The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-03-03
STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN.
Profitable Stock Sheep-HOW to Man
age Butter.
Great Sires of Worthy SOns-How to
Restore Worn Out Soil.

The sire and dam of Direct 2:O5h
cost their present owner $77, $50.
Mr.. John Lee has a very fine Du-
pick mare that will soon foal to
BrOwL Hal.
The American derby of 1898 will
be the richest ever run, first money
being $4,000
A. N. Akin has shipped Matinee to
Birmingham parties. Matinee is a
pacing bred runner.
Lexington, KY, will have first
class covered half-mila straight-away
track at cost of $4,000.
Mr.. La Adenson shipped car load
OF mixed stock to Louisville last Sat
urday, consisting of 20 hogs and 10
head of cattle.
Mr.. Brodhead saws that old Harold,
sire Of Maud S, is about to the end Of
his journey and will hardly live
through March.
Over 100000 Of trottlng stock was
sold at auction in the big markets
during the past month at an average
Of over 81 900 per head.
H. P. Figuers owns a fine son Of
Locomotive and a dozen good pacing
mares. He believes il the Tennessee
PAGER and the Tom Hal family.
Pure eastor-oil is highly recon-
mended as the best preventative Of
harness leather, as, while it keeps it
silky and supple, it will not soak in,
like neatsfoot or lard oils.
Waxana, dam of Sunol 2:8L, has
dropped chestnut colt by Palo Alto
2:834. This fellow should have
enough thoroughbred in him to suit
even Senator Stantords ideas.
The cotton crop around the county,
always small, was unusually 80 las
fall and the price Of seed is now very
high, selling readily ut IS cents to IS
cents per hundred.
The man who waits until his colts
are four or five years old before be
ginning their education should, to be
consistent, wait until his children
are II years old before teaching them
their letters.
The kite track, upon which Mr..
w. @. Jones had spent so much
money, was sold at auction bv mort
gagees last Monday aud WAS bought
by w. L. Cranberry, Of Nashville,
for $500.
Capt. NJ. C. Campbell had the mis-
fortune to lose q fine two-year-old
Brown Hal colt a few weeks ago.
The colt was very promising and Wa
expected to go ia the twenty lat this
year, 1t having shown fine speed.
Mr.. La Adenson bought last week
from Mr.. Galloway, Of Lewis County,
two extra fine steers, for which he is
to pay $3.50. These steers are to be-
delivered in April. Now don't talk
any more about good cattle being
low.
Horsemsn should remember that
not 5 per cent of horses bred for
racers ever make real race horses
The other ninety-tive per cent must
depend on their style and good looks
to be Of any value. Therefore breed
for style and good looks.
BOwerman Bros, of Kentucky, say
that they will trOt MOquette 2:l0
next season against StambOul 2:071a,
Kremlin 2:0734, AriOn 2:i0l9, Nelson
2:l0 and any other stations that
their owners might care to enter in
such race for $1,000 corner, the
winner to take the entire sweep
stakes,
Glover is Maury cOunty's renOvatOr
for worn out lands. Steadily planted
and turned under at the proper time
it is the hest fertilizer that can be
found. The piles of Overheated barn.
yard manure, or that which has been
allowed to be leached with rain, will
not compare either with clover or
pea-vines as fertilizer.
We are informed by DR.. Kennedy
that the reference made to the jack
Bob Hill, owned by Mr.. Underwood
OF Underwood, Burns d Scott, in q
late issue Of the HERALD, was in
correct The jack IS not troubled
with rheumatism, but has had a
slight touch OF founder and was
threatened with pneumonia.
Best hogs a year ago brought from
IS to 1925 per cwt. Two years ago at
this time there was no grade Of hogs
worth as high as 81 per cwt. The
low prices of 1891 are perhaps account
able for the high prices now prevail
ing. People were tired Of breeding
and feeding hogs that did not pay
for the corn they consumed. Those
who had faith in the future are now
reaping their reward.
George Wilkes holds q combined
record of 2:22 to harness, 2:25 tC
wagon, OBS to pole and was cam.
paigned till seventeen years old, wa
retired to the stud in 1873 and died
in 1882, but in those nine seasons got
seventy-nine performers from 2:3C
to 2:l31% and seventy-four sons thai
have sired nearly six hundred in the
list; also tbirty-four daughters tina
have produced race horses will
records from $3.50 to 2:0931, al
achievement on the turf and iu tn,
stud which no horse has approached
Nancy Lee foaled Nancy Hank
2:O4 whea she was eight; Fleetwood
fOaled Stamboul 2:07l9 when she wa
fourteen; Eventi5e fOaled KremliI
2G73t when she was fifteen; WSXahj