Show Facts From the Field Two bulls met in an Arkansas town and fought so fiercely that no one could separate them The duel lasted one hour and forty minutes ana menone iell over deaa J H Dickerman says in the New England Homestead that the worst injury in-jury that can be done a horse is enforced en-forced idleness and it is not reasonable to suppose any better colts are insured by high grooming and constant care tnan by the horse equally well bred performing per-forming a fair amount of work He finds stallions more tractable and intelligent in-telligent and they can just as well earn their keep by employment as a gelding horse t The latest dairy item comes from Illinois Ill-inois and is to the effect that a farmer near Geneseo Ill left a number of milk cans by the side of the road for a short time A muskrat pawed off the cover of one of the cans and crawled in After Af-ter it had drank all roe milk it could hold It could not get out In jumping round in the can it churned the milk into butter A ball of butter formed around the muskrat and smothered it Live tuck Indicator Colonel Jeff Boynton of Arlington Ga has discovered < < a novel way of flavoring watermelons He says you can flavor them with any extract you desire His method is Before the melon ripens cut a slit about au inch long in the stem and about twothirds through it and pour in a drop or BO of the extract every morning u itil you think you have the melon flavored highly enough Every morning after pouring in the extract close tue stem and tie a string around it to hold it together to-gether A man came in yesterday for 4000 yearlings for which he is willing to pay 5 a head He must have been reading some of the northern stock papers who tried to m ike the world believe that the country down here was full of stock and nothing to eat Of this idea he will ba disabused before ho spends a second night among us True there is plenty of stock here for sale hut while they wade around tnee deep in grass they will not be soldfor 55 a nead The year lings in Southwest Texas are not built that way this seasonTexas Live Stock Journal A farmer resides in the tract of country adJoinin the Columbia River near Pasco in Washington Territory has demonstrated successfully that the so called sandy desert is composed of excellent soil which produces not only the fruits indigenous to the northern States but those of the southern States as well He has corn potatoes melons sweet potatoes peanuts grapes cotton etc ail growing on his farm and these various products of the soil thrive without with-out irrigation There is no doubt tat much of the landinEastern Washington which looks arid and worthies J contains just as goolsoil as can be found any where and needs only to be tickled with the plow to laugh in bountiful harvest Breeding trotters is in no sense a lottery lot-tery and the largest price is paid for tickets of service by the sire which hap pens to produce the greatest prize An extreme performer enhances the value of the sires services for the time being When St Julien was4n the heyday of his power as a trotter Volunteer cdm mande the cream of the business in the east and the best mares of the south and west were sent to Harold ly reason ot Maud tJs achievements A mom u tary ray of patronage shone upon Rysdyk when Cling tone ruled in his class for a season or two NextV strong tide of public favor set toward Dictator on the strength of his mighty sons JayEyeSee and Phallas Nut wood and Pancoast claim enduring recognition re-cognition through the extreme speed oft of-t er offspring at an early age or with limited training There will be tjuite a demand for the services of King Wilkes Red Wilkes Robert McGregor and Mas terlode next season in consequence bi the performances of Oliver X Prince Wilkes Bonnie McGregor and Belle F The Horseman 1 |