The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1892-08-12
TROTWOOD'S TALK.
interesting to Farmers, Breeders ana
DaiTymeh.
Facts, Figures and Information %
General Interest TO the Country
SentIeluIu.
Inc Crops.


their thrcshing now and the wheat -
coming in in fair condition. some OF
! il Il tough and otherwise damaged
perhaps about ten or twelve per cent
! for the entire county; but the yield
I has been good, thus cOUnterbai lane
( ing, to some extent, any loss which
may result from injury by rain since
/ IL has been cut and sh"'''+ad. Tn"
row prices at present i'",','h.' -, i''f
/ wheat has greatly di="nur@.--i tie.
! Tqrlurva and there seems 10 be ii
/ blockade ahead, both of cars and the
grain, which bids no good for aGy
/ material advance in the near future
/ The corn crop il gimply iumeuhe-
! largest aud best for many years
/ il the county. Much Of it is already
made and il il probable that corn
Nil sell thi5 fall as low as twenty
/ cents Var bUshei,
The pastures are good and the farm
erH, in view Of this fact and the lurth-
81 prospect OF tie chespness OF corn,
LIQUID save ali the hogs and cattle
possible with WV of fattening
Them for market such product is
yIways in demand and represent a
niost economical method of convert
ing their pastures and cheap corn
into moaey.
''The UHiy Horse."
Many breeders are fast going to
the asylum over the question Of get
ting some hind OF n record for theiI
horse stock to hold. Years ago the
question was, Can the horse trDt IN
J:iO?" Hence tile phrase, Two forty
au lie Fheil road" That was con
-i.lpr,d record enough. Then tie
time " 49, brought down TO ? BIZ, aud
tho aim Of every horseman since has
hcon TO get his horse in the go list.
= great many getting IN like the
Dev!l Is said to have E"tlen into
aeaveu-by crawling under hole In
the fence. EUt 2:5I, while getting
them iutr the "CbarmeG circle " Rs
not enough. Horses got to s.i,ig 50
much faster in races, that, while 2:3t
let them into the circle of respects
Eil5fV, II took , 20 to put on them the
Golden slippers aud royal robe OF
, Hi!vIV or pUeeuly honor. w o-thlr'
Nv horse" says Marvin, 1--WE low II
California" which may be quoted as
. d pointer, showing how common sucl
skates are getting, and also 81 fact
showing that # MHrviu's pcetica
bumps were developed he might &c
something in that line, Gs the renal
has a deciucGIy .'poeticGl license" rims
10 il.
However, as the record has dropped
along down the line, IMAM, prouI
man. with an eye 10 business an(
Z his pUcket-bOOk, has set the standar'
higher and higher, until SunGI an(
Maud =. among trOttcrs and POinte
and Direct among PAGERS have tGEeI
, II to the present pinnacle OF fam'
and out Of sight Of the Oidinar.
l norseman's eageT eyes.
, What must be done then? ON
another line must be branched Oft on
, u must keep in the procession som
1 vey.n And then the many myriad
Of q FnreHt kinds of "On!y horse /
$ he world" and "oDiy mare in tn
world" begin. "Miue,' says on
breeder, sis the only stallion in tn
World that has forty IN the 2:36 list.
: A1.d away they went Oh that only
Iii EiectIOnCer distanced the iiel
aud ran it up 10 lOl-Gar beyond an
reach for the present.
So of they shoot III another line
/ "Miue is the only stallion III TN
20 world that has five in the 2 20 class,
o and away they gallOpcd after tbs
o "onIy, till some horse set it wa
ahead OF them and they fell back 70
breath and a chance to come to tn
front in something else.
It is impossible TO hOlu them Ions
II So "mirc j. the only stallion in tn
world whose dam is the dam Of tw
= and whose sire is the sire of fifty !
70 the list.U Or, "niinc is the only sta
= lion in the world who has two fu
sisters in the list, one full bTothe.
whose sire has sired ten and who's
dam has two full brOthers, all in IN
), 2:3J list, " and thus il goes 10 the Oil
" gust of all thinking men until ever
stock farmer ia the country who
% able 10 hire a ten dollar "nigger" {
G i manager and driver, and buy u
some son cf a bean pole, has II
y "only," the very ''onliest" quadruPe
/ Of ali the kind on the Lords goo
J. earth that ever wore shoes, locke
through blind bride or stood @
!" iron.
IL May we have a rest, A sufferiI
IT. public demands It, the eXigencies
II The age call for i! and tl!e staggeril
y and bewildered mind Of the averal
= student Of horse literature earnest
entr,uta a rest, that he may get o.
o the complicated cObwebs in Il
/ gradually succumbing brain tisru
~ fit is not ri, pped the next cat
q Iogue you pick up, gentle reader, INA
. have the glowing announcement
r. 1--WE have the only fourlegged stalliC
e in America out OF a blaZe-face ma
with twist in her tail, who has tv
A. spa lined sons in the 2 80 list, who
II mother-iu-law has gore in 2:3O at
e whose two fun brothers head u
/ tweuty-y esr-old record on "A half-mi
track. Yes, the only Une--cOme al
70 see the king" May We never )
II him!