The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-05-27

at Chicago"
Polk & Brown have a yearling colt |
by Egbert, dam by Trouble, that Is
entered in the yearling stakes.
H.B. Cochran's Duplex FLY at the
kite track still continues to keep that
dreams pleasant at night.
Roy Wilkes 2:Os14, Manager 2:11%
and Guy 2:1134 will meet in the free
for-au pace at Des MOines in August.
A cool wind keeps coming from
bleeding Kansas to-day. May II
soon come from some other state.
The rains of Wednesday, though
not as severe as of the Monday pre-
ceding, yet were longer and did more
damage.
Mr.. Hamilton, owner of a stock
farm near the Hermitage, passed
through on horseback yesterday to
Belle Air farm in Giles.
AS was stated in our columns sew
eraI days ago, Barbette, by tennessee
Wilkes, dam by Brown Hal, has been
showing some very fast quarters.
Mai. Brown is out in card to-day
which will explain itself.
Jonas Amis says: Our entire crop
prospect will, L think, compare most
iavorably with last year. The crops
seem clean and in good shape. Our
corn is late but looks well; oats very
fine.
Mr.. J. w. Russwurm, of Nashville,
was down at Ewells recently, looking
over the colts. By the way, It's said
that the able Secretary of Cumber-
land Park is getting enthusiastic on
the meek-eyed Jersey.
Jim Martin and Will Buckner came
down from Williamson Tuesday to
Uuy some lambs. They returned
with two very fine mares bought i'll
the West O'Maury neighborhood.
It is not so much in how horse is
handled that counts, hut the way he
is bred. Smuggler would have been
a 2:IO horse Il he had been bred bet
ter. The instinct in his head was
lacking.
w. F. Embry has fine sample of
winter oats, raised by y. b. Harlan,
hanging in his store. By-the-way,
can't some of our farmers give us
their experience with such oats ?
Many claim they are too uncertain
but others around here seem to raise
them successfully.
Clark's Horse Review says that
Peoria, ILL.,, Journal stole their pic
ture OF Direct, reprinted it and la
belled it Fountain Green 2:24 "
Only three paragraphs above this our
able Review clips from US and gives
no credit to the HERALD: We re,
member once being told by an old
negro that it was not wrong to steal
watermelons if you did not carry
them home.
OF all the reports that come from
the South none are more encouraging
than those like the following: "The
farmer of the South is looking to
other things besides cotton. | started
two years ago with three cows and
open pans; 1 now have herd of
thirty-five thoroughbred and grade
JERSEYS, and for eight months in the
wear can't supply the demand on my
dairy South Carolina needs Jer-
seys, COW peas, clover and potash.
The Lamb Club met again yester-
day and sold two more carloads for
$455. They will receive sealed bids
for one carload with privilege OF two,
| lambs to weigh from fifty-five pounds
inward, the bids TO be addressed to
John d. Barrow, Secretary, and to
be opened June 9Th next. The Lam
! Club is getting along in fine shape
and the selling of the lambs and wool
is not the only good it will do. They
propose to protect the sheep industry,
and to work together to pass such
laws as will protect their tiOcks.
Morelia by Tennessee Wilkes, dam
Lizzie Moore, that took q record last
season as q twO-year-old, has arrived
from the South and has been placed
in Trainer Ed Gurney's hands. She
is owned by E. f. Sanders, of Pensa-
cola, Fla. Mr.. Sanders also sent Cur
new the horse Ransom by EnhaTt
Brooks, dam by George Gordon.
Capt. II. f. Wells, also of Pensacola,
has placed in the same hands Bonnie
Lively by Nuthunter, dam Kate by
Princeps; also an inbred Hal called
None Such.-Kentucky Stock Farm.
The Duke of Marlborough, who
married Mrs. Hammersly, a rich
widow of Gotham, acquired taste
for trotters while in this country
, He bought number of horses, botI
, trotters and PAGERS, also singlefoOter:
and gated saddle horses of the West
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cable that he Will hold a show of his
own at agricultural Islington, to edu-
cate his English brothers gentle and
simple on the beauties of these breeds
and he has imported American hand
lers to show the horses. Hurrah fol
the Duke!-Kentucky Stock Farm.
f. p. Niles, Veterinarian of the Vir.
ginia Station, believes in heroic treat.
ment for abortion. He says: "Al
COWS that have abOrted are no longer
valuable as breeding stock, and should
therefore be beefed-a practice which
will do more to eradicate the malady
than anything else" Mr.. Niles il
eminently correct. a cow that ha!
once been afflicted as above men
toned is no longer fit to go into ;
herd of healthy animals. She ma!
appear to be all right, but is liable a
any time to have return of he
, trouble, which is apt to set fire t.
/, the whole herd. Never risk in you
herd a COW that has once beer
troubled this way.
We are indebted to an exchange 70
the following:
, The merchant he may buy and sell,
The teacher do his duty we'll;
But men may toll through busy days,
Or men may stroll through pleasantwaVs
From king to beggar, whate'er befali,
The farmer he must feed them all.
2 The farmers trade is one of worth;
. He's partner with the sky and earth,
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