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the matter in hand are realized it would seem as if a difficulty 
of long standing will be satisfactorily disposed of in the near 
future. Feeders are awaiting the outcome of these experiments 
with keen interest.— {Breeders' Gazetted) 
Baby Trotters.— F. H. Stage, of Unionville, N. Y., drove 
two suckling trotters, three and four months old, to a road 
wagon, the last two furlongs of the half-mile track at Middle- 
town, Orange County, N. Y., on Sept. 15, in 39 seconds. The 
day preceding they made their start in an effort to beat one 
minute for a quarter of a mile, the time made being 42 
seconds. ^ It is said that Stage drove these babies home the next 
day, a distance of twenty miles, with all his paraphernalia in 
the wagon, along with his own 150 pounds avoidupois. Tlieir 
extreme speed is thus backed by surprising endurance. But 
just here the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals 
should step in. 
Kimer & Amend. —On the evening of Sept. 5, 1898, the 
well-known drug and chemical establishment of Eimer & 
Amend, corner i8th Street and Third Avenue, New York City, 
suffered a severe loss by fire. At the time of this disaster they 
thought it would be some time before they would be able to re¬ 
sume business, but we are pleased to inform their patrons and 
the public in general, that they are now in a position to fill all 
orders^ with nearly the same promptness as formerly. Their 
prescription department was fortunatelv only damaged by water 
and they have continued, without interruption, excepting for one 
day since the fire, to compound all prescriptions, including those 
also from their veterinary department, as carefullv as had been 
their custom before the disaster. 
American Live-stock Exhibit at the Paris Exposi¬ 
tion. It is not yet certain that this Government will attempt 
any general live-stock exhibit at the Paris Exposition. Dr. 
Salmon, chief of the Bureau of Animal Industry of the Agricul- 
tural^ Department, who has just returned from the Omaha Ex¬ 
position, says that he has not fully formulated his plans for the 
exhibit his bureau will make at Paris, but he is inclined to be¬ 
lieve that the restrictions placed by France upon the importa¬ 
tion of American cattle will cause the department to limit its 
live-stock display to horses. He takes the position that if 
France persists in excluding American cattle under the pretense 
that it is necessary to prevent the introduction of infectious 
diseases it would be as well not to ask the privilege of entrv of 
