The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-04-07

gait.
Don't forget to salt your horses once I
week. Better still keep salt where
they can get 1t ss they want it.
Corn planting is nearly ever and
the farmers Of the county have put
in their usual area.
A number of bets have been made
at Chicago that carload of prime
cattle will sell in that market before
July u to 800 per cwt.
J. w. Edmonson Of this county, has
sold to Texas parties his stallion
Prattler, by Rather Brooks, dam Ky
Tom Hal, for $1,000.
Mr.. John w. Thomas, who was
we'll known and universally liked
while here, is training at Huntsville
this year and has good string OF
fast ones.
A hog weighing 10 pounds was
recently slaughtered for Andrew
. Oiler, Cumberland County, Pa. The
hog was q cross betw cen Chester
White and Yorkshire.
r. E. Shaw, Clear6eld County, Pa,
writes: | have Chester White SON
four years old that dropped II pigs 10
January, 1892, IA In June, 1892, ant
IL in December, 1892, making SO pigs
in one year.
The dams of Kremlin, 2:073l; Maud
s., 2:0S15; PalO Alto, 2:0SA; aud Jay
Eye-See, 2;0614, were bred at Wood
burn Farm, rs were also the sires of
Kremlin, Bel e Vara, LObascO, Mara.
ger and Robert ].
Lay Anderson shipped car load
OF beef cattle to Cincinnati last Sat
urday. They averaged 1910 pounds
and cost an averag.. of nearly cents
A finer load OF cattle has not been
shipped this season.
1t is told that the f1eeces of Eng
fish sheep imported into Australia
are gradually growing lighter. This
Is supposed to be result Of the fact
that heavy fleeces are not needed in
30 warm a climate, and is mentioned
as an instance of natural adaptation
TO circumstances.
Hal Parker No. OBS, record at three
year-Old 2:21 last half at 1905 by
Brown Hal 2:l2%, will make the
season of 1898 at Spring Hill, Tenn,
ut $25 by the insurance. For further
particulars address
J. w ALEXANDER, ACT
Spring Hill, Tenn. mario ct
PancOaat, the noted stallion, owned
by the Hon. Ben Johnson of Bards
town, died last week. PancOast had
q race record Of 2:l534, and sold for
$1,000, at that time the highest price
Tor a trstter. Pancoast WAS by Wood.
ford-Mambrino His first dam was
Bicara, by HalOrd, sire of Maud s.
2:08A.
The idioatiOns undoubtedly point
to an increase in the price of cattle
and the cOncensus Of opinion is tina
the price is going up; aid that Opin
ion is as freely expressed on the beal
side OF the market rs on the bull side
so the time for which those whC
have hung on have waited is at las
at hand, the harvest IL theirs.
Mr.. B. S. Thomas, OF Hurricane
Tenn, has purchased the thorough
bred stallion Pegasus by Tornado
dam by Billy Chatham. This il
good one. Mr.. Thomas also own
that good son of old Tom Rial, Ton
Hal, Jr., and having several Yer,
fast colts by him he has huilt him
good half mile track on which t
train them.
In the 4th district of Maury abOu
20 mares have slipped their fOal.
much to the surprise OF the owners
who can see no cause for such
thing. But there is cause for it, an
If the owners will look around the
may discover the cause. Mould
clover, bad corn, sour oats, runnin
with another mare that has abOrteC
one or all of these are pOssibl
causes.
Having young orchard Just con
ing into bearing | will tell Other
where think | made some mistake
in regard to it when setting 1t on
The trees are too close, being thirt
feet apart each way; thirty-five
none too much. To save sOmethiu
l bought too poor stock and have ha
good lot of labor in straightenin
the body of the trees. headed theI
too low; the branches should be hig
enough for horse to pass freely /
under them.
There are lots of men in the hOrs
business who agree with John Spls
when he told young breeder, WI
was hesitating about buying n beaV
tiful young mare for breeding pu
poses, because she was not standal
bred, ITO take her right over to Il
track, and if she performs to SUIT yo
buy her, for | have handled gre
many fast trOtters, and have give
them fast records, and not one OF Il
best OF which were frOm dams tn
were standard when the colt WI
cropped"
Louisiana raises one-hslf the rit
crop of the United States, and Il
acreage devoted to it is constant
increasing because it pays four
five times better than cotton, whi(
has been grown in to" large quahtl
to pay for the past few years. III
great pity is that ~ a people we don
know the value of rice as delicio,
and healthfuI article OF food. As