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that a change of system will be necessary. Refrigerator s^hip- 
ments by the inter-island steamers and by rail will come into 
vogue, and it will then be important that the killing and dress- 
ing be done right. Perhaps, under the live poultry market- 
ing system, some of the dealers require instruction in the 
matter. 
Agriculturists everywhere will be interested in the follow- 
ing dispatch from Sheffield, England, under date of Septem- 
ber 5: “At today’s meeting of the British Association, Dr. 
Russell and Dr. Hutchinson, who have long been experiment- 
ing in soil fertility, announced the discovery of . the micro- 
organism which destroys the bacteria essential to the fer- 
tility of the soil. A subsequent speaker declared that it was 
the most important agricultural discovery made in fifty years.” 
Mr. Clarence G. White, of Haiku, Maui, in a note to the 
editor, says: “I have seen hairy (woolless) sheep on the Isle 
of Pines, and a neighbor in Florida had a flock of twenty or 
so. The stock was brought in by a sea captain — from Bar- 
bados, if I remember rightly. The points claimed for themi 
were that they stood the heat better, and grew flesh instead 
of wool, and were prolific. Sometimes the young lambs 
showed wool, but it disappeared later. My neighbor later 
decided that wool was worth having, and ceased to breed this 
sort.” 
Horse breeders and buyers should possess themselves of a 
recent circular of the Bureau of Animal Industry, . Depart- 
ment of Agriculture, Washington, entitled “The Regenera- 
tion of the Morgan Horse.” All who can recall the times of 
forty to fifty years ago know how the Morgan breed of horses 
was then esteemed. Its degeneration began, as the circular 
shows, when Morgan breeders were carried away by the 
speed craze. Linsley, in a book on iMorgan horses published 
in 1857, gave warning of the mistake. Among other things 
he said : “The general business qualities of the Alorgan are 
what give him his great value. His admirable traveling gait 
and his stoutness, courage aiid endurance are what is wanted 
for the road. It is not wise, therefore, to attempt to make 
him the fastest horse in the world, for in doing this we shall 
be very likely to lose sight of qualities far more important 
than the ability to trot a mile in 2 minutes 30 seconds.” What 
was feared is what happened, but now the Department of 
Agriculture proposes to bring back the good old Morgan 
type, described in the American Farmers’ Encyclopedia, pub- 
lished in 1844 in Philadelphia, as “perhaps the ver}- finest 
breed of horses in the United States, when general useful- 
ness is taken into consideration.” 
