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Nala, by George Telluride. Bred by John P. Arnold, ■WilliainslMiiK, Ar<\ Sold to 

 Joseph H. Harriman of New York. Winner of grand championship as a heavy harness 

 horse at the National Horse Show, New York. Recently sold with two other horses 

 for $50,000, it being understood that Nala was valued at $40,000 in the transaction. 

 Owned by Mr. Edward McLean, Jr., Washington, D. C. 



Perhaps you think that "Dont's" have been coming rather 

 thick so far — and they have — and it is chiefly "don't" that anyone 

 familiar with horse-breeding up-to-date must record. Would you 

 speak otherwise of any enterprise conducted upon the heedless-of- 

 tomorrow, indifferent-of-today, helter-skelter fashion that horse 

 breeding has always been? It is up to you, young men, to change 

 all this; to put the American horse upon the pinnacle he should 

 occupy and can hold against the world. We have that world to 

 supply, we have the land, the money, the raw material — have we 

 not the enterprise and the ability? 



When you come to think of it, it is a curious fact that so many 

 people have free advice to hand to the farmer upon every and any 

 subject — and of none is this so true as in regard to the sort of 

 horses he shall breed, and whether he shall raise any at all, or not. 

 As a farmer, for myself and for others for 14 years ; as a dealer and 

 handler of horses of all kinds — thoroughbreds, trotters, drafters, 

 harness horses, etc., by the thousands for thirty-five years; as an 

 auctioneer and manager of the American Horse Exchange, New 

 York, for 19 years, I have seen both ends, the middle, and every 

 angle of the horse business; I have also, at intervals, bred ex- 

 tensively and have made a good living at the various undertak- 



