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AGRICULTURAL.
DANIEL LEE, M. D., Editor.
SATURDAY AUGUST 27, 1559.
AGRICULTURAL ADVANTAGES OF THE
SOUTH.
Scarcely a day passes that we do not notice
something which reminds us of the great cli
matic and other agricultural advantages of the
South. Yesterday, in walking between four and
five miles from Athens depotto our residence in
Clark county, Ga., we saw com in roasting ear,
grown as a second crop, after one of oats, this
year. The corn will be ripe and harvested in
time for any fall or winter vop; and with a
little crowding, three successive harvests might
be had in twelve successive months. The three
months preceding the first of January, and the
three following that day, represent that part of
the year when southern agriculture does least to
render available its peculiar advantages. A few,
and only a few, either sow or plant seeds adapt
ed to the temperature and general moisture
which prevail from the first of October till the
first of April, in the Cotton-growing States; and
as an inevitable consequence, Southern farmers
lack both winter pasture for all kinds of live
stock, and hay as a substitute for green herbage.
To remedy this defect in our present system of
tillage and stock husbandry, and remove all the
disadvantages under whicH planting industry
now labors, we have only to grow in the cool
part of the year, those agricultural plants which
we really need for keeping and rearing mules
and horses, cattle, hogs and sheep. We now
sadly impoverish our land, and mainly because
we produce very little manure, aud that little is
often of an inferior quality. To sustain our prac
tice of cultivating tropical staples for exportation,
it is indispensable that we use wisely the fee
bler heat and more abundant rains of the six
coldest months to recuperate the fertility lost in
the six hottest months of the year. It is mad
ness, if not wickedness, not to balance our ac
count with every soil and every field once in five
years—making it at least as rich in all the ele
ments of fruitfulness as we found it.
What are the renovating plants required to
restore fertility to planting lands, and redeem
southern agriculture from all reproach ? They
are the perennial winter grasses , which, with once
seeding and proper care, will grow a life time.
In the all-wise economy of the Creator, peren
nial grasses, by their durability, are forever
drawing the food and raiment of man from the
deep earth, coming up to their roots in every
drop of rising water, whether in springs or in
the subsoil; and from every thimble full of air
that passes over their verdant leaves, bibulous
and growing alike in winter and summer, spring
and autumn. Deeply let this agricultural truth
sink into the reader's mind : It is grass that
never dies that keeps all else alive.
Civilization developed its first germs in green
pastures. We should make oases in the sunny
South —not barren desert 3. Let us use tlae most
' vigorous plant-life which God has created as the
ever-living basis of our agricultural system. Let
us see how Nature causes grass to transform
earth, air, and water into bread, meat, inilk,
wool and cotton. Principles are eternal; and
no one can study them too profoundly.
Having briefly stated our theory, we come at
once to our practice. Four weeks ago, when
the ground was parched and cracking open from
the contraction of heated clay, our orchard grass
and timothy looked as though the blaze of a
burning brush-heap had passed over, and wither
ed every blade. Our thermometer indicated a
temperature of 136 , > and upwards, in the sun;
while the drouth was trying to all cultivated
plants. Since then, a plenty of rain and a lower
temperature have revived our grasses, and the
orchard grass here, as in Virginia and Maryland,
States that we have recently visited, is at least
twice as valuable for fall aud winter grazing as
timothy. About the first of the present month,
Mr. Bailey seeded for us some twelve acres to
orchard grass, blue grass, timothy and clover.
and there is now a beautiful appearance of young
• plants in all except where- the blue grass was
sown. We suspect that this seed was defective;
although we bought it for fresh seed. Seed
dealers, and even the growers of garden seeds
and grass seeds for markets have long been in
the practice of mixing any old and nearly worth
less seeds they may have on hand when the
new crop comes in with fresh seed of the same
sort, and then selling the mixture as being all ot
the new crop. Possibly our blue grass seed
last sown may come out right before next spring;
but if it fails entirely, the fact will be nothing
new in our experience. These seeds were all
sown in standing corn to shelter and shade the
tender winter grasses while young. We have
no fear of the result. This fall Mr. Bailey will
commence permanent operations on the farm of
Henry Hull, Esq., in Oglethorpe county, with
a view to test on a liberal scale the value of
grass culture and stock-husbandry in that loca
lity. He will require for his own use a consi
derable quantity of the best grass seeds; and it
occurs to us that such of our readers as desire to
have good winter pastures for their stock, and
are willing to aid the South in raising its own
hay, had better order their "seed through this
practical man.
He will be able to deliver orchard grass seed
of this year’s growth in Augusta at three dollars
a bushel; and other grass seeds at such prices
as the market shall warrant. Having already
a pretty large correspondence on this subject,
we shall not decline doing all in our power to
obtain for the use of our friends, the same seeds
which we use ourself. We shall probably visit
Tennessee and Kentucky to examine personally
their grasses, grass-culture, and live stock, and
make arrangements for getting clover, blue
grass, and other seeds directly from the produ
cers. It is our ambition to make the Southern
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Field and Fireside a permanent institution, so far
as the humble efforts of one man will contribute
to that result. If we mistake the agricultural
advantages and wants of the South, there shall
be no mistake in our motives. There are many
millions of acres that now yield little or nothing
to Southern agricultural industry. This fact is
patent to all. Why not devote a part of these
boundless waste lands to legitimate grazing pur
poses ? The writer’s little flock of sheep is doing
first rate on broorasedge and briars. Let it be
increased a thousand fold, who will be harmed ?
Suppose the Terrell Profesßor of Agriculture in
the University of Georgia makes an effort to de
monstrate in a practical way, some of the neglect
ed agricultural advantages of the South ? Will he
have the sympathy of its great industrial interest,
or not ? It is not possible for him to change the
fact that he was bom in another State. By a
reasonable co-operation, an Experimental Farm
of no inconsiderable value might be maintained.
But who will co-operate in a well considered ef
fort to devolope the agricultural resources of the
South ? This is the first question to be settled,
i How many will act in concert to attain a noble
j object'somewhat beyond the means available for
; the purpose of any one individual ? Why are
l our associations for the promotion of agriculture
|so feeble ? Will some gentleman answer this
1 question ? Why do we reject assistance from the
principle of a thoroughly organized conbination
of planters ? Do the cultivators of the soil stand
above, or stand below, that degree of social cul
tore which naturally associates persons pursuing
a common calling to secure common objects?—
i What is the repelliug force in Southern society
i that a thousand planters can not possibly act
! harmoniously together to advance their noble
calling? All know that they possess unde-
I veloped agricultural resources and advantages
j of great value; and yet all do next to nothing,
in concert with others, to improve their condi
tion. Can there be no reform in the future?
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ESSAYS ON FRUIT CULTURE.
We are pleased to see that the Amerimn In
stitute has offered several premiums of SSO and
$25 each, for the best and second best essays
on the cultivation of grapes, pears, peaches and
apples, each fruit to be the subject of a separate
essay, and command the premiums named.
That on grapes to be ready by the first of
1 October next; that on pears by the first of
April; and the others, say by first of June fol
lowing, and to be plain, practical treatises upon
the different subjects, their merits to be decided
by a competent committee, and no prize awarded
unless fully merited. The writer to have a copy
right, if published in book form, but to allow
their publication by newspapers and in the In
stitute transactions.
Judge Meigs, Secretary of the Institute, re
minded the Board that some of the most valua
ble information ever elicited by the Royal Agri
cultural Society of England had been obtained
in exactly the same way—that is, by offering
£lO prizes for tracts upon various subjects; and
he fully approved of the same course being
adopted by the American Institute, particularly
when such liberal-minded gentlemen come for
ward with the means; and he hoped other in
dividuals would be induced to offer similar prizes
for essays upon other subjects, since the Insti
tute has no funds, except as they are derived
from the liberality of individuals.
The mass of citizens know very lTttle of the
art of growing superior fruits, which is the true
reason of their great scarcity in all markets. —
Cheap publications, in the form of tracts and es
says scattered broad-cast over the republic, can
hardly fail to enlighten the public mind aud
awaken increased interest in the subject.
THE WINe"tRADE OF FRANCE.
The Philadelphia Inquirer condenses the fol
lowing interesting facts from a late publication
in one of the English journals, on the subject of
the Wine Culture and Trade of France. It says
that about five millions of acres of the soil of
that empire are devoted to the cultivation ofthe
vine; and the wine-presses of France produce
annually over sight hnndred millions of gallons
of wine at an average cost of ten cents per gal
lon. It will be seen, therefore, that wine in
France is much cheaper than malt-liquor in the
United States, and hence it is almost the univer
sal drink of the people. It is stated that the
population of Great Britain, instead of drinking
a fair proportion of wine, as produced in France,
consume, upon the most correct estimate which
can be made, nearly four hundred millions of
gallons of spirits, and six million five hundred
thousand gallons of wine; and of this latter
they take only eight hundred and fifty thousand
gallons from France. In Paris it is computed
that each inhabitant consumes two hundred and
sixteen bottles of wine in the year; in the wine
districts of France, each person takes seven
hnndred and thirty bottles in the same period.
Each citizen of Hamburg consumes twenty-nine
bottles, but the Englishman drinks scarcely half
a wine-glass of French wine in the year, al
though, if freely admitted, he might indulge
himself with it at a less cost than that which he
pays for his ale and beer.
The average yield of French vineyards is four
hundred and fifty gallons per acre, aud the total
annual value of the produce about eighty-four
millions of dollars. Eleven millions gallons of
brandy are distilled from eighty-eight millions of
gallons of wine, and the quantity exported of
wine and brandy is only one-seventh of the en
tire production. The total value of the brandy
produced in France is about twelve millious of
dollars, at an average cost of forty-eight cents
per gallon. The culture, manufacture, and sell
ing of French wines, employ two millions of
people. These few res fits are well worthy the
attention of American cultivators, for in no part
of the world are the soil and climate more favor
able to the growth of grapes than between cer
tain parallels of latitude in the United States,
and the day is probably not far distant when the
wine crop will be regarded as one of our most
important resources. Already in Ohio, Missouri,
and portions of Pennsylvania, New York, New
Jersey, Virginia aud Georgia, there are extensive
and profitable vinevards.
A Mammoth Beet. —The Anderson Gazette
tells of a beet which weighed thirty-four and a
half pounds, and measured thirty-seven inches
in circumference.
Such a beet it would be hard to heat.
FREEDOM OF THE PRESS.
Whatever may be said of the London Tvnes,
its tergiversations in politics, or its subservien
cy to the powers that be, yet its very boldness
upon whatever subject it writes, challenges ad
miration. Just now we have a very good speci
men of its independence before us, m vindica
tion of the freedom of the press. Some remarks
having been made in Parliament complaining of
the severe comments of the English press upon
Louis Napoleon, and his suppression of its cir
culation in France, the Times says :
“It is our vocation and our very being to speak
truly and freely about all public characters and
affairs. If we cannot follow our vocation we
cease to be altogether. We are a free press,
which is about as distinct a thing from Conti
nental journalism as a living man is from a skel
eton, or a forest from a timber yard.”
In the same strain it goes on to say : “If we
have said what is not true, that is another ques
tion ; but if our crime is that we have some
times said that which may hurt the feelings of an
Emperor or his soldiers, then we beg to state
our case. We existed liefore either Napoleon
111. or Napoleon I. We are as much an essen
tial institution of this country as they of theirs.
We are precisely what we were not only when
Louis Napoleon lodged in St. James’, but when
Ins uncle was a sub officer of artillery. We are
what we were before either Mr. Bright or Lord
John Russel was born. The era which gave
France its revolution gave England its free
press. That press has preserved its freedom by
acting up to itself, and speaking t l, e truth, to the
best of its ability and judgment, of everything and
everybody. No one can over estimate its weight
as an auxiliary and mouthpiece of a free legis
lature and oj»en justice. But here it exists, one
of the chief forces of the country, now also a
heritage from our forefathers to be bequeathed
to our children.”
It is not enough that the press be free to en
sure its highest usefulness. It must represent
the highest intelligence of the age and country,
and evince an unyielding regard for the Truth.
Thus armed, its power is greater than that of
I emperors, and always exerted for the benefit of
I mankind. It is one of the youngest of human
institutions, being unknown before the inven
tion of the printer’s art: and it has hardly yet
passed out of its embyro state. In the last ten
years, its growth has been most wonderful in the
United States ; especially in what relates to lit
erary and agricultural journalism. As a me
dium for advertising business matters, the press
has made the fortunes of thousands, yet very
few appreciate its value.
—
DRAINAGE
I hope the prejudice against deep drainage
in strong clays is gradually giving way.—
Whilst cutting my great circular liquid ma
nure tank, to hold 40,000 gallons, I observed
the surface-water weeping through the tenacious
clay like perspiration from one’s skin on a warm
day, the globular tears, or drops, uniting and
descending the sides of the tank. When we had
carried a band of brick-work, 4 feet deep, round
the upper portion of the excavation, the water,
thus obstructed in its horizontal filtration, es
caped in accumidated quantities, just below the
circular band. I quite agree with Mr. Mitchell’s
remarks as to the combined horizontal and ver
tical motion of water. Watch, for instance, the
drop of water that falls on blotting-paper or any
porous substance; it at once spreads and be
comes infinitely divided; of course the same op
eration takes place on the soil. 1 have no doubt
after all, that my once ridiculed theory of a large
area of porosity in the drain, (that, is, cutting
the earth vertically and filling with stones) fa
cilitates the escape of water, provided the drains
are placed deep enough to overcome the strong
capillary surface attraction. Os course every
one uses pipes now, because they are found, if
placed deep and near enough, to carry the wa
ter off in a reasonable time, and they are much
less costly. A deep open ditch will not drain
the adjoining soil, because when the sides are
dry the water rises up towards the surface by
capillary attraction, and thus heads back the
water behind it. Put pipes into the bottom of
this ditch, fill it up. and it will then drain the
adjoining soil. I know a case of this kind.—
The facility with which liquids ascend loaf-sugar
or any dry capillary substance, must show the
inefficiency of shallow drains. When well
wrapped up, and facing a driving rain, I have
been practically convinced of the universal mo
tion of water, which manages to find its way to
your sk in by tortuous and eccentric conduits.—
Horticulturists will tell yon if you wish to make
a shrub shoot from a particular portion of its
stem, you have only to wrap worsted round it,
inserting the other end into wat r below it. I
hope our Scotch friends will not deny that our
open furrows, for winter Wheat do act occasion
ally as auxiliary drains. If they adopted the
system for winter crops, they would not contin
ue to sow their bushels of Wheat, because it
would not, as at present, be diminished by lift
ing, bursting, Ac. Depend upon it for w-inter
corn, on strong clays, your furrows economise
your seed, and aid your under-drainage in wet
seasons. Where your land is deeply cultivated
with a loose, open, uncropped, unharrowed, and
unrolled surface, you will have no surface dis
charge. I could illustrate this practically on
my farm, this winter. For spring. crops, fur
rows' are unnecessary.— J. J. Jftchi, Tiptreehall.
Remarks. —Few men in any country have
experimented so much with both open ditches
and covered drains as the author of the above
remarks. His testimony to the effect that “a
deep open ditch will not drain the adjoining soil,
because when dry the water rises up towards
the surface by capillary attraction, and thus
heads back the water behind it, ’’ is worth con
sidering. The idea of “ heading back water by
capillary attraction” is not very clearly express
ed ; nor is it easy to discover why water will not
rise over a covered drain from a moist, to a
dryer soil or subsoil, by capillary attraction, as
well as on the sides of a ditch. The disadvan
tages of the latter are not so much their inabili
ty to drain land when deep enough and close
enough together, as their constant liability to be
obstructed by the falling in of earth, leaves, and
trash of all kinds, and by the serious difficulty of
cultivating land so cut up into deep impassable
water courses. Wet ground can only become
dry in tenacious clay, by the aid of numerous
drains, whether opened or covered ; and these
should never be less than three feet below the
suifiee. At this depth, no common rains or fall
of water can long furnish an excess of moisture
in the earth above the free outlet; and no more
water will rise by capillary attraction than agri
cultural plants require. The fact must be re
membered that water descends into aperture of
the drain by the capillarity of the earth, when
the ground about the drain is dried by the es
cape of water, as well ascends or spreads latter
ly by a similar force. No property in a soil is
more important than its permeability to air and
water ; and yet it should not be too open, nor
too permeable, but so compact as to require con
siderable time for rain-water to descend one,
two and three feet into the ground. Stirring the
earth very deep, as in the best kind of plowing
brings it into the condition to hold the maximum
of water without injury, and for the obvious
benefit of the crop. To increase the natural ca
pacity of the soil to take up water by deepening
it, as is seen in the best river bottoms, or other
made land, is a point of the highest importance
Steam is unquestionably the power which is
destined to dig all needful ditches for draining
land, and to comminute the earth as deeply as
future experience shall prove desirable. Fertil
ity must come, not from distant guano islands
for the toiling millions, but from the subsoil.
The roots of plants must be encouraged to des
cend far deeper in search of moisture and other
aliment; while water and other plant food must
be drawn up to these roots from a lower depth to
enrich the surface soil, and reward the labors of
a wiser generation of farmers. Moving, living
water, not that which is stagnant, imparts fruit
fulness to the earth.
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EFFECT OF EMANCIPATION ON THE AFRICAN
RACE.
“There is no blinking the truth. Years
of bitter experience—years of hope deferred, of
self-devotion unrequited, of poverty, of humilia
tion, of prayers unanswered, of sufferings de
rided, of insults unresented, of contumely pa
tiently endured—have convinced us of the truth.
It must be spoken out, loudly and energetically,
despite the wild mockings of ‘howling cant.’—
The freed West India negro slave will not till
the soil for wages; the free son of the ex-slave
is as obstinate as his sire. He will not cultivate
lands which he has not bought for his own yams,
mangoes and plantains. These satisfy his wants;
he does not care for yours. Cotton, and sugar,
and coffee, and tobacco—he cares little for them.
And what matters it to him that the English
man has sunk his thousands and tens of thou
sands on mills, machinery and plant, which
now totter on the languishing estate that for
years has only returned beggary and debts.—
He eats his yams and sniggers at ‘Buckra.’
“We know not why this should be; but it is
so. The negro has been bought with a price—
the price of English taxation and English toil.
He has been ‘redeemed from bondage’ by the
sweat and travail of some millions of hard-work
ing Englishmen. Twenty millions of pounds
sterling—one hundred millions of dollars —have
been distilled from the brains and muscles of
the free English laborer, of every degree, to
fashion the West Indian negro into a ‘free and
independent laborer.’ ‘Free and independent’
enough he has become, God knows; but laborer
he is not; and, so far as we can see, never will
be. He will sing hymns and quote texts, but
honest, steady industry he not only detests but
despises. We wish to Heaven that some people
in England—neither government people, nor
parsons, nor clergymen—but some just-minded,
honest-hearted and clear-sighted men, would go
out to some of the islands—say Jamaica, Domin
ica or Antigua—not for a month or three months,
but for a year—would watch the precious pro
tege of English philantropy, the freed negro, in
his daily habits ; would watch him as he lazily
plants his little squatting; w’ould see him as he
proudly rejects agricultural or domestic service,
or accepts it only at wages ludicrously dispro
portionate to the value of his work. We wish,
too, they would watch him while, with a hide
thicker than that of hippopotamus and a body
to which fervid heat is a comfort rather than an
annoyance, he droningly lounges over the pre
scribed task on which the intrepid Englishman,
uninured to the burning «un, consumes his im
patient energy and too often sacrifices his life.
We wish they would go out and view the negro
in all the blazonry of his idleness, his pride, his
ingratitude, contemptuously sneering at the in
dustry of that race which made him free, and
then come home and teach the memorable les
son of their experiences to the fanatics who
have perverted him into what he is.”
We rejoice to see the London Times teaching
wholesome truths on the subject of free negro
labor in the right quarter. Another step in the
same direction, and public opinion will be all
right in England.
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A VALUABLE RECIFE FOR A BAD COUGH.
Half tea cup of flax seed, J lb. raisins, J lb.
loaf sugar, J oz. liquorice, 3 pints water; add
these together and boil steadily until one-half
the water has evaporated, then strain and boil it.
Dose, a small wine glass full three times a day,
or as often as the cough is troublesome, adding
a tea-spoonful of vinegar or lemon juice to each
dose. It will not do to make a large quantity,
as it soon sours—unless brandy be added.
Grape Culture. —Advices have been receiv
ed from Major W. C. Williams, (in the service
of the Agricultural branch of the Patent Office,)
from El Paco, on the Rio Grande, in which he
gives an account of the results of his observa
tions on the fruits of New Mexico, and par
ticularly the grapes of that region. Os these lat
ter he speaks in the warmest terms, dividing
the kinds mainly into two varieties, the blue
and the w-hite. Os the blue grapes he says;
“In size of bunches, in size of berries, and ex
alted sweetness as well as delicacy of flavor, it
is unrivalled by any variety in cultivation in the
United States. It tastes like the Isabella,
sweetened with loaf sugar. The white grape is
a large delicious grape, preferred by some for
the table, but the blue grape is more hardy (as
is supposed) and more prolific. The El Paso
grapes are already successfully cultivated in
Pennsylvania, and if the people of that State can
succeed, what can others do who are more
favorably situated in soil and climate ?”—Ex
change.
■ 111 .
To Keep Bugs from Vines.— For the benefit
of your numerous subscribers, I will send you
what T have found to be the best method to keep
the yellow striped bugs from vines. I have
used it for more than thirty years, and have nev
er known it to fail.
lake the feathers from a hen’s wing, and dip
them in spirits of turpentine, and stick one or
two in a hill, and after every shower they will
want to be dipped over again.
Howard, Sayre , in Country Gentleman.
THE WOOL-GEO WEES' FATE.
This exhibition opened on the 4th at Cleveland,
Ohio. It was a decided success in attendance and
the quantity and quality of the wool. The number
of lots on exhibition was one hundred and forty,
and the number of pounds six hundred thousand.
Os these were fifteen thousand fleeces from Ohio,
and three hundred and fifty fleeces from Penn
sylvania. The housing of sheep and the care
ful cleaning of fleece were urgently advocated.
During a discussion on the most important points
of consideration for dealers and manufacturers,
many useful and interesting items of information
were adduced. Only 40,000,000 lbs. a year were
raised in the United States, and 86,000,000 lbs.
were used in manufacturing, making an import of
nearly 50,000,000." The repeal of duties on wool
was advocated. Since the duty was taken off
from wool costing under 20 cents per lb., the
price of the home wool has risen. Mr. Pond, a
wool-buyer of Boston, gave some interesting
figures. The amount of wool required for mak
ing the cloth 3 worn in this country, is 200,000,-
000 lbs., which might all be the product of this
country. When the duty was taken off from the
wool in Kngland and Prance, the result was an
increased price for home produce and an en
larged production. At the wool sales Messrs.
Harhaugh & Co., of Pittsburg. Pa., bought nearly
50,000 lbs., ranging from 34 cents to 48$ cents,
and Mr. Randall, also of Pitrsburg, purchased
5,000 lbs., fine Ohio, at 40 cents, while four
fleeces, extra nice, were run up to $1 15.
It is one of the most remarkable facts in Ame
rican agriculture that its total product of wool
is only one-fifth the quantity actually consumed
in woolen goods in the United States. Our an
nual wool crop is about forty million pounds,
while to manufacture all the woolen fabrics con
sumed in this country requires two hundred mil
lion pounds. A simple mention of these facts
ought to induce every farmer to investigate the
profits of growing this great staple at least t o the
extent of meeting the home demand. We have
any desirable amount of uncultivated land for
sheep husbandry; and no large capital is need
ed to start the business on a healthy and pro
mising basis. It is an agricultural pursuit in
which a little labor will bring into use and im
provement a large area of farming land. It is
admirably adapted to the open districts of the
South, where flocks can gather most of their
food the year round, in out-lying pastures and
sheep-walks. It is only a question of time when
this branch of rural industry will command the
best care of Southern talent and enterprise.
—
From the London Times of July 28.
THE GOODWOOD BACES-AMEBICAN TRI
UMPH - •
Although the attendance of general company
was yesterday comparatively meagre, the gath
ering to day was still more scanty. The charac
ter of the competitors was not of an order to
render their performances important, or to excite
more than a transient interest among genuine
racing men. Mr. Ten Broeek brought from
America a stud of half a dozen. Prioress, in her
second year in Kngland, after running in such a
manner as to make all people believe that she
would not be able to win a saddle and bridle at
Barnet Fair, carried off our principal handicap,
and nearly repeated her achievement a second
year in succession. Now we have to record the
victory of another American importation. Starke,
wiio until to-day had never shown racing ability
worthy of consideration, but who comes and up
sets the calculations of our shrewdest turf tacti
cians by winning a rate which the owners of Eng
lish horses have for months been planning and
scheming to obtain. Mr. Ten Broeek made no
secret of the confidence which he placed in his
horse, and scarcely a man in the ring “ missed
laying, ” and that success, although attained by
an “ outsider, ” did not give the bookmakers a
turn.
The racing which preceded and followed the
stakes presented no incident for comment.
The day was bright and sunny.
Goodwood Stakes, of 25 sovs. each, 15 ft., and five only
if declared, Ac. Winners extra. The second to re
ceive UK) sovs. out of the stakes. Two miles and a
half; 98 subs., 58 of whom declared.
Mr. R. Ten Hroeck’s Starke, by Wagner—Reel, 4
yrs. 7st. 71b. (Plumb) 7. 1
Mr. J. Shelley's Lifeboat, 4 yrs. Bst 71b. (Wells) 2
Mr. Rigby’s Blue Jacket, 5 yrs. Sst. Clb. (Fordham). 8
Mr. J. Thompson’s Heiress, 8 yrs. (including 31b. ex
tra,) Sst. 101 b. (Madden) 4
Lord Clifden's Melissa, 6 yrs. Sst 21b. (Bray.)
Baron de Niviere's Miss Cath, 6 yrs. 7st. 101 b. (C. Pratt.)
Lord Ailesbury’s Compromise, 4 yrs. (including 81b. ex
tra.) 7st. Sib. (Flatman.)
Count de Prndro's Gouvleux, 4 yrs. 7st 51b. (G. Pratt)
Mr. Lambert's Queenstown, 4 yrs. 7st. 41b. (F. Adams.)
Lord Strathmore's Worcester, 5 yrs. (including 81b. ex
tra,) 7st 21b (Charlton.)
Captain Christie’s Ferndale, 4 yrs. Ost. 121 b. (Bullock.)
Mr. Gratwicke’s Ethiopian, 4 yrs. 6st. 111 b. (J. Daley.)
Mr. Denman nn. Tocher, 4 yrs. 6st 211 b. (ChaUoner.)
Mr. Saxon's Queen Bess, 5 yrs. Sst 101 b. (Grimshaw.)
Mr. W. S. 8. Crawfurd's Bella, 8 yrs. 6st. 211 b. (W. Bot
tom.)
M. E. Ten Brocck’s Woodburn, 8 vrs. 4st. 101 b. (car. Tst
711 b.) (Custance.)
Betting—7 to 2 agst Lifeboat; Cto 1 against Queen
Bess; Bto 1 against Blue Jacket; 12 to 1 against Com
promise; 100 to 7 against Garpard; 100 to fi against
Starke; 100 to 6 against Mellissa; 20 to 1 against Ethio
pian; 20 to 1 against Worcester; 25 to 1 against Tocher;
25 to 1 against Heiress; 80 to 1 against Bella; 88 to 1
against Queenstown; 88 to 1 against Ferndale.
The horses got way on the first attempt,
Woodburn, who was started to make running
for Starke, going off - with the lead, followed by
Tocher, Melissa, Queen Bess, Heiress, and Com
promise, nearly in the order named and pretty
well laid up, Queenstown and Gouvieux whip
ping in. They passed the stand without any
material alteration, but .on nearing the turnout
of the straight Woodburn increased his lead, and
in pursuit of him at clear intervals were Tocher,
Melissa, Ethiopian, and Heiress. About six
lengths behind them came Gaspard, with Blue
Jacket, Ferndale, and Compromise at his heels,
- Queenstown and Gouvieux being still last.
After rounding the clump Melissa drew into the
third place, and the lot were in pretty close
order soon after coming in sight, with the ex
ception of Queenstown and Gouvieux, who were
now hopelessly beaten. As they ascended the
hill Melissa took up the running, followed by
Tocher, Starke, and Heiress. Lifeboat, who had
been lying off in the ruck, now joined the lead
ing horses. After making the last turn, and in
coming down the hill, Melissa’s leg gave way and
she dropped into the rear, leaving Blue Jacket
with the lead. Starke second, in close attendance
upon him ; Lifeboat, Heiress, and Gaspard next.
At the distance Starke took up the running, and
Lifeboat passed Blue Jacket at the enclosure,
challenged “ the American, ” but failed to get up,
and was, after a fine race, beaten by half a
length, Blue Jacket being six lengths from the
second ; Heiress was fourth, beaten off; Com
promise w r as fifth, and Gaspard sixth, close up
with Heiress. Heading the next lot, all pulling
up, were Miss Cath and Gouvieux. The others
did not pass the post. Melissa was dismounted
before reaching the stand, and far behind her
came Woodburn, trotting in.