Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1884-08-26
:. Grass COUNTRY.
| ,.,,.d at $50 an Acre
- Yield Handsome +.


,.,ved at $50 an Acre
70 Yield Handsome
Profits.
,,ncc Globe.pemocrat.
sss'' Ky, August Forms
snS,, nmetry these bluegrass
70 geoas,,n,ed. The pixies,
ssvs .sssd With solidly press
ID shieh furnish a network
j,anI,s,siIcn all through this re-
unles'hiya have been laid out with
~ 70 Wing distances between
Earring hills. Truly the
20 @ rave no recognition to
Tsyo's ,asmpass. There Is q de-
ins ,ress about the routes but
,rye and 60 off at tangents,
IN "a angles are most unusual. Al.
~ aanndarles are equally as
~ there ever were section
\, y bluegrass country they
'u eebliterated. The Southern
lso came up here to make
sn ,slod out the land into great
,Ioney was no object. Their
sp ,"bscco aud slaves insured
- they reached out and
" mill they had got the
.',so "o of woodland and
,,,lable fields aud then set
~ improve their surround
..,rv roads where they would
|. uni most accommodation and
,fe, When these earlier
ms 10 be divided up among
nnblem was to apportion out
,Ir,nt qualities of land fairly,
y ' were more arbitrary lines
.s,tInp up the grain field and
sto each share some woodland
As the young were mar
siyen Ia marriage the boun-
lame still more confusing.
.rions were the joining of SO
~. on the one side to u given
N The other, and not the least
ia ure Of matchmaking WAS
oOuIous blending of the blue
rms.
my HOLD THEIR OWN.
Niue grass country in danger
4 lis prestige for furnishing
NJ at doesn't seem so"
Smith Mccain, one OF the
breeders of this vicinity.
letter prices than we ever did
demand Is greater. There
some changes in the way OF
rs. and I've had my fears as
n effect would he ultimately,
I'VE hold up our market. 1t
Nine case that our breeders
HI almost insulted if a stranger
NE from the North and at
q to buy their best breeding
| They would sell the get, but
IL CAME to parting with the sires
Ice brood mares. no amount OF
! would tempt them. Ii is diff
now, and some f our noted
|have been sold and taken out OF
be grass country. We had the
|undation to start on, however,
will be many years before our
|tion begins 10 suffer. The
|ls who came up here from the
and established these stock
had almost unlimited capital,
hey breu not SO much Tor money
bgss from a love of the horse
+ reaping the benefit of their
sud lavish expenditures. You
hot think II, blt many of the
iallOns of the North are sent in
icr their seasons, while the
Elime brings us the choice mares
Maine to California I've had
% the same dav brood mares
|lsxas and New York;
sOrlTS lN HORSE FLESH.
xNann is the owner of Red
y, the successor of George
siae in the bluegrass country.
" sale of Ashland. Henry
NJ state, by the college reg
hMcCaun occupied hat prop
anow has his stock on the
a place, east of Lexington.
Iroyer the fields and telling
alls experiences in stock rails
u McCann made it plain that
PAGES which readily sell at from
'sls9 an acre yield handsome
on even such an investment.
q Wilkes, in whose viens flow
,,nstion Of the Hambletonian
Chief and Morgan
, founded on the thoroughbred
!, lam dSS, 900. He has since
! ssg,~v. A brood mare he calls
Belle cost MIN $3.50 Her first
y y, hen Wilkes, was the now ia
III thompson, with a record OF
lu u promise of reaching 2:l2 be.
: season Is ended. Phil Thomp'
',.year'old time, 2:2l. was the
lof the age and was made in q
ainst such 4.year-olds as Direc.
Iianile IT,, Mamie and Trinket
lcCann sold Phil Thompson
2'year-old for So, 900. The mex
y OF Red Wilkes and Anna
u.s. purchased by Bonner fol
,ne third died while an offer Of
'.,' a., under consideration. Fol
" %, ooO was refused when sht
:, iiohihs old, and she is nov
ior me track. For the foa
: 'ne white mares side 81 50l
! : refused. And this is but ,
n n,li i Red Wilkes service,
yer $1,000 season.
! ,;a !, WITH HIGH PRICES
-, ~ ~ as easy" said Mr.. Nc
: " ~, rare a colt that sells as ,
I q ,or sOjD or $500 on land tina
+. an acre, rs IL is to raise a $il
: 's9a mat costs $50 an acre, anC
. ,sm you figure out the compar
iun' yon' II find the advantag,
III On The side of the higt
.au and stock. These mare,
run n.arly all winter on thu
~ !, The hay is hauled from
= a. ana scattered over the pas.
me- ~. may give a little grain in
! ~ = oat about all the extra feed
,s = durlng the last six weeks o.
M ,hs season. They run loose a,
, aIs now, almost the veal
,,y n,. mat Red Wilkes gets !,