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THE SOUTHERN WORLD, MAT 15, 1882.
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give $Jac1t ryiutmnt.
A Visit to Kollo Monde.
This magnificent estate of over 3,000 acres
is North west of Nashville, Tenn., six miles;
there is railroad, the Nashville & St. Louis
running through it, with a station called
Harding’s near the mansion. Here resides
Oen. W. G. Harding, the most extensive
breeder of horses in the Union. His three
stallions, Great Tom,Enquirorand Bramble,
are so well known that it would be useless
to describe them. On the 29th of April at
his annual sale, was sold 36 one year old
colts; they brought near $24,000 cash; they
are beautiful animals and were much ad
mired. Milton Young, George Lorrilard
The Dwyar Bros., Col. Bruce, editor of the
Turf and Farm; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Read,
of Saratoga; and many other Turfmen were
present and purchased largely. One colt
brought $4,600.
This farm is admirably adapted for stock-
raising, a large portion being in Blue grass.
It was estimated that over 2,000 persons were
deer, and before the war there were many
stately elk, Indian and Rocky mountain
buffalo, but the United 8tates soldiers slew
them all, and the only mementos left are
the gigantic antlers, which adorn th e outer
corridors of the mansion. The grounds and
farm are kept in admirable order; most of
the fences are of rock; a beautiful stream
winds along the base of the lawn, and its
clear waters rippling over the rocks, makes
music for this msthetic home.
Gen. Harding is 74 years of age and is in
infirm health; he is a gonial gentleman of
the old school and thorough scholar, a grad
uate of the A. L. and S. Academy, Middle-
town, Connecticut, under the supertendence
of Capt. Alden Partridge. He has written
several articles of high merit, on the subject
of immigration, which were published in the
history of Davidson county, Tenn. His
son-in-law, Gen.W. H. Jackson, superintends
the vast interests of the place with admirable
judgment and indomitable energy, a host in
himself. This household are of the old time
Southern fashion; hospitable to a fault;
plain, high-minded, but highly cultured
people.
walking over the same land only once,
while your plan, as I understand it, necessi
tates the walking over the same ground three
times, namely: First you attach your line
or rope to stob number one, and walk the
lengtli of the line where you attach it to
stob number two, you must return, making
twice and when you reach stob number two
it makes three times. The following is my
plan, as shown by this diagram.
Take two pieces of nny seasoned timber,
(hickory or oak preferred,) 1)4X2 inches,
4 and 6 feet long. Let the 4 feet piece into'
the five feet piece, just 4 feet from point a,
leaving one foot extending for a handle b,
the two pieces to be securely nailed and
braced with piece c of same timber. This
makes the two points a, (which should be
sharpened) on a line just 6 feet or 2 yards.
The man who would increase his income
by a colt a year, really saved nearly his value.
He would contend that the interest on the
price of the mare,‘her food, service of horse
would be more than the colt would be worth.
I replied, you keep a saddle horse, never in
the plow, or between traces; suppose you
use a mare, then no interest, no feed, and
only cost of service of horse. He was the
owner of two places, raised about 900 bales
of cotton, and was a successful man, and
supposed of course he knew. On the occa
sion of the young horse, I had him cornered
—said to him you can’t dodge, you have to
answer: what did that pretty sorrel cost?
He, like a good fellow as he was, said if the
colt costone dollar he did not know it. His
wife’s father gave the dam to his wife, and
the colt came in time; he had grown up,
getting salt and feed as it could among the
mules.
Why not plow mares and rear a colt every
two years? I saw a mare brought in at
dusk from the day’s work and next morning
she had a colt. This was in Kentucky, and
the owner said he had forgotten dates.
Caleb.
"GYPSY BOY OF WOODLAWN."
in attendance on sale day. Ample provis
ion of barbacued meats and barrels of but
ter milk was provided free and sufficient for
the great crowd.
The General has a large herd of grade
cattle, blooded sheep and some ten or twelve
Shetland ponies, together with Angora
goats, game fowls and other fine breeds,
with turkeys, etc. There is a saw and grist
mill on the place and a fine extensive marble
quarry, of which the pillars and steps of
his noble mansion are constructed. There
is the most perfect system of agriculture
used here; immense quantities of hay, bar
ley, oats, wheat and com are annually
raised, amply sufficient to supply his stock.
He has 80 thoroughbred mares, that have
never had a collar on, or even shod; kept
for breeding alone and the General remarked
to me when I asked him if they worked,
“does Queen Victoria work or bake bread or
wash clothes, no sir, if people were as par
ticular in breeding their own progeny os
I am with my horses, there would not be as
many bad men and women in this world
as there is."
There is a park here of 400 acres, with 36
aores left in ‘’natural’’ in it roam over 300
There were present as invited guests, Hon.
Thomas Bayard, Senator from Delaware;
Senator Gorman, of Maryland; Senator H.
E. Jackson, of Tennessee, a son-in-law of
Gen. Harding’s; Mr. Baughman and Hon.
George B. Loring, Commissioner of Agri
culture. I was much pleased to find Dr.
Loring a genial gentleman, and the right
man in the right place, highly educated and
very practical. N.
“ Gypsy Boy of Woodlawn.”
We ore indebted to Col. Alexander War
ner, of Woodlawn, Connecticut, for the
above illustration of his famous bull, Gypsy
Boy of Woodlawn. He is an imported bull,
weighing about 1,700 pounds, 4 years old,
fine, soft hair, first-class escutcheon, and
pronounced by competent judges, to be,
without doubt, the finest Guernsey bull in
America. ________
Another Way to Measure land.
Editob Southern World—Your plan for
one person measuringanacre of land or any
number of acres in a piece of land is very
good, but not so convenient as the way I
measure land, which you will see requires
36 steps with the compass gives measurement
one way of a full acre, or 70 yards. Cross
the land wished to be measured first one way
and then the other. Take the two results
obtained and multiply them together, mul
tiply the result by 2, (the tompass being
two yards,) then divide by 4900 this being the
number of yards in an acre, the quotient
is the number of acres in the field. Solu
tion: A field is 140 X 210steps; multiply by
one another is 29,400; this multiplied by 2
gives 68,800, which divided by 4900 gives 12
as the number of acres. B.
Mixed Husbandry.
Ed. Southern Wobld—I think it was
about 1860, my friend and neighbor, A. M.,
whom I had known from his boyhood, had a
young sorrel horse as a riding horse; he kept
one always under the saddle. I asked what
did that young horse cost; where did you
get him? He evaded a reply, but when
pressed remarked, you know thejcolt and the
dam; this did not suit me; as we had had
many arguments on mixed husbandry, he
ever contending cotton culture was his bus
iness; I advocating the best success as a cot
ton grower was individual and community
advantage.
The Peruvian Bark Tbeb.—Mr. Irvin, a
Northern man, writes back home that ho
has found in Jackson county, N. C., what ho
believes to be the genuine Peruvian bark
tree. If the tree is the same that is known
by this name among our people, it is abun
dant in many places in Henderson county.
We have seen it in the mountains of this
county. In appearance it resembles the
wild cherry—prunus • erotina. When trans
planted in favorable places, its growth is
very rapid. It would bean excellent tree
for parks and streets.
If this is the true Peruvian tree, it will
prove a valuable addition to our resources.
We understand it is found in all the moun
tain counties.—[Independent Herald, Hen
dersonville, N. C.
The human mind needs the support of
kindred opinion—at least it always loves it;
but it is indispensable to it in religious con
victions, the very basis of which is the pro-
foundest feeling of community.
God’s sweet dews and showers of grace
slide off the mountains of pride and fall on
the low valleys of hntnble hearts and make
them pleasant and fertile.