MY VIEWS ON DEALING WITH THE PUBLIC AND SOME 



OTHER INTERESTING REMARKS IN RELATION 



TO BUSINESS. 



In presenting my annual catalogue for the season of 1884 to the public, 

 I deem it necessary to make an explanation and give m) reasons for pre- 

 senting it in a form different in some respects from that adopted by some 

 of the leading breeding farms. In compiling this catalogue I have endeav- 

 ored to make the pedigrees as brief as possible, and have not extended the 

 pedigrees farther than just enough to show the desirable strains of blood 

 contained in each .animal, and have been influenced more by a desire to 

 present the 'facts in as brief form as the pedigrees will admit, than by a wish 

 'to spread them and make them appear big on paper. I much prefer 

 one or two good crosses close up on the dam and sire's side of the animal 

 catalogued, even though the pedigree appears short, than to have three or 

 four pages devoted to the bringing to notice of all the great, great, great, 

 great grand sires, grandams, cousins, uncles and aunts, tracing back almost 

 to the identical progenitor of the race that found refuge in the Ark, To 

 new beginners who are not familiar with what strains of blood have pro- 

 duced trotters, and are fashionable and to be desired in a pedigree, these 

 long, drawn out pedigrees are often misleading, and in purchasing an 

 animal whose pedigree has been through the lengthening process they 

 flatter themselves upon having secured a prize because the pedigree is long, 

 and with a sense of great pride this ancestral panorama occupying sev- 

 eral pages of an ordinary sized catalogue, is displayed before the wondering 

 eyes of their uninformed neighbors and who are expected to patronize the 

 Horse should he have been bought for stud purposes. Any new beginner 

 who is not familiar with the speed producing crosses, and who purchases 

 one of these long pedigreed articles attached to three or four pages, of g, g, g, 

 g, grand relations will, I fear, be sadly disappointed when he natters him- 

 self that his long pedigreed stallion will command patronage from his 

 neighbors, because, after giving the genealogy of about forty worthless 

 generations, he traces back in his pedigree to this or that illustrious ancestor. 

 . There is not a State or community in the Union (where it would pay 

 to stand a horse), but what is reached by one or more of the reliable news- 

 papers devoted to the interest of stock raising, and the people each year are 

 becoming better informed as to which are popular and speed -producing 



