The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-09
STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN
Horse aud Stock NOtes.-StableS
without StalIs.-COw Peas.-When
to cut Timothy.

PAGER which mas gOhe quarters III on
seconds.
Stallion owners report light sea-
son so far. There are very few horses
with full books this year.
AT Belmont Park, Philadelphia
last week II. H. w. 2:309 dropped
dead at the end of the second heat of
race. He was valued at $1,000.
Charley NJ, 19-year-old PAGER,
turned half.mile track at Taylor,
Texas, recently in 2:23. This veteran
is q branded brOncho and has a run
ming record OF half mile in oil
seconds.
Reports of the work of fast green
PAGERS are heard from every quarter.
If all reports are true the PAGERS Will
be the first to cross the tW0-mlnute
line. They are doing the fastest
talking anyhow.
On the road, horses should be given
water every leu miles. Feeding
horse principally on grain and driv
ing it five hours without water is
like giving man salt fish for dinner
and not allowing him to drink until
supper time.
Barley is without peer as food
for horses. They will do more work
on it than oats, coru, peas, beans or
any combination OF these. The
Arabs make extensive use OF 1t fot
their horses when on loug, hard
journeys, preferring it to anything
else obtainable
The best and easiest way to oil har-
ness is to use crude petroleum. Put a
little lamp-black in it and apply 1t
without washing the leather The
oil will take off the dirt; it will go
into the leather, keeping the water
out and make it softer. 1t will turn
water the best of anything and will
not injure the leather.
Longstride, the famous jumping
horse, leaped thirty-four feet aJ the
trial near New York. Thirty five
feet is the longest jump on record
The horse lore no rider, and the
Jump was across water. One hun
dred and twenty-five horses were
driven to the leap, but Longstride
aloLe cleared it. M III
The ideas of hOrsemen as to whst
was necessary in trOtting horet
have undergone a great many
changes in the past few years. /
used 10 be thought necessary for l
young horse to have great knee az
tion in order to make his chance,
good for becoming fast horse. |
was also thought al eXceedingl!
promising sign when colt wouI'
spread out and go 80 wide behint
that you could "roll barrel between
his legs" These signs of q future
trotter are no longer sought for. Thu
trOtter with surplus action forward
is no longer Ia demand and liue trot
tiers are much preferred to the one
with the semi-circular action behind
The horse that moves straight aheaC
with the least possible waste actor
is the one now sought. .. "a.
The past week seems to have bee
good one for freak OF various kind
in the animal world. Lawrenc
County, Pa, comes TO the front wit
a COW which, usually very cranky
became very docile upon the extraC
tion of a siX-fOot snake from he
stomach. A calf with two heads
four eyes and two mouths Is re
is reported from Gallipolis, o. Ma
tins Ferry, o, equals this with
lamb with two bodies, each wit
four leg3, but only one head. FroI
PEBBLES, O comes an annOuncemer
OF the birth of q SHOW white col
without eyes or fore legs, and q Bue
N,n NN;cIo pafpinau in fhn
session of horse with Il baudsonl
aud perfectly formed mustache.
The famous trotting stallion Diets
tor is dead ut the home Of his owner
H &. Mcdowell q Son, near LeXiDs
ton, Ky. He was 30 years old, an
died Of old age. He sired forty tro
tiers and five PAGERS from 2:06R
2:30 Twenty Of his sons have sire
tifty-eight trOtters and eight PAGER
while nineteen Of his daughters hay
produced twenty-five trOtters and tN
PAGERS, including Nancy Hanks 30
the fastest trotter in the world. II
son, Director, sired Direct 2:05$4 ii
fastest pacing stallion. Dictator WI
full brother to Dexter, being /
Hambletonian 10, dam Clara,
American Star, and was bred in Ne
York by jonathan Hawkins. Dict
tors son, Jay Eye See, 2:l0 trottin
was the champion trotter when
made his record in 1875
Gill Curry has the largest string
the track, numbering as it does in IL
neighborhood OF twenty horses.
seems that Curry's stable this yej
will be the strongest in the two-yea
old division, as he has three that wi
trot right around $50, and if two
these trot in 2:l5 we will not be su
prised. He also has In his string K
frida, thrte by Candidate, son
Electioneer, that will trot very fas
Curry thinks she is about the be
one he has ever driven, and as 81
was capable of mile in 2:2O last ia
great deal is expected of her. Maj
Wonder, 2:10; Lee H., 2:l4; Natal
Wilkes, 2:17l4, and Clara J 2:24, a
among the PAGERS in the Curry strin
and all of them are looking and gon
we'll. Clara J. may prove the star
the aggregation, as she showed Ihr
heats last year better than 2:l3, al
it was done in the old-style sulk
Faust, 2.lS4, the champion tire
year-old gelding, is in Curry's strin
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