The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-06-07

Mr.. John FAIRIES is authority for
the statement that some of the farm
ers are cutting wheat to-day.
Harlan Bros. have had eleven jen-
nets shipped from distance to Tax
payer. His fee is $50 and not SD as
reported.
We learn that there are good crops
OF potatoes made, in and around both
Memphis and Gallatin. California
has also raised good crops.
South Side Park has gotten up
very attractive progI am for July 4tn.
We learn the gun club will shoot
there that DAY.
The two year old colt Axle, by AK
tell WAS driven a quarter by Doole
! last week at 2:22 gait. 1t seems
| that the rains and late spring have
thrown nearly all the horses back III
training.
'Tis said there are $2,500,00O,0OO in
vested in the dairy business in the
United States. 1t takes 25,OOO,OOO COWS
to run them and S0,000O0O acres OF land.
There are nearly 100000 people en-
gagged in the business.
The associated Press dispatches of
last Saturday credit Flax Hal, VINO
| secured a record of 2:331s to Duplex.
Flax Hal secured his mark at Phil
adelphia in the , 40 pacing class.
lake Barker's McEwen colt, Capt.
King, now beng trained at the Kite
track by John Thomas, has, we have
been told, gone well authenticated
0uarter in Al seconds. It's dam is by
Hylas.
F. G. Buford, of Bufords' Station,
: left Saturday for Dayton, o., and
other points in the north, with car
load of fine race horses. Among the
: number were Grapeshot and Judge
, B.-Pulaski Citizen.
;; The Jewett Farm sensation, Frank
Smith, stepped an eighth a few days
ago in IS seconds. He is undoubted-
I've yery fast, but seven additional
| eiohths strung to this one would still
fall two seconds short of Directs
: mark.
The old PAGER Jewett, 2:14, is still
hoss of the road in Boston. As q
e three-eyar-old he was the champion
e trotter of that age, having q record OF
= 2:23%, which is good ways from
= the present three-year-Old mark oil
2:IO15 to the credit of Sunol.
DIE. Dixon, Zion neighborhoOd
81 never saw our crops looking finer
}, 1t will do any one good to ride dowL
y the Mt. Pleasant pike and see the
# wheat and Irieh potatoes. There SIt
;, some wheat fields there that viii
|, make forty bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Pitts Perry, of Bigbyville, ha
= a we'll bred colt by KirkmOnt, son O
|, Almont, Jr., dam Lizzie by Nandyke
=, out of q Red Buck mare. 1t is tw'
Z weeks old, a deep bay FLY with star
:, He saws it lis not better than every
<, body's colt, but the best one he eve
- had.
n Now since A. H. Moore has bnugh
y Director he has had Splau to take u
@ Margaret, s., 2:1212, and put her t
=, work with a view of reducing he
~ record. Mr.. Moore announces tina
u after this season he will put her t
g ton to go very fast at that gait.
(: !!
ID An Exchange says: "Give the cor
+ YOUR best land. You cannot have so
that is too strong or rich for it. CrOI
Of small grain may grow too RAM
large and go to waste on land too rIc
ut for them, but corn will not, and IL wi
= use as much of the fertiliZiDg eI'
Of ments as it needs, leaving the rest
rs the ground for future crops.
~ Saws that excellent paper, tn
~ Breeders Gazette, Chicago: IA ia
=: number of spring lambs were put o
- our market the last week. They MT
- with a good demand and sold at goo
~ prices where the quality was satii
III factory. The best of the offering
of brought SIS to 1925 per 100 pounds"
. Hill Alexander, "of Hal Pointt
fame" weighed in the scales an
found always to be gentleman, ms
left us for position in Macon, G'
Y May he soon get rich and come bac
~ to his friends. What is Bob Watkin
* stove on a winter night without Hi
re Alexander to tell how Pointer VIC
at the race at Cleveland?
pc
t; A good deal of interest is bein
inf manifested in horse circles now aboI
TN the Morgan horse, and Morga
register has been established |
Middlebury VT. Special prizes wi
be awarded them at Chicago and it
hoped that as this game little bree
DO of trotters is purely American thu
more interest may be awaked in thel
than has been of late. Ben Frankli
and his get at Nashville will soon ca
~ popular opinion to their virtues
Oh this State.
To All Mule Owners.
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We have opened the fOllOwin