The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-04-08

picturesque milk and butter producers the
e Dutch belted. A large fold OF Shropshire
! sheep and the leading and best strains
of swine. This Oak Grove farm is one of
| the richest and most productive farms In
the State and would do credit to any
agricultural country. Mr.. Holt farms
because he loves it. Not for profit alone,
I but his motives are as much from pa
triotic considerations IS they are Tor
profitable purposes. L. believes that
improvement in stock raising is as es-
sential to Southern progress as anything
that enters into the problem of Southern
industrial development. He believes that
better breeds of cattle. better grades OF
swine, better blooded horses, better va
rictes of fowls are all essentials, II the
Southern country is to have material
progress in profitable agricultural deVel-
opment 1t is his delight to send out
nothing from his farms that does not
carry with it the imprint of superiority.
His farms are so well located he has
brought them up to such high state OF
cultivation. they are so conducive to the
growth of the best of cereals and other
products. that they produce the best re-
suits And then he laid the foundation
for the breeding of fine stock by buying
in the beginning nothing but the best OF
every variety
These farms, under Mr.. Hollis liberal
and judicious management. have done
wonders toward stimulating interest in
improved stock raising, not only through
out the section in which they are located.
but all over the State, and in many other
sections of the South.
GILES MEBANE.
Record on half mile track third heat
of winning race 2:16%, passing the wire
in jog.
Giles Mebane, on his sire side, is by
the fastest son of Ashland Wilkes, who |
leads all sires for 1901. George Wilkes, |
Red Wilkes, Ashland Wilkes and John
r. Gentry is Giles glorious line of an
cestry, from the house of the mighty |,
George Wilkes. Producing dams side
are Winnie D., now in the great brood |
mare list. dam of Giles Mebane 2:16&, |
Ginter 2:16A, HUMAN 2:20 and Mayo
2:24A by Hannis 2;17A with ten in the
list.
On the sire's side we have Damewood, !
Daisy B. Woodbine and Queen Dido |
With this royal breeding his record OF
2:16a4 (Which was only mis- third race as
made last October on the half mile track
at Raleigh (Which is not known as a fast
track is only what might have been ex-
rected rs no horse was ever bred in
North Carolina with better pedigree,
his breaking all records on said track, |
feat for which hundreds of low re-
cord fast Horses in the hands of skilled
drivers have been attempting for 50 many
years. .he honor was one TO which he
was justly entitled.
GREGORIAN.
Good, hammered, we'll bred handsome
road horses ere always in demand at re-
murcratve prices to the breeder.
dose scrutiny of the recent sales will
how those interested that we'll bred,
well broken, sound tnroC-year olds, that
are good gated road horses, average
higher then any other class of horses.
Breeders who are looking for a we'll
bred horse, kind and intelligent enough
for lady to drive, that will behave as
well and work as nicely to a pillow as to
pneumatic suiky, will find such horse
in Gregorian. His colts are uniformly
large, upheaded, handsome and speedy, |
and they inherit the qualities of the sire