Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1891-09-17
Track and Harrow.

Nancy HANKS can go quarter III 0U
seconds.
A woman bookmaker has reached
England.
Homestake, the California trotter, is
rounding, too.
Elna is the eighth of the produce of
Green Mountain Maid to enter the $50
list
Roy Wilkes, 20814, Direct, 2.O91a,
and Hal Pointer, 09$4, would make a
horse race.
Gatling, by Rysdyk, sire of the ver-
mont trotter, Freestone, passed through
one of P. G. Kellogg's sales about eight
years ago.
An enterprising fellow in Iowa is
driving pole team of colts that were
foaled during the month of May this
season, 1891.
The cleverest trainer and most skill
full driver is a very small man when he
has not the material to send to the front.
A cheap horse makes the best look very
| insignificant
Of coloring matter there is said to be
enough magenta to color 500 yards of
! flannel, vefmillion to color 1850 yards.
aurin to color 100 yards, and alizarn to
- l55 yards of Turkey red in pound
This is the way we do it, according to
the Prairie Farmer: eff we feel sick, we
HE to the doctor, who makes his living
| by people being sick. If in trouble with
a neighbor, whose hens, perchance, have
wiped their feet on our grass, we rush to
a lawyer, who gets rich and buys his
way to congress by keeping people in
legal squabbles.'
| The American Dairyman says: "Now
it may be literally true that sheep will
eat all the vile weeds, but it does not
follow that it will be profitable to keep
them on this kind of fodder. We have
kept sheep for good many years, and
we have found them good deal more
more ready to eat grass than they are to
feed upon weeds"
There is common sense in this remark
of the veteran trainer John Trout: 81 do
not think that few pounds makes so
much difference as people generally i'm
agine, provided it is not dead weight.
imagine that horse can pull man
weighing $50 pounds a mile faster tina n
he can man weighing 100 pounds with
20 pounds of lead in the sulky."
Ell. w. Drake, one of the brightest
young business men of Vermont, leaves
his boot and shoe store every season to
take in the races through Vermont in
behalf of the Burlington Free Press, for
which he furnishes excellent reports.
He is not a regular attache of the paper,
but when it comes to reporting trotting
meetings the Press finds it difficult get
ting along alone without him.
'The Farmers Reading Circle of Indi-
ana has formally organized. The meet
| ing was held in the hall of the state
board of agriculture at indianapolis on
the Nth ult. ''The objects of this circle
shall be to promote the intellectual,
social and moral advancement of farmers
ing is to be prepared, and local reading
books, with prices, will soon be publish
ed. The initiation fee is % cents. 1t
may prove to be good thing.
Robert Bonner demonstrated good
many years ago that it was possible for
a business man to own trotters and still
maintain his commercial and social
standing. He also showed that man
could be consistent Christian and at
the same time have stable full of horses
with records better than 2 90 The fool
ish prejudice that existed against the
ownership of fast horses was thoroughly
dissipated by Mr.. Bonner's personal eff
forts, and when he did this he opened up
a market for trotting stock that has add
ed millions of dollars to the wealth OF
this country.
While so much is being written, says
the Breeders Gazette, about Alcantara
and Alcyone, two sons of George Wilkes
that are brothers, some people entirely
overlook the fact that at the close of 1890
when Jay Bird, another son of George
Wilkes, was only II years old he had
nine trotters in the 80 list This is 8
! far better showing than either Alcan-
tara or Alcyone was able to make at the
. same age, and from present appearances
Jay Bird will in the near future far out
class those horses as sire, being
!, already good ways ahead of them in
the matter of producing son, as Eagle
Bird has in Mombars and some others a
lot of youngsters coming on that are Ger.
tain to outclass anything in the shape OF
trOttprs pOt nv son of AlcVuOne mn