The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-03-03

This completes the list Of 2:10 brood
mares. from which it will be gath
cred that Atlanta, dam of AliX, and
Gussie Wilkes, dam of Allerton, di
vide the honors IA the youngest dan
OF 2:l0 performer at the time of
foaling, while Betsy-and-T, Mo-
quette's dam, was the oldest. The
average age OF the mares pamed, eX-
cept Ella, at the time their famous
sons and daughters were foaled
figures out at eleven years.
Seed potatoes are selling at 1925
per barrel and are scarce at that. 1t
is ever thus. They manage to 60 out
of the farmers hand for song and
come back at funeral rates. Last
season the farmers turned them
loose at from 80 cents to 81, many OF
them selling all they had. Now the
average POTATO planter is begging
them at almost any price. The very
cold winter has helped destroy the
aeed stored away and between
thoughtlessness and the caprice OF
dame nature the average farmer j.
kept busy turning the grind stone OF
an inexorub!e destiny.
Henry c. Jewett, one of America 8
greatest breeders, senslbly says:
"Tha trotting and pacing gait are
closely allied. 1t will be interesting
to see them try to separate, Same
union of sire and dam will produce
both g4its. Both are equally good
for road aud track purposes. In de.
veloping my young stock aim 10
| know Witch is the faster gait natur-
ally, and then let them go that gait
For instance, Frank Smith could
trot 2:l6 gait and pace faster than
a two.minute gait. / decided to let
him pace first and probably after he
has reached his limit pacing, will set
him to trOtting, aud thus make him
dOubly valuable"
John SpIan, the American jockey
OF note, sailed last month for Austria
taking with him load of very fine
American trotters and PAGERS. He
arrived safely in Vienna and the party
of men and horses wero shown mauy
eourtesies by the Germans. The
American hOr. es We're much admired.
Splan wrote back that the German
were almost ~ we'll posted on Ameri.
can horses and their records as we
are over here and have some very
fine horses themselves. He says
their wagons are most cumbersome
affairs and a yoke is used to hitch to,
the traces being three or four feet
longer than our traces; there Is no
breeching nor brakes used and the
hOrse il badly uIed by the heavy
wagon with its load. Labor Is so
plentiful that frequently doz men
buy wagon aud themselves maui
freight, do ny the pulling and push
lug instead OF buying horses, WHEN
are quite high. Our people may
readily see to what our own country
wall come il the otfscOurings OF the
earth are allowed to be dumped on
ur. When men begin to take the
place OF horses and live, as they do in
Austria on Is cents per day, some-
thing appears to be wrong. OfcOurse
this is the poorest and most ignorant
class; the better ones stay at home.
Splan says they are ever anxious to
flock over to America. There il one
thug certain, should they continue to
come and be turned this way, the
negro problem in the South will be
solved too quickly for legislation to
be thought of. So far the largest
mass OF foreigners have eteared clear
of the South, settling in the North
and Northwest. When those Sec
lions are filled up, what then?