The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-05-05

half mile in exactly one minute last
year. She strides at full speed %
feet.
We learn that Belle Acton has al
ready gone al eighth in fourteen
seconds. Onllne is also going very
fast.
Primrose had 20 foals. Water
witch and Dahlia 10 each, Miss Rus
sell and Jessie Pepper each IS and
Green Mountain Maid II.
There is a two-year-old PAGER at
Danville, KY, that is showing phe-
nomenal speed. 1t is said that he
has gone quarters in 34l4 seconds.
Senator Stanford is talking of es-
tablishing kindergarten for the de-
VelOpmeut of trOtterI, similar to the
one he has at PalO Alto, at the
Worlds Fair.
Dexter is the only horse which
ever Lowered worlds trotting record
over half mile track. He dld this
when he beat Flora Temples 2:l93i
by trOtting over the half-mile ira ok AZ
oOoVOh III = 'lJi Ill lOUi'
Over 100000 trotting and pacing
horses were III training in 1892, up
wards of 1900 of which were entered
in races. Thus number will probably
be Increased twenty-five per cent
in 1893.
Ed Geers says: 81 have been driv-
ing Tor many years, aud | am in
touch with the drivers and / think
know the field of PAGERS that will
be out this year, and my belief is
that it will be the most brilliant field
that we have ever seen. The pacer
will captivate the lovers OF good hon
est sport this year. You may de-
pend on that"
Cows or sheep turned on to green
clover are apt TO be attacked with
0loat or hove, which, il not speedily
relieved, proves fatal. Ten or fifteen
years ago, | found remedy given in
the London Agricultural Gazette
thaI L have tri ed with complete suc
cess In several cases, 1t is as follows.
10 . ounces Of hypo-sulphate OF
SODA dissolved In pint of water and
given the COW as drench. If the
nrst dose does not relieve in half an
hour, repeat with half q dose For
asleep use 2 ounces in half pint of
water,
We hope the PAGER will never see
the day when his friends eau say of
him that "he is on BOOM" We do
not think any misfortune could hap
pen to him which in the end would
90 MIN 80 much damage-unless il
be his inability to race-as the one
which would Overtake him in the
pillows OF boom. BOoms, like
Bucket shops, are curse to our soil
and are as fatal, in spite of their 81.
rem song and seductive beauty and
exhllerating presence, as was the
sea nvmph that tolled the Palinurus
to his grave.-Western Hvrseman
The PAGER Of to day-the line PAGER
such as Direct, Mascot, Jay-Eye-S See
and the Hal family and Others are
very differently gated glass of horse,
from the old Copperbottom, rotary
motiOned fellows Of old. These Ole
fellows had a shifting, wabbling gait
tlrst up and then dOwn-their hind
feet describing semicircles over the
ground, and their fore feet going not
TOO straight. These, owing to the
multiplicity OF their machinery
were rot handy in catching If they
once lost their balance, but the pace!
OF to-day-the lateral going, straight
forward, frictiOnless fellow, as seen
on ourtracks-is as handy as any
horse.
The editor of the Texas Farm anC
Ranch tells of a farmer he knew who
had for years cultivated a 100-acrC
farm or rather he planted the entire
area and attempted to cultivate it
A prairie fire swept away in on,
night so much of his rail fence tina
he could only fence in 80 acres, fo
he had not accumulated q surplu
for such emergencies. After the re
duction he made better crops anC
prospered fairly. Another fire de
stroyed one string of his rail fence
aud after throwing out rotten rails
what remained ot his 10O-acre feel,
was 30 acres of the best land near tn
house. That is the size of the fiel,
to-day. He has money ia bank.
Nashville's Derby was a big sue
cess, on last Saturday. The weathe
and the track were all right AN
there was a big crowd. The CumbeI
land prize was the biggest stake con
tested for in this State for man
years and the interest in the rae
race WAS intense. There were seve
entriesi Henry Young by Thoms
Griffin, Buck Mccain by Scogga
Bros. Francis Pope by II r. Ric
Michel by, AvOndale stables, tn
King by I. Kiley, Marguerite b
John A. Demoville, and Cora TsylC
by ScOggan. Buck Mccain was tn
fsvorite and Henry Young was q
most at the tail end, the betting o
him rever getting better than to
But Henry Young won the race by
length and three quarters, and mad
Mr.. Griffin several thousand dollaI
richer than he WAS before.