The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1893-12-12
FA1RINTosH sToCK FARM.
One of the Several Stud Farms in the
State on Paper,

Mr. Carter, of the Richmond Times,
recently visited our State and has this
to say of Col. Benneham Cameron's
stock farm:
Fairintosh Stud Farm is the property
Of Colonel Banneham Cameron The
place is located in Durham )unty. N.
O., nine miles north of the city OF Dur
ham. Thousands of acres of land are.
comprised IN the limits of the estate,
which has been handed down as an
heir loom for successive generations in
the Cameron family. The farm is con-
Quoted as a breeding establishments,
and numbers of thoroughbred and trot-
ting, Cleveland Bay and Percheron.
horses find sustenance on its broad
acres During a recent call from the
master of Fairlntosh, / learned that he
will hereafter devote his attention
principally to breeding thoroughbred
horses, il being his intention to sell the
products of his establishment as yearl-
Jugs at the annual public sales Col.
Cameron owns the gray stallion Gray
Stone, by King Alfonso, dam Geneva,
by Lexington Gray Stone was kept.
this year at Mr. Thomas Nelson's farm,
in Clark county, and will make the
season of 1894 at the same place.
Among other thoroughbred horses.
owned by Colonel Cameron are such as
Emo, chestnut colt two years old, by
Wilful, dam White Squall, by Falset5o,
Emo is in the training stable of T. Bern
ard boswell, at Bullfield A couple Of
yearling fillies at the farm, which are
very highly priced, were purchased at
the Ellerslie Stud Farms annual sale
last spring. Oneis Niello, bay by
Eolus, dam Meta, by Imp. Billet and
she out of Juanita dam of the Win
ner's Carol, Hazlehuret and Bluevail,
by Wande er. The other is a brown,
also by Eolus, dam Lady Grace dam
of Bay Archery by Romney, grand
dam Grace Darling dam of the noted
Dlablo)) by Jonesboro, next dam
Ninette, by Revenue, and she out OF
the ever famous old Nina, by Boston.
These fillies are grandly bred. They
will be placed in training, and should
develop into crack performers. After
retirement from the turf they will be
placed in the stud Esmeralda, bay
mare by imported Mortimer, dam Notre
Dame, by Lexington, Annie { J., also g
bay, by LongfelloW, dam, by j q.
nut daughter of Add El Korep, the
brother of Add Ell Kader, are at BIlers-
lie Stud Farm, where they were sent
this season and mated with imported
| Char 4xus, the sire of such good per-
formers as Ma Belle, Capstone, LasteF,
Charade, Hanemie, Chateau, etc Lady
Hec has a chestnut flly one year old,
by Spendthrift, which has been christ
ened Swannana. Esmeralda dropped
bay filly, by Eolus, last spring, which
will be reserved for a brood mare The
two year old f1llies on the farm num-
Der an even half dozen They are all
well-bred and good individually Bet
tina is bay, by imported King Ernest,
dam Nicnac, by Macaroon. e 'nette,
also bay, is by imported Eothan. out
of imported Castinette, while Uiaces
another ba' i, is by imported Uhlan. out
of Straightlace, by Stratford. WIlful
Hilda has the chestnut coat of her sire
Wilful, albeit her dam Hildegard was
a bay daughter of Lexington Guyan-
dotte, another chestnut, is by Bertran,
dam Burgundia. by Burgundy. The
last Of the seXtette is Eoralda, coal
black daughter of the mighty Eolus,
out of E4meralda, the daughter of Inn
ported Mortimer. The swing of the
pendulum at - o'clock, on the night
of December 31st, will mark the dIvid.
ing line Then these fillies will be
classed as three year olds. In the
spring of 1894 they will be placed in
the brood mare ranks, and mated with
the most approved thoroughbred sires
within reach. That noted owner.
breeder and turfman, Mr.. Pierre Lor-
lizard, contends that fiIlies bred in.
their three year-old form make better
brood mares, as q rule, than those not
given chance to assume the cares of
maternity till later in life. If such be
the case, it Is to be hoped that the mas
ter of Fairinrosh Stud Farm may reap
substantial returns from the unions Of
the daughter of King Ernest and M4ca-
room, Eothan and Uhlan, Wiltul and
RertFann