The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1880-05-06
YE EDITOR AT LARGE.
A Trip to Lynnville What We
Saw and How We Saw L.

ternoon last, and paid a visit to
that pleasant little town. Ten long
years had elapsed since our last
visit, aDd as we stepped from
the cars we looked in vain for fa-
miliar face. Time had been busy
with the lineaments of old friends,
efiacing former marks of recOg-
milton, and peopling scene once
so familiar with new and strange
faces. However, we did not pause q
great while to indulge in rehec-
tons awakened by the palpable mu-
tations OF a decade, but made q
break for the depot to seek the ac-
quaintance and chaperOnage of the
polite and efficient railroad agent,
Mr.. John Shields, TO whose care
we committed ourselves. He soon
made US acquainted with several Of
the leading citizens and in less than
sixty minutes we were at home.
After spending a couple of hours
very pleasantly with new new-made,
as well as with old friends, we
mounted horse kindly furnished
by Mr.. j. o. Mitchell, and rode
over to the stock farm of Mr.. w. g.
Carter where we received a kind
and hearty welcome from that gen
man and his excellent lady. This
farm, although billy, is one of the
best for grazing purposes in the
county, aAd the situation is not
only suggestive of utility, but real
ly quite picturesque. On the easy
slopes of the hills, now richly car
peted with the verdure of spring,
wander at will the stately Durham,
the soft-eyed Jersey, and the placid
CotswOld with its soft and snowy
fleece.
Plotted by Mr.. Carter, we first
visited the stables and had an oppor-
tunity Of admiring his beautiful
stallion, George Mambrino, nam
ed after Maj. Geo. L. Altman
and his famous horse Mambrlno.
This splend d animal, with his CLOS
sy black coat and magnificent name
and tail, is a model structure of
horsefesh, symmetrical in every
outline. His shoulders, back and
loins indicate great strength, and it
is easy to see at a glance that he is
high bred and mettlesome. His
colts are all fine and well-made, and
we saw one, only two days old that
stood 3 feet, u inches high. MIR.
Carter has several fine brood mares,
notably Alice, the famous dam of
John Brown and all the stations on
the Hillside farm, and Matte Rous-
seau, the dam of the colt mentioned
above. Alice, although seventeen
years old, is as sprightly and game
as she was in her youth. Mr.. Car
ter is paying great attention to the
raising of Jersey cattle, the favorite
breed with him, and, indeed, the
one that is rapidly becoming so
with all discriminating farmers.
Renabel, his thoroughbred Jersey
COW, is a beauty, and he never
grows weary of relating her fine
qualities. She is nearly of solid
gray color, with a white face and
switch and has a beautifully shaped
head. She was bred by Col. War
ing, of Ogden Farm, Rhode Island,
and was calved June 10, 1873.
Her milk. OF which she gives about
three gallons day, is very rich,
and equal in butter making quail
ties, to three times that quantity
given by other COWS. Mr.. Carter
also has fac thoroughbred Jersey
bull, bearing the familiar name OF
Ben Roy, which he is DESTROYS of
selling to avoid in-breedIng. He
has also a beautiful herd of halt
and three quarter Jerseys, and we
also saw an attractive group OF high
bred Durham COWS on one of his
rich pastures.
After inspecting the horses and
cattle, Mr.. Carter called our atten-
ton to a splendid flock of 80 pure
Cotswold sheep, headed by the I'd
Duke of Burford, one of the largest
and finest rams of the breed in
Tennessee. This animals fleece is
remarkably thick, but the texture
is as soft and fossy as silk. He
averages fifteen pounds of wool at
the first clip, and is noted for nun
erous other good qualities. The
entire herd, we are sure, would eX-
cite the admiration of a connois-
seur.
After examining a litter of re
markably fine Berkshire pigs. which
Mrs. Carter claims as her especial
pets, we repaired to the house with
an appetite as keen as the edge of a
Turkish scimetar. Our kInd-heart-
ed and considerable hostess had
duly anticipated this, and when
supper was announced the board
was covered with viands calculated
to shake the ascetism of an anchor
lite. Bright yellow Jersey butter,
pure cream, spring chickens, fresh
eggs and delicious biscuit were
some of the concomitants to this
highly appetizing repast. 1t is,
pei haps, unnecessary to say that
when the meal was concluded the
table in our immediate vicinity re-
sembled a burnt prairie.
vi 0hC lOAiO"ihS ulOI ulu X, dlISA
bidding our kind host and hostess
good-by, we returned to Lynnville
and attended picnic given by the
sabbath schools of Lynnville and
vicinity at the inviting grove half
mile north of the town. This al
fair, which proved to be an exceed
ingly pleasant one, was under the
experienced management of the SUI
perintendent of the Lynnville
school, Mr.. j. 2. Boyd, to whom we
are indebted for much polite atten
ton. We found upon the grounds
charming array of bright young
faces all aglow with pleasure, and
quite an assemblage of ladies and
gentlemen who were watching with
much satisfaction the joyous gam
bols of the little ones. There were
no addresses, or other exercises, to
claim the attention or interrupt the
sport of the little folk, and Mr..
Boyd stated that these were omit
ted purposcly as he wanted the chill
dren TO make the most of their hol
iday without being restrained by