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...vast energy. In his eight years' reign he has spent some $2,000,000 on such improvements as building 1,000 miles of new fences, grubbing 15,000 acres clear of mesquite and chaparral to plant them with Rhodes grass from Africa. He is proudest of his new breed of cattle, the Santa Gertrudis, achieved after many a year of experiments. It is a cross of Indian Brahma cattle, which are resistant to the tropical heat and diseases of southern Texas, and pure-bred shorthorns, one of the great English beef breeds. The result is a fat, sleek dark...
...service of international horse shows toward improving the breed and supply of work horses is not nearly so great as its admirers insist. The only work horses showing at the National last week were the eight mountainous Clydesdales of Anheuser-Busch's famed advertising team. Most numerous and most popular of modern show classes are the jumpers. Anyone who knows a martingale from a bridoon knows that show jumpers are seldom good mounts for the hunting field, that not one steeplechaser in 100 is fit to enter a show ring. Steeplechasers are notoriously slovenly jumpers. Show horses spend...
...Denver Post is responsible for the most curious breed of men who have ever associated themselves with the publication of a newspaper. When Bonfils came to Denver, and recruited from the Navarre Cafe assistance in the person of Harry H. Tammen, Denver was in for it. For two decades the Denver Post did one incredible handspring after another, and opened a campaign for subscriptions and power which balked at no invasion of privacy or justice. Bonfils was shot at five times, and one lawyer whom he had attempted to blackmail put three bullets each into him and his confederate...
...unfortunate part about these proceedings, obviously, has been the methods opinions. In the first place, it depends on statistics; Mr. Disraeli's "lies, damned lies, and statistics," holds true, even at Harvard. In the second place, the statistics are incomplete, and have been compiled by headwaitresses, a flighty breed at best. The only sane way of setting the question is to take a ballot from the students as they enter the Dining Halls. In this way, the numbers for and against the later hours, and the intensity of interest in the problem, could be determined in one day, with...
Mink fur, dark brown, deep, silky, lustrous, rates with silver fox as most popular all-round fur. It takes 75 to 100 pelts. which now average $5 to $20 apiece, to make a coat. With so rich a market in prospect, farmers have been trying to breed and raise mink for more than a decade. It has taken them that long to learn how. Not until this year have pen-raised pelts approached trapped pelts in quality...