The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-07-26

SO" JUL " tlCA IL COllC6 ~ DDBhlOcS
they think that the smaller aud more
worthless the seed are the bigger the
potatoes will be.
They say that Buffalo horsemeu will
back Hal Pointer against Direct at the
coming August meeting. II they back
the gelding every time he starts against
the black this season, Buffalo Will have
some wiser but poorer men next winter.
Spirit of the Hub.
We hope the above Will not prove
true. Pointer Is working very well
now.
Mrs. Anus, who lives about four
miles from Columbia, ON the Will
Transport road, has, from one hen,
raised l02 chickens this year. She
has solo fifty-twO for twelve cents
each, or So n, and the other fifty will
De ready for market in week or two.
II she sells these as well as the others
she will get $12.24 from that one hen
this year.
n lecturer in Cork once began an
address by remarking very sOlemnly:
Parents, you may have children, or
ii not, your sons and daughters may
have" And concluded with: There
is no man, woman or child in this
audience who has arrived at the age
of 80 years but that has felt these
mighty truths laundering through
their minds for centuries"
The bay gelding Rebus by Chester
wood, who took q mark OF 2:l53d in
winning the Bingham House stakes,
changed hands twice yesterday.
Jacob Livingston sold him to H. A.
Bach, of Harrisburg, Pa, for $4,000,
and late in the afternoon Bach sold
the geld1ng to George Senior, of
Chester, Pa, for $500 advance. Re-
bus has been added to Ed Odell's
string and will start at Pittsburg
next week.
cleaner pork may be obtained by the
use of heterogeneous foods says the Rural
New Yorker
We have ordered a few extra slips
of the above receipt published to
send out to our country friends. We
notice some of them need something
to make their hogs poorer; nothing is
so undesirable in a hog as too much
fat; because when he gets fat he
can't get through a twO-by-siX inch
crack into some unSuSpecting neigh
boris cOrn-tield. This receipt will be
hailed with delight in Alabama,
where they have to keep their hogs
poor so he can Out-run darby.
Says the Western HOrseman: Re-
flecIOr, the winner, drew the pole ana
the outside assigned to Alexander
Dumas, the winner of the first heat,
and afterward second in each heat.
SOrrel Dan made an excellent show
ing, but was simply Out-classed for
first money by Reflector, who could
simply run away at the pace to-day.
Reflector won his miles with perfect
ease and could have paced a mile
right close to 2:11 to-day. In his
mile of 2:15 he was eased up quite Il
good deal down the home stretch.
We have it, on good authority, that
Capt. Geo. Campbell, of setter Joe,
Jr., fame, who never likes to see his
own state left on anything, has been
quietly hunting around to get up q
pacing dog that will beat "Doc," and
at last, tits said, he has been reward
ed. The animal is part hound, which
gives him fleetness, is part irish set
ter and part (HaD Pointer, from
whence he gets his lateral gait The
rest of him il just dog. The Captain
is trying him now to wheelbarrOw,
and he is said to be doing quarters in
doc" by fall.
An English Guernsey breeder claims
that his cows will average as large as
Short-hOrnS. 1t is safe to predict the
future of Guernsey or Jersey herd
bred distinctively to increase size.
They will grow more and more like
ShOrt-hOrns in dairy qualities as well
as size.-HOard's Dairyman.
Perhaps; but won't she have to eat
more and will she not get to be like
the ShOrt-hOrn in taking on more fat
than she puts in tie churn? What
better thing do you want than the
dainty little SOO-pOund machine that
will make that much butter in year
and consume only half the food big
ShOrt-horn would consume to make
only 200 pounds? Some folks would
like to put New York restaurant
in a jack-knife.