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NEW8 AND SUNDRIES. 
R. Elliott at Peoria, B. W. Newton at Springfield, S. W. Stinson 
at Quincy, and J. F. Reid at Decatur. Two horses were slaugh¬ 
tered during the month as having been exposed to glanders, and 
their owners were allowed an appraisement of $75 upon each. 
Plain Talk. —The Breeders' Gazette concludes its comments 
on some of the arguments advanced by the Chicago Live Stock 
Exchange, in opposition to the Bureau of Animal Industry, 
through its attorney, at the convention lately held in St. Louis, by 
saying : “ How in the name of all that is fair and just can a stu¬ 
pid blunder made years ago by one who, as the Live Stock Ex¬ 
change very well knows, has never had any connection with the 
Bureau of Animal Industry, serve to damn the careful work done 
by this Bureau within the two years it has been in existence ? It 
is high time that this indicting of the Bureau for all the errors 
committed by others, and holding it responsible for the sensational 
tales of the daily press should cease. It is passing beyond the 
bounds of all decency and common sense and is unworthy of the 
men who are dealing it up.” 
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Horse-breeding. —M. Alasoniere has written a very sensible 
little book upon horse-breeding, which has been honored with a 
medal by the French National Agricultural Society. He gives 
first a discriminating account of the points which mark a good 
horse, and then proceeds to characterize the two principal equine 
types, speed and strength being their respective characteristics, or, 
according to his more elaborate definition, “ type a etendue de 
contraction” and “ type a intensite de contraction.” His central 
idea as to the breeding is that the two types should not be min¬ 
gled, because in the offspring incongruity results, one part of the 
animal inheriting its qualities from the mother, another part 
from the father. The wisdom of this precept he enforces by a 
discussion of the rules to be followed for the amelioration by 
breeding of special parts of the animal, and maintains that inju¬ 
dicious mixing of the two types produces horses of an incongru¬ 
ous build. To put the matter more bluntly, to get good colts 
the mare and stallion should resemble one another, else the colt 
