22 author's remarks. 



representing at that time not less than ten thousand dollars, 

 among which was the imported thoroughbred stallion, Hamp- 

 ton Court, and other notables of that period, which were all 

 more or less affected by the disease. I was my own doctor 

 and saved them all; and, what is more, they all recovered 

 sound, while so many throughout the land that survived at 

 all were more or less worthless ever after. 



In 1880 I served on committee of stallions at the State Fair 

 of Kentucky, going from Connecticut for the purpose, and at 

 the greatest stallion exhibition Kentucky had ever made up to 

 that time. 



In 1881 I served the New England Agricultural Society as 

 chairman of committee on mares and colts, and all geldings 

 and fillies, at their greatest fair ever held in "Worcester, Mass. 



Another great compliment of my life was to be told in 

 writing by the President of a Farmer's Institute, in Canada, on 

 the occasion of being invited by the Institute to read a paper 

 on horses before them at their winter meeting of 1886, in the 

 city of Hamilton, Ontario : " But few men in Canada are com- 

 petent to handle this subject at all, and perhaps no man in 

 Ontario as capable as yourself; and all the executive commit- 

 tee would esteem it a personal favor if you could kindly grant 

 our request." 



Again, on the occasion of my reading a well-received paper 

 before the Indiana Horse Breeder's Convention in the city of 

 Indianapolis, in 1893, the "horse papers" spoke of me as a 

 "venerable horseman, well versed in ancient horse history." 



If not as well versed in modern as ancient horse history, it 

 is not for lack of study, observation, and a desire to keep up 

 with the times. I know that proffered knowledge is often of- 

 fensive, and in horses and horse breeding particularly so; and 

 the man who dares advocate what he knows to be true, but 

 unknown to others, must have strong moral courage with 

 actual knowledge. 



