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, I | f 1 1 l 1 1 ■ 1 ] . i ; ] . ; I , j 1 1 . , I I. 1 I j J il j 1 • | KENTUCKY WOMANS WISDOM Mrs. Elizabeth Estill Johnstons Lcvel-Headed Idea of Racing and Race Horses. Here is a level-headed comment hy a woman owner of a breeding farm in the Blur tlrnss region the Lexingtea, Kentucky, diatrict, Mrs. EUaabeth Batill Johaatoa, af the hfeatreec Pane. It was made to the Kentucky lackey Club and is fall of na . ;!ve commoa seaae: "My haahaad has been a farmer ,1 number of years aad now owns a small farm af sixty-aia acres, sir miles Kast of Lexington, that may be modestly valued at S:; n an acre. All bat tea icrea in graae. Our htrgest diTideada aariag the last tweire years have mate through handtinc hot ea. "Any i ae that has live.i ,.u ., farm all their lif.-. as 1 hare, kaowa that trirming Is haul work .••ml not rery remnaerative. Ilea ■• my haaaend ha-, ds peaded largely apea horsea for aa laeeaae and now are own two tho oaghbred mares aad oae weanling colt by ltall.it. "Ktein oae of these mare-, b Ogdea, we sold at Raratoga la Aagnst, ItSP. v. irling colt, for S2.400. East winter we s,,id tea aires of tohacce from this farm far B3M. i .h..-s n..t require deep thought to aetermiae which paid beat, aad ear . 1 1 1 I in graas improves. "The OgaV n mare is the dam of Devastation, by Wra.k. raced in the East last laaati for the first time and 10 date aa- .von erer ss ;,i,|. "My aaather, than wham aa better ever lived. of tea said -lin mad.- no rules by which others mn-t conform. So, with the race track, thoae who disap provt are aot fore d to attend 01 to raiae stock: is not a . icio.s rale that doe- not reciprocate "I do not look foi perfection la tins life, sn let 11- preserve racial ss we hare it today raa-1 trolled tad ta 1- no I ;■ pro ibition as It hi - un-, control! .1 "Toon far the tberoaghhred, •ELIZABETH l.sill.I. .IOHNSTON."
