Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1876-05-27
TEXAS PRAIRIE.

We are all late with our spring crops. Much
corn 10 yet to be planted, and vegetables are
coming on in proluse growth aud variety. owing
in part to the timely enolts Of saving and other
wise procuring seeds. and the great scarcity of
vegetables of last year.
SHORT HORNS.
1 suppose Texas Prairie may boast Of the
| finest herds aud most fashionable psdigrees OF
these animals that belong to Central Missouri.
Mr.. Theodore Bates Uhe short horn king OF La
fAystte) has recently made some valuable sddi-
tions to his already princely lot of these nns
animals. one or two Of which I cannot forbear
| referring to. Mazurka Duke End. . beautiful
red, about II months old, bred by Wsrnock and
AcGibbons. Cynthians, KY, and purchased OF
c.. NJ. Nichols, Bloomington, Ills. This ID .
we'll grown and beautiful animal, exhibiting
many dae points. Next, Jay, . most beautiful
Bed-roan. about 8 months old. bred by Mes,rs.
assken & Son, OF Hsyle, Cornwall England,
purchased Of j. H. Plckrcll, Hsrrisontown.
Ills. This. in our judgment. Is the finest animal
OF his age that has ever grscsd Central or North
west Missouri. Indeed we have never at any
time seen anything Of his kind SO beautiful,
taking points and proportions and size into con-
sideratlon.
Although our nsighbor 10 bestoWing much care
and spending thousands Of dollars on the i'm
prevement Of ''short horns, - he is not unmind-
ful Of his herd Of rheep. His stock consists Of
the long and middle wooded, and to this dock he
has added an imported long-woolsd and South
down. We are partial to the former and pro-
cured for your inspection. y lock OF the wool,
but 1t has been inadvertently misplaced. In
midsummer and fall he will have about 100 or
more Of these fine animals for sale, and farmers
will have an opportunity Of procuring the best
breeds at home, for less than half the price that
they would cost elsewhere, and also save trans.
pertstion. This 10 . rare chance, Of which all
farmers should avail themselves.
AEA N Rye.
II . luxuriant growth of the plants can be too
great and fns at this season Of the year to
promise q heavy yield, then these crops are not
promising. But if they should fail. sad and
serious would be the disappointment Of this
God-forsaken. one year droughted. next year
chinch-bugged, and next year grass-hoppered
people. Yes, tax oppressed and mortgsged,
should one or two more years of similar disss-
ters befsll US, where will we land ? About one
would fall.
THE CENTENNIAL.
This il the year Of wonders, and many strange
things are spoken OF. but the greatest wonder OF
all is, that the year come at all. And here 10
one Of the evidences Of the scriptural dsclsrs-
ton that ''Godis no respecter OF persons" He
s'blesses the evil as we'll IS the good" Then
let us, the citizens Of old Lafayette, look for
blessings similar to those of other counties and
We may yet recover from our indebtedness and
not be cursed with so many men hunting new
hobbies to ride into office on. But We have
nothing to say against our prospective OF real
candidates, but only wish we could elect them
all to the Offices to which they aspire and that
Ill had TO live on the salaries of said offices till
they would conclude to hunt ether vocations;
and thus We might soon see the honor they at
tsched TO the ordces.
During our plowing season these animals have
been seen in great abundance. They differ great
~ from the common frog Of this country. In
number they differed apparently in proportion
to the amount of ground broken. For instance,
throughout the entire day there is an average OF
at least eight hopping before q two-horse pillow.
and Is many ~ y dozen ut q time IN front Of q
three-horse pillow. They are much larger than
the ordinary frog, and it is said that they may
atill be found in portions of Ireland. even since
the days OF st. Patrick. They vary sonewhs
In size but their track would average a. large "a
that OF q horse or mule. When frightened and
made to 60 their best, they hop faster than any
man can run. What the result of all this will
be we cannot tell, or where these frogs coms
from. bus according to history We know tina,
Noah took eight OF them into his ark and ii any
person has curiosity to see one OF these snimsls
he can at any time do so by looking In the bot.
tom II \ mule or harse's foot.
CLOD.HOPPER