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clusively in the fate of the poor old Monthly. It started out 

 under its new owners to controvert breeding history and breeding 

 law in which the public had been thoroughly and conscientiously 

 indoctrinated. The sham pretense of using the title Wallace's 

 Monthly instead of Brodhead's Monthly was "too thin" to deceive 

 any one except the most ignorant. The labored productions of 

 the weaklings hired to overthrow the truth only tended to deepen 

 the disgust. The price was lowered as an inducement to sup- 

 port, but nobody wanted the miserable thing about his house, 

 arid thus it died without a tear except from the eyes of the rich 

 fools who put their money into it supposing it would live and 

 prosper in the hands of ignorant and incompetent men. 



It is natural for the rich men who put their money so gleefully 

 into this publishing enterprise, at the instigation of Mr. Brodhead, 

 to try to get some of it back before the final smash, which is evi- 

 dently not far removed, and hence the ignorant and blundering 

 emasculation of the Year Book, in order to reduce its cost. 

 "The Great Table," as it was called for years, embraces all 

 others, and all others are merely subsidiary to that. This table 

 should be restored in its entirety, for it is worth the whole of 

 them and double as many more. With every other table thrown 

 out and this one restored, complete, the breeders would be con- 

 tent. The Year Book the great instructor of the past I have 

 just learned is no longer published for the breeders or for the 

 press, but for the tracks. The operation is explained as fol- 

 lows: Every year the secretaries of the National and the Ameri- 

 can Trotting Associations send out by express a lot of blank 

 books, blanks, etc., to each track in good standing and in this 

 outfit for the year is a copy of the Year Book, which is charged 

 at the long price. The tables of fastest records, I am told, are 

 quite carefully made in the offices of these associations them- 

 selves, and the book is thus made a convenience for the tracks. 

 Thus, by this system of forced loans on the tracks, the Year 

 Book is kept alive. This method of financing the company will 

 not last long. 



A different method has been adopted in order to secure funds 

 from registration. Money for registration must come from the 

 breeders themselves directly, and there is no way of forcing them 

 to put up through the manipulation of intermediary officials. 

 Hence the plan has been tried of scaring them into it, but with 

 what success I am not informed. At the annual meeting in 



