The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1891-03-06
HORSES, MULES AND CATTLE.
Live Stock Notes, Transfers and
ShiDmentS.

Live Stock Notes, Transfers and
Shipments.
MULE OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES quota
tions are corrected weekly by j. w.
Howard IL Co. Must be choice and TAT,
from to years old, in good flesh.
Ii to I4% hands high $ 81 to SIP
H. to 10 hands high liz to l3I
10 TO l5L hands high III to 157
I5Ia to 10 hands high lG2 to III
By noticing the card of Polk d
Brown it will be seen that hey offer a
guaranteed stake of $500, for foals of
1892, the get of Nuthill and Detroit,
to be trOtLed in 1884,
1t is given out that Nancy Hanks,
that, next to SunOI, was the best four
year-old out in 1890, has been blister
ed on both hind legs and one forward
leg. 1t was first reported that she
had been fired, but now IL is said that
only blister was applied, and there
Is no doubt about her standing train
ing next spring. Nancy Hanks has
never yet been beaten, although in
her three aud four-year-Old form she
trotted a number of fast races, wind
ing up with a record of 2:13l2 in a
race against other horses.
Charts Horse ReCielU says: "In
| Tennessee the trotter now divides the
honors with the bang-tail. WHATS
the matter with the PAGER?
"A Gipatch from Saltwater, Mimi,
recently conveyed the news that
Nike Wilkes had dropped dead while
| being driven on u lake near that place.
Mike Wilkes was a trotter and PAGER,
| a fast horse at either gait, and pref
| ty unreliable one at any gait when
| the surroundings did not suit him.
Lucky baldwin will have twenty
four horses in his stable for this years
campaign, fourteen of them being
tWo-year-oIds. This pretty etfectu-
ally puts stop to rumOrs that the
great California tqrfInan was going
TO retire.
Forest Hal, the sire of the IA
nous B. B. 2;13H, has demonstrated
that he is sire OF race horses, as III
addition to h. Il. he has to his credit
Col. Forest, a PAGER with record OF
l2:271&, trial 2:2l, last half i'll l:071a
Nellie Hal, trOtter, with almost Ii.
handling, record 2:4S; Dexter Hal,
trOttIng record of 2:54 at two years OF
age, and several others who have
shown speed of u high order for un-
developed colts. Forest Hal was
bred by Frank G.. BQford, Buford
Station, Tenn, and sold by him to }.
| ID. Perkins, of Falcon, Tenn, March
o.
HoIIey purchased him last month,
paying for him s., 800 cash.
The great Iowa Circuit offers the
largest amount of money ever offered
| by circuit in one state before-$l15,-
200 in stake and purses.
Now that Anteeo has been sold
for 500, 900 more money than was
ever before paid for stallion at auc-
ton, he is the center of interest in the
horse world,
1t is stated that the Wilkes stall
lions in the stud of George Wilkes"
simmons brought him an income
last year Of 100000.
Andrew J. Coleman, of HarrOds
burg, KY, has sold to John h. Mad
lie Lexington, KY, the 3-year-Old
bay FLY Cleo, by Gentry's Gambetta,
lam by Macy's Hambletonian.
Price, 50, 900. She holds the fastest 2
year-oId record over half mile track,
2:2934, made at Danville, KY, 9th
last August.
e. a. Collins, proprietor of Glow
erdell farm, MILAN, says that he has
not sold Capt. Mack for $26, OO0,Or any
other price, and that the horse is not
for sale.
Tennessee Wilkes, one of the
stations at Ewell Farm, will be in
Geers' stable this fall, and 1t is said
hat he is expected to beat 2;3O.
There is a mule owned at Men
don, o., that will be campaigned this
year. 1t is said that 2:30 will not
stop him.
Adrian Wilkes has sireu three
PAGERS with an average of 2:l2la.
Duplex 2:l7l will not be on the
Grand Circuit this year.
The great Tennessee PAGER, Ar
Egyle 2:1431, is dead.
The California stillion Sydney is
the first sire to put two in the 2:3O
list in 1891. At Oakland, Cal, Jan
uary "a, four of his get won races and
two of them, Santa Ria, e:3O14, ard
Saunders, 2:299, took records below
2:30.
If you really wish to improve
your horse stock don't fit like a bird
! from one breed to another, but de-
eide on the breed you like best aud
| that it is adapted to the object you
| have in view, and then stick to it and
grade up your stock as fast as posi-
bic.
The yearling filly, Bell Bird,
| full sister to Palo > Ito Belle, is be-
| ing broken to harness by Charles
| Marvin, with a view of taking whirl
at the yeArling record this season.
| Competent Judges who have seen this
| filly say she is Just little the finest
| locker and mover they have ever
seen at MEMO Park.
The element of beauty cannot be
| dispensed with in our horses, but We
should not try to apply the same ideas
of beauty to all breeds. We must
learn that those qualities which con-
stitute standard of beauty for a
coach horse do not hold in cases OF
drafters, aud conversely. There are,
IN ShntilI no "a ihnalG fhnra
are purposes to be served, and when
these are kept in view we shall have
better horses.
Dear as oats are this year, a few
daily should be given to all young
horses. This grain is especially
adapted to feeding colts weaned last
fall, and which are apt to lose flesh
and become stunted on dry feed the
first. winter. The oat contains just
the kind of nutriment required for
growing animals to furnish bone and
music. It's hull also prevents it from
injury by enabling this grain to di |
gest without fermenting or caking in |
the stomach, as ground find feed |
might do.
William COrbitt, owner of Guy |
Wilkes. intended to trOt his trOtters |
in the East this season; now Mr.. Cor
bitt intends to do something else, this
available to take the place of his |
trainer, Goldsmith, should the latter
go East; and capable man must be
constantly at the home establish
ment to look after the extensive in
terests there. 1t is thought that both
Guy and Sable Wilkes will be repre-
scented in the leading trOtting meet
ings East in 1892.
Mr.. Steiner, of Greenville, Ala,
bought PIummer Webster's Enfield
mare last Monday. Plummer is $500
better off. Mr.. Steiner also purchas-
ed a horse from Mr.. w. p. Woodbridge,
paying $3.50 for same.
The Giles County Fair Grounds
at Pulaski are to be sold March 18th,
and there is poor prospects for fair
this year
MIR. H. c.. Ezell, of Wilkerson,
Tenn writes that his old jennet the
dam of the noted jack Starlight, Jr.,
has recently dropped a fine jack colt.
The sale by F.. A. Collins of the
colt Mack for 500, 900 is said to be the
highest price ever received for a
Tennessee horse.
The Fayetteville Observer thinks
the Lincoln County Fair Association
should not continue to give larger
inn no o iY.L,l