The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1886-10-31
Facts From the Field.

| Two bulls met IN an Arkansas town
and fought so fiercely that no one could
| separate them. The duel lasted one
hour and forty minutes ana then one
/ iell over dead.
]. II. Dickerman says in the New
! England Homestead that the worst In
| jury that can be done a horse is en-
forced Idleness, and 1t is not reasonable
to suppose any better colts are insured
by high grooming and constant care
tnan by the horse equally well bred per-
! forming 6 far amount of work. He
! finds stations more tractable and in
telligent, and they can just as well earn
their keep by employment as a geldlng
horse.
The latest dairy item comes from H.
inois, and is to the effect that q farmer
near GeneseO. ILL.,, LEFT a number of milk
cans by the side of the road for q short
time. A muskFat paved of the cover
OF one OF the cans and craWled in. Al
ter 1t had drank all the milk it could
hold, il could not get out. In Jumping
round in the can II ehurued the milk
into butter. A ball OF butter formed
around the muskrst aud smOLhered it,
Lire stock Indicator.
Colonel JEFF Boynton, of Arlington,
Ca, has discovered a novel way of
| f1avoring watermelons. He says you
can flavor them with any extract you
desire. His method is: Before the
| melon ripens cut slit about an inch
long in the stem, and about tEo-thlrds
through 1t. and pour in drop or SO OF
the extract every morning u It'll you
think you have the melon favored
highly enough. Every morning after
poarng in the extract close the stem
and tie string around it to hold it to-
kether.
A man came in yesterday for 1000
yearlings, Tor which be Is willing to paw
IS head. He must have been reading
some Of the northern stock papers, who
tried to make the world believe that the
country down here as full Of stock and
| nothing 10 eat. Of this idea he will BE-
disabused before he spends a second
night among US, True, there is plenty
of stock here for sale, hut while they
wade around knee deep in grass ttey
will not be sold for So a mead. The wear
lings in Southwest Texas are not built
that way this seaSon.-TeXas Lire Stock
Journal.
a farmer who resides in the tract of
country adjoining the Columbia River,
nsar Pasco, IN Washington Territory,
has demonstrated successfully that the
80 called sandy desert" is composed of
excellent soil, which produces not only
the fruits indigenous to the northern
States, but those of the southern States
as well. He has corn, potatoes, melons,
sweet potatoes, peanuts, grapes, cotton,
etc., all growing on his farm, and these
various products Of the soil thrive with
out irrigation. There is no doubt T.. at
much Of the land inEastern W ashington,
which looks arid and worthless, contains
just as good soil as can be found any
where, and needs only to be "tickled
Win the pillow to laugh in bountiful
harvest ~ H
Breeding trotters is, in no sense. alot-
terry, and the largest price is paid for
tickets OF service by. the sire which hap
pens TO produce the greatest prize. An
extreme performer enhances the value
OF the sire's services for the time being.
When st. Julien was in the heyday OF
his power as q trOtter, Voluntte r com
manded the cream of the business in the
east. and the best mares of the south
ana west were sent TO Harold, by reason
OF Maud SIS achievements. a momen-
LSry ray OF patronage shone upon
hysoyk, when Cling tone ruled in bis
Class Tor season or two. Next q
strong tide Of public favor set toward
Dictator, on the strength of his mighty
sons, Jay-Eye-See and PhaIIas. Nut
WOOD and Pancoast claim enduring re-
cognlhon through the extreme speed of
thelI offspring at sn early age, or with
limited training. There viii be quite g
Gemand for the services of King Wilkes,
he'd Wilkes, Robert McGregor and Mas
eerlode next season in consequence o.
the performances of Oliver X, Prince
Wilkes. Bonnie MeGregor and Belle F.
The Horseuaan.