Dam, MYRTLKDALE (half sis- ter to Hillsdale 2:15) by Iran Alto; 2nd dam, Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15) by Nutwood; 3rd dam by Wllllarxson's Belmont, style, quality and speed as well as Season of 1906 at my stable, D Street, Petalnma. Terms: $30 for the Season, with return privileges. Address JOHN GRLQIEB, Petalnma. RED BALL BRAND. Awarded Gold Medal At CallfornlaState 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. riaahattan Pood Co 1 253 Folaom St., San Francisco ABk your grocers or dealera for it. Positively Cures Colic, Scouring and Indigestion. C. P. KKRTELL, Manager. PpHlO^rPPC TahlllatAH and type wrltten ready for Naming rCUl^lCCS laUUIdlCU Write for prices. Breeder and Spoktsman. 36 Geary Street, San Francisco, Cal. Closing Out at Private Sale or tiio Sacramento Valley Stuck Farm Stallions, Brood Mares, and Young Stock Suitable for Training. CH. STALLION, FOALED 1902, cara, 2:18%, by Guy \ below 2:20), by Direct, the great stallion Pane Messenger, and the next dam by Imp. Messenger himself ' Q °£ lmP' hi, At °Z?U?£ 1^ ]?,ns, Pedifree ;s unexcelled, his sire and the sires of he is as great as his pedigree, unexcelled. Although never trai^ i hu, ]?ag&lSrt?2S££&Sg£2L As a candlaate htosel»» 'h< ™d & CH. STALLION, FOALED 1902, "FLOSSNTTT."— Sire Nutwood Wilkes 2-lStt- lit Sa„m', Fi°SS1l' by Cornelius (11335), sire of cSnneHtl ?:10Vi etc )' ^Nut- wood; 2nd Jam, s.ster to Ruth Ryan (thoroughbred), by Lodi son of Imo Yorkshire and Topaz by Imp. Glencoe; 3rd dam, Eva Bulwer by Bui we r son of Grey Eagle; 4th dam, Emma Taylor bv Into Glenrai" 5t» d.™ rl™.™ 4th dam of Palo Alto and Jjth^amj,? Alcyone Alcantara, etc * by^Lance esented the it one of Echo, one io.^J m^y ^tlfeV^af^^iC^SS The blood lines in this young stallion's' p^T^re^ renresented^he''™,,!,. J„Vnrpo Nutwood Wilkes laid upon two crosses o 'Nutwood, on , o 'Echo one ?^ Gt°- i,Mi Pat,onf n Jr- ana a thoroughbred female line tracing to Lancess to which female line trace such great ones as Alcyone (sire of Molifnnlv)- Alcantara Palo Alto, and many other great ones The sires in the tho£ ?e« The n^h dilre^? t0 tLanf ess «|ve each produced the dams of trot- ters. The high degree of natural speed, strength and size Nutwood tvno l?n°fnTa;°!; ^ make-up of this young stallion make hta worthy of the track l W°rthy °f the °™mt™if-y to earn a low record on BAT MABE, rOALED 1903, "FLOWEBET BELLE."— Sire Monbells 2">3*4 son of Mendocino 2:19%, by Eleciioneer and Beautiful Bells '(worm's greatest brood mare) by The Moor; 1st dam, Floweret (dam of 2 Ir "list and full lfo« l!'?w^Ma"Za,n.ila' et0-'' by Electioneer; 2nd darn^ Mlynower 2.30% (dam of Wildflower. Manzanita, etc.), by St. Clair 16675 The sire of his filly represents Electioneers most famous sneed pro- ducing line, the Electioneer-Beautiful Bells cross. The dam of this filly represents a great performing and producing line that first made Electioneer famous through the great Wildflower, Manzanita, etc.. the Electtoneer-Jllv- flower cross. This filly was M to Dillcara in 1905. and the pedTgree of the produce will be composed almost exclusively of the greatest bloodlines of the greatest producers in the trotting world. Her produce from such weVl nIs for racTnT ra"k °f the WsheSt Va'Ue for "reeding'purpo^es? as CH. MABE, GBISETTE POALED 1902— Sire Marengo King 2:29%, son of McKin- S«« L?!8' B,y,^ Nutwood: 1st dam, Lisette by AbdaHah Wilkes 7562 (sire of Wauco 2:14%, etc.). son of Geo. Wilkes; 2nd dam, Musette by Startle 290 (sire of 11). son of Hambletonian 10: 3rd dam, Beckif Sharp by BlackHartns '" S°n Hambletonion 10; 4th dam, Kent Mare by it =Jn»this nl\Ks ?edi?ree we have almost exclusively the producing male lVnl--°f Hambletonian 10. Her sire traces to that speed progenitor through McKinney, crosses of Nutwood and Dictator being thrown in We get to Hambletonian 10 in the male lines of the sire of the 1st, 2nd and 3rd dams very quickly through only one or two generations of producing sires some- thing phenomenal for close up breeding to Hambletonian 10. This fillv was bred to Dillcara in 1905. and the produce will probably have In its pedigree more crosses of Hambletonian 10 than any other horse, following the sug- ™SSL0IV The way f°, breed trotters is fo get all the blood of Hambletonian 10 that you can, and then get more." Stout and well formed as this filly Is. her produce should be not only speedy but useful in the racing game. Not broken to drive. 6~m>s. CH. MABE, POALED 1902, "BESSIE SWEET."— Sire Diablo 2:09%; 1st nam, Bessie Koan by Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes; 2nd dam, Bessie bv Ventura 2-27%; 3rd dam, Lady Emma 2:30% by Paul's Abdallah, son of Hambletonian 10. J1., „ , ,t brood mare slre Venture 2:27%. a thoroughbred, being the sire or the 2nd dam. a real good half-thoroughbred son of Guy Wilkes being the sire pf the first dam, Diablo 2:09% being the sire of the filly herself, the 2nd and the ord dams having been about the best mares ever driven in San Fran- cisco for speeding at the Park, should make this filly most valuable for breed- ing purposes, she being of large size and stout and blocky. Was never bred or broken. CH. MABE, POALED 1889, "FLOSSIE."— Sire Cornelius 11335 (sire Carmelita 2:10%, etc.), son of Nutwood 2:1S%, and Jennie G. 2:261* bv Echo, he by Hambletonian 10: 1st dam, sister: to Ruth Ryan (thoroughbred), by Lodi. son of Imp. Yorkshire and Topaz by Imp. Glencoe: 2nd dam, Eva Bulwer by Bulwer. son of Grey Eagle; 3rd dam, Emma Taylor by Imp. Glencoe: 4th dam, Lancess (to whom trace in female line Alcyone, sire of McKinnev. Alcantara. Palo Alto, etc.), by Lance, son of American Eclipse. In this pedigree we have top crosses of Nutwood and Echo, great brood mare crosses, laid upon a thoroughbred female line going to Lancess, the 4th dam of Alcyone (sire of McKinney). Alcantara, Palo Alto, etc., the sires In this female thoroughbred line being the most noted for producing the dams and grandams of trotters. Lodi, the sire of the 1st dam. produced the dam of Pedlar and others: Bulwer was by Grey Eagle, whose daughters and grand-daughters produced great trotting performers: Imp. Glencoe's grand- daughters produced several trotters. The dam of this filly was a sister to Ruth Ryan, who produced Strathern, sire of Plunkett 2:13%. Sons of Flossie by well bred stallions, should become great sires, as well as performers She is a very large, stout mare, of the Nutwood type. Bred to Dillcara In 1905. BAT MABE. POALED IN 1894, "FLOSSIE HOCK."— Sire Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes and Eda (thoroughbred), by Hock Hocking; 1st dam, Flossie by Cornelius 11335. son of Nutwood and Jennie G. 2:26% bv Echo. (See Flossie for continuation.) This pedigree represents a Guy Wilkes-Nutwood-Echo cross upon an excellent thoroughbred female line. Not bred in 1905. Never broken. A stout, well made mare. No living produce. BAT MABE, FOALED 1894, "BESSIE HOCK;" Bay Roan Mare, foaled 1895. "Bessie Roan": Ch. Mare, foaled 189S. "Bessie Babe"; three full sisters; Sire Hock Wilkes, son of Guy Wilkes 2:15%. and Eda (thoroughbred) bv Hock Hocking, son of Ringgold by Boston: 1st dam, Bessie by Venture 2:27%. thoroughbred son of Williamson's Belmont: 2nd dam, Lady Emma 2:39% to"pole, by Paul's Abdallah, son of Hambletonian 10. These three mares, full sisters, are each stout, smooth turned, extra well formed: were never broken to drive or ride Their sire, Hock Wilkes, was a very stout, speedy, though crippled, half- thoroughbred son of Guy Wilkes. Their 1st and 2nd dams were about the speediest and best road mares driven in San Francisco and speeded in the Park. In this pedigree •we have a top cross of Guy Wilkes laid upon a female line with Venture, a thoroughbred hrnod-mare sire, for the sire of the first dam. and a son of Hambletonian 10 for the sire of the second dam extra stout bloodlines for the production of game trotting speed. ALSO SOME TWO-TEAS-OLDS out of dams whose pedigree Is given above, suit- able for training and breeding purposes, and entered in Futurity Stakes One grand 2-year-old stallion. Address SACRAMENTO VALLEY STOCK FARM, Care of BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 30 Geary St., San Francisco, Cal. THOMPSON'S SALE AND TRAINING STABLES PLEASANTON RACE TRACK One of the Best Equipped Training Stables in Califor Owners desiring to nave horses handle} and put In condition for sale or raclns are Id-, correspond with the undersigned JAS THOMPSON, I'leiuan 16 <&Us $veei>ex tmfcr gtjttrrterocm I April 14. n06 KiTxnvrErsr lou ikt the lesad ■j* HAWTHORNE 2:06 1-4 BILLY BCCR 3:07 1-4 KINNEY LOU 2:07 3-4 \£ I IV I |V I C\f I f\l I O.A73 THE FASTEST TROTTING SON rV I 1^1 IM E- Y L-W vJ ^.U I 4 OF THE CHAMPION SIRE Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWRENCE STOCK FARM One Mile East of Lawrence Station, and Six Miles from San Jose. TERMS S10O. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known-to be in foal. BUDD D0BLE, San Jose, Cal. For farther Information, pedigree and description addreflB PHONE: SUBURBAN 499, SAN JOSE. MENDOCINO 22607 RECORD (THREE-YEAR-OLD) 2:19% Sireof Monte Carlo 2:07L{ (to wagon 2:084); Idolita (3y. o ) 2:31$*. (3y.o.)2:I2, (a) 2:09^. Leonora 2:12%, Polka Dot 2:14^, eto Bay Stallion, 15.3% Lands; weight 1190 pounds; hind feet and ankles white; foaled April 24, 1889. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, ELECTIONEER 12a. son of Hambletonfan 10. First dam, MANO (dam of MENDOCINO (3)2:19%, Electant 2:19% Morocco (3y.o. trial 2:22) by Piedmont 904, 2:17}*; second dam, Mamie (dam of Mamie W (3) 2:l?$i, Hyperion 2:215£, Memento 2:25!4, Mithra (p) 2:14}*) by Hamble- tonian Jr 1882; third dam, Gilda (thoroughbred) by imp- Mango. MENDOCINO is one of Electioneers youngest and best sons With very limited opportunities in the stud he has proven his worth by producing such racehorses as Monte Carloand Idolita. Three new additions to bis 2:30 list were made last season, and he now has ten standard performers. His foals are good size, tlae lookers bold and pure galted and easily developed. SERVICE FEE for Sea-ton of 1906* 875; nsnal return privilege. MCKENA 39460 i Brown Stallion; 16.2 hands; weight, 1350 pounds; foaled April 11. 1900. Bred at Palo Alto Stock Farm. Sire, MoKINNEY 8318 (record 2:1 1^)- First dam, HELENA 2:11# (damof Wlldnutling 2:11*4; Doboel 2:22, Hvlta (trial 2:12j by Electioneer 125: second dam, Lady Ellen 2:29% (dam of six In list. Including Helena 2:11}*, Ellen Wood 2:14}*) by Mambrino 1789; third dam, Ida May Jr. by Owen Dale; fourth dam, Ida May by Belmont (Williamson's). McKENA has proven a remarkably sure f ial getter. He should make a great sire as he is a fine individual and bred right His sire, McKlnney, a game and fast racehorse and sire of game and fast racehorses His dam, Helena, one of the fastest and tamest daughters of Electioneer, the greatest sire of trotters the world hasyet known. His second dam, Lady Ellen, was one of the best of her day, and as well as her daughter Helena is a great broodmare. I SERVICE FEE for Season of 1906, «40; naaal return privilege. MENDOCINO and McKENA will make the season at PALO ALTO STOCK FARM. Mares may run on pasture at 85 psr month. No responsibility assumed by the Palo Alto Stock Farm for Injury or escapes. Address all communications to PALO ALTO STOCK FARM, Stanford University. «anta Clara CTo., Cal. McMURRAY PfllCE Low. McMURRAY SULKIES and J0QQINQ CARTS STANDARD THE WORLD OVER. -OS-Address for printed matter and prices W. J. KENNEY 531 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. Sales-Agent for California. American Trottii Hopitor PUBLICATIONS. NOW READY THE YEAR BOOK For 1905 -Vol. 21 Contains'Summariesor races: pedigrees of new performers; 2:l0.1isfc: llstot all 2:30 trotters; list of all 2:25 pacers; great table of sires; list of all named dams or standard performers;_. table of champion trotters; fastest records, etc. Vol. XXI, 1905, single copies, prepaid $4 00 Vol. XXI, 1905. 10 or more, each. f. o. b 3.35 Vol. XX, 1904, single copies, prepaid 4.00 Vol. XIX, 1903, single copies, prepaid 4.00 Vol. XVIII, 1903, single copies, prepaid. Vol. XVII, 1901, " ■■ " Vol. XVI, Vol. XV, 1900, 1899. Vol. XIV, 1898, Vol. XI, Vol. IX, Vol VI, Vol. V, 1895, 1893, 1890, 1889, 4.00 400 4.00 4.00 3.00 3.00 3.00 2.50 2.60 All other volumes out of print. THE REGISTER Vols. HI to XVI, inclusive (except Vol. XHT) in one order, f. o. b $60.00 Single Volumes, prepaid 5.00 Vols. I, H and XIII are out of print. REGISTRATION BLANKS will be sent upon application. Money must accompany all orders. Address American Trotting Reg. Association 355 Dearborn St., Room 1108, CHICAGO, ILL. Or BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL By McKinnev 2:ll>*; dam. Lady Washington. In every point he shows his breeding; has good style and action. Stands 16 hanas, weight 1200 p uods. His get briDg big prices Will make the S«»son ai Rose Dale Stock Farm Ke«, W30 for season. Ferfortli^r perrlcnlars address ROSE DALE teTUCK FARM Sam a Rosa, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN IMPROVED STALLION MICE BOOKS (TOCKET SIZE) 100 Pages. Price $1, postpaid. Most Complete Book of the kind published. BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN, 36 4 by Stamboul 2:0714. Will make the Season of 1900 at PLEASANTON Fee 850 BONNIE McK. is a grand individual and a fast trotter with perfect legs and feet. All mares bred to him In 1906 will be nominated in Breeders Futurity without expense to owner. Address GEO, A. KELLT, Pleasanton, Cal. TRIAL 2:12 (at Foor Years Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, Iowa By EXPRESSO 29199 (half b-otber to Expressive (3) 2:12V4) by Advertiser 2:\bH> son of Electioneer 125; nam ALPHA 2:2 3 14 (dam of Aegon 2:l8Jf, sire of Ageon Star2:lIH, etc ) by Alcan- tara by George Wilkes 2:22; second dam Jessie Pepper (dam of 2 in list and 3 producing sons and 7 pi'ouuclng daughters) by Mambrino Chief 11, etc Terms for the Season $25 HIGHLAND is a grand looking youug stallion, seven years old. His breeding is most fashion- able, and his immediate ancestors are producers of race winners with fast records. He is beauti- fully gaited and has a perfect disposition. Does not pull or want to break at speed, and oan be plaoed at will in a bunch of horses He Is a hlgh-ciais horse and has better than 2:10 speed, and has trotted a quarter in 31 seconds over the Pleasanton race track HIGHLAND is a coal black horse with one white hind ankle, stands 16. 1 lands high and weighs close to 1200 pounds. Address all communications to TED HAYES, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal, ZOMRRO 2:11 Greatest Son of McKinney 2:113 Will make the Season of 1906 At LOS AN3ELE3, CAL. Fee, 850 for the Season. With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse and mare does not change ownership. Money due at time of service, or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is the sire of eleven standard performers as follows: Zephyr 2:07Jtf, timed separately In a race in 2:0314: Charley T. 2:1314. trial 2:1014; Italia 2:1414. over half-mile traok. trial 2:0814; Bellemont- three years old. record 2:153£, trial 2:l;?£; Zombowyette 2:161*. trial 2:1414: Zenobla 2:19, trial half In 1:0514 Tee Des Cee 2:1914- trial 2:13(4; Ladv Zombro 2:24, trial 2:10; Lord Kitchener 2:2414. trial 2:1914: Zealous 2:2614, trial 2:20: Nina Bonlta2:27. ZOMBRO has won more first prizes in the show rine than any California stallion, and his get have sold for more money during the past three years. He is the only horse living or dead that ever won fortv heats in standard tim<3 *\s a three-year-old. His get are all large, beautifully formed and endowed with great natural speed The choicest pasture for mares. Address GEO. T. BECKERS, 3949 Figaeroa St , Lob Angeles, Cal. {RECORD 2:22",)— Sire of Alone (4) 2:091* (trial 2:06fi)' Just It (3) 2:1914 itrlal 2:1214), High Flv (2) 2:24 ^ (trial 2:1214 last half in 1:0014). and full brother to the great John . McKerron 2:0414. the second fastest stallion in the world. By NUTWOOD WILKES 2:1614, sire of John A. McKerron 2:0414 (second fastest stallion in the world). Tidal Wave 2:09, Mis* Idaho 2:09 M- Who Is It 2:1UH. Stanton Wilkes 2: lOJii Cresco Wilkes (4)2:10^, GeorgieB. 2:12^. North Star (3) 2:13M. winner Haolflo Breeders Futurity Stakes $6000 Guaranteed of 1905 and 32 in 2:30 lf*u; dam INGAR, the greatest producing daughter of Director; second dam Annie Titus by Echo 462: third dam Tiffany mare (damof Glbfaltar2:22l4i byOwen Dale, son of Williamson's Belmont. NEAREST is a dark bay, 15 3 hands and weighs 1200 pounds: well formed and of kind disposition. In his blood lines are represented the greatest strains of the American trotter. Will make the Season of 1906 at San Jose, with return privilege In case horse remains In California. For terms and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T W BARSTOW, San Jose, Cal. NEAREST 35562 u W 2 Z o McKinney 2:11^ Sire of Coney Sweet Marie and 38 more in 2:15 70 In 2:3J Bon Silene 2:1414...; Dam of Bonnie McK-. (trial). 2:02 2:04 H Alcyone 2:27 Sire of Martha Wilkes 2:08 60 in 2:30 „ Rose Sprague Dam of McKinney 2:1134 Grandam of Pereno 2:0514 Stamboul 2:0714 Sire of Stamboulette 2:I0M Ellert 2:11 etc. i Bon Bon 2:26 , Dam of Bonnie Direct 2:0bH Rector 2:10 Bon Silene 2:1414 Bonnie Stelnway trl) 2:0814 [Geo Wilkes 2:22 by Hamb. 10 i Alma Mater by Mamb. Patchen Gov. Sprague 2:2014 by Rhode Island Rose Kenney by Mamb. Messenger ' Sultan 2:24 by The Moor Fleetwing by Hamb. 10 dam of 2 In list r Simmons 2:28 by Geo. Wilkes Bonnie Wilkes 2:29j* by Geo. Wilkes dam of 4 in list THE STANDARD TROTTING STALLION Murray M. 2:14 (WINNER OF THE BREEDERS FUTURITY, $6000, IN 1904) Will make the Season of 1906 at the Race Track, University Station, LOS ANGELES, CAL. Terms, S40 for the Season, with usual return privileges. MURRAY M. 2:14 is by Hambletonlan Wilkes 1679 (sire of Phoebe Wilkes 2:08'/2.Phoebon W.2:08?i, Robert I 2:08& and 7 others in the 2:15 list); dam Anna Belle (3) 2:2714 (dam of Robert I. 2:08?i. Maud Murray 2:12 MUR- RAY M. 2:14 and La Belle (2) 2:16) by Dawn, sire of 5 In 2.30 list and dams of 8. MURRAY M. 2:14 is a handsome flve-year-old bay stallion with small star and black points. In his three-year-old form he stood 16 hand-: and weighed 1125 lbs., and Is a natural, square-galted trotter. He Is a horse of grand finish, plenty of substance, excellent disposition He has a stout back, strong loins and stifles good feet and legs. His breeding is excellent, and with his Individual- ity he presents a popular and spee J-producing combination of the kind that gets money on the race course and prizes in the show ring. Excellent pasturage at reasonable rates. For further particulars address PROF fit, B FREEWAN. Unlvemlty Station, Los Ang;eles. Cal. THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKlNNEY 2: 11 %— greatest sire of his age; dam. the great broodmare DAISYS, (dam of four In list) by McDonald Chief 3583, son of Clark Chief 89; second dam Fanny Rose", great brood mare (dam of three with records better than 2:18) by Ethan Allen Jr.2993; third dam, Jenny Llnd (thoroughbred), dam of Prince Allen 2:27. Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE 850, with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, Woodland, Cal, E. P HV, VCD. 0ir« of Oiil'oaa 3:1516. u-nrge vVa-thingiun 2:16*£ (sireof Stella 2:15%, ■ !ampaigner2:26w and Princess W 2:29*). Trilby 2:21 & ano Sweet Rosie 2:28*. By McDonald Chief 3583 (sire of 4 and sire of dams of 7 In 2:30); dam Venus by Mambrino Patchen 58. Terms, 820 for the %eason: n-mal retnrn privilege!, Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above THOMAS SMITH, Horsea at my barn. 1021 Georgia St , Vallejrt, Cal, Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY. Race Track. Pleasanton. Cal by ZOLOCK 2:06KS dam GIPSEY, dam of Gazelle 2:11%. Delilah 2:14% and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14%. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05J SIRE OF BON1LET (3) 2:0911, iQ winning race— World's Record for age and flex. BONNIE 1IE (3), trial (trotting) 3:11% (last half 1:03). Only two of BONNIE DIRECTS first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton-Fee $100 USUAL RETURN PRIVILEGE. Should horse die or be sold, service fee for mares not proving to be in foal will be returned. The facilities for care of mare or mares and foals is unsurpassed. Pasturage, $1.25 par week. Feeding and pasturing, $2.50 per week. Separate paddocks and stalls if desired. A good runway for yearlings, inoluding green feed, hay, grain, twice a day, and good shelter at night, $15 per month. Mares will be fed until pasturage is sufficient to keep them in good oondition. Running water in all paddocks and fields. More Standard Performers Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California. SIDMOOR 2:17 3 SlRB OF By SIDNEY 2:19 3=4 (sire of 19 In 2:15 list and 106 in 2:30 list and sire Sidney Dillon, sire LOU DILLON 1:58%, World's Champion): dam Mamie Harney by The Grand Moor; next dam Sarpy Mare by Eoho 482. ENOCH 2:13%, GENERAL 2:14%, TEDDY THE KOAN 2:17%, LITTLE MISS 2:17K, MARCHIONESS 2:29. LILLIAN MDMORE 2:24% and TIP OQUANDO (trial) 2:09%. SID ABBOTT (trial) 2:18, JAKE F, (trial bait mile) l:OS. Season 1906 at Concord Race TracK and at Pacheco. Address SIDMOOR 2:17* Is a dark bay stallion and a grand individual In every respeot. He is one of the best producing sons of Sidney, and with the right cross will get Lou Dillon Bpeed, Fee $30 for Season. Usual Return Privileges. JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. CONSTRUCTOR 39569 By McKINNEY 2:111, Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares. FULL BROTHER TO TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 First dam DAISY S. (dam of Tom Smith 2:13)*., General Vallejo 2-20tf, Little Mao2:27S. Sweet Rosle 2:28*0 by MoDonald Chief 3583; seoond dam Fanny Rose (dam of Columbus S. 2: i7, George Wp ihlngton 2:16a4, who sired Stella 2: 1514, Campaigner 2:26V<, etc ; third dam Jenny Lind (dam of Prinoe aIIrd 8:87 and alHo dam of Fanny MoGIll, dam of Sootty 2:19^, Trilby 2:21 *i, etc ). CONSTRUCTOR is one of the handsomest sons of the great MoKinney on the Coast. He stands 15 'lands 2(4 lnohesover the withers and j5 bands 3% Inches over the loins and weighs 1100 pounds. r* i never made a regular season In the stud, but was bred to several mares when three years old i. ,d all of his got are of good size and good lookers. Will Make the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. Service Fee $25, with usual return privilege. For further partloulari address JAS. A. SMITH. 1021 Georgia St.. Vallejo, Cal. E. G. MCCONNELL 70S Sutter St.. San Francisco. L. GRIFFITH, PLEASANTON, CAL. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE SEASON OF 1906 AT PLEASANTON STAR POINTER !:59i • WORLD'S RECORD MADE IN 1 897.. The Fastest. Gamast and Most Consistent Kaoe Horse In Tnrf History. fil .(MORNING STAB 2:03, JOE POINTER 2:05«, aire °r}sii)NI£T POINTER 2:07K. SCHuEY POINTER 2:08k, "to. Sire BROWN HAL 2:12 K2 by Tom Hal Jr. Sire of Star Pointer 1:59k Hal Dlllard 2:04J£ Star Hal 2:045£ Hal Chaffln 2:05K Elastio Pointer 2:06^ New Richmond 2:07K Hal Braden 2:07K Storm 2:08K Brown Heels 2:09K Laurel 2:09K Silver Hal 2:10 eto. 6 producing sons, 2 producing daughters Dam SWEEPSTAKES by Snow Dam of Star Pointer Hal Pointer Elastic Pointer Cloud Pointer Tennessee Pointer 2 producing sons 6 producing daughters Heels l:°9K 2:04 2:06*4 2:24 k 3:24J£ Service Fee $100 CHAS. De RYDER. Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. With Usual Return Privilege Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by Breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, FOALED 1900. Sire, McKINNEY 2:11^, sire of SWEET MARIE 2:04^, Kinney Lou 2:07?i, Charley Mac 2:0?li, Hazel Kinney 2:09M. The Roman 2:09^, Dr. Book 2:10. Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05H. You Bet 2:07, Jennie Mao 2:09. Zoloob2:05W Dam, AIL.EEN 3:26Vi (dam of Mowltza 2:20^, Sister 2:20 and GRECO 2:32, trial 2:20) by Anteeo 3:16»4, sire of dams of Directum Kelly2:08W, Grey Gem 2:09V£, W. Wood 2:07, eto. Grandam, LOU MILTON (dam of LOU DILLON 1:58H. Red- wood 2:2116. Ethel Mack 2:25 and Aileen 2:26V£) by Milton Medium 2:25V£ (sire of 2 and dams or 5) by Happy Medium 2:324 sire of Nancy Hanns 2:04, eto. GRECO is a handsome black stallion and a natural and fast trotter. He won his only race as a colt, and has shown miles In 2:20slnoe in his work, and is a sure 3:10 trotter. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares &t »iOO THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address CHAS. De RYDER, Manager, Pleasanton, Cal. IRAN ALTO 24586 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3=4 Rec. 2:121 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 IRAN A LTO'S sire and dam have both held champion trotting records and his dam and gran- dam both produced a oolt that was a world's record breaker, and his grandsire has sired several trotters that broke world's reoords No other horse with a reoord as fast as IRAN ALTO'S oan claim this. At nine years ho had sired ten oolts, four of them with records as follows: Dr. Frasse 2:12^4, Thomas R. 2:15, Vendome 2:17, Dr. Frasse's Sister 2:25— allat four yearsold. Who oan name a horse whose first ten oolts oan beat that? Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, OAL. Fee $40 For further particulars address $20 due when mare 1b bred and H S. BOGOBOOV, 120 payable when mare Is known to be In foal. * Woodland, Oft APRIL 14, 1906] <&tte gveeow axxo Qpovxanxaxi 19 IMPROVE YOUE SCORE BY SHOOTING QAMPBELL'S BALLISTITE Look up the Winners of Last Year's Tournaments And See what BALLISTITE Won. Keep Open Your Eyes on This Year's Tournaments And See what BALLISTITE'S Done. Good Shooters Shoot Good Powder. BAKER &, HAMILTON SAN FRANCISCO LOS ANGELES SACRAMENTO SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST. EMOLLIO IODOFORM GALL CURE urn {^sisy %> For GALL BACKS aad 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 POISONEDSORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has do 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 eien 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, tnesalesof 1900 were 100 per cent great- er than the aggregate sales or Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and from it we feel just'fled in saving that it isTHE GALL CURE OFTHE20TH CENTURY It is a quick and sure cure lor those troublesome skin cracksunder the fetlock which injure and of teD lay up race horses. All Trainers Sho elf Stables PRICE:— 3 OZ. BOX, 25o ; 1 LB. BOX. SI. OO. Read our "ad" on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in*, next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL &C0., Mfrs., 412 W.Madison St., Chicago, 111. Sold by all Dealers In Harness and Turf Goods. If not In stock ask them to write any Jobberfor It. THIS illustration shows the double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. IfThis feature, together with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. 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Work herd; 90% winners at State and county fairs . ahow ring, and every butter oontest since 1885 In California No reservations. Stock near 3. F. F. H. Burke, 30 Montgomery St., San Fraaoisoo. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DUKHAMS. Dairy Stock gpeclally. HogB, Poultry. Estab- lished 1876. William Nlles & Co.. Los Angelea 0*1. VETERINARY. Photo Engraving Company HIGH CLASS ART IN Half Tones and Line Engraving Artlatlo Designing. S06 Mlailon St. cor. Ftrit, San Franciics £0COANUT OIL CAKE THE BEST FEED FOR STOCK, CHICKENS AND PIOS FOR SALE IN LOTS TO SUIT BT EL DORADO LINSEED OIL WORKS CO. 208 California Street. San Francisco, Cal. BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE DEALERS IN F. 55 57-59-61 First Street, S. t."ipboni Main 190 CALIFORNIA X>r- W xxx, :F\ Ssan. M. R. C. V. S.. F. E. T. M. S. VETERINARY SURGEON. Member of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons, England; Fellow of the Edlnbur^ Veterinary Medical Sooiety; Graduate of the New Veterinary College. Edinburgh; Veterinary Snr- geon to the S. F. Fire Department; Live Stock InspeotorlorNew Zealand and Austral Ian Colonies at the port or San Francisco; Professor of Equina Medicine, Veterinary Surgery, Veterinary Depart- ment University of California; Ei-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 Park 128. 01 <0 copa2 before he went east. The colt, which is a two year old trotter, and entered in the Breeder's Futurity, has been turned over to Fred Chadborne. Millard says he is one of the best prospects for a very high class trotter he has ever seen. The automobiles certainly made good when San Francisco burned. They were madly driven, but they saved much property and carried many people to a place of safety. Joe Cuicello has leased the big McKinney gelding owned by Thomas Murphy for the races this year. He stepped him a mile in 2.1624' the ether day with the last quarter in 31% seconds. He will do for the green trotting class. Joe Cuicello showed the Pleasan- ton horsemen last month that Mart Rollins gelding Charley Belden by Lynwood W. is a real trotter. He worked him five heats the day of the big earthquake as follows 2.30, 2.25, 2.20, 2.12'4, and 2. 13 14. The last half of the last mile was in 1.05 and the last quarter in 31 y', seconds, showing he was not a bit tired. There are 79 entries in 810,000 Charter Oak stake. the The $9000 Massachusetts purse has 45 entries. Conseula S. and Judge Green are both in training and are ex- pected to be good this year. All the purses closed thus far by the Grand Circuit tracks have big lists of entries.- Nearly every purse advertised has more than enough entries to pay it and leave a big balance. Mr. A. B. Gwathway of New York has kindly sent us very fine photographs of his two trotters Tiverton and Senator Mills, both of which horses will be campaigned this year. Frank Irvington and a lot of his colts were sold at auction at Washington, Ohio, and brought very good prices. Frank Irvington is by Nutwood Wilkes 2. 16 li and was bred by Martin Carter. Anzella 2.o634 has been sold to to Russia. She won over 825,000 during her career and beat the best in the free for all class. She was bred by Thos. Ronan, but raised by Geo. A. Kelly, now of Pleasan- ton, who campaigned her two years and then sold her to the Santa Rosa stock Farm. Millard Sanders trained and drove for the farm the year Anzella raced on the Grand Circuit and won nearly 827,000 with her. She has started in 31 races, of which she won 20, and was unplaced but once. She was bred to John A. McKerron 2.s. - - SEE OUR SPEEDY WAGONS Prices Always Right 0«yr iTrancisco Wheel ana -jSloveltu LsOtnpanu 3739 77£n O/., Oa/z 3~nunclsco. INSUKE YOtTR STOCK AGAINST DISTEMPER EPIZOOTIC" Tlie femeiiy'tnat cannot fail to cure these and similar ailments PINKEYE - is Dr. C-KAF1"S DLSTEMPEK AND COUGH CURE. Relied CQUG1J and upon by leading stokmen everywhere. GR.IPPE. Always supplied under an absolute guarantee. Handled" by most druggists or sent direct. ' Price 50c and sfl. Our free booklet, ! 'Veterinary Pointers," is-tc-Q valuable- to be without. Write for it to-day. ffieils JREtirtirte Co., ffiijcmisis & (firrmolngisis 13 Otirft g$t., ^Lafagetic, 3tt£r. D. E. NEWELL, Geueral Agent for Pacific Coast, 519 Mission St., San Francisco, Cal. Hawthorne 2:06 1-4 Billy Buck 2:07 1-4 Kinney Lou 2;07 3=4 ff ^ { KINNEY LOU 2;07j i; The Fastest Trotting Son of the Champion Sire Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWRENCE STOCK FARM One Mile East of Lawrence Station, and Six Miles from San Jose. Terms &IOO. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. .For further inforrnation, pedigree and description address Phone: SUBURBAN 499 BUDD- DOBLE, 5an Jose, Cal. SAN JOSE, CAL. Nushagak 25939 Sire of ARISTO 2:08^4. Winner of Occidental and Stanford Stakes of 1902 Fee $50, limited to forty outside mares RRINCEI ANSEL 2Ye^^,Tord Sired by DEXTER PRINCE, dam WOQDFEOWER Both Stallions will make the season 1906 at Race Track, Woodland, Cal. C. A. SPENCER, Manager, Woodland, Cal. Alex. Brown, Owner; Walnut Grove, Cal. McMMRAiY 45 to 50 Pound Training Cart Especially Adapted for Training aud Matinee Driving PRICE LOW Hurray Sulkies and Jogging Carts STANDARD THE WORLD OVER Address for .printed matter-and prices W. J. KENNEY 8789 17th si,, Ban Fra-ncisco, Cal. Sales-Agent fob California, ABSORBINE Removes ■ Bursal Enlnrgemenis, Thickened Tissues, Infiltrated Parts, and any IJuff or Swilling, Oures Lameness, Allays Pain without laying the horse up. Does not blister, stain ov remove the hair. $2.00 a bottle, deliv- ered. Pamphlet 1 C free. ABSOIiBlfNE JR., for mankind, $1.00 bottle i 'iiirs Synovitis, Weeping Sinew, Strains, Gouty" or Rheumatic Deposits, reduces Varicose Veins, Varicocole, Hydrocele", Allays Pain. Puck Free Genuine mfd. only by W. F. YOUNG, P. D. F. 54 Momnioth Street, Springfield, Mass. I'm sale by Mack & Co., Langley & Michael Co., Kediugton & Co., J. O'Kiine arid J. A. Mc- Kerton, ali of San Kraueisco. Take Haight, Ilavt or Lllis Street Car T. C. CANP.EY, Prop. Phous: Park 4i!G PANHANDLE STABLES Horses, Bought, Sold and Clippdd AT POPULAR PRICES Horses Boarded, Trained, Gaited, Exercised 1225-127 FELL STREET Bel. Devisadero ami Proderiek Streets SAX FKANCISCO JUKsLYS, HOLSTElNS AND DL'RHAMS.- Dairy Stock specialty. Hogs, Poultry. Estiib-. lislied lb70. William Niles & Co., Los Angeles, cm. , the; breeder and sportsman- M. & M. $10,000 2:24. TROT 2:1 2 Trot $2,000 • C. of C. :to,u00 2:24 PACE 3 HEAT PLAN 2:08 Pace $2,000 ^v 9 HORSES CAN WIN MONEY IN EACH EVENT. The Detroit Driving Club (Trottirig and Pacing Department of the Michigan JItn-s< Breeders' Association.) MEMBER OF GRAND CIRCUIT ANNOUNCES ITS TWENTY-THIRD ANNUAL July 23 to 27, 1906 r m? Entries close Tuesday 15, when horses mvst be named. 'Hfe* STAKES I Merchants' and Manufacturers', 2:24 Class Trot, $10,000 ! Chamber of Commecne, - 2:24 Class Pace, $5,000 ] - - - 2:12 Class Trot, $2,000 - 2:08 Class Pace, $2,000 COIVJDITIOrsJS Entrance fee 5 per cent with an additional 5 per cent on the gross amount of! each heat from the winner of any division of same. No nomination will he liable beyond the amount paid in, pi'ovided a written notice of withdrawal is received by the Club at the time any pay-' ment falls due. The Main Race aud Conciliation of the Merchants' and Manufacturers' and -Chamber of Commerce Stake's, also the 2 :1'2 Trot and 2:08 Pace, will be Three Heats of One Mile Each. Should there be a dead heat between two or more horses in any of the first three heats, the money in the dead heat will be divided equally, but should two or more horses ' stand equal — tied — in the summaries for first position at the finish of the" third 'heat, they' shall race an extra heat in order to declare a winner of the race. ... * ■ A distanced horse shall be entitled tonvioney already won, -buthe shall not be eligible to start in the Consolation Race should the amunnt won -exceed iff-loO.in the M/& M. and $22o"in the C. of C The Merchants' and Manufacturers' Stake will be divide'd'as follows: $1300 to the winner of each heat in the Main Race. $700 to the second horse in each each heat, $500 to the third horse in each heat and $503 to the winner of the race. In the Consolation Race, ,. which ia to be trotted three days from the date of the decision of the first race, and is open only'to, houses' ' that start and do not win more than $450 in the Main Race, $300 will be paid to the winner of each heat, $200 to the second horst in "each heat, $100 to the third horse in each heat, and $200 to the winner ol the race. v Iu the event of there being less than three horses eligible to the Consolation Race, there will be paid ta the fourth horse in eacn eeat in the Main Race the sum of $300, to the fifth ■-■ horse in each heat $100, and -the remaiug money divided pro-rata among the horses finishing first, second and third. Should it amount to more than the sum mentioned, the surplus will be divided pro-rata among the winners of the Main Race. The Chamber of Commerce Stake will be divided as follows : $G"i0 to the winner of each heat iu the Main Race. $350 to the second Imrse in each heat, $250 to the third horse in each beat, and $2">0 to the winner of the race. In the Consolation Race which is to be paced three days from the date of the decision of the first race, and is open only to horses that start and do not win more thtn $225 iu the Main Race, $150 will be yaid to the winner of each heat, $1(1 I to the second h'H'se in. each he it, and $50 to the third horse in each heat, and $10) to the winner of the race. Iu the event of there being less than thres h -rses eligible to the Consola- tion Race there will be paid to the fourth horse in each heat of the Main Race, the- sum of $151, to the fifth horse iu each heat $5:>, and the remaining m mey divided pro-rata among the horses finishing first, second and third. Should it amount to more than the sum men- tioned, the surplus will be divided pro-rata anion" the winners of the Main Race. The 2:12 Trot and 2:08 Pace will be divided as foil -ws: $80(Ho the winner of each heat; $2U0 to the second horse and a $100 U> the the third horse, and $200 to the winner of the race. Tnder these conditions it is possible lor nine horses to win money in each stake. This Association is a member of the American Trotting Association, whose rules will govern exceat where otherwise specified. May 1.5. June 12, July 10. PAYMENTS Inc^t11- ==== In 2:12 Trot and 2:08 Pace FOR ENTRY BLANKS AND ALL INFORMATION. ADDRESS $100 • $150 S250 $50 $75 . $125 $25 $35 $10 DANIEL J. CAMPAU, President. ALBERT H. MOONE, Secretary, Room 19. Campau Bldg., DETROIT. MICH. Du POM SMOKELESS at the ibwa State Shoot, March 11-16,1906 THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP was won by Mr. T. A. Weatherhead of Red Oak, Ia. FIRST AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by Mr. Lee R. Barkley of Chicago. SECOND AMATEUK AVERAGE was won by Mi. H. <■. Porton of Fonda, In., , and the ABOVE NINETY PER CENT EXPERT' TROPHY was won by Mr. Charles Spenser, All these gentlemen of eoursc used DU PONT SMOKELESS E. I. DUPONT COMPANY Wilmingrton, Del. California Powder Works, Agents Temporary Office. BERKELEY, CAL. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF. Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas at the Omaha tournament, Mareh 20- 22, 1906 was won by Ml; <_;EORGE W. .MAXWELL of Holstein, Neb., an amateur, who used "NEW SCHULTZE" LAFLIN 4 RAND POWER CO. 170 Broadway, New York City California Powder Works, . Agents Temporary Office, Berkeley, l'al. SAFETY IMPREGNATING OUTFIT Practical and durable and is easily used. Gets in foal all mares bred with U. and creatlv increases the income fromvourstallion. GUARANTEED n. produce result- A necessity in everv breeding str.Me. tt'ruc f,,r descrip- tive circular. Pric-c nfOUTFIT, complete, *7. 60 I.O.I UITTEXIIEX. 9 FOX IILD'G. ELYRIA. OHIO. IRAN ALTO Dec 2I21 Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3-4 2 Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, GAL. F"ee ^^.O For further particulars address $20 due when mare is bred and M. S. MOCiOBOOM, . $20 payable when rnare is known to be in foal.' Wood lit ml, Cul. More Standard Performer Titan Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California SIDMOOR 2i\7l By SIDNEY 2:19 3-4 Ham MAMIE HARNEY by The Grand Moore Season 1 906 at Concord Race Track and at Pacheco. Fee $80.00 for Season Usual Return Privsleges, Adresa J(il!.\ (iTT. Pacheco, Cal WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE MORSE Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON STAR POS 'TER 1:59 1 4 World's Record Made in 1897 Tin- Fastest] Gamest^ and. Most Consistent Race Horse in Turf History. Service Fee - - $100 With I'stiitl Return Privilege CHAS. De BYDER, Manaijer Pleasanton, Caf. 11 ^ f™ P / f\ [RECORD 222K) 3irc of Alone (4) 2:09V (trail 2':06Ji] ■J IT* «"8 V rt f\ fr -tkftkfl / •l"-1 h i:rJ:l'."..((r,.tlL':l-Ji.,l. Iliuh Fit U'l-':-'!', Il-iul lfaH3 J HQT \ \ ill / -:l -''-•■ ' 1 111 !■""' .i. million '"-.I" , I., ii,, »,, ,, I1UU UOl tJt)tj\f^ '•''"' * McKerron ":"i'... lb. iond lastesl in the . wi/uv» world. • liy MUT\VpOD WILKES 2:16J£. Will inui:,. ii,,. SE \siin in- i , at SAN J03E, with return privilege in case lior .n i ni urn. -For lornts and extended pedigree address Phone: Red 1431. T W. BABNTOW, Son tlose, Col. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN •St •Si •Bi ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow ske". an ITHACA No. 7 *300 list gun. TTThii • Iter with the reinforced frame, reinforced stcck"*a"nu. bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and s( gun for Nitro powder. TWe build everything from a featherweight o34-pound 20-gauge gun to a 10J£- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. IfSend for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12. 16 and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. ITHACA GUN CO. Ithaca, N. Y. Jg| PACfFic Coast Branch, 2330 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Cal. •St 8 IMPROVE YOUR SCORE BY SHOOTING BALLISTITE Look up the Winners of Last Years Tournaments And See what BALLISTITE Won. Keep Open Your Eyes on This Years Tournaments And See what BALUSTITE'S Done. GOOD SHOOTERS USE GOOD ROV^DER BAKER & HAMILTON San Fi*ancis:o Los Angelss Sacramsnto SOLE AGENTS FOR THE PACIFIC COAST Temporary Olfice, 2701 PACIFIC AVENUE. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Orders now being rilled from Branch Houses in Sacramento and I.oa Angeles. THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE THE "OLD RELIABLE" BEST CAX BE MADE HAS >TOXE ITS EQUAL Fred Coleman's score of 47 straight at live birds in England, as well as 24 out of 25 at 31 yards, shows how the Parker Gun shoots. See another column In this paper showing his marvelous records. PARKER BROS. New Salesrooms: 32 Warren St. 32 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn. EARLY CLOSING STAKES Oregon State Fair SALEM, SEPT. 1 O 12 15, 1906 ENTREES CLOSE MAY 15 But Letters Postmarked May 1 6 will be Accepted Illihee Slake, for Two-year-old Pacers, 2 in 3 $ 400 Valley Slake, tor Three-year-old Pacers, 2 in 3.... 500 Merchants' Stake, lor 2:25 Pacers, 2 in 3 1000 Greater Salem Stake, lor 2:15 Pacers, 3 in 5.. 2000 Rural Spirit Stake, lor 2:10 Pacers. 2 in 3 700 Oregon Stake, for Two year old Trotters, 2 in 3 400 Inland Stake, lor Three-year-old Trotters. 2 in 3 500 Farmers' Stake, lor 2:27 Trotters. 2 in 3 1000 Lewis & Clark Stake. 2:17 Trotters. 3 in 5 2000 Capital City Slake, for 2:12 Trotters. 2 in 3 700 PPlMHTTinKK Enlrahee fee 5 per cent of stake and S per cent additional from mo- \-*-V_ /IN LJk 1 Iv-^INO: ney « Itinera, payable 2 percent May 15, when horse must be named and 3 per cent September I. Money divided 50, 25, 15 ami 10 per cent of stake. Horses not win nine heal In threi Bhall uol atari In the rourrti heat, excepl In a field of eight 01 more starters, then he nni-t itin a beat In fi m or go t<> the barn Borsea so ruled out shall have a right to a share of ling to i heir rank at the close ol the last heat. Ktght [<> transferor substitute entry lugusi 1 to horses eligible "May 15, Bubjuat to approval. The board reserves . lure off and return first payment In any stake that does not rill satisfactorily. Right r< serve t lo declare two ntartersa waik-ovei When only two Mart they may eon test for the enti- than one money. Other than specified rules of the National Trotting Association, of Ion 1- n member, to govern, except hopeless not barred. Two Consolation Purses of $500 Each. I ... entrance will be given to non winning Btartere in the Greater Salem Stake [or 2:16 pacers, anfl the Lewis and Clark Stake for 2:17 trotters, mile heatB, 2 in 3, provided tl ;h1 or more starters in each of the original b takes. VV. H. DOWNING, President, F. W. DURBIN. Secretary. Shaw, Oregon. Salem, Oregon, Knti\ Blanks can be bad from ihe Sepretar^ ojr at the office of the Bkeeper an? Campbell's =M 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, SCRATCHES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. Its use will absolutely prevent Blood Poisoning. In this respect there is no Gall Cure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the Marbet relying wholly on its merit of success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been done in the way of advertising, the sales of 1900 were 100 per cent gaeather than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its .MERITS, and it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20th CENTURY. It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesomo skin cracks under the fet- lock which injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Keep It in their Stables PRICE: — 3 OZ. BOX 25e.; I LB. BOX, $1.00 Read our "ad" oa Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs., Madison Street, Chicago, III. Sold by all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. If not in stock ask them to write any Jobber for it McKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05i GREAT RACE HORSE AND PRODUCING SIRE Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion IZALCO bv ZOLOCK 2:051,,; dam GIPSEY, dam of Gazelle 2:12Vi, Delilah 2:14'., and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2 ill1.,. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05i jf^Vs.RE OFjJXX BONALET (3) 2:09V in winning race-World's Record for age and sex BONNIE ME (3), trail (rrotting) 2:11 W (last half 1 :03). Only two of Bonnie Direct's first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton -- Fee $100 C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal. M0 Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by breeding to <-*»> GRECO BLACK COLT, Foaled 1900. Sire, McKINNEY 2:11.V Dam, AILLEN 2:26}£. byAnteeo 2:161;;. Gramdam, LOU MILTON 1:5s1,,, by Milton Medium 2:25'.,. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares at $100 THIS SEASON. Corrispondance solicited. Address CHA5. De RYDER, Manager PLEASANTON, CAL, MKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD THE STAXDARD-BRED TROTTIXU STALLION" UNIMAK 40956 Bv McKixxey; dam Twenty-Third bv Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15'4) by Nutwood 600. Will Make the Season of 1906 at PALO ALTO, CAL. Address or apply to Terms, $40 for the Season. Capt. C. H. WILLIAMS, To Close June 1st Box 151, PALO ALTO, CAL. THE CHAMPION MRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2:16^ Sire GTJY WILKES .... 2:12*4 Dam LIDA W 2:18V- by NUTWOOD ...2:18',, NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the Nutwood Stock Farm, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. F"EE *SO. FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges. Send for Tabulated Pedigree. For further particulars apply or address: MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvinftfon, Alameda Co., Cal, Breeder and Sportsman Vol. XLVII. No. 18 SAN FRANCISCO, MAY 19. 1906 Subscription $3.00 a Year THE WKEKL Y Breeder and Sportsman F. \V. KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office: 709 Van Ness Avence, Sax Francisco P. O. Drawer 447 Terras— One Year £i: Six Months $1.75: Three Months ?l STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Money should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to I' W. KELLEY. P. O. Drawer 447, San Francisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub ication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. When the earth trembled and shook for almost forty-eight sec- onds ou that eventful April morn- ins: in San Francisco there were very few horses on the streets, most of them being in their stables where they demonstrated their terrible fright in a manner never to be forgotten by their caretakers. There were numbers killed by falling walls in these buildings and many were so badly injured that it was deemed a humane act to shoot them. Along the streets amid falling walls and where clouds of dust were rising, the butcher, bakery, and milk wagons that were sent on their morning trips were checked as the poor affrighted horses sat on their haunches and shivered and shook with fear. It is not known whether there were any of these horses killed, but, in the large vegetable markets, walls fell burying a number of men and horses. As soon as the earth ceased shaking, many horses that were allowed freedom in the fire department stables rushed out into the streets and with difficutly were caught, but none could be led back to the badly shaken buildings. The cry of fire and the presence of immense clouds of smoke awakened the firemen to their sense of duty and as fast as these horses could be hitched to the engines, hose carts and hook- and-ladder truck they were dis- patched to the places where the fires were. On arriving there, after a most exciting ride over the stone and brick covered streets it was found that all hydrants were without water so their services were useless. Many of the com- panies remained to assist the citizens but the fire overtaking them the driiers were compelled to unhitch their horses and leaving the fire apparatus to its fate, dash through clouds of smoke to places of safety. While the fire was burning all the livery stables were thown open and horses and vehicles were gen- erously loaned b}' the proprietors to help convey the household chat- tels and belongings of the unfor- tunates who were rendered home- less. When the horses were gone crowds clamored for vehicles of any kind to carry their wives, families and household goods to the various parks in the outskirts of the city. Everything that had wheels was pressed into service. It was deemed an honor by the for- tunate ones to get between the shafts of a vehicle and try as far as possible to pull all they could. The family and whatever neighbors were interested in the loads drawn by these men aided by pushing the vehicles or with clothes line harness acted the part of tandem horses to the plodding human wheelers. The long journey, the sweltering heat of those two first days, and the absence of water, will never be forgotten by those who joined the various processions slowly moving over the hills to Golden Gate Park. The horses, poor, dumb, and obedient creatures, struggled along dragging loads which at other times would have called forth a protest from every citizen. Up hills and across alleys having neither a drop of water to drink nor hay or oats to eat. Time after time they made that long journey. Some relentless drivers who acted no better than highwaymen to their distressed fellowmen charged prices ranging from $5 to $250 for carrying loads a few blocks and then seemed determined to drive their horses to death and in many cases succeeded. Some of the poor beasts were humanely shot by the soldiers after being abandoned as useless by those scoundrels. The exhibition of heartlessness to man and beast shown by these men was the. only black spot which marred the good feeling and fellowship among millionaires, business men, mechanics and labor- ers and their wives and families during that terrible ordeal. All livery stable owners acted most magnanimously. One stable on Golden Gate avenue was turned into a hospital where the injured and dying were cared for until the fire fiend approached within one block of the place. Over eighty of the finest equipped and best stocked livery stables were burned to the grouud and competent men claim that over 10,000 horses were rendered homeless the first and second days of the fire, for over 6000 are now turned out to pasture. Hay was ten dollars per bale and oats could not be pur- chased at any price because the majority of the large hay and grain establishments went up in flames. Hundreds of fine carriages and ellegaut vehicles, harness, clothing and stable fittings in private and public stables were destroyed. The ruin seemed most complete. During the third and fourth days of the fire the United States Army officers impressed every horse and wagon seen on the streets into service to carry provisions, medical supplies, etc., to the various camps. These men in the kaki uniform halted the carriage of the rich as quickly as the buckboard of the poor. There was no time for ceremony and when the owner of the rig tiied to find it he found that it was a difficult as well as hopeless search. The worst is over and many a horse that has been kept daily at work in this city for the past six years is now enjoying a respite from his labors and nibbling the rich succulent grasses on the hill- side and valley far away from the scenes of his hard struggles. Be- fore winter sets in the owners will be ready to take them up and with renewed strength these horses will assist in their way to make this city (what everyone is striving to do) a greater and a better San Francisco. In taking a retrospective view of the excit- ing occurences of these days we shall never forget the noble part enacted by mau's best and truest friend, the horse. There are many- families today camping in tents in the parks that owe their lives and all they saved to the efforts of some willing and faithful horse that was pressed into service a few moments before the flames consumed their little homes. Important to Horsemen We will be pleased to acknow- ledge the receipt of any sale catalogues, stallion cards, books on the horse, ect., as our library- was destroyed in the fire. No one can thoroughly understand what a loss such reference works are to a turf -journal unless placed in the same positon the editors of this journal are. As will be seen by the adver- tisement in another part of this paper, the Pacific Coast Trot- ting Horse Breeders Association is offering S'500 Guaranteed Stakes for slow class trotters and pacers and two stakes of $800 for faster classes, entries to close June 1 8th. These stakes are to take place at the fall meeing, at which time two and tbree-year-old divis- ions of the Pacific Breeders Futurity Stakes, $6000, will also be given. This meeting will be held in Woodland, if arrangements now being made are completed. In a communication from Mr. Fulton G. Berry in re- gard to the proposed summer meeting of the Association at Fresno, that gentleman states that the people there stand ready to carry out their part of the proposal, and dates will be taken and the meeting advertised as soon as the Los Angeles Association decides on what will be done there in re- gard to an early meeting. There is uo reason why a number of harness meetings can- not be given in this part of the state this year. We may not be able to give as large purses as was contemplated before the earth- quake and fire, as quite a number of horses that would have started here may go East and to Montana, but there will be plenty of horses left to fill the purses and stakes, and if horsemen every place where there is a mile tratfk would select a date and announce without delay that they intend to give a meeting all the horses that are now being trained would be kept in training and others would be taken up and prepared for the races. The well known horseman, Mr. C. A. Durfee, reutrued from Los Angeles last week and says that the Los Angeles Harness Horse Association stands ready to sub- scribe S50,ooo for meetings to be held there this year, and he also says from the looks of things there, that the meetings would prove self-sustaining and the amount subscribed would not have to be drawn upon. A little of that kind of enterprise in this part of the state would give the harness horse industry the impetus it needs to push it to the front once more. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN ^lotes an6 5lews D. E. Newell, agent for "Save tbe Horse, " etc. ts now at 56 Bayo Vista Avenue, Oakland. James Fan's, Jr., formerly of Sacramento, but now of Red Peer, Alberta, writes us that a big fair and race meeting is to be given this year at Edmonton, the capital of tbe province of Alberta, from July 2d to the 5th inclusive, and that $15,000 is to be dis- tributed in purses and premiums. Mr. Faris says that his stock wintered well and he expects to get a share of the premiums and will show about 20 head. R. F. Garnsey, formerly of Santa Ana, Cal., is training the Faris Stock Farm horses. Ira Barker Dalziel, the well known veterinary dentist, hardly waited until the ground was cool until he had his lumber piled up ready for the carpenters, and to the surprise of all who were mov- ing down Golden Gate avenue toward the ferries they saw his building erected on the site of his former establishment 605 Golden Gate avenue. Mr. Dalziel is one of those energetic individuals who never lets the grass grow under his feet and since the fire he has been so busy attending to the calls for his services that he has hardly bad time to notice that there are hundreds following the example he set when be erected the first building in the Greater San Francisco after the fire. It was our intention to issue a twelve page paper this week, but with our present limited facilities we found that to do so would make a day late in getting out. We are in hopes to be able to increase tbe size of the paper in the near future to our regular issue and will do,so as soon as we can get together a printing plant of sufficient capacity. We feel assured that under tbe cir- cumstances our subscribers will bear with us for a little while. We are also painfully aware that the work of issuing eight pages just at the present time is equal to getting out twenty-four pages before the fire and "quake." The Los Angeles Horse Show association donated the sum of $847 to the San Francisco relief fund. A portion of the amount came from tbe exhibitors at the show, who donated cash prizes received by them. The donors and sums given are as follows: John H. Norton, president of the Horse Show association, $_''">; proceeds of sale of Stanhope buggy donated to tbe association by tbe Columbus Buggy company, #313; cash prizes, Amy M. Norton, Los Angeles, $10; Lucille Gage, Los ies, $10; Broadway Saddle Livery, Pasadena, $1.50; Mar- garet Hogan, Los Angeles, $7.50; Adelaide Gillis, Los Angeles, $10; Roy Stanton, Los Augeles, gio; Alfred Salano, six prizes, $290. Work on the new speed track and athletic field is-being pushed rapidly and when finished it will be one of the most beautiful and complete of its kind in the United States. Hay was selling for $10 a bale . in San Francisco the four days of the earthquake and fire. Chas. Cook, a prominent stock breeder of Wyoming, recently purchased a farm in Castro Valley near Haywards, and moved there last week. He brought a fine Arabian stallion with him, Dine prize Ramboulliet sheep and some prize chickens and turkeys. Coronado, 2:12^, won the first prize in the roadster class at the recent Los Augeles Horse Show. Millard Sanders and the splendid collection of Sidney Dillons in his care arrived in Indianapolis in excellent shape. They elicted much favorable comment from the horsemen who gathered at tbe depot to see them. One of the few brick buildings in the business section of San Francisco that was not destroyed by tbe fire was the one owned by tbe heirs of the estate of Henry Pierce, 728 Montgomery street. It was built in 1851, and escaped the fires of 1854 and was not injured much by tbe earthquakes of J865, 1868, or the recent shock. Henry Pierce and his brother Ira owned Sidney Dillon and bred the great Lou Dillon. John (Directum) Kelly is a busy man at present. He has fifty-two horses in his New York Speedway stable. Among tbem are Sir Alberts., 2:03^; Kitty Wilkes, 2:15)2', Direct View, 2:08^; The King, 2:10^; Sol B., 2:10^; Malzour, 2:20)2; Promise, 2-:io)^; Dan, 2:17)4, and Harold H., 2:22^. Walter Geers, the only son of Ed Geers, the famous reinsman, was accidentally killed on May 7th while playing baseball at the college he was attending in Colum- bia, Teiin. It is very encouraging to trot- ting horse breeders to read tbe accounts of the recent auction sales held in tbe East and Middle West duriug tbe months of March and April. The prices obtained have been far higher than at any time since the "boom". The demand for good horses is increas- ing and whoever owns a good looking sound, well-bred and well-mannered trotter or pacer, can get a price for him that will be most gratifying. Tbe European buyers are flocking to the big sales just as the did in 1901-02. Since the earthquake two of San Francisco's oldest livermen died, viz: Michael Conlan and John Nolan. They were the proprietors of two of tbe largest stables in San Francisco and were noted for their kindness, courtesy and upright dealings. Their loss will be severely felt and the news of their death will be received with sorrow by all who knew tbem. A number of trottres and pacers are being worked at the Santa Rosa race track. Frank S. Turner has it in splendid shape and has made many good friends among visiting horsemen by his willing- ness to acede to their wishes regarding the care of this splendid course. On Stanley, 2:17)2, died last month in Santa Barbara. He was sired by Direct, 2:05)3, out of Lily Stanley, 2:17)2, by Whip- pleton and was bred by the Pierce Bros, of the Santa Rosa stock farm. As will be seen by an advertise- ment in this issue tbe State Agricultural Society has reopened tbe stakes for two-year-old trotters and two-year--old pacers, $1000 each to be given at the State Fair this year and also announce the Stanford stake for foals of 1905 to be trotted at the State Fair 1908, entries to close June 1st. With the Breeders' Futurity Stakes this will give tbe two-year-olds a chance to will big money this year. Our usual edition of 20 pages will soon be resumed and more extended notice of rod, gun and kennel news and events will be given. Meanwhile we ask the indulgence of our subscribers until we are in position to devote our usual weekly space to tbe regular matter of this department. this filly only four foals, Bellladi, Helen Norte, Magladi and Reina del Norte by Cbehalis, 2:04)^. Belladi, Helen Norte and Reina" c del Norte are trotters. Magladi is a pacer. Belladi was on the Grand Circuit last year but was not well alter crossing the Rockies. She was left at Walnut Hall Stock Farm, Donerail, Ky., to be bred to Moko. She has worked many miles in 2 :i2 and halves in 1:02)2" and has a mark of 2:19, obtained when 4 years old. Helen Norte, by Del Norte, took a mark at Columbus, Ohio, last fall, of 2:09)2 and has been entered again on the Grand Circuit in the 2:09 and 2:10 classes for the coming season. Her trainer, Homer Rutherford, expects her to trot in 2:04 before the end of the season. She was the champion two and three-year-old filly of the north- west. Madgladi was second to Mc- Fayden in the Pacing Division of the Pacific Breeders Futurity Stake race for two-year-olds at Santa Rosa last year and made him take a record of 2:15)4!, the fastest race for colts and fillies ever pulled off on the Pacific Coast. Reina del Norte was foaled April 21, 1906, trotted a full mile in 2:33)^, and has trotted halves in 1 :i4 and quarters in 35)^ He is entered in eight futurities and in the two-year-old trot at the California State Fair to be held this fall. Judge Brents and his friends who have seen the Edgar Boy filly, just foaled, confidently expect it to add new luster to the fame of Laurelia as a great brood mare. Judge Thos. H. Brents, of Walla Walla, who recently sent his great brood rnaie, Laurelia, to Spokane to be bred to Del Norte, 2:o8)£, has received word that she dropped a filly on April 24th by Edgar Boy, 2:08X1 "iat l°°ks like a good one. Laurelia is by Wil- liam Hogoboom's Electioneer stal- lion Cautiou, 2:25)2, and is one of the greatest brood mares now living. She has produced beside Santa Ana Races About one thousand people wit- nessed the May day races of tbe Santa Ana Driving club. The track was in fine condition and many matinee records were broken. Tbe event of the meet was the 2:25 trot between McKinney and Flash. The former was tipped to win but showed up ugly, and Flash won both beats and the race, tbe time being 2:21)^ The first race was a three-minute trot with Colaneer, Orange Lady, Snover, Nutwa}* and Babe starting in tbe order named. It required three heats to decide the race wbich finally went to Orange Lady in 2:34. In the 2:45 pace Popeye won both heats and the race in 2:32, Billy, Baldy and John finish- ing in the order namecl. The fourth race was a 2:30 pace with Birdie Mac, Prince and Ora Bell, crossing the tape. Both heats were run in tbe order named. Time, 2:23. The last race was a 2:40 trot between Eli and Albert, the latter taking both heats and winning the race in 2 :2jy&. THE BREEDER AND S'PORTSMAN Averages Reported At Easton, Pa., April 21, first general average was won by -Messrs. J. M. Hawkins anrl J. F. Pleiss of Easton, Pa., both of whom sbot Dupont Smokeless and scored 171 out of 180. Mr. Pleiss of course also won first amateur average. At Mikon, Pa., April 25, Mr. W. R. Crosby, shooting New E. C. (Improved), and L. J. Squier, shooting DuPont Smokeless, tied for high average with 157 out of 165. J. M. Hawkins, shooting DuPont Smokeless, was second with 153 out of 165. S. C. Yocum of Sbauiokin, Pa., on first amatuer average with 149 out "f 165- Mr Yocum used DuPont Smokeless. At Herndou, Pa., April 26th, Mr. L. J. Squier, shooting DuPont Smokeless, won first general aver- age with 148 out of 150. Mr. W. R. Crosby with the "New E. C. (Improved)" won second average with r47 out of rso. At Scranton, Pa., April 27th, Mr. W. R. Crosby with "New E. C. (Improved)," won first general average with 15S out of 165. Messrs. J. M. Hawkins and L. J. Squier, both using DuPont Smoke- less, tied for second general average with 149 out of T65. At Luzerne, Pa., April 28th, Mr. L. J. Squier won first general average with 142 out of 145, both gentlemen using DuPont Smoke- less. Mr. W. R. Crosby won third general average, using "New E. C. (Improved)." At both Herndon, Pa. and Luzerne, Mr. Squier made runs of 102 straight. The Montana Races Winchester Wins The third annual tournament given by the Rocklin Gun Club was held Sunday, April 30th, and proved to be very successful, con- sidering the earthquake and fire which affected the ."hole country. Out of the 47 shooters present, 38 were shooting Winchester "Leader" and "Repeater" shells. Event No. 6 K-U Co. medal championship of Nothern Cali- fornia was won by J. W. Humble, score 20 [straight, using Winches- ter "Leader" shells. Event No. 7 Mdse. 1st prize captured by J. Hoxie, making 20 straight, with "Leader" shells. Event No. S Ten pair doubles for Gibson cup. Won by C. M. Troxel, score iS out of 20. Mr. Troxel always shoots the "Pump " gun and "Leader" shells. Mr. Gibson aiso tied for cup but withdrew. Event No. 9 Three-man team shoot. Championship Northern California won by Messrs, F. Rubstaller, F. M. Newbert and M. Newbert. Score 56 out of 60. Each of these gentlemen used "Pump" gnus and "Leader" shells. Everything indicates, says the Butte Miner, that during the first annual exhibition of the Butte Fair and Racing association, August 2r to September 3, there will be twelve days of high-class harness and running events, probably as fine a program as was ever given in Montana. There will be five races each day, trotting, pacing and running, all entries so far in the early- closing stakes providing for fine sport in each event. The races will be conducted on the three-heat system and in the cleanest possible manner. Any horseman who comes to the Montana circuit with the intention of attempting any- thing crooked may as well save his traveling expense, as the first intent or attempt 10 pull off any- thing underhanded will meet with suinomary action on the part of the officials. From all over the circuit encour- aging reports are being received and it looks as if Montana would see the best racing season in her history. Secretary Galbraith, of the Butte association, is straining every effort to make the meeting a success as far as preliminary possibilities will peimit, and all the committees and officials in every department of the racing and fair program are aiding him to their utmost. The members of the Matinee club of last season are becoming active in arranging plans for the coming season. The races at the fair will not interfere with the weekly meetings this summer of the Butte driving club. Last year's success iu this line of sport was too great to permit of its being dropped under any circumstances, and with a good, live board of managers much can be accom- plished this year. In fact this season promises more than did last. The club closed last season with eighty members and there will be undoubtedly be many more this season. There are nearly twice as many promising horses and the interest is greater, due to the success of last summer. The first matinee will probably be held Decoration day. A number of trophies are now placed to be raced for, including a speed wagon, offered by F. M. Grady, valued at S250, and two handsome silver cups, ofiered by W. A. Cla-k Jr. was starting judge, the other judges being Ed Gifford, Will Topping and C. T. Chadwick. On account of the weather the trotting event, 2:20 class, was called off. The 2:25 pacing race furnished plenty of amusement. Trix, the well known bay geld- ing driven by J. A. Connell, won both heats, the first by a neck and the second by a head, the bay gelding, Dewey, driven by Harry Daley giving him a hard fight. The track was too heavy for fast time. The summary was as follows. Trix, bay gelding, driven by J. A. Connell, r-i. Dewey, bay gelding, driven by Harry Daley, 2-2. Bonnie B., bay mare, driven by- Thomas Brodnax, 4-3. Fox, chestnut gelding, driven by C. Stuart, ,,-4. Blanche Knight, black stallion, Fred Fanning, 5-5. Time: 2 129, 2:26^. The Colusa Races Pacing Event at San Diego Considering the threatening weather there was a fair attend- ance at the gentlemen's driving matinee at the Sweetwater race track, April 29. C. L. Warfield We are indebted to Mr. E. C. Peart for a report of the Clausa harness meeting held at that enterprising town the week follow- ing the earthquake. Mr. Peart is one of the leading merchants of Colusa County aud a very busy man. He takes a great interest in harness horses, and it is due to his efforts that the Colusa meeting was made a great success. With his report of the summaries of the meeting, be sends us the follow ing: Colusa, Cal., April 30th, r9o6. Breeder & Sportsman, San Francisco, Cal., Gentlemen: We have just closed one of the best and most successful meetings given in California for years. With a large entry list we had only one drawback, that was so many men with harness horses scratched out at the last moment, simply because they thougth someone else stood a better chance to win and in the hope that a special would be given them. There were many horses here that were entered that might have won had they started. It is not my policy to give specials, as specials rarely make good races and I will not encourage anything that tends to lower the standard of the sport. If they want to start their horses they must do so in the races in which they enter. Considering the awful calamity in San Fran- cisco and the deep gloom cast all over the State, it is wonderful how people turned out here. At first I was tempted to declare the meeting off, but there were so many men with horses at the track, I thought it best to carry it through. The contests were all excellent. The second and t'jird da\s witnessed the largest crowd ever assembled at the Colusa track, aud every body seemed pleased and enthusi- astic over the meeting. I sold my colt, "Buster," after the races for $300 cash and I also sold a "Diawood," colt, nine days old, for $100. So you see what each county looses by not keeping the harness horse interests alive by giving meetings. The meeting was in every way a success and all seemed well pleased with the races. Our aim was not to make money but to give a meet- ing that would be a credit to Colusa and prove self-sustaining. I am sending you the summaries. As my principal help belonged to the militia and had to go with the soldier boys to San Francisco, you can imagine that I was a very busy mau during the meeting. With best wishes, I remain, Yours truly, E. C. PEART. Purse $roo, 3:00 class — Red Hot by Dayton (Hogoboom) 11-r, Easter Bell by Diablo 3-2-3, Buster by McNeer, 2-3-4, Telephone, 4-4-3, Dagon by Sallie Wilkes, 5-dr. Time 2:33, 2:31^, 2:33^- Purse Sino. 2:24 class — Dolly N. by Clarence Wilkes, walkover. Purse Sroo, 2:28 cla„s — Ken- tucky Baron by Baron Wilkes, (Duncan) r-1-1, Baron Bretto by- Silver Bow, 22-2, Silver Bell by Silver King, 4-3-3, Lady Sutter 3-4-4. Time 2:35, 2:33^, 2:28. Purse $100, 2:35 class — Babe by Lynmont, 1-1-1, Buster by McNeer, 2-2-2. Time 2:32, 2:34)^, 2:42. Purse $50, Farmers' race — Cricket by Tilton Almont, 1-5-1, Toots by Grand Island, 3-1-2, Joe, Kenney, Baldy, Alfred J., Rethis and Sport, finished in order named. Tim, 2:30, 2:29, 2:2S'_-. Purse $150, free for all — Dia- wood by Diablo, (Hogoboom) 1-1-r, Dolly N. by Clarence Wilkes 2-4-2, Sutter by Noonday 3-2-3, Babe by Lynmont, 4-3-4, Easter Bell by Diablo, 5-5-5. Time 2:20^2, 2 :23 '_•, 2:20. Purse $100, three-year-olds — Nettie 1'. by son of Harry Gear, 1-1-1, Roy Dillon, by Sidney Dillon, 2-2-2, Montea by McXeer, 3-3-3. Time 2:35^, 2:40, 2:3 Purse S25, two-year-olds— Anona by Baron Bretto, 1-1, Mc- Keen by McXeer, 2-3, Black Beauty by Dagon, 4-2, Edward 1>. by Sutter, 34. Time 1:4s1 1:43. Half mile heats. Six running races were also on the program, there being two each day. I1 HE flRfi-SDSfi AND SPOfifSMAN 5\o6, (Bun anb 3ienrt1.50 per bottle. Sold by drupirists, or sent by ex- press, charges paid, with full directions for Its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address THE LAWRENCE- WILLIAMS COMPART, Cleveland, Ohio- McMURRAY 45 to 50 Pound Training Cart Especial^7 Adapted for Training and Matinee Driving price: low and Jogging Carts STANDARD THE WORLD OVER Address for printed matter and prices W. J. KENNEY 3739 17 til St., Sun Francisco, Cal. Sales-Agent for California JERSEYS, HOLSTE1NS AND DITRHAMS.- Dnlry Stock specialty. Hogs, Poultry, Estab- lished 1876. William Niles & Co., Los Angeles, Cal. STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY STANFORD STAKE of 1908 TROTTING STAKE for FOALS of 1905. To-be trotted at the California State Fair of 1908. ENTRIES TO CLOSE JUNE 1st, 1906. With J. A. Filcher, Secretary, at the office in Sacramento. Fifty dollars entrance, of which $5 must accompanv nomination, .Tune 1. 1906; ?5 Nov. I, 1906 $10 June 1, 1907; ?h> June 1, 1908, and ¥20 on the tenth dav before the first day of the State Fair of 1908. $3un added by the Society. Mile heats, three in five, to harness. The stakes and added money to be divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Right reserved to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start they niav contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 66^ per cent to the winner, and 33^ per cint to the second horse. A horse distancing the field will be entitled to first money onlv. In no case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. A horse not winning a heat in the first three shall not sta-t foi the forth heat unless said horse shall have made a dead heat: but horses so ruled out sIihII have a right to share iu the prize ac- cording to their rank in the summary at the close of their last heat. Nominators are not held for full amount of entrance in case colt goes wrong; onlv forfeit the payments made, which relieves you from further responsibility and declares entry out The stake is growing in value each year; everv breeder should enter In it; it will ENHANCE THE VALUE OF HIS (JOLT in case he desires to sell. Your colt entered in the OCCIDEN V STAKE FOR 1908 is eligible for entry in this stake. Remembir the date of closing is JUNE 1st, 1906. J. A. FILCHER, Secretary. THE HOUGHTON SULKY CO. Higrhest Class Line of Road and Speed Carts Carried in Stock. Weight 4-2 to 65 Lbs. Sulkies-Regular and Made to Order W 2S to 35 l_t>s. SEE OUR SPEEDY WAGONS Prices Always Right Oa/i irraneisco Wheel ano USoueltu (^ompanu 3739 77t/i O/., \5cin tfrancisco. Hawthorne 2:06 1-4 Billy Buck 2:07 1-4 Kinney Lou 2;07 3-4 fr \^ KINNEY LOU 2:07 =^\ -J1 The Fastest Trotting Son of the Champion Sire Will make the Season of 1906) commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWIiENCE STOCK FAliM I )ue Mile East of I. aw rence Station, and six Miles from San Jose. Terms $lOO. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. For further information, pedigree and description address Phone: SUBURBAN 499 BUDD DOBLE, San Jose, Cal. SAN JOSE, CAL. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN RE-OPENED STAKES FOR TWO YEAR OLDS Offered b\- the California State Agricultnral Society to be contested at the California State Fair 1906 ENTRIES TO CLOSE JUNE 1. 1906 T^r | f The A. B. Spreckles Stake, $1000 I For Two Year Old Trotters No. 2 f The Ben Rush Stake, $1000 \ For Two Year Old Pacers. Entrance pavable as follow?: ?20 on June 1st, 1906. $20 additional if not declared out on or be- 6, and $11) additional if not delared out on or before August 1st, 1906. Declarations ho declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration is made. Distance to be one hundred yards. Right reserved to reject any or all entries. Five per cent of the amount of the stake will be deducted from each money won. The Board of Directors reserve the right to declare lux starters a walkover. When only two Btarl they must contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided 66% per cent to the first and ::::■ J per cenl to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be entitled to first and fourth mo leys, but in no other rase will a horse he entitled to more than one money. The Hoard of Directors reserve the right to start any heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses. 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 dap proceeding the race. Otherwise than is herein specified in these conditions. Rules of the National Trotting Associa- tion (of which this Association is a member) to govern. For entry blanks and further information address the Secretary. J. A. FILCHER, Secretary State Agricultural Society Ben F. Rush, President Sacramento California BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Paebott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 (4291) Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1 906 FEE, $75. Reductions made for two or more mares. WALTER SEALY, Manager. THE STANDARD -BRED TROTTING STALLION RED McKINNEY , By McKINNEY 2:li14'. First dam, Bonnie Red by Red Wilkes ; seeond dam, Bonnie Bell by Almont 33; third dam, Alice Drake bv Alexander's Norman; fourth dam, Vi'lt by Pilot Jr. 12. WILL MAKE SEA80N OF 1906 AT THE CITY STABLES. TTJLARE, CAL. Fee $30, with return privileges. W. R. Ml-RPHY, Owner JOE DAI.L, Manager. Constructor 39569 By McKinney 2:11!,. Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares Full Brother to TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Will Mdke the Season of 1906 at Thomas Smith s Barn, Vallejo, Cal. SERVICE FEE $25, with usual return privilege. For further particulars address J AS. A. SMITH, 1021 Giorgia St.. Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J, B. FRISBIE 41637 Si rcl by t Ik- great McKinney 2 :l l '.j . dam, the greal br I mare Daisv s. (Dam of Tom Smith 2 l.:'.. General Vallejo 2 :22^, Little Mac (3) 2:28, and Sweet Eosie McDonald Chief 3583. Terms, $20 for the Season; usual return privileges. Mambrino Chief Jr. 11622 Terms, $25 for the Season; usual return privileges. i '• 1 pasturage $3 per month. ZOMBRO 2:11 GREATEST SON OF ^^^^^^^^ McKINNEY 2:1 U WILL MAKE THE AT LOS ANGELES, CAL. With usual return privilege provided I change ownership. Money due at time of taken away. ZOMBRO is sire of eleven standard pe the show ring than any California stallion, during the past three years. He is tiie only heats in standard time as a three-year-old. SEASON OF 1906 Fee. $50 for the Season still own the horse and mare does not service, or all bills paid before mare is rformers. Has won more first prizes in and his get have sold for more monev horse living or dead that ever won forty Address GEO. T. BECKERS, 3949 F-jSueroa St., Los Anfieles, Cal. KINNEY WILKES Sired byMcKINNEY 2:1% sire of Sweet Marie 2:04%, Kinney Lou 2:07%" Charley Mac 2:07%, Hazel Kenney 2:09%, The Roman 2:09K, Dr. Book 2-10 Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05%, Zolock 2:05%, You bet 2:07, Jennie Mac 2:09 etc. First Dam, HAZEL WILKES 2:11%, a great race mare by Guy Wilkes 2:15%. Will make the Season at Leonard Station, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY Tee >^5. For cards containing tabulated pedigree, etc., address JAMBS T. LEONARD, Rural Delivery No S, Watsonville, Cal. McKINNEY, 2:1H Worlds Leading Sire of Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 Fees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal Keep $9 00 per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 10 miles from Cuba. Mention this Journal -fir when writiug. &h* G«tpt» (% Items, ne»rk THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired by the great McKINNEY 2-:Il^ — greateBt sire of his age: dam, the great brood mare DAISY S. (dam of four in list). Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE $50 with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, WOODLAND, CAL, MONTEREY 2:09 1-4 RifioT (Sire of IRISH 2:0814 Fastest Four- Year-Old Pacer of 1904) FEE, $50. YOSEMITE By MONTEREY 2:0% ^J-^-^J^J^->J^-J- J- -Cj Dam, LEAP YEAR 2:26 Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. REE, ^25. For particulars call or address PKRTER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzn, Cal. RAN 1/fiYAPC CharnPion 2 >ear-old Trotter of 1904 BUil VUIHUC Champion 3 year-old Stallion of 1 905 Two-year-old Record __ _ 2:15 Three-year-old Record ___ __ 2:12>£ Timed in a Race. '.. 2:10'o WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY $8500 for 1905 BOOK! FULL, for 1906 HluHLAnil (.t * Y.ars Old iiiwiihnnw Bred al Migh|and Stock farm Dubuque, |a# By EXPRESSO 29199, son of Electioner 125; dam. ALPHA 2:24'.,, Terms for the Season $25 Roth of the al at my Barn. THOMAS SMITH, 1921 Ciioyia St., Vallejo, Cal. Address all communications to , TED HAYES, Manager1 Pleasanton, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Du PONT SMOKELESS at the Iowa State Shoot, March 14-16,1906 THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP was won by Mr. F. A. Weatherhead of Red Oak, la. FIRST AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by Mr. Lee R. Barkley of Chicago. SECOND AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by Mi. H. ('. Dorton of Fonda, In., and the ABOVE NINETY PER CENT EXPERT' TROPHY was won by Mr. Charles Spenser, All these gentlemen of course used DU PONT SMOKELESS E. I. DUPONT COMPANY Wilmington, Del. California Powder Works, Agents Temporary Office, BERKELEY, CAL. THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF Iowa, Nebraska. Missouri and Kansas at the Omaha tournament, March 20 - 22, 1906 was won by MR. GEORGE W. MAXWELL of Holstein, Neb., an amateur, who used "NEW SCHULTZE" LAFLIN & RAND POWER CO. 170 Broadway, New York City California Powder Works, Agents Temporary Office, Berkeley, Cal. Campbell's IMOLLIO IODOFORM Gall Cure •Si ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. HTliis feature, to- gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. ITWe build everything from a featherweight 5%-pound 20-gauge gun to a 10Vi- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. uSend for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12, 16 and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. 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, SCRATCHES, BLOOD POISONED SORES and ABRASIONS OF THE SKIN it has no equal. Its use will absolutely prevent Blood Poisoning. 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 of success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively little has been donn in the way of advertising, the sales of 1900 were 100 per cent greater than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure preceding that year. Tins increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20th CENTURY. It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fet- lock which injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Keep It in their Stables PRICE: — 3 OZ. BOX 25e.; I LB. BOX, $1.00 Read our "tid" on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs., Madison Street, Chicago, III. Sold by all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. If not in stock ask them to wrile any Jobber for it McKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05i GREAT RACE HORSE AND PRODUCING SIRE Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion \'r~T A ¥ /"» S~\ bv ZOLnCK 2:0.r,i., ; dam GIPSEY, dam of Gazelle I M L\ I I I I 2:12^, Delilah 2:14'., and three more in the list. *■*-*■*■ *■*-*■ ^— k V/ Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14V Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05i BOXALET (3) 2 :09^4, in winning race-World's Record for age and BONNIE ME (3), trail (rrotting) 2:11K (last half 1:03). Only two of Bonnie Direct's first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton — Fee $100 C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal IRAN ALTO *****SZ2S£XS2r Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, CAL. F"ee ^^-O For further particulars address $20 due when mare is bred and H. S. MOGOBOOM, $20 payable when mare is known to be in foal. Woodland, Cal. More ^t^ndard Performer Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion in California SlDMOOR 2: 1 71 By SIDNEY 2:19 3-4 Dam MAMIE HARNEY by The Grand Moore Season 1 906 at Concord Race Track and at Pacheco. fj&~ Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MABIE and LOU DILLON, by breeding to «■«> GRECO BLACK COLT, Foaled 1900. Sire, McKIXXEY 2:11^. Dam, AILLEN 2:26>o', by Anteeo 2:16>£. Gramdam, LOU MILTON 1:58>£, by Milton Medium 2:25>£. He will be permitted to psrve a limited number of mares at $100 THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address CHA5. De RYDER, Manager PLEASANTON, CAL, McKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD Fee $30.00 for Season Usual Return Privileges. Address : JOHN 0TT, Pacheco, Cal WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON STAR POINTER 1:591 World's Record Made in 1807 The Fastest, Gamest and Most Consistent Race Horse in Turf History. Service Fee - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CHAS. De EYDEB, Manager Pleasanton, Cal. Nearest 35562 Will make the SEASOX OF 1906 AT in California, For terms and extended pedljrrew addre68 Red 1431. (RECORD 2:22',)— Sire nf Alone (4) 2:(1!H4 (trail 2:IH%). Just It (3)2:191;,: (trail 2:12',). HieJi Flv (2)2:241., (t'ial 2:12l5, last halt in 1 :0(%), and full brother to the treat John A. McKerron 2:(H'-2, the second fastest In the world. TlBy HDTWO0D WILKES 2:16}$. JAN" JOSE, with return privilege in case horse remains T W. BABNTOW, San Jose, Col THE CHAMPION SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME 5PEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 1 61 Sire GTJY WILKES 2:11", Dam LIDA W 2:1s', by NUTWOOD 2:18)1 NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the Nutwood Stock Farm, from Fob. 1st to July 1st. F"EE SSBO. FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges. Srinl for Tabulated Pedigree, For further particulars apply or address: MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, frvingfon, Alameda Co., Cal, THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN — — — J. A. Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Cal. Union Metallic Cartridge Co. REMINGTON SHOT GUNS E. E. DRAKE, Pacific Coast Manager Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET. CORNER OF LAGUNA, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TEN GAR LOADS OF GOODS ON THE WAY, r WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. MANCFACTfRERS OF .AJ^iMiiTiLsriTionsr, rifles ^isro shotquns TEMPORARY OFFICE N L 1422 PARK AYENUE, ALAMEDA PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., Inc. ,rary Office: 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor. Park Street, Alameda, Cal. PATH [C UOAST BRANI II Smith Hammerless and Ejector Guns (Win GOLD MEDAL at the LEWIS & CLARK EXPOSITION) ALEO HUNTER" ONE TRIGGER SEND FOR CATALOGUE rauinc, ^najierigt:, oupenui, caocisiui Send Orders to Smbltino Works VALLEJO JUNCTION lunter Arms Co. Fulton, New York THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE CONTRA COSTA CO., CAL. THE "OLD RELIABLE" BEST CAN BE MADE HAS NONE ITS EQUAL Spratts Dog Remedies Dog Biscuits Dog Soaps i ■ 1 1 , i Coleman's si ore of 47 straight at live birds in Englnnd, us well ns i\ mi! ui 25 tit :;i yards', allows how the I'arker Gun shunts. See another column in this paper showing his marvelous records , PARKER BROS. Coast Agency : 1-324 Valencia St., San Francisco. Cal. THOS. BANKS. Manager. New Salesrooms: 32 Warren St. 32 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn. Breeder and Sportsman Vol. XLVII. No. 19 THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W, KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coa«t Office : "09 Vax Xess Ayexte, Sax Fbaxcisco P. O. Drawer 447 Terms— One Year »3; Six Months J1.75: Three Months *1 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Money should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to r W. Kelley. P. O. Drawer 447, San Francisco. California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub ication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. From Walla Walla SAN FRANCISCO. MAY 26. 1906 Breeder and Sportsman — En- closed find $3, amount due on paper. We surely miss it, and will be very glad to see it again. I am sorry to hear of the great calamity for I still have my love for the old State and hope to be among you with some good ones some day. There are a great many horses being worked here. I still have old Lynmont and I have a two year old by him that I broke two months ago and he stepped a quarter last week in forty seconds and sold the same day for $400. One of my stallion Cautions' three year old colts owned by Frank Smith, just sold for $1200, and a road horse by Caution sold for $600. My Diablo stallion Teddy A. is well patronized and his colts all show fast. If I can be of any service to you let me know. Wishing you all success, I am, V'ours truly, WM. HOGOBOOM Stallion For Sale Mr. M. Henry of Pleasauton, offers his stalilon Ed Keil for sale, This horse is jet black, a high stepper and of tbe true Morgan type. He is a grandson of Director and should bring twice the price asked for bim for a park horse, as be can be driven by a lady and can put on all the style of a show horse. He is afraid of nothing, Mr. Henry's daughter having driven him in tbe Haywards horse parade, and also in the 4th of July parade last year in Oakland, where even fiercrackers did- not bother hiin. He should be a sire of high steppers and in any good man's hands could earn his price in one season in any county where mares are bred. He has shown 2:20 speed and is a good gaited totter. Horse News From Utah Breeder and Sportsman — I was very gratified to receive the first issue of your worthy paper since the disaster iu your city. Father is out on the ranch so I took it upon myself to express bis gratitude as well as my own upon seeing the "Breeder and Sports- man " again in print. There is very little horse news around this city. In fact I never remebered it being so quiet. There is no prospect of racing except down at Provo, Utah. The racing and fair associairon are there putting up a half mile track and expect to give some very successful meetings this summer. Dr. Geo. W. Shores, an ex- resident of your city, is here in. Salt Lake in faci has been for some time. Last June he pur- chased from H. W. Brown a three year old unbroken roan filly by "Altoka" 2:10^-2, and out of Miss Foxie2:22^. This filly is a very well bred thing, her dam being by Incas 2:14^ out of Lady Foxie 2:24^. she being in the great brood mare list. This filly was broken last June and was turned out in September, not being worked at all to speak of. She was brought up just about three weeks ago and three days ago Dr. Shores hooked her to the cart for the first time this spring, and she trotted a mile in 2 :3c, last quarter in 35 seconds, last eight in 17 sec- onds. And you never saw such a surprised person as tbe Doctor. I honestly believe, Mr Kelley, that tbe mare is absolutely the fastest trotter to-day in the Rocky moun- tain country. We have out at the ranch now a two year old colt, red roan in color, by Altoka 2:10^ that can trot a 2:30 clip and be isn't even broken yet. He is out of a mare by Ned Wilkes Atola is the sire of more good looking colts that can trot some than is usually seen in a place like this. I would be glad to send you a picture of out pole team, full sisters to the roau colt, if you desire it. I sincerely hope that your Paper me;ts with tbe success that your kind of pluck and gameness deserves and which you will surely get. Your sincere friend, R. W. BROWN, Salt Lake City, Utah May i6> '906. From the Concord Track Breeder and Sportsman — The horsemen here expect to have three day's racing this fall as the Horgan's Yearling Stake is to be trotted then. All made second payment except one and his colt met with an accident. We are working on a stallion stake for young stallions owned in this county. There are two or three young stallions by Welcome 2:ioyi, one by Silver Bow 2:16, one by William Harold 2:13^, one by Altamont 2:26, one or two by Chas. Derby 2:20, and two by Sidmore 2:1734, besides several others. The outlook for the horse breeders was never better in this locality. The aged stallions Chas. Derby 2:20, Sidmore 2:1734 and Dictatus 2:17, all have their books full or will have before the end of the season, and many farmers who did not have mares of their own have rented mares to breed — the prices paid ranging from $75 to $200 in some cases. Even the young stallions that have not produced anything yet have been well patronized and if the present prices for good horses keep up, of which we have no doubt, next year will be better than ever. James Grove, formerly of Fresno, now of Nightsen, this county, expects to locate here at the Con- cord track with a string of young horses. He has at the head of his string a young stalilon by Altamont out of Blue Bells by San Diego that is owned by Dr. Ham- mond of Byron. He also has a very fine filly by Desterwood and two by Con Brio. A number of other trainers are waiting with their horses to move in whenever the track men get tbe water pipes laid to the stakes. Three or four of tbe yearlings in the Horgau Stake are already broken and will be ready to speed as soon as the track is smoothed down. Last Saturday J. E. Durham with Flyaway, C. Fosket with Jakey F by Sidmoor, Joel Harlan with a daughter of Owyhee, and L. R. Palmer with his full sister to Ben F. 2:07 %, had a nice workout. Mr. Palmer's mare led and stepped tbe mile in 2:23, with the last quartei in 33 seconds over a very rough track. W. S. CLARK. Co.icord, May 16th. 1906 Subscription $3.00 a Year Stanford Stake Closes June 1st The Stanford Stake of 1908, for foals of 1905, will close witb Secretary Filcher, of the California State Agricutlnral Society on June 1st. Tbe total entrance fee to this stake is $50, of which only $5 is required to be paid when colt is nominated on June 1st. The other Payments come along in easy stages, and are not large. The Stanford Stake is always a valuable one, and one of the classics of the California trotting circuit each year. Name your yearling in this stake on the first of June, and stand a chance to win Siooo the year he is a three year old. Liberal Stakes for harness Horses Monday, June iSth, is the date set for closing entries to four big stakes offered by tbe Breeders Association for its August meeting which will probably be held at Woodland this year. The Calif- ornia Stake for 2124 class trotters has a value of $1500, and the Pacific Slope Stake for 2:20 class pacers has the same value. These two stakes have been the leading features of the Califorina Circuit for several years past, and tbey should attract large entry lists this year. In addition there are offered the Sunset Stakes of $800 for trotters of tbe fre° for all class, and the Golden Gate Stakes for pacers eligible to the 2:09 class, These four early closing stakes are only a preliminary, and there will soon be announced a big list of $500 purses for all classes of trotters and pacers to be decided at this meeting. The Woodland tract is an excellent one, and is located in tbe midst of one of the most thriving sections of Calif- orina. The Breeders have never given a meeting at Woodland be- fore, and the horsemen of Yolo County are anxious that the association should give its prin- cipal meeting there this year. The meeting will precede the State Fair meeting at Sacramento. North Pacific Fair Circuit Everett, Seattle, Salem, North Yakima Spokane, Walla Walla Lewiston Boise, Jdabo, August 27 to Sept. 1 Sept. 3 to 8 Sept. 10 to 15 Sept. 17 to 22 Sept. 24 to 29 Oct. 1 to 6 Oct. 8 to 13 OC{. IJ tO 2Q , THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN s5* Motes anb 5iews It is estimated that 50,000 people witnessed the annual parade of speedway horses in New York City this month, and this in the face of the fact that the weather was unfavorable. The good saddle mares Eugenia, by Highland Denmark out of Emily, and Magna by Cromwell, Jr., out [of Maria, were sold in Kentucky last week for $5000. The former is three-gaited and the latter five-gaited. Either can trot in 2:50 and they can pull a wagon to pole in 3:10. They are prefectly broken to saddle, single and double harness and fairly illustrate the utility of the American saddle horse. F. J. Kelly of Pueblo is now sole owner of Obe Croft 2:1634!, hav- ing just purchased the other half interest. Obe made his record in 1904 as five year old and will be raced again this year. P. Frank Little of Boulder recently took to Los Angeles twenty head of fine draft horses, for which be paid $4,800 to Boulder county farmers. The stuff was put on sale and will no doubt bring $300 or $400 a head Nancy Hanks 2:04 will .be bred to Todd 2:i4|4- The owner, J. M. Johnson, wants to establish a Nancy Hanks family. J. O. Gerrlty, trainer for W. A. Clark Jr., will ship the latter':, string of trotters and pacers east for Los Angeles about June ist- Sidney is a wonderfully potent horse. He is now 25, and last season 30 mares were bred to him. Of these 24 foaled living colts, two of the mares died, two aborted and only two were barren. Con- sidering Sidney's age, this is indeed remarkable virility. A contract has been signed between M. W. Savage and the management of the Minnesota State Fair, wbicb will make the star attraction of Sept. 3, the opening day of the fair, a joint appearance of Dan Patch, the champion pacing stallion of the world, and Cresceus, the champion trotting stallion. These two great horses appearing at the same time on the state fair track and each going against bis own champion- ship record, will constitute one of the most remarkable track events ever witnessed. Draft teams are in great de- mand iu San Francisco, and the ancbes are being heavily drawn upon for all available stock by the teamsters of this city. Several new drayage companies have been formed since the fire, the largest part of the new business being the removal of debris. W. H. Bobb of Pendleton, Oregon, has shipped 800 horses to Alberta, Canada, for sale. They range in weight from 1150 to 1400 pounds and will be sold to the far- mers. A heavy tariff on horses from the United States is likely to be levied by the colonial parlia- ment soon. E. A. Servis of Durham sold that good consistent pacer Edwin S. 2:08 to last week. He will appear on the eastern circuit. The Yuba County Driving Club will open its three days meeting at tbe Marysvillle track on Mon- day next.- Mr. Reams has closed bis training stable at Suisiun. He bad a very fine string of promising trotters and pacers, many of them being by Demonio. He had Memonia 2:14^2 and Anable a two year old sisler to this fast pacer; Grace R a three year old pacer, Ora Belmont 2:15^ and a fast high bred mare belonging to Julian Hoyt. She was sired by William Harold 2:13^. He also had a two year old chestnut stallion the property of Jos. B. Nightingale. He is by Sidney Dil- lon out of Lena Holly a great road mare that Mr. Nightingale has been using for some time. Another good one is a chestnut filly by De- monio out of Mannie Airlie. She belongs to Jos. M. Bassford, and last but not least is Grant Chad- bourne's John S. a two year old by Demonio out of Jess by Coligny. This is a square gaited trotter and very promising. Bob Sparks of Suisun, who has been wintering three of Lewis Peirce's horses at Pleasanton, re- turned home a week ago last Sun- day. Mr. Sparks says tbe past winter has been as unfavorable for race horses as it seems to have been on grain crops in this vicinity. He had three good horses on tbe Pleasanton tracks, tbe best being tbe five-year-old gelding El Diablo Mac, by Diablo, dam Hazel Mac, by Director, a high bred trotter that can go along in about 2:15, and show quarters in 2°H- Another one that is about as fast as tbe bay pacer, is Brutus, a Sidney Dillon. The other one is a bay gelding by Captain, dam by Anteeo. This horse was on the sick list most of tbe time. C. A. Post of Modesto, recently lost a valuable two year old colt by Prince Nutwood 2:12^. The colt was snagged on a broken fence board while 'running in pasture. Jake Brollier of Tulare writes of a thirteen months old filly called Lady Stoneway which he worked a full mile in 2:47 last quarter in 40 seconds. She can brush an eighth of a mile in iy}4 at the end of a 3:00 mile. Were it not that she is a bad knee banger he would insist on her owner continuing her work for he believes she would pluck the crown for Manager H. but this defect prevents her being trained at present. Her powers of endurance and gameness seem almost marvelous. Messrs. J>usn and Haile, pro- prietors of the Suisun Stock Farm have announced that they will bold their annual sale of Demonio yearilngs this year on June 16. This sale will take place either at Mannie Ream's track or in Suisun. The catalogues are iu course of preparation, and will be issued in a few days. The colts are all gilt edge youngsters and are from the dams of Nordwell, Miss Winn, Meinoio and dams of other fast ones. Included in this sale there will also be ten well-bred colts from Lewis Pierce's stock farm ranging from one year to four years old. They were all sired by Our Captain, grand son of Electioneer. Tbe dams of all these colts are standard bred. The Zombro mare Italia 2:14^ has been put to pacing by her eastern owner. Geo. Algeo is doing a fair business with the royally bred Nutwood Wilkes stallion T. C. 2:30 that he has at Alameda track. Mr. Algeo is training a mare by James Madison fur H. Johnson of West Berkeley and after six weeks work drove her a mile in 2:22 with tbe last half in 1:09. Geo. G. 2:06^ will be one of the starters for the gold cup at Pittsburg. Hon. Sterling R. Holt reports that tbe great brood mareEaralma, dam of Borlama 2:07, and Pan Michael 2:03, has foaled a hand- some horse colt at Maywood Farm by Sidney Dillon. This is the colt that Mr. U. A. Andrews, late proprietor of Forest City Farm bought of Mr. Holt for $1,000. The Andrews estate will carry out the agreement and are ready to take the colt at weaning time. It is said to be a nice cok and admired by all who have seen the royally bred youngster. W. R. Murphy, owner of Red McKinney, says he recently saw three foals by hs horse, and all are bays with no white, except one tbat has a very small star. They are all shaped just like Red Mc- Kinney, and show that this horse has great promise as a sire. Mr. Murphy recently purchased from Herbert E. Coil of Woodland, a grand looking two year old colt by Searchlight 2:03^, dam Golden Rose by Falrose 2:19, second dam by Alaska, son of Electioneer, third dam by Algona, fourth dam by Odd Fellow. This colt is a bay and looks veiy much like his illustrous sire. Mr. Murphy ca lis him Red Light. The horses in M. Henry's string at Pleasanton aie all in good shape and can step faster than they have yet been asked to. The five year old Robert C. trotted a mileiu 2:22 last quarter in 32 seconds. Roger C. a four year old trotted a quarter in 37^ seconds. Frank C, three year old, paced a mile in 2:16, last half in 1:07^2 and last quarter in 3i seconds, a 2:04 gait. These are all full brothers and the property of Frank D. Colburn of Boston. Selah a five year old black stallion by McKinney, dam by Director, has shown a mile in 2:18. Will Gutbrie, a black three year old colt by Educate showed a mile in 2:20, last quarter in 32 seconds. Hiram, a bay colt by Educator stepped a quarter in 35 seconds. Mr. Henry's mare Hulda by Guide 2:16, has a filly at foot by Bonnie Direct, and will be bred to Star Pointer. His mares Jacobina and Thera have both been bred to Bonie Direct. Ed Benyon will have in bis string besides the four year old fillies Bonalet 2:09^ and Bonnie Me, both by Bonnie Direct, the great green pacer Rey del Valle by Rey Direct. Rey del Valle worked a public mile in 2:07)^ last year. Tbe many friends of Ed Geers will deeply sympathise with him in tbe irreparable loss sustained by him through the sudden death of bis son Walter, which occurred in a baseball game at Columbia, Tenn., on May 5th. The youtb was seventeen years old and was the only son and a very bright and clever boy. A dealer in New York recently sgined a contract to take 35 carriage horses from a Western buyer at $700 per head. J Report has it that Myron Mc- Henry is going to locate in Tennessee with the hope ofjgetting a few horses for the races, THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Another record of the Country Jay 2:10^2 case was heard a few days ago, when Isaac Eckert of Reading, Pa., filej suit agaist Gus Macey for $1-0.000, tne sum pa\<$ for the horse by him over a year Tgo — on the grounds of misrepre- sentation at time of the sale. Easter Direct, the much touted green pacing mare by Direct 2:05^3 with a reputed trial of 2:0334, will hardly get to the races this year. She was wintered at Macon, Ga., by Ed Mills, and threw out a spilnt not long ago, wihcb made it necessary to fire her and throw her out of training. This is the year to breed your mare. The breeding season is drawing to a close, but don't allow your mare to go over this year, as the value of. horses is on the in- crease and will continue so for the next ten years. There is a demand for horses that cannot be supplied, and the stallions to patronize this year are the well bred members ol the trotting and pacing families. Remember this prediction. — A good road horse will be worth more in 1910 thau at any time during 1905 and 1906. A dispatch from New Haven, Conn., states that Judge Townsend of the United States Court has is- sued an order requiring the Na- tion«l Trotting Association to show cause ou May 28th, why a preliminary writ of injunction should not issue restraining the as- sociation from meeting at Lexing- ton, Ky,. on June 1st, or at any other time or place, for the purpose of hearing the case of the Memphis Trotting Association vs. E. E. Stnaihers. This is the case in which is involved the question of whether or not the mare Lou Dillon was drugged prior to the contest for the gold cup at Memphis, in October, 1904. The object of the order of the court is to prevent the National Trotting Assoc:ation from heaiing any evidence and to pre- vent all persons from offering any evidence to the board of review of the association. It is also sought to enjoin the association from taking any action in respect to the race and the controversy which has arisen out of it, The Alameda track is being ■used by a number of trainers. It is not in the best of condition, but une can make sneed over it. A day of harness racing at the Oakland track with purses ranging from $100 to $300, would get a tig entry list, draw a big crowd and enable the horse owners to earn a little money. Many extravangant tales were written to the Eastern press about the San Francisco earthquake. It was bad enough, but not quite as bad as it has been painted. The earthquake damage in Oakland, across the bay was as great in proportion as it was in this city, and yet the buildings are all in use and business is proceeding as usual in all the stores. Had it not been for the fires, San Francisco business men would not have con- sidered the earthquake more than an incident. The Grand Circuit of 1906 gives every indication of being one of the greatest in the history of the turf. Every association that has closed a list of stakes or purses reports tremendous entry lists and the horses are from all parts of the country, California horses being very numerous. That the Calif- ornia owners who will go down the big line this season may bring home a big share of the money is our earnest wish. James Berryman is training a young stallion by Zombro out of an AltaLuout mare at the Alameda track that is a natural and fast trotter. He has had but a very few weeks' handling , but has already shown an eighth in r6 seconds and is a Wilkes in style and action. Mr. Berryman say the colt re- minds him of George Wilkes more than any colt he ever saw. Mr. Berryman, when a youth, took care of the founder of the Wilkes tribe for a time and has a vivid recollection of the great trotter and sire. Owing to the large number killed recently by autos, the Ocean Accident & Guarantee Corporation, Limited, of London, has refused to pay a big accident policy at New Orleans, La., on the death of M. L. Hancock, a millionaire, who was killed in an automobile accident in Los Angeles, several months ago, on the ground that most automobilists are monoman- iacs on the question of speeding their machines, and, therefore, the company is not responsible. This may cause some of the speed- crazy autoists to give a little more thought to personal safety, which will in a way, be benifical to the general public. If the reckless autoists endangered the lives of none but themselves there would be little cause for the general public to complain, but unfortun- ately such is not the case. Years ago it was the Geo, Wilkes Mambrino Patchen cioss that was sought after by horsemen; now it is the E'ectioneerWilkes cross. Mr. M. D. Wisdom, editor of the North Pacific Rural Spirit, and secretary of the North Pacific Circuit, visited California last week looking for entries to the big purses and stakes offered up north this year, but we are sorry to say left for home with but few entries in his pocket. The fearful calamity that visited San Francisco and the surrounding country in April, has made so many horsemen too poor to devote any time to sport this year, that they could not be induced to enter their horses out- side the state this year. When it is taken into consideration that the majority of the horses in train- ing at Pleasanton are owned by men who do business in San Fran- cisco, it is not surprising that the list of entries obtained there for the North Pacific Circuit should be very small this year. In former years, California horse owners have been very liberal patrons of the Oregon and Washington meet- ings, but it can hardly be expected that they will be this year. We hope, however, that the Northern meetings will be liberally patron- ized by their local horsemen this season and that the meetings will all be successful financially and ohterwise. The Northern associ- ation are all energetic and progress- ive and we wish them every sue cess, promising them that Califor- nia horses will be generously entered there next year. This is the year for the smaller towns to get up meetings and offer $200 aud $300 purses. There are a grpat many horses whose owners are ready to start them for that amount. The three-year-old colt, Cnchato, 42293, recently sold in the East for $10,000 to George Leavitt, carries lots of what are known as California strains in his breeding. He is by Todd 2:1434, dam Castanea, 2:rg4 by Pistachio 2:2i3/j; (full brother to Nutwood 2:1834); second dam Lindora Wilkes (dam of five of the stand- ard list) by Guy Wilkes 2:1514'; third dam Rosetta ( a producer) by The Moor; fourth dam Cecila Clark by Clark Chief; filth dam thoroughbred. Todd is by Bingen 2:o6J^, from Parouella 2:13 (dam of Sadie Mac 2:06^) by Arion 2:0734. Bingen combines tbe blood of Electioneer, and George Wilkes; Fanella combines tbe blood of Electioneer, Director and Nutwood; Pistachio combines the blood of Belmont aud Pilot Jr. 12, being by Belmont out of tbe dam of Maud S. 2:0834. The mare Sliver Ring 2:14 '.., which Mr. Soule of West Hartford purchased at the Midwinter Fasig- Tipton Co., sale, has been bred to Admiral Dewey 2:0434. She is by Silver Bow 21:6 (son of Robert McGregor, out of Sadie, by Hambletonian, and second dam by William Welch, son of Ham- letonian), her dam Maud Single- ton, by Singleton (son of Willy Schepper, by Hambletonian); second dam Lettie, (dam of four) by vl'ayland Forrest; third dam Mary (one of Flaxtail's greatest producing daughters.) The breed- ing is rather peculiar and reacues the great fountain head, Hamble- tonian, quite close up for a thirteen-year-old mare, through two sources, William Welch and Willy Scheper, which seldom appear in pedigrees nowadays. Admiral DeWej- seems to be the ideal horse for such a mare to be bred to, as he gives her the Electioneer, Happy Medium, Dictator and George Wilkes crosses. Stakes for Two Year Olds If you own a two year old pacer or trotter that is threatened with the least symptoms of speed, you should take a chance with him by entering in one of tbe two $1000 stakes offered by tbe State Agricultural Society lor two year olds. The A. B. Spreckels Stake is for trotters and the Ben Rush Stake for pacers. Two per cent is due June 1st with nominations, and unless declared out before there will be two per cent addition- al due July 2nd, and the remain- ing one per cent August rst. Your two year olds that are in the Breeders Futurity are elegible to start in these stakes. Enter and get some of the money. Pleasanton Matinee The matinee given by the Pleasanton Driving Club on Saturday, April 14th, was a com- plete success. A full account of the races, was prepared lor the Breeder & Sportsman, but the copy was destroyed during the fires of the following week and tbe report- er's notes also. The summaries of the events which were all closely contested, are as follows: FIRST RACE. Mr. Lecari's Charlie J. " 3-1-1 Mr. Hel wig's Byron Lace 1-2-3 Dr. McLaughlin's Ringrose 2-3-2 Time— 2:16, 2:13,4, 2:14^ SECOND RACE Col. Kirkpatrick's Charley D 1-1 Dr. McLaughlin's Kelley 2-2 Mr. Ronan's Antonetti 3-3 Time 2:25'.;, 2:21% THIRD KACE Dr. McLaughlin's Mr. Young i-r Col. Kirkpatrick's Elden Bells 3-2 Mr Perry's Billy Moore 2-3 Time 2:44, 2:34 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Gen. W. G. Harding, the found- er of Belle Meade, the historical breeding farmer of Tennessee, test- ed the thoroughbred horse against heavy horses and even mules in cornfields when the sun was inten- sely hot. The horse descended from a long line of track tested runners, was able through higher physical and mental organization, to even cause the mule to wilt when the tall stalks of corn shut out the breeze. Our best trotters carry strong infusions of thorough- bred blood— Messenger, the sire of Mainbriuo, the sire of Abdallah, the sire of HambletoniaD was a thoroughbred— and for this reason are more indiSerent to fatigue than horses of spongy make-up. The farmer, however, should not sacrifice size to speed. When three yearlings sell for $22,000, four two-year-olds sell for $37,000, there is a reason beyond breeding and speed- The answer is Futurity engagements. Sadie Mac, Boralma, Miss Previous, The Tramp, Bon Voyage, Grace Bond, Lightsome, Katberine L. and Kintore were sold because of their engagements in the Kentucky Futurity. Seven of them made good by winning, and one is not yet old enough to start. — Kentucky Stock Farm. A bill prohibiting the docking of horses in New York State has passed the Assembly and has reached the third reading in the Senate, with little opposition. Bon Mot by Erin, dam of Bon Voyage 2:12%, receutly foaled a filly by The Bondsman, sire of Grace Bond 2:09^, winner of the Kentucky Futurity. Bon Mot is owned by W. A. Clark, Jr., and besides Bon Voyage 19 the dam of Endow 2:14% and Benqueath 2:23. Trainer and drivers, are in- terested in the fact that the Phoenix, Ariz., pacer, Custer, by Sidney Dillon yet without a record, that showed ability to beat 2^10 in the Great Western Circuit last year, and now being trained by the former Wisconsin and Illinois trainer, Ed. Hall, at Phoenix, is traning well and has been a half in 1:03 or a trifle better. It is quite likley that the J. C. Adams stable, in charge of Mr. Hall, will be raced at a few far western meetings before coming east, in- cluding, no doubt, Denver, so that those farther east will get a line on them before the opening of the Great Western Circiut. It is re- ported that Bystander 2:13, by Zolock 2:05^, another crack pacer of the Adams stable, worked a mile in 2:16 recently, half in I :o3, aud the last quarter in :30. Dictatress 2:08^ has a fine bay colt by Hal B. 2:04^. This youngster has a speed inheritance f 2 :0b1 2, the greatest of "any colt ever foaled Oregon. in Portland, "Well Ezrzy! you are lookin' real smilin' and satisfied this atfer- noon. Betcba it's a boy or girl — bey?". "Betcha 'taint'!" was the reply. "I've just swapped a balky horse to Deacon Yampa for an animal that aint' got a thing in the world the matter with him except a spavin, the heaves and a stringbalt. That's what tickles me so-" — Exchange. Mack Mack, Swift B. and Helen Norte are all entered in the 2:10 trotting class at Readville. For awhile the Grand Circuit meeting at Detroit was off, but authentic reports say it is on again, and the great M. & M. and C. of C. will be the feature of the Grand Circuit this year. This will be good news to many horse- men who have been laying awake of nights the past winter studying out how to win first money iu these classic events. A subscriber writes: "What chance has an owner of a really good standard mare or so of rais- ing a real high-class race horse by breeding to an ordinary eight or ten dollar 'crossroad' stallion?" Oh, about the same chance one has of getting first-class boots and other turf goods at an "apartment store!" There never was a market estab- lished for the cat-bammed, wedge- shaped, spindle-shanked, ewe- necked, pot-bellied, worthless horse, no matter what his blood lines are, how large be may be, or bow small. Hon. J. M. Johnson, owner of Blue Hill Farm, Ponkapog, Mass., recently turned down an offer of $10,000 for Fanella, 2:13, the dam of Sadie Mac, 2:06^, and Todd, 2:14^. The Portland Horse Sale The attendance at the three days auction sale of trotting horses held under the auspices of the Portland Horse Sale Company at Irvington Park, Portland, Oregon, May 2, 3, 4, was very large and prices received very fair, considering the terrible depression which seems to aflect everyone on the Pacific Coast since the destruction of the prin- cipal portion of San Francisco. The famous Missouri auctioneer, Col. R- L. Harriman proved a revelation to the crowd who listened to bis remarks about the conformation aud pedigree of every horse led into the ring, and by his eloquence coaxed many a bid from hesitating buyers; and, when the sales ended, everybody, buyers and sellers, considered it was in order to congratulate him on his success. Mr. Larrabee's Brook-Nook con- signment headed the sale and a finer lot of well-formed horses was ever shipped from Montana. These youngsters bad beauty combined with substance and soundness and whoever got an}' of them will never regret attending this sale. The Tongue estate sold Lovelace, one of the grandest-bred sons of Egotist beside several of his progeny. N. K. West disposed of some descendants of The Common- wealth and J. C. Baddelly, of Weston, Oregon, sent in some youngsters by Caution that will make names for themselves, their sire aud their owners whenever given an opportunitj'. J. A. Jones sent a choice consignmet, one being the two-year-old gelding Rastus by Oro Guy out of a daughter of Del Norte. A three-year-old and a two-year-old by Diablo averaged $287. Taking it all in all, this sale was one of the best ever held in the Northwest and the scattering of these colts, fillies and broodmares among the various farms will prove of in- estimable benefit to the trotting horse interests of that portion of the Pacific Coast. The total amount obtained was $24,475 f°r the 130 head, an average of a little over $180. The following brought $200 and over. Some finely matched teams were also sold: King Cole, b gby Vice Regent, dam Kiona, by Altamont 200 Star, b g (4), by Caution, dam by Alwood 200 Connell, br s (3) by Caution, dam Golden Seal, by Bed- wood 200 Ballott, b g by Alcone, dam Bab Ballad by Com. Bel- mont 200 Seaman, bg (4) Alcone dam Seda, by Fieldmot 200 Christobel, b m (4) by Caution, dam Tat by Little Tod 205 Bailey, ch g (33) by Silver- ligit, dam Mary A, by Pilot Lemon t 205 Can't Tell, ch s (4) by Sat- suma, dam Kathleen, by Long Taw 205 Bob White, br g (4) by Gyr Falcon, dam Brownie, by Aurora 205 Dominus, br g (4), by Vice Regent, dam Dolly, by Pilot Duroc 205 Tiddillo, ch g (4), by Ruby Star, dam Pipit, by Commo- dore Belmont 210 Nat, ch g (4), by Pilot Lane, dam Corvallis, by Tom B 210 Krisba, r g (4), Vice Regent, dam Kusa, by Commodore Belmont 210 Romeo Jr., s (5) by Romeo, dam Nellie W. y Baymont 215 Coly b g (4) by Gyr Falcon, and Viol, by Gyr Falcon 225 Adalina Patti ch f (2) by Boodle, dam Frankie by ., Scarlet Letter 225 Dalles Boy, ch c (3), by Valley Boy, dam Addie Nutwood, by Adirondac 225 Poet, b g(s), by Lambert Boy, dam by Malcolm 225 Felix, ch g (7), by Lovelace, dam Marigold, by Fred Hambleton 240 Billy, br g (5), by Malbrino; Ed Holman 240 El Monarca.. blk g (4), by Al- fonso, dam Coqueta, by Al- tamont 250 Georgia Rose, d b m (4), by Caution, dam Golden Seal, by Bedwood 250 Mr. Johnson, b g (4), by Cau- tion, dam Lucy Lambert, by Leander Lambert 255 Harriet Gooch, br m, by Price- mont-Leona 260 Olga S., b f (3), by Diablo, dam Vevo, by Altamont 280 Ella E., brf (2), by Diablo dam Vevo, by Altamont 295 Auoymon, b r g (2), by Noc- turno, dam Anodyne, by Malcolm 300 Exaris, b s (2), by Expedition, dam Nellie Nexible, by Nexible 300 Rastus br g (2), by Oro Guy, dam Alta Norte, by Del Norte 310 Violon, br g(2), by Nocturno, dam Viola, by Malcolm 350 King Lovelace, br s (3), by Lovelace, dam Maggie, by Duroc Price 350 Lovelace br s (5), by Egotist, dam Creponu, by Princeps 355 Salem Maid, b m (6), by Del Norte, dam Hazel, by Pilot Lemont 400 Bonduc b g [by Regent, dam Bon Accord, by Allen, and Liar, b g by Alcone. dam Lady Blackwood, by Black- wood 400 Presea, br m by Alfonso, dam Chain Coral, by Alaska, and Pafong, br m by Alfonso, dam Misy, by Alaska 500 Rose Pink, b m by Alcone, dam Tea Rose, by Fielde- mont, and Abbess, b m by Alcone, dam Novice, by Commodore Belmont 600 Attic Bird, b s by Alcone, dam Diva, by Fieldmout 600 Thomas H. , b g (6), by Love- lace, dam Plauter Maid, by Planter 650 Red Ocher, b g by Alcone, dam Naore, by Alaska, and Kbfskhus, b g by Alcone, dam Kuskus, by Commodore Belmont Soo'' Burin, b s by Alcne, da Belle, by Kisbar 1025 ' THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 1 £* 3\o5, (bun anb IKennel Conducted by J. X. De Witt Marin county has long been noted for the splendid deer shoot- ing to be found on the picturesque ranges of hills and in the rugged canyons and gulches of that attractive coast country. The best shooting territory, however, is to be found on the preserves of the several gun clubs, in fact all of the choicest deer bunting country is closed to the individual huntet. This state of affairs has long been exceedingly obnoxious to a large number of "outsiders" — residents of Marin county and else- where. Various attempts have been made, ostensibly in the interest of game aud fish protection, by the Marin supervisors to disturb the serenity of the club members who hunt and fish in that county. In fact for several years past as the open seasons for wild game or game fish approached, the club sportsmen were kept rising or fall- ing with the barometer of expect- ancy in a manner calculated to cut out much of the anticipated sport. The vexed question arises again this year habilitated in a garment designed to protect and preserve deer. The various county papers are publishing the following peti- tion to which is annexed a coupon, addressed to the Board of Super- visors, which all resident tax- payers, agreeing with the views expressed in the petition, are re- quested to sign aud mail to the various editors of journals pub- lishing the petition, which requests an ordinance to be passed declaring a closed season on deer in Marin county for the period of five years, making it illegal to hunt or kill bucks and legalizing the capture or killing of dogs engaged in chasing deer during such closed period. The ieasons urged for such action are the following: "The danger to human life from the use of rifles in thickly settled parts of the county. The danger from fire originating from the camps of deer hunters. The killing by hunters of dom- estic cattle. The torture and destruction of the deer which now form one of the most attractve features of our remarkable mingling of home and wilderness, and which if protected would furnish pleasure to thou- sands where ouly a very lew — and most of those neither residents nor taxpayers, can profit by the bunting. The indiscriminate pur- suit by dogs of fawns and does and their almost equally indiscrimin- ate slaughter regardless of the state law. The method of hunting with hounds which seems inseparable from success results in the wanton and wasteful destruction at all times of the year of many of these animals and constitutes in many localities a cruel and a noisy nuLance which should be abated by law." It is evident after reading the foregoing "reasons" that they were not framed by one familiar w.th deer hunting. About the only logical point advanced is the one intimating danger from the reckless use of rifles in a thickly settled community. In the populous districts of the county, there is no deer hunting, further- more, the whole county is posted with trespass notices. Better that there be no deer hunting at all than to have people killed or maimed by the rifle bullets of the hunters. If we are not mistaken all of the Marin gun clubs have in- indicted the use of the high power rifle and the use of any missile other than the soft nosed bullet. We do cot recall any casualty that has taken place in Marin county on this score. The cruelty phase of the sport as urged against the use of dogs has been worn threadbare. It is well known that there is nothing in it. The deer when chased out of the thick cover by dogs are well able to distance the hounds or stand them 00 in a fight. Even a doe with her sharp hoofs, will put a dog to flight. The sport is no doubt noisy, but the racket takes place generally where the silence of the glen or range can be broken with pleasure and profit. As it looks now, the club mem- bers are due for their annual div- idend of nervous prostration, for they put up a good amouut of money for the privileges leased and also in preparation individually for each season's sport. All this without any assurance that the county fathers will not change their program and that's what makes the game full of tobasco. The Vallejo Gun Club members have proven in the past to be con ■ genial aud hospitable sportsmen and entertained visiting shooters to Vallejo most pleasantly. They have recently shown that they also have the reserve fund of good- ness that is invariably found in the make up of the true sportsmen. On Sunday May 8th a shoot was held for the benefit of Santa Rosa sufferers from fire and quake. As a result Treasurer J. V. O'Haraofthe Vallejo Gun Club sent to Mayor Overton of Santa Rosa, the club's contribution S56.60, for the relief fund of that city, which sum was realized at the shoot. In the merchandise prize shoot, one of the events on the program Walter Roney broke 20 straight and won a fine Winchester repeat- ing rifle. W. L. Wisecarver broke 19 and won the ''shell" prize. Wm. Chappell won a gun case with 19 breaks. J. V. O'Hara, 19, also won a "shell" prize. M. A. Clark's prize for iS breaks was a fishing rod. The club's regular shoot was held on the 13th inst. on the new- grounds near Flosden Station. J. V. O'Hara was high gun in the club race at 25 targets scoring 23. M. A. Clark was second with 22. O'Hara was also high gun in shouting at doubles. In the team s'joot Clark's team beat O'Hara's squad by 4 birds. Class shooting has evidently met with the approv- al of the club members for it is contemplated to classify all of the members of the club and put up a class medal trophy for four classes. These medals will be shot for at the monthly meetings, high guns in each class to win and hold for two weeks — or until won by a higher score. The member win- ing the medal, in his class, most times during the season to hold the same permanently. A number of local shooters were at the Ingleside trap grounds last Sunday. Among them were: Clarence A. Haight, A. M. Shields, Messrs. Sharpless, Nielson and Turner, Mark Iverson, Geo. Sylvester, E. Klevesabl, Wm. Murdock, Ed Schultz, J. K. Prior and R. Finnoohio. The shooters had some lively T2 and 6 bird pools at live pigeons in the forenoon and devoted the afternoon to blue rocks. The birds in the pigeon loft some 30 dozen in number were thus dis- posed of. Good scores were made by every shooter present. Julius Bruns, Chas. Breiden- stein, H. C. Kaplan and Jack Mc- Govern, recently enjoyeed a pleasant outing at the shack of the Bassio Club on Midshipman Slough near Sears Point Station. The Douglas Gun Club of Douglas, Arizona, has a well appointed shooting ground and the various members are in such good shooting trim that the chip on the shoulder is much in evidence. A match with Bisbee trap shooters is a probable fixture for the near future. Teams from each club have been rolling up excellent scores recently. The San Luis Obispo Gun and Boat Club second regular trap shoot early this month brought J. E. Van Schaick to the front as high gun in the four events shot. The scores made were as follows: At 10 targets — Van Schaick 8, C. T. Greenfield 2, J. C. Hill 5, R. Hearne o. At 20 targets — Van Schaick 18, Greenfield 13, Hill T2, Hearne 3. At 20 targets — Van Schaick 17, Hill 11, Greenfield 9. At 12 targets— Van Schaick 8, Hill 7, Greenfield 8. E. E. Drake is a very busv man these days looking after the U. M. C. aud Remington Arms Com- panies interests'. By June 1st a large and commodious warehouse will be in full running order. The business affairs of both con- cerns have continued almost with- out interruption since the 18th of April. A very graceful act of the Cali- fornia Powder Company, the prin- cipal Pacific Coast representative of the DuPont Powder Company, was connsummated when the Cali- fornia Powder Company refused to accept payment for dynamite used by the city authorities during the recent conflagration. Mayor Schmitz asked the com- pany's manager for the bill due fiom the city, which amounting to $4,000 was sent in. The Mayor promptly O.K'd it and sent the bill back with proper instructions for collection in due course. The following day the bill was returned to the Mayor fully re- ceipted, with a note stating that the dynamite used would be don- ated to the city. This shows that the powder corporation is not to be outdone by any other iu gener- osity to our stricken city. When the supply of dynamite in this city ran out it will be remem- bered how the manager of the com- pany sent an order by a govern- ment tug to the Point Pinole and other magazines to give the sol- diers all the dynamite that was needed. But for this prompt action who knows but that there would have been but few houses left in San Francisco In connection with the above we will also mention that the Du Pont officials early sent reassuring mes- sages from Wilmington to their employees in this city. These words of cheer were backed up by something more substantial just as soon as possible after the cal- amity and uoue of the Du Pont employees heie were more than temporarily, and briefly at that, inconvenienced. A number of the clerical force in this city lost their homes and all they contained THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN The Multnomah Rod and Gun Club shoot at Portland on the 13th inst. had 25 shooters in the line up before the bulkheads. The pro- gram called for 100 targets per man in the different events. V. M. C. Howe was high gun with r. score of 95. E. E. Ellis was second with 92 breaks. A. M. Robertson the popular Laflin and Rand representative was 'among the roll of high scores. Several ladies took part in the shoot Mrs. Collier being top nctcher in the ladies division. Fresno trap shooters are dis- appointed at not being able to participate in the coming Sacra- mento tournament, which is open to shooters of northern California only. The raisin growers have there- fore issued a challenge to the Sac- ramento Gun Club for a five man team shoot. Five Sacramento shooters to meet five Fresno men, at a time and place to be selected by the capital city club, the shoot to be at loo clay birds per man for §100 a side, with railroad faies and a good dinner as trimmings. This "defi" is the result of a turn down the Fresno Gun Club received to an offer to participate in the tournament. Th; seventh Grand American Handicap Target Tournament will take place at Indianapolis, Ind., June r9 to 22 inclusive. Programs were put in the mails Saturday May r9. The program for the first day em braces ro events, 20 targets each, $20 added in every event, entrance $2- for each event.. Open to ama- teurs only, no handicap. Agents and representatives of the trade may shoot for targets only. Second day, June 20. Prelimin- ary Handicap, open toa all. 100 targets, unknown angles, $7 en- trance, targets included, 14 to 22 yards handicap, high guns, $100 added. The winner, in addition to first m"ney, will also receive a trophy. The special event for the second day will be the state team race, open to amateurs only. Five man teams, bona fide residents of the same state, or of the same province of Canada. 100 targets per man, (500 per team) $35 entrance per team, targets included, no handi- caps in distance, high guns. Moneys governed by entries of teams. In addition to first money, the winning team members will each receive a handsome trophy from the Interstate Association. Third day, June 2r, has been set asidef or the main evert, the Grand American Handicap, open to all. roo targets, unknown angles, Sio entrance, targets in- cluded, 14 to 22 yards handicaps, high guns, $200 added, division of purse determined by number of entries — from 40 to 50 moneys, first money ro per ceut, above 2 places for each 10 entries up to 250. The winner will also receive the Interstate Association Trophy. Regular enlries must be made on or before Saturday, June 9, accom- pained by S5 forfeit. Friday June 22 there will be two events — the Amateur Champion- ship, 150 targets, unknown angles, $T5 entrance, targets included, 18 yards rise, high guns, gioo added. Moneys to be determined by num- ber of entries. Winner will receive in addition to first money a hand- some trophy, presented by the In- terstate Association. The Professional Championship, open to professionals only, 150 targets, unknown angles, $15 en- trance, iS yards rise, high guns, S50 added to the purse. Moneys figured on the number of entries. A trophy from the Interstate Association will go to the winner. Five automatic traps will be used during the tournament, tar- gets will cost 2 cents apiece. The purse in the first day's events" will be divided on the Rose system, 8-5-3-2- The Interstate Association will add a total of $1000 to the purses, . (S350 of which is reserved for the purchase of trophies). Five different events will be shot off at the same time, one res- pectively at each trap. The total number of contestants will be divided into five sections, and a section will be started at the same time at each trap. After all mem- bers of each section have finished at their particular trap, they will pass on to the next trap, shoot there, and so on until tbey have shot at each trap. This arrange- ment will do away with a squad shooting 100 targets "off the reel" right down the line of five traps. Yet a true equity will be maintain- ed, as each contestant will com- pete alike in each particular event. In the handicap events the ties will be shot off at 20 targets, or- iginal distances will prevail. Mr. Fred C. Whitney of Des Moines, fowa, through the courtesy of the Winchester Arms Company, will have charge of the cashier's office. Mr. Whitney has few equals and no superiors in this position. Mr. J. K. Starr, of Philadelphia, who for the past six seasons has officiated most satisafctorily will act as compiler of scores. For further information address Elmer E. Shaner, secretary-man- ager The Interstate Association, 219 Coltart Square, Pittsburg, Pa. The Pacific Coast Trap Shooters tournament, it is also rurnored: may be pulled off at Vallejo later this season. There will be an effort made, it is rumored, to have the Pacific Coast Intrestate Association shoot . take place at Los Angeles instead of at Ingleside Park, San Fran- cisco, as first programmed. Not the least important among the rnauffold losses of the city sportsmen v, as the destruction by fire of a majority of the cups, trophies and medals our shooters have contested for ever since the sport of trap shooting has been in vogue in San Francisco. We would like to hear from shooters relative to the fate of any trophies — whether lost or saved, that may be ascertained. Secretary Chas. Heffeman of the Stockton Kennel Club, writes us that the club propose to hold a show October irth 12th and 13th. The enthusiasm among the tule laud fanciers is strong and a show in October will draw a big entry list. This territory has recently been well fertilized for bench shows and there is no reason why a good crop of "one dog men" — - the main support of shows, should not be cultivated to a pleasing degree. Since the last Stockton show, a new building, in which a show can be held, has been erected. This hall will readily bench 500 dogs, and the Stockton club will try to fill eveiy bench at their next show. The Portland premuim list gives a classification for 30r classes. Entry fe"S are S2.00 for each dog and $1.50 for each additional entry. The regular awards will be a silver medal to first, bronze medal to sceoud and diploma to third. Handlers prizes are announced, $20 for largest string from Cali- fornia, Washington and British Columbia. The officers of the club are J. Westley Ladd, president; Dr. E. F. Tucker, vice-president; Henry Ladd Corbett, treasurer; Frank E. Watkius (250 Alder street, Portland Or.,) secretary. Directors: H. Bergen, Jr., W. B. Fechheimer, Dr. J. C. Zan and Frank E. Wat- kins. Beuch show committee: H. L. Corbett, W. B. Fechheimer and Dr. Zan. Vetemary surgeon Dr. S. J. Carney. We have heard a rumor to the effect that it has been advocated to disorganize the San Fraucicso KennPl Club and go out of bus- iness. The club is composed of a membership of five and basso it is reported, over $2000 in the club treasury. Such action if con- templated after the support of the coast fancy, the general public and the press, for several years past, which has resulted in placing the club "on its feet," is most unexpected. ft was argued by one of the club members, whom we met last week, "That the dogs are all gone from here now and its no use giving a show. We would lose money by it. We can't give a show for several years. I've given my dogs away. We couldn't get dogs down here from the north or from Los Angeles or anywhere else, so we might just as well give it up.' ' If this is the general sentiment of the five club members (and we doubt it sincerely) the sooner the club disbands and divides the funds the better for coast dogdom, for this will give other and staun- cher fanciers a chance. So far as a show for this city, is concerned we do not believe it would be a hard matter to arrange with the Chutes for instance, for the tenth annual show of the San Francisco Kennel Club. It would not cost the club a losing sum of money, nor would it be necessary, with all due respect, to send 5000 or more miles for a judge. The controlling interest of the Chutes could be approached, we believe, favorably by a prominent young financier who has always been an earnest advocate and supporter of both club and specialty shows and who has also successfully promoted the initial one day open air coast shows. This later suggestion emanated from a prominent Cocker fancier and exhibitor and is heartily en- dorsed by a number of fanciers whom we have met and conversed with the past week. The project is not surrounded with so man}' difficulties that the San Francisco Kennel Club should peremptorily dismiss the opportun- ity to be "dead game sports." The Boston Terriers at the re- cent Los Angeles show entered by Col. J. W. Brooks' Ascot kennels proved a great surprise to Eastern visitors and were highly praised by fanciers who attended the show. The Colonel 'has some twenty-three Bostons in his kennels, among them Ch Bayside Chauncey, My- stic Spider, Endcliffe Quaker, Endcliffe Dictator, Jersey Lilly, Ascot Ramona and others, dogs that will win ribbons in any com- pany. Acme Rocky, his first im- portation from the East is still the Colonel's favorite pal. Ascot Kennels won eight special cups at the recent show. The angler sallies forth again, And by the brooklet's shore, Doth idly lie and fish and then Goes home and lies some more. r THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN A. L. Cresswell's cocker bitch Ch Plumeria Sally recently whelped six puppies (three dogs) to Ch Mepals Saxon. The litter is as nice a lot of solid black cocker puppies as one would like to see. Sally is in fine fettle and supple- ments a grand bench career by be- ing a brood bitch of exceeding merit. T. M. Stateler's good Cocker btch is heavy in whelp to D. P. Cresswell's Ch Mepals Saxon. Dr. E. R. Bryant recently bought a fine brindle bull dog puppy from T. M. Stateler. We met George Jackson, E. A. Mocker and Jas. Watt one after- noon this week. The genial G. A. has opened up the Napa Soda business on Golden Gate aveune near Franklin Street. We tried a bottle — the first in many days. Ye Gods! but it was- nectar and went to the right spot. Mocker, besides his own losses, we regret to slate had the bad luck to lose all of the records of the California State Game and Fish Association. He was full of good spirits as usual and is planning a July trip to Truckee. The affable Mr. Jas. Watt has indulged in striped bass and trout fishing recently. Last Sunday there was a flotilla of about 20 boats out in San Leandro bay. Al Wilson, Frank Dolliver, Baxter and a number of other refugees were among the anglers out. Chas. Briedenstein and Jas. Watt will have another try at the bass tomorrow. SttjpeS bass are not yet running in large size but the attraction to the various resorts is as strong as of yore. Sad sight to see some of the boys who used to take a par- donable pride in having tue best tackle they could get now using any old Jim Crow rod and line. "Ole Bill" Richards is another staunch irrepressible, on a trip over to the Tamalpais Club pre- serve in Marin county a week ago. Bill lauded 50 fish. 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TROTTING STAKE fer FOALS of 1905. To he trotted at the California State Fair of 1908. ENTRIES TO CLOSE JUNE 1st, 1906. With J. A. Filcher, Secretary, at the office in Sacramento. Fiftv dollars entrance, of which 55 must accompany nomination, June 1, 1906; $5 Nov. 1, 1906, J10 Jnne 1, 1907: $10 June 1, 1908. and $20 on the tenth day before the first day of the State Fair of 190S. $300 added by the Society. Mile heat6, three in five, to harness. The stakes and" added money to be divided 50, 26, 15 and 10 per cent. Right reserved to declare two starters a walkover. When only two start tbey may contestior the entrance money paid in, to be divided 66% per cent to the winner, and 33} £ per e^ent to the second horse. A horse distancing the field will be entitled to first money only. In no case will a horse be entitled to more than one money. A horse -not winning a heat in the first three shall not ata t fot the forth heat unless said horse shall have made a deaa heat; but horses so ruled out shall have a right to share in the prize ac- cording to their rank in the summary at the close of their last heat. Nominators are not held for full amount of entrance in case colt goes wrong; only forfeit the payments made, which relieves you from further responsibility and declares entry out. ' The stake is growing in value each year; every breeder should enter In it; it will ENHANCE THE VALUE OF HIS COLT in case he desires to sell. Your colt entered in the OCCIDENT STAKE FOR 1908 Is eligible for entry in this stake. Remember the date of closing is JUNE 1st, 1906. J. A. FILCHER, Secretary. THE HOUGHTON SULKY CO. Highest Claee Lin© of Road and Speed Carts Carried In Stook. Weight 42 to 65 Lbs. Sulkies-Regular and Made to Order " 2© to 3S l_DS. SEE OUR SPEEDY WAGONS Prices Always Right Ofl/j Francisco Vvheel ana ^Jsouettt/ (company 3739 J7tk 0£, •Jan Zrnanciseo. IfieylicKIt As t&ey want it. COMPRESSED'':. ' PURE-SALT BRICKS •n PATENT FEEDERS. — The sane: economical, handy \ way of salting animals. \ Ask Dealers. Write us for Booh. BELMONT ME 5UPPIY(D. PATENTEES MANUFACTURERS- BROOKJ-YN.N.Y. JERSEYS, HOLSTEIN8 AND DURHAM8.- Dalry Stocfc Bpeclaltr. Hogs, Poultry. Esub- litht'd 1676. William J>iles & Co., Los Angeles Cal. (F KINNEY LOU 2:07 =^ 4s= J) The Fastest Trotting Son of the Champion Sire Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWRENCE STOCK FARM One Mile East of Lawrence Station, and Six Miles from San Jose. Terms $lOO. $50 due when mare is brad and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. For further information, pedigree and description address Phone: SUBCBBAN 499 BUD" DOBLE, Jan Jose, Cal, SAN JOSE, CAL, THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN €V^ We solicit Subscribers We want Correspondents 5^> We Want Your ADVERTISING New office of the Breeder and Sportsman 709 VanNess Avenue San Francisco Before July 1st will Resume Publication in same form as before the Fire && <£ 10 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN RE-OPENED STAKES FOR TWO YEAR OLDS OSered by the California State Agricultnral Society to be contested at the California State Fair 1906 ENTRIES TO CLOSE JUNE 1. 1906 1V1 f C rh« A. B. Spreckles Stake, $1000 OlO. I 1 For Two Year Old Trotters. |WJ r-v f The Ben Rush Stake, 11000 l^O. (^ j For Two Year Old Pacers. Entrance payable as follows: $20 on June 1st, 1906, $20 additional If not declared out on or be- fore July 2, 19Wj,'and $10 additional If not delared out on or before August 1st, 1906. Declarations no declare out) must be mailed to the Secretary and will not be accepted unless accompanied by the amount due at time declaration ii made. Distance to be one hundred yards. Right reserved to reject auy or all entries. Five per cent of the amount of the stake will be deducted from each money won. The Board of Directors reserve the right to declare twc starters a walkover. When only two Alar' tbey must contest for the entrance money paid in, to be divided G&% per cent to the first and 88W per cent to the second. A horse distancing the field shall only be eu titled to first and fourth moneys, but in nooiher case will a horie be entitled to more than one money. The Board of Directors reserve the right to start auy heat after the fourth score, regardless of the position of the horses. 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 dap preceeding the race. Otherwise than is herein specified in these conditions, Rules of the National Trotting Associa- tion (of which this Association is u member) to govern. For entry blanks and further information address the Secretary. J. A. FILCHER, Secretary State Agricultural Society Ben F. Rush, President Sacramento California BAYWOOD STUD THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Paebott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 (4291) Will serve a limited number of Approved Maree, Season 1 906 FEE, $7B. Reductionsmade for two or more mares. WALTER SEALY, Manager. THE STANDARD. BRED TROTTING STALLION RED McKINNEY By McKINNEY 2:11V£. Firit dam. Boxnie Red by Red Wilkes; seeond dam, Bonnie Bell by Almont 33; third dam, Alice Dbake by Alexander's Norman; fourth dam, Vily by Pilot Jr. 12. WILL MAKE SEABON OF 1906 AT THE CITY STABLES, TULARE, CAL. Fee 130, with return privileges. W. R. MURPHY, Owner JOE DALL, Manager. Constructoe 39569 By McKinney 2:11'4. Dam and Grandam Great Brood Mares Full Brother to TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Will Make the Season ol 1906 at Thomas Smith's Barn, Vallejo, Cal. SERVICE FE $25, with usual return privilege. For further particulars address JAS. A. SMITH, 1021 Giorgia St.. Vallejo, Cal. GEN. J. B. FRISBIE 4163T Sired by the great McKinney 2:11^, dam, the great broodmare Daisv 8. (Dam of Tom Smith 2:13^. General Vallejo 2 :22>i, Little Mac (3) 2:28, and Sweet Rosie 2:28*£, by McDonald Chief 3683. Terms, $20 for the Season; usual return privilege: Mambrino Chief Jr. 11622 Terms, $25 for the Season; usual return privileges. Good pasturage $3 per month. Both of the above Horsea THOMAS SMITH, at my Barn. 1921 Oiofcla St., Vallojo, Cal, ZOMBRO 2:11 GREATEST SON OF ^^^^^^^^ McKINNEY 2M 1i WILL MAKE THE SEASON OF 1906 AT LOS ANGELES, CAL. Fee. 3550 for tHe Season With usual return privilege provided I still own the horse and mare does not change ownership. Money due at time of service, or all bills paid before mare is taken away. ZOMBRO is sire of eleven standard performers. Ha« won more first prizes in the show ring than any California stallion, and his get have sold for more money during the past three years. He is the only horse living or dead that ever won forty heats in standard time as a three-year-old. AddresB GEO. T. BECKERS, 3948 F!j£ueroa St., Los Angeles, Cal. KINNEY WILKES 8irhdbyMcKINNEY2:1U£, sire of Sweet Marie 2:04%, Kinney Lou 2:07%, Charley Mac 2:07%, Hazel Kenney 2:09%, The Roman 2:09^, Dr. Book 2:10, Coney 2:02, China Maid 2:05%, Zolock 2:05%, You bet 2:07, Jennie Mac 2:09 etc. Fikst Dam, HAZEL WILKES 2:11%, a great race mare by Guy Wilkes 2:15%. ' Will make the Season at Leonard Station, SANTA CRUZ COUNTY Tee 5>,c5. For cards containing tabulated pedigree, etc., address JAMES T. LEONARD, Rural Delivery No 8, Watsonville, Cal. McKINNEY, 2:111 World s Leading Sire ol Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 Pees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2 00 per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 10 miles from Cuba. " fJta fortpbs (Hiig Jfemtts, new york THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 Sired bv the great McKINNEY 2:111^ — greatest sire of his age: dam, the great brood mare DAISY S. (dam of four in list). Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE $50 with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, WOODLAND, CAL. Mention this Journal when writ Re£. No. 81706 MONTEREY 2:09 1-4 (Sire of IRISH 2:08^, Fastest Kour-Year-Old Pacer of 1904) FEE, $50. 1TQ8EMITE g£5SFg£& Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA. REE, 325. For particulars call or address PfcRTER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. BON VOYAGE Champion 2 year-old Trotter of 1 904 Champion 3 year-old Stallion of 1 905 Two-year-old Record __ 2:15 Three-year-old Record 2 :12>£ Timed in a Raee .2:10,^ WINNER OF HARTFORD FUTURITY $8300 for 1905 BOOK FT-JLiI-i for 1906 HIGHLAND TRIAL 2:12 (at 4 Years Old) Bred at Highland Stock Farm, Dubuque, la. By EXPRES30 29199, son of Electioner 125; dam. ALPHA 2:24>a, Terms for the Season $25 Address all communications to TED HA YES, Manager' Pleasanton, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN it Du PONT SMOKELESS at the Iowa State Shoot, March 14-16, 1906 THE STATE CHAMPIONSHIP was won by Mr. F. A. Wmtherhead of Red Oak, la. FIR8T AMATEUR AVERAGE •wa« won by Mr. Lee R. Bark ley of Chicago. SECOND AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by Mi. H. (".. Dorton of Fonda, In., and the ABOVE NINETY PER CENT EXPERT' TROPHY was won by Mr. Charles Spenser, All these gentlemen of course used DU PONT SMOKELESS E. I. DUPONT COMPANY - Wilmington, Del. California Powdeu "Works, Agents Temporary Offlce, BERKELEY, eAL. i THE CHAMPIONSHIP OF j Iowa, Nebraska, Missouri and Kansas f at the Omaha tournament, f March 20 - 22, 1906 " was won by f MR. GEORGE W. MAXWELL r of Holstein, Neb., an amateur, r who used i "NEW SCMULTZE" J LAFLIN &. RAND POWER CO. A 170 Broadway, New York City California Powder "Works, Agents Temporary Office, Berkeley, Cal. $$$$«$$$$&£&«££$» ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. TTTliis feature, to- gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder, if We build everything from a featherweight 5%-pound 20-gauge gun to a 10)4- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. 1[Send for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12, 16 and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. ITHACA GUN CO. Pacific Coast Branch, Ithaca, N. Y. 2330 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Cal. 8 More Standard Performer Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion In California 8IDM00R 2:172 By SIDNEY 2:19 3-4 Dam MAMIE HARNEY by The Grand Moore Season 1 906 at Concord Race Track and at Pacheco. Campbell's Fodotorm 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. SCRATCHES, Blood Poisoned SORES \RRASR)NS of the SKIN it has no equal. I Its use will absolutely prevent B d ■Poisoning. In this respect there is no (Jail ICure offered which can justly even claim to be a competitor. We placed it on the Market relying wholly on it* merit of success, and notwithstanding the fact that comparatively lli t tie has been donn in the way of advertising, "the sales of 1900 were 100 per cent greater than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure pre- ceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20th CENTURY. It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under *he fet- lock which injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Keep It in their Stables PRICE: — 3 OZ. BOX 25c; 7 oz. BOX 50c; I LB. BOX, $1.00 Head our "ad" on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs.. W. 41 2 Madison St., Chicago, HI. Sold by all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. If not In stock aik them to write any Jobber for it. McKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05i C RE AT RACE HORSE AND PRODUCING SIRE Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion bv ZOLOCK 2:06^; dam GIPSEY, dam of Gazelle 2:121s, Delilah 2:14ij and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2 :14>£. Terms for the Season S25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05l BONALET (3) 2:09^, in winning race-World's Record for age and sex/ BONNIE ME (3), trail (rrotting) 2:11>£ (last half 1:03). Only two of Bonnie Direct's first crop prepared to race. IZALCO Fee $30.00 for Season Usual Return Privileges. Address : JOHN OTT, Pacheco, Cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE MORSE Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON World's Record Made in 1897 STAR POINTER i:59i The FasteBt, Gamest and Most Consistent Race Horse in Turf History. Service Fee - - $100 With t'tual Return Privilege CtlAS. De BYDEB, Manager Pleasanton, Cal. McKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTW OOD THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION UNIMAK 40956 By McKinskt; dam Twbnty-Thibd bv Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15J£) by Nutwood 600. Will Make (he Season ofWOO'at PALO ALTO, CAL. Address or apply to Terms, $40 for the Season. Capt. C H. WILLIAMS, To Close June 1st Box 151, PALO ALTO, CAL, Season of 1906 at Pleasanton — Fee $100 C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal £&" Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOO DILLON, by breeding to u&> GRECO BLACK COLT, Foaled 1900. Sire, McKINNEY 2:11J£. Dam, AILLEN 2:26J£1 by Anteeo 2:1a1,. Gramdam, LOU MILTON 1:58«, by Milton Medium 2:2sC He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares at .J/00 THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited, Address CHA5. De RYDER, Manager PLEASANTON, CAL, THE CHAMPION 5IBE OF EARLY AND EXTREME iPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 1 6J Sire GUY WILKES 2A2W Darn LIDA W 2:18^ by NUTWOOD 2:18>| NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the Nutwood Stock Farm, from Feb. I st to July I st. REE $eo. FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges. Send for Tabulated Pedigree. For further particulars apply or address: MARTIN CARTER , Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvinftton, Alameda Co., Cal. ID AM A I Tfl Qec 2-I-2' Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3-4 IRAN AL I U KCC 1~ Dam, ELAINE (4) 2:20 Will Make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND, CAL. F"ee S^^-O For further particulars address $20 due when marc is bred and H. S. HOGOBOOM, $20 payable when marc is known to be in foal, Woodland, Col, THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN J / I I ~ — J. A, Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Gal. Union Metallic Cartridge Co. REMINGTON SHOT GUNS E. E. DEAKE, Pacific Coast Manager Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET, CORNER OF LAGUNA, SAN FRANCISCO. CAL. f WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. MANUFACTURERS OF . , ^MM U"2>TITI02Sr, PLIFT_.ES JL1XTD SKOTOXJlsrS TEMPORARY OFFICE 1422 PARK AYENUE, ALAMEDA N V J PHIL. B. BEKEART CO., Inc. Temporary Office: 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor, Park Street, Alameda, Cal. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH \ 3 Reach 'Co., H. Werlemann, Ithaca Gun Co., Gray & Davis, Smith & WesBon, E. 0. Cook & Bro', Marlln Fire Arirm Co., Markham Air Rifle Co., Daisy Manufacturing Co,, Ideal Manufactur- ing Co., Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., Iver Johnson's Arms &, Cycle Works. Bridgeport Manu- facturing Co, These are the Brands of Smith Hammerless and Ejector Guns (Win GOLD MEDAL at the LEWIS & CLARK EXPOSITION) ALSO "HUNTER" ONE TRIGGER Selby Factory . . . Loaded Shells SEND FOR CATALOGUE Pacific, Challenge, Superior, Excelsior. Hunter Arms Co. Fulton, New York Send Orders to Smelting Works THE ONLY ABSOLUTELY RELIABLE VALLEJO JUNCTION CONTRA COSTA CO., CAL. the "old reliable" best can be m"ade has none its equal Spratts Dog Remedies Dog Biscuits JZ. Dog Soaps Coast Agency : 1324 Valencia Sl„ San Francisco. Cal. THOS. BANKS, Manager. Fred Coleman's .score of 47 Htralaht at live birds in England, ns Well as 24 out of 25 ut 31 yards, shown how the Parker Gun shoots, See another column in this paper showing his marvelous records. PARKER BROS. New Salesrooms: 32 Warren St. 32 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn, Breeder and Sportsman Vol. XLVII. No. 20 THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office : 709 Van Ness Avenoe, San Francisco P. O. Drawer 447 Terms— One Year $S; Six Months SI. 75: Three Months 51 BTRICTLY IN ADVANCE Monev should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to r W. Kklley, P. O. Drawer 447, San Francisco. California. Communications mu6t be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub ication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. Death of Joseph Cairn Simpson SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 2, 1906 On Sunday, May 27th, Joseph Cairn Simpson, doubtless the best known • writer on turf aSairs in America, died at his home in Oak- land aged 81 years. Mr. Simpson was born in Scotland, and moved with his parents to America while he was a mere youth, settling in Pennsylvania, where he learned surveying and followed that pro- fession. Ke removed with his family to New York, and about 1845 emigrated to Iowa, where he speculated in land and afterwards owned a large farm and engaged in the breeding of horses. After a residence of several years in Illinois, during which time Mr. Simpson was interested both in racing and and giving tace meet- ings, he went to New York and became one of the owners and editors of Turf Field and Farm, and was assocated with Col. S. D. Bruce in the compiling of the American Stud Book. He return- ed to Illinois in 1870, and four years later came to California, bringing the thoroughbred stal- lions Hock Hocking and Three Cheers, and the mares Lady Amanda and Marion, the later be- coming one of the most famous in brood mare history. He also brought the trotting stallion A. W. Richmond and the mare Columbine, the latter afterwards becoming the dam of Anteeo, which Mr. Simpson sold for $20,- 000 and Antevolo which brought $17,500. In 1882, in company with the late James Kerr and John White he established the Breeder and Sportsman, and was either editor or special writer on the paper until 1898. Few men have written as much about thoroughbreds and trotters as Mr. Simpson. He published before coming to California a book called Horse Portraiture, in which he set forth his ideas on breeding and training, and after coming here published another UDder the title nf "Tips and Toe Weights," which advanced some of bis peculiar theories on shoe- ing. Mr. Simpson aided in organ- izing the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association, and the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association. He also helped or- ganize the National Trotting Association and was the author of the rule prohibiting laying up heats known to many as the Simp- son rule. During the past forty years Mr. Simpson has been a regular contributor to the turf Papers of America writing on near- ly all subjects pertaining to the breeding and racing of both thor- oughbreds and trotters. He was an accomplished writer and a very earnest advocate of his opinions and theories. His newspaper tilts with John Wallace, Hamilton Busby and otheis will be recall- ed by readers of the turf press. For several }'ears prior to his death Mr. Simpson was a great sufferer from cancer of the face, and though compelled to use opiates to lull the dreadful pain his mind was remarkably clear until a day or two befoie his death. The funeral took place at Oak- land on Tuesday of this week and was under the auspices of Live Oak lodge of Masons. There was a large attendance of horse- men and others who had known the deceased through au eventful career, and who assembled to pay their respects to the memory of t'je dean of American turf writers. Mr. Simpson left a wife, and two married and one single daughter to mourn his loss. Mr. R. P. Lathrop, owner of that grandly bred horse Dictatus Medium, and one of the leading business men and progressive citizens of Hollister, was hard hit by the April earthquake. The quake threw down his two story brick building on the corner of 4th and San Benito streets in Hollister, the Grangers Union Building, a two story pressed brick building in which he was interested suffered damage to stock and goods of $40,000, and the Gas Works in which he is a stock- holder was also badly injured. Mr. Latbrop's loss will easily foot up $20,000, but he says as he has his health and experience he will pull up again. Oakwood Park Stock Farm. In a recent interview with Mr. Humphrey, who purchased the celebrated farm from Mr. John F. Boyd a few months ago. we learned that the telegraphic news regard- ing this place being turned into a summer resort was erroneous. Mr. Humphrey and his two brothers aie well known throughout the Midale West and Mexico as exten- sive breeders of cattle, horses and mules and have paid higher prices for pedigreed cattle as a firm than any other in America. The Ash- land Herefords which they owned in one of their large holdings in Missouri became celebrated for the number of prizes won at all the large stock exhibitions and from these many of the choicest Here- fords that head the leading stock farms in Texas and Mexico have descended. Two of the brothers were in Cal- ifornia during the late eaithquake, one at the Oakwood Park Farm where very little damage occurred; the other happened to be in the fifth stoiy of the Palace Hotel and after a most exciting time aiding in trying to extinguish the fire that finally destroyed that splendid building. He sent his trunk to some friend's place on Post street where he said be believed the fire burned it up as completely as if il had been left in the Palace. He left for Mexico where earthquakes are mote prevalent than in Califor- nia, last week. His brother says regarding the Oakwood Park Stock Farm that the breeding ol horses will be re- stricted to a few of the very choic- est trotters and pacers. There are a number of well bred horses there, grand individuals, which he will sell in the near future And from the reputation the horses from this farm have achieved in the past, there is no doubt that whoever buys any of these to be offered will never regret it- And it afford us pleasure to announce that this farm as the birthplace and training ground of so many record breakers will still be used for the same pur- pose and along the same lines es- tablished years ago which have proven so successful. Subscription $3.00 a Year From Great Falls Herman Johnson, of Great Falls, Montana, is one of the friends of the Breeder and Sportsman who has sent in the money for the paper since the luake. He states that Bob. Burris has Floy Direct 2:14^ by Direct Hal at the Great Falls track and also owns a two year old sired by Mr. Johnson's stallion Dire-tus J. This colt has been Jogged on the roads for four months and has not yet been on the track, but can show a 2:30 clip. Mr. Burris thinks be is the greatest colt ever foaled in the State of Montana. This is the first colt by DirectusJ ever trained. The mile track has been put in first class condition and is now ready to work horses. It is con- sidered one of the fastest tracks in Montana. Bob. Phillips has just bought Little Minister, 2:i4'4' Dv Byerly Abdallah, from Walter Hill, son of President Hill of the Great Northern Railway. LiUle Minister raced against some high class horses last year, among others The Broncho. Another of Harrison's helps A pair of well broken small horses are wanted, suitable to pull a buggy over a billy road. Apply at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. F. W. Kelley, Esq.. Sau Fran- cisco, Cal., Dear Sir — The First edition of the Breeder and Sportsman is before me, and I wish to congratulate you on your enterprise and wish you the best of success. I enclose you my cheque for a year's subscription and hope that every old subscriber will do like- wise, as after all, "it takes money to make the mare go " and I am quite sure this will apply to the re-establishing of your great jour- nal. I know that you have the brains and pluck and experience necessary, but in addition to lots of gr»y matter in the establishing of any business enterpise, patron- age and money are essential, and I sincerely hope that every old sub- scriber as well as many new ones will rally around you, while Phoenix like you are making a brave attempt to arise from your ashes. May the Breeder and Sportsman grow, flourish and continue to be in the future what it has always been — the best horse journal in existence. Yours very truly, C. A. HARRISON Victoria, B. C, May 22, 'ofi THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Motes an6 5tews \V. H. Button, veterinary of Santa Rosa, will accept our thanks lor several stallion pedigrees, and a generous offer to share with us some of his valuable reference books. Dr. Button was engaged in relief work at Santa Rosa after the quake and over-exerted himself so that he is now confined to the house. We hope he may have a speedy recovery. Dr. Button owns the stallion Dorcus D 42259 by St. Whips, dam Ialia, sister to Digi- talis 2:25*^ by Daly 2:15. Dorcus D has shown a trial of 2:17 and will be trained lor a race record this season. Wilber Feild Smith, of Sacra- mento, known to even' harness man in California writes us under date of May 26th offerijg us all the old volumes of the Year Books and Registers that are in his library, a generous offer which we greatly appreciate. He adds that all his catalogues and pamphlets were destroyed some time ago; that he had "a dray load, enough to reconstruct the Trotting and Running stud books, not to speak of rivaling Baron Munchausen and the Count of Monto Cristo. " Mr. Smith will please accept our sincere thanks for his offer. Stanford Stakes for foals 01" 1905 to be trotted in 1908, closes to-day. Send your entry to Secretary Filcher at Sacramento. The A. B. Spreckles stake for two year old trotters and the Ben Rush stake for two year old pacers close to-day. These stakes are for $1000 each. Enter with Secretary J. A. Filcher of the State Agricul- tural Society at Sacramento. Thos. Atchison, known to the readers of turf papers as "Broad Church" over which nom de plume he has wiitten for forty years, died at Memphis two weeks ago. Major B. J. Thomas, one of the leading breeders of thoroughbreds in Kentucky, died two weeks ago. He bred Himyar and Domino be- sides many other great ones. William G. Layng, formerly ed- itor of the Breeder and Sportsman, but in late years manager of the Occidental Horse Exchange in this City left this week for a visit to relatives in Philadelphia, ac- companied by his wife. En route Mr. Layjg will visit the big stock yards at Kansas City and Chicago. He e-xj cts to return to California inber 1. The Texas Fair Association annoucnces that the follow.'n^ stake events to close July 1 : For 2:24 trotters, $1,200; for 2:15 trotters, $ 1, 200; for 2:12 pacers, $1,200; for 2:25 pacers, $1,200; for 2:18 pacers, $1,200. A payment of $10 is required to nominate. Altogether tne Association offers $35,000. In adidtion to the above named events the association will offer a number of purses of good value for heat and dash races for harness horses. Sir Alberts. 2:03*4 has gone wrong again after a short season of work on the New York Speed- way. Martin Joosts' Steinway mare Presumption, foaled on the 12th of May a fine colt by Bonnie Direct 2'-°5lA- It will be either a black or a dark brown in color. All the Contra Costa county horsemen who have seen the colt pronounce him a fine individual, and predict a great future for him. Mr. H. T. Owen of Kern, Cali- fornia, is the owner of a very pro- mising filly called Irene Ayers, that is by Iris out of Babe by Alti- mont 985, consequently a full sis- ter to Jasper Ayers 2:09, and May Ayeis 2:23^. Mr. Jacob Brolliar, who haa been training this filly at Tulare says she improves every day he drives her and that she is a second Jasper Ayers for speed and gameness. Mr. Owen desires to sell this filly as he has not the time to devote to her. He owns het dam Babe, who will foal to Iris again in a few days and will be bred to Zorabro this year. The filly is two years old and is entered and paid up in the Stanford Stakes for 1907. She is a great prospect for a win- ner of the stake. See the adver- tisement in this issue. Easter Direct, the much touted green pacing mare by Direct 2:05}^, with a reputed trail of 2:o3?4, will hardly get to the races this year. She has wintered at Macon, Ga., by Ed. Mills, and threw out a splint not long ago, which made it necessary to fire her and throw her completely out of training. John Ott of Pacheco is having a successful season with his horse Sidmoor. He has received in- quiries from Modesto, Berkeley, Decoto, San Francisco, San Pablo and Santa Rosa concerning this great horse. It is possible that he may have to visit some of these towns with Sidmoor next year. C. X. Larrabee, owner of the Brook-Nook Rancbe, Home Park, Mont., has added the strongly Morgan-bred stallion Spokane, 2:15,^2, to his collection. Mr. Larrabee has also bought the brood-mare Lady Kane, by Spo- kane, 2:15^4, dam Ravelight, dam of Revel Kane 2:2414, by Revenue, 2:21^. The Manitoba government has passed a Horse Breeders' Protec- tion Act, which will protect breed- ers in the Canadian entries. It provides for the register of all stal- lions and the register must be printed on all bills and posters. B. F. Wellington Jr., of Stock- ton will please accept our thanks for several old sale catalogues for our new library which is slowly but surely growing. Mr. Well- ington also sends us a photo of a very handsome six weeks old colt by Lecco 2:0934 out of the Palo Alto bred mare Clarette by Azruoor, second dam Clairionetti by Dexter Prince, third dam Clarion by Ausel, fourth dam by Dictator, fifth dam by Normau 25, and sixth dam by Mambriuo Chief. This is one of the best bred colts in America. In a letter enclosing a cheque for his subscription to the Breeder and Sportsman, Dr. J. H. Wagner of Selma states that his mare Bell Ayers, own sister to Jasper Ayers 2:09 and May Ayers 2:2£}4, foaled a dark brown or black colt by Robert Direct on June 29th this year. This colt the Doctor has entered in Breeders Futurity No. 6, and states that it is a very likely youngster. He is breeding Jaspine Ayers, dam of Jaspine 2:14^ to Robert Direct this season, and expects the resultant ioal to be a high calss one, as all of Jas- pine Ayers' foals are ver3' racy. His two year old colt Don Gentry by John R. Gentry 2:00^, dam the Donna Inez, dam of Vena Inez 2:20^ by Stranger, is devel- oping into a large fine looking colt that is almost the exact counterpart of his famous sire that should be a great horse some day if looks and actions count for any- thing. Mr. S. C. Walton of Fresno is working this colt and recently drove him a half mile in 1:17, which is good considering the very limited training the two vear old has received. He is entered in the Breeders Futurity and will race this summer. Don Gentry has repeatedly shown eights in 17 seconds. He was two years old on the 20th of May. It is believed that all the stakes offered by the Oregon State Fair have filled. Secretary Durbin will send us the full list of entries this week. Burns and Waterhouse will send their yearlings to New York on July 10th to be sold at auction by the Fasig-Tiptou Company. There are over 30 head of grand looking and royally bred young- sters, by Altamax, Col. Wheeler, Eddie Jones, First Notice, Corri- gan, Lovdal, Maxnic and First Tenor. Sterling R. Holt has already sold several of the young Sidney Dillons he purchased in California. To Dr. Hendricks of Martinsville, Indiana, he sold the two year old stud cotl out of Stamboulita 2:27 by Stamboul; to J. F. Fulrner of Pittsburg he sold the four year old gelding out of Silver Eye by Abbotsford, and also the two year old out of Russie Russell by Bay Rose. All these will be developed for speed. Ted Hayes will race several of the hoises owned by W. A. Clark Jr., in Montana this year. He has some rare good ones and they are all in fine shape. Mr. C. L. Jones of Modesto went to Los Angeles last week and took in the matinee races there on the 23d.- He writes us that there were ten thousand peope at Agricultural Park to enjoy the sport. While there he saw W. J. Durfee work his five year old McKinney stallion Carlokin a mile in 2:14*4. Durfee has just begun to give Mr. Jones ' horse stiff work, and he will trot in 2:10 this year sure. His record of 2:20*4 as a three year old does not bar him from the biggest trot- ting stakes on the Grand Circuit, and if Carlokin goes east next year he will win his share of the money, as a gamer horse never lived. Mr. Jones has shipped Guy Walda McKinney to Mr. Durfee to be worked, and also sent Walda down to be Dred to Carlokin. Waldo's colt by Carlokin is an e :ceedingly handsome young- ster. The two-year-old colt by Nazote, 2:28*4, out of fjska, 2:2SJ4, dam of Lisonjero, 2:08*4, etc., owned by T. F. Adkin, of Rochester, N. Y., is spoken of as a promising futurity candidate. Zambia 2:1434, the mare by Cupid out of Gallata by Stamboul, that Mr. A. B. Spreckels sold at a Fasig-Tipton sale two years ago, is beating everything over the Boston speedway this year. It is stated that she has won every brush since the season opened. A rhestunt gelding by Dexter Pruce out of the dam of Zambia was bought at the Aptos Ranch sale in this city April roth by Mr. C. C. McCafferty for $500. Breeder and Sportsman Vol. XLVII. No. 20 THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office: 709 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco P. O. Drawer 447 Terms— One Year *3; Six Months ?1.75:T'hree Months *1 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Monev should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to t- W. Kklley, P. 0. Drawer 447. San Francisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub Ication, but as a private guarantee Of good faith. Death of Joseph Cairn Simpson SAN FRANCISCO. JUNE 2, 1906 On Sunday, May 27th, Joseph Cairn Simpson, doubtless the best known writer on turf aflairs in America, died at his home in Oak- land aged 8r years. Mr. Simpson was born in Scotland, and moved ■with his parents to America while he was a mere youth, settling in Pennsylvania, where he learned surveying and followed that pro- fession. Ke removed with his family to New York, and about 1845 emigrated to Iowa, where he speculated in land and afterwards owned a large farm and engaged in the breeding of horses. After a residence of several years in Illinois, during which time Mr. Simpson was interested both in racing and and giving lace meet- ings, he went to New York and became one of the owners and editors of Turf. Field and Farm, and was assocated with Col. S. D. Bruce in the compiling of the American Stud Book. He return- ed to Illinois in 1870, and four years later carre to California, bringing the thoroughbred stal- lions Hock Hocking and Three Cheers, and the mares Lady Amanda and Marion, the later be- coming one of the most famous in brood mare history. He also brought the trotting stallion A. W. Richmond and the mare Columbine, the latter afterwards becoming the dam of Anteeo, which Mr. Simpson sold for $20,- 000 and Antevolo which brought $17,500. In 1882, in company with the late James Kerr and John White be established the Breeder and Sportsman, and was either editor or special writer on the paper until 1898. Few men have written as much about thoroughbreds and trotters as Mr. Simpson. He published before coming to California a book called Horse Portraiture, in which he set forth his ideas on breeding and training, and after coming here published another under the title of "Tips and Toe Weights," which advanced some of his peculiar theories on shoe- ing. Mr. Simpson aided in organ- izing the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association, and the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association. He also helped or- ganize the National Trotting Association and was the author of the rule prohibiting laying up heats known to many as the Simp- son rule. During the past forty years Mr. Simpson has been a regular contributor to the turf Papers of America writing on near- ly all subjects pertaining to the breeding and racing of both thor- oughbreds and trotters. He was an accomplished writer and a very earnest advocate of his opinions and theories. His newspaper tilts with John Wallace, Hamilton Busby and others will be recall- ed by readers of the turf press. For several years prior to his death Mr. Simpson was a great sufferer from cancer of the face, and though compelled to use opiates to lull the dreadful pain his mind was remarkably clear until a day or two befoie his death. The funeral took place at Oak- land on Tuesday of this week and was under the auspices of Live Oak lodge of Masons. There was a large attendance of horse- men and others who had known the deceased through an eventful career, and who assembled to pay their respects to the memory of t'ae dean of American turf writers. Mr. Simpson left a wife, and two married and one single daughter to mourn his loss. Mr. R. P. Lathrop, owner of that grandly bred horse Dictatus Medium, and one of the leading business men and progressive citizens of Hollister, was hard hit by the April earthquake. The quake threw down his two story brick building on the corner of 4th and San Benito streets in Hollister, the Grangers Union Building, a two story pressed brick building in which he was interested suffered damage to stock and goods of $40,000, and the Gas Works in which he is a stock- holder was also badly injured. Mr. Latbrop's loss will easily foot up $20,000, but he says as he has his health aud experience he will pull up again. Oak wood Park Stock Farm. In a recent interview with Mr. Humphrey, who purchased the celebrated farm from Mr. John F. Boyd a few months ago, we learned that the telegraphic news regard- ing this place being turned into a summer resort was erroneous. Mr. Humphrey and his two brothers aie well known throughout the Midole West and Mexico as exten- sive breeders of cattle, horses and mules and have paid higher prices for pedigreed cattle as a firm than any other in America. The Ash- laud Herefords which they owned in one of their large holdings in Missouri became celebrated for the number of prizes won at all the large stock exhibitions and from these many of the choicest Here- fords that head the leading stock farms in Texas and Mexico have descended. Two of the brothers were in Cal- ifornia during the late earthquake, one at the Oakwcod Park Farm where very little damage occuired; the other happened to be in the fifth story of the Palace Hotel and after a most exciting time aiding in trying to extinguish the fire that finally destroyed that splendid building. He sent his trunk to some friend's place on Post street where be said he believed the fire burned it up as completely as if it had been left in the Palace. He left for Mexico where earthquakes are more prevalent than in Califor- nia, last week. His brother says regarding the Oakwood Park Stock Farm that the breeding of horses will be re- stricted to a few of the very choic- est trotters and pacers. There are a number of well bred horses there, grand individuals, which he will sell in the near future And from the reputation the horses from this farm have achieved in the past, there is no doubt that whoever buys any of these to be offered will never regret it- And it afford us pleasure to announce that this farm as the birthplace and training ground of so many record breakers will still be used for the same pur- pose and along the same lines es- tablished years ago which have proven so successful. Subscription $3.00 a Year From Great Falls Herman Johnson, of Great Falls, Montana, is one of the friends of the Breeder and Sportsman who has sent in tbe money for the paper since the juake. He states that Bob. Burris has Floy Direct 2:14^ by Direct Hal at the Great Falls track and also owns a two year old sired by Mr. Johnson's stallion Dire-tus J. This colt has been Jogged on the roads for four mouths and has not yet been on tbe track, but can show a 2:30 clip. Mr. Burris thinks he is the greatest colt ever foaled in the State of Montana. This is the first colt by DirectusJ ever trained. The mile track has been put in first class condition and is now ready to work horses. It is cou- sidered one of the fastest tracks in Montana. Bob. Phillips has just bought Little Minister, 2:14^ by Byerly Abdallab, from Walter Hill, son of President Hill of the Great Northern Railway. LiUle Minister raced against some high class horses last year, among others The Broncho. Another of Harrison's Helps A pair of well broken small borses are wanted, suitable to pull a buggy over a hilly road. Apply at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. F. W. Kelley, Esq., San Fran- cisco, Cal., Dear Sir — The First edition of the Breeder and Sportsman is before me, and I wish to congratulate you on your enterprise and wish you tbe best of success. I enclose you my cheque for a year's subscription and hope that every old subscriber will do like- wise, as after all, "it takes money to make the mare go " aud I am quite sure this will apply to the re-establishing of your great jour- nal. I know that you have the brains and pluck and experience necessary, but in addition to lots of gr-»y matter in the establishing of any business enterpise, patron- age and money are essential, and I sincerely hope that every old sub- scriber as well as many new ones will rally around you, while Phoenix like you are making a brave attempt to arise from your ashes. May the Breeder and Sportsman grow, flourish and continue to be in the future what it has always been — the best horse journal in existence. Yours very truly, C. A. HARRISON Victoria, B. C, May 22, 'ofi Breeder and Sportsman Vol. XLVII. No. 20 THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office : 709 Van Ness Avenoe, San Francisco P. O. Drawer 447 Terms-One Year fS; Six Months U.75: Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Monev should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to r IV. Kelley. P. O. Drawer 447, San Francisco. California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address. Dot necessarily for pub ication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. Death of Joseph Cairn Simpson SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 2, 1906 On Sundav, May 27th, Joseph Cairn Simpson, doubtless the best known writer on turf aSairs in America, died at his home in Oak- land aged 81 years. Mr. Simpson was born in Scotland, and moved with his parents to America while he was a mere youth, settling in Pennsylvania, where he learned surveying and followed that pro- fession. He removed with his iarnily to New York, and about 1845 emigrated to Iowa, where he speculated in land and afterwards owned a large farm and engaged in the breeding of horses. After a residence of several years in Illinois, during which time Mr. Simpson was interested both in racing and and giving lace meet- ings, he went to New York and became one of the owners and editors of Turf Field and Farm, and was assocated with Col. S. D. Bruce in the compiling of the American Stud Book. He return- ed to Illinois in 1870, and four years later came to California, bringing the thoroughbred stal- lions Hock Hocking and Three Cheers, and the mares Lady Amanda and Marion, the later be- coming one of the most famous in brood mare history. He also brought the trotting stallion A. W. Richmond and the mare Columbine, the latter afterwards becoming the dam of Anteeo, which Mr. Simpson sold for $20,- 000 and Antevolo which brought $17,500. In 1882, in company with the late James Kerr and John White he established the Breeder and Sportsman, and was either editor or special writer on the paper until 1898. Few men have written as much about thoroughbreds and trotters as Mr. Simpson. He published before coming to California a book called Horse Portraiture, in which he set forth his ideas on breeding and training, and after coming here published another under the title nf "Tips and Toe Weights," which advanced some of his peculiar theories on shoe- ing. Mr. Simpson aided in organ- izing the Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association, and the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Assoc-'ation. He also helped or- ganize the National Trotting Association and was the author of the rule prohibiting laying up heats known to many as the Simp- son rule. During the past forty years Mr. Simpson has been a regular contributor to the turf Papers of America writing on near- ly all subjects pertaining to the breeding and racing of both thor- oughbreds and trotters. He was an accomplished writer and a very earnest advocate of his opinions and theories. His newspaper tilts with John Wallace, Hamilton Busby and others will be recall- ed by readers of the turf press. For several years prior to his death Mr. Simpson was a great sufferer from cancer of the face, and though compelled to use opiates to lull the dreadful pain his mind was remarkably clear until a day or two befoie his death. The luneral took place at Oak- land on Tuesday of this week and was under the auspices of Live Oak lodge of Masons. There was a large attendance of horse- men and others who bad known the deceased through an eventful career, and who assembled to pay their respects to the memory of t be dean of American turf writers. Mr. Simpson left a wife, and two married and one single daughter to mourn his loss. Mr. R. P. Lathrop, owner of that grandly bred horse Dictatus Medium, and one of the leading business men and progressive citizens of Hollister, was hard hit by the April earthquake. The quake threw down his two story brick building on the corner of 4th and San Benito streets in Hollister, the Grangers Union Building, a two story pressed brick building in which he was interested suffered damage to stock and goods of $40,000, and the Gas Works in which he is a stock- holder was also badly injured. Mr. Lathrop's loss will easily foot up $20,000, but he says as he has his health and experience he will pull up again. Oakwood Park Stock Farm. In a recent interview with Mr. Humphrey, who purchased the celebrated farm from Mr. John F. Boyd a few months ago, we learned that the telegraphic news regard- ing this place being turned into a summer resort was erroneous. Mr. Humphrey and his two brothers aie well known throughout the Midole West and Mexico as exten- sive breeders of cattle, horses and mules and have paid higher prices for pedigreed cattle as a firm than any other in America. The Ash- laud Herefords which they owned in oue of their large holdings in Missouri became celebrated for the number of prizes won at all the large stock exhibitions and from these many of the choicest Here- fords that bead the leading stock farms in Texas and Mexico have descended. Two of the brothers were in Cal- ifornia during the late earthquake, one at the Oakwood Park Farm where very little damage occurred ; the other happened to be in the fifth story of the Palace Hotel and after a most exciting litre aiding in trying to extinguish the fire that finally destroyed that splendid building. He sent his trunk to some friend's place on Post street where he said he believed the fire burned it up as completely as if it had been left in the Palace. He left for Mexico where earthquakes are more prevalent than in Califor- nia, last week. His brother says regarding the Oakwood Park Stock Farm that the breeding ol horses will be re- stricted to a few of the very choic- est trotters and pacers. There are a number of well bred horses there, grand individuals, which he will sell in the near future And from the reputation the horses from this farm have achieved in the past, there is no doubt that whoever buys any of these to be offered will never regret it- And it afford us pleasure to announce that this farm as the birthplace and training ground of so many record breakers will still be used for the same pur- pose and along the same lines es- tablished years ago which have proven so successful. Subscription $3.00 a Year From Great Fells Herman Johnson, of Great Falls, Montana, is one of the friends of the Breeder and Sportsman who has sent in the money for the paper since the juake. He states that Bob. Burris has Floy Direct 2:i4'/4' by Direct Hal at the Great Falls track and also owns a two year old sired by Mr. Johnson's stallion Dire~tus J. This colt has been Jogged on the roads for four mouths and has not yet bpen on the track, but can show a 2:30 clip. Mr. Burris thinks he is the greatest colt ever foaled in the State of Montana. This is the first colt by Directus J ever trained. The mile track has been put in first class condition and is now ready to work horses. It is con- sidered one of the fastest tracks in Montana. Bob. Phillips has just bought Little Minister, 2:14^ by Byerly Abdallah, from Walter Hill, son of President Hill of the Great Northern Railway. Li'tle Minister raced against some high class horses last year, among others The Broncho. Another of Harrison's Helps A pair of well broken small horses are wanted, suitable to pnll a buggy over a hilly road. Apply at the office of the Breeder and Sportsman. F. W. Kelley, Esq., San Fran- cisco, Cal., Dear Sir — The First edition of the Breeder and Sportsman is before me, and I wish to congratulate you on your enterprise and wish you the best of success. I enclose you my cheque for a year's subscription and hope that every old subscriber will do like- wise, as after all, "it takes money to make the mare go " and I am quite sure this will apply to the re-establishing of your great jour- nal. I know that you have tbe brains and pluck and experience necessary, but in addition to lots of gr»y matter in the establishing of any business euterpise, patron- age and money are essential, and I sincerely hope that every old sub- scriber as well as many new ones will rally around you, while Phoenix like you are makiug a brave attempt to arise from your ashes. May the Breeder and Sportsman grow, flourish and continue to be in the future what it has always been — the best horse journal in existence. Yours very truly, C. A. HARRISON Victoria, B. C, May 22, 'ofi THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN s^* 5totes anb 5tews ^s W. H. Button, veterinary of Santa Rosa, will accept our thanks lor several stallion pedigrees, and a generous o9er to share with us some of bis valuable reference books. Dr. Button was engaged in relief work at Santa Rosa after the quake and over-exerted himself so that he is now confined to the house. We hope he may have a speedy recovery. Dr. Button owns the stallion Dorcus D 42259 by St. Whips, dam Ialia, sister to Digi- tails 2:25'2 by Daly 2:15. Dorcus D has shown a trial of 2:17 and ■will be trained lor a race record this season. Wilber Feild Smith, of Sacra- mento, known to every harness man in California writes us under date of May 26th offerijg ns all the old volumes of the Year Books and Registers that are in his library, a generous offer which we greatly appreciate. He adds that all his catalogues and pamphlets were destroyed some time ago; that he had "a dray load, enough to reconstruct the Trotting and Running stud books, not to speak of rivaling Baron Munchausen and the Count of Monto Cristo." Mr. Smith will please accept our sincere thanks for his offer. Stanford Stakes for foals of 1905 to be trotted in 1908, closes to-day. Send your entry to Secretary Filcher at Sacramento. The A. B. Spreckles stake for two year old trotters and the Ben Rush stake for two year old pacers close to-day. These stakes are for Siooo each. Enter with Secretary J. A. Filcher of the State Agricul- tural Society at Sacramento. Thos. Atchison, known to tbe readers of turf papers as "Broad Church" over which nom de plume be has wiitten for forty years, died at Memphis two weeks ago. Major B. J. Thomas, one of the leading breeders of thoroughbreds in Kentucky, died two weeks ago. He bred Himyar and Domino be- sides many other great ones. William G. Layng, formerly ed- itor of the Breeder and Sportsman, but in late years manager of the Occidental Horse Exchange in this City left this week for a visit to relatives in Philadelphia, ac- companied by bis wife. En route Mr. Layr.g will visit the big stock Is at Kansas City and Chicago. s to return to California iber 1. The Texas Fair Association annoucnces that the follow n.* stake events to close July r : For 2:24 trotters, $1,200; for 2:15 trotters, $1,200; for 2:12 pacers, $1,200; for 2:25 pacers, Si, 200; for 2 :iS pacers, $1,200. A payment of Sio is required to nominate. Altogether tbe Association offers $35,000. In adidtion to the above named events the association will offer a number of purses of good value for heat and dash races for harness horses. Sir Alberts. 2:03'^ has gone wrong again after a short season of work on the New York Speed- way. Martin Joosts' Steinway mare Presumption, foaled on the 12th of May a fine colt by Bonnie Direct 2:o5'4. It will be either a black or a dark brown in color. All the Contra Costa county horsemen who have seen the colt pronounce him a fine individual, and predict a oreat future for him. Mr. H. T. Owen of Kern, Cali- fornia, is the owner of a very pro- mising filly called Irene Ayers, that is by Iris out of Babe by Alti- mont 9S5, consequently a full sis- ter to Jasper Ayers 2:09, and May Ayeis 2:23^. Mr. Jacob Brolliar, who ha= been training this filly at Tulare says she improves every day he drives her and that she is a second Jasper Ayers for speed and gameness. Mr. Owen desires to sell this filly as he has not the time to devote to her. He owns her dam Babe, who will foal to Iris again in a few days and will be bred to Zombro this year. The filly is two years old and is entered and paid up in the Stanford Stakes for 1907. She is a great prospect for a win- ner of the stake. See the adver- tisement in this issue. Easter Direct, the much touted green pacing mare by Direct 2:05',;. with a reputed trail of 2:o3?4, will hardly get to the races this vear. She has wintered at Macon, Ga., by Ed. Mills, and threw out a splint not long ago, which made it necessary to fire her and throw her completely out of training. John Ott of Pacheco is having a successful seasou with his horse Sidmoor. He has received in- quiries from Modesto, Berkeley, Decoto, San Francisco, San Pablo and Santa Rosa concerning this great horse. It is possible that he may have to visit some of these towns with Sidmoor next year. C. X. Larrabee, owner of tbe Brook-Nook Ranche, Home Park, Mont, has added the strongly Morgan-bred stallion Spokane , 2\i$yi, to his collection. Mr. Larrabee has also bought tbe brood-mare Lady Kane, by Spo- kane, 2:1534, dam Raveligbt, dam of Revel Kane 2:2414, by Revenue, 2:21^. Tbe Manitoba government has passed a Horse Breeders' Protec- tion Act, which will protect breed- ers in the Canadian entries. It provides for the register of all stal- lions and tbe register must be printed on all bills and posters. B. F. Wellington Jr., of Stock- ton will please accept our thanks for several old sale catalogues for our new library which is slowty but surely growing. Mr. Well- ington also sends us a photo of a very handsome six weeks old colt by Lecco 2:0934 out of the Palo Alto bred mare Clarette by Azmoor, second dam Clairionetti by Dexter Prince, thiid dam Clarion by Ausel, fourth dam by Dictator, fifth dam by Normau 25, and sixth dam by Mambrino Chief. This is one of the best bred colts in America. In a letter enclosing a .cheque for his subscription to the Breeder and Sportsman, Dr. J. H. Wagner of Selma states that his mare Bell Ayers, own sister to Jasper Ayers 2:09 and May Ayers 2:2^^, foaled a dark brown or black colt by Robert Direct on June 29th this year. This colt the Doctor has entered in Breeders FuturitN- No. 6, and states that it is a very likely youngster. He is breeding Jaspine Ayers, dam of Jaspine 2:1434 to Robert Direct this season, and expects the resultant ioal to be a high calss one, as all of Jas- pine Ayers' foals are very racy. His two year old colt Don Gentry by John R. Gentry 2:00^, dam the Donna Inez, dam of Vena Inez 2:20^ by Stranger, is devel- oping into a large fine looking colt that is almost the exact counterpart of his famous sire that should be a great horse some day if looks and actions count for any- thing. Mr. S. C. Walton of Fresno is working this colt and recently drove him a half mile in 1:17, which is good considering the very limited trainiug the two vear old has received. He is entered in the Breeders Futurity and will race this summer. Don Gentry has repeatedly shown eights in 17 seconds. He was two years old on the 20th of May. It is believed that all the stakes offered by the Oregon- State Fair have filled. Secretary Durbin will send us the full list of entries this week. Burns and Waterhouse will send their yearlings to New York on July 10th to be sold at auction by the FasigTipton Company. There are over 30 head of grand looking and royally bred young- sters, by Altamax, Col. Wheeler, Eddie Jones, First Notice, Corri- gan, Lovdal, Maxnic and First Tenor. Sterling R. Holt has already sold several of the young Sidney Dillons be purchased in California. To Dr. Hendricks of Martinsville, Indiana, he sold the two yeai old stud cotl out of Stamboulita 2:27 by Stamboul; to J. F. Fulmer of Pittsburg he sold the four year old gelding out of Silver Eye by Abbotsford, and also the two year old out of Russie Russell by Bay Rose. All these will be developed for speed. Ted Hayes will race several of the hoises owned by W. A. Clark Jr., in Montana this year. He has some rare good ones and they are all in fine shape. Mr. C. L. Jones of Modesto went to Los Angeles last week and took in the matinee races there on the 23d. He writes us that there were ten thousand peope at Agricultural Park to enjoy the sport. While there he saw W. J. Durfee work his five year old McKinney stallion Carlokin a mile in 2:14^. Durfee has just begun to give Mr. Jones ' horse stiff work, and he will trot in 2:10 this year sure. His record of 2:20^ as a three year old does not bar him from the biggest trot- ting stakes on the Grand Circuit, and if Carlokin goes east next year he will win bis share of the money, as a gamer horse never lived. Mr. Jones has shipped Guy Walda McKinney to Mr. Durfee to be worked, and also sent Walda down to be Dred to Carlokin. Waldo's colt by Carlokin is an e cceedingly handsome 3'oung- ster. The two-year-old colt by Nazote, 2:28^1 out of Liska, 2:28^4, dam of Lisonjero, 2:08*4, etc., owned by T. F. Adkin, of Rochester, N. Y., is spoken of as a promising futurity candidate. Zambia 2:143+, the mare by Cupid out of Gallata by Stamboul, that Mr. A. B. Spreckels sold at a Fasig-Tipton sale two years ago, is beating everything over the Boston speedwiay this year. It is stated that she has won every brush since the season opened. A chestunt gelding by Dexter Pruce out of the dam of Zambia was bought at tbe Aptos Ranch sale in this city April 10th by Mr. C. C. McCafferty for S500. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN DU PONT SMOKELESS at Nashville. Term. May 15-17 THE SOUTHERN HANDICAP was won by- C. G. Spenser WHO BROKE 9S EX 100 from 20 Yards Mark FIRST AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by H. D. Freeman, of Atlanta, Ga. who broke 387 out of 400. THEY USED DU PONT SMOKELESS E. I. DUPONT COMPANY Wllmlngrton, Del. California Powher Works, Agents Temporary Office, BERKELEY, CAL. SOME LAFLIN AND RAND WINS Nashville, Tenu.. May 15-17 (Interstate Association's southern Handicap Tournament) FIRST GENERAL AVERAGE. Vlcksburg. Miss., 7-8 FIRST AND SECOND AMATEUR AVERAGES. Tulsa, I. T.. May 7-9 FIRST GENERAL AVERAGE. New London, la. May S-10 FIRST.SECOND and THIRD AMATEUR AVERAGES. Columbus, O., May 9-11 FIRST AND SECOND GENERAL AVERAGES. Infallible, New E. C. (Improved) and "NEW SCHULTZE" Make Good. LAFLIN & RAND POWdERCO 1TO Broadway, New York City California Powder Works, Agents Temporary Office, Berkeley, Cal. TOOMEY TWO=WtiEELERS GIVE BEST RESULTS FOR RACING AND TRAINING PURPOSES. Low Seat Racer Sulkies the Fastest and Best in the World Pneumatic Pole Carts for Team Work on both Road and Track Pneumatic & High Wheel Jog Carts for Road Use Send for latest Catalogue to S. TOOMEY & CO., canaLoh?o'eu:s.a. O'BRIEN & SONS, Coast Agents, Golden Gate Avenue and PoIU Street* SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. More Standard Performer Than Any Other SIDNEY Stallion In California SIDMOOR 2:l7i By SIDNEY 2:19 3-4 Dam MAMIE HARNEY by The Grand Moore Season 1 906 at Concord Race Track and at Pacheco. Fee $30.00 for Season Usual Return Privileges. Address : JOHN 0TT, Pacheco, Cal. WORLD'S CHAMPION RACE HORSE Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON STAR POINTER iS9i World's Record Made in 1897 The Fastest, Gamest and Most Consistent Race Horse in Turf History. Service Fee - - $100 With Usual Return Privilege CMAJS. De RYDER, Manager Pleasanton, Cal. Campbell's UToVorm 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, [SCRATCHES, Blood Poisoned S< »BE9 1 ABRASIONS of the SKIX it has no equal. Its use will absolutely prevent Blood Poisoning. In this reepect there is no Gall lOure offered which can justly even claim to ■ be a competitor. We placed it on the Market ■ relying wholly on its merit of success, and Inotwithstan ling the fact that comparatively [tittle baa been done in the way of advertising, Fthe sales of 1900 were 100 per cent greater than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure pre- ceding that vear. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20th CENTURY. It is a quick and sure care for those troublesome skin cracks under *he fet- lock which injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Keep It in their Stables -3 OZ. BOX 25c; 7 oz. BOX 50e.; I LB. BOX, McKINNEY DIRECTOR NUTWOOD THE STAXDARD-BRED TROTTING STALLION' UNIMAK 40956 Bv McKinn'ey; dam Twknty-Third bv Director 2:17; second dam Nettie Nutwood (dam of Hillsdale 2:15^) by Nutwood 1500. Will Make the Season of 1900 al PALO ALTO, CAL. Address or applv to Terms, $40 for the Season. Capt. C H. WILLIAMS, To Close June 1st Box 151, PALO ALTO, CAL. PRICE:- Read our ■ $1.00 on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs., W. 412 Madison St., Chicago, HI. Sold by all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. If Dot In stock ask them to write &ar Jobber for it. McKINNEY' S FASTEST ENTIRE SON ZOLOCK 2:05i GREAT RACE HORSE AND PRODUCING SIRE Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASANTON. CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion f r-J A f /^> /^V bv ZOLOCK 2:05K: dam GIPSEY, dam of Gazelle I J l\ I fl 8 1 2:12>2', Delilah 2:14^ and three more in the list. ■«-**■ **-* ^-* ^^ Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14>t. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05i BONALET (3) 2 :09J£, in winning race-World's Record for age and sex I BONNIE ME <3), trail (rrotting) 2:11^ (last half 1 :03). Only two uf Boxnib Direct's first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton -- fee $100 C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton, Cal tJG~ Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOO DILLON, by breeding to CJKto- GRECO BLACK COLT, Foaled 1900. Sire, McKINNEY 2:1114"'. Dam, AILLEN 2:26J£, bv Anteeo 2:16,^. Gramdam, LOU MILTON l:58& by Milton Medium 2:2".^,. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares at $100 THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address CHA5. De RYDER, Manager PLEASANTON, CAL, THE CHAMPION .SIRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 1 6i Sire GUY WILKES S Dam LI HA W 2:18W by NUTWOOD 2:18)| NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 al the Nutwood Stock Farm, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. REE ^SO. FOE THE SEASON, with thu usual return privileges, for Tabulated Pedigree. For further particulars apply or address: MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, [rvingtoct, AJzuneda Co., Cal. I DAM A I Tfl Rec 2-12' Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 8-4 KAN AL I U LC l ^: Dam, EtAINi 4 2:20 Will Make tl Season of 1 il WOODLAND, CAL. Ree S<3-o I-'nr further particulars addi $20 due when mare is bred and II. S. li.i. $20 payable when mare is known to be in foal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN — — J. A. Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Cal. &. The Trap or Hunting Outfit U. M. C. Ammunition Is made Perfect with this A Remington Shotgun E. E. DRAKE, Pacific Coast Manager Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET, CORNER OF LAGUNA, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TEN GAR LOADS OF GOODS ON THE WAY, ( WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. 1 L. TEMPORARY OFFICE 1422 PARK AYENUE, ALAMEDA j Smith! Hammerless and Ejector Guns ALSO HUNTERONETRIGGER WON GOLD MEDAL AT THE Lewis & Clark Exposition PHIL B. BEKEART CO., Inc. Temporary Office : 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor. Park Street, Alameda, Cal- PACIFIC COAST BRANCH A. J. Reach Co., H. Werlemann, Ithaca Gun Co., Grav & Davis, Smith & Wesson, E. C. Cook & Bro., Marlin Fire Arms Co., Markham Air Rifle Co., Daisv Manufacturing Co., Ideal Manufactur- ing Co., Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works, Bridgeport Manu- facturing Co. £$$*£$$&$$£££&$$&$£&$$$&&$£ Send for Catalog HUNTER ARMS CO. Fulton, ISI.Y. Spratts Dog Remedies Dog Biscuits Dog Soaps Coast Agency : 1324 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. THOS. BANKS, Manager. m ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. iThia feature, to- . gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double holt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. U"We build everything from a featherweight 5J4'-pound 20-gauge gun to a 10^- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. TfSend for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12. 16 and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. ITHACA GUN CO. - - Ithaca, N. Y. Pacific Coast Bkanch, 2330 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN — — J. A. Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Cal. The Trap or Hunting Outfit U. M. C. Ammunition Is made Perfect Combination E. E. DRAKE, Pacific Coast Manaeer Remington Shotgun Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET. CORNER OF LAGUNA, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TEN GAR LOADS OF GOODS ON THE WAY, WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. MANUFACTURERS OF J±l>/Ll>/LTJ2srTTT02X, iR-IFLES .AJJSTID SHOTGUNS TEMPORARY OFFICE 1422 PARK AYENUE, ALAMEDA Smith Hammerless and Ejector Guns PHIL B. BEKEART CO., Inc. Temporary Office : ALSO HUNTERONETRIGGER WON GOLD MEDAL AT THE Lewis & Clark Exposition 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor. Park Street, Alameda, PACIFIC COAST BRANCH Cal. A. J. Reach Co., H. Yverlemann, Ithaca Gun Co., Grav & Davis, Smith my Jobber for it. McKINNEY'S FASTEST ENTIRE SON LOCK 2:05i GREAT RACE HORSE AND PRODUCING SIRE Will Make the Season of 1906 at PLEASAXTOX, CAL. Terms for the Season, $75. Season starts February 1st and ends June 1st. Also, the Three-Year-Old Stallion by ZOLOCK 2:05K; dam GIPSEY, dam of Gazelle 2:12>2, Delilah 2:H>£ and three more in the list. Izalco is a full brother to Delilah (3) 2:14>s. Terms for the Season $25 HENRY DELANEY, Race Track, Pleasanton, Cal. BONNIE DIRECT (4) 2:05i BONALET (3) 2:09'.^, in winning race-World's Record for age and sex/ BOXXIE ME (3), trail (rrotting) 2:11>£ (last half 1 :03). Only two of Boxnik Direct's first crop prepared to race. Season of 1906 at Pleasanton -- fee $100 C. L. GRIFFITH, Pleasanton. Cal. IZALCO ' Get the Blood that Produced the Champions, SWEET MARIE and LOU DILLON, by breeding to GRECO BLACK COLT, Foaled 1900. Sire, McKIXXEY 2:11J£. Dam, AILLEX 2:26J& by Anteeo-2:16}£. Gramdam, LOU MILTON 1:58>£, by Milton Medium 2:25J£. He will be permitted to serve a limited number of mares at $100 THIS SEASON. Correspondence solicited. Address CHAS. De RYDER, Manager PLEASANTON, CAL, THE CHAMPION 5IRE OF EARLY AND EXTREME SPEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 1 6i Sire GUY WILKES 2:1J,.1 DamLIDA W 2:18k by NUTWOOD.... 2:18)i NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of L9C Nutwood Stock Farm, from Feb. I st to July I st. REE $SO. FOB THE SEASON, with the usual return privi Send for Tabulated Pedi For further particulars apply or address: MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock lr.,rm, Irvington, Alameda Co., Col. ISAM A I Til Rer 212' Sire, PALO ALTO 2:08 3-4 HAil AL I U KeC " 2 Dam, ELAINE <4> 2:20 Will Make the Season of 1906 al tt'Oi iDLAKD, CAL. F"ee 3^1.0 For furthei particulars >' ':■■•- $20 due tv hen i s is bred and II. S. HOG $20 payable when mare 1- known to be in foal. W THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN — — — J. A. Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Cal. The Trap or Hunting Outfit U. M. C. Ammunition e re A Reining Shotgun E. E. DRAKE, Pacific Coast Manager Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET, CORNER OF LAGUNA, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TEN GAR LOADS OF GOODS THE WAY. r WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. MANUFACTURERS OF j^i^nn^xjisriTioisr, rifles jlixid shotguns TEMPORARY OFFICE 1422 PARK AYENUE, ALAMEDA — ^ V. / Smith' Kammerless and Ejector Guns ALSO HUNTERONETRIGGER WON GOLD MEDAL AT THE Lewis & Clark Exposition PHIL E3. BEKEART CO., Inc. Temporary Office : 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor. Park Street, Alameda, Cal.. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH A. J. Reach Co., H. Werlemann, Ithaca Gun Co., Gray & Davis, Smith & Wesson, E. C. Cook &- Bro., Marlin Fire Arms Co., Markham Air Rifle Co., Daisy Manufacturing Co., Ideal Manufactur- ing Co., Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works, Bridgeport Manu- facturing Co. ^^«».%'iKIK^^^^^.H!i^^^^^!«^^^^%'^»(»£ Send for Catalogue HUNTER ARMS CO. Fulton, INLY. Spratts Dog Remedies Dog Biscuits Dog Soaps Coast Agency : 1324 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. THOS. BANKS, Manager. w m m m $ IE ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. irThis feature, to- gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. irWe build everything from a featherweight 5?4'-pound 20-gauge gun to a 103^- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. TTSend for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12, 16' and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. ITHACA GUN CO. - - Ithaca, N. Y. Pacific Coast Branch, 2330 Alameda Ave. , Alameda, Cal. m iS o^u e) (£ . t? ^T-^CjiJ e. Breeder and Sportsman Vol. XLVII. No. 21 THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office : 709 Van Xess Avenue, San Francisco Entered as Second Class Matter 8an Francisco Post Office. P- O. Drawer 447 Terms— One Year f.1; Six Months ?1.75: Three Months ?1 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Monev should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to i- W. Keli.ev, P. O. Drawer 447, San Francisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub ication, but a6 a private guarantee of good faith. The Biggest String in America Out at Palatine, twenty-five miles northwest of Chicago, Charles Dean is training the biggest stable of trotters and pacers ever trained in America, there being about sixty head in active training by Mr. Dean and his assistants. It is impossible to mention the lot, although in Iook- ing them over the admiration for the promising green ones has to be divided with the old campaign- ers with their sensational records. The Broncho 2:03^ is the fast- est of the lot, and although she has not been asked to step faster than a 2:10 clip, she does it in a ■way that betokens great things the coming season. Dorcas H 2:09^4 is looking fit as a fiddle, and if she does not meet with the run of bad luck she had lastyearwill be the 2:10 class sensation of 1906. Several in his string belong to the Uihleins of Milwaukee, most of them receiving their first lessons. The star of this division of the stable is Gramattan 2:nj4, the fastest four-year-old trotting filly somewhat erratic under the guid- ance of an amateur, but Dean has coaxed that all out of her, and she is a changed mare. He thinks she ■will beat 2:10 by a good big margin. Another of the most attractive ones is Dean's stable is a chestnut mare by Axtell, owned by Secre- tary Knight of the American Trotting Association. Shi looks and acts a great deal like her famous sire. Then theie is another, a six- year-old stallion, that is a trotter for sure, and that is Teddy Grattan, by Grattan 2:13. He is owned up at Menominee, Wis., by Paul C. Wilson. He is not only a sure trotter, but by far the best looking stallion in Dean's stable. He is a big, robust, strong young fellow that will take a fast mark at no very distant day — Palmer Clark. SAN FRANCISCO. JUNE 9, 1906 Riverside Driving Club Matinee There .was a big crowd at the Riverside track May 24th, when the local driving club pulled off an excellent program of races. The first race was won by Binder's Mein Kleiner in two straight heats; time 2:425-3 and 2:43 . J. T. Garner's White Stockings was a good second in both these heats, pushing the winner lo the wire. Otto Martin's Corbett and J. Hudson's Prince finished third and fourth , with J. A. Cole's Maybreake- scratched. Mein Kleiner, the winner is only a two-year-old, by Zolock, out of Mr. Binder's speedy big mare Femwood, and the little horse is making a promising show as a racer. The first prize was a pretty piece of cut glass, offered by I. S. Logan and the second a driving whip given by Jack Kenyon. One of the best races of the day was between Norda, owned by Prescott & Bonnell, and Lauretta, owned by W. A. Hayt. Norda took the first heat in 2:26, but broke badly in the sec-nd heat which Lauretta won in 2:32^. In the third heat Lauretta had a big lead till the stretch was reached, when Norda Degan gaining and in a great burst of speed landed first by a neck in 2:19. Norda won the first prize for the race, a hand- some horse cooler, presented by R. J. Welch; and the second prize, a fine lap duster, presented by Sheriff Coburn, was given to W. A. Hayt, owner of Lauretta. But the heat also made Norda and her driver, G. W. Bonnell, the win- ners of the special prizes — an elegant gentleman's scarf pin, offered by Robert Lee Bettner for the fastest mile driven by an own- er, and a beautiful stein, Dresented by John T. Garner and Eugene F. Binder, for the fastest mile driv- en by any member, whether owner or not. The 2:40 pace developed a sur- prise for F. A. Ramsey's Lady Nutford won in two straight heats in handsome style from Laura K., who holds two legs on the club cup in this class, andW. W. Wil- son's Ping Pong, who holds two other legs. The time was 2:3914 and 2:39. Ramsey's Zella Z. was scratched. Ping Pong was a good second in each beat, with Laura K. finishing last. The first prize in this event was five sacks of rolled barley, and the second prize a $3-5° Pa'r of shoes. G. H. Judd's The Trotter took two heats out of three in the 2:30 mixed, winning in 2:13 and 2:39; while the second heat was won by J. H Thomson's Concbita in 2:34. G. W. Prestoncott's Adalanta finished third, and John A. Cole's The Blonde was scratch- ed. All three beats were pretty races between j,he Trotter and Conchita, and the last beat was won only in the stretch by Judd's speedy gelding. The first prize was a $6 pair of shoes, and the second was four bales of choicest hay- Stanley McDougall's Pete made his appearance on the track after an extended absence, and the old fellow led the bunch a merry chase for two good heats, winning both in 2:35 and 2:37. Maurice Griffin's Baby and Beatty's Betty Raymond alternated in taking second honors, though the second prize went to Baby for the hot finish she pushed Pete to in the second heat. Pete won a safety razor for his owner, and the second prize was a fancy driving bridle. Oak Park Driving Club Sacramento, Cal., June 1st. Breeder and Sportsman : Your issue of May 2fith at hnnd, the first I have seen since the fire visited your City. I am pleased to have you on my table once more and I trust you are here to stay. Oak Park Driving Club is pros- pering and our last matinee, May 13th, was a decided success accord- ing tu the accounts of our esteemed dailies here. Didn't know you were in type, else I should have mailed you a account of the races. The Club put on a three minute class, a 2:40 and a 2:30 class and the Sacramento Driving Ciub pu t on a special race. Baby Knight, owned by Mr. Ira Woodworth, captured the blue ribbon in the three minute race, best time 2:42. Prince, owned by Charles Lewis was second, and Zwilka, owned by Howard Kerr, was third. Lady Silver Bow and Black Sid also started. In the 2:40 class Capt. Hackett was first Bess W. and Bell Madison dividing honors for seond place. Best time 2:3634'. In the 2:30 class J. M. was the winner, with Sir Carlton second after taking the first heat, and Daisy S. third. Best time 2:27^. Frank Wright's Dredge easily Subscription $3.00 a Year woo the special event in the good time of 2:23, This is a green trotter by James Madison and he was never in a race before. He will be heard from again this year as he will be raced in Califor- nia and up north. A large crowd in the grand stand and the infield liberaly patronized by people in stylish turnouts, gave the Agricultural Park grounds the appearance of a day in fair time. Our Club proposes to hold an- other matinee in June and the Sacramento Driving Club will also bold one in the near future. The track is in excellent condition and and steadily improving. A. K. KERR. The Draft Horse Will Stay An English writer in refering to growing demands there are here for good draft horses, sa\'s: •'Some fifty years ago when rail- ways were springing up in all directions, farmers became in many instances so discouraged, thinking that horses would be no longer needed, that breeding was quite neglected for a time until gradually it was discovered, in spite of steam, the horse was sitll needed, and breeding was taken up again with redoubled energy. For the past two or three years the motor has been the bete noir of horse breeders, but so far there does not seem the slightest pos- sible reason for this fear. "Farmers will always find the horse the most suitable means, the cheapest, for performing their work, simply because half a dozen horses can be in half a dozen places at the same time, whilst a six- horse power motor cannot be divided, neither can extra speed atone for this. Many operations on the farm can only be carried out at a limited speed, such as stacking and loading at harvest time — the same with manure cart- ing and numberless odd duties, and precisely the same applies to much of the work in the towns and at railway stations. Let breeders pay attention to the mating ol their mares, discard the bad and indifferent too, where possible, and especially the unsound, either sire or dam, and use only as much as possible those animals that can give similar good accounts for generations. si KIKE ! if they don't give you Jackson'a Napa Suda. * THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 5totes anb 5tew5 Among the numerous frenzied financiers who bave been offering suggestions through the San Fran- cisco and other papers as to the best manner to make receipts and ex- penditures of the State Government balance during the next two years, is a Rip Van Winkle of Cbico, who advises that the appropriations for district .'airs be cut off. As there have been no appropriations for these fairs for several 3'ears, the Chico expert who has just waked up should make another try at ar- ranging the State finance. It's a two to one bet tbat he has been asleep since the last State appropri- ation for district fairs was made and was only awakened by the earthquake. Al. Thomas has got a Mainsheet 2:0854 in fine form this spring. The spilut which lamed him last sea- sui was fired after the campaign closed and be goes perfectly sound. Irish 2 :oS 54, pacing, was gelded a few weeks ago and has been con- verted to the trot by Al. Thomas. He is a better gaited trotter than he was pacer. The three-year-old filly Trene Mac, 2:295-4 bv John A. McKerron 2:0434, woked in 2:23 at Cleve- and a few days go. Liska 2:2854", dam of Lisonjerro 2:08^, and others, is nursing a fine filly by the champion Cresceus 2:02^. The only two California horses entered in the $10,000 M. & M. this year are Brilliant Girl by James Madison, owned by J. de la Mon- tanya, and trained by Jack Curry, and Charley Belden by Lynwood VV., owned by Mart Rollins of Santa Rosa and trained by Cbas. DeRyder. T'jere are twenty-three entries all told. Chas. DeRyder has entered The Donna by Athadon and George Perry by Waldstein in the §5000 Chamber of Commerce stakes at Detroit. In the same stake Griffith and McConuell have named Bon- nie Steinway. There are thirteen entries in this stake. Joe Goss took his good green Sidmoor to Cleveland and will try to sell him. At the Down East Sale held -in Boston, the young stallion Codero, by Bingen sold for $5000, the top price of the sale. Thos. Law- son's stallion Dreamer 2:14*4 and Ponce de Leon 2:13 sold for $2025 and $-175 respectively. Custer, the Sidney' Dillon geld- ing owned by J. C, Adams of Pheonix, Arizona, is named in the 55000 Chamber of Comm»rce stake. VVoodin & Little, proprietors of the pump house where one can get any sort of pump from one of the little old fashioned Douglas type to the biggest centrifugal ever built, have leased a piece of property at 534 and 536 Mission street, and will put up a building to be ready for occupancy June 20th, when they will resume bus- iness on the old basis. They have a large shipment of goods on board steamers in the harbor and by rail, which will enable the firm to meet all the requirements of the trade. If you want a pump, pipe fittings, a gasoline engine, a tank or a windmill, address Woodin and Little for the next two weeks at 701 Scott street, and after that at their permanent address, 534-536 Mission Street, San Francisco. At the Blue Ribbon Sael, Direct- wood, 2:6j j4, sold for the top figure— $2100. He is by Direct 2:05^. Miss McKerron, a four- year-old by John. McKerron, sold for $410. A yearling by John A. McKerron brought $500, and a yearling by McKinney brought $350. Zomday by Zombro, a three-year-old, sold for $50. Leonora 2:1254 by Mendocino sold for ga$oo at the Down East Sale. Crown Prince 2:1354 by Dexter Prince out of Point Lace by Antevolo brought $3oo at the Down East sale. She was bred by Mr. A. B. Spreckles. Chas. Marvin owns a two-year- old filly by Wiggins out of Mr. Wv A. Clark's Bon Voyage 2:1254, that is trotting like as Stake win- ner, and worked a half in 1:17 last month. Trainers and owners are waiting for the announcement of programs by associations that are to com- prise the California circuit. If they don't come soon many horses will be turned out. Mr. Frank Kilpatrick, who pu r- chased and sent to New York the pacing mares Virginia 2:0954 and Gertie H. trial 2:i7^, also the trotter Jabbowok, has advertised them all for sale. Sweetheart, the Baywood mare owned by Mr. Boiton of Vallejo, was taken east by Farmer Bunch. Mr. H. T. Owen of Kern, Calif- ornia, had the great misfortune 10 loose a foal by Iris out of Babe by Altimont. The foal was a colt and a full brother to Jasper Avers 2:09. It was dead when foaled and the mare is in bad shape, but may recover. It was Mr. Owen's in- tention to breed her to Zombro this year. The filly Irene Ayers, sister to Jasper Ayers, which Jacob Brolliar is training for Mr. Owen is improving every day and' her trainer is certain she will make a very fast and high class race horse. The Maid of Del Norte, owned by Mr. C. A- Harrison of Victoria, B. C. is back home, after being bred to Star Pointer 1 :^9}i- Mr. Harrison has a good pacer by Mon- tana Director, and the roan American Hal colt tbat he pur- chased some time ago in Merced. The colt is being trained by John Sawyer at Portland and he is quite enthusiastic over him. He is a pacer and_ a smooth going one. Mr. Harrison writes that Red Seal 2:10 is doing a big stud sea- son at Seattle. His 6rst crop of colts are on the ground and are said to be good ones. Hal B. 2:04^ is at Portland and getting good mares and will be a great sire. Ted Hayes left for Montana last Friday with the following horses belonging to W. A. Clark Jr., which he will race this season over the Montana circuit: Miss Georgie 2:10-%, Electric Maiden 2:1354, Sally Lunn 2:2854% Centereye, Buck, Tertius, the year- ling filly by Highland called High- land Chiquita, Fussy B. by Stam B., and Miss Derby by Chas. Der- by. Bon Voyage was shipped to Los Angeles and will be taken east by trainer Gerrity who will race a string for Mr. Clark on the Grand Circuit. Both Highland and Bon Voyage made a very suc- cessful seasons at Pleasanton, several mares having been refused to the latter after April 15th when his book was full. C. L. Jones of Modesto, who is farming a big tract of land ihis year which requires all his atten- tion, wants to sell his McKinney five-year old stallion Carlokin 2:20^4 as a three year old and one of the best prospects for a 2:10 trotter in the country. Carlokin is a race horse, tried and proven as game at trotter as ever lived. He was one of the best winners of the California three year olds of 1904, and is one of the best ones ever sired by McKinney, whose service fee is now $500. Write to Mr. Jones about Carlokin if you want a high class stallion that can. win in any country. It is not ofetn a woman has the pleasure of riding a mile behind a horse in 2:r7j4, but that is what Mrs. Charles Whitehead did at the Salinas race track Tuesday, and she herself was the driver, „ays the Salinas Journal. Her favorite driving horse, Toppy 2:10, is be- ing prepared for the circuit and has- been driven by Mr. White- head in 2:145-2, the best mile the little pacer has been asked to do so far this season. Mrs. Whitehead thought she could drive Toppy in 2:20, but her leige lord thought she could'nt beat 2:30 with him. Hence he gave the sweet going little son of Delphi 2 : 1 2^ a couple ot warming up heats, and then Mrs. Whitehead took the reins and landed her mount- under the wire in 2:1754, covering the last quarter in 31 % seconds, a 2:0"? gait. Toppy went without a boot or any other rigging excepting har- ness, and pulled a racing cart at that. Charles Clancy, a well-known horseman and government con- tractor of Seattle, recently returned from a trip to Union county, Oregon where he shipped four carloads of horses for the use of the United States Army in the Philippines Mr. Clancy declares that the day of the range horse in Washington and Oregon has pass- ed, and that animals suitable for cavalry purposes are be coming fewer and fewer in the Northwest every year. "The ranges are being swept clear of good horses," said Mr. Clancy, "and it is now difficult to pick up a large band of animals having sufficient size and weight for the use of the govern- ment. The rules of inspection by the government officers are very rigid. There are very few bands of well-bred horses to be found either iu Eastern Oergon or Wash- ington. Indian ponies, or cayuses are not so scarce, but they are not suited to the needs of the govern- ment. The time has come when the Coast buyers are forced to go further east for their stocks, and this will continue as long as the present demand for sound and good-sized animals exist. Says Western Horsemen: Hon. S. R. Holt, owner 01 Sidney Dillon, is the "proper stuff" for a matinee club member. He neither waits for ideal race horse con- ditions, nor a "sure thing" for a winning in classification before he will start. He says to the racing committee: "Class me as well as you can, but put me on the card somewhere — anywhere — and I will start," and sche does. There are quite a few other gentlemen — members of the Indianapolis Club — who would help long the sport if they would emulate Mr, Holt's example. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN The Los Augeles Harness Horse Association met on the evening of June ist and elected new officers for the ensuing year as follows: President, C. A. Caufield; Vice President, E. J. Delory; Treasurer, L. J. Christopher; Secretary, Robt. A. Smith. The Board of Directors comprises these four and the following well known gentelmen: J. H. Bohon, G. A. Pouuder, Chas. Saddler, Dr. Wm. Dodge, and Byron Erkenbrecber. It is the intention of the association to give a four-days meeting during the month of July at Agricltural Park, Los Augeles, for which generous purses will be offered, and the date and program will be announced within a few clays. This Los Angeles association will open the California circuit for 1906. It is an energetic body of men and deserves the patronage of every harness horse owner in California. A horseman in alluding to the recent sale of fifty horses for $52,- 000 to a New York man, says breeders should take warning at this very rapid advance on prices as it is apt to have a tendency to cause indiscriminate and careless breeding- that will, in the end, bring loss and disaster, while if you will heed the warning and only breed and raise the best, forcing the survival of the fittest by the most rigid and careful selection and raise only such as are truly useful for the purpose for which they are intendea your profits will be great and your business a suc- cess. Prices must of necessity continue to advance for the next six or eight years if not longer, as comparatively few of the people begin to breed in earnest and at once, and if they did it would take six years to raise a five-year old horse. That picturesque Klondike character Swiftwater Bill is a little late in acheiving the very pinacle of fame but he has got there at last. Geo. Petringer of Pendleton, Oregon, has named a fast pacer after biin. Mr. S. U. Mitchell of Sacra- mento has had the misfortune to loose by death his very handosme and vaulable stallion Peter ]. by Statu B. The immediate cause of death was infljmtmtion of the bo- wels. Aside from the direct loss to Mr. Mitchell, which is a severe one, the loss to the public is even gearter as Peter J. was one of the most promising young sires in California. A program of racing events is being arranged for the 4th of July at Olive Park, Davisville. Three harness and one running event will be on the c d. Pleasanton is not deserted by any means, although many trainers have gone east with their strings and many horses have been turned out since the San Francisco fire. There are still at least a hundred horses being worked on the Pleasanton track however. The Tuscon, Arizona, Citizen of May 21st, contained the follow- ing: "Horsemen are commenting on the scarcity of horses through- out the Territory. They declare that the price of good horses has advanced about 50 per cent, in the last three years and ihat even at fancy prices it is difficult to get good horses. The scarcity prevails in all lines and it is a hard matter to find either a good riding, driving or draft horse. Nearly all horses here are native bred, and there ure many fine animals among them, but a large number are scrubs. A year ago a team of heavy draft horses could have been purchased for $350. Now it costs from $500 to $550 for a first-class dratt team. M. A. Locke, a prominent breed- er at Columbus, Irid., will train several head of good prospects this year, including his fast trotter King Do-Do by Chimes, dam Fregia 2:29^ by Egbert, a two year old stallion by Allandorf, and a fine looking yearling filly by Cresceus. The Government experiments in breeding a cross of the zebra and the mare have received a setback by the death of the zebra recently presented by King Menelik of Abyssinia. This fine animal did not relish captivity, and recently broke his neck trying to get through a wire fence at the zoological park in Washington, where he was confined. The De- partment of Agriculture, however, still has another zebra which will be used in the experiments. It is for the interest of every man win is breeding light - harness horse stock to have his animals registered, says the Horse Breeder. Tbe speed ability of the animals is not increased in tbe slightest de- gree fiom the fact that they are registered, but it is a guaranty that the animals are breed as lepresent- ed. It is not only for the interest of the owners of the animals that all stallions that are used as sires and all mares that are used for brood purposes be registered, hut it is for the interest of all who are breeding for the track or who are desirous of improving the speed and racing qualities of the light-harness stock of America. The State Fair track is in fine shape for training harness horses. Billy Dooley by Bay Bird, that took a trotting record of 2:i6yi last year, has been shifted to the pace and is being entered through the North Pacific circuit. He is owned by Mr. F. J. Ruhstaller of Sacramento. Schuyler Waltor will race the fast pacing mare Lady R. 2:11^ by Col. K. R R. through this State and Oregon this season. The Grand Circuit opens at Detroit July 23d. There will be no week of racing at Windsor this year as a curtain raiser to the Grand Circuit. The Eastern papers are saying that East View Maiden by Direct- um Kelly is the best trotter Mon- roe Salisbury has been identified with since he raced Directum 2:05^. Thirty thousand dollars has been Paid by Philadelphia horsemen within the past three months for 46 trotters and pacers, an average of $652 for each animal. The new speedway in the Quaker City has created an almost unprecedented demand for fast horses. The earthquake and fire in San Francisco destroyed so much property for owners who had trot- ters and pacers in training that they were compelled to economize and therefore ordered their horses turned out. But had there been a California circuit organized nearly all these horses would have been kept in training. The only early closing stake off'Ted by the Oregon Slate Fair that failed to fill was the 2:12 class trot. It will be re-opend. Californians who visit the Oregon State Fair this year will will have a chance to see many familiar faces when the races are called. The trainers from this State are wpII reperesented in the Salem entry lists. The Auslrian Trotting Derby was decided on May 13th. It is for four year-olds and was worth $8750 this year. There were seven starters, all by Ameircan bred sires, and all but one driven by American drivers. It was won by Levento by E. L. Robinson 2:17-4, driven by Andy McDowell. The distance was about two and one-sixteenth miles and tire time 4:49^2 broke the record for the race. Democracy 2 :07J^ may be pur- chased by a syndicate of Belling- ham, Washington, horsemen, who believe the sou of Happy Partner has a chance with, the free: for all pacers on any circuit.. Mr. R. E. de B. Lopez, former owner of the Meriwa Stock Farm, better known as the Valensin Farm, left this week for a visit to relatives in England. He was burned out by the San Francisco fire which followed the earthquake of April iSih. Sandy Smith has gone to Cleve- land where be will remain until the Grand Circuit opens at Detroit. There will be races at the Cm- cord, Contra Costa track on July 4th, and an excellent program is now being arranged for tbe occas- ion. The track is in fine sbape. R. O. Newman of Visalia, Calif- ornia, has bred his mare Daisy Basler, dam of Robert Direct to W. R. Murphy's stalliou Red Mc- Kinney. Jake Brolliar has sent Ethel Basler, dam of My Way 2:22 and Stonelita 2:155^, to be bred to Red McKinney. Ethel Basler and Daisy Basler are lull sisters. . Bernice, the chestnut filly, own. sister to Owyho 2:07^, that is in Sutherland & Cbadbourne's string, has been entered through the North Pacific circuit in a number of trottiug events. She is a good gaited trotter and very promising. Los Angeles will give a good meeting next month and will soon announce the program. Salinas and Hollister will both give harness meetings this year. The Breeders meeting at Wood- land will be one of the best ever held in the Sacramento valley. There are ten entries in the 2:10 pace to be decided at the Oregon State Fair this year, and six of them are from California. W. H. Gocher of Hartford, Conn, and Lewis J. Powers of Springfield Mass. respective secretary and treasurer of the National Trotting Association, were re-elected for a term of two years. There are 466 stalls in the bams within the inclosure of the Lex- ington, Ky.. track and 454 of them are occupied by horses in training. The New York Herald says that Geo. Spear's application for a li- cense tc train runners has been de- nied by the Jockey Club. Wentworth 2:04'.-, by Superior, had a narrow escape from perman- ent injury at Point Breeze track Philadelphia a lew days ago by- trotting over a spike harrow on the course. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN It would appear from govern- m2nt that the value of s hsa increased surprisingly during the past nine years. On January i, there 1897, there were 4,667 horses in the United Stales, and their estimated value at that time was ^452.694,396, the i»e value at this estimate being about $31.50 per head. On January 1, 1906, the total number of horses was 18,718,578, and their estimated value was $1,510,- 06, which is about $80.75 per head. Tbe ncing management of the Pennsylvania State Fair Association lirected the reopeniug of "the four ike races, the closing date of which has been advanced to May It is evident that owner M.' W. .-• intends to make an extended exhibition four with :>an Patch and Cresceas this fall. The stallions are booked to appear at tbe Allentown, Pa., fair this fall. It was there that Dao last fall set tbe world's pacing record over a balf-ndle coursa at 2:01. W. F. Matlcck and \V. H. Babb have bought from Geo. Drumhel- ler of Walla Walla the Lama Bros.' band of thoroughbred horses .: of 150 head says the Pendelton Tribune. Tbe price paid was S75 all around. This is the largest and best band of thor- oughbred horses in tbe northwest having been bred strictly to thor- oughbreds for upwards of forty years and bave produced manj' bigb class race horses among them Tom Benton, Grey Eagle, Bogus White Cloud, Maggie, Thomas, Bob Wade' and many others. This band of fine horses were shiDped from Pendleton about .May 15 'ier with some 700 others to rta where they will be sold in the open market. The Gold Cup Case Answer to Correspondents M. T. W.— The stallion Ira, sire of Iora 2:14'.-, Lou 2:14^ and others, was bred at Palo Alto 3 standard and i being 13,- 837. He i by Piedmont 2:17 I re lam of two in tli ,1 k Chief, and his gran. lain I.nura Keene, was by Hambletonian 10. Ira's i Is 2:24 ' _■. K. gelding called Old Nick look a re- ^3 trotting at Stockton in Electioneer out of S 1 Chi (tain 721. Ik- was I red by Robert F. ow. 1 ,. . The Memphis Trotting Associ- ation instituted proceedings in New York last February to take tbe Gold Cup from E. E. Smathers that had been awarded to Major Delraar in a contest with Lou Dillon at Memphis in October 1904, charging that it bad been won by fraud. A few days later Mr. Smathers filed a paper with tbe National Trotting Association denying tbe charge and demanding an investi- gation. The Memphis Associ- ation met the denial and demand of Mr. Smathers by reiterating the charge and also asking an investi- gation by tbe Board of Review. It was definitely under-tood by all parties that a hearing would be bad at tbe the following May meeting of the Board. When the case was called May 1, counsel for the MemphisAssocialioii asked for a continuance. They were re- quired to file an affidavit setting forth grounds for the motion, who the absent witnesses were, and what they expected to prove by them, and informed them that unless it was admitted that the witnesses if present could testify as counsel might claim in the affidvavit, the continuance would be granted. They were given until three o'clock that afternoon to prepare tbe paper,. When tbe time arrived they failed to submit an affidavit to sustain the motion for a con- tinuance. The Board then ovenuled the motion and set the case for hearing the following' Tuesday morning at ten o'clock. It was called a little later after tbe appointed time. Mr. Smathers was present with counsel and filed a sworn denial of the charges. Represent- atives of the Memphis Association did not attend or submit any proof. Tie case was therefore dismissed without prejudice. If Mr. Howe or his attorneys understood, a claimed, that the case was to be called at efeven o'clock instead of ten, tbe under- standing had no basis other than tbe public announcment in their hearing that it would be called at ten. When Mr. Smathers filed his application for an investigation I bad the fact communicated to persons interested in the prosecu- tion, and Mr. Howe came that evening for tbe purpose of taking a like positipn before the Board. He wrote bis charges and request for an investigation in my pres- ence-, signed the document and turned it over In me. Tbe move of Mr. Smathers was recognized by horsemen to-be righ and in conformity with the rules governing the race. It reminded the Memphis Association that tbe entire subject bad passed from its jurisdiction and that it was not in a position to do anything at that time but join tbe request for an investigation and do all it could to get the facts before the Board for its judgment. Messis. Parker, Hatch and Shee- ban, counsel for tbe Memphis Association, bave given out a state- ment in which they say, "General Tracy and Mr. Cloonan made ap- plication to the Board of Review for an adjournment fully expect- ing that in accordance with tbe promise of the President that an ad- journment wolud be granted." The President made no such pro- mise, he refused to fix a date for the trial earlier than the regular May meeting and all parties un- derstood that it would be set for a hearing then. It was not intimat- ed that a postponement would be asked for, nor were any promises of any kind asked or given. The power to grant continuances is vested in the Board and not in the President. The statement of counsel goes on to say, "Subsequently the Board . meets and directs Mr. Gocber, who is notoriously a friend of Mr. Smathers, to procure and present tbe evidence in tbe case." My information is that tbe alleged notorious friendship for Mr. Gocher for Mr. Smathers bad never existed, that they have a very slight acquaintance and there is alsolutely nothing upon which to base such an allegation. The order of the Board to Secretary Gocher was the usual procedure, and was rendered necessary by the failure of tbe Memphis Associ- ation to produce proof. From such premise they proceed to say: "The Board of Review may believe that in this way they can impiess the people with their fairness, they may bave some idea that by tactics of this sort they can either influence or forestall tbe action which is pending in the Supreme Court, but they will fail. The Memphis Trotting Association will not permit its hand to be forced prior to tbe Supreme Court hear- ing." It is to be regretted that counsel should feel at liberty to indulge in such gratuitous and offensive imputation, calculated only to in- jue where the truth is not known. Th- Board of Review has no desire to influence or forestall the action pending in the Supreme Court of New York. As I under- stand, counsel in that action claim the Gold Cup for the Memphis Association. They do well to fight shy of the Board with such a claim, ami will probably find that they have assumed too much in taking it to the courts. The trophyjjwas won by either Major Delmar o- Lou Dillon and is owned by either Mr. Smathers or Mr. Billings. The right, title and possession passed with the race from the Memphis Association. Tbe judges awarded the premium to Major Delmar. The Memphis Association can- not review any incident of the race and has no interest in tbe con- troversy that entitles it or its Secretary to be parties to tbe suit. The only power they have is to bring such violations of the rules coming to their knowledge, after the judges leave the stand, to the attention of the Board of Review, with all the proof to be had for its ji'dgment. If Majoi Delmar was not eligible to win, unless the threatened injunction intervenes, the race will go to Lou Dillon and the Gold Cup to Mr. Billings. P. P. JOHNSTON, Lexington, Ky., May 14, 1906. Detroit Entries Following are tbe entries re- ceived by the Detroit Association for the Merchants and Manufac- turers 2:24 trot and the Chamber ol Commerce 2:24 pace: M. and M.--I. Ormond. b h, by Wilkes Boy; R. H. Shokney, Kirkwood, Del. 2. Czarine Dawson, b m, by Czar; E. E. McCargo, Philadelphia. 3. Ken- neth Mac, br b, by Bobby Burns; Vance Nuckols, Cleveland. 4. Alice A., br m, by McAdams; Forest City Farm, Rardall, O 5. Frank Herdic, bl g, by Rex Princeton; J. C. Merrill, Lake, Miss. 6. Wau Actell, br g, by Actell; Dr. J. R. Williams, Carrollton, O. 7. Anita, ch m, by McEwen; F. B. Fisk, Mongomery, Ala. 8. Ben Axworthy, b g, b}' Axworthy; A. L. Thomas, Agt., Bensen, Neb, 9. Allie Jay, b m, by Jay Hawker; W. B. Cisolm, Cleveland. 10. Direata, b m, by Directum; W. H. McCarthy, Terre Haute. 11. Glendale, br g, by Ondale; T. W. Murphy, Glen Cove, L. I. 12. Ladie Babbie, g m, by Ansel Cheif;A. P. McDonald, Albany, N.Y. I3. Capt. Bacon b, by Bingen; Dr. J. w\ Day, Rochester, N. V. t4-i5. East View Maiden, bl m, by Directum Kelly and Ana Direct, bl ra, by Direct; East View Farm, East View, N. Y. 16. Madge Wildfire, b m, by Bert on; David .Shaw, Pittsburg. 17. Nickel Grattan, bl, by Grattan; Grattan Stock Farm, PararjeView, 111., 18. Delight, b m, by Allerton; J. H. Thayer, Lexing- ton, Ky. 19. Fashoda, b. ra, b5' Barondale; E. F. Geers, Memphis, Tenn. 20. J. N. Blakemore, bl g, by Bow Bells; W. O. Foote, Dallas, Texas. 21. Silver Band, b g, by Colonel Cochran; G.H. Estabrook, Denver. 22. Brilliant Girl, THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN id, y Jas. Madison; J. C. Curry, Pleasanton, Cal. 23. Charley Belden, br g, by Lynwood W. ; C. L. DeRyder, Pleasanton, Cal. Tbe C. of C. — 1. Tipko, b g, by Moko; R. H. Shockency, Kirk- wood, Del. 2. Laura Blellini, b r m, by Moquette, R. B. Wil- liams, Boston. 3,. Glen Patcben, b g, by Bourbon Patcben; Rouse and Hornaday, Eanville. 111. 4. Robinson b g, by C. P. Clay; H. H. Stambaugh, Voungstown, O. 5. Bonanza, b g by Alfonzo Vincent; A. L. Thomas, Agt, Benson, Neb. 6. Contractor, ro g, by Frea Wilkes; David Shaw, Pittsburg. 7. Rey del valle, g h, by Rey Direct; Ed Benyon, Lex- ington. 8. Ardelle, br m. by J. H. L. ; E. F. Geers, Memphis, Tenn. 9. Custer, cb g, by Sidney Dillon; Hotel Adams Farm Phoenix, Ariz. 10. Bonnie Stein- way; Griffith & McDowell Comiell Pleasanton, Cal. n. Miss Jones bl m by Bobby Burns; Willis Jones Mt. Sterling Or. 12-13. The Donna g m by Athadon and Geo. Perry b g by Waldstein; C. L. DeRyder Pleasanton, Cal- Humboldt County Norses Fortuna Beacon — The training season has opened at the Rohner- ville track. Landon Hunt the well known trainer of Eureka has engaged six stalls and will soou have bis string in preparation for the fall fairs. Among his horses is Uuo which has paced a trial mile in 2:15. a half in 1:05 and a quarter in 30 seconds. Bob Noble will have four this season Humboldt Dillon son of Sidney Dillon will be trained for a low record. Matt Zahner has half a dozen fast youngsters. With a Waldstein colt belonging to Tbos. Samuels of Rohner\ille he hopes to capture the two year-old stake at Ferndale this fall. Matt also has Anna Rey a four-year -old filly by Monterey Jr. out of Countess W. which he is polishing for a slow class. Patrick and Mizer have a string already on the Rohnerville ground in training for the fair. A three year-old Cassiar filly Eevelyn and a two-year-old colt Cassene are among them. Dr. Ring of Ferndale bas turned out his fast young Bonnie Direct filly California Maid for the sum- mer. The Doctor bas bis eye on the three-year-old stake at the Ferndale Fair. Wilson Elliott Jr. of Loleta had the rn is fortune to lose a fine filly last week — a full sister to the promising Evelyn. Dr. Lane is pleased with a cou- ple of Humboldt Dillon colts foal- ed last week. Howard Malone sent his Way- -aud W. Mare full sister to John A. 2:i224 aad Forest W. 2:14^ to be cared for by Paddy Rolley. She is due to foal to Cassiar. Owing to the fine promise of Evelyn and others Bill East finds Cassiar stock on the rise. Fred Swanger is now the owner of the Kramer mare and will breed her to Humboldt Dillon. With good blood on both sides he has a right to expect some fine progeny. Jas. Kelly has a very fine colt sired by Budd Doble's great borse Kinney Lou 2:07^. An exchange says; Wbile there is always a cbaoce for disagreement on the part of pedigree experts, it can be safely be said that the Mnko- Fanella colt which has just arrived is one of the most valuable foals that will be dropped this year. Fauella as a brood mare is in a class by heiself. Her daughter Sadie Mac 2:06%, was the seusaiional trotter of 1905, aud UQtil ber tragic deatb ac Hartford last fall, was looked upon as the com'ng cbampiou trotttr. She also produced Todd 2:14%, an extremely fast colt trotter and comiog sire. Moko is one of the very best sons of Baron Wilkes, and as sire of Futurity winners is perhaps the •fore- most sire iu the country to-day. The youugster by him out of Faoella should be a great colt trotter, a great campaigner, and later on a sire. Faoella will be sent to Patchen Wilkes Farm and bred to Peter the Great 2:09%, sire of Sadie Mac 2:06%. Some horses can be trained to per- form feats that are considered im- possible. According to W. D. Bohn, of Cable, Montana, Dick Chalmers, who has the contract for carryh g the mail between the head of Warm SpriDg Creek and Ramsey, bas devised a novel method of overcoming the difficutlies encountered by reason of deep snows. Mr. Chalmers has a horse which be has trainid to make the trip over too route daily. The animal has been fitted with snow- shoes, and these it bRd learned to use in such a mauoer that it can go over almost unfathomable drifts of snow without breaking through the crust or becoming mired. The horse seems to relish tbe innovation aud bas learned to carry the mail without tbe attendance of a driver, making the round trip daily. So successful bas been the experiment that other horses are to be trained iu the same way. In tbe State shoot at Austin, Texas, April 25, L. A. Dryden, of Waco, won the individual championship at live birds, killing 20 straight. M. E. Atcbiuson, of Giddiugs, and \V. Stith and C. D. Ellison killed 18. la the 10-bird shoot eveot George Tuebker, of Brenham and M. 10. Atkinson, of Giddiugs, tied witb perfeot scores. The seven-bird event was won by George Tucker, of Bren- ham witb a straight score. R. H. Connerly, of Austin, won the target championship of Texas at the State sthoot April 26, by breaking 50 straight, duplicating bis score of the first day, when he won the cup. Tbe State target championship was formerly held by M. E. Atkison of Giddings. W. J. Kenney, tbe bike man at 531 Valencia street (the same old stand) is up to his eyes in business. He has some Que road and speed carte that were Blightly scratched wbile being hauled to a place of' safety duriug tbe Are, but are just as gocd as ever with this exception. They will be sold at bargain prices. Robert Brown of Petaluma and J. Williams of Oakland got new road carts of Kenney this week. The statement made in a letter from Dixon printed in our last weeks issue that the stallion Alton paced "a half mile" on that track in 2:18 should have read "a full mile." The Dixon track is a half mile in circumference and at the time Alton made this trial bad not been watered for two mouths aud was qui:e rough. Tbe mile was probably as good as 2:12 over a first class track. Frank Neely, the well known Michigan reiusman, is working a good stable of horses at Brooklyn, Mich., including the pacer Joe Geucloe, 2:15%, by Lou Sutton; Jack M. 2:23% by Ada Wilkes, the trotting mare Busb Ronbo ; aud a green trotting mare that worked in 2:17 last fall. Anella, a full si-ter of Told, 2:14 \, foaled a filly on Marcch 22 by Baron Silver 2:25%, a sou of Baron Wilkes 2:18. Anella will be mated this season with Cocbato, a sen of Todd 21:4%. Anella is the property of .1. M. Johnson, president of the New England Breeder's Ass- ociation. The camel, mule and donkey 3re still the chief means of transportitou in Persia. Tbe loads tbey carry are as follows: Camel, 520 pounds; mules, 320 pounds; donkeys. 210 pounds, usually divided iu two pack- ages of equal weight for convenience of carriage. Tbe narrowness of the rnads iu some parts compels caravan meu to make the loads smaller thau the animals could carry uuder more convenieut circumstances. Trainer Boweu is jogging a fine lot of youngsters sired by Advertiser, aud Tommy Gregor, at the White. Hirer Stock Form, Manias, Ind., aud ail arH in the pink of eourlitiou. Adboo, a grand looking black stallion by advertiser, owned by the Farm, is thought to be a sure 2:10 trotter aud is as fine an individual as oue would care to look at. Drink Jackson's Napa Soda, II meuuE licaltli Articles of iueorporatiou have been drawn by a compauy to be kuu. the Illinois Trotting Association, with a capital stock of S50.000, aud with 5,000 shares at Slo per shave. The officers of the incorporation are J. A. Kincaid, president; M. L. Potts, vice president, and C. M. Williams secretary. It is the pur- pose of the company to lay out a half- rrile track to be located on the grounds of the Illinois State Zoo aud Amusement Company,- un North Eighth street. It is tbe iuteution to build a steel graud staud on the grounds with a seatiug capacity of 6,000 and barns for 210 horses. Qurarters for permanent trainers will also be installed, aud the equipments will be up to tbe stand- ard of all modern race courses. It is tbe intentiou of the company to offer good clean races to the public and to give the best facilities possible. Among other things a street car line will lie built direct to the park as soon as the fiack is iu shape and tbe best accommodations will be ottered. Mambrino Chief never sire! a pacer, his twenty-three sous sired ninety-six trotteis and no pacers, and his seventeen daughleis produced no pacers. At a meeting of tbe Muuice. Ind., driving Association, tbe following officers were elected : President, C. H. Anthony; Vice president, Joseph Hiutou; treasurer, B. C. Bowmau; superintendent, F. J. Claypool; secretary, M. S. Claypool. Dates for this year will be August 11-17. Good, liberal purses will be given in all of the races. The "pony pacer" Tom Tljumli, by Maple Bell, consigned to the Wash- ington Court House sale by M. Spellacy, Hocpedale, Ohio, whs pur- chased by O. 1''. Nagle, Lexington, Ky.,forSG00. He is 12 'j bauds high, weights less thau 500 pounds, has been miles iu 2:20 nud halves in 1:07':. Mr. Nagle will use him, giviug exhibitions tbi< year. John E. McCliutock, who formerly tiaiued the matinee horses of E. T. Woodward of Philadelphia, the trotters Temple Wilkes 2:103j and Gene D., 21 :'._.. has eugaged with a Russian geutlojiau as tiaiuer and driver. .Mr. McCiiuock has beeu commissioned by his uow employer to purchase se trotters and paoers to lake witli him. Carriage Oeam IFor Sale. Bays, about 7 ' . ■ icli,ivell broken single and d nible, good dri j, well luann 1 1 1 1 1 particul 11 - and i<> see team call "i- addre A. I,. SCOTT, Hillside Ave., Piedi THE BREEDER AND .SPORTSMAN Cole Stake Entries at Ferndale Calks on Light Shoes Mr. \V. B. Alford of Ferndale, sends us the following list ofenries to be trotted at the Ferndale Fair this year in September: Two year old? — Matthews and Hunt, names Sun- day by Timothy B. \V. J. East, names Cassene by Cassiar. D. L. Zahner, names May Mooch by Cassiar. . Ray Felt names two fillies. Joc. Mulleady names Sandy Rev and Kalrina, both by 1'oung Monterey. Jos. Long names a filly. Thos. Richardson names Teddy R, by Bean B. Samuels Bros, names Gelding by Caldslein. W. Elliott names Gelding by Cassiar. H. J. Ring names Maid of Cali- fornia by Eonnie Direct. Three Year Olds— Thos. Purcell names Lilly Gold- stein. W. B. Alford names Ulallie by McKinney. H. Cochran names J. D. W. J. Last names Eveline E. by Cassiar. Proposed Track For Areata The following from the Areata Uoiou of reoent date will prove interesting to horsemen: For some time past there has beeD talk of a home racing associtation for Areata and vicinity, and it looks now as if the matter might be successfully oarried out. The plao is to build a half mile track near town, and have it fully equipped with training stales, box stalls, etc , so that training could be carried un nearly the whole year round, and race meets held whenever occasion demanded. About three thousand dollars would be needed to successfully launch the project, aDd it is thought that the sum conld be raised among the horsemen and buslueas meu of this section. It is understood that Wm. J. East of Kobnerrille, would back the pro- position with a substantial sum, and make bis beadquarteis here as well. A number of Areata meu are driving ■ eedy steppers at the present, time, and have no place except the county road to try them out on. Blue Lake has been talking of a track, and Areata ought to get in flsrt, as two tracks In this end of the county would not pay. following is a partial list of those wbo have horses in training and wbo are Intereaticg in the movement: L. (i. barker, Herman Walil, E. Heaulieu, William Devlin, Knsmus Anderson, David .Miner, Nick llaugh, Everett Porter, Caleb IWihr.li Nixon, Win. Smith, J. Doleou and I. Minor, Jr. James Clark, the famous borse- shoer, who goes through the Grand Circuit every year and fits shoes to nearly all the trotting and pac- ing cracks, has written the follow- ing very interesting article for the Horsesboers Journal. "Most of the calks and rims that are used on the race horses today are made from three-sixteen- ths round machine steel, flattened out. I prefer to make my calks and rims from round material, as it leaves the edge of the calk next to the shoe oval, thus creating a small space on each side of the calk for the accommodation of the copper. When we desire to put on a veiy fine calk or rim it is cus- tomary to make them from one- eighth square cutlery steel. Make the calks and rims in the usual way, being particular to mate the "tip" small and fine, so that it will not be necessary to punch a large hole for its recep- tion in a light shoe. So much for the calks. I have tried several different kinds of so-called brazing com- positions, but I have failed to find anything that gives better satis- faction than pure copper and boiled borax. Boil the Borax thoroughly, then pulverize; get a spool of No. 14 copper wire, step around the corner to the five-cent counter and purchase a small steel wire brush and your brazing outSt is complete — at least for all ordinary purposes. We will suppose that you are doing a bar shoe job with set calks and a rim toe. Make the set, 01 heel calks, about one inch and a quarter long, possibly a trifle longer; make the rim toe about two and a half inches long; fit the shoe to the foot perfectly before you attempt to do any brazing; place the set calks about one-quar- ter of an inch from the heel of the shoe, placed also in the center of the web of shoe in such a manner that they are in direct line with the forward motion of the foot. You will find it necessary to punch a small hole for the reception of the tip on the calk, as it is so small that it cannot be driven in the usual way. After your calk is in position the shoe is supposed to be a dark cherry heat, spinkle borax on both sides of the calk and drop on a piece of copper wire the length of the calk and press down into the borax. Heat until the copper melts. When the copper begins to run remove from the fire, being careful to hold your shoe in such a position that the copper will settle in the angle of the calk and shoe. When the copper "sets" or begins to solidify, give the shoe a quick dip in the slack tub. This will raise all of the scales. Next comes the steel wire brush, with which you will qucikly clean up your work. Now, don't get funny and begin to pick at it with a hammer. If you do, you are more than liable to des- troy the lesion formed between the steel and copner and your work will count for naught. After your calks and rims are all brazed on lay the shoe aside and let it cool, then finish it up in an artistic manner, taking especial pains to file around the calks thoroughly. If you do not, you will find that the rough surface will collect clay and other substances forming a bunch on the heels ol the shoe, thus to a large extent destroying the oblject for which the calk is intended — preventing severe con- cussion by gradually sinking into a hard track. In brazing rim toes or side rims you may find it necessary, when the copper is melted to quickly slip the shoe into the vise and squeeze just enough to hold the rim tight on the shoe until the copper sets, or you can lay the shoe on the anvil and press down 0:1 the rim witb your hammer, being care- ful lo not get it out of position. In all cases you have your shoe fitted perfectly Before you braze on the calks, and don't hammer the shoe any more than is absolutely necessary to level it alter the braz- ing is done. When brazing on a long rim, don't try to do it all in one heat. You will find it is better to take two, and possibly three heats to make a perfect job. You may ask, "Why do you boil the borax?" Boiled borax will not ''curl up" and carry the copper out of place. A little experience and a few experiments along the lines suggested will convince you how simple and yet how important a thing is brazing. Oregon State Fair Entries Boston Work Horse Parade The fourth annual Work Horse parade was held in Boston on Me- morial Day, and proved to be, it is said, the biggest and finest show of horses ever seen in the United States. There were about 900 horses in line, including 45 sleek, wellpresreved veterans in the Old Horse Class. This was the best feature in the parade. Some of the drivers gave exhibitions of driving without reins which pleased, and it may he added, instructed the crowd. Dock-tailed horses were excluded, and also all that were not in good condition. The sole object of these parades is to better the condition of work horses, and to reward hu- mane drivers. The Mayor of the City was present, and fastened the blue ribbon to the bridles of a few special horses. The silver and bronze medals awarded to verteran drivers for long srevice were hand- ed to the recipients by young ladies in the reviewing stand. Lewis and Clark Stake, $2000, for 2:17 class trotters— Athasham, Hank Pius, Mayo, Senator H., Lady Jones, Lady Alfred, Milbrae, Marvin Wilkes, Wild Bell, Orna A., Kitty Clover, Pilot Lane, Red Skin, Satin Royal, Dredge— 16 entries- Farmers Stake, $000 for 2'2~i class trotters— Pius, Mayo, Ounita, Senator H., Black Diamond, Bessie Jones, Bernice, Monarch Medium, Jack Monroe, Doc Mundy, Packline, Poliot Lane, Francisco, Blacksmith, Georgie Chamberlain, U. N. I., Bonnie Tangent, Dredge— 18 entries. Greater Saleru Stake, $2000, for 2:15 class Pacers — Bosida, Duch- ess, Robert H., Dewey Ann, David St. Claire, Lady Julia, Adimont, McClosky, Wainwright, Nellie Mack, Rosa O'Moore, The Imp, Ben VV.. Amble W. , Captain Hall, Lord Lovelace, Remember, Bonnie M.,TeddyR., Billy Dooley, Swift- water Bill, Delilah, Altrim, Knicknack, Ruby H. — 24 entries. Merchants Stake, $iono, for 2:25 pacers— Captain John, Sunny Jim, Major Dell, Dr. J, Gen. Hertus. Malcatoon, Bonnie M., Teddy R., Swiftwater Bill, Phalto Norte, Altrim, Knick Knack, Ruby H., Bosida, McClosky Wainwright, Dick K, Nellie Mack, Lou Miller, Miss Jerusha, Rosa O'Moore, Top'sy T., King Atbby, Captain Hall— 23 entries. Rural Spirit Stake, $700 for 2:10 Pacers— Cuckoo, Lady R., John R. Conway Delilah, Ollie M., Bridal, Glenn, yinnie Mann, Adimout, Kelly Briggs — 10 entries. Oregon Stake — $400 for two year old trotters— Violin, Anody- mou, Rastus, Shamrock, Chehalem, Hops, Diablo Girl, Money Back, Hazel Wealth, Vingora — 10 entries. Inland Stakes, $500 for three year old trotters — Dallas Boy, Zou Etta, Bonnie Norte, Zella McB., Lady W., Sam G., Election Bells, Doc Mundy, Ena, Dr. Long, Cautious Guy — 11 entries. Valley Stake, $5°° for three year old Pacers — Delpha D., Olga S., Zanthus, Midget, Idlewise, Gen Herus, Lookout, Dell Kisbar, Lou Miller, Miss Jerusha, King Atbby — 11 entries. Young McKinney Stallion FOR SALE 1 offer for sale my young stallion CABLOKIN, record 2:2ii34 as a three year old. lie is by -MeKinnv and nut of the .'real brood mare (.'arietta Wilkes (dam of Vulila 2:15^, Carl, eita 2:24}^ and Carlokin 2:20%), uv Charley Wilkes 3563, second dan Aspasia. dam of Faus- tina 2:19)b by Alcantara 72!), etc. Carlo- kin is standard and registered, and can show a mile at the trot now in 2:13 or better. I believe Ire will trot in 2:10 this year. Will sell hiin at a reasonable 6gure for cash. He is a game race horse and his lirst crop of colts foaled this year : r„* as line lookers as ean lie found anywhere. Correspondence invited. Address C. L. JONES, Modesto. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 5\o6, <5un an5 Dfenuel Conducted by J. X. De Witt The Portland Kennel Club closed the northern circuit on Saturday evening June 2d after a very suuccessful and well attended four days' show. The gate on Fri- day night, Saturday afternoon and evening sholuld put a comfortable amount in the club treasury. The officers of the Portland Kennel Club are J. Wesley Ladd, President; Dr. J. C. Zan. Vice President; Henry Ludd, Corbett Treasurer; Fiank E. Watkins, Secretary; Board of Directors, Henry Berger, Jr., W. B- Feck- beimer, W. B. Honeyman, Frank E. Watkins; Bench Show Com- mittee Messrs. Corbett, Fech- beimer and Dr. Zan. Mr. G. H. Fleming acted as Superintendent and Mr. H. M. Papst, formerly of San Francisco filled the responsible office of Ring Steward. All ot the above named gentlemen worked unremittingly and zealously for the success of the show. The number of dogs benched numbered 227, entries totalled 558. The quality of the show averaged well throughout, brilliantly so in several inoividual instances. Major J. M. Taylor judged all breeds save Collies and Terriers. His decisions were satisfactory almost without exception. Collies and Terriers came under handier Joe Bradshaw of San Francisco (who since an unsavory episode in connection with coursing, which compelled his absence from the coursing turf for good, has been known as John Bradshaw). His work in Collies and Bostons was un- palatable to a number of exhibitors. In several classes however he had the precedent established at Seattle and Victoria to guide him. Spratts benched and fed, and in this respect everything was carried out in perfect order. We regretted the absence of Mr. Thos. Banks, without whom a Coast show seems to lack the finshing touch. Mr. Banks was unfortunate to the extent that illness in his family necessitated his stay in San Francisco. Mr. G. H. Bentley, assistant to Mr. Banks had charge of Spratts booth and the benching. Among the out of town visitors were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Detniug, C. Steinbach and Clarence Ashlin of San Francisco, J. C. Scott, Walla Walla, Wash., Miss Leigh- Spencer, H. G. Owen, Vancouver, B. C, Walter C. Cox, Denver, George Tinto, Saattle, Donald McGregor, Spokane, Hon. J"hann Wulffsohn, Vancouver, B. C, W. E. Beaman, C. H. LaFarge, of Seattle, Wash., Frank Cbiisty, Arlington, Thos. Howe, HilJs- boro, Or., R. G. Gatmvell, Bell- iughaui, Wash., E. F. Willis, Banks, Or., C. D. Nairn, Ballston, Or., and others. The large breeds were not well represented in numbers St. Bernards (rough coated) had five entries. Belfast Buster, first, beat Star of the North mainly for superior condition and show form. Star has a nicer head and mark- ings and is far better in hind- quarters. He was sent in the ring run down and out of coat. Glen- wood Booze, third, showed up a better looking head than ever, but is all in otherwise. Smooth coats, three benched were mediocre. Don the winner is light in bone and not a good type. Two Bloodhounds bench:;.', solid tau colored, lacked type and bloodhound character. One Dal- matian shown was fair specimen, barring a rather weak muzzle- Lief, a fawn colored Great Dane, is a far better dog than one usually sees at a show. He is a symmetrical and massive dog with a typical head. He is full of character and expression upstand- ing and graceful on good strong legs and proper feet and shows finely. Jack H., an uncropped blue dog, is a better one than bis condition implied. There were but three Danes benched. Vioka of Valley Farm, the solitary Russian Bloodhound en- try, is a bit light above the eyes. He could have been a shade heavier in weig X however — good dog on the whole and worthy of a ribbon. Four giey hounds were rather poor class, the winner DeOro was shown in low condition and with a staring coat. Company B was also in bad shape. Foxhounds were a rather credit- able display. Lane, the winner, can be noted as exeinplyfing good show form and class, an excellent dog in fact. The eight dogs benched, however, showed quite a diversity in type. Chesapeake Bay dogs, seven in number, all Seattle entries, we are glad to see is an indiction that most worthy and useful sportsman's dog is beginning to get a Coast attention that is deserved. There was a uniformity and correctness of type that is about the best yet seen on a Western bench. King, the winner, is a typical dog, with capital head and body. Cbessa winners bitches, was better, a bit in quality, eye and coat than King. The Seattle entries of Chesapeakes were prompted by the fact that Major Taylor was to judge the breed. Pointers, as a class, were far above the general quality one sees at most of our shows. Thirty-four dogs and 58 entries was an evidence that the Oregon and Washington sportsmen hold Pointers in much esteem for field work. A glance over the breed- ings also shows a selection of blood that is most promising for the future of the breed in Oregon and Washington. Sport, the win- ner, has a fine Pointer head, but is built on rather sturdy lines, is a bit loaded in the shoulders. Mason's King, reserve winners, is a more symmetrical dog and turned on ueatet lines than Sport, but is deficient in muzzle. It would not have been a serious breach bad the positions been reversed. King could have been improved by being put down slightly less in flesh. Queenie, winners bitches, has style and quality and is a fine type throughout. Bangs' Minna, reserve winners, a daughter of Woollon Bang, looks as if she has a career as a brood bitch of style and quanlity. A number of the Pointers shown would do well in any compauy. Referee, a three letter dog in novice, could have gone up higher, for with the exception of skull a bit too wide, he showed conformation and a merry style in the ring that dem- onstrated his quality. He was afterwards placed second in limit and third in open. English Setters were a very pleasing lot throughout. There were twenty-seven entries and eighteen benched. Mallwyd Bob, the well known Victoria dog could not be denied the tri-color. His head and body will carry him through pretty strong competition. He was not iu as good feather and flag as we have seen him. Fleet Sergeant, gave way to Hand- some Jim for reserve wieners, by a slight marign. Jim is a well coupled sjiylisb dog and was put down in good condition and showed merrily. In coat, flag and feather be was better than Sergeant Jim struck us as being just a trifle too deep in muzzle. Sergeant has a fine bead, showing type and quality, has fine dark eyes that are full of expresson and is teeming with Setter character. Both dogs are most excellent in body, legs and feet conformation. In bitches Rockliue Ladybird scored over Cynthia. Ladybird showed well in the ring being in good form and coat, but some- what out at elbows. Cynthia ran her pretty close. The latter is an all round neat bitch albeit a trifle lacking in muzzle. Janilla, an oft time winner, being in whelp, consequently did not show in her usual form and gave way accord- ingly. Irish Setetrs, five in number, were excellent, two of tbem Ch. Jeannot and Daerig Magic were as high class and handsome a brace as one could well wish to see. In show form and style they were pro- bably the best pair of any one breed shown. Jeannot has a grand head, the right color of eyes, he is full of character and expression and is a splendid shower in the ring. In coat, feather and flag he was unapproachable. The rich mahogany color of his coat is a desideratum vainly sought by many fanciers. Daerig Magic, a stylish, handsome bitch, is a close second in type and quality to Jeannot. She is lacking a trifle in the splendid color of coat of the latter, only so much so as to make this perceptible when the two are together. It will take a good one to beat her. Gordons, four in number, were better averaging than is genarally seen at most shows, but at that not one of them had the head we like to see in a Gordon. In coat and color they were most excellent, with one exception, and that an immature young dog, the class showed excellent bodies, legs and bone qualities. The lack of atten- tion to the breed a decade or so past was shown by the want of type finish and quality in beads. Oregon Rowdy, winners, an Ohio bred dog, is rather round in skull and lacking a bit in expres- sion, with proper bitches, he should, however, do quite a lot of good for the breed in the north. He looks as if he bad the elements for a rather workmanlike stud dog. Irish Water Spaniels were not a pleasing exhibit. The quartette were iu bad shape throughout. Happy Hooligan, a really good dog with a typical head was in poor condition and minus coat almost. Maude Goune, an under- sized, off colored bitch won win- ners dogs and bitches on suggestive quality. Three inches higher and she would be considered a good type of bitch. This time of year, however, is not a period when Irish Water Spauiels are iu show form, paiticularly so, if they have worked during the shooting season. Cockers were notable for three things, the slight entry in blacks, the predominance of parti-colors and a sprinkling of quality that was well demonstrated in about every class. Duke Royal came to the front deservedly in the blacks. Duke is an even bodied dog he is properly coated and feathered and has excellent legs and feet, the former boned just right enough to stylishly finish off a handsome little Cocker. Portland Duke, reserve winners, lacks a bit in head and muzzle and is a trifle wide behind, a fairly good dog, but not good enough even with the aid of bis handlers, Tttfi BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN jockeying to beat Duke. Wilton Blackberry, winners bitches in blacks has about the prettiest Cocker head one could wish to see. Au evenly balanced symmetrical skull and muzzle and a well propor- tioned body sends her to the front as a competitor in the hottest companj-. She is a good exempli- fication of what an all round show bitch should be. In parti-colors Portland Kid first winners and open holds his form nicely, a compact typical even head- ed dog with proper legs and feet topppd off by pretty markings and general good finishing. Baby Duke reserve and first puppies well showed the quality of his sire Portland Kid. Butbeta, winners bitches is probably the best parti-colored bitch on the Coat today. She holds her show form and style well. Freck- les, reserve winners, a bit over fleshed could have given way to Lady Orcas, second iu open, a better modelled bitch. Kulshan Pahlo, first puppy and novice, shows the hall marks of Portland Kid decidedly and is a very promising young Cocker. Collies were but twenty-nine en- tries (20 dogs), rather a falling off in numbers for a northern show. The breed is well liked through he northwest where there are many large and well appointed kennels. Gallant, first winners, limit and open, is a large sized dog, with the much discussed Borzoi head, ne is rather thin in flanks and hind quarters and is not any too straight In front. Eversholt Poyntz, second opeD and limit, is light eyed, has heavy hanging flews and is very thin coated. .Ian Ridd third limit should have gone higher. He is a typical Collie all over and is far better in every way than E. Poyntz. That he might be a bit heavier is about the strongest critiscism to make against him. He was placed over Poyntz at Seattle, and has many other wins to his credit. Westland Duke, reserve winners, is a large sized Borzoi head- ed dog with a very open coat. He won v h c recognition last year in a small class. UlenTana Monk second to Duke in open tri-colors is a better typo of dog and far ahead iu style and appearance and coat. This decision wks reoeived with surprise by both fanciers and spectators. In bitobes Eversholt Gertrude, a light boned bitch iti rather poor coat and with heavy flews waB given first winners, open aud limit in sables. Springmead Marion, reserve winners aud lirst puppies is better in head body, coat Bud bone, than Gertrude and Bhould have won the tri-icolor. Brandane Marionslea, second open should have been first open over Gertrude, a bitch she beats in head Your stomach It 0. K. if your dnnk Jackson's Napu Soda, * front, bone and legs as well a8 coat. The well known winners Gleo Tana Marquis and Gen Taua Black Baby were absent. Glen Tana Monk and G. T. Black Baby are from the same kennels as E. Gertrude. Barwell Climax firsts able puppy and novice. is a very promising young dog. Doctor Jim, the only Old English Sheep dog shown could be larger in size. Bull dogs were but, two neither over ordinary merit. Bull Terreirs were a fine showing and a classy lot. Ch Edgecute Peer in grand fettle standing out above the bunch. Peeris a grand all round good dog aud will cut out the pace in the competition at any show. He hold his form splendidly. Willam- ette Peer, a son of E. Peer, is a com- ing one. His skull, muzzle, eye aud expression, aud well balanced body on good legs and feet stamp him is a dog worth watchiug. Willamette Suusbine winners and open bitches, is uu eveuly balanced good bitch. She would look better, however, with a darker eye. In the marked catalogue reserve winuers is printed No. 158, Rosemont Bess. Bess is a short muzzled light boned bitch that was reserve novice first limit and reserve open. No. 158 in the catalogue is Newmarket Queen a hitch formerly ownrtd by Biadshaw. Queen woa second in open. Willamette Violet, a young bitch first in novice is far aud away better than either, and should have received the reserve winners. Bostons, with two or three excep- tions,wore only a fair lot. Nobaska II a dog with a wrinkled muzzle, under- shot jaw and bulbous eyes giving him more of a Japanese Spauiel face than a Boston was placed for winners, limit. and open over Dandy (a winner at Boston). Dandy is much the better type of Boston Terrier than is Nobaska 11, be passes him in head, muzzle and body, legs and feet and is a better con- ditioned and more styilsh dog. -This award created much comment. Moobrays Elsie, shown in very bad condition, has class and quality that stamps her a good one when put down right. Bismurk III was also in very bad shape and should not have passed the vet. Smooth Fox Terriers deveolped a grand young dog Multnomah Blue for winners and first in puppy, novice and limit. Blue is a a terrier from the ground up. He is fitted with a flue head, long punishing jaws, neck, body, loios, ribs, legs and feet are all in coherent working order. His ooat is about right and be is full of class and stylish through- out. He will improve aud with this will undoubtedly notue a better ear oaniage, which at that is not obvious- ly faulty. Norfolk Rustic reserve winners is a fair looking terreir. In bitobes Multnomah Blue Girl winners, flrst novice aud limit is a sweet bitch rather on the small order, however. Multonomah Flurry reserve winners, second novice and first open lacks the class of Blue Girl, but is a very good bitch nevertheless. Wiies, four in number were fair, Multnomah Stopper is a youngster that looks very promising. Irish, terriers were few but rather good, Boy first winners, is a clean cut looking individual that could be a bit larger. Ramlih Nell, winuers bitches, is a nice bitch that would show up better if she was livelier in the ring. Airedale Terriers were a surprise both in numbers and quality, a round dozen being on the benchs. Brairdale Record winners dogs is a proper sized dog of more thau average quality and has the style and appear- ance of a game and typical Airedale. Bearwood Bloom, winners, first limit and open bitches was the best one in the classes. She is a fine specimen of the breed and has show quality and class to go with it. Three Dachshundes were good all through, Princess Von Jaegerhaus, a sleek, well finished black bitch being particularly good. Two Scotties, Hum (first) and Badger were both excellent ones. Kuroki, the only Jap entered was a flue a little dog, having a better chrysanthemum tail than usually shown. A Chow with a clipped coat, was nevertheless a very good one. Two Toy Black aud Tans were an illustration of the present decadence of a once popular breed. The winner in the Miscellaneous class (8 entries) was a rather leggy sample of an Esquimau (Mallimutb) dog. In this class were also entered five "pit Bull Terreirs." This dog is a mongrel, pure and simple, aud the custom of receiving such entries should be discouraged by all kennel clubs. Harry Gilhrist, the craeK shot of the Ceutralia guu Club won the high average of the day with a per centage of 87>« Wray, of E Ima, the cham- pion was a close second. Ed. Cooper of South Tacoma and Gus Watson of Cosmopolis were also near Ihe top of the list . Some of the best shots of the Northwest were present and took pait. The associatoin held the regular shoot at Elma 03 Decoration day, and will ^follow at Olympia on the 4th of July, with probably a second shoot ou the same day at South Tacoma. The annual diuaer of the Multn- omah Rod aud Gun Club took place in Portlaud May 17th was a joval convention of shooters, twenty members and guest* boiug present. There was something [substantial for the inuer man and many stoiies of huuting and fishing were told at the expense of one or the other of those present. Billy Lippman told a good poker story aud Maurice Abrahma, Dick Carlon and George LeitboEf related [yarns that had to do with the killing of ducks and big game. R. D. Ioman presided over the dinner. Those present were W. F. Lippman, Adolph Woelm, John Kiernan. M. Abraham, A. R. Parrot, Walter Honeyman, Harry Beckwitb, W. E. Carlon, L. Bell, C. H. Collier, R. D. Inman, George Mc- Millan, L. M. Norwood, Charles Wagner, W. B. Fechheimer, George Liethoff, E. E. Redfleid, H. Hud- son, V. E. Funkbouser, F. B. Thorn, Will G. McRea. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. •G^- Good News from THE SOUTH The following telegram was re- ceived Friday morning : San Bernardino, Cai, June 7, 1906. "Breeder and Sportsman" Santa Ana, San Bernardino and Los Angeles will all give meetings beginning July ?tth. G. A. POUNDER. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Cleveland Track Notes American Sportman, May 31. — It is understood that Charlie De- Ryder is on bis way from Califor- nia to the track here. It is not understood that he has a large stable but a select one. Jack Curry worked his horses in bis stable, miles around in 2:30 Tuesday morning. They stood the long ship from the Pleasanton, Cal., track in good shape, None of them have been asked for much since their arrival. Dr. G. W. Simpson who came from California to Pontiac, Mich., last winter, is expected at the track this week. He has in his stable two stallions Kohlan King by Simmocolon 2:1334 a"d KoblaD Prince, a sou of Kohlan King. Monica 2:15 by McKinney 2:nj4, dam Maggie Thome by Director 2:17, owned by R. C. Hopkin, a prominent member, of the Gentlemen's Driving Club, has foaled a nice filly by John A. McKerron 2:04,^2. In point of breeding, this filly is certainly royally bred. It is a large, hand- some filly and Mr. Hopkins is greatly pleased with it. She will be returned to McKerron. Vance Nuckols electrified the railbirds Tuesday morning with a brush of speed that nearly caused some to collapse. He let the brown mare Italia, trotting record 2:14, step down to the half in 1 :i2 and then let out enough links to step home in just 1 103 flat. It was an evenly rated half and was done easily, the mare not being fully- extended at the finish, she could have gone the mile in 2:10 easily. There is no question but tbat the daughter of Zombro is a 2:10 pacer sure this season. Italia is owned bv Mr. W. P. Murray, an enthusi- astic horsem'.n who also owns Jack Wilkes 2:17^4 and Reuben S. 2:1834. It looks now that barring accidents, Mr. Murray owns three 2:10 peformers this year. Kenneth Mac 2:24^, Col. Osone 2:24 and My Gilt 2:29^ worked miles in 2:25. Maj. P. P. Johnston of Lex- ington Ky., president of th ; National Trotting Associaiton bas nine two-year-olds in training by his young stallion Free Giver 21 :8 the first get of that horse. Take Hoight. Hayes or Ellis Street Car T. C. CABNEY, Prop. .Phone: Park 436 PANHANDLE STABLES Horses, Bought, Sold and Clipped AT POPULAR PRICES Horses Boarded. Trained. Gaited, Exercised 1225-1227 FELL STREET Bet. Devisadem and Brnderii-k Streets SAN FRANCISCO EARLY CLOSING GUARANTEED STAKES! Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association MEETING TO BE HELD IN AUGUST. Entries to close Monday, JUNE 18,'06 CALIFORNIA STAKES $1500... For Trotters Eligible to 2:24 Class PACIFIC SLOPE STAKES..... 1500 For Pacers Eligible to 2:20 Class SUNSET STAKES 800 For Free-for-All Trotters GOLDEN GATE STAKES 800 For Pacers Eligible to 2:09 Class STAKES divided 50—25-15 and 10 per cent. Entrance 5 per cent the amount of the stakes will be deducted from each money won. For entry blanks and conditions address the secretary. Member National Trotting Association LIBERAL STAKES FOR OTHER CLASSES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. E. P. HEALD, President F. W. KELLEY. Secretary Office: 709 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. P. O. Drawer 447 Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gontbauit's Isam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Splint. Sweeny, Capped Hocb, 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. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc, it is iuraluable. tvery buttle of Caustic Balsam sold Is ■Warranted to p-ive satistactlon. Price 31.50 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- press, chorees paid, wita full directions for its use. C3~Send for descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc. Address The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0. »CJ^ Registered D. 8. Patent Office *»^^» SPAVIN CURE COSTS LESS for Results than all others known Treatments and Remedies. Gibson. 111. TROY CHEMICAL CO., Bingham ton, N. Y.— Dear Sirs: In retrard to the bottle of "Save- the-Hor=e" which I purchased of you. I used it on my horse Bellado, record 2r20 1-3, for a bad case of bone spariti of six years standing. At times was so lame he could hardly get around. I used about a bottle and a half and he is com- pletely cured. I have given the uorse hard drives and he never favors it at all. The remedy is all right. Very truly, GEO. McNABNEY. PHENOL S0D1QUE HEALS Sores, Cuts and Bits ON MAN AND BEAST Kunkle, O., Feb. 15. Troy Chemical Co.. Binghainton, N. Y. — In reply to your request of about 10 months ago, I will now send reply in regard to "Pave-the- Horse" Spavin Cure. I used two bottler and it cured my horse completely. He has never shown anv sign of lameness. I can recommend it above any spavin cure on the market. Yours truly, WILLIAM FRANKS. •■SAVE-THE-HORSE" permanently cures Spavin. Ringbone (except Low Ringbone), Curb, Tiioroughpin, Splint, Shoe Boil. Wind Puff, In- jured tendinis, and nil lameness without scar orloss of hair. Horse can be worked as usual. G? C f*\ /"\ per botile, with a written gua- +4* "^ « V./ vx rantee, as binding to protect >'ou as the beat legal talent could make it. Send for copy and booklet. At Druggists and Dealers or sent express piid. TROY CHEMICAL CO. Binghamton, N.Y. 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Write for ALLS there i> none superior The horse Can Be Worked Afl Usual. F.»r BARBED WIRE CUTS, CALKS, SCRATCHES, Blood Poisoned S< >RES VBEASI< INS «.f the SKIN it has no equal. Its use will absolutely prevent Blood Poisoning. In this respect there is no Gall Jure offered which can justly even claim to ie b competitor. We placed it on the Market relying wholly on its merit «>f success, and Notwithstanding the fact that comparatively ittle has been & in" in the way ofadvei the sales of 1903 were 100 per cent greater than the aggregate Bales of Gall Cure pre- ceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and it is THE GAEL CURE OF THE 20th CENT CRY. It is a quick and sure cue for those troublesome skin cracks under the 5et- ock which injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Keep It in their Stables PRICE: — 3 OZ. BOX 25e.; 7 oz. BOX 50c; I LB. BOX, $1.00 Read oar "ad" on Campbell's H.»r»e Fo >t Remedy in next Issue oi this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs., W. 41 2 Madison St., Chicago, HI. Sold by all Dealers in Harness and Turf Goods. If not in stock ask them to write »■▼ Jobber for it. i rynreeleggea Horse? are not curiosities by anv means. The country is full of them. T>e fourth leg is there all right but it is not worth any thine because of a ciirb, splint, spavin or other like bunch. You can cure the horse of any of these a.-rcentsand put another sound leg under him by the use of Quinn's Ointment. mmk It if i in-- tried and reliable. \Yh-?nahorse iacnred withc'iinii'sOititiuent he stave cured, Sir. E.F. imrte olSpr.iigfleld,Mo.,WT*tesasfblIow3: -i have Leen Qsfng Quinn's Ointment rorsereral years and have ef- fected many marvelous cures; It will jto deeper an,sH»4 0F ALL HORSE OWNERS /w V^SSV VsCfBH and trainers USE AND RECOMMEND Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy SOLD BY — ♦ W. A. Sayre. . . Sacramento. Cal. R. T. Frazier Fueblo, Colo. J. G. Read & Bro. . . .Ogden, Utah Jrr.iNYiu.i-: & Nance . Butte, Mont. A. A. Kraft Co. . Spokane, Wash. A. F. Hoska Harness Co Tacoma. Wash. Thos.M. Anderson .Seattle. Wash. (J. Rodder Stockton, Cal. \V\i. E. Detels. . . Pleasanton. Cal. W. C. Topping San Diego, Cal. Jepsen Saddlery Co Los Angeles. Cal. C. A. Schweitzer . Fresno, Cal. ■ a-c^ H. Thorwaldson... Fresno, Cal. J.no McKERRON.San Francisco,! al Jos. McTlGDE San Francisco, Cal. Brydo.v Bros Harness Mfg. Co. Los Angeles, Cal. jos. B. Campbell & Co., Manufacturers, 412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III. DON'T BLAME THE REEL if it fails you at a critical moment. Don"* ei""= it 3 chance to fail you— ' use ,r3-in-0^e" and !t never will ! Con- tains r.o cid. It abso- lutely prevents 'rust. Apply it to rod joints, they will come apart easily. Use on rod, _ -it's good for wood — pro- ^motes pliability. Rubonline, prevents rotting. Trial bottle sent FREE by G. W. COLE CO., \ 1 - a 'Washington Life Building, New York City. Kendall's Spavin Cure has never had an equal inthe world for curing common horse ail- ments, such as Spav- in, Ringbone, Curb, Splint and Lams- A Cure for Spavin. Jan. 3. 1X6.' Dr.B.J.EtwUIlOs., Dm Sin;— £Ddo*«dfla4 *. 2 cent tt*=ip la j-Qr t-x,k. -A TTCatlM (D th* Bona aad LU DUnM." •ad fTjud It » «ar» cure tat SmtUl tixxi rejptctfallj. V . Ju=e» Fltij*Crkk. Prloe 91; 8 for SS. Greatest known liniment for fam- ily i:sc. All druggists. Accept no substitute. "Treat lea on the Horao," tree from druggists or DR. B. J. KENDALL COMPANY. Eawbarg Falls, Vermont. RECORD BREAKING FISH are caught every year at LAKE TAHOE JCJST as large ones still uncaught. You can get them. Don't you long to feel again thai sharp tug at the linei hear the shrill whir of the reel, and, after a blood stirring fight, experience the joy of landing one of the tin - craftiest old trout you ever saw? You shall do that many times on this beautiful lake and on the mountain streams round about. Also goo 1 hunting and mountain climbing Many hotels; fine camping places; no poison oak. BtlY your ticket and get there in one night Sli 'per leaves San Francisco daily 7 p. M. and you arrive at Tahoe next morning in time for breakfast. SOUTHERN PACIFIC THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN ■ J. A. Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Cal. The Trap or Hunting Outfit U. M. C. Ammunition Is made Perfect this ination A Remington Shotgun E. E. DRAKE, Pacific Coast Manager Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET, CORNER OF LAGUNA. SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. ■J ■! j ■ m — ™i. M m. ■ ■■■!■ I — 1J '" '*-*■ ■ u I J ui -m ■ m -, 11 i ■■ - . ■ u ■ . t-i Li I -t i ■ r-in TEN GAR LOADS OF GOODS ON THE WAY, / WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. ■\ jLi^n^cxjisriTionsr, rifles j^ntd shotguns 1422 PARK AYENUE, ALAMEDA > Smith Hammerless and Ejector Guns ALSO HUNTERONETRIGGER WON GOLD MEDAL AT THE Lewis & Clark Exposition PHIL B. BEKEART CO., Inc. Temporary Office : 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor. Park Street, Alameda, Cal.. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH A. J. Reach Co., H. Werleroann, Ithaca Gun Co., Gray & Davis, Smith & Wesson, E. C. Cook" «fc Bro., Marlin Fire Arms Co., Markhani Air Rifle Co., Daisy Manufacturing Co., Ideal Manufactur- ing Co., Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works, Bridgoport Manu- facturing Co. Send for Catalogue HUNTER ARMS CO. Fulton, N.Y. Spratts Dog Remedies Dog Biscuits Dog Soaps Coast Agency : 1324 Valencia St., San Francisco, Cal. THOS. BANKS, Manager. m m m ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. nrTliis feature, to- gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. If We build everything from a featherweight 5%-pound 20-gauge gun to a lO^tj- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. IfSend for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12, 16 and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. ITHACA GUN CO. - - Ithaca, N. Y. Pacific Coast Bhanoh, 2330 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Cal. St m ' Vol. XLVII. No. 22 SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 16, 1906 Subscription $3.00 a Year THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W. KELLEY, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office : 709 Van Ness Avenoe, San Francisco Entered as Second Class Matter San FYancisco Post Office. P. O. Drawer 447 Terms— One Year??; Six Months $1.75: Three Months {1 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Money should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to t- W. Kelley, P. O. Drawer 447, San Francisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub iration, but as a private guarantee of good faith. Who Knows this Mare? There is a Sue looking chestnut mare in Oakland with a filly foal a week old by the Palo Alto stallion McKena at foot, owned by Mr. E. Needham of 829 San Pablo avenue. Mr. Needham would like very much to ascertain the breeding of this mare and in case any of our readers who scan these lines know anything about her, we will esteem it a great favor if they will notify us or Mr. Need- ham. Some six or seven years ago a man known as "Dr. Flanders the Healer" was residing at San Leandro in Alameda county and purchased this mare, then about four years old, in the vicinty of Pleasanton. She is a chestnut, with star and small strip in the face and a very "breedy" looking animal. After Dr. Flanders owned her she got her left hind foot severely cut on a wire, and her ankle became enlarged. Dr. Flanders sold her to Mr. Need- ham. Every horseman who sees the mare expresses the opinion that she must have Nutwood blood in her veins, as she bears a strong resemblance to that family. She has a good head, fine neck, and is a handsome chestnut in color, and outside her injured ankle has good legs and feet, and can show 2:30 speed even now on the road. Mr. Needham bred ber last year to the stallion McKena (son of McKinney 2:nI4 and Helena 2-.i-i.yl) an<3 trje result is a very handsome filly with black points. If any of our readers who reside in Alameda county remember "Dr. Flanders, the Healer," and his purchase of tbis mare will they please communicate with us, or send .word to Mr. E. Needham, 829 San Pablo avenue, Oakland. Breeders' Meeting atiWoodland The citizens of Woodland have raised a bonus to induce the Pa- cific Coast Trotting Horse Breed- ers Association to visit Woodland, and that organization has accepted the Woodland offer and in this is- sue of the Breeder and Sportsman announces its stakes for the meet- ing which will be held during the week ending August 18th. Woodland is one of the most thriving towns in the great Sacra- mento Valley, and is located in the midst of the most prosperous farming section of the State. The hotel accommodations are first class, and the people have always patronized harness races most lib- erally. Woodland's race track, situated on the Woodland Stock Farm, owned by Mr. Alex. Brown, is one of the fastest on the Pacific Coast and one of the best appoint- ed. It is located about one mile northwest of the town, and is reached by beautifully shaded avenues that are kept sprinkled during the summer months. Some of the best contests ever seen on the California circuit have been decided on tbis track, and there is do place in California where horsemen would rather race than the one located near the shire town of Yolo county. Among the features of the pro- gram to be given at the Breeders meeting there in August will be the Pacific Breeders $7000 Futur- ity, of which four divisions will be decided. The two year old trot- ters, two year old pacers, three year old trotters and three year old pacers will all race for their share of this big stake. Then there are those two big stakes, tbe Califor- nia for 2:24 class trotters, and the Pacific Slope for 2:20 class pacers to be decided at Woodland this year. They are worth $1500 each. Tbe 2 :o9 pacers and the free for all trotters will bring out the fast- est horses of the aged classes in California, and there will be many other classes in which the most exciting contests are sure to result. The Breeders Association has never before held a meeting at the WoodlaDd track, and its officers and members are looking forward with great pleasure to the meeting to be held there in August. From Woodland '.be horses will be shipped direct to the California State Fair at Sacramento, and thence many of them will doubtless go north to participate in the splendid program of racing at the Oregon State Fair at Salem. Santa Ana Will Open Circuit Harness racing will be held in Southern California this summer, and will be opened July 4th at tbe Santa Ana track with an ex- cellent program of racing, to be followed the next week by a meet- ing at the San Bernardino track, and from thence the horses will be shipped to Los Angeles where a four days meeting will be held with purses ranging from £500 to $800. This is good news to horsemen, and we are able to print the programs of these meetings in our issue of this week. In Los Angeles last week the Harness Hores Association of that city was incorporated with a capital of $10,000, divided into 200 shares at $25 each. There were a large number of shares sub- scribed for immediately ana it was resolved to give a meeting in July, to follow the San Bernardino meet- ing. The following officers were chosen for the association C. A. Canfieid, president; E. J. Delorey, vice president; L. J. Christopher, treasurer; Robert A. Smith, secretary; Dr. Wm. Dodge, J. H. Bohon, G. A. Pounder, Chas. Saddler, Byron Erkenbrecber, directors. For the Los Angeles meeting there will be three races each day, and tbe purses will range from $500 to $Soo. There will be one $800 purse for 2:25 pacers and another for 2:30 trotters. The admission to the track will be 50 cents and the grand stand free. It was stated tbat there would be a meeting at Fresno the first week in August, followed by meetings at Salinas, Woodland and the State Fair at Sacramento the last week in August, so that the horses will be through with tbe racing in Calif- ornia in time for the State Fair at Salem, Oregon. It is the intention of the associ- ation to hold another meeting in Los Angeles in the fall. According to tbe schedule as arranged last week here is an open week between Los Angeles and Fresno which may be taken by any town wishing to give a meeting. California's favorite hot weather drink Is Jackson's Napa Soda. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN !ftot£S anb yttws ^ The Wilkes - Electioneer - Nut- wood combination of blood lines bids fair to become even more popular than the WilkesMatn- brino-Patchen combination has ever been, says the Horse Breeder. Those who aim to secure such a combination will do well to secure their Wilkes cross from such sources as have the Msmbriao Patcheu cross close up and if there js also an American Star cross in the Wilkes-Mambrino Patchen animals it will increase its value, especially if it comes through Dic- tator, Robert McGregor 2:175-2 or Aberdeen. The premium list for the Cali- fornia State Fair of 1906 is out. Write to Secretary Filcber for one, and make up your mind to exhibit the product of your farm, orchard, vineyard or factory at this fair. Bert Webster is again located at Pittsburg, Pa., where lie has charge oi the horses belonging to Henry Scbreib^r, who owns several fast pacers and trottes. Worth Obe', with the gray pac- ing mare owned by Mayor Schmitz, and Victor Verhilac driving his own mare Gertie A., worked "lit together at the Alameda track Sunday morning. The mile was in 2:19 and the last half in 1:06. Charley J., the pacer that won at Pleasanton April 14th in 2:1354, went away with the other two, but his owner evidently did not want to drive him a fast mile as he laid back with him the last half. Mike Donnelly, the popular horsesboer of th;s . city, took his mare Flora G. over to the Alameda track last Sunday and let her step a half mile in 1 :04>i. She did it nicely and with apparently little eSort. James O'Kane let his gelding King V. have his head at the Alameda track last Sunday morn- ing for a quarter of a mile and he stepped it off in 3254 seconds, the last eighth being in 15 seconds flat. All eyes will be turned toward Cleveland's grand circuit meeting this year which will be tried with- out pool selling, bookmaking, or speculation of any kind. The directors have prepared for all possible contingencies by raising a guarantee fund of $15,000. The association will offer no big slakes but will have a substantial list of good purses, with liberal condi- tions. Monterey 2:095^ >s proving a sire of very handsome, rangy, high headed trotters. Peter Williams, owner of Monterey, has a four old son of this stallion that is out of the good brood mare Leap Year that is one of the classiest ooking young stallions in Calif- ornia. Mr. Williams calls him Vosemite, but finds that he will have t select another name before registering him, as that has already been taken. This young hoise worked a very easy mile last Sunday at the Alameda track in 2:34 with the last half in 1:15 and looks as if he had 2:10 speed. He has a very handsome head and neck, good body, is well quartered and stands on perfectly clean bony legs and excellent feet. He is a chestnut, but Mr. Williams has a younger full brother that is coal black. Monterey has had a fair season this year and a few mares are stiil being booked to him. He will be one of the most popular sires in California within a few years. Teddy Ray is the name of a very fine and promising three year old colt owned by Mr. Howard at Alameda, that James Berryman is giving a few lessons to at Alameda. Teddy Ray is by Mon- terey 2 :09j^ out of a mare by Diablo 2:091^ and has size and good looks, as well as the abiilty to show consideral le speed. Mr. I. M. Moddison of Wheat- land will please accept our sincere thanks for a bunch of old sales catalogues that we consider a very valuable addition to our library. Mr. Moddison states that he is just finishing up a good season with his stallion Kildare. The foals by this horse are all good looking and large. Mr. Hollins- head's mare by Bay Bird has one that is a grand looking filly and Mr. Durno's mare by a son of Electioneer has another that is a natural pacer. Mr. Burdock of Wheatland owns a very fine filly by Falrose out of a mare by Stam B. The filly by Barondale 2:nK owned by Mr. Moddison is just being broken and he says she is a sweet one. Third payment of ten dollars each has been made on thirty-four colts and fili'.es entered in the Stanford Stake of 1907. These are now two years old. The Stanford Stake for foals of 1905, to be trotted in 1908, closed for entries June 1st. It received 49 entries. The full list appears in another column. To balance a pacer by shoeing, says an exchange, is often as trying and calls for as much skill as to balance a trotter. The pacer that is so sure of his gait that he will not have to wear hobbles to keep him going steady and not shift his gait or make a break, are few. The inclination of a pacer to beark is more serious than the same propensity in a trotter, because when a pacer makes break or loses his stride it is very much more of a problem to get him back to his stride without loss of all chance of winning the heat, if he does not get the flag, which is not unlikely with the majority of pacer3 when they make a break during a race. The United States Department of Agriculture publishes officially gathered figures which show that there are thousands more horses in the country, in actual use, than were to be found when the first automobile wended its odorous and noisy way over the city pave- ments. More than that, when the first auto appeared the average value of the horses owned in America was but $65; today it is $130, which helps to prove, says the Horse World, that while the new industry may not have benefit- ed the horse business, it has not injured it in the least. E. E. McCargo, the Philadelp- hia trainer, who has Wentworth 2:0454 in his stable, will take quite a number of horses through' the Grand Circuit with him this season. He has the green trotting mare Czarine Dawson, by Czar, that trotted in 2:10 last season, and has her heavily staked. He also has Hal Fry 2:12^, by Fry's Brown Hal Tillie Ferguson 2:i8>4 by Tilford, Grattan Bells, [a fast trotter by Grattan Boy 2 :o8 ; Owyho2:o7%, a son of Charles Derby, that is thought to be a 2:04 pacer by the Philadelphia critics; Royal Audubon, by Audubon Boy, and Prince Albert, a green son of Axtell. The second forfeit has been posted by all the owners for the three cornered race between Sweet Marie, Tiverton and Wentworth. The last two have records of 2:0454 and Sweet Marie is but a quarter of a second faster. Secre- tary Jewett of Readville, was present when the second forfeits were put up and offered to add $7500 to the stakes of $7500 if the race was trotted on his track. The offer was accepted, and the race is to come off on July 4th. There are 32 entries for the two year old trot at the Iowa State Fair this year. The British steamer Anderado took out a cargo of 1069 mules at Port Costa this week, which were consigned to the Coloniial Sugar Company, Fiji Islands. The mules were purchased by B. T. McCullough of Crows Landing, on an order from Thos. Hughes of San Francisco, representative of the sugar company. They have 100,000 acres of land under cultiv- ation over there, and some 7,000 acres are cultivated annually. Between 4000 and 5000 head of stock and some 22,000 natives of India are employed in the com- pany's operations. Mr. Mc- Cullough's contract requires him to land the mules at their destin- ation, the proposition involving some thing like $200,000. Mr. McCullough has heretofore made shipments of mules to the same company, consiging over 500 on one occasion and over 600 on an- other. Most of the anaimls "have been purchased in Stanislaus county. Secretary Van de Vanter an- nounces that the Seattle Harness meeting is off. There are over 500 runners at the Seattle track and stall room is more than crowded. Then the harness stakes did not fill satisfactorily, and the management decided it was better to declare the harness meeting off entirely. The running meeting which opens to- day, promises to be the greatest in the history of the northwest. J. B. Shockency, recently of Louisville, Kentucky, ^has opened a training stable atlrvington Park, Portland. The gray mare Louise Jefferson 2:10 that trotted to her record in 1902 at Memphis, is dead. She was bred by Chas. Owens of Colorado, and owned at the time of her death by Mr. C. K. G. Bill- ings. Her foal of 1905 was by John A.M cKerron 2:0454. "Teddy" Bunch went east with Bonnie Steinway and will condi- tion him for the races in which he is entered. "Teddy " is one ,of the most promising trainers that California has developed in years. He has given Bonnie Steinway all his work. Silver Ring 2:1454, the mare P. W. Williams formerly owned and sold to New York parties, has been bred to the great trotter Admiral Dewey 2:04% this year. The string of trotters and pacers to be campaigned by trainer Gerrity on the Grand Circuit this year for W. A. Clark Jr., left Los Angeles June 7th by express. Trainer Rutherford took the mare Helen Norte 2:0954 in the same car with the Clark string. T:H E BREEDER AND S P~0 R T S M A 1ST Geo. T. Beckers, owner of that great race trotter and sire of speed, Zombro 2:11, will be in Sacra- mento from August 1st to Septem- ber 1st, and will have his stable of horses with him. Zombro will be taken along and and tbose wish- ing to breed mares to him during that time should correspond with Mr. Becker. Many owners in this section desired to send mares to this great son of McKiuney this year, but did not on account of the long shipment to Los Angeles. Now that the horse will be in Sacramento during the entire month of August owners whose mares have not been bred will have an opportuniy to secure the services of one of the greatest trotting stallions in America. J. W. Miller of Colorado Springs has sold to J. A. Richard- son and C. H. Hancock of Los Angeles, the trotting horse, Queer Knight, for $1,500. Mr. Miller shipped his horses to Los Angeles a month ago. Queer Knight is in fine condition and his new owners will take him east to be prepared for the grand circuit. While at Los Angeles Mr. Miller sold The Jester 2:1914 by Stain B. to Mr. Richardson. The latter formerly owned Swift B. 2:i2j{. He paid $1200 for The Jester. Silver Hunter the Zombro colt that Geo. T. Beckers will race this year is showing so well thai Beckers thinks first mouey is his in some of the big stakes. Charlie Jerffies left Los Angeles for Denver last week with his pacing mare Ruby H. by Malcolm that he will race through the north west this year. She worked a mile over the Los Angeles track in 2 :og two days before she was shipped. The Denver meeting opens today. A large number of California horse- men and horses are at Overland Park to take part in the meeting. More Good News Every horse owner on the coast will he glad to know that JohD A. McKerron maker of fine harness ard horse boots will be ready for business again about July 1st. His new loca- tion will be at 321-323 Hyde street, souhwest corner of Ellis street, one of the most accessible locations iD the burnt district of SaD Francisco. The new building will be rady by July 1st, and Mr. McKerron will be pre- pared to fill all orders with his usual promptness. Until July 1st, his ad- dress will be 218 Eureka street, where it has been since the fire. The $1000 Spreckles Stake for two year old trotters and the $1000 Ben Rush Stake lor two year old pacers, offered by the State Agri- cultural Society, were both declar- ed off at the last meeting of the Board of Directors. The first named received but eight entries aud the latter but four. An eastern paper says: "Not much has been heard of Monte Carlo 2:07^ since he became a road horse in Kansas City a couple of years ago, but he is reported as having his old speed and that same faultless gait — as near the poetry of motion of trotting as ever. McKinney's first crop of colts sired after he left California are now two year olds, and are being sookeu of as very promising al- ready. • The annual sale of Rush and Hailes' yearlings Dy Demouio 2:11^4 will take place at Suisun today. There are thirteen colts and fillies that have bad fourth pay- ment made on them in the Stanford Stake to be trotted this year at the State Fair. Three are by Mc- Kinney, three by Zombro, two b)' Nutwood Wilkes, and one each by Kinney Lou, Stam B, Mushgaak, Mod bells and Neernut. Dr. R. B. Boyle, a veterinary surgeon of Concord, California, died at his residence in that town last week of pulmonary tuber- culosis. The Western Pacific Railroad Company grading contractors are experiencing great difficulty in securing enough horses and mules for scraper work. On May 4th, this year a mare belonging to W. J. Lennon of Sparta, Illinois, gave birth to twin foals, horse ard a mule. The horse colt survived but the mule foal died. The very handsome filly Fasboda by Barondale 2:11^, that Turn James had at San Jose when he was located there, has grown into a fine large mare that is trot- ting so fast for Ed Geers that he has named her in the M. and M. $10,000 purse to be decided next month at Detroit. It has been made a crime to make a false entry of a horse in New York and the punishment is a fine of not less than S500 or more than $1500, or a year in prison. Anyone who knowingly aids in making a false entry is guilty of a misdemenor. Jacob Brolliar will ship hi* horses from Tulare to Los Angeles next week with the expectation of racing them at the Santa Ana, San Bernardino and Los Angeles meetings. Mr. Brolliar's mare Stonelita 2 :isK as a three year old, record made last year, has a beautiful brown filly foal by Zolock 2:05^4, that is a natural pacer. It is entered in the Kentucky, Breeders and Ken- tucky Stock Farm Futurities, and Mr. Broillair expects and has a right to expect great things for this one if she lives. Stonelita is a wonderful young mare, as she has two club feet forward, the result of wire cuts, and an affected hip, but made her record with them, after being sick with dis- remper during June and July last year, and was not put to training until the first of August. On the 20th day of August Mr. Brollair drove her a full m!ie in 2:12, and Vet Kent A. W. Bruuer and Lee Mayberr3' of Los Angeles, and W. H. Hall of Bangor, Maine, held the watches and can vouch for . the time. The mare after- wards had a relapse, and was staited in several races, winning at Hanford and Tulare. Judge A. G. Andrews, who has held down a training stable at 226 Second street, Oakland, for so many years, has sold out his in- terest to San Francisco parties who have turned the block into a Chinatown, and Mr. Andrews has given up the horses that he had in training. He has turned out his fine two year old Guy Abbott by Searchlight and accepted a position at Red Bluff as head trainer for John Andrews. The horsemen around Oakland will miss his smiling countenance on Sunday mornings at the speed track. The "wise one" gathered together and presented him with a beautiful medal made from the bark of a mushroou tree on the day of his departure. Notice the big display advertise- ment of the Butte meeting, con- taining the full program of races. The early closing running stakes will close July 1st, and the har- ness events August 10th. The meeting will open at Butte, Mon- tana August 21st, and close September 7th. Full particulars and conditions will be found in the advertisement in this issue. Walter Masten, the well known trainer has been so seriously ill with rheumatism at his home in Sacramento that he has leased his racing stock and will tepair to Tuscan Springs to recover his lost health. ( hase's Tattersall to be Ready Soon Just before the calamity of April iSth.Fred H. Chase had completed arrangements to build a big tatter- sall and sales pavilion on Valencia street near i6tb in this city. Of course the earthquake and fire changed the course of many a man's business affairs completely, but while Mr. Chase was burned out of house and home, he never quit smiling and after twelve days hard work as a member of the Relief Committee began getting things in shape to go on with his project. He has already had the Valencia street lot cleared off and leveled, and will begin the immed- iate erection of an office and fifty fine box stalls for the accommod- ations of horses that will be con- signed to his sales. The pavilion will not be erected just yet, but we expect to see work started on it inside of two months and as soon as San Francisco streets are cleaned aud sufficient new stables aie built to accommodate the driving and draft horses that are needed, horse sales will be held in this new location. The stalls wh.ch Mr. Chase is building are to be of two inch surface pine, built in the most up-to-date and substantial manner, and will be provided with every sanitary improvement, in- cluding sewerage, etc. The Fred H. Cha^e salesyard and tattersall is at 478 Valencia street, and the cars will pass the door. Matinee at San Diego The San Diego Driving Club turned out in full force May 30th, to witness a race between five pacers owned by members. Mr. Stewarts's chestnut gelding Fox was the winner in straight heats, but every beat was very closely contested. The summary follows: Fox, ch g, C W. Stewart 1-1-r Trix, br g, J. E. Connell, 2-3-4 Dewey, b g, Harry Dailey 3-2-2 Bonnie B, b m, T. W. Brod- nax 4-5-3 Black Night, bk s, F. Fann- ing. 5-4-5 Time 2:21 j£, 2:19, 2:22^. The starter for the race was Mr. Potter, a New York horseman; toe judges, Harry Rudder, George \Y. DeFord, Archie Taylor; timers Howard Weston and W. B. Hage. Carriage I5eam ~&ox Sale.. Bays, about 7 yearn olil. wei^'h about ]L'.-,n uuHi.ui II hroken singlerand 'luuble, g ! drivers, well mannered, sound and stylish, first class team in every respect. For farther particulars and to see team call or addrese A. L. SCOTT, Hillside Ave., Piedmont, Cal. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 5\o6, (Sun anb IKennel Conducted by J. X. De Witt The sport of trap shooting is essential!}' a summer recreation with sportsmen on the Pacific Coast. Granted that a few clubs keep at the game all theyeai round we find all the same, that most club members do but little trap shooting during the general open game seasons. Many clubs close the trap program in September, thus allowing ample preparation for the duck, quail or pheasant season, and until the following April, generally, offer no induce- ment to the clay pigeon shooters. Strange as it may appear to the majority of sportsmen, not a few devotees of the shotgun confine their attention more to the traps than to the field or marsh shoot- ing. As soon as April arrives, the traps are once more in vogue aud things go on as usual. All through the summer months — a series of six or seven monthly and semi-montbly club shoots, the pas- time continues, and consequently, shooters have the opporunity of keeping their hands in. For nothing contributes to putting one out of form so much as enforced rest. Before the advent of the blue rock and since the general protective game law statutes prev- ailed a sportsman could hardly pull a trigger at anything .worth the candle in close season. The inanimate target has changed this state of affairs and makes it now possible, and inviting, for a shooter to keep at his favorite sport all the year round — feathered gan e in its seasons, and blue rock smashing during the balance of the year, a period of practically eight months. Continuing this subject we quote in substance a writer in the En- glish Shooting Times whose views we are sure will meet the endorsement of most of our trap shots. "It is always interesting to listen to the divers views and opinions of shooters when tbey get to talking about blue rock shooting. No two men seem to take quite the same view of things when the inanimate target coni"s up for discussion. Everyone is welcome to his opinion, of course, but, all the same, it is to be regretted somewhat that those who don't care for the clays should deride and sneer at them. We find this is so, strange as it may seem, and the man who does not like them, or cannot hit them easily, condemns them, and asserts 'there is no sport in blue rock shoot- ing.' Nothing could be further from the truth than this, for I know o': no more exhilarating fun than a match, especially a team contest, at the traps, either for a prize in kind or cash. Next to shooting clay birds my- self I like to watch others doing so, particularly good shots and experts. What a lot you can learn, too, by keeping careful watch on others. Many a man has come to be a first rate per- former himeself who started by merely looking at his friends shoot. Not only is much wisdom to be dervived in this way, but it is a pleasure of itself to watch crack shots a work. It may quite truthfully bt said that no two men shape themselves in exactly the same way. Even in the manner a competitor walks to the traps, or rather, to the firing lien, we see so much to speculate upon. One man, the moment his name is called, makes a sort of dash for his gun, and immediately hurries to the mark, as if to make up for lost time. He rushes at things as if he were trying to catch a train and feared he would miss it. This is the excitable sort of shot, and is seldom a reliable one. His opoo- site is found in the shooter who has frequently to be called up twice before he stirs from his seat, who selects his gun from the rack with tantalizing precision, strolls leisurely to the score and often keeps the entire squad on the firing line waiting. H'ere again, we seldom see in this type of shooter a crack shot. Then comes all other sorts and sizes; each man "plainly shows some individual peculiarities that belong to himself, and only to him, and so he plays his part. Equally interesting is it to watch the actual shooting after the word 'pull' is called. I like to see a man stand well when facing the traps; and here I may as well say that until a man learns to stand properly be cannot shoot properly. I also like to see a man keep his gun down below the elbow until he has called a 'pull' and then to bring it to the shoulder with grace and smartness, a quick "kill" putting the finishing touch to a clever and pretty performance. I do not think it nearly so graceful to keep one's gun at the shoulder while giving the word 'pull' although many men do this." Standing witti the gun ready at the shoulder and then calling "pull" is now generally the custom with trap shooters through- out the United States. That this custom seems to be the better for general results is proven by the fact that the old style, below the elbow, has been discarded. The present style showed its superiority when the teams of the American shooters met Great Britians' crack teams and bested them all through several years ago when the "Indians" made their memorable tour of England, Ireland and Scot- land. "As to the leading of one's birds— that is to say the distance the shooter fires in front of the mark — it is a vexed question. I know shooters who lead very little, but by keeping their gun on the swing aud pressing the trigger at the same time, shoot brilliantly. I know others equally good who don't carry much swing in their gun, but fire at an imaginary spot some distance in front of the flying target, and arrange things so that the bird and the charge of shot reach the same spot at identically the same time. These men, I re- peat, are equally good (some of them) as the first mentioned, but their style is not nearly so pretty or attractive to watch. For my part, the pastime of trap shooting at blue rocks is one that deserves to be well supported by sportsmen. What better practice can a shooter have? None, that I know of. It is nonsense to say it does not improve a man's form for field or game shooting. It could not do otherwise than improve him, for if a shooter can break clay pigeons sent from fast traps at un- known angles, he need have no fear of missing ducks, quail, partridges or doves, no matter how they go. " The writer might also have add- ed that for the novice there is no better opportunity offered than is found in trap shooting, for the becoming familiar with the gun and its workings, the best methods of handling and using a gun safely and effectively. For at a trap shoot, be has the chance of observing experienced shooters at work, every shooter's system and style is under constant surveillance ' and the greenhorn's crudities and shortcomings are called to his attention in short order followed by pertinent advice in correcting mistakes (which are but natural to a beginner) and their avoidance in the future. Clabrough, Golcher&Co., have secured a fine location on the south side of Market street, near First, where they have resumed business- This enterprising and well known firm had the reputation of carrying one of the best and most complete stocks of sportsmens' and outing goods in the United States. This reputation will be maintained in the new Emporium. The firm would have been started in bus- iness again ere this bad a suitable location been available. We wish them the same success and popul- arity as tbey enjoyed for a quarter of a century prior to the fireworks, and if experience , intelligence, courtesy and the ability to cater to the wants of sportsmen are any qualities to bank on we venture to predict great business prosperity and popularity for the rehabilitation of Claybourgh, Golcher & Co., and satisfaction to their friends and customers. The California Powder Works (Coast Agents for DuPont Smoke- less, Laflin and Rand, New Schultze, New E. C. Imporved) announce that the purchasing de- partment is now located in this city, the new quarters are on Second and Mission streets adjoin- ing Wei. s, Fargo & Co.'s hold- ing. Mr- L- E. Lyon, assistant traffic manager will have his head- quarters at the San Francisco office. They have also made arran- .gements to have a representee ol the sales department located at the same address, to receive local orders. All mail for sal.s depart- ment should be addressed to the Berkeley office, 2044 Center Street. P. O. box 29. Telephone, Berkeley 2430. The Anaconda Cup won in Port- land last year at the Northwestern tournament by J. W. Bradrick was destroyed by the flames when the Shreve-Barber Co.'s sporting goods store on Market street _con- tribtuted to the material of the general conaflgration on April ith. Despite the loss of the valuable and handsome trophy the shoot for the Anaconda Cup will be one of the features of the prorgam at the Northwestern Association shoot to come off at Walla Walla the latter part of this month. Whether the loss of the cup will cut any figure in the receipt of by Bradrick of the two thirds entrance money or not, we are not advised. From our peisonal ac- quaintance with a number of the northern sportsmen we are inclined to believe that they are "dead game sports" and the 'Frisco re- fugee may not be held to a full accounting for the 1 3ss of the trophy. This mishap was one that ordinary foresight could not guard against. The entire con- tents of the store in which the trophy was on exhibition were lost as were the contents of hun- dreds of other stores in the vicinity. The report that Phil B. Bekeart was ill is not of very serious con- sideration, for while it is true that the genial Phil was under the weather for a day or two , he is now in his usual good health and spirits. Sober up on Jackson's Napa Soda. * THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN We regret to chronicle Dave Thorn's bad luck on April 18th. He is a poplular veteran sportsman and the most widely know gun- smith in all America. A large and complete and very valauble outfit of tools and machinery was destroyed and also quite a number of costly guns which had been left with him for care and overhauling, as was usual every year with sportsmen during the close season. Clarence Haight the popular DuPont representative, has taken unto himself a bride and is away on a honeymoon trip to Los An- geles. The many friends of Mr. Haight offer him all sorts of well wishes and prosperity, none more so than the writer, for more than a decade we have known Mr. Haight rather intimately and have invariably found him a congenial sportsmean, self-sacrificing for the welfare and interests of others and a courteous gentleman, contact with whom is always replete with" pleasant memories. The postponed May shoot of the California Wing Club took place at Ingleside on Sunday June 3d, the regular date for the club shoot. Weather conditions were rather too moist for large attendance of the pigeon shooters. A lively lot of birds were on hand and four events were good enough to re- mind those present that the good times were not all iu the past. In the first race at twelve birds Ed. Schultz handily accounted for a straight score. In the medal race, also at 12 pigeons he re- peated for a straight and followed with another in a 12 bird pool race. In shooting up a back club score he lost his sixth bird, 47 out of 4S birds is pretty good shooting. The scores shot' were as follows: Club purse race, 12 pigeorjs, dis- tance baudicaps — E. Sobultz, 28 yarda, 12; F.-ank Turner, 25 yards, 11; J. K. Prior, 29 yards, 10; C. C. Nauman, 30 yards, 10; W. E. Mur- docK, 28 yards, 9; Ed. Dohonohue, 30 yards, 8. Club medal race, 12 pigeons, 30 yaids rise--Sebultz 12, Prior 11, Nauman 11, Turuer 9, DoDobue 4. Back scorei : Nauman 12, Prior 12, Sobultz 11, Turner 11. Pool shoot, 12 pigeons, same hand- icap as in club purse race — Scbultz 12, Numan 11, Turner 10, Ptior 10. F. Scbultz 10. Nauman and Piior 6bot a race at 6 birds eacb, 34 yards rise. Prior won by a bird. The Golden Gate Gun Club will hold a series of blue rock shoots at Ingleside. The initial meeting is dat:d for the 24th of this month. Drink Jack sun's Napa Soda. It means he nUh Captain Tbos. L. Lewis of the Union Gun Club anouounces that the club will hold the next regular club shoot at Ingleside on the third Sunday in July, the 22d. The boys have been scattered somewhat since the shake up but the)- are all getting the sporting fever again and will be at the game in old time form before many moons. It is very probable that the Empire Gun Club will carry out, in the near future, the program originally scheduled to come off at the Alameda Junction grounds. The Vallejo Gun Club held tbe first of tbe series of class shoots for four gold medals at tbe Flosden trap grounds on Decoration Day. "Togo" Hirhchle was high gun in class A with 21 out of 25. White was bigb in class B with 21 out of 2B. Sessarego won tbe class C initial race with 18 out of 25. In the merchandise shoot Walter Roney won first prize, a rifle, with a straight of 25 breaks; H'Oara the $10.00 cash prize with 22 breaks; Magistrini tbe third prize, 100 shells; Cbappell the fishing rod as the fourth prize; Wisecarver the fifth prize, and Sessarego the sixth prize. Rose and Elias tied for seventh prize and divided. Steve Magistrini won the eighth prize. In the team shoot the team com- posed of Hirschle, Cbappell, Sbonse and Wiseacre won by a score of 81 out of 100. The second team, com- posed of H'Oara, Roney, Magistrini and Sessarego scored 77 breaks. Tbe Rising Sun Gun Club will sboot this season, among other events, for a DuPont trophy UDder the following conditions ; Holder of trophy 20 yard handicap, 20 out of 25, 18 yards; 17 to 19, 16 yards; 16 and under, 14 yards. Each shooter is handicapped on his proceeding score. Contestants winning twice not less than 18 yards. New entries, 16 yards. The scores made in tbe DuPont Irophy race in May were: J. Miller 15, E. Jamison 14, J. Pedrick 16, Silvey 8, Rohwer 15, Peterson 20, C. T. King 20, Gratton 14, Agee 18, McElwaine 20, Geithle 15, W. Perdiok, G. Zenter 10, H. Zeuter 16, C. Meyer 13, T. Feuduer 12, A. Bensen 16, Chas. King 17, King, Peterson aod McElwaine tied. Shoot off King won the trophy. 15 targets, pool shooting — J. Miller 12, L Geitble 10, E. Jamsion 5, Fuedner 3, McElwaine 10, Bensen 9, Rohwer 10, Gratton 11, Chas. King 11, C. E. King 12, W. D. Peterson 14, Silvey 4. ' The Santa Maria Gun Club held .the first shoot for the Peters Cart- ridge Company's silver cup on Sun- day, May 20th. The scores at 25 targets were: E. T. Bryant 23, .1. Eschilsen 19, A. L. Smith 16, E. E. Bryant 16, Dr. Dart 14, Guthrie 14, Lockwood 9, Chas. Whaley 7, S. T. Coiner 4. At a recent Paso Roble9 Gun Club practice shoot the scores resulting in three events were tbe following: At 20 targets — Tognazzini 15, Johnson 16, Gaxiola 12, Dr. Crees 6, Janey 10, Mader 12. McDaniel Jr. 11, Motfield 10, Gaxiol Jr. 14, McDaniels 7, Brendlinl 2, Keller 11, Woods 5. Team shoot, 'l0 targets: — Johnson 8, Gaixol Jr,. 1, Mader 6, Keller 3, Motfield 8, Crees 3, McDaniels 4, total 33; Tognazzini 6, Gaxiola 4, BrendJiu 3, McDaniels 5 Jauney 8, Wood 5, Crees 4, total 5. Team shoot, 10 targets--Mot field 6, Gaxiola 5, J. McDaniels 3, Keller 5, Wood 4, total 24; Janey 5, Tognazzini 9, Brendin 6, Mader 1, Cr.es 4, total 26. Two well known San Francisco trap shots participtated in the Multnomah Rod and Gun Club shoot at It">ingtou June 3d, W. A. Robert- son and Clarence Ashlin, both members of the Union Gun Club of San Francisco. In two 25 target shoots the scores were: W. E. Carlon 19, 23; E. E. Young 17, 20; W. B. Fech- beimer 17, 18; Charles Waguer 20, 20; A. E. Guist 15, 18; J. L. Bell 17, 23; H. R. Ellis 23, 20; Frank Geiser 18, 19; H. Meister 15; C. H. Collier 22; 20; N. Norwood 16, 16; W. A. Robertson, guest, 20, 24 ; Clarence Ashlin, guest, 20, 24; Mrs. Webster Holmes, guest, 17, 19; .1. M. Brown, of Chicago, guest, 17, 19. The San Francisco shooters hold tbeir own with the Oregon cracks* Mrs. Holmes is tbe cbampion lady shooter of Salem, Oregon. J. M. Brown is a well known Eastern shooter identified for years with the Illinois tournaments. A good crowd witnessed the second monthly tournament of the South- western Gun Club a = socition which w s held at Elma, Wash., on Decor- ation Day uuder the auspices of the Elma Gun Club. The weatner was cold and the wind strong and puffy, which accounts for the low scores of the entire shoot. Time was called promptly at 8 :3C a. m. and continu- ed the shoot til the last tie was shot off at 7 p. m. For bigb gun, Gil- christ and Fennell tied, 145 out of 175. Cooper- came iu second 141, and Sam Wray third 139. Gilchrist aud MoLaughlin tied for the individual championship medal 23 out of 25, and Gilchrist won out in tbe finals. J. Fennell won the California Towder Works cup. The team sboot was won by the South Tacoma leam in tbe finals though it was tied with the Elma first team in the event Mrs. Ed. Storey won the woman's high average after a tie with Mrs. Arland and Mrs. Wray. After a tie with Miss Lulu Campbell, Mrs. Aenew won tbe second high gun for women. The next shoot will come off at Tacoma July 3 and 4. The Tuscon Gun Club held a shoot on the 1st. The club is gettiog ready for the annual territioriaj tournment in September when New Mexico and Texas teams will shoot with Arizona's best The Texas-New Mexico clubs were added to tbo assocition at the last meeting. At tbe Seattle Gun Club shoot May 27th on the Interbay grounds, Mitchell iidd the DuPont cup race 19 out of 25. In tbe medal sboot Cowley 22 out of 25 won in class A; Fischer 23 in class B, and Moore 18 in class C. We note a new phase in the sport of trap shootiug and from the far away Hawaiian Islands. The Oahu Gun Club is composed mainly of Chinese members and has a well established ground in Palolo valley. Fifteen members were participants at the initilal club blue rock shoot early in May. Kobinson (Anglicised for Chop Suey) scored 9 out of 10 and Chang broke 8 out of 10. The other Chinks were probably a little wild asd did not get on to many targets for tbe scores were not given. Nevertheless they had a good start at tbe> game. Who knows but there will eventually be established a set of traps at Pekin iu the Imperial grounds. Well, tbe more the merrier. The club will hold regular Sunday shoots during the summer. What a unny thing it must be to hear a bunch of Chinamen telling each other about how they shot too high at that left qnarterer from No 1, etc, etc., and all the small talk that goes wilh a comparisng of scoresr "Too muchee fast high. No likee him. G'ivot dim! Hop die go mesey." L. Todbunters' two year old colt Just Litsen by Zornbro 2:11, paced a mile recently over the Sacramento tt-i-ck in 2:33. This colt is a full brother to Zombogette 2:16 and the three year old Silver Hunter. The Sacramento Driving Club will give its first matinee at the State Fair Grounds, Agricultural Park, on Suuday, June 17tb. The Oak Park Driving Club will contribute one race to the card, returning the compli- ment of the Scrameuto club, that added a race to the cluh card of May 23il. The two clubs will probably unite in Eiviog u six race program on July 4th. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Payments in Stanford Stakes Payments were made June ist on tbe following foals entered in the Stanford Stakes of 1906, 1907 and 1908: Entries making fourth payments of Sio each in the Stan- ford Stake of 1906— Alex Brown's b. f. Red Blossom by Nusbagak-Redflower. Mrs. S. V. Barstow's Nearest McKinney br. c. by McKinney- Maud J Russell Gray's b. c, Walter G, by Nutwood Wilkes-Bessie C. Ray Dlttus' b c. Our Bells by Monbells-Maiden. M. G. Gill's br. c. Kinney G., by Kinney Lou-Mattie G. W. C. McCullys' blk. c. Gen'l Torres by Neernut-Concba. Wm. Morgan's b. c. Crisis by ' Zombro-Nellie K. Thos. Smith's Prof- Heald ch. c. by Nutwood Wilkes-Daisy S. L. H. Todhunter's b. c. Gerald G. by ZombroStella. L. H. Tcdhunter's br. c. Silver unter by ZombroTbe Silver Bell. Vendomc Stock Farm's b. s. Alto Kinney, by McKinney- Irantilla. Geo. L. Warlow's blk. s. Stan- ford McKinney by McKinney- Avena. Sutherland and Chadborune's b. c. Sam G. by Stain B.-Bertie. Entries making third payment of $10 each in the Stanford Stake 1907 — Mrs- S. V. Barstow's br. gf. Miss Alright by Greco-Maud J. T. W. Barstow's T. W. B., br. c. by Nearest-Bessie S. W- O. Bowers ch. c. W. O. B- by Silver Bee-Sadie Benton. I- L. Bordens' Cresco Belle ch. f- by Cresco Wilkes-Alice Bell- Thos. H. Brent's b. f. Reina del Norte by Del Norte-Laurelia. Alex. Brown's br. f- Nocha by NusbagakPioche. Alex. Brown's br. f- Tbe Bloom by Nusbagak-Redflower. Alex. Brown's b. c. Harold M. by Prince Ansel-Mamie Martin. Alex. Brown's Prince Lot by Prince Ansel-Lottie. C. L. Crellin'sb. c- The Limit by Searchlight-Bertha. Cbas. R. Detrick's br- c. by Searchligbt-Jaunita. Mrs. L. J. H. Hastings's blk. f. Lady H. by Coronado-I.ady Gussie. \V. G. Durfee's blk. c. Coron- ado by Ashewood. W. G. Durfee's b. c. by Petigru- Ida Direct. W. G. Durfee's Petigru-Joannah Treat. C. E. Farnum's Marcus Aurelius ch- c. by Cupid Hock- Flossie. E. A. Gammon's b. c. Ed. Geersby Bayswater WilkesUrana- Fred Vadhatn's b. c. Alone Hasting:-, by Petigru-Juliet D. F. Hahu's blk. f. by Cbas. Der- by-Nellie Emmoliue. E. P. Heald's blk. c. Tommy Murphy by Monterey-Honor. J. A. Jones blk. c. Chehalem by Capt. Jones-Daisy Q. Hill. La Siesta Stock Farm's Mogo- lore b. c. by Iran Alto-Lady Belle Isle. M. L. Lusk's b. c. Zeleso by Zombro-Sallie Brooks. D. S. Mathew's b. f. Valentine B. by Edward B. Rhoney G. W- J. Miller's br. f. Ellen M. by Guy McKinuey-Kit. M. A. Murphy's b. f. by Zom- bro-Maid of Monterey. M. A. Murphy's b. f. by Zom- bro-Nellie Bly. H.T Owens IreDe Ayers, b. f. , by Iris-Babe. Thos. Smith's b. f Marguerite Hunt by Nutwood Wilkes-Daisy S. Jas- J. Summerfield's b. c. Lord Dillon by Sidney Dillon-Roblet. L. H. Todhunter's br. c. Flash by Azmoor-Bestella. Valencia Stock Farm's b. c. Captiain by Direct Heir-Rosedrop. Geo. L- Warlow's b. c. Nogi by Athablo-Cora Wickersbam. Geo. L. Warlow's b. f. Soisette by Guy McKiney-Narcuba. Entries making first payment of $5.00 each in the Stanford Stake of 1908. I. L. Borden's Juliet ch. c. f. by Moterey-LaBelle Altamout. W. O. Bower's ch. f. Betty Direct-Betsy B. Alex. Brown's br. c. Nusado by Nushagak-Addie B. Alex. Brown's gr. c. Nupolo by Nusbagak-Serpolo. Alex. Brown's b. c. Bigelow by Prince Ansel-Bonnie Derby. Alex. Browns b. f- Anjella by Prince Ansel-Majella B. S. Christenson's b. f. by Stam B. Perza. W. A. Clarks b. f. Monida by Nutwood Wilkes-Ruth Mary. James Coffin's Suergus Witte by Cassiau-Secretary. James Coffin's San Felipe by Zombro-Etta J. James Coffin's Rose Lecco by Lecco-Rose McKinney. C. L. Crellin's b. f. Beretta by Search light-Berth a. Geo. A. Creasy's b. c. by Chas. Derby-Elsie. Rick DeBernrardi's b. c. Kinney Rick by Kinney Lou-lone D. W. G, Durfee's b. s. by Coruado- Lulu Wilkes. C. A. Durfees' blk. c. Dr. Lecco by Lecco-Bessie D. A. Morris Fosdick's b. f. Lulu K. by Kinny Lou-Athena. E. H. Gammon's b. m. Cleo Dillon by Sidney DillonCleo G. F. Gommet's b. f. by Alta Vela- Zorilla. Charles A. Graves' b. h. Rosa- mond by Hurler-Saly Payne. Mrs. L. J. H. Hasting's br. c. California Boy by Coronado-Lady Gossip. F. Hahn's b. s. Gold Bond by Chas. Derby-Nellie Emmoline. Henry Hahn's b. f. Alameda by Stam B. -Henrietta. C. Z. Hebert's h. c. by Delphi- Altoonita. S. H. Hoy's b. f. Julia by Jules Veru- Privateer. W. H. Hoy's b. c. Ernest by Scott McKinney-Amy I. J. A. Jones' blk. s. General Jones by Capt. Jones- Daisy (J. Hill. J. A. Jones' Alta by Capt. Jones- Alta Nort. J. A. Jones blk. f. Sakaiawea by Capt. Jones-Lady Beach. Rudolf Jordan, Jr., br. c. El Pronto by Stam B. -Vantrim. Geo. A. Kelly Jr. b. h. Bonk- in by Bonnie McK.-Constancia. J. A. Kirkhams blk. f. Idolway by Stonewa3'-Carrie. La Siesta Ranchs b. c. Siesta by Iran Alto-Lady Belle Isle. J. W. Marsballs b. g. Julius V. by Jules Verne— Sophia. William Morgan's br. s. Traverse by Direcho-Grace McK. John O'Keefe's b. Sobre Vista by Alta Vela-Elma. L. H. Todhunter's br. c. Zombro-The Silver Bell. L. H. Todhunter's b. f. by Zom- bro-Loma B. J. H. Torrey's f. b. Bessie T. by Zombro-Manilala. Valencia Stock Farm's br. c. by Direct Heir-La Belle. Valencia Stock Farm's blk. f. bj' Direct Heir Rosedrop. Geo. L- Warlow's b. s. Cordero by Athablo-Lustrine. P. R. Watt's blk. m. Nelly J. by Peter J.-Nellie Bly. E. R. Wheliham's ch. c. Calif- ornia Boy by Dictatus-Bell Pat- chen. Mrs. Alma Whiteheads br. f. Miss Delpbi-The Mrs. T. D. Whitlery's blk. c. by Bon- nie Direct, by Guy Wilkes. J. W. Zibbell's b. f. Katalina by Tom Smith-Kate Lumrv. Half-mile — Purse Sioo; weight for age. Three-quarter-mile — Purse $125; weight for age. Monday, July 2d. 2:45 class — Purse $150; trotting or pacing; three best in five. Free-for-all — trotting and pacing — Purse $300. One and one-half mile running — Pures $250; weight for age. Five-eight-mile dash — Purse $100; weight for age. No entrance lee will be charged, and 10 per cent, will be deducted from all winners, the division of all prizes being 60, 25 and 15 per cent, of the purse. Meeting at Victoria There will be two days racing at the Victoria, B. C, track on Satur- day, June 30th and Monday,. July 2d. The purses will aggregate $1500. Mr. J. A. Fullercon has been requested to act as judge, with D. E. Campbell, J. G. Mitchell, C. A. Harrison and D. R. Kar as associate judges. The program was arranged as follows: Saturday, June 30th. Gentlemen's driving race — Purse $125: half mile heats; best three in five, trotting or pacing; open to horses without a mark, owners and amateurs to drive. 2:30 class — Purse $200; best three in live; trotting or pacing. One mile— Purse §150; weight for age. Marysville Meeting The race meeting given by the Sutter and Yuba Driving Club at Marysville June ist, 2d and 3d was a success so far as the races were concerned but the attendance was not very large and the club lost about $80 on the venture. Several circumstances preveuled the meeting being a financial success. The meeting was postponed from its original date and counter attractions kept many away. The summaries of the harness events during the meeting are as follows: First Day Trotting 2:30 class, $100 Easter Bells, b m. Vance 1-2-1-2-1 Kid, b g, Johnson 2-1-2-1-2 Baion Bretto, bs, Leech 3-4-4-3-3 Silver Bells, s m., Gomez 4-3-3-5-4 Alfred J., b r g, Duncan 5-5-5-4-5 Time 2:30^2, 2:22^4, 2:26, 2:27, 22:7. Pacing, 2:30 class, $100. Kenny, b g, Duncau 3-1-1-2-1 Sir John S, bs, Vance 4-2-2-1-2 Lena A., b m, Gibbonslin 1-3-3-3-3 Babe, b m, McGurder 2-4-4-4-4 Time 2=26, 2:21 1», 2:25^, 2:27, 2:21^. Second Day Pacing, three year olds, purse $50. Moutea, b s, Ohleyer 1-1 Maxine, c f, Moore 2-2 Time 2:25 2:30. Special, two year olds, }4 mile heats. King S., s s, Strain 1-0-1 Anona, b f, Leech 2-0-2 Edward D, Donnelly " 3-3-3 Time 1:32, 1:31, 1:36. Third Day Trotting, 2:30 class $100. Silver Bells, s m, Gomez 1-1 Baron Bretto, Leech 2-2 Time 2:25, 2:30 Special, free for all, mixed, $100. Sir John S, b s, Vance 1-3-1 Kenney. b g, Duncan, 2-1-2 Easter Bells' b m, Renetti 3-2-3 Time 2:31, 2:30 2:18. There were two or three running races each day of tbe meeting. Your stomach is 0. K. if your drink Jackson's Napa Soda. * THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Judge Townsend's Decision Following is the full text of the decision of Judge Townsend of the United States District Court of Connecticut, in refusing the ap- plication of the Memphis Trotting Association, for an injunction against the National Trotting Association in the Lou Dillon case: "This bill is not filed to re- strain the defendant from expell- ing the the complainant iroin the defendant association, nor does this bill seek, except inferentially, to restrain the dealings between agents of the defendant association and persons who may hereafter be called upon to testify in the re- plevin suit which is pending in New York. "This bill is filed to prevent the defendant from holding a meeting of its Board of Review, to make inquiry into certain charges with regard to the drugging of this Lou Dillon. Now, it is claimed, and the argument is pressed with much force, that this perliminary injun- ction should be granted on the ground — providing the questions of law and fact are doubtful — that to withdraw the injunction would inflict irreparable injury upon the complainant. In support of that proposition it is said that the finding of this Board of Review would have such force with the Court in the re- plevin proceedings as to be practic- al^7 a matter of res adjudicata, and at least for the preservation of its rights the complainant should have brought the applic- ation. It is also suggested that other damage may follow, over which bis court has no control- Now, no proposition is better settled than that there can be no res adjudicata where the issues are entirely distinct and involve different causes of action. The cause of action in the replevin suit is a question of title; the cause of action — if I may term it such — or the question before the board of review is whether some- body drugged Lou Dillon, and that question was deliberately referred by this complaint, by his own preferment of charges to this board of review and with a re- quest that they would investigate the matter, when he already had an action pending in the state of New York to determine the title to the cup. Thus by his own con- duct he indicated that the two questions were distinct and separ- ate. The one is not couclusive as to the other, but even now he may have made that application upon an agreement that the hearing before the board of review should be postponed ; yet the conduct of bis counsel in asking for a con- tinuance upon other grounds, with- out making any such suggestion was brought and the hearing call- ed for by him, as indicated in his application, points strongly to the contrary view. That question, however, is not material here. The claim is made that this decision of the board will be affected by certain fraudulent con- spiracies and attempts to deprive the complainant of bis legal rights. The fact, if it be a fact, is open to the complaint to prove, either in the replevin suit in New York, or by appropriate proceed- ings or review of any such decision before a proper tribunal. And therefore there is no damage which can follow — there is no damage or irreparable injury ac- cruing to this complaint which would justify a court of equity to set its machinery in motion, and to grant the extraordinary remedy of a preliminary injunction, when the theory upon which the applic- ation is made, is that a tribunal, to whose jurisdiction he has himself voluntarily submitted, by his admission, on the theory ad- vanced before hand that the tribun- al will not give him a fair hearing. The motion for the injunction is therefore denied. interfere with their operations t is summer. A team of horses, weighing about 1200 pounds is quoted to railroad men at $400 to $500 and four-horse teams have been held at from $900 to $1000. With construction work just starting on the Chicago, Mil- waukee and St. Paul, work being planed for the Harriman ex- tension, construction expected to be ordered this year on Hill's ex- tension through British Columbia and numerous other railroad projects under way, the demands of railroad contractors will be very heav}r. This demand will con- tinue, too, for a year or more. Horses in Demand Everywhere Railroad building on a large scale in California and Nevada, and the tremendous amount of clearing and construction work under way in San Francisco has made the demand for draft stock far exeped the supply here, and the situation is the same in Washington as will be seen by the following from the Seattle Tim^s of June 6th : Draft horses are being shipped into Washington for railroad work from the states as far east as Iowa. The importations from Montana have been heavy and continued, but Montana will find a use for most of its own horses and this state will have to go farther east for the supply that must be bad this summer. The demand for horses in the camps of railroad contractors and for the Alaksa trade is responsible for a shortage that seriously affects operations. The H rri- man line, ready to send out two corps of enigueers to make a de- finite location of the line south of Tacoma, has not yet been able to purchase satisfactory teams and the road only wants twelve horses. Extensive ditch building oper- ations in Alaska this summer will call for all the horses that can be taken north. It is feared by railroad contractors that the Xome demand will deplete the supply in this state and seriously Shoeing the Pacer The paciing gait is that of a horse that brings the- front and hind feet on one side forward at the same time, placing them on the ground, and then bringing the feet on the other side forward in the same way, alternating first on one side then the other, writes J. P. Adams, in the Horseshoers Journal. There are several ways ot going that are related to the pace; one is the amble, which is a slow pace of shorter stride and quicker action; another is the single foot, a gEit used by saddle horsei very largely and one that speed cannot be attained at. The racking gait is that of a horse going at the pace but swings his feet in a circular motion, landing near a straight line which is central to the body, which gives to the horse when in motion a swinging or swaying from side to side appearance, not seen in a smooth-going pacer, or in fact in any other gait or way of going. Extreme speed cannot be acquired at this way of going. The pacing gait is not as varied as the trot, but the two ways of going are inter- changeable, breeding does not control either giat. Some of the very best pacers are trotting bred and some of the high class trotters are pacing bred, and sometimes a pacer will be trotting-gaited in front. Such horses may have a great turn of speed, but usually are not very reliable. To balance the pacer by shoeing is often as trying and calls for as much skill as to balance a trotter. The pacer that is so sure of his eait that he will not have to wear hobbles to keep 1-im going steady and ot shift this gait or make a break, when called upon for a supreme effort, are few. The inclanation of a pacer to break is more serious than the same propensity in a trotter, because when a pacer makes a break or loses his stride it is very much more of a problem to get him hack to his stride without loss of all chance of winning the heat, if he does not get the flag, which is not unlikely with the majority of pacers when they make a break during a race. It is utterly im- possible to balance some pacers by shoeing so that thej- can be relied on for race purposes. In such cases the best results will be obtained by Laming what the defects in his gait are and then shoe to improve his way of going. As a general thing pacers require light weight shoes, both in front and behind, but occasionally a case will be met with that will require heavy shoes all around or possibly only a pair, either in front or behind. When a horse is uncertain in his way of going but is inclined to pace, a heavy shoe, made entirely plain, without calks, Put on behind, will have the effect of settling the horse in a steady pace. Care should be taken not to drive the horse faster than he will go with a true and even stride, because in cases of this kind the gait or way of going will be mostly acquired. That many horses can be taught to go very fast, at either the trot or pace, is shown by horses getting fast records at both ways of going. More mixed gaited pacers can be balanced by shoeing them behind than in front. Weight on pacers' hind feet has near the same balancing effect that it does on the trotters' front feet. Most pacers like their feet rather short, a long toed pacer being very unusual. I have a case in mind that re- quired all the weight in the shoes that was convenient to put on both front and behind; the weight bad the effect of regulating the stride. The weight was reduced as fast as possible until within uinety days the horse was wear- ing a set of light weight shoes and going fast and steady. Almost all pacers go best with a shoe that affords a hold on the ground, because the pacer depends upon tbe toe of his shoe to propel him telf along with, more than a trotter. A pure gaited and natural pacer can be shod without any trouble; usually the best results can be had by using a shoe as light as the character of the foot and work will permit, dress the feet to a natural size, with the length of toes alike and the same angle. If the horse is used for speed purposes, a flat shoe for the front feet with calks, and behind. a shoe usually a little lighter than the front ones, with calks, or a swedged shoe will be found to suit a great many pacers. I have known several very high class pacers that wore twelve to fourteen ounce shoes in front and eight or ten ounce behind, and the weight was not reduced until after 8 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN they had campaigned one or two seasons. Another case was a horse that was trained at the trotting gait for two years, and when watching him work I made the remark that it would take about fifteen minutes to make a fast pacer of him. The chauge was made by putting twelve ounce shoes on behind, and within thirty days he wore six ounce shoes be- hind and could show quarters in thirty-two seconds. Another ex- perience was with a horse that was trained for pacing with indifferent success because he persisted in shifting into a trot. We concluded to let him go at that gait, and we put on a pail of sixteen ounce shoes in front with the result that we had a smooth and pure gaited trotter. Such are the peculiarities of the pacer that no rule can possibly be laid down that will work even in the majority of cases. Sebastopol, Sonoma county, has a newly organized driving club which will give matiuees during the summer. At Vallejo Track Joe Corey is here with a string of six or seven good prospects and is to have an addition to his string in a few days. Thos. Smith is handling Vallejo Girl, Princess Washington, Prof. Heald and Gen. J. B. Frisbie. The first two stepped down the stretch in theii workout over a heavy track, the last quarter in 33 seconds the other day. Prof. Heald is bv Nutwood Wilkes 2:16^2 out of the great brood mare Daisy S., dam of Tom Smith 2:i3'+' and three more in the list. He is a beautifully gaited colt and can step fast. Barring accidents he should get a slice of the rich sakes this fall. The track is now in good order and the Vallejo people are anxious to have the Breeder's Association hold a meeting there this summer, and are willing to put up some money. Vallejo is enjoying a boom just now and it looks as though the Breeders could give a paying meeting this year. California Dates Claimed Santa Ana, Cal. July 4-7 Sail BernardiDO, Cal. Julyl 1-14 L.08 AnRelPS, Cal. July 18-2] Woodluand, Cal.. Hreeders, Aug. 15-18 Sacramento, Cal., State Pair, dag. 2:, Sopt 1. POSITION WAN'I Til) After July I -1 , to take charge of one ire Btalliona or stock farm. Bea 1 expei ience, and nil "ill 1 qu ilifical ions ;i FKANK RIPLEY, Byron, Oil. 1 .u< of II. Busing, 672-6S01M1 Ave. Buck of the Chutes All klnda of Horses bought and sold. W. A. CLARK, Jr., President A. D. GALBRAITH, Secretary THE Z1BBELL STABLE ZIBJiEI.I. i SON, Proprietors San Francisco, CaL. Boarding, Training and Handling all kinds of Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand. Take u going to the Chutes. Tel. West '25,1 HOLSTEINS- BrTTEK BRED FAMILIES \V,.rk Herd; 90 per cent winners at State and county fairs, show ring, and every butter con- test since 1885 in California. No reservations. Stock near S. F. F. H. Bubke, 2126 Fillmore St. San Francisco. BLAKE, MOFFIT & TOWME Dealers in PAPER No. 403 Twelfth St., Oakland BI.AKE, MOFFIT A TOWNE, BLAKE, McFAI.L A CO., Los Angeles Portland. Or. Young McKinney Stallion FOR SALE I offer for sale my young stallion CAELOKIN, record 2:20% as a three year old. He is by McKinny and out of the great brood mare Carlotta Wilkes (dam of Volita 2:15J£, Carlocita 2:241-^ and Carlokin 2:20?i'), by Charley Wilkes 3563, second dam Aspasia, dam of Faus- tina 2:19U by Alcantara 729, etc. Carlo- kin is standard and registered, and can show a mile at the trot now in 2:13 or better. I believe he will trot in 2:10 this year. Will sell him at a reasonable figure "for cash. He is a game race horse and his first crop of colts foaled this year are as fine lookers as can be found anywhere. Correspondence invited. Address C. L. JONES, Modesto. IT SAFETY IMPREGNATING OUTFIT Practical and durable and is easily used. Gets in foal all mare-; bred w*nh it. and trreatlv increases the income from vour stallion. GUARANTEED tnp'Dduce results A ne'-essitvin evcrv hr^eHiiv^taMe. Write for descrip- tive circular. Price nfOUTFIT, complete, $7.50 I.O.' FUTTE\nE>\ 9 FOX TLD'G. ELTRIA. OHIO. Veterinary Experience Infallible guide to horse health. 100 page book, free. Symptoms of all diseases and treatment, by eminent veterinary, com- pounder of TUTTLE'S ELIXIR. Sure cure for curb, colic, splint, recent shoe boils, most horse ailments. £100. reward for failure where we say it will cure. Tutlle's American Worm Powders never fail. Tultle's Family Elixir, greatest of all household liniments. Wiite for f1w> book. TUTTLE'S ELIXIR CO., 52 Beverly St., Boston, Mass. Mack & Co. , San Irancisco and F. W, Braun, Lot Angeles, California Agents. TakeHnight. Haves or Elli.o Street Car T. C. CABNEY, Prop. Phone: Park 436 PANHANDLE STABLES Horses, Bought, Sold and Clipped AT POPULAR PRICES Horses Boarded, Traiued, Gaited, Exercised 1225-1227 FELL STREET Bet. Devisadero and Broflerick Streets SAX FRANCISCO IMyLicKIt As tHey w&nt it COMPRESSED ' PURE-SALT BRICKS •n PATENT FEEDERS. - The sane, economical, handy , way of salting animals. k ..^AsH Dealers. " Write us for Booh. BELM0Nt5MlESUPPLY(O PATENTEES- MANUFACTURERS- BROOI^LYN.N.Y JERSKYP, HOLSTEINS AND IH'KIIAMN- Daii > ■-'<•• k specialty. Hogs, Poultry. Estab- lished IS76, William Nilea & Co., Los Angeles Cal. Butte Fair and Racing Association BTJTTE, MONTANA August 21 to Sepsember 7, 1906 Entries to Running Stakes close July 1st, 1906 Entries to Harness Purses close August 10th, 1906 FIRST DAT — Tuesday, August Slst* Stake — 2:25 pace, $1,000. (Closed.) Purse — 2:08 pace, $500. Running Stake — Opening handicap for 3-vear-olds and upwards, 6 furlongs, $500. (To close July 1st) Running Purse — ^4-mile running purse, $200. Running Purse — 4V> furlongs running purse, 5200. SECOND DAT — Wednesday, Aug. 22d. Stake — Three year-old trot, $500. (Closed.^ Purse — 2:16 trot, $b00. Running Purse — 4^> furlongs running purse for Montana-bred 3-year-olds, $200. Running Purse — 94-mile handicap, $200. Running Purse— Special. THIRD DAT — Thursday, Aug. 23d. Elks' Day. Stake — Three- jrear-old pace, $500. (Closed.) 2:20 class matinee trotters (cup), own- ers to drive. Two in three. Running Stake — Elks' handicap for 3- year-olds and upwards, 1 mile, $500. (To close July 1st.) Running Purse — %-mile selling purse, S200. Running Purse — 5 furlongs, selling purse, $200. FOURTH DAT — Friday, Aug. 24th. Purse — 2:40 trot, $o00. 2:19 class matinee pacers (cup), own- ers to drive. Two in three. Running Purse — 1 mile running purse. $200. Running $200. Runnin Purse- -mile selling purse, Purse — Special, $150. FIFTH DAT — Saturday, Aug. 25th Purse — 2: 15 pace, $500. Purse — 2:24 trot. $500. Runnng Purse — % -mile running purse, $200. Running Purse — 5 furlongs running purse, $200. Running Purse — Special, $150. SIXTH DAT — Monday, Aug. 27th. Stake — 2:20 trot, $1,000. (Closed.) Purse — 2:09 trot, $500. Running Purse — 7 furlongs running purse, $200. Running Purse — 5 furlongs running purse, $200. Running Purse — Special. SEVENTH DAT — Tuesday, Aug. 28th. Stake — 2:1S pace, $1,000. (Closed.) Purse — Two-year-old trot. $300. Running Purse — 1 1-16-mile running purse, $200. Running Purse — ^4 -mile running purse, $200. Running Purse — Special. EIGHTH DAT — Wednesday, Aug. 29th. Stake — 2:14 trot, $1,000. (Closed.) Purse — Three-vear-old trot, $300. Butte Selling Stake — 7/8-mile, $500. (To close July 1st.) Running Purse — V>-mile handicap, $200. Running Purse — 6^ furlongs, handi- cap, $200. TENTH DAT — Friday, Aug. 31st. Purse — Free-for-All pace, $750. purSe — 2:34 trot, $500. Running Purse — 1-mile running purse, $200. Running Purse — 3*£ furlongs running purse, $200. Running Purse — Special. TENTH DAT — Aug. 31st. Ladies' Day. Stake — 2:30 trot, $1,000. (Closed.) Purse — Three-year-old pace, $300. Running Stake — Woman's Club stake for 2-year-olds, $500, V* mile. (To close July 1st.) Running Purse — 7 furlongs selling purse, $200. Running Purse — 5 V£ furlongs selling purse, $200. ELEVENTH DAT — Saturday, Sept 1st. Miners' Day. Purse — 2:27 trot. $500. Purse — 2:21 pace, $500. Running Stake — Miners' Union selling race, % mile. (To close July 1st.) Running Purse — 1 mile selling purse, $200. Running purse, 6 furlongs, handicap, $200. TWELFTH DAT — Monday, Sept. 3d. Labor Day- Stake — 2:10 pace, $1,000. (Closed.) Purse — Free-for-All trot, $750. Running Stake — Labor Day handicap, for three-year-olds and upwards, 1 % miles. $1,000. (To close July 1st.) Running Purse — Vi-roile running purse, $200. Running Purse — 5 furlongs running purse, $250. Program of races for Sept. 4, 5, 6 and 7 will be made up on Aug. 21 anil 22, in order to accommodate classes not represented on this program. CONDITIONS OF BTJTTE HARNESS EVENTS All Harness Races Shall Be on the Three-Heat Flan Money divided at the end of each heat, except the matinee classes. These .shall be two in three, no race to ex- Eutry blanks and any furlhiT Inform; tion fui A. D. GALBRAITH, Secretary, ceed three heats, and in case no one horse has won two heats, the horses to be placed according to the standing at the end of the third heat. Money di- vided 50, 25, 15 and 10, with 5 per cent, entrance and 5 per cent, additional from winners of first and second money. Entrance to Furse Classes to Close August 10th. Complete description of horse must accompany the nomination fee. AU Nominations Must Be Accompah* ied With Cash. Any horse not finishing within 100 yards of the winner in any heat will be barred from further competition in the event. No conditional entries accepted, but two horses may be named by the same owner in same purse and held for but one entrance, but the starting horse must be named before 12 o'clock the day before the race. We reserve the right to declare off or re-open any race not filling satisfactorily by refunding entrance money, and to declare off or postpone races on account of bad weather. There must be four starters. Applications for stables should be sent to the Secretary, stating the num- ber of horses to arrive, in order to re- serve stalls. Records made August 1st or after will not constitute a bar for PURSE races in the Montana Circuit. Records made subsequently to AFRIL 10th will not constitute a bar in. STAKE engagements throughout the Circuit. American Trotting Association rules to govern, except hopples not barred on horses over three years old. All running races, except the run- ning stakes, are over-night events. Running" stakes to close with nomin- ation Fee payable July 1, 1S06. CONDITIONS OF "EARLT CLOSING RUNNING STAKES" 1. Opening Handicap for 3-year- olds and upwards $500 $5.00 to accompany the nomination and $20.00 to start. Weight to appear three days before the race. Accept- ance to be made through entry box the day preceding the race before 11:30 a. m. Distance 6 furlongs. 2. Eutte City Selling Stake, any age $500 $5.00 to accompany nomination and $20.00 to start. Horses entered at $2,500 to carry weight for age. If for less, two pounds allowed for each $500 to $l.o00, then one pound for each $100 to $1,000; then two pounds for each $100 to $500. Entries to be made through entry box, with selling prices, the day preceding the race at 11:30 a. m. Distance % mile. 3. Elks' Handicap for 3-vear olds $500 $5.00 to accompany nomination and $20.00 to start. Colts to carry 122 pounds; geldings 119 pounds; fillies 117 pounds. Allowances: Non-winners of stakes in 1906 or of five or more races I selling races not counted) since May 1, allowed twelve pounds. Distance, 1 mile. 4. Woman's Club Stakes for 2- year-olds $500 $5.00 to accompany the nomination and $20.00 to start; three pounds below the scale. Stake winners or winners of four or more races of any value since April 15 to carry seven pounds extra; three races of any value since that date, six pounds extra. Allowances: Maidens three pounds, beaten maidens seven pounds. Entrance to be made through entry box by 11 :30 a. m. the day preceding the day of race. Weights published three days prior to race. Dis- tance y* mile. 5. Labor Day Handicap for 3-year- olds and upward $1,000 $20.00 to accompany nominations July 1, $30.00 to start. - The associa- tion to add enough to make the stake worth $1,000, of which $250 goes to second, $100 to third and $50 to fourth. Distance 1 '4 miles. Three Running Races daily and prob- ably four. Purses average $200 for over- night events. NOTICE — Butte has ample stalls for over 600 head of horses, with plenty of water, etc. In order to secure and have reserved stalls, write the Secre- tary, stating number of horses and date of arrival. No conditional entries accepted, and no nomination accepted except accompanied by entrance fee. Honey can be had immediately after the judge's decision in any event. We reserve the right to declare off or re- open any stake not filling satisfactorily by refunding entrance money, and also to declare off or postpone races on ac- count of bad weather. Must be four starters in each event. Running Stakes Close and First Pay- ment July 1. 1906. Books, Auction and Mutual Pools used, nished on application. Butte. Montana THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN GUARANTEED STAKES PACIFIC COAST TROTTING IiOR.SE B^EEDER.S ASSOCIATION Woodland, August 15th to 18th, 1906 Entries to Close Monday, July 2nd, 1906 •- Horses to be named with entry programme: FRIDAY, AUGUST 17. 7. Futurity Pace, 2 Year Old Division $ 950- 8. Golden Gate Stakes, 2:09 Class Pace 800. 9. Sunset Stakes, Free-for-M Trot 800. SA TURD A Y, A UGUST 18. 10. Futurity Trot, 3 Year Old Division $2300. 11. Pacific Slope Stakes, 2:20 Class Pace 1500. 12. Woodland Stakes, 2:18 Class Trot 500. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 1. California Stakes, 2:24 Class Trot $1500. 2. Julian Hotel Stakes, 2:12 Class Pace 500. 3. Alex. Brown Stakes. 2:16 Class Pace... 500. THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 4. Futurity Trot, 2 Year Old Division. 5. Byrnes Hotel Stakes, 2:13 Class Trot 6. Futurity Pace, 3 Year Old Division $1450. 500. 1300. STAKES divided 50— M — 1 .s and 10 per cent. Entrance 5 per cent the amount of the stakes will be deducted from each money won. For entry blanks and conditions address the secretary. Member National Trotting Association LIBERAL STAKES FOR OTHER CLASSES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. E. P. HEALD, President F. W. KELLEY. Secretary Office: 709 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. P. O. Drawer 447 McMURRAY Especially Adapted for Training and Matinee Driving PRIQE LOW. McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS STANDARD THE WORLD OVER Address for printed matter and prices W. J. FvENNEY 3739 17th St., San Francisco, Cal. Sales-Agent for California Warranted to give satisfaction. GOMBAULT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM A safe, speedy and 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. A3 a HITMAN REMEDY for Bhen* mallim, Spralm, Sore Throat, et«., it la invaluable. Everv bottle of Caustic Balaam sold Is Warranted to trive witi.-rai.tlon. Price SI. SO per bottlfc. Sold by drutrtrists, or sent by ex- press, uharpes paid, with full directions for It3 use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address THE LAWRENCE-WILLIAMS COXPAKT, Cleveland, Ohio- " HOWARD SHORTHORNS" — QTJINTO rlERD— 77 premiums, California Plate Fairs I902-S-4, Registered cuttle of beef and milking families for s,ile. Write us what you want. Howard Cattle Co., San Mateo. LOS ANGELES and SANTA ANA RACE MEETING SANTA ANA LOS ANGELES July 18th to 21st Inclusive ENTRIES CLOSE ON FRIDAY, JUNE 29th, 1906 Los Angeles Harness Horse Association Programme Wednesday, July 18th No. 1 2:12 Pace-. $500 No. 2 2:30Trot 800 No. 3 2:19 Pace 500 Thursday, July 19th No. 5 2:25 Pace, 3 yrs old & under $400 No. 5 2:12 Trot 500 No. 6 3:00 Mixed (see conditions). 400 Priday, July 20th No. 7 Trot, 3 yrs old and under.. .$400 No. 8 2:15 Trot 500 No. 9 Chariot Race 500 Saturday, July 21st No. 10 2:19Trot $500 No. 11 2:25 Pace.. 800 No. 12 2 :09 Pace 500 JULY 4th and 5th Entries to close June 29,1 906 Programme Wednesday, July 4th Xo. 1 2:19 Pace $400 Xo. 2 2:12Trot 400 No. 3 (Gentlemen's Road Race). — For a Purse (Orange Co. Horses) No. 4 Match Race For a Purse Thursday, July 5th No. 5 2:19Trot . $400 Xo. 6 2:09Pace. 400 Xo. 7 (Gentlemen's Road Race)., For a Purse (Orange Co. Horses) Xo. 8 Match Race For a Purse National Association rales to govern, unless otherwise specified. Hobbles not brarred on pacere. Mile heats 3 in 5, except No. 9, which will be 2 in 3. No race louger than 5 heats. Money to be divided in accordance with summary at end of 5th heat. Entrance 5 per cent, of purse; additional 5 per cent, from money winners. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Hoise distancing field or any part thereof entitled to one money only. Association reserves right to change order of program and to declare off any race not filling satisfactorily. In race No. 6 (3minute mixed), right is reserved to reject any eotry; in event of rejection, entry can be trans- ferred to any other class eligible at option of the party making eutry. Any entry aocompauied by 3 per cent, of purse (2 per cent, additional to start) eutry will not be suspended for not starting, provided horse is declared out in writing on or before s°ven o'olock P. M. day belore iace. Address all all inquiries and entries lor Los Angeles meeting to the secretary £r£o6t. ^i. omith, Secretary £. ~/l. e*nfield, Prt esiaent. 309 West Second Si. Phone: Home 1258, Main 1720. Address all inquiries for conditions, enirv blunks urn! ell! rles for .-mini And in the Srcrt-- lary. GEO. W. FORD, President J. C. WALLACE. Manager W. E. BAKER, Sec'y- Rossmore Hotel, Santa Ann Cal. Wanted k A gents and Corrispondents wanted in every town on the Pacific Coast for the "Breeder and Sportsman" id ¥ HE BREEDER AND SPORTS M.'A N EDUCATOR SON OF DIRECTOR. Season, of* 1906 AT California Stabl ■ . Berkeley Thursdays Place, San Pablo Avenue, near University Ave. Fridays lli Stable, ffaywards Saturdays M. HENRY, Owner. WILLIAM HAROLD RECORD 2:13 1-4 bire of JANICE 2:08 1-4, world's record (2:24 1-4) for 1 1-8 miles, and DAN BURNS 2:15; sired by SIDNEY 2:19 3-4; Dam, CRICKET 2:10; By Steinway, sire of Klatawah 2:05}^ 40 in 2:30 list. Terms, $25 for title Season For further particulars address or apply to H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. AWARDED GOLD MEDAL AT CALIFORNIA STATE FAIR ISM. Every horse owner who values liis stock should constantly have a supply of it on hand I improves and keeps stock in the pink of condition. Ask your grocers or dealers for it. POSITIVELY CURES COLIC, SCOURING AND INDIGESTION. MANHATTAN FOOD CO. C. P. KERTELL, Manager 1121 East 14th Street, San Francisco, Cal. McKINNEY, 2:1H World s Leading Sire of Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500,00 Pees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2.00 per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. MeKinney is now located at the farm, 10 miles from Cnha. Mention this Journal when writing. (Lite f&mfht Citg Jlkntcs, newyork THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE X5£l Y WUUJJ bl UJJ TOM SMITH 2:13 1-4 THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of Jovn Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 (4291) Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1 906 FEE, $75. Reductions made for two or more mares. WALTER SEALY, Manager. THE STANDARD - BRED TROTTING STALLION RED McKINNEY By McKINNEY 2:11?^. First dam, Bonnie Red by Red Wilkes; seeond dam, Bonnie Bell by Almont 33; third dam, Alice Drake by Alexander's Norman; fourth dam, Vily by Pilot Jr. 12. WILL MAKE SEASON OF 1906 AT THE CITY STABLES, TULARE, CAL. Fee $30, with return privileges. W. R. MURPHY, Owner JOE DAI.L, Manager. If' %z KINNEY LOU 2:07 =^ J> The Fastest Trotting Son of the Champion Sire Will make the Season of 1900, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWR.ENCE STOCK FARM One Mile F.ast of Lawrence Station, and Six Miles from San Jose. Terms -&IOO. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. For further information, pedigree and description address Sired by the great McKINNEY 2:ll}s{ — greatest sire of his age: dam, the great brood mare DAISY S. (dam of four in list). Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE $50 with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, WOODLAND, CAL. THE CHAMPION 5IRE OF EAR.LY AND EXTREME 5PEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 1 6£ Sire GUY WILKES 2:12k; Dam LIDA W 2 -18V by NUTWOOD 2:18)1 NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 19P6 at the Nutwood Stock Farm, from Feb. I st to July I sf . f=-e:e: ^so. FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges. Send for Tabulated Pedigree. For further particula'rs apply or address: MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvington, Alameda Co., Cal. THE HOUGHTON SULKY CO. Highest Class Line of Road and Speed Carts Carried in Stock. Weight 4-2 to 65 Lbs. Sulkies-Regular and Made to Order ^ 29 to 3S Lbs. SEE OUR SPEEDY WAGONS Prices Always Right 0«/z Francisco Wheel and Uiouelty Qompanu 3739 17t/i St., San 3. nancisco. Phone: SOBUI2BAN 499 San Jose, Cal. BUDD DOBLE, SAN JOSE, CAL. MONTEREY 2:09 1-4 *lk$S' (Sire of IRISH 2.08)£, Fastest l?our- Year-Old Pacer of 1904) FEE, $50. -*7-,^Q-r7i-|V/r-p~PTP By MONTEREY 2 :09}£. Jt 5-JfcD.tLiJVL-L -L ±Li ],:,,„, ,,KAP YEAB 2fi6 Will make the Season at SAN LORENZO and AXAMEDA. F"ECe:, *2s. For particulars call or address PfcRTER J. WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. T0O31EY TWO=WHEELERS GIVE BEST RESULTS FOR RACING AND TRAINING PURPOSES. Low Seat Racer Sulkies the Fastest nud Best in the World Pneumatic Pole Carts for Team Work on both Road and Traek Pneumatic it High Wheel Jog Carts for Road Use Send for latest Catalogue to L .. OHIO, U. S. A. 0"BR1EN & SONS, Coast Agents, Golden Gate Avenue and Polk Street* SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. THE BRJEEDER AND SPORTSMAN Du PONT SMOKELESS at Nashville, Term. May 15-17 THE SOUTHERN HANDICAP was won by C. G. Spenser WHO BROKE 98 EX 100 from 20 Yards Mark FIRST AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by H. D. Freeman, of Atlanta, Ga. who broke 387 out of 400. THEY USED DU PONT SMOKELESS E. I. DUPONT COMPANY Wilmington, Del. ♦ California Powder Works, Agents Temporary Office, BERKELEY, CAL. SOME LAFLIN AND RAND WINS Nashville, Tenn., May 15-17 (Interstate Association's Southern Handicap Tournament) FIRST GENERAL AVERAGE. Vicksburg, Miss., 7-8 FIRST AND SECOND AMATEUR AVERAGES. TulBa, I. T., May 7-9 FIRST GENERAL AVERAGE. New London, la. May 8-10 FIRST.SECOND AND THIRD AMATEUR AVERAGES. Columbus, O., May 9-11 FIRST AND SECOND GENERAL AVERAGES. Infallible, New E. C. (Improved) and "NEW SCHLLTZE" Make Good. LAFLIN & RAND POWDER CO 170 Broadway. New York City California Powder Works, Agents Temporary Office, Berkeley, Cal. 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Los Angeles, Cal. Jas. B. Campbell & Co., Manufacturers, 412 W. Madison St., Chicago, III- A RECORD BREAKING FISH are caught every year at LAKE TAHOE JCST as large ones still uncaught. You can get them. Don't you long to feel again that sharp tug at the line hear the shrill whir of the reel, and, after a blood-stirring fight, experience the joy of landing one of the finest, craftiest old trout you ever saw? You shall do that many times on this beautiful lake and on the mountain streams round about. Also good hunting and mountain climbing. Many hotels; fine camping places; no poison oak. Buy your ticket and get there in one night. Sleeper leaves San Francisco daily 7 p. M. and you arrive at Tahoe next morning in time for breakfast. SOUTHERN PACIFIC 111 mem* Take.ItlnTlme. 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IfThis feature, to- gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makoa the ITHAOA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. fWe build everything from a featherweight 5%-pound 20-gauge gun to a lO)**- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. IfSend for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12, 1§ and 20 gouge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. ITHACA GUN CO. Pacific Coast Bkahoh, - • Ithaca, N. Y. 2330 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Cal. m m ^a-mue l ubf>vacj^ e. Vol. XLVII. No. 23 SAN FRANCISCO, JUNE 23, 1906 Subscription $3.00 a Year THE W F.EKL Y Breeder and Sportsman F. \V. KELLEY. Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast Office : 700 Van Ness Aventte, San Franxisco Entered ns Second Class Matter San Francisco Post Office. P. O. Drawer 447 Terms— One Year $3 ; Six Months 11.75: Three Months SI STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Money should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to r W. Keli.ey, P. O. Drawer 447. San Francisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for pub ication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. An Invitation From Victoria Victoria, B. C, June 1.5, 1906. "Bieeder and Sportsman," San Francieso — The Victoria, B. C, Agricultural Association will give a spring race meeting for harness horses and runners on July 1st and 3d. The purses are fairly good, aud the program is an attractive one. The track will be in fairly good shape, and all coast horse- men are cordially invited to participate. For the Oregon and Washington contingent the Victoria meeting should be a great attraction. Trainers can get a line on their horses that are nominated in the rich North Pacific circuit events, and in- cidently gather in some easy spring money. Victoria can be reached by both day and night boat, the race track is an easy distance from the wharf, aud every effort will be made by the Society to please the visiting horsemen. The Dominion fair will be held in Victoria in September, for which time a good race program has already been prepared. John Millington is training Captain John, chestnut stallion by Tennysonian, dprrj Fanny Putnam 2:13. William Stevenson is training Fanny Putnam 2 113. C. A. Harrison is training Maid of Del Norte by Del Norte, and Mike Director by Montana Director. Al Hu liber is training Victoria Gilr by Christmas. The Victoria, B. C, track has about twenty trotters and pacers in training. Vour Canadian cousins cordially invite you all over to Victoria, ajd when you do come remember what the late W. B. Fasig once said to Knapsack McCarthy years ago: "Come along and put your racing shoes on" The Victoria track is here, and some of your Canadian brethern once in a while uncover a pretty good horse. Now, you Yankees, come over and be sociable. Yours, C. A. HARRSON An Excellent Hoof Protection Answer to Correspendonts Fred Watson, Colusa — The stal- lion Black Walnut by Antelope, is not registered, and as we do not know his dam cannot say whether he is eligible to registration. An- telope is a registered horse, and if the Signal mare is eligible to registration, Black Walnut could be registered by registering her first. E. G., Riversde — At the close of 1905 Allerton i:o:o2'4. The mare will be bred to John A.McKerron 2:40^ this year. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Motes anb 5lews Mondays and Thursdays are work-outs days at the Hullister track. One hundred and ten horses out of 500 had that were being shipped from Ephrata, Washington, to H. J. McCurday of Dickson, North Dakota, died in the stock yards at Billings, .Montana, the other day. The wholesale death of the animals is said to have been caused by filling them up on water in the Helena yards and making the run from the starting point to Billings without feeding. The loss to the owner is iu the neigh- borhood ol ^5000. Irish 2:oSI4 pacing as a four year old, has trotted a mile in 2:16 since he was shifted to the trot. He is by Peter Williams' good horse Monterey. The trotting game is growing in popular favor more rapidly in Austria than in any country on the continent- The American trainor, M. P- Davy, who formerly trained for John H. Shults, has just re- turned home from Austria. Iu an interview in New York be says that harness racing as a pastime has more followers in Austria than any other form of sport. Meetings are held there two days in a week, and r5,ooo people is considered a small attendance, and as the ad- mission fee, including a grand stand seat, costs $1.20, the races pay well. The best trotters are handled exclusively by Americau trainers. It is said that Mr. Fred Pabst of Milwaukee, Wis., a well known breeders of trotters, will sail for Europe in few days with the ex- press purpose of visiting Russia, where he will buy a band of Orlofi mares, to bring home and mate with his stallion, Bon Ton U., by The Astronomer, 2:13^4', son of Axtell, 2:12, dam by Stambul, 2:07^2, second dam the great producing mare Bon Bon, 2:26 (dam of Bonilie Direct, 2:05^2, etc.), by Simmons, 2:28. If Mr. Pabst carries out this purpose the breeders of this country will be able to see right at home the re- sults of the Americiu-Orloff cross, which is now beitig tried iu Russia. The Ark. State Fair Association will hold its first annual meeting Oct. 1st to 10th in the $500,000 racing plant of the Oaklawn Jock- ey Club, Hot Springs, Ark. The Fair will embrace all exposition features and a complete racing program of harness and running events. Baron Silver, owned by Mrs. H. A. Busby, of Cleveland, stands al- most 18 hands high and weighs 1.47.5 pounds. He is reported to have trotted a mile in 2:i5;;(and will be trained for a record this year. A Baltimore correspondent writes to Trotter and Pacer under date of 24th inst: "In the twenty- mile race yesterday between Mr. Paul Frame's horse Nemo and one belonging to Mr. Irwin Brown, Mr. Brown's horse won. It was by only a length of the runabout and horse, as Nemo was close to Mr. Brown's wheel. They started from Towson, went around Loch Raven, then returned through Towson and finished at the place of Mr. George Brown, at Brooklandville, a distance of exactly twenty miles, which was made in 1 hour and 10 minutes. Mr. Frame's horse was not in as good shape for the trial as was that of Mr. Brown's. They have arranged for a meeting iu October over the same route for a side bet of $500, and Mr. Frame expects to have his horse Nemo in good training by that time." A Lexington, Ky., dispatch of recent date chronicles the follow- ing: "A big laud deal, which in- voles the transfer of 350 acres of the finest land in the Blue Grass section, and its conversion into a breeding and training farm for trotters and pacers, will likely be consummated here during the next few days. For several weeks J. K, Newman, of New York, has been touriug Fayette County with a view of buying a farm, aud after inspection of every available tract of land i n the county, he has opened negotiations with James A- Headley for the purchase of the latter's holdings on the Russell Cave aud Iron works pikes, at a price said to be close to $50,000. Should the deal go through Mr. Newman contemplates an expendi- ture of about $30,000 in equipping the farm for extensive breeding and training quarters, which in- clude a number of fine barns and paddocks and a half-mile track- Mr. Newman is the owner of the noted trotting stallion The Director General, now located on a farm in this section, and if successful in purchasing a farm this sire will be placeed at the head of his stud, which will include some of the most fashionable trotting bred stud matrons in the country. Bonnie Steinway has worked several quarters in better than 30 seconds since Ted Bunch reached Cleveland with him. As an evidence of the high prices at which good draft stock is held it is stated that James Raycraft, proprietor of a large livery stable in Nevada, recently visited Bridge- port, Mono counfy and paid Mr. Webb $5000 for twenty head of large well broken draft horses. When drafters can be sold for $250 per bead in that section of the country, the prices are certainly away up. Several of these horses were sent to San Francisco and will aid in clearing up the streets of debris. At a race meeting held at Centralia, Washington, May 30th, the California bred stallion Yukon won a half mile heat race in straight heats, the best time being .1:09. The track was heavy and Yukon was so far in the lead each time that he was pulled up and jogged under the wire. He is said to be greatly improved in his manners since leaving California and it is thought he will material- ly reduce his present record of 2:14. Yukon is byr Bay Bird and was formerly owned by Mr- C. W. Welby. The Sebastopol, Sonoma county Driving Club has been organized with Frank Rafael as President, Jos. Borba Secretary and E. C. Clark, Ben Mcintosh and William Hauks as Directors. A half mile track has been built on the Brown poperty opposite the Sebastopol depot of the California Northwest- ern Railroad, and the rent of the property paid one year in advance. Enough money has also been subscribed to keep the track in con- dition for a year, and matinee r ic- ing will be held frequently during the summer. There are many good trotters and pacers owned in the vicinity. A freak of nature is reported from Bamhart's Landing. Re- cently a mare owned by C. E. Barnhart gave birth to a mule colt which two days after seeing the light of day weighed only 27 pounds and stood 28 inches high. It was perfecUy formed and appeared quite healthy. For two days it was fed from a bottle, but subsequently was able to stand its nourishment in a natural manner and is progressing nicely. At the matinee of the New York Driving Club held Thursday, May 31st, the bay gelding Mush, by Lottery Ticket, won the Class C pacing event, beating a field of seven fast pacers' The race was half mile heats and the time 1:04 and 1 :o6. Mush is now owned by Mr. J. J. Foody. Cresceus is said to be in grand orrn this spring. A four day race meeting was held at Balitmore, Maryland, June 5th to 8th, at which the purses were $300 each. In the 2:30 pace "Farmer Bunch" of Pleasanton started the gray maie Sweetheart that be trained during the spring at the horse center, and the crowd of wise ones, thinking a mare shipped clear across the country to be raced must be a fast one, made Sweetheart favorite in the pools at $8 against $ro for all the • thers. Sweetheart was out of condit'on, and afler finishing third the first heat, paced in 2:2i}<2, was distanced tine second heat in 2:20^. In the 2:25 trot Bunch started Alto Down by Iran Alto, but the colt finished 7 and 8 in the first and second heats respectively and was behind the Sag in the third. The best time in this race was 2:2d?d'. At the same meetiug Ed. Lafferty started the bay horse Nut Boy by Nut- pine in the 2:12 pace but was dis- tanced the first heat in 2:14.34. ^n this race a horse called Raoul W. won in staight heats driven by a trainer named Wilson, but the money was piotested on the ground that Wilson is under ex- pulsion. Can it be that this is the same party that "rung" the pacer Watler K. on the California circuit six years ago. If so Ed Laffery should know him as Ed drove the pacer I Direct in the beat at Santa Rosa when Walter K. paced to his record and was only beaten by a narrow margin. At the Woodland race track the trainers are busy getting the trot- ters aud pacers in shape for the races. John Phippen is working hard every day. He has a green pacer that worked the last half in 1:05)4. The trotter Milbrae 2 :i6}4 owned by P. H. McEvoy of Menlo Park, worked a nice mile in 2:igJ/i for Pbilpen and he has several green trotters that are working around 2:20. Mr. Hashagen has two in his string; Kinney Rose showed him a mile in 2:20 recent- ly. Al Charvo has five; his Fu- turity candidate Renown worked in 2:1954. . Mr. Harrington has four all stepping close to 2:20. Det Bigelow has several promis- ing green ones and this week re- ceived a new one from Mr. Rudolph Jordan of San Francisco that he will train for a record. Hiram Hogoboom has quite a number of green ones that are good material. Woodland Stock Farm is working eight head all doing well. There will be no pool selling in Massachusetts, says the Governor. ''Happy Jack " Trout is now "mine host" at the Metropolitan Driving Club's home alongside the Boston Speedway. T"H E BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN According to a cablergam from St. Petersburg, Captain Byieff, of the Russian army, has completed a wonderful equine feat. Tbe Captain left tbe front in Man- ' cburia shorlty after tbe peace treaty was signed and arrived in St. Petersburg on June 5. He rode tbe entire distance, about 8700 miles, in eight months and four days. His horse, which was of English breed, was in good con- dition when tbe journey was fin- ished. The Captain's orderly, who was his sole companion, had a Mongolian mount. The average distance covered per da.y was over 35 miles. There are many horses in train- ing at Pleasauton and all are in good shape. No sickness among them. Charley DeRyder has Willard ZibbeM's great trotter Adam G. 2:\\){ by McKinney in bis string and will race in the 2:12 and faster classes on the Grand Circuit. He is now in fine shape and is one of the best gaited trotters liv- ing. Harry Devereux driving the pacer Morning Star 2:0454, Doc Tanner driving the trotter George G. 2:05, and Jack Curry up behind Tuna 2:08)2, worked out a mile together at Cleveland two weeks ago. Morning Star and George G. went away in the lead, made the mile in 2:13 and the last half in 1:03, while Tuna's mile was in 2:195^ with the last half in 1:04^. Tbe three brushed the last quarter together in 30)^ seconds. Tuna finishing in front. A dispatch from Detroit says that no Grand Circuit meeting will be held there this year, as the State authorities have announced tb.it no betting of any description will be permitted. The Merchants and Manufacturers $10000 stake, the Chamber of Commerce $5000 stake and tbe 2:08 pace, all of which had already closed, have been transfered to the Cleveland Association and will be decided on that track. Frank Silva of San Pablo, has a good looking young stallion by Sidmoor that he has placed in the hands of the veteran Dennis Gannon to train. The colt is a pacer and looks like one that will do. Mr. Silva has a two year old full sister to this one that he says is a still better prospect. Sweet Marie 2:04)4' nas not been given any extremely fast miles as yet, but is showing quarters at all her former speed and will be in good shape for tbe big match at Readville on the Fourth of July. S. Cbristensen has had another piece of bad luck since being burn- ed out by the fire. His colt Chas. F. Kapp, tried to jump a picket fence while running in a pasture lot near Pleasanton and received fatal injuries. This colt was two years old and not only a fine looker but fast trotter and was well staked. He was by Stam B., 2:nI4 out of the pacing mare Marguerite by Dom Pedro. Marguerite won a matinee pacing race in 2:17 some years ago. Racing bas commenced on the half mile circuits over east and there is no lack of entries or start- ers at the majority of meetings. Frank O'Kane the well known member of the harness making firm of J. O'Kane, reports the loss of a new Payne long shaft cart, taken during the fire, and not since returned, There are but four of this style carts in the city, it is said, so Mr. O'Kane thinks he should be able to find this one if his friends will keep their eyes open for it. It was a brand new, latest model Payne cart with long shafts The Transylvania has closed with 23 nominations. Last year there were but 15 entries in this event. East View Maiden by Diretcum Kelly, trotted a hall in r:c>4^ at Empire track, New York, last week. The latest news from the Zombro mare Italia 2:14^ trot- ting, is that she has paced a half in one minute flat at the Cleve- land track. Entries for the Breeders Wood- land meeting will close Monday, July 2d. Dennis Gannon is training the mare Lady Shamock by Grover Clay and may race her this year. Tbe Idaho Intprmountain Fair advertises for bids for privileges. The advertisement states that auction and mutual pools will he sold, but no books will beallowed. Hazel Patch, the pacing stallion that beat Zolock at Los Angeles last fall is racing up in Manitoba. He won the fr;e for all purse of $600 there on May 2th. Best time 2:15^. James Thompson, Henry Hel- man, Jack Curry, Ted Bunch and William Cecil are all at the Cleve- land track with their horses. Charley T. by Zombro has worked a mile in 2:41)2 since he reached Cleveland. A farmer of Whitman county Washington, returned from town one day last month and left several pounds of squirrel poison in his wa on. The next morning on reaching his barn he found twelve horses dead from eating the poison. Dave McCarthy, tbe first man to drive a harness horse faster than two minutes, is working some twenty head at Charter Oak Park. Los Angeles Horses Go East Matinee at San Bernardino The San Bernardino County Driving Club held its June matinee on the afternoon of Saturday, tbe gth inst., with a large crowd pre- sent and excellent races although all the events were decided in straight heats. A most interesting event was the free for all trot, in which there were but two starters. Hazel Kinney 2:09)4 by Mc- Kinney and the gond colt R. Am- bush 2:14^ by Zolock. The young horse won in straight heats over the mare, the first heat being trotted in 2:13, tbe best time ever made in a race given by the San Bernardino Club. He was driven by Mr. G. W. Bonnell, and every horseman who saw the race be- lieves this four year old son of Zolock will take a record below 2:10 this year if raced. Another feature of the after- noon's sport was the exhibition of speed made by James Campbell's thirteen months old colt On Bly by Or Stanley, dam Nellie Bly, by Woolsey, dam of Harry Madi- son 2:27)^, trial 2:12^4 and Julia M., trial 2:12. On Bly was driven a mile, tbe second quarter in 37)2 seconds, and the last quarter in 39 seconds. Following is a summary of the different events, kindly sent us by Secretary Fred C. Drew: First event, 2:25 mixed — Mouicoat, blk h, F. P. Oden 1-1 Adalantha b g, G. W. Prescott 2-2 Time 2:28, 2:24)4. Second event, 2:40 mixed Neerest, b m, Dr. W. Spoor 1-1 Inaugerita, gr m, Dr. I. W. Hazlett 2-2 Lady Nutford, cb m, Dr. F. A. Ramsey 4-3 Betty Raymond, b m P. Beatty 3-4 Time 2 :27, 2 :3s. Third event, Free for all Trot R. Ambush, blk b, G. W. Bonnell 1-1 Hazel Kinney, b m, John A. Cole 2-2 Time 2:13, 2 :\8}4 Fourth event, 3:30 Mixed Bolock, ch m, J. H. Kelley !-i The Captain, b c, J .A. Cole 2-2 Baby, b g. Maruice Griffin, 3-3 Time 2:46)2, 2 :33. Fifth event, 2:30 Mixed The Blonde, ch m, John A. Cole 1-1 Forelock, b g J. E. Ciam 32 Cedric, ch h, W- C. McCulley 2-3 Atlhough there are several hun- dred running and trotting hordes still being put through light train- ing in this city, says the Los An- geles Times of June iotb, a number of good ones were sent east over the Salt Lake route. There were but twelve in this lot, but they are good enough to bring home consid- erable money to their owners. The racers are headed for Libertyville, 111., and after being unloaded there for a short rest will be sent over the Grand Circuit tracks at De- troit, Buffalo, Pougbkeepsie, Readville and Hartford. In this car Will Clark Jr., sent three seasoned trotters, a green two- year-old trotter and a runner. Rutherford, Owens and Richard- son also sent one or more horses. Clark's seasoned horses are Bon Voyage 2:12: M, the $10,000 beauty who held the two-year-old trotting record two years ago; Morene, with a record of 2:13^. and Billy H., with a record of 2:25. Ruth- erford has Helen Norte, a trotter with a record of 2:09)4, which many hotsemen believe will be re- duced to 2:06 this summer. Owens sent the pacer Jonesa Basler 2:n)4 and Richardson has The Jester, a trotter. The best that these latter can do is not a matter of public record, for the owners do not desire their speed known this early in the year. Trainer Garrity aud Owners Owens aud Richardson went with these horses in the car. B. O. Van Boklen and Charley Jeflries are to try their fortunes in the Intermouutain Circuit, and have shipped their strings to Den- ver, and from there will take them over the Northwest. Van Boklen has five harness horses and two runners that raced at Ascot Park last winter, aud all of them are good enough to be bread winners or tbey would not be carted to the Rocky Mountains. Jeffries' re- liance is in Ruby H., a green pacer that bas worked a mile in 2:08)^, and this is certainly remarkable speed for a new beginner. Henry Berry is receiving good reports of the work of his horse, Barney K., which he sold recently to Fred Roberts of Denver. Barney has a record of 2:n, has won two good races since going to his new owntr, and is generlly regarded as a good animal. It is understood that the South- ern California harness borse circuit will definitely include Santa Ana, Sin Bernardino, Los Angeles, Fresno and possibly Hanford, it being the intention to raci at Santa Ana tbe first week in July; San Bernaidino the second week, and at F. esuo aid Ha ford the last week, splitting the six days between the two valley towns. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Horse Sale at Chico A sale of borses was held at the Stanley Park Farm, near Chico on Saturday, June atb, and the fol- lowing prices were paid TROTTING BRED Aille Thorn and colt— Brown mare by Altivo, dam Lilly Thorn: W. J. O'Connor, $200. Cornie — Chestnut mare by Nor- wood, dam Lou Whipple, James Hagan. $95. Nordelle and colt— Chestnut mare hv Bnydell, dam by Norfolk; H. R. Reed. $170. Panic and colt— Bay mare by Monroe Chief, dam Jane; W. J. O'Connor, SrSo. Ruth and colt— Bay mare by Kentucky Baron, dam Jaue; Al- bert Wabl, $325. Dorothy Tennant— Brown mare by Clay, dam Ella Rhea, W. J. O'Connor. §145. RosoteBay mare ty Nazote, dam Sweet Rose; J. R. Houghton, $300. Tom Sharp Bay gelding by Sen- ator B., dam Magnolia; W. J. O'Connor, $90. Chiquite — Three-year-old black colt by Kenturcky Baron; Win. Roders, Sioo. Susie — Three-year-old chestnut filly by Soudan; J. M. Deter, $105. Ella — Three-year-old bay filly by Chief Whips, dam Ruth; J. W. Konning, $175. Alice — Three-year-old brown filly by Kentucky Baron, dam Munny Begum; Robert Tait, $155. Mabel — Three-year-old bay filly by Kentucky Baron, dam Joy; W. J. O'Connor, $95. Mackey — Two year-old bay colt by Moormont. dam Marion ; J. M. Deter, $127.50. Indian — Two-year-old black colt by Moormont, aam Munny Be- gum; W. J. O'Connor, $150. Happy — Two-year-old bay colt by Moormont, dam Joy, J. M. Deter. $145. Racquet — Two year-old bay colt by Moormont, dam Doiothy Tennant; J. M. Deter, $165. Colusa — Two-year-old bay colt by Arthur Wavland, dam Cornie; J. M. Deter, $1 22.50. Rosalie — Two-year old sorrel filly by Moormont, dam Ruth, Wendell Miller, $220. Nadine — Two-year old bay filly by Moormont, dam Nara, Wendell Miller, Si 70. Bell — Yearling black fillv 1 y Moormont, dam Ruth; J r, Si 25. Sweetheart— Yearling ba; .illy by Moormont, dam Joy;j'. M. Deter, $97.50. Adele — Yearling bay filly by Moormont, dam Nordelle L, B. Daniels, $90. Norine — Vearilng by filly by Moormont, dam Nara; J, \V, Snowden, r.jniJj— yearling bay filly by Moormont, dam Clara; J. W. Snowden, Sioo. Mcintosh — Yearling bay colt by Moormont, dam Marian; W. J. O'Connor, $80. Sunlight — Y'earling sorrel colt by Moormont, dam Cornie; W. J. O'Connor, $ (5. El Capital) — Yearling bay colt by Moormont, dam Panic; W. J. O'Connor, $90. Redlight — Yearling bay colt by Kentucky Baron, dam Osote; Louis Roper, $90. RUNNING BRED Marian and colt — Brown mare by Martenhurst, dam Milliner; Silas Stockwell, $170. Joy and colt — Bay mare by Wildidle, dam Libbertifibbet; C. W. Davis, $140. Money Begum and colt — Brown mare by Imp. Loyalist, dam Magnolia; W. J. O'Connor, $150. Driving Club Matinee The matinee given by the Sacramento Driving Club at the State Fair race track last Sunday afternoon drew a great crowd that thoroughly enjoyed the sport. The day was warm, and the horses were in fine fettle, resulting in some very good time for the crack roadsters. A brass band of twelve pieces sat iu the game at a quarter before 2 o'clock and an excellent concert, lasting until 5 o'clock, added to the enjoyment. The Sacramento Driving Club are good entertainers, and tbey look to the comfort as well as the pleasure of their Kuests. Between heats ice water was passed through the grand stand, so that none might go thirsty. There were six races, two best heats in three, and there were no long waits between heats. Among the starters were Emma Nevada, owned by Peter S. Jensen of Reno- It was the first race the mare ever started in, and she did the work cut out for her nicely. She took the two first beats and ber race, her best time being 2:25. Horsemen expect to hear from this mare later in the season. Albert Elkus has purchased the pacer Penrose from Waltei Mastin, and will use him as a matinee and road horse. Penrose has a record of 2:18^, and has done the mile iu close to 2:10. It is an acquisition of which Mr. Elkus has just reason to be proud of. Ray Dittus' Kruger, John Riley's Aleta R. and Albert Alkus' George M. started in the first race. Kruger took the first two heats and the race; best time 2:25. In the second race F. J. Ruh- etaller's Wild Bell and Frank E, Wile !■.:■:.. Wild Bell took the first heat, but Wright let Dredge have something like his head in the last two heatsi and won readily. Best time 2:25. In the Oak Park Driving club's special, J. H. Donnelly's M. J. and James McE wen's Captjin Hackett started. M. J. outfooted the old-timer in both heats. Best time 2:30^. Ray Dittus' Constructor I. J. Christie's Briarwood and John Norton's Ligbtbird started in the Capital Hotel special. Instructor won both heats, Briarwood second, best time 2:27^. Iu the Golden Easgle Special, F. E. Wright's Emma Nevada, C. H. Shoue's Katie B., and Fannie Mc. started. Emma Nevada took both beats. Best time, 2:25^. In the Oak Park Driving Club's 2:40 class. D. Woodwortb's Bab}' Knight, O. A. Wilbur's Bess W. and J. H. Allen's Belle Madison started. Baby Knight was too fast for cis field, taking the race. Best time 2:36^. The next matinee of the club will be held at the State Fair tracks the afternoon of the Fourth of July, and the speed program will be made up in a few days. The Woodland] Meeting Over twelve thousand dollars will be paid out by the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Association during the week end- ing August 18th, to the owners of the horses finishing "in the money" at the races to be held at the Breeders meeting, which will be at the famous Woodland Race Track this year. The largest stake to be raced for is the three year old trotting division of the Breeders $6000 Futurity, which will be worth $2300 this year. The two year trotting division of the stake has a value of $1450, the three year old pacing division is worth $1300 and the two year old pacing division $950. For aged horses S1500 is offered for a 2:24 class trot, and the same amount or a 2 :20 class pace. The 2:09 pac- ing and the free or all trotting events are worth $Soo each. Be- sides these rich stakes there are four worth $500 each as follows: 2:12 pace, 2:16 pace, 2:13 trot and 2:18 trot. While Woodland has held some "f the best harness meetings ever given in California, there has been no meeting held there siine 1902, which was the last jear the dis- trict fairs received State aid. Never in the history of racing in Yolo county have such stakes been offered for harness horses to con- test for as those hung up this yesr by the P. C. T. H. B. A. The last meeting of the Woodland Fair Association in 1902, was a grand Hii -ivs8, largely attended and the racing was high class. Yet the total amount of the purses offered was but a little over $6000, and the largest purse was £750. This year twice as much money has been offered and there are no less than five stakes worth from $1300 to $2300. These will be con- tested for by all the best horses and colts in the State and the Yolo Co nty people will have the opportunity to see the best harn- ess racing to b held on the coast this year. Every owner and trainer who has horses in training should make it a point to enter as many of them as possible at this meeting. Tbe State Fair will (oilow the Woodland meeting and then tbe horses will be shipped north to Oregon. The Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association pro- poses making the Woodland meeting one of the best in the association's history and 110 pains or expense will be spared in the preparations. The organization is composed of the leading harness breeders of California and has the reputation of giving high class meetings annually, at which clean and honest racing between the best horses on the coast is patronized and enjoyed by the best citizens of the State. Spreads the News Robert A. Smith, Secretary of the newly incorporated Los Angeles Harness Horse Associ- ation, has seut entry blanks to every horseman on the Coast whose address he could learn, and with every other member of the organization is working day and night to make the Los Angeles entry list which close June 29th, big one, and the meeting tbe best ever held in the Southern Calif- ornia metropolis. Los Angeles is a grand place to visit. As one horseman from Oregon said last year: "It is worth one's while to go to Los Angeles to race even t ough one dou't get better than fifth money, as the track is so fine, tbe accommodations so good and the horsemen there so sociable, that a week's stay is a pleasure." What has been said of Los Angeles is equally applicable to Santa Ana, which will give a meeting the week before Los Angeles. Tbe complete programs of both these meetings . will be found in our advertising columns this week. Every horseman who can shoul.l enter at these meetings. Entries close June 29th, Los Angeles and Santa Ana entries close Fiiday, June 29th, CallfornlA'1 1 n \ . . 1 1 10 hot weather drink is Jnokson'a Nap« Bode « THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Stable Horses A writer bas this to say about salable borsesin American Farming : "Many farmes think that there is no money in raising horses. Yet there is constant demand in the markets at remunerative prices for horses of a definite type. Last summer I had opportunity to talk with a farmer on this very point. He was near an excellent horse market, and on his farm he was producing an abundq ce of the finest horse feed. B.ttje buyers did not want his horses. The trouble was that they were neither draft horses nor road horses; neither express horses nor coach horses. They were nondescripts, without the right form or weight for any particular purpose. This farmer had started with a number of fairly good mares, but be had used first one stallion and then another without any definite idea in mind as to breed. The natural result was that the colts showed a mixture of incongrous tend- encies. All that could be said for them was that they were horses. The modern market will not buy nondescripts horses. They must be horses of a different class — draft horses, roadsters, etc. — with proper form, size and action to admit them to that class. By consulting those buyers the famer can easily learn what the market requirements are, and can breed horses that meet these equiremeuts. Then it will be fouud that there is money in raising horses. But there is surely no use in producing a mongrel horse when no' one wants it. There are several ways in which horses may be improved by intelli- gent selection and breeding, such as the farmer adopts in securing a herd of cows noted for their milk yield or a flock of sheep to produce winter lambs. I once had occa- sion to observe a company of cav- alry horses that had been selected for their rapid walking gait. These horses, without urging would easily make five miles an hour on a walk. I had previously thought my saddle horse was a fast walker, but fouud that he had to be trotted at frequent intervals to keep up with the procession. This seemed to be an interesting point, and I accordingly timed several or- dinary saddle horses. They made less than four miles per hour. Xow there are lines of work in which a fast walking horse gait would add to the value of the horse. The walking speed of a horse can be increased by breeding just as read- ily as the trotting or running speed. A fast walker is more in demand and is good for more pur- Doses than a last runner. Horses are just as susceptible to improve- ment by breediug as other animals are. It will therefore pay farmers who are fitted for this work to breed up a line of horses with a fast walk. Don't be content with present standards hut raise them. The matter of endurance in horses also deserves attention. Raise More Horses Industrial demand for horses is constantly expanding, and farmers can make no mistakes in raising standard commerical classes from the viewpoint of profitable hus- bandry. The apprehension that the inqury for horses would dim- inish with the invention of the automobile has uow been elimin- ated from the industry, and farmers raise horses with the extreme confidence that when the foals reach maturity industrial de- mand stands ready to take the surplus at remunerative prices, says the Chicago Drovers' Journal. It would appear that the broader the competing motor power for commerical use the greater the in- quiry for good horses. Not only in cities has demand for horses increased during the past dtcade, but in agricultural development demand is steadily broadening. Vast new territory is being bought under the domain of improved agriculture and the culti- vation of a great area of land an- nually creates increased demand for horses. Machinery is largely supplanting hand labor in farm management, and horses are in- dispeusible to operate the new farm implements. It is an admitted fact that in many localities farmers are short of horses and have been the best buyers ot the surplus in their community. Farmers are favorably situated to raise horses, and the bulk of commensal classes that are weekly distributed to the trade come from the farms of the middle west and the western states. The great breeding establishments have been dismantled and dispersed, and the horses that supply the com- mercial demand come from farms where from one to six foals are raised every season. It is douDtful from a financial viewpoint if great breeding establishments could be operated at a remunerative profit. The fact that the great studs have been dis- persed demonstrates that the supply of horses must come from the farms operated on the lines of general husbandry. The avereage farmer is admir- ably situated to raise commercial horses. He annually raises a large mount of roughage especi- ally adapted for horse feed rations. Using many horses in his agricultural operations, economic administration of the farm com- pels him to exploit the horse in- dustry. The breeder can no more afford to keep a mare only to raise a foal than he can afford to keep a cow to raise a calf. The expense of maintenance of the mare in idleness would counter balance the profit in laising the f 1. B .t ,. en the mare performs the regular work in harness her foal becomes a most profitable by product. Some farmers are natural horsemen with a judicial eye for the commercial points in good horses. Farmers as a rule realize the great profit in raising those classes that can be utilized in the regular work on the farm. Horses weighing fourteen hundred to sixteen hundred pounds are desirable workers on the farm and free sellers at wholesale markets. If the farmer loses a horse and has 110 supernumerary to take its place it means that he must draw on his bank account around S200 to replace the animal. The $200 represents the sale of live stock or farm products, and to invest it in a horse that the farmer could have raised looks like prodigal economy. Buying horses for farm work soon lakes a thousand dollars, and in a quarter of a century amounts to a snug fortune. If the farmer raises his own horses and always carries a small surplus for sale it will make an almost incredbile difference in bis accumulations in tw-enty-five years of active hus- bandry. Every farmer should raise his own supply of horses and always try to have a surplus to sell to dealers if be could get the great- est profits from agriculture. New Track in Humboldt County Butte Driving Club Butte, Mont., June 11 — The 2:45 trot and the colt mixed trot and pace races at the matiuee of the Butte Driving club yesterday, re- paid the enthusiasts who made the trip to the flat to witness the first speed contest of tbe season. The 2 :45 pace was not so interesting because of the fact that several of the entries did not appear. The colt mixed trot and pace was won by Tat-aTat, owned and driven by H. H. Damn, in two successive heats. Time 1:2134 and i :20. The distance was one half mile. The 2:45 pace was taken by Kittle, I'hil Trenarry's horse, in two successive mile heats. Time Z-0\% and 2:49. There was but one other starter, John Scovil's Babe. In the 2:45 trot, Albert W. won the first two heats and the race. In the first heat Dean Keener was se:ond and Dandy third. In the second heat, Dandy was second aBd Ginger third. The time was 2.36 in both heats. Billy Gemmel acted as starter, Silas King as judge and George MacDougal as timer. A very enthusiastic meeting of business men and citizens was held in Justice Merriam's office at Blue Lake on Tuesday evening, June 5th. The meeting was called for the purpose of getting in definite shape for organizing a race track association. Plans had previously been discussed and options on land for such purpose secured. After a thorough discussion the company- present organized by electing Kobert Henry, president; Henry Brown, secretary and Walter X. fngham, treasurer. It was determined to incorporate with $5,000 capital stock, of which $1,000 was subscribed and paid for on tbe spot. The association leased tbe Bri- zard picnic grounds for a period of ten years with the privilege of purchase. Work on the track was begun Wednesday morning. The track will be one-half mile in cir- cumference". The present picnic platform is to be to be taken up and a new one with grand stand erected in another part. Where they do not interfere with view or track, trees will be left standing. With favorable climate and a track in good shape, portions of the ground nicely shaded. Blue Lake certainly should be attractive to horsemen after July 1, this year, when the work is to b; co.npleted. Race Meeting at Eureka A four days race meeting will be given at Eureka, Humboldt county, beginning July 4th, under tbe auspices of the Eureka Stablemen's Union. $1600 in purses has been hung up and no entrance fees will be charged. The harness classes are as follows: Trot or pace, 2:50 class, gioo; Yearling trot or pace, Sioo; Two Year Old trot or pace, $100; Free for all trot or pace, $100; 2:35 class trot or pace, $100; Ladies buggy rice, S;5; 2:25 pa-e, $roo; Gentlemen's buggy race,S~5- Three running races will be given each day, puises being $75 each. Grand Circuit Dates Detroit, Mic'j., July 25 to August 4. Buffalo X Y., August 6 to rr. Pougukeepsie, N. Y., August 13 to iS. Readville, Mass-, August 20 to 25- Providence, R. I., August 27 to September S. Hartford, |Conn., September 3 Syracuse, X. Y., September 10 to 15. Columbus, Ohio, September 17 tJ 22. Ciuciuatti, Ohio, September 24 to 29. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 5\o6, (&un anb Iftermel Conducted by J. X. De Witt The Interstate Association tour- nament and Pacific Coast Handi- cap is announced as a fixture for Los Angeles Sep'.ember 8, 9 and 10, under the auspices of the Los Angeles Gun Club. The shoot>ill be under the general management of Elmer E. Shaner, which is a guarantee for a success- ful tournament. The shoot will be held under the same rules a id conditions that prevailed at Ingleside last September. The association have added $500 and the Los Angeles Gun Club a similar amount. Out of this Siooo there will be used the money to purchase the trophies for the Preliminary Handicap and the Pacific Coast Handicap, the balance will be added to the purses. It is very probable that the crack Eastern shooters, Gilbert, Crosby Heikes, Fanning. Hirschey, Mar- shall and others will be in attend- ance at the shoot. For further information, etc.. our readers are referred to Elmer E. Shaner, Secretary manager In- terstate Association, Coltart Square, Pittsburg, Pa-, or Chas. Van Valkenberg, Secretary, Los Angeles Gun Club, Los Angeles, Cal. The Preliminary Handicap was won at Inglside last year by C. D. Hagerman of Los Angeles. George Sylvester won the Pacific Coast Handicap after shooting off a tie with Bob Bungay of Ocean Park. Copious showers rather dampeii- ea the ardor of the participants in the recent Kimbal-Upsou tournament at Sacramento and lessened the attendance of shooters accordingly. During the first day gusts of wind suddenly sweeping over the summit of of the hill whereon the trap grounds are located carried many targets out of their regular flight and spoiled many scores by more than the average misses. The only straigths on the first day were made by Emil Holling 20, H. H;».lburscb 20 aud C. M- Troxell 20. Troxell of Rocklin was high average the first day, 89 per cent. F. F. Merrill of Stock- ton, whose presence at a tourna- ment we are pleased to note again after a long inetrval, was second with 88 per cent. Holling aud C. A. Haiglit made 87 per cent. W. H. Seaver, Otto Feudner, F. Turner and Frank L- Carter also participated as trade represent- atives. J. W. Humble of Gridley won die live bird championship of Northern California. He was tied by Hazelbusch and Merrill, all scored a straight 12. On the tie, miss and out, Hazelbusch dropped out on his first, Merrill quit at the fifth, Humble scored his fifth bird and won. E. Fissell of Davisville, last year's winner was not present to defend his previous win. The Infallible Cup went to F. F. Merrill of Stockton who scored 19 out of 20. Humble of Gridle}', previous holder of the trophy was tied for second place by Ferguson of Folsom, iS each. The Gibson cup was won by Troxell, who scored 17 out ol 20. F. F. Merrill and Fergusoon each broke 16. The Santa Cruz Rod and Gun Club are planning to entertain the Eastern sportsmen who will be in attendance at Los Angeles during the Interstate shoot. The Santa Cruz sportsmen have already sent out many invitations to Eastern sportsmen asking them to stop over at Santa Cruz on their way home from Los Angeles- The shoots part — part of the program for the visitors will take place at the Corcoran lagoon trap grounds of the Santa Cruz Club which will assume all the expenses of the proposed entertainment. The Paso Robles Gun Club members enjoyed a barbecue after the club shoot on June 3d. Trap shooting has become quite a fad with the- sportsmen of that section and the gun club shoots are not only well attended, but team shoots are held with represen- tatives of other gun clubs in near- by towns. This is encouraging fo the development of trap shoot- ing in the Pajaro valley. At the shoot above mentioned the scores averaged well, a notable im- provement being apparent in the scores of several shooters. T; e shot were respectively at 25, 10 and 10 targets as follows: Brendlin n-2-4, Keller 18-7-6, Colling 16-5-4, Wood 17 8-9, Cress 7-5-5, Johnson 24-8-6, Janney 1 1-0-3, Brown 15-4-0, Gaxiola 19 7-9, Ooley 15-5-7, Green 22-9-9, Hamilton 14-7-5, McDaniel, Jr., 170-5-5, Tognazzini 20-8-8, Mc- Daniel, L., 10,-3-0, Mader 14-7-5, Iverson 9-5-j, Gaxiola, Jr., 00-5. It is very probable that a big blue rock shoot will take place at Ingleside on July Fouitb. The affair is contemplated under the joint auspices of the local gun clubs and an attractive progrm is intimated by the man- agement. The club medal winners at the Vallejo Gun Club shoot on the 10th inst. were — Expert class, Clyde Drake, 25 straight. Class A, R. Bnruett 23 out of 25, Class B, C. L. Wisecarver, 22 out of 25. Class C medal was won by our old college chnm "Maud " Elias who fractured 19 discs out of 25 Since having the re- factory appendix taken out of his pump gun by Dr. Magistrini the jolly tar has been getting well into line with the tagets. In a team shoot for record, a most creditable score, in fact we believe it is the top uotcher for a five man team, resulted in a total of 114 out of 125. The scores weie: Roney 24, Wisecarver 22, Chap- pell 23, Roders 21, Drake 24, total 114. The Sacrmento Blue Rock Club members participated in a livly powder burning fest on the 10th inst. The club medal for the month was annexed by H. Derr who centered iS out of 20 targets. F. M. Newbert was there with a good eye for the only 20 straight during the day. The scores in different events were as follows: Twenty targets— Adams 13, 15, 13, 17, 14; Gusto 15, 18, 15, 15, 13; Ruhstaller, D., 17, 16, 17; Moultou, 8, 7, 7, 15; Derr 18, 14, 16, 13, 17, 17; Newbert, F. M., 19, 17, 15, 20, 19, 18; Vetter 15, 14; O'Brien 14, 12, 7 , 8; Newbert, D. E., 18, 13, 17, 17; Ruhstaller, F., 13, 14; Griggs S, 9, 16; Jackson 12-, 12, 12, 14; Reed 14, 12, 15; Berry 5, n; Pratt 4; Chambers 8, 11. Twenty-five targets — Chambers 8; Elkus, 8 16; Ruhstaller, D., 20, 19. Doubles, 10 pairs — Gusto 11; Newbert, F. M., 19; Derr 17; Vetter 12; Newbert, M., 12; Elkus 3; Chambers 15, 11. Team shoot — Ruhstaller, F., 15; Newbert, F., M., iS; Newbert, M., 19; total 52- Ruhstaller, D., 19; Derr, 13; Kessig 9; total 42. Gusto 16; Vetter 17; Adams 15; total 48. Club Medal — D. Ruhstaller 17, O'Bien 9, Newbert 16, Cunning- ham 11, Derr 18, Ruhstaller, F,. 17, Vette 17, Gusto 18, Adams 17, J ackson 12. A handsome and valuable trophy, the DuPout cup, which was supposed to have beeu destroy- ed in the recent conflagration, was saved and eventually turned up in Berkeley. This trophy was intended originally for the South- western Gun Club Association of Washington, and to be competed for under the auspices of that organiz- ation. The cup has been forward- ed to President Harry Gilchrist at Centralia, Wash, and will be shot for by the northern shooters in accordance with the program first outlined. The Capitol City Gun CIud closed the club season at the Whiskey Hill grounds on Junp 17th. A large attendance of sportsmen were present for the day was an ideal one for indulg- ence in shotgun recreation. The results in various events were the following: Twenty targets — F. Adams 13, 17; H. Derr 16, 17; E. D. Adams 17; F. Newbert 18; A- Just 12; C. Bauer 12, 15; M. Newbert 17; D. Ruhstaller 16, 16; C. DeMerritt 17; W. Sayer 14, 15; C- Cotter 14; J. Hughes 13, 14; J. Juisto 16, 18; F. Reichert 10; H. Kissig 15; O. F. Reed 14; H. Trumpler 17; G. Davis 19, 11; H. Stevens 18; H. Vetter 12; E. Jones 9; C. Jus- Han 14. Capitol medal, 20 targets — Adams 17, C. Cotter 16, M. New- bert, eighteen yards, 15; D. Ruhstaller 16, J. Hughes 18, W. Sayer 19, C. Bauer 14, G. Gray 17, C. Juliau 13, I. Inman 16, A. Just 11, A. Elkus, H. Vetter 19, E. Jones 16, F. Ruhstaller 88, H. Stevens iS, G. Frazer 14, E. Adatus 133, F. Reichert 19, Ed YardSey 6, W. Mott 13, F. Shoen- bachler 13, J. Guisto 18, H. Kissig 17, F. Newbert 18, F. Hackman 13, H. Derr 18, C. De Merritt 19. In shooting off ou ties on ninteen Merritt won with nineteen breaks at eighteen yards. Washington medal, 20 targets — F. Adams 13. C. Cotter 16, M. Newbert 17, D. Ruhstaller 11, J. Hughes 13, W. Sayer 17, C. Bauer 8, G. Gray 16, C. Julian 14, W. Shpperd 11, I. Inman iS , A. Just 16, A. Elkus 9, H. Vetter 15, E. Jones 15, F. Ruhstaller 16, H. Stevens 17, J. Frazer 9, E. D. Adams 16, G. Davis 17, F. Reicheit 17, Ed Yardley n, W. Mott 13, F. Schoenbachler 11, J. Justo 17, H. Kissig 17, F. New- bert 19, F. Hickman 9, H. Derr 17, C. De Merritt 15, I. Inman winning the medal. Three man team — Cotter, M. Newbert, D. Ruhstaller — 49. Sayer, E. Adams, Derr — 43. Gray, Reichert, Davis — 47. Hughes, Sheppherd, Vetter — 35. Guisto, Schoenbacbelr, Elkus— 34. Ste- vens, F. Ntwbert, Juslian — 49. Yardley, Kissig, Just— 41. Mott, DeMerritt, Trumpler — 45. The Deleware Legislature on June 12th elected Harry Henry A. DuPont United States Senator for the term beginnning March 3, 1905. His election was practi- cally unanimous and all the Re- publicans save one voted for Col. DuPont. Dri uk JackEOD'B Kn) h £oda, it means bcalti * i^HE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Otto Feudner is with the firm of Brittian & Company, Van Ness avenue, and Turk street this city. He is engaged in congenial lines in tbe sporting goods department (for- merly Olympic Arms Company). Associated with him is Mr. Cooley, formerly with the Phillpot CompaDy on Market street. Whether Peudner is a drawing card or not we leave to the opinion of the sportsmen. Suffice it to say that a week ago Saturday, Juce 9th, thesales of sport- ing goods amounted to $250, pretty good for a store on the edge of the burnt district. Many orders oould not be filled, the sportsmen, particularly the anglers, cleaned out several lines entirely. Couley saved 500 dozen of John Benn's ifles and there is now a strong demand for them. Golcher Bros., formerly Cla- brough, Golcher & Co., 538 Market, are located on the south side of Market street near First. Shreve Barber & Co., will soon resume business, we were informed, on the old site 739 Market street. We are sore that the new' store will be as popular a house and as much of a rendevous for tbe sportsmen as was the case before the fiie last April. E. J. Kaplan has started in bus- iness again — The Imperial Sporting Goods store. Van Ness avenue and Market Btreets. E. E. Drake, the Pacific Coast manajer for tbe U. M. C. Co. and the Remington Arms Co., is at pre- sent in the East. Mr. Drake is accompanied by Mrs. Drake, his trip is one of recreation as well as bus- ienss and before returning to the Coast, he will visit maDy points of interest in the East, including a brief sojourn in Florida. Meanwhile "Billy" Wattles is in charge of the new offices, 925 Golden Gate avenue, where the dual business is now conductive in commodiously fitted up sunny offices. We are egxtremely pleased to correct the report, published in this journal recently, that the San Francisco Kennel Club was to be disbanded and which seems to be without fonudation in fact. On Ihia subject, Secretary Fred P. Butler, wrote us: "The members of the San Francisco Kennel Club are not in for what they could make out of it. We have not got the sum of $2000 io the club treasury, aud further tbe world could come to an end before we would use the mouey in the treasury for our personal needs — that is by disbanding and dividing pro rata. This fund be- longs to the Pacific Ooaat fanciers and will be expended for thir benefit by tbe club. "The olub still exists, and 1 hope will always be in working order and tbe rumor above referred to is most positively without authoritive found- aitou. The sentiments of the club members ia unanimous in furthering the best interests of local and Coast fanciers and kennel clubs." This porticent denial and encour- aging statement by Mr. Butler will have the effeot of bracing up Coast dogdom to an appreciable extent, for with the loss of the San Francisco Kennel Club, there would be a miss- ing link in tbe dog chain of kennel affairs that would be bard to replace. Mr. George Flexner has a prom- ising young Bull Terrier bitch in Hawthorne Queen Lillian (Hawthorne Don't ex. Hawthorne Snowflake). She will be benched at Stocktcn in October. Mr. Flexner believes she will turn the tri color his way — providing everything goes well with her, for she is only ten mouths old. She has a neat head and as good a pair of beady terrier eyes as one would wish to look at. She is a light weight and is built on "ery pretty lines. Dave Sinclair, we note with regret that will find response from every Coast fancier, has been laid up in a Los Angeles sanitorium for a month past. Poor Dave has been very ill, but the attending doctors are now sanguine of his early recovery, which we heartily trust may soon take place. Alec Truman, these strenuous times, still has tbe enthusiasm and leisure to look after his good dogs. We saw Wig Wag and Oh. Mike Swiveller the other day and they were in tip-top condition. WaJ recenlty served Mr. Kean'a Blue Belle Noble and Mike served Kuan's Irsb setter bitoh Norcen, a winner at Frisco, 1905. Striped bass fishing is reported very good in tbe straits and also in the Tiburon lagoon. In the vicinity of Sacramento striped bass weighing over forty pounds have recently been caught on spoons. San Aotoue creek anglers also met with success in landing bass. Black bass fishing in Ballard's lane is worth a trip over the Califorrnia Northwestern Railway to that picturesque part of Sonoma county. Reports from the Truckee state that spoon and bait fishing is excel- lent at present. The water is yet too high for first class sport with tbe fly. This dssirable condition of the royal trout stream is most promising for sports in about two weeks. The Golden Gate Gun Club will bold a regular shoot at Ingleside tomorrow. The trout streams of Santa Cruz couuty are ripe for thn angler now. The head of Soquel creek is full of large steelbeads that went up during the recent rains aud are landlocked at many riffles. ■J.J. Boswell Keoniff is still connected with tbe spurting goods department of Baker and Hamilton, 117 Berry street, this city. Tom C. Kiorulff, the popular secretary of the San Francisco Fly Casting Club can be found in his law office, 300 Uaigbt street, this city. The first of tbe interrupted fly casting contests took place at the Stowlake last Sunday. There was a good attendance, following the water whipping a meeting of the club was held during which several new members were elected. Salmon fishing still is first class iu Monterey bay. Racing For $3O0 Purses At first glance it always appears strange that California trainers should cross tbe mountains and race their trotters and pacers for purses of §300, when they decline to enter at home unless the money hung up for each race amounts to at least gfiOO. There is a reason for it however The California circuit has been in the past four years limited to a very few meetings, and owners will not pay to have horses trained for three or four races unless the purses or stakes raced for are large enough to be worth getting records for. Across the Rocky mountains however there are so many circuits that racing can be bad every week from Juue 1st to November 1st, and the shipments are short and inexpensive. Chas. DeRyder, me of the foremost of the Grand Circuit drivers aud trainers left Caiforuia a few weeks ago with a string of horses that he has been racing through Iowa for S300 purses during tbe past two weeks, but as soon as the larger meetings open he will leave tbe half mile tracks and go for the larger game if his horses are io shape. There are twenty towns in Calif- ornia where successful aud profitable meetings could be given every year with purses limited to S300, but to do so tbey would havo to form circuit of not less than ten weeks racing. With a circuit of this sort for a "feeder" the State Agricultural Society, the Breeders Association, the Los Angeles Harness Horse Associtatiou, aud two or three more organizations, could form a Grand California Circuit that would receive large entry lists and put twice as many horses in training every year on the different tracks of this State. If there are but four or five meet- ings at which to race harness horses each year, the purses must be large to attract them, but could three months racing be provided for owners and trainers would be willing to enter their horses where purses were as low as 8300- It is the history of all tbe eastern and western organizations that the organized circuits get the most en- tries and have the best racing. Let us suppose, to illustrate, that a cir- cuit of harness racing for $300 purses could be arranged, with Salinas, Hollister, Pleasanton, Concord, Vnllejo. !>ixon and Marysville as members. Here would be seven weeks of racing, with the distances between towns not great, and the expenses of shipment consequently small. By organizing thoroughly, all these meetings could be advertised together and a flat rate secured for horses shipped through the entire circuit. Thrre days of racing at eaoh place with three races a day would make a total of $2700 in purses to be hung up at each place, and a grand total of very nearly 820,000 to be raced for on tbe entire circuit. Another circuit like this could be organized in the northern part of the Sacramento Valley, one in the San Jaoquin Valley, one in the far south and auother in the country around Eureka, Humboldt county. It would not make any difference as to tbe circuits conflicting with each other, but the dates of the four or five big meetiugs on the main circuit should not be taken by any of the smaller meetings. By this arrange- ment all the best horses raced at the smaller meetings could meet at the larger meetings and much interest would surely b3 aroused and grand racing result. We hope the managers of tracks irj different parts of the State will give this subject some thought before another year. DIVIDEND NOTICE German Saving and Loan Society 526 California Street For the half year ending June 30, 1906. a dividend tins been dpi lared at the ra three and six-tenths (3 6-10) i.i-i cent) per annum cm nil deposits, free of taxes, payable on and after Monday. July2, 1906. Dividends not called for are added i i bear the sami rate of Interest as the priucipal from July 1, 1906. Geo. Toukny; Secretary. DIVIDEND NOTICE California Sale Deposit and Trust Co. Cor. California & Montgomery Sts. For the six months ending June 30, I906.d!vi- dends have been declared on the deposits In the savings department of this compauy at fol- lows: On term deposits al the v.-i j,- of 36 1 r criit perannum.undon ordinary deposits al the rale of ■'- per cent per ;i tm, fi ee of ti aud pa) aDle on and alter M lay July 2, 1006. .1. Dai v.ia.i Brown, Manager. DIVIDEND NOTICB San Francisco Savings Union N.W. Cor. California or Montgomery Sts. For the half ) ear ending SOth Jane 19 6, . dividend lias l n declared al the ran-- per a n mi in "f three and tn o- thirds {■> 2-3) per cent. mi To in Deposit! and three and one third (31-3) per cent, on Ordinary Deposits, fr f taxes, pn ''iii'l md a in r M lay. Jul) r i eposltore are i ntilh d to draw theli dii 1- dends atari; timi during i lie Bucceedli year, Dividend not drawn will be added o the ,!■ i ii account, beeoi pu i thereol and cam dividend from July !-i J.'iVKl.I. WHITE, I ashler. Sober up on Juekeuu's Napa Soda. * THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN Now tbat tbe dates of tbe Santa Aoa, Suu BreDardiao aud Los Augeles meetiugs are anuouuced. a9 well as the Breeders meetiug aod tbe State Fair, otbsr associatious iuteu-J to give meetiugs should be ready to claioi dates. It tbere are meetings at Han ford aud Fresno, tbe horses cbd come north from Los Angeles by nay of the San Joaquin valley, stopping over at these tings. If there should be no meetings at either place, then Salinas, Hollister aud Vallejo might get in line aud give meetings between the close of tbe Los Angeles races and the opeuiug of ihe Breeders meeting at Woodland. A well bred daughter of Direct 2:05'.. is offered for sale by M. C. Delano of Roclsliu. Tbere is bound to be a boom in Direet mares for brood mares, and the time to get tbem is now. Dusk, the dam of this mare is also the dam of Fallacy 2:17'-, aud her second dam Centen- ial Belle is the third dam of Janice 2:08!4, Clipper 2:06, etc. This mare is a shade uuder 15 ^ bauds and weighs nearly 1000 pounds. She is a right good trotter, and can show a 2:20 gait barefoot. The suckling is by Stain B. 2:11 '4, and is large and an extra good looker. Tbe mare is due to foal to Zolock 2:05i/ in March, 1907. Mr. Delano also ad- vertises for sale a bay colt foaled April, this year, by Kinney Lou 2:i)734, dam Marguerite. This is a largni tine looking colt and is entered in tbe Kentucky and California Breeders Fumrity. All stakes offered by the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association for its August meeting at Woodland, will close Monday, July 2L The stakes for 2:21 anl free for all trotters, and 2:20 and 2:09 pacers, which were originally adver- tised to close Jone 18th, were not closed ou tbat date, but will remain o;eu until July 2d, closing on tbe same time as tbe balance of Ihe pro- gram. This is an advantage to all horsemen and will enable them to work their horses up to tbe last of June before selectiug the classes in w bicb to enter tbem. Chas. DeRyder started Swanbilda at the Cedar Rapids meeting Jure isth in the 2:30 pace. The Orkney- Wilkes mare finished 4-2-2 and won second money. The purse was 8300, a .d Ite time 2:21 '.,, 2:1H!.,, 2:23J£. There were nine starters. Kenney is ready to mend your old broken cart or sulky or sell one that won't break un- less yon use an axe on it. lie Is at tbe old stand 531 Valencia, in tbe heart of one of Greater San Fran- cisco busiest districts. Take Mission street car. Charles DeRyder drove in all three races at the Cedar Rapids meetiug on June lltb. In the first raace a $300 purse for pacers of the 2:05 class he started Ihe mare Aplba W. 2:08 aud took second money. The race went to Echo Jr. 2. 07 '4 in straight haats. In the 2:35 trot, purse $300 be started Charlie Belden, Mart Rolilns' good green trotter by Lyduwood W. Tbere were five heats iu tbe race, Charlie Belden being second in every heat but the second, when he was third. In the 2:10 trot DeRyder drove the horse Suubeam and won a beat and second money. The fastest heat in this race was 2:17M. A running race for lady riders will be a feature of tbe Los Angeles meeting In July. Tbe race will be opeu to tbe world and tbe purse is 5225, of which $125 is to the winner, 850 to second, g30 to third, and $20 to fourth. No entrance. It will be a dash of one mile. McKinney Stallion Wanted Three yearsold: standard bredtrotter. Price must be reasonable. Address E. M. Care "Breeder and Sportsman. San Francisco P. O. Drawer +47. F"OR SALE - $7-00 The very promising 2 year old FILLY IRE>"E AYEKS, full sister to tbat game ra'*e horse Jasper Avers 2:J9 and May Ayers '1 :.:;]2 out of Habe by Altamout 98o -,'d dam by San Francisco Pat -hen he by (.ieo. M. Patcheu Jr. 3rd dam. by Owendale. Irene Ayers by Iris Sire sin 2:l:'.Uo -:J7 Ins by Eros 2:2M he by'Electioneer til is Filly is a sure coining fast race mare ran trot a 40 gate with less than 90 days work tiff grass, ^be is entered in the Stanford stakes for 19U7. Paid up to June 1st l'.< 7. Address H.T. OWEN", 1102 Em St.. Keen, Cal. FOR SA E That excellent big standrad bred registered trotting brood mare, "Maisie Hero," by Slmde- land Hero, dam Sally Salisbury by Judge Salisbury, with Murray M. Colt by her side, foaled June 2nd, and entered in Pacific Breed- ers futurity stake No. 6. Maisie has been re- turaed to Murray M. Price H00. Also Rex Hero 4J072. sire Royal Derby by Chas. Derby, dam Maisie Hero, yearling stallion of grand conformation and style, weighing close to 800, square clean trotter and unusually promising Price $301) This fine stock must be sold as 1 have not the time to give them the attention they merit. For particulars address J. C. METZGORE. Santa Ana Cal. Carriage Tbiam. JFor Sale. Bays, about 7 years old, weigh about 1250 each, well broken single and double, good drivers, well mannered, sound and stylish, first class team in every respect. Fur further particulars and to see team call or address A. L. SCOTT, Hillside Ave., Piedmont, Cal. Standing Offer Good always, everywhere. $100 Reward, for any lame- ness, curb, splint, founder, distemper, etc., (where cure is possible) that is not cured by TUTTLE'S ELIXIR Greatest horse remedy in the world. Tuttle*s Family Elixir invaluable for human bruises, pains, rheumatism, etc. Send for free 100 page bonk, "Veterinary Experience.** The perfect horseman's guide. Every disease symptom and lis treatment. Turtle's Elixir €o.. 5* Beverly St.. 3oston, Mass. Llaci & Co. , Ban Francisco and 7. W. Braun, Loi Angeles, California Agents. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DURHAMS.- Dairy Stock specialty- Hope, Poultry. Estab- lished ^76. William Niles &. Co., Los Angeles Cal. DIRECTED FOR SALE— Black mare 1895 by Direct, 2:05% dam by Mambrino Wilkes. WoOd- burn-'Williamson's Belmont. Due to foal to Zo- look 2:05'^ March 1907. Bay colt foaled April by Kinnev I.eu 2:073^, dam Marguerite. Lurgr: and line looking. In Kentucky Futurity and California Breeders stakes. M. C. DELANO, Roeklin.'Cal. 072-r.sonth Ave. Duck of the < hutes All kinds of Horses bought aud sold. THE ZIBBELL STA15LE ZIBJiELL a.- SON, Proprietors San Francisco, Cal. Hoarding, Training and Handling all kinds of Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand, 'lake any car going to the Chutes. Tel. West 25.4 HOLSTEINS- EFTTER BRED FAMILIES. WurkHerd; 9U per cent winners at i^tate and county fairs, ^!i »w ring, and every butler con- test since 1885 in Calilornia. No reservations. Stock near 8. F. F. H. Burke, 2126 Fillmore St. San Francisco. BLAKE, MOfTIT & TOWNE ^ Dealers in PAPER No. 403 Twelfth St., Oakland BLAKE, MOFFIT * TOWNE, - Los Angeles BLAKE, McFALL ,t CO., - Portland. Or. Young McKinney Stallion FOR SALE I offer for sale my young stallion CAELOKIS, record 2:20% as a three year old. He is by McKinny and out of the great brood mare Carlotta Wilkes (dam of Volita 2:151^, Carloeita 2:24i4 and Carlokin 2:2u:!4 , by Charley Wilkes 3563, second dam Aspasia, dam of Faus- tina 2:19Va by Alcantara 729, etc. Carlo- kin is standard and registered, and can show a mile at the trot now in 2:13 or better. I believe he will trot in 2:10 this year. Will sell him at a reasonable figure for cash. He is a game race horse and his first crop of colts foaled this year are as fine lookers as can be found anywhere. Correspondence invited. Address C L. JONES, Modesto. POSITION WANTED After July 1st, to take charge of one or more stallions or *toek farm. Eesi of references as to ability, experience, and all other qualifications address FRANK P.IPLEY, Byron, Cal. Care of H. Busing. Take Hniglit, Haves T. C. CABNEY, Prop. or Ellis Street Car Phone : Park 436 PANHANDLE STABLES Horses, Bought, Sold and Clipped AT POPULAR PRICES Horses Boarded. Trained, Gaited, Exercised 1225-1227 FELL STREET Bet. Devisadero and Broderick Streets SAX FRANCISCO I Just Eftongkj J and iust as they want it. The right way to [ j salt animals is to let them help themselves. Gomoressed Pure-Salt Bricks | in onrPatent Feeders. Gnpply refined d;tiry salt. Theymean animal tlir^it. Th°y cost but little. Convenient for yoa n uffernoBejjl'K't. A?!; E BELIEF IS SSJB.E. Spavin. Ringbone, Cnrb.S?lintall Lame- ness and Bony En- largements enred quickly and perma- nently with Kendall's Spavin Gui-e, Spuvln Curs e Wander. DB. B. j. zl:~? :.].l co.. Gentlemen-,— r.aelwfl fit d a tiro eont jtamp frt which pl^e eni SBJS* yJMfWfl itT!t b^i- Ih"sts- Recommended by this Publication. Hance Brothers & White PHARMACEUTICAL CHEMISTS PHILADELPHIA. IZNQL §011030 Kg£«lC, ANTISEPTIC AND DIS'"™??! WiL'T^' *"*•' "i rum ii"" ff m^m VICTOR VERILH.U". Prop. JAMES M. Mci-.RATH, Mgr DEXTER PRINCE STABLES Trainng, Boarding and Sale Cor. of Grove and Baker Sts., just at the Panhandle Entrance to Golden Gate Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devisadero Street Cars) Best located and healthiest Stable in San Francisco. Always a good roadster on hand for sale Careful and experienced men to care for and exercise park roadsters and prepare horses for track use. Ladies can go and return to stable aud not have their horses frightened by automobiles or ars. f THE BREEDER AND SPORTS M'A N 3. Alex. Brown Stakes, 2:16 Class Pace THURSDAY, AUGUST 16. 4. Futurity Trot, 2 Year Old Division. CLOSED. 5. Byrnes Hotel Stakes, 2:13 Class Trot 6. Futurity Pace, 3 Year Old Division CLOSED. 500. $1450. 500. 1300. |ED STAKES 3R.SE BR.EEDER.S ASSOCIATION 15th to 1Bth, 1906 '906 -- Horses to be named with entry jam me: FRIDAY, AUGUST 17. 7. Futurity Pace. 2 Year Old Division CLOSED $ 950. 8. Golden Gate Stakes. 2:09 Class Pace 800. 9. Sunset Stakes, Free-lor-All Trot 800. SA TURD A Y, AUGUST 18. 10. Futurity Trot, 3 Year Old Division CLOSED S2300. 11. Pacific Slope Stakes, 2:20 Class Pace 1500. 12. Woodland Stakes, 2:18 Class Trot 500. STAKES divided 50— 25— In and 10 per cent. Entrance 5 per cent the amount of the stakes will be deducted from each money wo For entry blanks andconditions address the secretary. Member National Trotting Association LIBERAL STAKES FOR OTHER CLASSES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. E. P. HEALD, President F. W. KELLEY. Secretary OSSice: 709 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Cal. P.O. Drawer 447 McMURRAY POINTS: erlect Construction Light Weights, Great Strength, Wj Easy Running, ^ AND LOW PRICES McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS Standard the World Over fg—Aildress for printed matter and Prices W. J. Kenney 531 Valencia St., San Francisco. Cal. Sales — Agent for California. Warranted to give satisfaction. k^= GOMBAILT'S CAUSTIC BALSAM A safe, speedy and positive cure for 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_s a HUMAN HEMEHT for Rhen- ninllini, SpraiDK, Sore Throat, et*. is a I uable. it Every bottle of Carmtio Balnarn sold is Warranted to five fatista^tion. Price Sl.fJO per bottlt Sold by drUL't-'i^t", or sent by ex- press, charges paid, with full directions for its use. Send for descriptive circulars, testimo- nials, etc. Address TUB LAWRENCE- WILLIAMS COMPANY, Cleveland, Otin "HOWARD SHORTHORNS'1 — QUI1KTO HERD— 77 premiums, California State Fa Ira 1902-3-J. Registered cattle of beef and milking families for etile. Write ub vl.t-1 jcu naiit. Upward Cattle Co,, fan Mai>u S ANGELES July 18th to 21st Inclusive SANTA ANA RACE MEETING SANTA ANA 1UNE 29th, 1906 Los Angeles Harness Horse Association Wednesday, luly 18th No 1 2:12 Pace $500 No. 2 2:30 Trot 800 No .3 2:19 Pace 500 Thursday, July 19th No 5 2:25 Pace, 3yrs old & under $400 No 5 2:12Trot 500 No 6 3:00 Mixed (see conditions). 400 Friday, luly 20th No. 7 Trot, 3 vrs old and under... $400 No. 8 2:15 Trot 50) No. 9 Ladies Running Race 225 (Divided J125 to winner, i-'iG to second, $!0 to Third and ?20 to Fourth Horse No entrance. Open to the world ) Saturday, luly 21st No. 10 2:19Trot $500 No. 11 2:25 Pace.. 800 No. 12 2:09 Pace 500 JULY 4th and 5th Entries to c'03B June 29,1 908 Programme Wednesday, luly 4th No. 1 2:19 Pace... $400 No. 2 2:12Trot 400 No. 3 (Gentlemen's Road Rao For a Purse (Orange Co. Horses No. 4 Match Race . _ For a Purse Thursday, luly 5th No. 5 2:19Trot .$400 X... (i l':o:i Pace ... 400 No. V (Gentlemen's Road Race).. For a Purse (Orange Co. Horses) No. S Match Race For a Purse National Association roles to govern, unless otherwise specified. Hobbles not brarred on paceiv. Mile beats 3 io 5, except No. 9, which will be mile dash. No race longer than 5 heats. Money to he divided in accordance with summary at end of 5th heat. Entrance 5 per cent, of purse; additional 5 per cent. frora money winners. Money divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Hoise distancing field or any part thereof entitled to one money only. Association reserves right to change order of program and to declare otf any race not filliog satisfactorily. In race No. G (3miuute mixed), right is reserved lo reiect any eutry; in event of rejection, entry can be trans- ferred to any other class eligible at option of the party making entry. Any entry accompanied by 3 per cent, of purse (2 per cent, additional to start) entry will not be suspended for not i-tartiug, provided horse is declared out in writing on or before s°veu o'clock P. M. day belore iace. Address all all inquiries and entries lor Los Angeles meeting to the secretary SrCoit. ^n. Smith, Secretary 309 West Second St. 6. Jl. Canfleld, President. Phone: Home 12.5-J, Main 1720. Address all inquiries for conditions, entry blank* and enl ries Eor 2fl utja a i be E tary. GEO. W. FORD, I'., sident J. C. WALLACE. Manager W. E. BAKER, Sec'y. Rossmore Hotel, Santa Ana Cal. Wanted A gents and Correspondents wanted in every town on the Pacific Coast for the "Breeder and Sportsman" THE BREEDER AND SPORTS M'A N EDUCATOR SON OF DIRECTOR. Season of ISO© AT y Thursdays , near University Ave Fridays - Saturdays M. HENRY, Owner. WILLIAM HAROLD McRINNEY, 2:11* RBCORD 2:13 1-4 Sire of JANICE 2:08 1-4. world's record (2:24 1-4) for 1 1-8 miles, and DAN BURNS 2:15; sired by SIDNEY 2:19 3-4; Dam. CRICKET 2:10: By Steixway, sire of Klatawah 2:05,^ 40 in 2:30 list. Terms, $25 for ttie Season For further particulars address or apply to M. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. World s Leading Sire of Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500.00 Pees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2.00 per week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, 10 miles from Cuba. Mention this Journal when writing™' Ote €mptr£ €tfg JirWms, new Ioek THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE BAYWOOD STUD foM smith 2T13 1-4 THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Parrott, Esq.) Imp. Hackney Stallion GREEN'S RUFUS 63 (4291) Will serve a limited number of Approved Mares, Season 1 906 FEE, $75. Reductions made for two or more mares. WALTER SEALY, Manager. THE STANDARD - BRED TROTTING STALLION RED McKINNEY By McKINNEY 2:11J£. First dam, Bonnie Red by Red Wilkes; seeond dam, I'.-'Nnik Bell by Almont 33; third dam, Alice Drake by Alexander's Norman; fourtb dam, Yily by Pilot Jr. 12. WILL MAKE SEASON OF 1906 AT THE CITY STABLES, TULARE, CAL. Fee 130, with return privileges. W. P.. MURPHY, Owner JOE DAI.L, Manager. Tin- Fastest Trotting San of the Champion Sire Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWRENCE STOCK FARM One Mile East of Lawrence Station, and Six Miles from Snn Jose. Torms &IOO. $50 due when mare is bred and $50 payable when mare is known to be in foal. For further information, pedigree and description address BUDD DOBLE, SAN JOSE, CAL. Phone: SUBURBAN c=>-t±jJVL± .L J±a ,,;„„. u.:a1, vi.: u. g'Je Wiii : ;,t SAN LORENZO and AXAMEDA. REE, $25. - PfcRTER J, WILLIAMS, San Lorenzo, Cal. Sired bv the great McKIXNEY 2:11J4— greatest sire of his age: dam, the great brood mare DAISY S. ("dam ot four in list). Will make the Season of 1906 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK To a limited number of approved mares. FEE $50 with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, WOODLAND, CAL. THE CHAMPION SIPE OF EAR.LY AND EXTREME 5PEED NUTWOOD WILKES 2: 1 61 Sire GUY WILKES 2:12}^ Dam LIDA W .__ __2:18J£ by NUTWOOD... 2:18^ NUTWOOD WILKES will make the Season of 1906 at the Nutwood 5tock Farm, from Feb. I st to July I st. F"EE $50- FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges. Send for Tabulated Pedigree. For -further particulars apply or address: MARTIN CARTER, Nutwood Stock Farm, Irvin£to*i, Alameda Co., Cal. THE HOUGHTON SULKY CO. Highest Class Line of Road and Speed Carts Carried in Stock. Weight 4-2 to 65 Lbs. Sulkies— Regular and Made to Order *" S.& to 35 l_bs. SEE OUR SPEEDY "WAGONS Prices Always Right 0J\ oveltu LsO/npanu 3739 77th OA, Oa/z Zfrancisco. TOOiiEY TWO=WHEELERS give best results FOR EACTN'G AND TRAIXIXG PURPOSES. Low Seat Racer Sulkies the Fastest and Best in the World Pneumatic Pole Carts for Team Work on both Road and Track Pneumatic & High Wheel Jog Carts for Road Use Send iV>r latest Ca(UUog:ue to S. TOOIHEY & CO., CANALoSqo^ Costs from $5 to $2-5 for repeated firing, horse must be laid up for several mouths; not 5 per cent, of the cases are cured. Blistering is less effective. Mercurial preparations produce irreparable injury. 'SAVE-THK-HORSE" eliminates all these factors. Cures without scar, blemish or loss of Positively and permanently cures Spavin, Ringbone, Thoroughpin. Curb, splint. Capped Hock, Wind Puff, Broken down. Bowed or Strained Tendon or any Case of Lameness. Horse can be worked as usual and with boots, as no harm will result from scalding of limb or destruction of hair. t^fr f\f\ ner bottle, with a written guarantee, as binding to protect yon as the best ^P ^J a \J \J legal talent could make it. At all druggists and dealers or sent express paid by TROY CHEMICAL CO., Binghamton,N. Y. Formerly of Troy, N. V. D. E. NEWELL, Pacific Coast Agent. 56 Bayo Vista Ave., Oakland, Cal. "■> RECORD BREAKING FISH are caught every year at LAKE TAHOE JCST as large ones still uncaught. You can get them, Don't you long to feel again that sharp tug at the line, hear the shrill whir of the reel, and, after a blood stirring fight, experience the joy of landing one of the finest, craftiest old trout you ever saw? You shall do that many times on this beautiful lake and on the mountain streams round about. Also good hunting and mountain climbing. Many hotels; fine camping places; no poison oak. Buy your ticket, and get there in one night. Sleeper leaves San Francisco daily 7 p. M. and you arrive at Tahoe next morning in time for breakfast. SOUTHERN PACIFIC Campbell's PoToro1™ 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, -CRATCHES, Blood Poisoxed SORES I ABRASIONS of the SKIX it has no equal. I Its use will absolutely prevent Blood j Poisoning. In this respect there is no Gall ICure offered which can justly even claim to |be a competitor. We placed it on the Market (relying wholly on its merit of success, and [notwithstanding the fact that comparatively liittle has been clone in the way of advertising, "the sales of 1900 were 100 per cent greater than the aggregate sales of Gall Cure pre- ceding that year. This increase was entirely due to its MERITS, and it is THE GALL CURE OF THE 20th CENTURY. It is a quick and sure cure for those troublesome skin cracks under the fet- ock which injure and often lay up race horses. All Trainers Should Keep It in their Stables PRICE: — 3 OZ. BOX 25c; 7 oz. BOX 50c; I LB. BOX, $1.00 Read oar "ad" on Campbell's Horse Foot Remedy in next issue of this paper. JAS. B. CAMPBELL & CO., Mfrs., W. 41 2 Madison St., Chicago, HI. Sold by all Dealers in Harnes and Turf Goods. If not in stock ask them to write aay Jobber for it. These; are th© Brands of Selby Factory . . . Loaded Shells Pacific, Challenge, Superior, Excelsior. Send Orders to Smelting Works VALLEJO JUNCTION. CONTRA COSTA CO., CAL. OIHIM^fc. Take It In Time, It you have the remedy on hand, and are ready to , act promptly, you will find thatthere is nothing fn the form of Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Wimipuflfs and Bunches which will not yield promptly and perma- nently to Qu inn's Ointment Ithas saved th'iimnds or pood 1: cart and the bn iken-down horce I ens, or Minneapolis, Minn., who conducts oneof thelnrgest livery B I writes as follows: I hnve bi-en titi« it Qulnn'» Ointment tor some tit I take pleaenrein recommending It to my friends. No h, outitlnhla stable. For curbs, splints, spavins, wlndpntr* and a til PHco Sl.00 par bottle. Sold by all druggists or Ben t by mail. ,. ..lt. «,«« uuwuato, 1 "■2SRKMS,?' " W. B. Eddy & Co., Whitehall, N. Y. rses from the peddler's larket. Mr. C. B. PI. " doles in the Korthwe 9 and with the greatest ( bi men should bt- m itb- inchei It ha? no equal." THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN — — = J. A. Mc KERR ON Temporarily at 218 Eureka Street Fine Harness and Horse Boots San Francisco, Cal. The Trap or Hunting Outfit U. M. C. Ammunition Is made Perfect Combination E. E. DRAKE, Pacific Coast Manager Remington Shotgun Temporary Office: 1700 SUTTER STREET, CORNER OF LAGUNA, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. TEN CAR LOADS OF GOODS ON THE WAY, - l i r WINCHESTER REPEATING ARMS CO. MANUFACTURERS OF ^iM^uiisriTionsr, pe.iFL.ES jlxxid shotguns TEMPORARY OFEICE N ^. 1422 PARK AVENUE, ALAMEDA J Smith Hammerless and Ejector Guns ALSO HUNTERONETRIGGER WON GOLD MEDAL AT THE Lewis & Clark Exposition PHIL B. BEKEART CO., Inc. Temporary Office : 2330 ALAMEDA AVENUE, Cor. Park Street, Alameda, Cal. PACIFIC COAST BRANCH A. J. Reach Co., Ithaca Gun Co., Gray & Davis, Smith & Wesson, E. C. Coot & Bro., Marlln Fire Arms Co., Markham Air Rifle Co., Daisy Manufacturing Co., Ideal Manufacturing Co., Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works. Send for Catalogue. HUNTER ARMS CO. Fulton, INLY. Spratts Dog Remedies Dog Biscuits Dog Soaps Coast Agency : 1324 Valencia St.. San Francisco. Cal. THOS. BANKS, Manager. •ffi ITHACA GUNS double thick nitro breech and narrow skeleton rib of an ITHACA No. 7 $300 list gun. ^Tlns feature, to- gether with the reinforced frame, reinforced stock and double bolt, makes the ITHACA the strongest and safest gun for Nitro powder. IfAVe build everything front a featherweight 5%-pound 20-gauge gun to a 10^- pound 10-gauge duck, fox and goose gun. If Send for Art Catalogue describing 17 grades 10, 12, 16 and 20 gauge guns ranging in price from $17.75 to $300. W. & ITHACA GUN CO. Pacific Coast Branch, 2330 Alameda Ave. , Alameda, Cal. Ithaca, N. Y. 5$ m YOL. XLVIL No. 24 SAX FRAXCISCO, JUNE 30, 1906 Subscription $3.00 a Year THE WEEKLY Breeder and Sportsman F. W. KELLET, Proprietor Turf and Sporting Authority of the Pacific Coast OFFICE: 709 VAN NESS AVENUE. SAN FRANCISCO P. O. Drawer 447. Entered as Second Class Matter at San Francisco Postoffice. Terms — One Tear §3; Six Months 51.75; Three Months $1 STRICTLY IN ADVANCE Money should be sent by Postal Order, draft or letter addressed to F. TV. Kelley, P. O. Drawer 447, San Fran- cisco, California. Communications must be accompanied by the writer's name and address, not necessarily for publication, but as a private guarantee of good faith. HARNESS RACING DATES. Grand Circuit. Cleveland July 30 — August 3 Buffalo .August 6-10 Poughkeepsie ." : August 13-17 Readville August 20-24 Providence August 27 — September 1 Hartford September 3-7 Syracuse ^. . .m September 11-14' Columbus September 17-21 Cincinnati September 24-29 California. Santa Ana July 4-7 San Bernardino July 11-14 Los Angeles ". .July 18-21 Woodland (Breeders' Meeting) August 15-1S Sacramento (State Fair) August 25 — September 1 North Pacific Circuit. Salem, Or September 10-15 North Yakima, Wash September 17-22 Spokane, Wash September 24-29 Walla Walla, Wash October 1-6 Lewiston, Idaho October 8-13 Montana Circuit. Butte August 21 — September 4 Livingston September 10-14 Bozeman September 17-22 Great Palls September 24-28 State Fair, Helena '. October 1-6 Missoula October 8-12 THE OLD THREE IN FIVE SYSTEM retains its popularity with owners and trainers in spite of the kickers and newspaper writers who say it is doomed. The largest entry list ever received by any association for harness meeting has been'received by the Ken- tucky Trotting Horse Breeders, whose program sticks to the old three in five. THE AUTOMOBILE did grand work in saving life and property during the big.fire, but the old reliable horse is doing the work necessary to clearing up the debris and hauling the material for rebuilding. And he is doing it patiently and to the best of his ability, and in some cases with kicks and lashes for his re- ward. The work horses of San Francisco are doing a work that cannot be accomplished without them, and they should be well fed, well groomed and kindly treated. Every case of cruelty to one of them should be instantly reported by the eye witnesses to the same. ENTRIES CLOSE MONDAY' NEST, JULY* 2d, for the big stakes offered by the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association, to be decided at the Woodland meeting in August. Every horse in training should be named in the class to which it is eligible. This is the year when an average horse should be able to get some of the money. Nearly all the highly touted trotters and pacers of the green class have been shipped East or to Colorado and Montana, and there will therefore be a better chance than ever to win the $1,500 trot or the $1,500 pace without being compelled to step your horse to a low record. Horse- men should remember that an opportunity is offered this year that may not offer again soon, and govern themselves accordingly. The program, which will be found in our advertising columns, gives every horse a chance, and the wise owner will see that his horses are named in those events to which their records do not bar them. No more delightful week can be spent than the one at Woodland during the Breeders ' meet- ing. The town has first-class hotel accommodations and is one of the busiest and most prosperous in the whole Sacramento valley. Get your entry blank prop- erly filled out and mailed on Mondav, July 2d.- IT PAYS to breed and raise trotting bred colts to sell as yearlings if the sales of the Suisun Stock Farm are any criterion. The fourth annual sale of yearlings by Demonio was held at this farm two weeks ago to- day, and the average price received was $111 per head. Y'earlings at that figure are a profitable crop, as no money has to be expended on their education and the only requirements asked by buyers is that they are sound and in good condition. THE GRAND CIRCUIT will open at Cleveland this year with a meeting at which there will be no book- making or pools sold. The Detroit meeting had to face the same puritanical law, and after closing the M. & M. and C. of C. stakes, transferred them to Cleveland and declared off the balance of its pro- gram. It wlil be remembered that the Cleveland meeting was declared off last year a few hours be- fore the time set for calling the first race, the rea- son being that betting was prohibited and the as- sociation felt itself unable to stand the loss of revenue which this would have brought about. This year the citizens of Cleveland who enjoy harness racing have subscribed a guarantee fund of $15,000 to insure the association against loss, and the meeting will be held. At Readville, Mass., where the New England Trot- ting Horse Breeders Association holds its annual meet- ings, the State officials have resurrected an old blue law against betting on races and will enforce it. The association will give its meeting nevertheless. Is it not time that horsemen all over the country should organize against the bigotry that permits such laws to be on the statutes? We believe there is power enough in the members of the National and American Trot- ting Associations to secure the abrogation of these laws in every State where they are in force. The prevalence of long continued running meetings with their accompaniment of bookmaking and reckless gambling do much to make these anti-betting laws popular with the people in some sections, and the har- ness horse peopJ**- will have to divorce themselves from any connection with the running meetings whatever, unless the managers of the jockey clubs will be con- tent to see some such law as the New York Racing Law adopted. The breeding of trotters is a national industry, and the farmers and business men of nearly every State in the Union are engaged in it to a greater or lesser extent. Trotting races are necessary to the development of tfie trotting breed of horses to its highest degree and is as pleasurable and harm- less a pastime as baseball, tennis or golf. It should be fostered and encouraged in every way so long as it is conducted in a respectable manner. THE STALLION SEASON ends July 1st. It will not be out of place at this time to call the attention of the owners of mares to the fact that many stallions make a summer and fall season at reduced rates, and mares that are not in foal can be bred during that time. Where marcs are not bred with the idea of racing their foals in the early stakes, the fall season is about as good a time to breed them as the spring, if the mare ean be put on green pasture at foaling time, such as alfalfa, of which there is a great deal in California. A fall colt is generally weaned in the spring when all the pastures are green and will thrive during weaning time. The reduced fees for stallion services during the summer and fall months should induce many persons to book their mares then. A PRACTICAL TALK is thus given breeders of horses by the editor of Western Horseman: "There is such a thing as being practical in the breeding of trotters and pacers, and the time has arrived when stock farm owners should seriously consider this phase of the 4 business. There are farms with scarcely an aged gelding on the place, while others may be found that are overstocked with horses that should have found their way to market. We have in mind a prom- inent farm where not a single gelding over three years old has been found on the premises in several years. This farm has a practical man at its head, a man who weeds out the brood marcs and the fillies each season, fitting them for sale and finding a buyer for each at good prices. The stock farm must advertise. Not spasmodically, but with regularity. The farm that is in the business to stay must advertise each year, re- gardless of conditions. The public expects such things of the successful breeders. The yearly advertisement brings the farm prominently before the public. It is a positive assertion that the farm is in the business to stay. And, again, one can never tell just when an advertisement is going to do some good, or in what way. Benefits from judicious advertising are fre- quently derived months after the advertising has been dropped or changed. As an end to bringing about practical results on the breeding farms, proper adver- tising will always play an important part. Breed the class of animals in demand, properly grow and develop them, and compel the public to recognize the fact that you are making a success of the business.'3 Prof. E. P. Heald has had the misfortune to lose from pneumonia his fine three-year-old trotter by Nut- wood Wilkes out of Nona Y., dam of Adam G. -rll'i and three others. The colt was one of the most prom- ising Prof. Heald has ever bred. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN NEWS AND NOTES Joe Cuicello is riding in front he starts in at Denver. ariv every rae Entries for the Iir>. edtrs ' meeting at Woodland close Monday. .June 2d. There are not more than fifty horses left at Pleasan- ton track and the place looks rather lonesome. Mr. 8. Christenson 's mare P-erza has foaled a fine chestnut colt by Strathway 2:19, and has been bred to Star Pointcr"l:59%. Mr. F. J. Kilpatrick, the well-known timber land owner and contractor, who took the mare Nannie Derby to New York, a short time ago, has sold her to Mr. John Holmes of Holmdel, New Jersey, owner of the stallion Red Wilton, and breeder of the old-time trotter, Sir Walter Jr. 2:18. Geo. Ramage, who trained at Pleasanton this spring, has gone to Chico to take a look at the country up there, and visit Barney Simpson at the same time. Barney has made a good season with his handsome and fast pacer, Arner 2:17, full brother to Don Derby 2:04%, Diablo 2:09%, and other fast ones. The big round up of horses in the Snake River country last month resulted in about 2500 branded horses being brought in from the ranges where they were running wild. Of these 1500 belonged to one firm. The horses were in very good condi- tion and were immediately consigned to different points for sale. Search Georgie, a two -year-old pacing filly, by Searchlight 2:03%, dam Geo/gie B. 2:12%, by Nut- wood Wilkes 2:161/£, is working like a future two- minute pacer for Fred Chadbourne, who is training her for Mr. Martin Carter. She has only been handled a few weeks, yet stepped a mile in 2:28 last Saturday, with the last half in 1:12 and last quarter in 35 ^ seconds. La Siesta Stock Farm, San Jose, has an entry in the Stanford Stake of 1907, and another in the same stake of 1908. In the first-named stake the entry is the bay colt Mogodore by Iran Alto 2:12%, dam Lady Belle Isle. In the stake of 1908 the entry is bay colt Siesta by Iran Alto 2:12%, dam Wanda 2:14%. In the pub- lished lists of the entries to these stakes made two weeks ago both the La Siesta colts were given as out of Lady Belle Isle, which was an error. The hair on the shapely head of J. M. Alviso of Pleasanton is rather silvery, but he can give cards and spades to many a younger man in the horse-training business and then beat him at putting a horse in shape to go a fast mile. Just thirty days after getting Major Cook he asked Henry Dunlap to drive him a mile, and the result was as follows: Mile 2:15, last half 1:04%, last quarter 31% seconds. Dunlap said he could turn the horse around and beat that time three seconds, but Alviso said the speed was fast enough for that day, and satisfied him. About as nice a work-out as has been seen on a Cali- fornia track this year took place at Pleasanton last Saturday, when Fred Chadbourne, driving Walter Masten 's handsome five-year-old stallion, Marvin Wilkes 2:18, and John Green, up behind Mr, J. A. Jones' good mare, Lady Jones 2:16%, worked three heats together. The two trotters kept together in every mile, and finished noses apart every time. Not a skip or a bobble was made by either horse during the day, and they impressed an onlooker as two good ones in their classes this year. The miles were in 2:20, 2:191/4 and 2:17. The last half of the second mile was in 1:11, with the last quarter in 33 seconds. Tin- last half of the third heat was in 1:10, with the last quarter in 32% seconds. Both horses were trot- ting easily in the last heat, and it looks now as if 2:12 will not stop either of them by the last of August. SiiikOj J. E. Madden 's sensational three-year-old bay colt itloko, dam Silicon 2:13%, by Wilton, has been shipped to Terre Saute, 1ml., to be trained for his en- gagements, Including Hartford, Horse Review and K< atucky Futurities, by the veteran horseman " Knap- sack" McCarthy, who had such a successful season last year with the black gelding Norman B. Siliko took a record last season as a two-year-old of 2:171_>. He won the Lexington Stakes and won third money in the two-year-old division of the Kentucky Futurity, and in one of his races he defeated Lightsome, the winner of the latter event. Siliko lift Lexington in the pink of condition after a good winter at Hamburg Place. He lias not grown so much in height, but has spread out to such proportions that among other colts and fillies of his age this season he will not appear of such a pony size as ho did last season. Before being shipped Charles Marvin wagered Ed Benyou, in a friendly banti r, a supper for a few picked friends that Siliko would beat Lightsome in more futurities this year thai, tha daughter of Constantine finished in fronl Marvin drove Siliko in all his races ag then a part owner of the son of The Riverside and San Bernardino horsemen are arranging a race program for purses on the 4th of July. It is reported that Dick Benson, who went over to the runners several years ago, will race David Me- dium, 2:15, this season. The Butte Driving Clul> held a matinee last week, and Ted Hayes won one of the events with the mare Sallie Lunn, owned by W. A. Clark Jr. The time of the two heats was*^:25, 2:22. Mr. J. B. Iverson recently sold to Sacramento par- ties a four-year-qld brown gelding by Boodle Jr. that will be used as a roadster ml perhaps take part in the matinee races of the Saeramento'Driving Club. ittle w It is said that the Htq6 'whirlwind, Prince Direct 2:07, owned by George Amsden of Richmond, Ind., after a season in the stud, -will be fitted for the track again, with a view to reducing his record, if possible. Fred Chadbourne has received from the East a new- fangled knee-boot that has a pueumatie pad on the inside to take the jar off the knee. Itis being tried on John R. Conway 2:12%, and seems to be just the thing. There will be plenty of harness racing on the 4th of July. The Concord track will be the scene of several contests, and races will also be given at the San Lo- renzo half mile track, while at Sebastopol, in Sonoma county, it is proposed to hold races on the 3d, 4th and 5th of July. Sweet Marie, according to Alta McDonald, is in better condition than ever this spring, and he says he expects to see her trot in two minutes this year. The Albany, N. Y., reinsman believes in wintering race horses in the North. Those "canal travelers" of his have certainly done well in any company. Jonesa Basler 2:11% and his full sister, Lucie Wood- ruff, have been shipped to Terre Haute, Ind., by their present owner, Mr. E. Gravatt, and will be raced through the Indiana and Illinois circuits this year. Neither of them wears hopples or boots of any de- scription. Jonesa Basler worked an eighth in 14% seconds before leaving Hanford, while Lucie paced the distance in 15 seconds. Murray M. 2.14, record made as a three-year-old, made a good season at Los Angeles and Santa Ana this spring, in charge of Johnny Weber. Murray M. has a 'Crop of sucklings in that vicinity this year that are as fine a lot of young trotting colts as can be found in California. His owner, H. W. Lawrence, will put him in training this fall, ,with the idea of giving him a low record next year. Murray M. should easily trot into the 2:10 list. The injunction proceedings instituted by the Mem- phis Trotting Association against the National Trot- ting Association, at Hartford, Conn., to prevent a hearing of the Memphis gold cup scandal, have not been finally disposed of, the Billings people having filed additional pleadings before Judge Townsend, and he has set July 2d as the date for a hearing. The National Trotting Association will soon file a rejoinder to the latest pleadings of the Memphis people. The veteran trainer, Knap McCarthy, is preparing for a trip through the Grand Circuit, at Terre Haute, Ind. He says that the black gelding Norman B. 2:06%, by Phallas, is in grand form this spring, and apparently ready to go out and hold his own with any trotter in his class. So well does McCarthy think of the black gelding that he says he would be willing to start him in a special four-cornered race during the Buffalo Grand Circuit meeting against Sweet Marie 2:04%, Tiverton 2:04i/>, and Wentworth 2:04V;, for $2,500 a corner, which would make a $10,000 purse. The Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders' Associa- tion reports the largest entry list in its history for the fall meeting. Sixty-nine colts and fillies had the June payment made on them for the Kentucky Futur- ity, the Transylvania has twenty- three nominations, the Tennessee for 2:06 class pacers has twenty-one, the Walnut Hall Cup for 2:15 trotters has fifty-eignt named, and the McDowell stake for 2:08 trotters has twenty -five named. Just think of this, you Oali- fornians who regret that you do not live close enough to the Grand Circuit to race in it: Fifty-eight owners who think they have a chance to win in the 2:15 class next October and are ready to name their horses now, and twenty-five who have done the same in the 2:08 class trot. Those entered in the 2:08 trot are the following: Kid Shay, 2:071,4; Turley, 2:07%; Glenwood M., 2:07V2; Angiola, 2:07%; Redlac, 2:n7<1>; Mainsheet, 2:08^; Leonardo, 2:08%; Tuna, 2:08M>; John Caldwell, 2:08 %; Lisonjero, 2:08%; Judge Green, 2:09; mainland, 8:09%; Golddust Maid, 2:09%; Del- one, 2:09%; Borcazelle, 2:09%; Alexander, 2:09^; Emma Brook, 2:09%; Helen Norte, 2:091/4; Ore, 2:10%; The President, 2:09V.'.; Watson, 2:09%; Leola, 2:10%; Angle, 2:10%, and Bessie Brown, 2:12%. Heavy horses do not last long when they are compelled to move quickiy with heavy loads. The majority of heavy horses now used in hauling debris in this city are showing signs of hard usage. Get your blanks filled out and mailed next Mon- day for the stakes at the Breeders meeting. You never had as good a chance to win big money as this year when so many of the fast green horses have gone East. The trial of A. L. McDonald for the killing of Joseph Mello at Pleasanton was concluded in Oak- land last week and resulted in the acquittal of the defendant. The jury deliberated six hours before rendering a verdict. Kenney is selling sulkies, carts and wagons at his place, 531 Valencia street, at low prices for cash. His repair shop is complete in every way and there is nothing in the sulky or bicycle repairing line that he cannot do promptly and well. C. O. Stanton, who is the Pacific Coast manager for Singmaster &, Sons of Keota, Iowa, with resi- dence at San Jose, has been on a trip to Arizona in the interests of his firm. Mr. Stanton has a number of fine draft stallions at San Jose. One of the sweetest gaited and fastest young pacers in California is Mr. I. L. Borden's mare Roberta 2:1914, by Robert I. 2:08%, that J. Albertson is train- ing at Pleasanton. Roberta recently stepped a half in 1:03 over that track, and did it very handily. C. P. Lillard of Crook county, Oregon, sold SO horses and mules last week to a Los Angeles buyer, who is supplying the market at Oxnard. The prices paid were $S5 for horses and $110 for mules. The horses were not large enough to be called drafters. The five-year-old black stallion Silver Band, by Colonel Cochran 2:10%, has been entered in the M. and M. at Detroit by George H. Estabrook of Denver. Mr. Estabrook bought the horse without having seen him. Last fall he trotted a quarter in 30% seconds and a mile in 2:12. The Southwest Missouri circuit has the novel distinction of having for its secretary a talented young lady, Miss Emma R. Knell. Miss Knell has acted in the capacity of secretary of the Knell Fair and Racing Association of Carthage, Mo., for sev- eral seasons with great acceptance. Fred H. Chase broke ground this week for his new pavilion and horse mart on Valencia street, between 15th and 16th. Lumber is already on the ground and the builders will be at work Mon- day morning. Mr. Chase will have the finest place to sell horses that San Francisco has ever seen. The well known Denver driver, Frank Loomis, has given up control of all the horses he had in hand for the present meeting at Overland and has gone to Minnesota, where he will make his home for a time, as his physician advised him to go to a lower altitude at once for the benefit of his nerv- ous system. Thomas M., the trotter that Joe Cuicello has won three races with at Denver, and given a mark of 2:17%, is by McKinney, and is owned by Thos. Mur- phy, formerly of Petaluma^ but now of the Czar's sta- bles at St. Petersburg. Cuicello has the horse leased, which is a large bay gelding, that many horsemen look upon as a coming 2:10 trotter. The Don Derby pacer, C. E. Hasey, which Chas. De Ryder sold to Mr. G. H. Easterbrook of Denver, started in the 2:30 pace at Overland Park last week, and won the first heat in 2:14%. He was beaten the next two heats and the race by the chestnut mare, Helen Gould, in 2:15% and 2:20^. There were seven starters in the race. The pacer's name has been changed- to Casta Nada. The conditions of the great three-cornered trotting race that is to come off at Readville, July 4th, are that the owner or manager of each horse shall put $2500 in the hands of Secretary Jewett, and the Asso- ciation is to add $7500. The race is to be best two in three and the winner takes all. A percentage of the gate receipts also goes to the owners or managers of the horses. The winner is to have 70 per cent, the second horse 20, and the third horse 10 per cent of their proportion of the gate receipts. Each has deposited $1500 and the balance, $1000 each, is to be deposited with Secretary Jewett, June 25. It will undoubtedly be an old fashioned contest for blood worth a journey across the continent to witness. The Kentucky Stock Farm says: J. O. Gerrity has shipped his string of horses from Los Angeles to Libertvville, 111. The stable includes Bon Vovage 2:12%', Morone 2:13%, Billie H. 2:26%, and Spill 2:12%. Helen Norte 2:09% also shipped with Ger- rity. Gerrity thinks Zombro 2:11 is destined to make a great sire. He says if his edits in training in Cali- fornia alone were given records, and there is not one of them but can go in 2:30, he would become the leading sire of the year of 2:30 performers. He says he knows of six of his get at Los Angeles that can beat 2:15. The pacer Spill, mentioned above, started in eleven races last season, won nine and was second in two. Gerrity speaks in the highest praise of Lib- erty Song, the two-year-old colt by Liberty Chimes 2:22V-. The colt recently trotted a mile right at 2:30. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN . Frank J. Sifford, of Ventura county, is on a trip to Oregon and Washington looking for work horses. He wants to buy several hundred for the Southern California trade. Easter Bells, a full sister to Sir John S. 2:18 by Diablo, is being worked at the trot over the Marys- ville track and if she stays right there will be some- thing doing down the line this season when she starts. Without exercise, it is impossible for the muscles of young uorses to develop, hence the necessity of a good- sized field for them to run in. If you would have horses with endurance, give the colts a chance to develop their muscles. Briney K. 2:11 won the cup race at Denver last Friday for his new owner, Mr. J. Fred Roberts. The race was to wagon, best two heats in three. Briney K. won the first heat in 2:13 flat and had an easy time winning the second and final heat in 2:18. His only contestant in this race was Mr. Colburn's horse Con- gressman Sibley by Cecilian. Rey del Valle, the colt raised by Geo. Davis of Pleasanton and sold East as a two-year-old, is in Ed. Benyon's string this year, and that excellent reins- man expects him to win the Chamber of Commerce Stake, which is to be paced at Cleveland this year. Rey del Valle is by Rey Direct 2:10 out of Sidlette by Sidney and paced a trial mile in 2:07Va last year. Mr. W. S. Harkey of Gridley, Cal., is driving Devil- etta 2:14M>, as a three-year-old, on the road this sum- mer and instead of going the gait at which she took her record, she trots all the time and does not show any desire to pace. Mr. Harkey bred her to Frank Wright's fast stallion Lijero by James Madison that paced a trial mile in 2:141/4 as a three-year-old. Mr. Harkey thinks he should get a pretty good colt from this union and so do all the horsemen who have seen the two horses. Mr. S. H. Crane, who now resides at 1817 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, brought down from his Turlock ranch recently a three-year-old filly by Prince Nutwood 2:12*4 out of a mare by Diablo 2:09*4, that is one of the best developed three-year-olds we have seen in years. She is large, but smooth and powerfully built, with a disposition that is about perfect. She has not been trained, but is thoroughly broken and can show a fast road gait. Mr. Crane will get her accustomed to all city sights and may have her trained later on, as she is a prospective fast trotter. The suckling age is the period of most rapid growth in horses, and foals during the nursing period should have plenty of nourishment to stimulate natural growth. The mares should be fed rations that will promote lactation and we know of nothing better than alfalfa for this purpose. A youngster stunted while following its dam never attains its greatest possible growth. Healthy foals make growth of about four pounds a day in most instances, while the ex- ceptions are less. We need to pay especial attention to this matter for the next few years. There is at Nutwood Stock Farm a bay gelding by Zombro, dam Georgie B. 2:121/> by Nutwood Wilkes, that can pace as fast in the field as the other horses run.- Mr. Carter intended to keep this fellow for a stallion, but the colt got sick or injured as a yearling and had spinal meningitis. For a long time he could not get up without assistance, but improved so much this spring that Mr. Carter concluded to turn him out and let him run in the pasture. He had him gelded and the colt recovered quickly from the operation. He still shows a weakness in the back, but can pace very fast and if he fully recovers should make a good racing prospect. He is a big fine fellow and it is a great pity he is not a sound horse. Budd Doble, the great reinsman, does not come to the city as often as he did before the fire, but finds lots of work to do as well as pleasure jogging his horses at -the Lawrence Stock Farm, near San Jose, where his stallion Kinney Lou 2:07% has made a good season. The colts and fillies by Kinney Lou are just about the neatest turned and toppy lot of young- sters in the country, and that this stallion will soon have his name in the Great Table with a list of fast performers under it, is as certain as night follows day. Homer Saxe and Mr. Doble are joint owners of a magnificent McKinuey stallion out of a Dexter Prince mare that is a grand horse and a trotter. He has served about fifteen mares this year and will be worked some during the summer. He should develop into a very fast trotter. The Trotter and Pacer of June 14th says: The fastest mile over Empire track this season was one by the pacing mare Daphne Direct 2:11^, by Direct 2:0;j7^. Ben Walker stepped her a mile in 2:1614> last quarter in 32^ seconds. Ben worked Ann Direct, a six-year-old black mare by Direct out of Anne Aller- ton 2:15Vi, by Allerton 2:09V,., a mile in 2:16%, the last eighth in 16 seconds. This mare and East View Maiden are the farm candidates for the M. and M. stake. East View Maiden stepped a half in 1:04^, and did it in a very impressive manner. Princess Athel worked a slow mile, the last half in 1:04^. Direct Wilkes, a good looking three-year-old black gelding by Directwell, son of Direct, out of Edna Sim- mons 2:123,-», by Simmons, stepped a mile in 2:29, last quarter in 36 seconds. He looks, goes and acts like a trotter rignt now. The rest of the horses are all going in a way to please Mr. Salisbury, the "Grand Old Man of the Turf. ' ' They will move from the Empire track about the twenty-fifth of the month. DENVER RESULTS. Trotting, 2:34 class, purse $500. Thomas M., b. g. by McKinney (Cuicello) . . 1 1 Brighton Boy, b. g. by Happy Ailerton (Hig- gins) 5 2 King, b. g. by Prinmont (Brewerton) .... 4 5 Oosoola, b. n, by Zombro (Frostj 2 3 Little Major, b. g. (Williamson) 3 4 Time — 2:21%, 2:21^. Trotting, 2:30 class, purse $10ou. Thomas M., b. g. by McKinney (Cuicello). . 1 1 T. C. B.t b. g. by The Judge (.Russell) 2 2 Uebby, br. g. by McVera (Ferry) 3 3 St. iidnio, br. g. by Consterne (Morgan and i*xcGuire) 4 4 Conscience, b. m. by The Conqueror (Irwin) 5 dis Time — 2:20%, 2:17%. Pacing, 2:<>0 class, purse $500. Helen Gould, ch. m. by Reward J. (Bush) 4 11 Casta Nacia, b. g. by Don Derby (McGuire) 12 2 Arra E., b. m. by Albemede (Bell).... 2 4 Jennie A., blk. m. by Nearmott (McCoy) 3 3 Clara B., b. m. by Zombro (Frost) 5 5 Bill Dugan, blk. h. by Amerigo (Mac- dermid ) 6 6 Capeo, b. g. by Oronto (Erwin) dis Time — 2:14^2^5%, 2:20i/o. Trotting to wagon; cu^ rdfte. Briney K., b. g. (Roberts) 1 1 Congressman Sibley, b. h., J^y Cecilian (Colburn) 2 2 Time— 2:13, 2:18. Pacing to wagon; eup race. Jess C, ch. g. by Electwood (Gutshall) 1 1 Martha B., b. m. by Ashland Wilkes (.Roberts).. 2 2 Time— 2:13%, 2:18y2. 0 PLENTY OF RACING IN THE MIDDLE WEST. THE ENTERPRISE OF NEW ENGLANDERS. With the withdrawal of Detroit from the Grand Circuit and possibly Rcadville being declared off or made like Cleveland, a "betless" meeting, attention is again drawn, says Palmer Clark, to the Great West- ern Circuit, wnicn is now complete without a break for ten successive weeks, as follow: Davenport, la., July 31 to August 3; Decatur, 111., August 7 to 1U; Pekin, 111., August 14 to 17; Galesburg, 111., August 21 to 24; Dubuque, la., August 28 to 31; HanxLine, Minn., September 3 to 8; Milwaukee, Wis., September 11 to 15; Liberty, III., September 18 to 22; La Crosse, Wis., September 25 to 28, and Springfield, 111., October 1 to 5. At Galesburg there are the 2:15 trot for $2,000 and the 2:18 pace for the same amount. At the Minne- sota State fair there are the 2:13 pace and the 2:21 trot each for $5,000, and the 2:35 trot and 2:30 pace with guaranteed purses of $2,50U. At Milwaukee the two $u,000 purses are for 2:2u trotters and 2:12 pacers and they have also three $2,500 purses for 2:16 trot- ters and 2:02 pacers and 2:15 pacers. For the fall meeting at Libertyville there are the two $5,000 purses for 2:20 trotters and 2:14 pacers; two of $2,500 for 2:14 trotters and 2:20 pacers; two of $1,500 for 2:10 trotters and 2:U5 pacers; together with a great num- ber of $1,000 purses at nearly all of the meets, xh^ entries to which close at the same time. The West is indeed fortunate in the matter ot op portunities for horses to win some money this vear, as preceding the Great Western Circuit comes rho Illinois Valley Circuit, embracing La Salic, Mendotu. Aurora, Ottawa and Streator, commencing July 4 and ending August 3, with a total of $30,000 in purses and only 110 miles covered in the total shipment for the circuit. The Cedar Valley circuit in Iowa, with its $30,000 in stakes and purses, is now in progress, and will continue for twelve successive weeks, and added to this might be mentioned the Illinois Corn Belt cir- cuit, with six good Illinois towns, each of the places having at least three $1,000 stakes; the Great North- ern circuit in the Northwest, with about $25,000 in purses; the Central Wisconsin Fair circuit, with a like amount; the Mississippi Valley circuit, with some $15,000 for the five towns, to say nothing of the Kansas and Oklahoma Grand Fair circuit, with its double ten weeks' circuit of twenty meetings, and a total of close to $200,000 in purses. The real ques- tion seems to me will be to have horses enough to go around, rather than an opportunity to race. DEATH OF CLAUDE. Claude, M. J. Daly's six-year-old bay horse by imp, Lissak from Lida H., died at Edward Corrigan's farm near Lexington June 20th. During his long and not- able turf career Claude gained the title of the "iron horse.'' In four seasons he won thirty-two races, eight of them stakes, and he is said to have traveled more miles than any other thoroughbred of note that was ever raced in this country. In 1905 he won the Cali- fornia, St. Louis, Tennessee and Canadian Derbies. His two greatest races, however, were when he carried 127 pounds to The Picket's 115 and finished second to the son of Falsetto in the American Derby, Tun in record time, and again when he carried 132 pounds to place money in the Burns Handicap in California. Claude's total earnings figure up over $63,000. He started 10S times, finishing first thirty-two times, sec- ond twenty-two times and third twelve times and be- ing unplaced forty-two times. He was bred by W. P. Knight of Nicholasville, Ky., and was bought as a yearling by S. C. Wagner of Dayton, O. M. J. Daly purchased him as a two-year-old and owned him throughout his racing career. For his owner he earned a fortune in stakes, purses and wagers. He was sent to Mr. Corrigan's farm for stud service, as it was believed he had a bright career before him as a sire. His death was very sudden. He was sick only a few minutes and it is considered probable that death was due to the rupture of an intestine. New England horsemen are pleased that the big $15,000 match race between Sweet Marie- 2:04%, Tiv- erton 2:041,., and Wentworth 2:0'4% will be decicled at Rcadville, July 4. The Rcadville Association has for a number of years past secured the big events of the trotting turf and this year the management is determined to have something entered that gives promise of increasing interest in the sport in this city. June 1 was the time set for the second installment of $1000 from each of the parties to the agreement to be paid. The outlook for securing the feature event of the season was so good that Secretary Jewett of the New England .breeders' Association "went on to New York and met the representatives of the three great trotters. He found them all on hand, brim full of confidence, and each of them had a certified check for $1000 which they deposited with the Readville secretary, as final stake holder of the race. In speaking oi the meeting Secretary Jewett said: "If I had any previous doubts as to the genuineness of the contest or the confidence of winning, or the condition of any of the horses in the race, they were soon dispelled. Why, that Philadelphia crowd is cock sure that Wentworth, the Canadian-bred gelding, has the race all won. Alta McDonald appears to have supreme confidence in the prowess of the big daughter of McKinney 2:11%, and the Tiverton people are so sure of winning that when they let go of that $1000 one could see that they were almost ashamed to take the other fellow's money." With the money to be added by the Reaelville As- sociation the race will be the most valuable that will be decided on a trotting track this year. Considering the early date of the race, the average horseman would be inclined, considering their past perform- ances, to consider that one of the two geldings has rather more than an even chance of beating the mare, though as a proposition to tie to the season through she would doubtless be the choice of most. It is true that Sweet Marie has not shown ner best form early in the season in previous years, but the incentive to win this race will be so great that Alta McDonald will hardly take any chances in the way of babying the big bay mare. The race at present appears to be as open a one as could be desired. All three horses give promise of coming to the wire in prime conelition and ready to do battle royal for the big purse. In oreler that there might not be any fizzle, in case of an accident to one of the horses, or sickness, it was decided at the New York conference that the balance of the $2500 a side deposit be made on June 25 instead of the day before the race, which will give the Readville management a chance to protect their patrons from a possible fizzle. Notwithstanding the fact that poolselling will not ' be allowed on Massachusetts tracks this vear, Sec- retary C. M. Jewett of the Readville track is right along to make the season as successful possible. going ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. J. B. Durand, Santa Rosa — The mare Black Baby by Reavis ' Blackbird is not registered, nor is she eligible under the present rules. The stallion Black Hawk by Black Ralph is not registereel. A. Rosa, Morgan Hill. — As we have not yet re- ceived the Thoroughbred Stud Book from the East we eannot give you the breeding of the horse in question, but will publish it as soon as the books arrive. POPULARITY OF HARNESS RACES. That racing the thoroughbred depends largely on the profit that comes to the owner and the bettor has been shown more than once, yet never mure strikingly than in the case of Washington Park, which association abandoned a meeting after it had started because the management realized that without book- making the attendance would be so light that disaster would follow the attempt to continue, writes Andrew Leonard in Kentucky Farmer. On the other hand, trotting meetings will this year be given both at Readville and at Cleveland without pool selling or betting in any form, and yet I venture the predic- tion that the entry lists will show no appreciable dif- ference from those of former years, thnt the fields will be as large and the attendance, even if not quite up to the standard, indicative of the popularity of the sport. When the race for the Cleveland Cup was decided a few years ago at Cleveland over 25,000 people journeyed to the track to witness the contest between three great horses, and yet no opportunity was afforded them for wagering a dollar and no in- trinsic value was attached to the trophy which wont to the winner. The American people, especially that part which lives in agricultural districts, cares little for any form of racing except that which is fur- nished by the light harness horse, and while running races are more fashionable and attract greater crowds in cities, the number of meetings hold in this country is limited in comparison with those- given for light harness horses. Last season over three thousand trotting meetings were held in the United States, with an a\ - 1 g« programme of $3,000 to be awarded winm is, or a total of $9,000,000 which was raced for by trotters and pacers. It would be impossible to maintain these meetings if it wire not for the fact thai owners of light harness horses are to be found in smii num- bers that racing without • profit to themselves can thrive, or if the sport was not immensely popular with the masses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN SALE OF DEMONIO YEARLINGS. CHAS. DE RYDER'S STRING. SIDNEY DILLON'S AT INDIANAPOLIS. The fourth annual sale of yearlings by Demonio 2:ll'-i. bred mid raised by the Suisun Stock Farm, Knsli & Haile proprietors, took place near Suisun on Saturday, June 16th. The following account of the - from the eolumns of the Suisun Republican: _ the unsettled conditions at the present time, due to the recent disaster to San Francisco, the ■ ,■ hi], being lower than those of the sales of last war. iv. re satisfactory to the owner, as well as to the purchasi i s. Auctioneer .lames P. Martin of Dixon mounted the block "n schedule time, - o'clock p. m„ and after making a few preliminary remarks, began the sale of monio yearlings, owned by Messrs. Rush and Haile. Ail of "the fourteen head were sold, bringing a - 565, or an average of $111.78. There was not a pour one in the lot, and the purchasers were therefore fortunate in securing gilt-edge animals at much l.ss than they were worth. All the yearlings were sired by Demonio 2:11%, the purchasers and prices being as follows: 1. Sorrel • -It. dun Mamie Comet, to George Reed of Suisun. $70. 2. Bay filly, dam Rosebud, to Martin Ennor of Woodland. $82.50. 3. Brown filly, dam Sable Dew, to Henry Noel of Vacaville, $152.50. 4. s,irr,l filly, dam Mamie Airlie, to Henry Smith of Cordelia, $135. 5. Bav filly, dam Elorita, to T. H. Wood of Suisun, $180. 6. Brown colt, dam Nellie T., to H. B. Muzzy of Bird's Landing. $65. 7. Sorrel colt, dam Eva, to Frank J. Taylor of Bird 's Landing. $150. B. Sorrel colt, dam Minerva, to Dorcey Cooper of Elmira, $155. 9. Sorrel colt, dam Sis, to W. S. Killingsworth of Vacaville, $117.50. Hi. Sorrel filly, dam Jessie S., to L. P. Larsen of Rio Vista, $70. 11. Sorrel filly, dam Hanna, to W. H. Bryan, $/2.50. 12. Sorrel colt, dam Oakwood, to F. S. Gurnette and W. B. Connelly, $95. 13. Bav colt, dam Laura H., to Henry Smith of Cordelia, $120. 14. Bay colt (2), dam Laura H., to Grant Chad- bourne, $100. There were twelve head of geldings, mares and colts of the Lewis Pierce Stock Farm, owned by Lewis Pierce, sold by Auctioneer Martin, bringing a total of $;i77."o, or an average of $S1.46. All these colts were sired by Our Captain. o OPENING OF THE NEW SPEEDWAY. The Pleasanton trainer, Chas. De Ryder, began his campaign of 1906, at Cedar Rapids, June 12th. His first start was in the 2:15 pace, where he had entered the Welcome mare Babbie. There were nine starters, and Babbie finished 8-3-8-7-8. The fastest heat in the race was in 2:16. In the 2:20 pace De Ryder started Geo. Perry, the Waldstein gelding, and took third money, the horse being 2-3-4-4 in the field of seven pacers. The fastest heat in this race was the first, in 2:22. Maud Sears, by Wayland W., was his representative in the 2:20 trot, and fourth money was her portion, there being four starters and the mare finishing in fourth position every heat. In the 2:05 pace Alpha W. 2:08 got third money, the best time being 2:13. In the 2:10 trot Sunbeam 2:12%, by Hambletonian Wilkes, was driven by Mr. De Ryder. The horse won the first heat in 2:18%, and took second money. Charley Belden, the fast bay gelding by Lynwood W., was the stable's representative in the 2:35 trot. There were seven starters, and five heats were trotted before a decision was reached. Charley Belden was second in every heat but the second, which resulted in a hot fight between the two^heat winners, and in that heat he was third. Thrs^gflfc him third money, and he got no record. The heats were in from 2:23% to 2:28%. In the 2:30 pace there were nine starters. De Ryder started Dr. W. L. McDonald's mare Swanhilda, and took second money with her very handily, the gray horse Subscription winning in straight heats, the fastest of which was in 2:1S%. All the purses at this meeting were $300 each, the track a half mile ring. The following week Mr. De Ryder moved his horses to Decorah, where the track is also a half mile oval, and the purses were $300. In his first race at Decorah he won second money with Geo. Perry in the 2:20 pace. Brown Hal winning in straight heats. The best time was 2:19%. First money went to Mr. De Ryder 's Alpha W. in the 2:05 pace, after dropping the first heat to Orphan Bov in 2:10%. Alpha W. 's best heat was the fourth, in 2:12%. Charley Belden moved up a peg and took second money in his race, the 2:35 trot, the heats being 2:22, 2:22% and 2:22%. In the 2:25 trot Charley Belden was again a starter, and again took second money, with the best time 2:21. Swanhilda took second money in her race at De- corah, the fastest heat being 2:21%. The net winnings of the De Ryder string at these two meetings was $405, and none of the green horses took records. Editor Breeder and Sportsman — The new athletic grounels and speedway in Golden Gate Park are as- suming shape and visitors to the busy spot can now form an idea of how the grounds will look when completed. Work on the grade for the three-quarter mile oval track for harness horses is more than half done, and by the last of September should be ready for the horses to speed over. As the road drivers and driving clubs of San Francisco took the initiatory in the s. die me which resulted in the building of this beautiful track and grounds, it is eminently proper that its opening should be under their auspices. I suggest therefore that when Superintendent McLaren is prepared to name the date when the work will be dieted, that committees from the Golden Gate Driving Club, the San Francisco Driving Club and tin- Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders' Associa- tion meet and arrange a program of matinee racing for the opening day. All the athletic organizations should be invited to take part also, and a progTam of .vents could be arranged that will draw the largest .row.l .ver seen in Golden Gate Park. If the work is completed by that time why would not Admission Day, September 9th, be an excellent date for the ling! These new grounds are unlike anything to be found elsewhere in the world, and will be one of the great attractions of our beautiful park. The opening of tne same to the public should be made a gala occasion and no more auspicious day could be selected than tne anniversary of the admission of I ilitornia into the union of States. The horsemen should see to it that a horse show and parade as well as harness racing be given that will be high class in every way and worthy the great State that has produced more world's champions than any other. Respectfully, A HORSEMAN. At Cleveland track last week James Thompson worked Baldy, Mr. A. B. Spreckels' green pacer by ■ 'lipid 2:18, out "f the dam of Dione 2:07%, a mile in 2:16%. William Cecil gave Lady Mowry 2:12',. n inii. in 2:_2. with the last quarter in 34>o seconds, .lack Curry, behind Tuna 2:08%, and Gil Curry, driv- inging Brilliant Girl, went a mile in 2:11%, the final quarter in 31% seconds. All the California horses at land Beem to be doing well. While the matinee was in progress on Saturday last, the horsemen were greatly interested in the fast manner in which the Sidney Dillon colts stepped for Millard Sanders, says Western Horse- man. He undoubtedly showed more speed than has any other trainer in the country this year. All of the twenty-five colts owned by the Hon. Sterling R. Holt are in splendid condition and the speed Sanders showed was a revelation to the spectators. The greatest show of speed was with the four- year-old pacing mare, Mary Dillon. She stepped a half in 1:01% and a little later a quarter in 29% seconels. It was the fastest half and quarter shown to date anywhere and the Ally was hitched to a cart, making the performance the more remark- able. With a good day and track and hitched to a sulkey, this filly can show a half in a minute, for she accomplished her task very impressively. Kate Dillon, a three-year-old pacing filly, went a full mile in 2:17 and a half in l:0o. The trotters did something in the speed line, too. Lottie Dillon trotted a mile in 2:16. Helen Dillon (Helen Kej-es) negotiated a mile at the diagonal gait in 2:17 and showed a quarter in 3 2 seconds. Carrie Dillon ( 3 ) , a filly that looks and acts more like Lou Dillon than any in the bunch, was worked a half in 1:11 and a quarter in 35 seconds. She will be given a record close to 2:30 this summer and Sanders thinks she will do to train for a couple of years more. She has more speed now than the champion trotter had at the same age. A couple of baby trotters showed what the young Sidney Dillons could do within six months of being broke. Harry Dillon (1) trotted a quarter in 42% seconds and showed an eighth in 20 seconds, while the two-year-old Ruth Dillon trotted a quarter in 35] -j seconds. It was a good day's work for San- ders and the Sidney Dillon family. A little later on Sanders promise to show some real speed with the bunch of youngsters he is training. Watch when they come out bitched to sulkies. FROM VICTORIA. Breeder and Sportsman. — Captain John, the chestnut stallion by Tennysonian, dam Fanny Putnam 2:13, paced a nice mile on the Victoria half mile track last week for trainer Millington, and was shipped yester- day to Edmonton, N. W. T., where he will make his first start. Mike Director, by Montana Director, paced a nice easy mile in 2:29 on this track last week. Mike has had just four weeks training and acts like a good sort of a pacer, with Director symptoms. I enclose program for the July meeting to be held at Victoria, and hope to see a lot of Californians up here. Irvingheart, bay stallion by Lockheart 2:0S%, is a new addition to Victoria 's standard bred residents. He is a grandly formed bay stallion, six years old, with good action and a nice turn of speed. Sophia MeKinney's colt by Nutwood 'Wilkes is a good enough looker to satisfy the most exacting critic. Glad to see that your paper is taking on its old familiar shape, and hope that all your old patrons and lots of new ones are keeping you busy receipting old bills and lots of new ones. Yours, C. A. HARRISON. Twenty head of drafters were sold at auction in Chicago last week for $7,050, an average of $352.50. This is the record price for that many work horses sold at one sale in the Chicago mar- ket. Sam Gamble writes us that he is at Rocklin for a few days and will stay there until after the 4th of July, as the Rocklin people will have five races on that date, a mixed free for all, a 2:40 mixed race, a gentleman's road race, and two running races. Mr. Gamble says he will assist his good friend Eugene Tuttle, the "McHenry" of that sec- tion, to win a race with his handsome pacing mare Hattie T. by Stam B. the great. it looks as if there would be a large attendance, as all within miles of Rocklin, including the fair sex, take a hearty interest in the coming events. Mr. Gamble writes that he has been quite sick, but his good friends took care of him and did him a lot of good. Ed. Geers is now located at the Libertyville. 111., track with his large stable of horses. Ardelle. by .1. H. C. his C. of C. candidate, is working fine, and the "silent man" thinks that his chances for carrying away the money in that big stake are good. Ardelle. before leaving Memphis, worked in : 01 ' > ■■ i ; the lasl half in 1:02%. His M. and M. entry, Fashoda 2:24%, by Barondale 2:11%, dam by Wilkes Boy. is also acting good, and al- sh has not been credited with any sensa- inilas, she is said to have a great turn of speed and good racing qualities. He will remain Mile until the opening of the Grand Cir- undoubtedly will start some of his horses •ting there the first week in July. The Eureka Times of June 10th says: Blooded horses are arriving at the South Park race track to get into condition for the events to take place the first week in July, and there is every evidence that the meet will be a decidedly good one. More fast animals are expected to come. On the steamer Eureka, Thomas McNichol's Tony Girl arrived from Denver, and yesterday morning was driven on the track. Mrs. Dr. Michael's Lela Sen has been sent to South Park from Fortuna and will contest in the three-eighths mile dash. Within a week or ten davs more of the valley's fast horseflesh will be coming in. Robert Noble, Robert Patrick and Mat Zabner and others expect to have horses in train- ing, before long. CAYUSES AT AUCTION. There was an interesting horse sale down at the stockyards yesterday afternoon, says the Portland Oregonian of June 20th. The majority of the animals sold were cayuses from the ranges of Eastern Oregon, a wild and shaggy-looking lot. A few draft horses were in the bunch, but most of the interest centered in the unbroken ponies. They were brought here by John Twaddle, a St. Louis horse trader, who acted as his own auctioneer and who certainly knew his business. About 200 buyers were in attendance at the sale and all the small boys and unemployed men of the neighbor- hood were perched on the fences as spectators. The bidding was spirited and the auctioneer had no trouble in getting prices up where he wanted them. The cayuses were brought out four or five at a time, and' they went off like hot cakes. Many of the purchasers were express drivers and keepers of small livery stables who will probably have the time of their lives in breaking in the beasts. Twaddle brought down two cars of the horses, all told. The cayuses sold at an average price of $35. When the horse cannery was running down at Linnton such stock could be bought on the ranges for $1.50 apiece. o > A number of hay buyers have been in the valley during the past week buying for the San Francisco and Oakland markets, says the Hollister Free Lance. Altogether about 5000 tons were bought, the prices ranging from $6 for volunteer to $10 and $11 for good wheat hay. One lot of wheat hay, damaged by the rain, was sold for $9 per ton. The New Mexico Territorial Fair will be held at Albuquerque, September 17 to 22, and four stakes of $1000 are offered 2:20 trotters, 2:18 2:13 and 2-09 pacers, with' $500 stakes for 2:14 trotters and 2-25 pacers. Horses entered at this meeting will be returned free of charge by the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, to all points of this line of road in California, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado and Kansas, with stop-over privileges at Las Vegas and Trinidad. One of the most remarkable and creditable exhibi- tions which has ever been witnessed on a track was given at old Waverly Park, near Newark, last month by the twentv-year-o'ld mare Bush 2:09%, by Alcyone "'■27 who trotted a mile over that half-mile track in 2-19% hitched to a bicycle cart. The last eighth was timed'in 15 to 15% seconds and the track was in far from good condition. Mr. George Stengel, who owns Bush will breed her in July to one of his stallions and in the meantime he will prepare her to go against the track record, 2:14%, held by Rifle. A J. Welch is giving up a good deal of his time now to the' improvements on the track at Charter Oak Park. He estimates that it will be at least two seconds faster than ever before. The belt of clay at the pole now entrrclv circles the track and it is being broken up with a'brusn ilrawn bv a pair of horses, with a leveler in front This breaks the ,elay up gradually and a better effect is obtained than if a roller was used. Mr Welch believes that earthworms are necessary for all soils, notwithstanding that greenkeepers try to get rid of them It is claimed that the cylindrical canal the earthworm bores has ai.led plant life by opening 111, the soil. Its food is the humus of the soil. The process of digestion of the earthworm converts the crude vegetable particles in the soil into a soluble food that is absorbed eagerly by grass and plant roots. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN LONG CONTINUED MEETINGS A MENACE. Down in Kentucky, where the love of horses and horse racing is the principal article in nearly every man's creed, a jockey club is asking tor dates for a longer meeting than the State Racing Commission is willing to allow. Col. Jack Chinn, a man who knows as much about racing as any man, is chair- man of the commission, which protests so strongly against t~.s long continued racing. The Chicago •y Horseman recently contained the following editorial in regard to this matter: In the United States Court at Louisville, May 22, the motion, in behalf of the Douglas Park Jockey Club, for a preliminary injunction against the Ken- tucky Racing Commission, was argued by able counsel. The affidavit filed by the D.ouglas Park Jockey Club alleged that the racing commission Bad discriminated against it in the assignment of dates. The racing commission, in praying for a dismissal of the injunction proceedings, adopted the frequently proclaimed views of this journal on the policy of continuous racing with betting in one lo- cality. The commission has no knowledge of the amount of money invested in Douglas Park, but it holds that the enforcement of the statute will re- sult in benefit instead of injury to the property. In order to protect and keep up an interest in run- ning races it is necessary that the races be given sporadically and in periods of a short time in com- munities like Louisville and other places in Ken- tucky. "Continuous racing leads to pauperism and crime; the tendency, if not the inevitable result thereof, after the appetites of those who can afford time and money for the amusement is satisfied, is to gather together a concourse ■ of the idle and shiftless and disorderly persons with the trail of evils that ensue." The scandals growing out of such racing threaten the breeding of horses as an art and industry, and the action of the legislature and the approval of the governor were for the pro- tection of the great horse growing interests of Kentucky. This kind of argument from a com- mission of which Col. Jack Chinn is the chairman, would have found no expression in Kentucky .a short time ago, but self-protection is a primal law, and the breeders of the State could not remain silent without committing suicide or inviting as- sassination. The torch uplifted by this journal is not loved by the forces of evil, but it lights the way to security in breeding and development. Men of character and stability commend, and we ac- cept this as an evidence or the spread of healthy sentiment. If the leading daily journals will now join with us in an effort to curb the growth of the selfish commercial spirit in racing, they will im- prove the morals of their respective communities and add to the value and permanency of well con- ducted breeding farms. When Gen. Jas. F. Robinson was president of the Kentucky Association at Lexington, Col. M. Lewis Clark, president of the Louisville Jockey Club, John M. Harney, president of the St. Louis Jockey Club, and Gen. Phil. Sheridan, president of the Washing- ton Park Jockey Club, racing in the middle West was on high ground, and there was no suggestion of hostile legislation. The culture, the fashion of Chicago, passed through the gates of Washington Park, and the sturdy people from the workshops and the farms mustered by the ten thousand on -the well-appointed grounds, and those who wit- nessed the spectacle will never forget its life and color. But speculative greed grew until it dom- inated the situation in Chicago, and now Washing- ton Park is a wreck so far as its costly buildings are concerned, and the land will soon be divided into city lots. All the other tracks are deserted, and their silence is eloquent of the power of decent public opinion. The tracks of St. Louis are also closed, and yet daily journals, posing as the organs of intelligence and morality, give space to form sheets of races run on far distant courses, and thus do everything in their power to promote the oper- ations of the handbook men who tempt wage earn- ers into risks which they cannot afford and who create a feeling of discontent and unrest. Circula- tion is desirable, but those principles which are the bulwark of the municipality, the county and the State should not be sacrificed to obtain it. The greed of running track promoters has placed re- strictions upon the clubs which are content to give one week of light harness racing, and it would be strange if the breeders and owners of trotting horses did not vigorously protest. The harness horse breeders are confined to no section of the country; they are found in every State in the union, and they outnumber the running horse breeders twenty to one, and the time has come for them to give earnest and united expression to the wrongs inflicted upon them. o "Did you ever know how these guideless won- ders originated?" said Ben Kenney in the presence of a representative of The Horse Review. "Well. I will tell you.. Several years ago 'Red' Gerrity was driving a pacer called Happy Jack, and he was about the worst puller ever hooked to a sulky. After driving Happy a heat 'Red's' arms would be almost paralyzed, and he would be ready to drop with exhaustion. One day while teaming the horse he became so disgusted that he threw down the lines and said, 'Go, blame your old hide!' and let the gelding go without driving. Apparently he went just as well without being driven as he did before, and right then and there the first 'guideless wonder' was made. They began using him as one right then, and pretty soon the woods were full of them." "There never was a guideless wonder that I ever heard of," said Captain Boyce, "who v/as not an awful puller, and nearly all of the most successful ones were horses who were such bad ones that it wfas impossible to drive them with any degree of comfort." FOREIGN GOVERNMENTS PROMOTE HORSE BREEDING. It is a humiliatiug thought to all progressive and patriotic American citizens that this government stands alone among the enlightened nations in not promoting horse breeding. It is true that within the last year the Agricultural Bureau has made an effort in a small way to produce a new type of the general utility horse, but it is not well grounded, nor is it of sufficient scope or moment to deserve even mention, as a national enterprise. And we are still further humiliated in the thought that this is the only great country around the world where horse racing is under the ban of hostile legislation. In England, Austria, Russia, Germany and Italy horse racing is the sport of kings. In France where they have no kings, it is under the auspices and patronage of the government. France has already expended $l,54v,000 in pro- moting the breeding of horses. The German Em- pire has expended almost $1,000,000. Austria has expended $700,000, and even Italy, with the Roman race all died out, has spent over $500,000. Russia has spent more than France and Germany combined, and even now when the Czar's dominion is threatened with revolution, Russia has agents in our markets buying the best products of this coun- try for the purpose of improving the quality and speed of the Russian. Even Turkey, supposed by many Christians to be degenerate, is waking up to the importance of the horse breeding industry, and the Sultan has now under government auspices and support four large state studs, mingling the original Arab blood with the stouter Orloff of Rus- sia, and the fleeter American trotter. Even the large South American republics that in- herited the brutal bull fight habit from old Spain, are breaking away from blood and brutality and adopting horse racing as a more wholesome and enlightened national pastime. And in order to have horse racing, they must breed the speed to race. The breeders of the Argentine Republic are now in the best horse markets of the world buying the best sires that mone\' can buy. Not only are all these mentioned foreign coun- tries engaged in the encouragement of horse breed- ing on moral or ethical considerations, but on econ- omical or commercial considerations as well. It is the economic feature that has moved Japan, just emerging from the greatest war of modern times, to send skilled students of the breeding problem to the United States to purchase the best products of our stock farms, in order to improve the inferior Japanese breeds. There are a number of poorly in formed persons, of pug nosed persistency, scattered all over the Northern and Eastern States, but not in many west of the Mississippi River, who regard horse racing as immoral, and unfortunately this element has had much to do with the enactment of hostile legislation, in some thirteen States, and this legis- lation has damaged the breeding industry in un- told millions. But in all that great empire west of the Mississippi River, this element has about disappeared, except Missouri. It takes time to educate, and education in the line of sports and pastimes is so hedged about with inherited prejudice that the evolution to broader and more wholesome views has been slow. Every country in Europe learned the lesson five hundred years ago, that all people will have their sports and pastimes, and that good bodies and good blood always promote the best moral growth. In this respect England, France and Germany learned the lesson of history to far better purpose than the dominating factors of our country, es- pecially in New England. It is a well established fact with two thousand years of so-called Christian civilization to verify it, that the introduction of the horse in public amusements has always marked the improved moral tone of every people. In that period of brutal rule, so vividly depicted in that great historical novel, "Quo Vadis," when Nero sat above Rome, wild beasts from the forests of Ger- many were brought to fight gladiators and Chris- tian martyrs in the Roman amphitheater. Later on, when Rome was touched with a more benign civilization, under the Emperor Augustus, the bloody bouts between human beings and wild beasts were supplanted by chariot races, where the horse was the main factor of the pastime. The horse was made for man's uses and recrea- tions and he is no way responsible for the universal habit of the American people of betting. Make horse racing a crime by law and kill every horse in the country and the betting habit would still go on just the same. — American Sportsman. THE SADDLE HORSE. Martin Carter recently sold a 22-months-old coll by Bonnie Direct 2:05%, dam Georgie B. 2:12% (dam of Miss Georgie 2:10%), by Nutwood Wilkes 2:16%, to Mr. J. 0. Quinn, the well-known horseman of Hono- lulu. The sale came about through an article in our last Christinas number describing the horses at Nut- wood Stock Farm. After reading tin- article Mr. Quinn opened correspondence with Mr. Carter, with the above result. There is no better bred colt in Cali- fornia, and he will make a very valuable horse and sire. A writer on saddle horses has this to say in the Breeders Gazette: Riding on horseback has never been so popular as it is now in all the large Ameri- can cities. Prices have never been so high for finished saddle horses, and it follows of course that the supply of saddle bred animals falls far short of meeting the demand. Horses of all kinds of breeding have been pressed into saddle service and for those which have proved apt pupils very good values have been realized. The history of the world proves that the older a nation becomes the greater is the inclination to take equestrian exer- cise. In the city the saddle horse is not a necessity, lie is a luxury. Therefore he is osught by the men and women who can pay for luxuries, the super- fluities of life, and that means that it does not much matter what sort of a price is asked. If the horse is good enough he will bring the money. But unlike most luxuries the horse is of decided benefit. There is no healthier pastime than riding a good horse, and even a very mediocre mount may be made to yield a great degree of pleasure. That this is being recognized generally seems plain. The livery stables where saddle horses are kept for hire can not meet the demands of customers. Riding academies are taxed to their utmost ca- pacity, proving that those who do not know how to ride desire to learn the art. Anyone who really knows how to ride and is willing to impart his knowledge can obtain lucrative employment quickly. Many wealthy men who have families are hav- ing their children taught to ride. Some of these men enjoy riding and some of them — perhaps more of them — do not, yet they want their children to ride well. There is as much of promise in this phase of the popularity of the saddle as in any other. Children brought up with an intimate knowledge of the horse and riding him, beginning with the Sheltie and progressing upward and on- ward through the cob stage to the full-size horse, always retain a love for the equine subject and delight to be about him and enjoy him. It does not seem that there need be any fear entertained for the future of the American saddler. We believe that the present popularity of the saddler is one of the most important signs of the times that can be listed. Association with the saddle horse breeds manliness in man. It is a bad horse indeed that has not some good qualities and these good qualities invariably find reciprocation in the rider. It is not recorded which of the Amer- ican humorists first called attention to the "storm deck of a horse," but the one who first made the phrase did better than probably he knew at the time. It is something of a trick to stay on the back of a good horse. No one likes to be put down ignominiously and the effort of brain and muscle that is required to keep' from parting company with one's mount must of sheer necessity be good for the rider. This is getting down to "first prin- ciples, and we will venture the assertion that there never yet was a good boy who would not have been a better one had he been early on ponyback, and the boy is father to the man. There are black sheep in every flock and there are men on whom the influence of the horse has been only for bad, but such are the exceptions. That the influence of the saddle horse is more for good than that of the other members of the equine family finds abun- dant proof in the affection displayed by men and wonieu for the horses they ride as compared with those they drive or work. From Alexander to Lord Roberts the men who have made history and builded empires have been horsemen. BOSTON PARADE BENEFITS HORSES. Dr. Boucher took Robert Niles good mare Derbertha, own sister to Don Dirby 2:114'... and Dial. In 2:09%, to Denver witli him, and will start her at SOD E the meetings in the Middle West. She is entered in the 2:12 class pace at the Lexington meeting. Cust.r by Sidney Dillon. Bystandi r by Zoloek, Rev del Valle by Key Direct, Sa'llie Pointer by Sky Pointer, Stiletto by Steinway, Bonnie Steinway by Steinway. anil Italia by Zombro are the other California bred horses < nteri 'I in tbis race. There are fift3r entries all told. A feature of the recent Work Horse Parade in Boston was a gold medal offered by the Massachu- setts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani- mals, which was awarded to Joseph Thompson's Dick, 30 years old, and in service 2 7 years. Fatty Darling, having for IS years answered duty's call in the Boston fire department, was given a special medal, although not entered for competition, and also had the honor of leading the parade. C. F. Hovey's Major won the first prize in division 13, having seen a dozen years' work. One of the most remarkable animals in the parade was Ned, winner of the old-horse prize a year ago. He was in the regular ranks, and was given round after round of applause as he carried off a red ribbon. Xed is the property of James F. Wier, of Somerville. who has used him every week-day for 21 years. In his long service the horse has not missed a meal nor had any sort of sickness. He is fat and shows no signs of his 30 years. In fact, it takes a fair sort of a horseman to drive him now. The silver medal for veteran drivers was taken by Cornelius Cor- coran, who has been with one firm for 4 4 years. A noticeable driver in the parade was Charles W. S. Smith, who gave a demonstration of how simple it is to turn a six-in-hand in a narrow street — when one is an accomplished reinsman. Smith handled a magnificent hitch of six grays, and turned them twice in front of the reviewing stand. There were many other noticeable features in this remarkable parade, the only one of the kind held in the United States, each one of which exerted an influence that will work to the good of man's most useful and faithful animal friend, the horse. It would be a grand thing for the owners of horses in every city if a parade based on similar lines could be made a feature of every big town in the country. The influences of such a parade mane for the better treatment of horses and the consequent lengthening of the period of their usefulness, something that means much to every owner of work horses. — Horse World. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN "•I* ""I**!**!**!****-********* ****** ********•"•; + * * + * ROD, GUN AND ftENNEL •J***.*}. »Jh.JhJ* ^mJhJh, Conducted by J. X. DeWitt .*•>". •;• •*■ •■• v I* "J**!' *1* *t| tl| 't* 'I1 J1 if '1* 'I1 'I* "I* "I* "I* 'I1 ^ 't* 'I* 'I1 "t1 'I* 't'.'t' *»**v***'***'* *i*****I* *I* *S* *»■ DOINGS IN DOGDOM. The outlook for the Stockton bench show in October seems to be particularly good. Needless to say, there will be a healthy entry Hsr from the cinders district. Among the youngsters contemplated for the Bull Terrier benches will be two bitches, one that Ed At- tridge thinks a great deal of. and his approval of a Bull Terrier means something; the other is George Flexner's ten months' old bitch. Ch Meg Merrilics II, if entered for competition, will cut out the run- ning for all the matrons young and old. If Wood- lawn Baron is in his Los Angeles form it will take a lot of style and class to wrest the ribbons from a conspicuous place in the cabinet of trophies won by Mr. and Mrs. Thorburn. The dates for the Stockton Kennel Club show are October 11th. 12th and 13th. It is reported that Mr. James Cole of Kansas City has been invited to judge the show. This selection is one that will be most satisfactory to the majority of the exhibitors. Mr. Cole is a popular Coast judge, and a gentleman who is painstaking, courteous and a dog fancier of au- thority and experience. Another report is that Mr. George Cranfield may assume the duties of superin- tendent. This is also assuring for the fancy and exhibitors. No doubt Spratts will bench and feed, so taking it all in all, Stockton show promises well, con- sidering that the big feature of the Coa*st circuit has been unavoidably postponed. The officers and committees of the Stockton Kennel Club are the following: Frank Hillman, president; W. H. McKay, vice-president; Charles Heffernan, sec- retary; A. M. Barnett, treasurer. Directors, Dr. F. P. Clark, C. Leonard, Geo. E. McLcod, C. E. Owens, W. Popplewell, J. Harry Russell and F. N. Vail. Trophies and prizes — Dr. Fred P. Clark, Charles E. Owen, F. X. Vail and G. E. Cranfield. Bench show committee — Charles J. Haas, C. Leonard, Frank Hillman, A. Kaiser and E. Harris. Press — George E. McLeod. Premium list — W. H. MacKay, C. Leonard. Finanee — F. A. Hillman, W. Popplewell and R. H. Groves. Hall— G. E. Cranfield, C. E. Owen and W. H. Mac- Kay. A large number of handsome silver and gold trophies will be offered and there will be many valuable prizes to stimulate competition. The club has decided to give silver medals to all dogs in win- ning classes in eases where trophies are not allotted. The show will probably be held in the Pavilion skat- ing rink. By a unanimous vote the following well-known society women of Stockton, all of whom are owners of blooded canines, have been elected honorary mem- bers of the Stockton Kennel Club: Mrs. A. M. Barnett, Mrs. R. H. Groves, Mrs. W. H. McKay, Mrs. George Cranfield, Mrs. Frank A. Hill- man, Mrs. W. Popplewell, Mrs. C. E. Owen, Mrs. F. N. Vail. Mrs. J. P. Sargent, Mrs. Charles Heffernan, Mrs. J. Harry Russell, Miss Effie Shepherd, Mrs. C. W. Logan, Mrs. C. W. Cadle, Mrs. F. P. Clark, Mrs. George E. McLeod, Mrs. F. A. Voorhies, Mrs. G. S. An- drews, Mrs. Harry Masters, Miss Mamie E. Quinn, Mrs. Walter Parrish, Miss Felicita Levinsky, Mrs. S. P. Elliott, Mrs. H. W. Taggart, Mrs. L. E. Akins, Mrs, J. B. Cory, Mrs. S. B. Huskins, Mrs. Ellis C. Johnson, Mrs. C. W. Yolland, Mrs. J. H. Eddy, Mrs. C. Leonard, Mrs. "W. L. Irwin, Mrs. E. L. Castau, Mrs. Ed Mack, Mrs. Francis Cutting, Mrs. P. H. Dontoni, Mrs. Charles Haas, Mrs. J. H. Dougherty, Mrs. George E. Catts, Mrs. Fred C. Rothenbush, Mrs. L. J. Abrams, Mrs. F. D. Cobb, Mrs. Matt "Williams, Mrs. C. D. Fontana, Mrs. W. R. Barber, Mrs. S. Bonzi, Mrs. T. S. Brown, Miss Irene Breidenbach, Mrs. T. Castle, Mrs. William Hildreth, Mrs. Harvey Condit, Mrs. W. H. Lyons, Mrs. Lewis Moreing. James Fennell of Olympia, Wash., recently paid $115 for the Pointer Mike, a son of 3elle of Council BluHs. Mike is a thoroughly broken dog and so well thought of in that section that his new owner was offered an advance in price shortly after mak- ing the purchase. The chain that holds local dogdom in leash is still in working order, enough so to prompt fanciers, when they meet, to stop and indulge in dog talk. Kennel gossip is as absorbing a topic trequently as the insur- ance situation has become with the business men who are on the anxious seat. John M. Gollobeck of Crockett, the owner of Ch. Coto Jr., recently had the bad luck to lose the hand- some and good young dog Judge, a son of Cato Jr. Judge was at G. Baraeeo 's residence, 515 Broderick street, a few weeks ago. In some unexplained manner the setter got out on the street and disappeared, nor has he turned up since. A report that Judge was seen in Oakland was a clew that did not develop material results. Judge, besides being a grand specimen of the English Setter, was also thoroughly broken. Richard Harding Davis' famous Bull Terrier, Edge- w I Cold Steel, is dead of old age. Edgewood Cold Steel was the canine hero of Mr. Davis' novel, "The Bar Sinister," and claims the distinction, it is said, of being the only American dog about whom a work of fiction was ever written. At the Seattle bench show a meeting of Collie fanciers resulted in the organization of the Wash- ington State Collie Club. Arthur Murphy was elected president and E. L. Winelow secretary. The juris- diction of the club will be within the boundary lines of Washington state, and membership will be open to all Colile fanciers of that territory. This is a good on the part of the northern Collie men and will do much for the best interests of the breed up north, where tin- C..11V, us a breed, is well estab- lished and lias a strong following. Fried Liver Jack, a well-know dog handler, is at presenl loen.ted in Los Angeles, where something may ■■■I". ;is he is still identified with mining — i g, those who have come in contact with We have heard the rumor that a one-day show is con- templated for Los Angeles on September 9th. The show will probably be under the auspices of the South- western Kennel Club, or, at all events, should be so, if held. In this respect we will sound a note of warning to the Los Angeles club to be extremely careful in coun- tenancing the invasion of their jurisdiction by any fake specialty club. A club composed of two or three active members, and possibly a few figureheads, for the purpose of giving the hall mark, is not one con- ducive to the interests of dogdom, and is decidedly prejudicial to the interests of a show-giving club. Such an organization is only designed as a close corporation for the profit and gain of its promoters. The Ladies' Kennel Association of Massachusetts, at a special meeting held April 24th, at 521 Washing- ton street, Boston, decided to forward $50 to the gen- eral relief fund for San Francisco. The meeting was called for the purpose of expressing sympathy and contributing substantial aid for the stricken people of San Francisco. The amount was contributed from the club treasury, and other contri- butions were to follow. Among the ladies present were: Mrs. E. H. Sea- grave, in the chair; Mrs. Clark, Mrs. Smythe, Mrs. Denuee, Mrs. Parmenter, Miss Brooks, Miss Stinzing and Miss Fisher. J. I. Sparrow sold his stud dog Croydon Czar re- cently for a good figure. Czar has been a consistent sire, having produced a number of winning sons and daughters. At the last meeting of the American Kennel Club the list of recognized breeds of dogs was extended so as to include among the foreign dogs "any breed in the miscellaneous class that is recognized in Count De Bylandt's book," and that work was stated as an authority in this particular extension of the list of breeds. The action of the Pacific Advisory Board in dis- qualifying Chas. W. Buttles of Kansas City has been sustained, as will be seen from the following review of the case, whieh appears in the May issue of the A. K. C. Gazette: Charles W. Buttles vs. Pacific Advisory Committee. — Re Appeal from Disqualification. — This appeal was pre- sented, to the Executive Board at its meeting, Decem- ber, 1905, and postponed. A request from the appellant for a postponement to enable a representative to ap- pear in his behalf at a future meeting was not granted. The contention was that F. P. Butler of San Francisco, Cal., purchased an English setter from appellant, based upon a description of the dog as advertised in the American Field of June 24, 1905. From testimony in the original case before the Pacific Advisory Commit- tee it would appear that the dog was not as represented in said advertisement, and the appellant was suspended by the Paeific Advisory Committee until he refunded to F. P. Butler the sum of $50, being the purchase price, and $11.50 express charges to San Francisco, and a further sum of $11.50, to be applied to express charges from San Francisco to Kansas City, within thirty days from the date of said meeting. From the evidence before this Board, it is of the opinion that the Pacific Advisory Committee rendered its decision according to the evidence before it, and it is therefore Ordered, That the action of the Pacific Advisory Committee be and hereby is sustained: The Boston terrier fancy on the Coast has had a rather serious blow recently in the loss of Ascot Ken- nels ' Mystic Spider, who succumbed to an attack of pneumonia. Spider was the pride of his owner, Colonel Jim Brooks of Ascot Park. This grand little Boston was a phenomenal winner at the April Show in Los Angeles, and was, without doubt, the best Boston on the Coast. He was by Ch. Bayside Chauncey, out of Mystic Superba. Charles Heffernan, the popular secretary of the Stockton Kennel Club, recently purchased Ch. Laura I. (Cato-Ch. Maggie P.), the well known prize winning English Setter bitch, and a producer of winning sons and daughters that are not only bench show dogs but consistent workers to the guu. Coursing, which for two months or more past has had a setback in San Francisco, will be resumed again at Ingleside Park on Sunday, July 1st, with a sixty- four-dog stake. The owners and trainers of Grey- hounds have been looking forward to this da.y with a great deal of interest. A large number of dogs were destroyed since the last meeting, but as they were mostly of the poorer class, the sport should be even keener than before. The grandstand was uninjured by the earthquake and the field is in perfect condition for coursing. The jacks are very plentiful at this season of the year and are very strong and will surely lead the dogs a merry chase around the field. Judge Frank O'Shea will be in the saddle and Harry Murray will handle the slips. The dogs have all had a much needed rest and will be in great shape for the opening day, and it is expected that a record breaking crowd will be on hand to witness the running. The draw was held on last Wednesday evening at 2030 Seventeenth street, the list including many of the best dogs in America to-day. The sport will con- tinue regularly every week. The "dovetail" judge is not an individual who is a beneficial factor in promoting the interest of bench shows nor that of general exhibitors. It would be for the mutual interest of all concerned (save the dovetailer) if club secretaries and bench show com- mittees would turn down an offer to judge all classes or just one or two breeds, for instance, for " ex- penses. " The coon in the expense woodpile is a fat and juicy one, when the dovetail genius covers a long distance by rail, to and from the show on a "pass." The "pass" in the expense account hatches out as a full rate fare and is thus deftly turned into coin — a thrifty system of cuckoo financiering that would, if known, meet with the deserved discourage- ment of the transportation officials. Other plumage in the "dovetail" raid is a string of dogs garnered here and there along the circuit, etc The entry fees for these dogs are collected in full from owners, but the dovetail judge does not turn these feathers over to the show club, not if he can induce the club to rebate to him in whole or in part, usually the dovetailer is an adept in the art of keeping the fees in his own poeket. Of course, this is a good thing for the club and would be appre- ciated by the exhibitors — if they knew it. More feathers for the bullion ornamentwation of the "dove- tail" are plucked by itinerant handling of dogs, in a good fiatcatcher and Au Fait in questionable ring good flat catches and are fast in questionable ring jockeying, the nimble shilling is frequently forthcom- ing from a stunt called "Why, you know now; I'll win with this one." Along the line the "dovetail" judge has winners, in every breed, for sale to susceptable buyers who could get the same dogs, less the judge's rake-off, if they would look about for themselves. Minor dovetailing is worked in on the breeding of bitches. The dovetail man can always get the ser- vices of the best dogs — those only which he recom- mends are the best. Sometimes it happens that a bitch is not served — the stud fee is devoted to a better purpose, however, from the viewpoint of the dovetail man. So it follows that the "dovetail" judge germ, be- fore it becomes an epidemic colony, might, profitably to kennel clubs, be fumigated from the bench show atmosphere. Peters Points. Mr. L. H. Reid, representing The Peters Cartridge Co., is located for the time being in Memphis and adjoining territory. Although very busy he finds time occasionally to do some shooting, and gives the boys of the gun clubs down there some nice exhibitions. At Dyersburg, Tenn., May 10th, he broke 95 out of 100; on May 12th, at Memphis, 96 out of 100; May 15th, at Augusta, Ark., 49 out of 50; Maj 19th, at Memphis, 98 out of 100; May 24th, at Monticello, Ark., 50 straight; averaging nearly 7 per cent. He, of course, used his favorite Peters Ideal load, No. 167% chilled. At the recent two-day tournament at Idaho Falls, Idaho, high general average was won by Mr. C. T. CalHson, his score being 386 out of 400, or 96% per cent. Mr. Callison shot Peters shells, and represents the Peters Cartridge Company in the Rocky Mountain States, and is demonstrating to the boys out there the many reasons why they should use his company's ammunition. At Louisville, Ky., on May 30th, Mr. Woolfolk Hen- derson of Lexington, Ky., won the high average, los- ing 10 out of 260. He also won the handicap trophy for high gun in the team race. Mr. Henderson shoots Peters Premier shells and is enthusiastic over their fine shooting qualities. He won the Kentucky State championship at Owensboro on May 24th, with a score of 98 out of 100, and his work is commented upon wherever he goes. At the Nebraska State shoot, June 5th, 6th and 7th, some most excellent records were made with Peters' factory loaded shells. Mr. John Sach made one run of 105 straight, and Captain A. H. Hardy made a run of 144 straight. On the first day the squad, consist- ing of Messrs. Hardy, "Veach, Bray, Schroeder and Linderman, in the first 100 targets of the programme broke a total of 484 out of 500 by using Peters shells. This establishes a new squad record. At the weekly shoot of the Memphis Gun Club. June 9th, Mr. H. E. Poston, who represents the Peters Cartridge Co. in that territory, was high gun, with a score of 98 out of 100, using Peters Ideal shells. At the shoot given by the Parker Gun Club at Mil- waukee, June 10th, high amateur average was won by Mr. J. R. Graham, with a score of 17S out of 1S5, shooting Peters factory loaded shells. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN AT THE TRAPS. The sport of trap shooting promises to have a healthy loeal stimulus in the near future, no th with- standing the temporary interruption of the game. Now that our shotgun devotees have dusted off the ashes dividends declared by the Pluto Wrecking Com- pany on April ISth and affairs are getting into normal channels again to a far greater extent, happily, than the outside world realizes or may be prepared to give credit for, there will be regular shoots at Ingles! de and very probably at Alameda Junction for the balance of the season. The Golden Gate Gun Club shoot at Ingleside last Sunday was well attended by club members and visit- ing shooters. The weather conditions were most favor- able and scores averaged very well. A number of the "boys" were up against an unusual handicap, in that they used either a borrowed gun or a newly purchased one, for a number of those present had been cleaned out of their favorite guns during the recent fireworks. An agreeable feature of the club match at fifty targets was the substantial fact that every man .in the shoot drew down a satisfactory bit of the club purse. The Golden Gate Gun Club has a healthy treasury and there was enough in the money prizes hung up to give very shooter a rakeoff. "When this is known to the absentees, particularly the fishing fellows, the joke will be a one-sided one. In the club race at fifty targets Nauman was high gun in the champion class. The ' ' Old Reliables, ' ' George Sylvester, Prior and "Nothin' Doin' " Iver- son, each scored 42 birds in the first-class division. "San Diego'' Fano was high gun in the second-class and "Woodpulp" Patrick walked off with the third- class honors on a score of 35 out of 50. The A. M. Shields trophy race was contested by thirteen shooters. Xauman picked off every blue- rock of the twenty-five and won the trophy. Iverson and Schultz each scored 23 birds. An eight-man team contest between the "Booze Mer- chants" and "Banana Dealers" was a lively affair. The wetgoods shooters won by a single target, scor- ing 145 out of 200. In thir race Nauman made an- other straight score of 25. A shooting inovation during the day was the "blind shoot," during which the shooter took position in a pit parallel with the traps, and cracked the blue- rocks on the wing, as in flight shooting at ducks, with one or both barrels, as occasion required. This new trapshooting game promises to become a popular one. The scores in the club race, 50 targets, $50 added, were: Champion class— Feudner, 22, 16—38. Forster, 19, 22 — 41. Xauman, 20, 23 — 43. First class— G. Syl- vester, 21, 21 — 42. Iverson, 21, 21 — 42. Prior, 22, 20— 42. Murdock, 19, 15—33. "Woods," 10, 7—17. F. Schultz, 20, 17—37. Dr. Pitres, 18, 14—32. Second- class — Knick, 17, 17 — 34. Fano, 19, 18 — 37. Hauer, 18, 14 — 32. Third class— Patrick, 17, 18—35. John- son, 16, 13—29. A. M. Shields' trophy race, 25 targets, distance handicap — C. C. Nauman, 18 yards, 25 straight; Iver- son, 1S-23; F. Schultz, 14-23; Feudner, 14-20; Sylvester, 16-20. Prior, 16-19; Fano, 16-19; Kinek, 14-19; Dr. Pitres, 14-19; Johnson, 14-18; Patrick, 14-16; G. Thomas, 16-16; Lynch, 14-15; Baldwin, 16-16; Hauer, 16 yards, 12. Team shoot, 25 targets per man, 16 yards, B. P. Team — Nauman 25, Feudner 19, F. Sehultz 13, Dr. Pitres 19, Fano IS, Murdock 19, Lynch 16, Johnson 18; total, 147. B. D. Team— Iverson 21, Sylvester IS, Forster 19, Prior 23, Capt. Shafter 16, Hauer 17, Patrick 16, Knick IS; total, 148. Besides those participating in the club events, a number of visiting sportsmen took part in the practice shooting and minor events. Captain J. N. Shafter, a crack shot of the Bakersfield Gun Club, made several excellent scores. Among other visitors were Pete McRae, George Thomas, Oscar Fisher, Julius Bruns, Dr. Sylvester, John Potter, Dr. Bodkin and W. Lynch. The California Wing Club's regular monthly live- bird shoot is the card for Ingleside to-morrow. The Pacific Coast was represented by one gun out of 268 entries at the Grand American Handicap — Hood Waters of Denver, Colo., was the shooter. The Northwest tournament at Walla Walla the same week and the additional fact that the Inter- state Association and Pacific Coast Handicap is booked for Los Angeles in September possibly ac- counted for the meager showing of Coast shooters at Indianapolis. Reports of the G. A. H. were received too late this week for extended tootiee in this department. A press dispatch just to hand states that the main event, the Grand American Handicap on June 21st, was won by F. E. Rogers of St. Louis, who broke 94 out of 100 at 17 yards distance. A strong and variable wind prevailed all day which played hob with many s'ores. The purse amounted to $2674, divided among fifty high guns. Rogers received $267, first money. He used an L. C. Smith automatic ejector gun, fitted with the Hunter one-trigger. A western shooter won the Handicap for 1906, which is pleasant news for Coast shooters, and the L. C. Smith win is a jubliant fact for Harvev McMurchy. The annual shoot for the Peters cup took place at the driving park, Victoria, B. C., under the auspices of the Capital Gun Club. About twenty competitors took part and some good shooting was done. The con- ditions were forty targets; 20 unknown angles and 20 unknown angles reverse traps, use of both barrels. It was won by C. Pears, with Otto Weiler, W. Adams, P. W. Stevenson and W. N. Lenfesty following closely. The scores shot were: C. Pears 32, O. Weiler 30, W. Adams 28, F. W. Stevenson 27, W. N. Lenfestv 27, C. Banfield 26, T. Dieks 26, H. N. Short 25, H. C'athcart 23, W. Peden 23, W. Buckett and J. Wilders 21. "Mooch" Abraham, at the Irvington traps of the Multnomah Rod and Gun Club, broke 25 straight at the last club shoot, placing him in line for the Lip- man throphy cup, which goes to the man who breaks 25 straight on two separate occasions. Some good scores were made by the other shooters. W. E. Car- Ion did some splendid shooting, with 88 out of 100 birds to his credit. The scores: Carlon shot at 100, broke 88. "U. M. C." Howe shot at 100, broke 87. Abraham shot at 100, broke 86. Long shot at 50, broke 43. Hillis shot at 200, broke 170. Wagner shot at 50, broke 42. Emil Holling shot at 150, broke 123. Fechheimer shot at 100, broke SO. Guist shot at 125, broke 97. Blazier shot at 50, broke 36. Shanel shot at 25, broke 18. Young shot at 100, broke 70. Border shot at 50, broke 34. Maston shot at 50, broke 30. Brock shot at 50, broke 25. Kilinan shot at 50, broke 24. Robers shot at 50, broke 21. "S. M." shot at 50, broke 21. The San Luis Boat and Gun Club team of shooters won from the Spring City Gun Club team on the 17th inst. by a score of 153 to 147. The names of the winning team were: C. A. Youno-- love, P. J. McCaffery, A. B. Van Seoy, J. E. Van Schaick, Charles Maino, J. C. Hill, C. T. Greenfield, J. V. Estudillo, J. A. Renetskv, Ernest Taylor, Fred Soto and R. M. Righetti. The Helmet Gun Club shoot at Helmet, Cal., on the 13th inst. shows the following scores: Class A.— Wells 20, Douglas 18, Belton 15, Goodhart 14, J. H. Botterell 13, W. E. Botterell 12. Class B.— Bradford 21, Oloan 16, Halloway 13, Lowe 11, Brown 9, Bowen 2. Wells, in Class A., won the first prize. Bradford, in Class B., won the second prize. At the Seattle Gun Club shoot on the 17th inst. in the shoot for the Dupont trophy cup, Ed Ellis made a perfect score of 25, but Fisher, with a handicap of 2, tied him. No ties are shot off for the Dupont cup, so it will not be decided until the next shoot. The scores were: Ellis 25, Wheeler IS, Hall IS, Fisher 23, A. Taft 19, Stack 20, Clewley IS, Stewart 9. Captain W. H. Price has fitted up a gunsmithing studio and repair shop at 24 Point Lobos avenue, where he is prepared to "turn out" work immediately. Orders may be sent by mail to that address or can be left at the Napa Soda headquarters, 760 Golden Gate avenue. E. H. Confarr of Livingstone, Mont., still keeps up his shooting form, for he won the Multnomah medal at Walla Walla last week. Pete Holohan of Wallace, Idaho, won the Globe trophy and Jack Forbes of Spokane won the Brownlee medal. Averages Reported. New Jersey State Shoit, Newark, N. J., June 5-7. — J. A. R, Elliott won first average, 445 out if 4S0, shioting "New Sehultze. " J. M. Hawkins won sec- ond average, 433 out of 480, shooting Du Pont." W. G. Hearne won third average, 421 out of 4S0, shootiug "Infallible." The Hunter Arms Co. medal was won by I. Castle, shooting "Infallible." The N. J. Target Championship was won by A. Lindley, shooting "New Sehultze." Monongahela Valley League, Fairmount, W. Va., June 5. — W. A. Weidebusch won first average, 184 out of 200, shooting "Du Pont." E. H. Taylor won sec- ond average, 176 out of 200, shooting "Du Pont." F. Colpits won third average, 168 out of 200, shooting "Du Pont." At the Interstate Association's Southern Handicap Tournament, Nashville, Tenn., May 15-17 — First gen- eral average was won by W. H. Herr, 393 out of 400. Second general average was won bv W. R. Crosby, 389 out of 400. Both of the above used "New. E*. C." (Imprived.) Third general average was tied for by Mr. C. .0 Le Compte, who used Infallible smokeless, and }.?r. H. D. Freeman of Atlanta, Ga., who used "Du Pont" smokeless, both' breaking 387 out of 400. Mr. Freeman also won first amateur average. The Southern Handicap was won by C. G. Spencer, 38 out of 100, from the 18-yard mark. Otis Felger .*f Grand Rapids, Mich., was second with 97 out of 100 from the 18-yard mark. At Pocatello, Idaho, May 11th and 12th, H. C. Hir- schy of Minneapolis and E. F. Confarr of Living- ston, Mont., tied for first general average, with 315 out of 335. Mr. Hirschy used "Du Pont" smokeless and Mr. Confarr used "Infallible." Mr. Confarr also won first amateur average. Second amateur and sec- ond general average was won by Neel McMUlen of Tdaho Falls, 311 out of 335, and used "Du Pont" smokeless. Mr. G. L. Becker won third amatenr average, 308 out of 335, and also used "Du Pont" smokeless. At the North Carolina State Shoot, Wilson, X. C. May 25 and 25th — First general average was won by C. G. Spencer, 386 out of 400. First amateur and sec- ond general averages were won by Geo. L. Lyon of Durham, X. C, 378 out of 400. * William Walls of Wilson, X. C, won second amateur average and third general average with 377 out of 400. All three gentle- men used "Du Pont" smokeless. Third amateur aver- age was won by Mr. J. E. Crayton of Charlotte, X. &, with 373 out* of 400. Mr. Crayton used " New Sehultze." In addition to winning high average, Mr. Lyon also won the State Championship with 95 out of 100 and the Virginia-Carolina Championship with 96 out of 100. The Dove Season. The Court of Appeals in the Los Angeles district declared all county ordinances shortening the close season unconstitutional, holding that the constitution gave control of fish and game to the Legislature alone when the constitutional amendment was adopted au- thorizing the division of the State into districts for the purpose of passing an equitable fish and game law, and that it could not delegate its power to Boards of Supervisors, nor could they pass such ordinances. In consequence of this decision the Boards of Su- pervisors of several counties have repealed various game ordinances that were liable to be construed as at variance with the dictum of the Appellate Court. The Board of Supervisors last week repealed all ordinances and parts of ordinances of Placer county in relation to game. Last year they passed an or- dinance extending the close season on doves from July 1st under the State law to August 15th. This excited much feeling through the county, it being claimed that the doves leave the foothills before that time and go down to the plains, and that the ordinance as passed made the shooters around Lincoln and Roseville the only ones who had any chance for dove shooting. On June 6th the Supervisors voted to shorten the season for wild doves in Riverside county to one month, from October 15th to Xovember 15th. W. Scott Way, secretary of the Audobon Society of Pasa- dena, presented the petition. Representatives were also present from the Riverside County Humane So- ciety and the Corona Board of Trade. The Sacramento Supervisors some time ago ex- tended the close season to July loth. District Attor- ney Seymour has advised County Game Warden George Neale that under the recent decision the Supervisors had no right to extend the law. Therefore, Xeale will not interfere with the dove shooters. The dove shooting situation, had it not been changed by the Appellate Court, was as follows: Sacramento county open on July 15th, Madera and Santa Clara on August 1st and Merced and Placer on August loth, while the other counties will stand for the regular season, excepting San Bernardino, which was billed to allow shooting for one day only on the loth of August; Yuba and Sutter on August 1st only, and Ventura, which permits shooting only on the 1st of September. Santa Cruz county has pro- hibited shooting altogether this year. "Winchester" Products Carry of the Honors. As usual, the shooters of "Winchester" goods car- ried off the premier honors at the Twenty-Second An- nual Shooting Tournament of the Sportsmen 's Asso- ciation of the Northwest, which took place at Walla Walla, Wash., on June 21, 22 and 23, under the aus- pices of the Walla Walla Gun Club. The tournament was held at Agricultural Park, and was well attended, 64 shooters facing the traps. One of the most notice- able things at this tournament was the large number of shooters using the Winchester "pump" guns and the splendid showing they made in the medal and trophy events. Of the 64 contestants 34 shot the Winchester "pump" gun, and when it is taken into consideration that shooters from California, Oregon, Washingtin, Utah, Idaho and Montana were in at- tendance, it only goes to prove hiw universally popular this make of gun is with the sportsmen throughiut the country. It may also be said that over 60 per cent of the shooters at this tournament shot the Winchester make of shells. The Aanaconda Cup, shot for on the opening day of the tournament, was captured bv Mr. E. E. Garratt of Seattle, Wash., with a Winchester "pump" gun on the splendid score of 25 straight in this event. The Multnomah Medal, also shot for on the same day, was captured by Mr. E. F. Confarr of Livingston, Montana, with a Winchester "pump" gun and Winchester "Leader" shells, on the score of 24 out of a possible 25, reversed pull. The Walla Walla Brownlee Medal, contested for on the second day of the shoot, was captured by Mr. J. A. Forbes of Spo- kane, Wash., after shooting off a tie with Mr. G. W. Miller and D. J. Dayo. Mr. Forbes as well as Messrs. Miller and Dayo shot the Winchester "Leader" shells. The Globe Trophy, the famous trophy of the North- west Association, was tied for by Mr. F. A. Dryden and Mr. Holohan. In the shoot-off Mr. Holohan won on the score of 35 to 34. Both gentlemen used Win- chester "pump" guns. The Dayton Medal was cap- tured by Mr. E. F. Confarr, shooting a Winchester "pump" gun and the "Leader" shells, after shoot- ing off a tie with Messrs. E. E. Garratt and A. E. Chingreen. The Individual Championship Medal was won by Mr. P. J. Holohan of Twin Falls, Idaho, with a Winchester ' ' pump ' ' gun on the score of 25 straight. The Three Man Team Trophy was cap- tured by the Spokane, Wash., team, composed of F. McBroom, A. E. Chingreen and J. A. Forbes, on the cimbined score of 55 out if a possible 60, Messrs. Forbes and Chingreen using the "Leader" shells. The first high average of the tournament was made by Mr. P. J. Holohan with a Winchester "pump" gun, while the second high average was made by Mr. E. F. Confarr with a Winchester ' ' pump ' ' gun and the "Leader" shells, Mr. Holohan 's average being 92 *£ per cent and Mr. Confarr 's 91:ii per cent. Black bass fishing in Ballard Lake is excellent. It is said that the alfalfa fields south of Merced ar.' alive witli wild ducks and their young. It is ex- pected that the birds will be very plentiful the com- ing season. Striped bass fishing off the Alameda Mole — the south sea wall is excellent at present. Quite a nam- ber of bass have also been caught from the Borax wharf. A fair amount of sport may be found in the straits and also in the Tiburon lagoon. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS! KENTUCKY-. OWENSBOKO, MAY 24, 1906 WON BY ME. WOOLFOLK HENDERSON, 98 X 109 ILLINOIS: BLOOMINGTON, MAY 24, 1906 Won by MR. J. R. GRAHAM, 94 s 100 from 19-yards —USING— Peters Factory Loaded SKells THE CONSOLATION HANDICAP-GRAND AMERICAN, 1905 Won by Mr James T. Atkinson,-99 x 100 from 18 yard mark. In this event 2 scores of 98, 5 of 97, and 1 of 96. All using the Peters Factory Loaded Shells THE CHOSEN AMMUNITION OF AMATEUR AND EXPERT. THE PETERS CARTRIDGE COMPANY, CINCINNATI, OHIO NEW YORK: 98 CHAMBERS ST., T. H. Keller, Mgr. FOR BREEDERS. BALANCING TROTTERS. Good sense and docility as well as lack of sense and treachery are all matters of transmission inheritance. This is true of ailments, habits of action, disposition and all those things which go to make a good or bad horse. In case where the foal has to be fed on cow's milk owing to death of dam, or other causes, it should be reduced one-third with water and a little sugar added, and the foal should be fed every two hours for the first two weeks. The great demand for high class horses should not tempt the man who is satisfied with scrub stallions to go into horse breeding. The demand and high prices are only for horses of first-class breeding. It is highly essential that the colt should be free from nervousness, restlessness and unsteadiness. This greatly depends on the education, and the greater the obstacles the more patience must be observed. Action is extremely important in light horses. It should be straight and true. At the trot it should be what is known as the straight line trot, no wabbling from side to side to the other, or swinging the feet. The action from behind should be straight, the feet picked up smartly, hocks well flexed and the feet of both fore and hind legs at each step placed imme- diately in front of the former position. READY MADE BONDS FOR SPEED MANIACS. Surely the path of the speed maniac is being cleared of its difficulties! Hitherto, if any contretemps, such as the mangling of human flesh and bones under his machine occurred while he was enjoying a cross- country spin he was compelled to leave his course with its glorious allurements in order to accompany an officer of the law to a police station to give bail for his appearance in court. Of course, in such in- stances, the explanation, a simple one, has always been readily forthcoming — it really is impossible to keep the racing car within the limits of speed laid down by law on account of its make and so, how- ever unfortunate the shedding of blood may be — truly it, is not a pleasant experience, — the owner of the car cannot be held accountable for the untoward accident. While at the beginning of his career the autoist was ■willing to observe this little ceremony as a sort of conciliation of the public mind outraged at the thought of murder, it later began to pall upon him and com- plaints soon followed as to the "embarrassment" aud the "humiliation'" of a visit to the police station and tin- irksomeness of waiting for bondsmen. At last, now, his need has been met. The- remedy he uncon- sciously has been seeking has materialized. To-day your spi i 'I ma niac can buy a book of tickets represent- ing live bail bonds, and if any foolhardy or thought- less person interrupts the course of his pleasure by becoming entangled with the wheels of his auto he has "iilv to present one of these to the policeman, whom some overzealous and officious bystander is bound to summon to the Sim ue, and go on his way re- joicing. This book of tickets costs only $2n. Issu« d by a surety company, they are prepared for use in Sevi D differ at States, and thus affords the motorist full scope for his speeding instincts. Verily the road is his! — Rider & Driver. REWARD REAPED. Figures show that the purchase of Flying Fox was an excellent financial speculation for his owner, M. Edmond Blanc, for the produce of the son of Orme and Vampire have already won since 1903 in public money £112,800; Gouvernant was sold for £20,000, Val d 'Or for £28,000, Adam for £16,000 and Jardy for £30,000, whhoni mentioning other sales made from time '" time by M. Edmond Blanc, who still retains possession of b'lying Fox as well as Ajax, who is one of the In st among promising sires representing the strains of Dollar and Wellingtonia, so highly prized in France. There will be n meeting of grand circuit calibre at Windsor, (hit., .Inly 2'A to 'J7, the dates originally claimed by Detroit. Secretary II Lurahan announces th:ii there will be fifteen $1000 purses, the classifica- tion of which will be announced next week. As Bpecu- lation is no' barred in the Canadian town, then will undoubtedly be a big entry and a rousing meeting, ami while t is hot technically in the grand circuit tieally be tin opener of the big line. The following article was written by J. P. Adams for the Horse Shocr's Journal, from which publica- tion it is reproducer!: To balance a trotter by shoeing is a very import- ant part of the successful development of a horse and the shoer has a great deal to contend with. When he has every reason to think that he has been successful, the horse will show signs of being "off" in his way of going. The cause may be from overwork or a slight strain causing a muscle soreness, or perhaps he may by a miss-step have hit himself and became afraid to extend himself. "With a young horse things of this kind will occur so often that it will be very dis- couraging work trying to get him to take his work in a satisfactory manner. It may be that the horse is perfectly balanced, as far as his shoeing is con- cerned, but he may not be in perfect health. He may have taken a slight cold, or have a touch of indiges- tion. There are many causes that will work to the disadvantage of the horse and the discouragement of the shoer as well as the trainer. When a horse is not balanced, the proper thing to do is to find out the cause of his trouble, then pro- ceed to apply the remedy. If some morning while be- ing worked, he develops a pronouneed inclination to "hitch,''' instead of giving him a whipping and mak- ing an endeavor to drive it out of him, it would be much more to the point to take him to the barn and make a thorough examination, and discover the cause of the trouble. The horse's back may be hurting him or there may be a sore spot somewhere. The harness may be chaffing him, or another very common trouble may be found, that of his teeth. The ailments that the horse is heir to are almost ielentical with those of the human family. The men who enjoy perfect health are very scarce ; so it is with the horse. It sometimes seems to me that favorable con- ditions ought to follow careful industry, but this is not always so. Bad luck (and there is such a thing as luck) will break in upon the most expert and scientific shoeing. If it were only a question of how to level the feet and determine the kind and weight of shoe to put on, the proposition would not be so hard to solve. I have in mind an instance of one of the most prominent trainers, and one that is very prone to use the whip, who started one morning to work out a 2-year-old. The colt commenced to hitch and go side- ways a little. He applied his usual remedy, the whip, with the result that ever after the colt was a notorious puller and although possessing great speed and en- durance, was ruined in one-half hour because of lack of care and sympathy on the part of the trainer. It was afterwards discovered that the colt had bruised one of its hind ankles while in the stable during the night. Another instance was that of a horse four years old that had" been trained from the spring when he was two, possessing a lot of speed, but although he was shod in every conceivable way, would persist in going uneven; until one day his check came unhooked, which allowed him to drop his" head, wrhen he immediately went away, trotting at a perfect gait and developed into a very fast and reliable race horse. Another case that I have had experience with was ■ a horse that had been working satisfactorily for some months, when he developed a very strong desire to not only hitch, but to break. Upon examination, it was found that he was troubled with lumbago. After careful treatment, in a short time he recovered entirely, and we had no more trouble. Another case, a horse that was noted for being ever ready to do all he could, and was ideal in his gait, suddenly com me need to go rough and uneven. After several days his ankle began to swell; then it was found that one morning while being jogged on the road by his caretaker be had stepped upon a stone that rolled under him and nothing was thought of it because he did not show lameness at the time of the accident. With a let-up and proper care the horse recovered to such an extent that he became a good campaigner, but if his hind foot became long or lie was shod out of balance his ankle would show the effect of the strain. Another experience was with a colt that woulel shift his gait; would go sideways, first outside, then the other. He was shod with rather heavy front shoes that were rolled off at the toe, because be was inclined to dwell in front. While watching him in his work I discovered that he was striking his hind shins with his front feet. 1 removed the rolling motion shoes and in place of them put on a pair of lightweight shoes with low, sharp parallel heel calks and a low sharp calk around the toe. The result was entirely satisfactory, because the calks held the foot from slipping back from under him and thus prevented him from striking his hind shins, and he was much more rapid gaited and he immediately began to develop into a valuable horse for either race or road purposes. Another prolific cause of trouble is to be found in the horse 's mouth. The reason for many a bad acting horse is to be readily located sometimes in an aching tooth, or more often the edges are worn sharp and be- fore the result is known the cheeks are cut and have become very sensitive to the touch of the bit. In many an instance I have known the horseshoer > to be worried for weeks over some obstinate ease of apparent unbalance when the whole trouble was dis- covered to be in the horse Js mouth. The services and skill of the dentist was required and not that of the horseshoer. Two years ago a very likely winner in the M. & M. at Detroit was so handicapped by a sore mouth as to put her out of the money. Complaint was made to her shoer that she was not balanced, when, as a matter of fact, the whole trouble was caused by the horse being jerked and snatched so severely that the mouth was badly cut and afterward became cank- ered and was months in healing. Another cause of horses being unbalanced and beyond remedy by the shoer is overwork. This trou- ble takes several forms, any one of which is sufficient to make trouble. One form, and perhaps the most common ciuse, it to drive a colt faster than he can go comfortably or without too much effort. This is a mistake that is made many times by the owners ask- ing more than is reasonable of the trainer and of the trainer being anxious to make rapid progress in the development of his charge. Another cause is jogging the colt too far; the colt becomes leg-weary and soon gets "off" in his gait or jogging over rough roads or requiring the colt to draw a heavy buggy or road cart at speed. Any of these causes may be prolific of bad results to the gait of a colt. When the colt shows symptoms of going wrong recourse is usually had to the horse- shoer, and to him is brought all the trouble of trying to undo the lack of judgment on the part of someone else, and if he begins to make too close inquiry about what the colt has been called upon to either perform or endure, the chances are that the horseshoer will bring the discredit and dislike of the trainer down upon his head, which may result in the loss of a customer. But in order to successfully solve the problem it is necessary to know all the conditions surrounding the case as near as possible. It is only just and for the good of all concerned. It is utterly impossible for a doctor to properly prescribe for a patient unless he can make a correct diagnosis of the case. I have, in taking up this subject, named these few instances to show what the horseshoer must take into consideration when he undertakes to balance a horse's action. With an experience cover- ing a quarter of a century, I have found numerous cases of unbalanced horses from causes other than the shoeing. Scores of times horses have been brought to me with the statement that they were not going right, that they were not shod as they should be, thus placing the blame upon the horseshoers, when the whole trouble was entirely out of the horseshoer 's reach, the remedy being other than that of balancing the feet of the horse. Reports from Monterey state that the salmon fish- ing is worthy the attention of the most enthusiastic angler. Large catches are made daily. This argues that the fish will be in San Francisco bay, passibly, in from four to six weeks. Bay fishing should be very good next week. Good catches of smelt and rock cod have bee"n made at various resorts. At Richmond, Va., on June 4th, Dr. B. I.. Hillsman made a most remarkable score, breaking 97 out of 100 with one straight run of »89. He has recently be- gun to use Peters shells and his score referred to above indicates pretty clearly that they are about perfect. At the Ohio State tournament, June 6th, 7th and 8th, Mr. C. A. Young won second professional average, with a total of 4SS out of 520, using Peters factory, loaded shells. Mr. Young was the only man to break 25 straight in the Press Post trophy event, and 30 straight in the State Journal cup event. His shooting was the talk of the crowd. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN ...GUARANTEED STAKES... Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders Association WOODLAND, CAL, AUGUST 15th to 18th, 1906 Entries to close July 2d, 1906 $1500 500 500 WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15 California Stakes, 2:24 Class Trot Julian Hotel Stakes, 2 :12 Class Paee .... Alex. Brown Stakes, 2 :16 Class Paee .... THURSDAY, AUGUST 16 Futurity Trot, 2- Year-Old Division < closed) .$1450 Byrnes Hotel Stakes, 2 :13 Class Trot 500 Futurity Paee, 3-Year-Old Division i closed) . 1300 Horses to be named -witH entry ..PROGRAMME... FRIDAY, AUGUST 17 7. Futurity Paee, 2- Year-Old Division (Closed; $ 950 8. Golden Gate Stakes, 2 :09 Class Pace 800 9. Sunset Stakes, Free-for-All Trot 800 SATURDAY, AUGUST 18 10. Futurity Trot, 3- Year-Old Division .closed) $2300 11. Pacific Slope Stakes, 2:20 Class Pace 1500 12. Woodland Stakes, 2.18 Class Trot 500 % LIBERAL STAKES FOR OTHER CLASSES WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER. E. P. HEALD, President. STAKES divided 50, 25, 15 and 10 per cent. Entrance 5 per cent the amount of the stakes will be deducted from each money won. For entry blanks and condition address the secretary. Mem- ber National Trotting Association. F. W. KELLEY, Secretary, Office: 709 Van Ness Avenue, San Francisco, Cal., P. O. Drawer 4-47. THE FARM. After milk is cooled and bottled it should be kept in the bottle and as cool as conditions will permit. Pouring the milk into an open vessel increases the chances of bacterial infection and con- sequent souring. The sooner the milk is cooled the better and at the lowest tem- perature. It should be cooled at least 60 degrees F. before bottling, and the bottle should be packed in crushed ice or put in iey water up to the milk line so that they may be cold as possible be- fore shipping or delivering to cus- tomers. Shrinkage is the one great factor which enters in the buying and selling of wool. If the dealer at the seaboard were unfamiliar with shrinkage he would continually be doing business- at a loss for the consumer could and would take advantage of his ignorance in this respect. Suppose a wool grower has a lot of 100,000 pounds of fine medium which he is offering for sale. The wool has an actual shrinkage of 60 per cent and the market price on the clean or scoured basis for that kind of wool is 50 cents. If the seller was not a good judge of shrinkage, and estimated that the wool shrank 64 per cent he would offer it at 18 cents a pound. The buyer would quickly take him up, knowing very well that the wool would shrink only 60 per cent and at IS cents in the grease, was cost- ing him only 45 clean. The grower who makes it his business to learn lit- tle points like this is the one who gets ahead. Dried beet pulp is comparatively a new article on the market and is the dried residue in beet sugar manufac- ture. It comes from the sugar factory through an operation briefly as fol- lows: The beets are washed, then shredded into small, round strips and placed in large upright cylinders, through which hot water is forced, dis- solving out the sugar. This liquor is drawn off, and the pulp, containing about 92 per cent of moisture and 1 per cent of sugar, is conveyed to large presses, which reduce the moisture to 82 per cent. It is then put into large kilns and thoroughly dried by direct heat. The drying process lasts about thirty-five minutes, and the resulting product is sacked and ready for ship- ment. After extracting the sugar from the liquor which has been drawn off there is a residum molasses, containing about 50 per cent of sugar, and a cer- tain amount of this product is mixed with the fresh pulp, then dried and sold under the name of "dried molasses beet pulp. ' ' FAST PACER FOR SALE. ALFRED D. 2:12^4. by Longrworth 2:19, son or" Sidney (sire Sidney Dillon, sire of Lou Dillon 1:58%). Dam Ferndale Belle bv Judge Salisbury, he by Nutwood, etc. ALFRED D. 2:12% stands 16 hands and weighs 1150 pounds. He is sound and a racehorse that is much faster than his record. Has paced miles close to two minutes. Address. MRS. A. C. DIETZ. 5403 San Pablo Ave.. Oakland. Cal. FINE LOWLAND SUMMER PASTURE Sediment soil. Stock stabled in storms. No wire fences. RANCHO CALAO, Mountain View, Cal. DIVIDEND NOTICE. SAVINGS AND LOAN SOCIETY. 101 Montgomery street, corner of Sutter, has declared a dividend for the term ending June 30, 1106, at the rate of three and one-half (ZVs) per cent per annum, on all deposits, free of taxes, and payable on and after July 2, 1906. Dividends not called for are added to and bear the same rate of interest as principal. EDWIN BONNELL, Cashier. 672-680 11th ave. All kinds of Horses Back of the Chutes. bought and sold. The Zibbell Stable ZIBBELL, & SON, Props. San Francisco, Cal. Boarding. Training and Handling of all kinds of Fancy Horses. A few Nice Rigs on hand. Take any car going to the Chutes. Tel. West 259. HOLSTEINS— BUTTER BRED FAM- ILIES Work Herd; 90 per cent winners at State and county fairs, show ring, and every butter contest since 1SS5 in Cali- fornia. "No reservations. Stock near S. F. F. H. BURKE, 2126 Fillmore street. San Francisco. BLAKE, MOFFITT & TOWNE Dealers in PAPER. No. 403 Twelfth St.. Oakland Blake. Moffit & Towne, Los Angeles. Blake. McFall & Co., Portland. Oregon. JERSEYS, HOLSTEINS AND DUR- HAMS — Dairy Stock a specialty. Hogs. Poultry. Established 1S76. Wm. Niles & Co., Los Angeles. Cal. "HOWARD SHORTHORXS"-QUINTO HERD — 77 premiums. California State Fairs 1902-3-4. Registered cattle of Beef and milking families for sale. Write us what you want. Howard Cattle Co., San Mateo. Cal. DIRECTESS FOR SALE Black mare 1SH5 by Direct 2:05%, dams by Mambrino Wilkes. Woodburn -Wil- liamson's Belmont. Due to foal to Zo- lock 2:05*4 March. 1907. Bay colt foaled April. I'i06. by Kinney Dou 2:07%, dam Marguerite. Large and fine looking. In Kentucky Futurity and California Breed- ers Stakes. M. C. DELANO, Rocklin, Cal. VETERINARY VOW ADVICE S FLEljEA Dr. S. A. Tattle, a veterinary oar- Ceonol long experience has writ- ten a boob entitled "Veterinary Experience" on the diseases of horsea, giving symptoms and treatment in plain terms. It la fully illUFtrated with diagrams showing the skeleton and circu- it latory anddigestlve systems with preferences that make them plain 'Tells how to bay a horse and know whether It 18 sound or not. Every horse owner should have one. It 1b sent to any one. TUTTLE'S ELIXIR la the only guaranteed cure for Colic, Curb, recent Shea Bolls and Callous. It locates lameness, relieves and cores Spavins, Ring Bone, Cookie Joints. Crosse Heel, Scratches, Catarrh, etc Bend today ana r."t the book free and information about Dr. Tuttle's specifics. Tattle's Elixir Co., 52 Beverly St., Boston, Mass, Hack & Co., Ban Francisco and F W. Braun, Los Angeles, California Agents. 1/ Tongues End STOCK GET JUST ENOUGH AT THE RIGHT T C0MPHE55ED PUHE-5ALT BRICKS. AND PATENT FEEDERS. No waste, no neglect all convenience. Your dealer has it Write us for the book. BELMONT STABLE SUPPLY CO. PATENTEES MANUFACTURERS Broohlyn, IM.Y. McMURRAY McMURRAY SULKIES and JOGGING CARTS Standard the world over Address for printed matter and prices W. J. TAENNEY 531 Valencia St., San Francisco Sales Agent for California. WCmJ^ Registered U. S. Patent Office **^^% SPAVIN CURE Warranted to Give Satisfaction. Gombault's Caustic Balsam Has Imitators But No Competitors. A Safe, Speedy and Positive Cure for Curb, Bplint 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. As a Human Remedy for Rheumatism, Sprains, Sore Throat, etc., It Is Invaluable. Every bottle of Caustic Balsam sold Is ■Warranted to (five satisfaction. Price $1.60 per bottle. Sold by druggists, or sent by ex- press, chnrjreB paid, witn full directions for its use. CiTSend for descriptive circulars, testimonials, etc. Address The Lawrence-Williams Co., Cleveland, 0. DO NOT LET SKEPTICISM OR LACK OF FAITH BLIND YOU. The powerful potency of "Save-the- Horse" cannot be analyzed or compre- hended in this small space. We wish to send you evidence — demonstrations, re- sults— from men in every walk of life — cures of cases considered incurable, and in addition we make a guarantee or legal contract absolutely binding to protect purchaser to treat any case for which "Save-the-Horse" is indicated. THE PALACE PHARMACY C. H. McKinstry, Proprietor. J. M. Hurst, Reg. Pharmacist. Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton. N. Y. Gentlemen — Mr. Burns asked me to apologize for not writing you. he sold the horse before he received your answer and check and thought he was out the $5.00. I told him you had always made your word and guarantee good and he is con- vinced of the fact now. We have sold several dozens "Save-the- Horse." Some of the parties have bought two and three bottles at different times and did not want the guarantee as they knew it would cure what they intended using it on. One man cured two curbs with one bottle and ever since I sold him the first bottle has kept a bottle on hand. - Respectfully. C. H. McKINSTRY. Lexington. Illinois. Troy Chemical Company. Binghamton, N. T. Dear Sirs — I used one and one-fourth bottles of your "Save-the-Horse" Spavin Cure on a case of sprained tendons. The horse had been lame for over a year. I had him blistered and turned out to pas- ture for nearly a year, hut went lame again, so I concluded to give your medi- cine a trial with the result that it com- pletely cured the horse. Yours truly. JAMES E. DONNELLY. Rochellc. Illinois. Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton. N. Y. Gentlemen — About two years ago I sent for a bottle of "Save-the-Horse" through my druggist. It completely cured a bone spavin and puffs. Respectfully. J. M. HOCKENBERRY. "Save-the-Horse" Permanently Cures Spavin. Ringbone (except low). Curb. Thoroughpin, Splint. Shoe Boll. Wind Puff. Injured Tendons and all lameness without scar or loss of hair. Horse works as usual. $5.00 per bottle, with a written guaran- tee as binding to protect you as the best legal talent could make it. Send for a copy, booklet and letters on every kind of lameness. At druggists and Dealers or Express Paid. Troy Chemical Co., Binghamton, N. Y. D. E. NEWELL YOUNG McKINNEY STALLION FOR SALE 56 Bayo Vista Avenue, Oakland, Cal. I offer for sale my young stallion CARLOKIN, record 2:203S as a three- year-old. lie is by McKlnney and out of the great br I mare Carlotta Wil- kes (dam of Vbllta 2 L5M ■ Carlocita 2:24%, :1ml Carl ok In 2:20! , i, by Charley Wilkes 3563, second dam Aspasia, 'inn ..f Faustina 2:19% by Alcantara 729, etc. Carlokin is stan lard ami registered, and 1 .n s iow ■! mll< at tb<3 trot now in 2:13 or better. I bi Hove he will trot In ! Lfl i i pear. Will sell him at a reasonable e for cash. ' He is a game rac« and his first crop of colts foaled this year are aa fln< lookei ■ as can be found anywhere. Correspondence invited. Ad- dresE C. L. JONES. Modesto. Pacific Coast Agt. Phone, Oakland 4152 SAFETY IMPREGNATING OUTFIT Practical and durable ami iseasily used. Gctiinfoal all marcs bred wilhit. and ereallv increases the nitcmt from your stallion. GUARAXTF.ED to produce results A necessity in every breeding stable. Write for -'---crip, live circular. Pri-e nf OUTFIT, complete, $7.60 l.O.CBITTENDKN. 9 FOX BLD'G. ELYBIA, OHIO. 10 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN SON OF DIRECTOR EDUCATOR SEASON OF 1906 — AT— California Stables, Berkeley Thursdays L, Strange PL, San Pablo Ave., nr. University. . .Fridays Geary & GrindeJli Stable, Ray wards Saturdays M, HENRY, Owner. WILLIAM HAROLD RECORD 2.131-4 Sire of JANICE 2:08%, world's record (2:24%) for iy8 miles, and DAN BURNS 2:15; sired by SIDNEY 2:19%; Dam, CRICKET 2:10; by STEINWAY, sire of Kalatawah 2 :05% 40 in 2 :30 list. Terms - - $2.5 for the Season For further particulars address or apply to H. W. MEEK, San Lorenzo, Cal. ...Baywood Stud... THE BUNGALOW, SAN MATEO, CAL. (Property of John Parrott, Esq.) IMP. HACKNEY STALLION Green's Rufxis 63 — 4291 Will Serve a Limited Number of Approved Mares, Season 1906. FEE 575. Reductions Made for Two or More Mares. WALTER SEALY, Manager RED McKINNEY The Standard Bred Trotting Stallion By McKINNEY 2 :11%. First dam, Bonnie Red by Red Wilkes; second dam, Bonnie Bell by Ahnont 33; third dam, Alice Drake by Alexander's Norman; fourth dam, Vily by Pilot Jr. 12. Will Make Season of 1906 at the CITY STABLES, TULARE, CAL. Tee $30, WitH Return Privileges. W. E. MURPHY, Owner. JOE DALL, Manager Monterey 2:09i Res. No. 31706 Sire of Irish, 2:08 1-4, Fastest Four-Year-Old Pacer of 1904 FEE, $50 "^LT/^V ^ ■*> V>f T •'Tp "ip By MONTEREY 2:09% X V-J sJ JLy ITl 1 JL JL/ Dam LEAP YEAR 2:26 Will Make the Season at SAN LORENZO and ALAMEDA FEE, $25 For particulars call or address PETER J. WILLIAMS, SAN LORENZO, CAL The Champion Sire of Early and Extreme Speed '2 Nutwood Wilkes 2:16 ' Sire Gt'Y WILKES 2 Dam LIDA W 2 By NUTWOOD 2 12% 18% 18% NUTWOOD WILKES will make the season of 1906 at the NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, from Feb. 1st to July 1st. FEE $50 FOR THE SEASON, with the usual return privileges. Send for tabulated pedigree. For further particulars apply or address MARTIN CARTER, NUTWOOD STOCK FARM, IRVINGTON, ALAMEDA CO., CAL. THE STANDARD-BRED TROTTING HORSE TOM SMITH 2-.13i Sired by the great McKINNEY S:11V4 — greatest sire of his ase; dam, the great brood mare DAISY S. (dam of four in list.) Will make the season of 1D06 at WOODLAND RACE TRACK to a limited number of approved mares. FEE $.50 with usual return privilege. Address C. A. SPENCER, Woodland, Cal. McIUNNEY, 2,114 World's Leading Sire of Extreme Race Horse Speed. FEE, $500 Fees are invariably payable before mares leave the farm. No return privilege, but fee returned if mare fails to produce a foal. Keep, $2.00 per "week. Our terms are rigidly adhered to in all cases, and we cannot deviate from them. McKinney is now located at the farm, ten miles from Cuba. ' The Empire City Farms, Cuba, New York (Mention this journal when writing.) KINNEY LOU 2,075 The Fastest Trotting Son of the Champion Sire Will make the Season of 1906, commencing February 1st, ending July 1st, at LAWRENCE STOCK FARM One Mile East of Lawrence Station, and Six Miles from San Jose. TERMS $100 $50 Due When Mare is Bred and $50 Payable When Mare is Known to be in Foal For further information, pedigree and description address Phone Suburban 499 San Jose, Cal. Budd Dohle, San Jose, Cal. 75 PER CENT °f a11 Horse °™*rs d T rainers USE AND RECOMMEND ampbell's Horse Foot Remedy — SOLD BY — W. A. Sayre Sacramento, Cal. R. T. Frazier Pueblo, Col. J. G. Read & Bro Ogden, Utah Jubinville & Nance .... Butte, Mont." A. A. Kraft Co Spokane, Wash. A. F. Hoska Harness Co Tacoma, Wash. Thos. M. Anderson . . . Seattle, Wash. C. Rodder Stockton, Cal. Wm. B. Detels . . . . Pleasanton, Cal. W. C. Topping San Diego, Cal. Jepsen Saddlery Co. Los Angeles, Cal. C. A. Schweitzer Fresno, Cal. H. Thorwaldson Fresno, Cal. Jno. McKerron. . .San Francisco, Cal. Jos. McTigue .... San Francisco, Cal. Brydon Bros. Harness Mfg. Co. Los Angeles, Cal. Jas. B. Campbell & Co., Manufacturers, 412 W. Madison St., Chicago, 111. TOOMEY TWO-WHEELERS GIVE BEST RESULTS For racing and training purposes. Low Seat Racer Sulkies Fastest and Best in the world. Pneumatic Pole Carts For team work, road and track. Pneumatic & High Wheel Jog Carts For road use. Send for latest catalogue to S. TOOMEY & CO., Canal Dover, Ohio, U. S. A. Long Shaft, Low ! Pneumatic Speed Cart, especially adapted for track use. O'Brien & Sons, - Coast Agents, Golden Gate Are. and Polk St., SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. VICTOR VERILHAC, Prop. JAMES M. McGRATH, Mgr. Dexter Prince Stables TRAINING, BOARDING AND SALE Cor. Grove and Baker Sts., just at the Panhandle Entrance to G. G. Park (Take Hayes, McAllister or Devisadero Street Cars.) Best located and healthiest stable in San Francisco. Always a good roadster on hand for sale. Careful and experienced men to care for and exercise park roadsters and prepare horses for track use. Ladies can go and return to stable and not have their horses frightened by autos or cars. Wanted- AGENTS AND CORRESPONDENTS WANTED IN EVERY TOWN ON THE PACIFIC COAST FOR THE "BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN" THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN 11 j DU PONT SMOKELESS 1 at Nashville, Tenn., May 15-17 THE SOUTHERN HANDICAP was won by C. G. Spenser who broke 9S EX 100 from 20 yds. mark FIRST AMATEUR AVERAGE was won by H. D. Freeman, of Atlanta, Ga., who broke 387 out of 400. THEY USED Du Pont Smokeless E. I. DU PONT CO., Wilmington, Delaware | Some Laflin & Rand Wins | Nashville, Tenn., May 15-17 (Interstate Association's Southern Handicap Tournament) FIRST GENERAL AVERAGE. Vicksburg, Miss., 7-S FIRST AND SECOND AMATEUR AVERAGES. Tulsa, I. T., May 7-9 FIRST GENERAL AVERAGE. New London, la.. May 8-10 FIRST, SECOND AND THIRD AMATEUR AVERAGES. Columbus, O., May 9-11 FIRST AND SECOND GENERAL AVERAGES. Infallible, New E. C. (Improved) and "NEW SCHULTZE" MAKE GOOD. Laflin & Rand Powder Co. 170 Broadway, New York City. • ^^*.J»*J»»J.»*»+J^MJM.Jt At * CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS. * Agents 4» Temporary Office, Berkeley, Cal. CALIFORNIA POWDER WORKS, Agents Temporary Office, Berkeley, Cal. ^M.$M^JH$HJ„$„J,«$H$H$H$H.JH$M3, ^4^^M*^*^^fr^^4^"M*^^">^^^ •$■ >t> ■!' * fr All stock grazing on the forest re- serves must be salted regularly and at such places as are designated by the forest rangers. Moreover the owners of stock must notify the forest officers when any such order has been fulfilled. Not less than five pounds must be pro- vided for all stock over six months of age. A co-operative wool company is be- ing organized in Chicago for the pur- pose of selling the wool of its stock- holders direct to consumers. The new company claims to have made several sales and is securing from 3 to 5 cents more for wool than the best prices offered by wool buyers now in the west. Importations of Shropshire sheep this year will be the heaviest ever known if the present . rate is maintained. The increasing demand for high class mut- ton has strengthened the demand for the good mutton grades of sheep. While the breeders of pure bucks and ewes are stocked well they are taxed to meet all demands upon them and they are bring- ing in more imported stock than usual. A feature in horse breeding which frequently hinders a man from achiev- ing success is the temptation to part with promising grade mares. These are just what a buyer wants and his un- willingness to take the inferior animal, together with the tempting offer for the choice one, often sets improvement back to the starting point. The story of Hobson 's choice is something like this: Hobson kept a livery stable and in order to escure uniform use of his horses he arranged them in the stable so that the one longest in was placed near the door and when a customer came in he must take that one. There should be a Hobson 's choice when the buyer wants the promising brood mare — if such sale will be detrimental to further improvement on the home farm. Considerable has been said in the papers lately about beef from tubercu- losis put on the market by the large packing houses. The Government in- spectors pass all beef as sound where the tubercles are encysted in parts of the body not used as food if they are not so large as to impair the health of the animal. In a case where the disease is generally distributed through the carcass the meat is condemned. An animal may have encysted or dead tu- bercles in the lungs, the liver and along the ailmentary canal and the general health and the meat of the animal not be impaired. Technically speaking, there are few perfectly sound people on earth. Statistics show by autopsies held on people that not far from 90 per cent of them have tuber- cles in some form in their bodies, and the same holds true to the extent of about 30 per cent of the cattle. Yet only about one in four persons die with tuberculosis who have it and probably not one in twenty cattle in which tu- bercles could be found would ever die with tuberculosis. The meat of a bo- vine even well advanced in tuber- culosis if cooked would not be likely to infect the person who should eat it, but we do not want to eat it. "We hear of considerable trouble and misunderstanding in finding the value of cream. Two practical methods are in vogue for testing cream for butter fat — the well known Babcock test and the oil test, which was formerly used by the gathered cream operators. The Babcock test is the one generally used at the present time and while simply and easily manipulated it is often im- properly used. Anyone selling cream, whether to the factory, cream buyer, iee cream maker or milk depot, turns off a product having much variation, which can only be found by careful test. Cream may be 15 or 45 per cent fat, and only in the per cent of fat can it be measured. The fat is the basis or true value the same as the weight in grains. To get a fair test of separator cream eighteen grams should be weighed out and not measured, for cream varies greatly in the weight. This may be tested by the Babcock method. For working the butter some form of table worker is best to use. The butter bowl and paddle never give as good results, because the butter will almost invariably be greasy owing to the sliding motion of the paddle over the butter, says a dairy authority. The table workers commonly used are of two kinds, one having a stationary bed and a roller, either corrugated or smooth, arranged so that it can be passed back and forth over the surface of the butter; the other having a mov- able bed, revolving on a center, usually under two corrugated rollers. Both of these forms will do good work if the operator understands their use. PHENOL S0DIQUE HEALS SORES, CUTS and BITS on Man and Beast Keep Handy for Accidents. Cures Mange and Scratches *^&^St£5S?2='"'"' For sale by all fe:#£S}f ^g druggists tesH£=3~re'-sS£33 In.. _ pfiopjtarrofi* - S^NCE BROTHERS & WHITE. Recommended L^^pmT^Xi^Sphia- ' by this ^^^i^^^sss^^ Publication. Hance Brothers & White Pharmaceutical Chemists, PHILADELPHIA f t RECORD BREAKING FISH Are Caug'Kt Every "Year at LaKe TaKoe JUST as large ones still uncaught. You can get them. Don't you long to feel again that sharp tug at the line, hear the shrill whir of the reel, and, after a blood-stirring fight, experience the joy of landing one of the finest, craftiest old trout you ever saw? YOU shall do that many times on this beautiful lake and on the mountain streams round about. Also good hunting and mountain climbing. Many hotels; fine camping places; no poison oak. Buy your ticket and get there in one night. Sleeper leaves San Francisco daily 7 p. m. and you arrive at Tahoe next morning in time for breakfast. SOUTHERN PACIFIC THe Only Absolutely Reliable THE ' ' OLD RELIABLE ' ' BEST CAN BE MADE HAS NONE ITS EQUAL Fred Coleman's score of 47 straight at live birds in England, as well as 24 out of 25 at 31 yards, shows how the Parker Gun shoots. See another column in this paper showing his marvelous records. PARKER BROS. New Salesroom: 32 Warren St. 32 Cherry St., Meriden, Conn. THESE ARE THE BRANDS OF Selby FACTORY LOADED Shells Pacific Challenge Superior Excelsior Send Orders to Smelting Works. VALLEJO JUNCTION - ■ ■ - CONTRA COSTA CO., ML Take It In Time If you have the remedy on hand, and are ready to act promptly, you will find that there is nothing in the form of Spavins, Splints, Curbs, Windpuffs and Bunches which will not yield promptly and perma- nently to Quinn's Ointment It has : ■' ■. v 1 1 i i. ir-:-. ■ ■ . of (;oouff or swelling. Horse can be worked. t2.00 par botue.dellverecLBooke-C Free. AIESORUINE, Jit, for mankind, Sl.Ou per bottle. Cun-s ltolls, Uralses, Old Sores, Swellings, Vturlcosc Veins, Varicocele, Hydrocele. Allays Fain W. F. YOUNG, P.D.F. 54 Monmouth St. Springfield, Mass. Agents and Correspondents wanted in every town on the Pacifi ' for "Breeder and Sportsn 12 THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN * J. A. McftERRON ^ ....Fine Harness and Horse Boots.... Temporarily at 218 EureKa Street SAN FRANCISCO, CAL t *♦** * * * ■!■ * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ***** »*»»8»fr4"M"fr»M»*^*»-H"^^ * * * * « * « * ■!• ■&******************* * | TKe Trap or Hunting Outfit * * * IS MADE PERFECT WITH THIS COMBINATION U. M. C. Ammunition — — — A Remington Gun E. E. Drake, Pacific Coast Mgr., Temporary Office -1700 Sutter St., cor. Laguna, San Francisco, Cat. Ten Carloads of Goods on trie Way. *~W*»***t W V W V V~*i vWW vV** V V V"V~V V V V^V***' V V V V~V~'V'~V V V"1 Winchester Repeating Arms Co. Manufacturers of Ammunition, Rifles and Shotg\ms Temporary Office-1422 Park Ave., Alameda, Cal. The Hunter One-Trigger PHIL. P. BEREART CO., Inc. Fitted to an L. C. Smith Gun makes a combin- ation that is impossible to surpass and very difficult to equal. The parts are large and strong, action is pos- itive and it does just what we say it will and does it every time. Ask For Art Catalogue: Temporary Office: 2330 ALAMEDA AVE., Cor. Park St., Alameda Cal. (Pacific Coast Branch.) A. J. Reach Co., Ithaca Gun Co., Gray & Davis. Smith & Wesson, E. C. Cook & Bro., Marlin Fire Arms Co., Markhani Air Rifle Co., Daisy Mfg. Co., Ideal Mfg. Co., Bridgeport Gun Implement Co., Iver Johnson's Arms & Cycle Works. HUNTER ARMS CO. - FULTON, N. Y. SPRATTS DOG REMEDIES DOC BISCUITS DOG SOAPS Coast Agency: 1324 Valencia Street, San Francisco, Cal. THOS. BANKS, Manager ITHACA GUNS THIS illustration shows our No. 7 S300 list gun. It is impossible to show by a cut the beautiful finish, workmanship and material of this ^^^^ grade of gun, it can only be appreciated after you have handled and examined the gun for yourself. It is fitted with the best Damascus or Whltworth Fluid Steel barrels, the finest figured Walnut stock that Nature can produce, is hand checkered and engraved in the most elaborate manner with dogs and birds inlain in gold. Send for Art Catalog describing our com- plete line, 17 grades, ranging in price from S17.75 net to S300 list. Ithaca Gun Company - - Ithaca, N. Y. Pacific Coast Branch, 2330 Alameda Ave., Alameda, Cal.