St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-06
miscellaneous.

Charles E. Sutton, of Whiteston, n.
Y. who has recently been on trip to
California, sends US the following ac-
count of remarkable freak of nature
that came under his observation at the
great hOrse-breeding establishment of
J. B. Haggin: while visiting J. B.
Haggin's mammoth ranch at Bakers
field, Cal, Capt. Taylor, the courteous
superintendent of the horse department.
after showing me over the horse ranch,
said he had quite show in one of the
pastures about two miles from the
house, and that he would take pleasure
in showing it to me if | could stand the
heat. Although the thermometer regis
tered los deg. was we'll repaid for the
Tide. lie showed me a very fine, large
mare with twins at foot-one of them
horse and the other a mule colt. Both
were as lively as cricketS. This is some
thing | never heard of before, and is
probably the only instance on record.
Some of these days will take pleasure
in writing detailed description of this
4O0,000-acre ranch, which is conceded
by all who visit it to be the most COM
plete on this continent, if not in the
world.
Maud S, 2:O6sl, Robert Bonner's trot-
ting queen, is being put in shape by
Johnny Murphy to lower the record this
season. On Monday. the 23d. she was
driven mile over Fleetwood track,
New York, in 2:121@, which was the
fastest time ever made over the track,
the best previous time being 2:139L.
made by Maud herself when the prop
erty of Mr.. Vanderbilt. Last Tuesday,
the 31St, she was sent mile in 2:1415.
and a second mile in 2:1234, or one
quarter of a second slower than her
move on the Esd. If she had not been
pulled little she could have done the
mile in 2:l216. The time by quarters in
the second mile was: Quarter mile,
O:3215: half, :O4 j; three-quarters, :3SI:
mile, 2:12%. AS Fleetwood is a very
slow track, many well-posted horsemen
consider her recent performances, which
have been we'll done without urging,
fully equal to 2:0S19, over fast track.
Everyone has noticed while driving
how rarely horse steps on stone,
even while going very rapidly. A writer
quotes all old cavalryman as saying that
horse never steps on man intention
ally. 1t is standing order with caval-
ry that should man become dis
mounted he must lie down and be per-
fectIy still. If he does so the entire
company will pass over him and he
will not be injured. A horse notices
NucIc uo 10 SOiliS duu Is Oll Tie LOOKOUT
for firm foundation to put his foot on.
1t is an instinct with him, therefore, to
step over PROSTATE man. The I'M urieS
caused by e runaway horse are nearly
always inflicted by the animal knocking
down men, not by stepping on them.
One of the largest horse farms IN the
world is located thirteen miles northeast
of Cheyenne, where the stockholders of
the Post Percheron Horse ranch have
invested some 81 ,225, 600 in 10000 acres
of land and the Improvements of stock
thereon. 1t takes over 220 miles of
barbed wire fence to incloSe this land,
and the services of sixty-five men are
required to take care of the 5000 head
of horses now on the ranch. Another
equally large, if not larger, breeding
establishment is located in Colorado. 1t
is that of the Percheron Norman COM
pany, of which E. Louis Kuhns, of Den
yer, is manager.
Here is the Arab test of good horse,
which every farmer can apply. 1t is
simply to observe your horse when he
is drinking out of a brook. If, in bring
ing down his head, he remains square
without bending his limbs, he possesses
sterling qualities, and all parts of his
body are built symmetricallv.
Baron Wilkes 4,75S, by George Wilkes
$40, dam Bell Patchen, by Mambrino
Patchen IS. owned by Col. L. G. Stoner
of Paris, Ky, is being prepared by
Bowerman Bros. at Lexington, to COM
pete in the 2:25 stallion stake at the fall
meeting of the Kentucky Trotting-
Horse Breeders association.
One of the latest phenomena in Ken
lucky is filly that will not be two
years old until fall, sired by Red
Wilkes, out of the dam of EIlerslie
Wilkes. Although scorcely broken to
harness, she recently paced half in
1:19, and can show a 2:30 gait. She is
owned by A. A. KitZmiller, Lexington,
KY.
Abaua. the Arab colt which E. W.
Cottrell brought from Arabia for Sena-
tor Palmer's farm in Michigan, died re-
Gently of distemper. He was the only
colt the Arabs would part with to MIR.
Cottrell, although ne hunted for another
one far and wide. His body will be
mounted by taXidermist.
E. f. Hall, of Belmont. has sold to
James Hall, of Laconia, N. H., for $500,
very promising yearling colt by Glen
coe Wilkes, dam by Moore's Farmers
Beauty, 1854, grandson of Vermont
Black Hawk. 1t is claimed this is the
fastest colt of his age ever foaled in
New Hampshire.
Young colts are as fond of petting as
kittens are. and little fOpdliDg every