S. S. ROWLAND AS A BREEDER 



place man himself within this same environment, and 

 see how much more living he is. A hundred things 

 which the bird never saw in insect, stream, or tree 

 appeal to him. Each single sense has something to 

 correspond with. Each faculty finds an appropriate 

 exercise. Man is a mass of correspondences, and be- 

 cause of these, because he is alive to countless objects 

 and influences to which lower organisms are dead, 

 he is the most living of all creatures." 



At the base of the stone and the plant are the same 

 atoms, but the plant has more of what we call life 

 than the stone. The natural ascent is from crystal 

 to plant, from plant to animal, and the summit is 

 the spiritual life of man. 



The Russian trotting stallion at Belwood was a 

 black horse of sixteen hands called Orloff, bred by 

 Nicholas Alexandrovitch Konoplin of Siliverstovka, 

 Russia, and imported by Count Greger, Consul-Gen- 

 eral of Russia. In his leaflet Mr. Howland said: 



" Though not considered as fast as the American 

 trotter, the Orloffs are far superior to anything pro- 

 duced in Europe, and for long-distance races, many 

 contend, to our own." 



Since 1890 a great many good trotting stallions 

 and mares have been shipped across the Atlantic to 

 Europe, and from them trotters are being bred with 

 which the Russian horses cannot successfully com- 

 pete. In July, 1876, I published an offer of $10,000 

 in gold for an international stallion trot at Philadel- 

 phia in October, 1876, and I entered into corre- 



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