DRIVING COMPETITION. 



A Driving Competition for four and six-in-hand teams in the " Truck- 

 men " Chiss will be held in or near Commonwealth Avenue, while the 

 judging is taking place. Entries for this competition need not be made 

 beforehand. The first prize will be a silver medal. 



U. S. LETTER CARRIERS. 



There is a class for the Letter Carriers and Letter Distributors who 

 use horses in the Boston District, of whom there are about thirty-five. 



These men receive as a horse allowance only $300 a year, and as this 

 sum was fixed when the price of horses, hay and grain was much less 

 than it is now, the sum is wholly insufficient. 



The men hope to receive an increase for this allowance of $100 a 

 year, and the Association will endeavor to assist them in the matter. 



NOTICE TO SPECTATORS. 



In many cases imperfections, not always visible to spectators at the 

 reviewing stand, very properly prohibit the giving of a prize or a ribbon 

 of high grade to a particular horse. The horses pass the reviewing stand 

 at a walk, and at that gait a slight lameness would not be disclosed, 

 whereas the Judges would have detected it when the horses were shown 

 to them at a trot. Moreover, defects in harnessing, sores or galls under 

 the harness, and other imperfections, not always apparent, frequently ex- 

 clude a fine horse, or team of horses, from high honors. It should be 

 remembered, too, that in this Exhibition age counts in favor of a horse, 

 and green horses are discriminated against. 



THE JUDGES. 



If the principles upon which the prizes are awarded be kept in mind, 

 the Association believes that there will be very little dissatisfaction with 

 the decisions of the Judges. Increasing care has been taken each year in 

 the selection of them, and the Association is confident that its Judges now 

 form a band of men as competent and impartial as could be secured. 

 Their arduous and difficult services are rendered without compensation, 

 although many of them come from di-tant points, and the Association 

 hereby expresses its gratitude for their generous assistance. 



