The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1893-06-23
STOCK, FARM AND GARDEN.
Horse and Stock Notes.-The Most
Popular Pigs-MakiHg Fruit Tree
Bear-Hungarian Grass and Millet.

Yolo Maid, l :01 for q half 'uile, IL
surely an indication that better than
q 2:i2 mark will be opposite her
name this fall. She is coming very
fast
The American says: The farmers
of Madison County are harvesting the
best crop of wheat they have raised
in the past ten years. Some claim
that they will make forty bushels to
the acre.
During the month of May over So
900 head of Texas cattle were received
in the Texas diviaion Of the stock
yards at Chicago. For May, 1892
only 1900 head were received; dur
ing May, 1891, $4,000 head came for
ward.
Gonzales McGregor has 50 far the
fastest record of the new 2:30 per-
formers of 1898, having wen race at
Denver, last week in 2:l92l, 2:lS4,
2:2O. He is a bay gelding by Norton
McGregor, dam unknown, and this
was the second time he ever started.
The best and easiest way to oil a
harness is to use crude petroleum.
Put little lamp-black in it aud
apply it 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 and will not injure the
leather.
The range bred Texas geldlng,
Charlie NJ, that has been campaign.
ing 81 a trotter for five or six years,
is now doing the meetings as PAGER.
He recently OOk record OF 2:2334 at
the pace. His trotting record was
2:241a, and it is said that before being
worked as trotter he took q half
mile record OF 81 seconds running.
Do not neglect your stock, especial
ly the hogs. Only the other day a
neighbOr remarked that his hogs
were doing no good. On being asked
if they were lousy he replied that he
never looked. They were examined
and found full OF the pests. Time,
feed and money wasted. An appli-
cation OF kerosene and lard, equal
parts mixed, will bring the required
result.-Ex,
AS rule, a double-gaited horse is
faster as PAGER than as trOttsr.
Many a phenomenal PAGER has been
lost to the turf through the foolish,
mistaken notion of converting
him. Had Smuggler 2:l5A, Edwin
Forrest 2:lS, and BOnesetter 2:l9
been permitted to take their chosen
gait they would doubtless have been
great PAGERS.
John Splan says the buying public
has got through with the breeder who
has nothing to sell but pedigrees and a
few "tin cup" records, made over kite
tracks when the wind was favorable.
1t seems to US the prediction was
made some two or three years ago
that this would be the final result Of
the "tin cup" craze.-Western Horse
man,
A Nashville, Tenn, turf writer
Says: 1.-THE latest whirlwind to arrive
at Cumberland Park came week be-
fore last. 1t is a green PAGER. The
first time he was given his head he
paced an eighth in Is seconds and
wanted to carry the argument still
further, but his driver found out he
had good thing and decided to keep
the green un" under cover"
OF the 121 horses that have taken
trotting records of 2:15 or better, 90
have done so in races, and So of these
made their records in winning races
Ofthese 80 trOtters 43 are by sires
which have shown speed in public,
the fastest OF these sires being Guy
Wilks 2:l5l4. These figures are from
Clark's Horse Review, and include
some records which were rejected Oh
account Of techncalities.