The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-12
BY THE WAY
]. ROSENTHAL.

like and it is as impossible for the
rich lands of the fertile basin OF
Middle Tennessee to produce scrub
stock as il is impossible for heaven
20 produce a race Of chiil-shaking
angels.
\ good soil is the basis of all
prosperity. Nothing il truer than
That. Show me what the soil of a
country is and ! will show you what
kind Of people are there, what per-
rcciiOn Of animal life is there, what
advancement in religion or science
or art has been accomplished.
This is strange, but it is true. Man
is the result of cause and effect, and
animal life is controlled entirely by
man. Therefore the same causes
operating to make the perfect phys
iCal man will also make the perfect
lower animals.
Maury County, naturally the rich
est in the State, has always had the
best live stock. Years ago, the files
OF our old papers show, her people
raced the best thOrOughbreds ia the
land. They sent to Virginia and
to England fer them. In those days,
as NOW, they were determined to
have the best. Hence we find the
county full OF the blood of Boston,
]
NrchV, Stack-pole, Leviathan, En-
bassador, and Imported Doomed, in
the very richest and bluest of blue
blOods.
This is enough to tell the tale;
their blood iransfuscd through our
! PAGERS and trotters Of to-day have
Inatc Hal Pointer 3:GS4, and Belle
! Archer 2:l5L, possibilities.
| Bat Let us be more specific. What
! has MauFy County given to the world
| in this livestock line? Let us see.
| First the gamest and best race
! horse the world has ever seen-Hal
! Pointer 2:0Sl4-and those other sons
of his sire, Brown jug 2:l44, and
| Brown Hal 2:12ls-the three fastest
SONS OF one sire--a horse that spent
nearly all his life here-old Tom Hal.
| 4 horse who (and we Use the pro-
noun for persons in speaking of him.
! has produced the three fastest horses
| that ever went in horses! To these
might be added such stars as Matte
Hunter a:l2, Reflector 2:l5, ella
+! Brown 2.IJl4, Duplex 2:l7l4 Prince
| Hal 2; l6i4, Storm 2:l6 and hosts OF
! Others, both trotters and pacers.
It is safe to say that more fast
! County than from any county in the
| United States. Or i'll other words,
horses whose aggregate speed will
average lower than any coGnty III
the United States. Is this not
enough? And i i equally safe to
say there il more speed here undo
yclopcd than il any ether c"uutry in
thc WG{jd;
IN the second place, Maury County
is the largest mule feeding county in
the world. Columbia is the heaviest
L hA fn gtwl
of the county are the heaviest feeder
Of this animal III the world!
In The third place the county has
produced the greatest Jersey cows
in the world. II truth were known
the county il really the hoat adapted
10 dairying in tho world. Nature
never made better dairy country
It's natural advantages s"rpass those
OF the famous dairy section of New
York, and if the attention OF its peo-
rle were but directed that way fan
better dairy results would be OBJ
tanned.
These now are the actual records -
the actual facts-mOt guesses or sur
misses, to-wit: That this county hal
produced or developed the faSte-
horses, the richesv and bout QairS
cows, and il the largest feeder anC
shipper of mules,
What next 1t ranks first in Ten
nessec in point OF agr cultural pro
duots. 1t raises more wheat AM
corn and potutoes than any count.
in the State, and has, in its farminl
land alone, a property, which, de
spite the large cities OF Memphi
! and Nashville, classes the county il
e point of actual taxable real estate
: third in Tennessee. And yet land
; so cheap here, that often one crop O
/ Irish POTATOES will pay for the pric
{ of the land, acre for acre!
such is Maury County and SUE
. her live stock.
+, "Ihcy cannot put us down nor ru
, ms out ~