. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 29, 1906 McFADYEN 2:15'/,. Winner of the Two-Year-Old Division of the Breed- ers' Stakes. There is no song dearer to the heart of every son and daughter of the sunny South than the one first dining the trying times of the great Rebellion over forty years ago; even to this day its melody 3 the memories of those who were participants in that great struggle, as well as those who waited patiently, hoping against hope for the return of the "boys in ; and that immortal song began: "Away down south in D
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, December 29, 1906 McFADYEN 2:15'/,. Winner of the Two-Year-Old Division of the Breed- ers' Stakes. There is no song dearer to the heart of every son and daughter of the sunny South than the one first dining the trying times of the great Rebellion over forty years ago; even to this day its melody 3 the memories of those who were participants in that great struggle, as well as those who waited patiently, hoping against hope for the return of the "boys in ; and that immortal song began: "Away down south in Dixie," As I rode over the smooth roads in Solano county last week and saw vehicles of every kind crowded with happy people going along better than a twelve-miles-an-hour gait, drawn, with very few exceptions, by smooth-gliding pacers, just as they do on the old turnpike roads around Nashville, Tennessee, the notes of that song seemed to harmonize with my feelings as I no- ticed that everyone was journeying in the same direction we were, and that was "Away up north to ; What a grand country this is! The wide roads, shaded by tall Lombardy poplars. English walnut and Australian eucalyptus seemed to stretch to the horizon as they divided the big farms. As far as the eye could see on eith- er side these vast plains stretched away, only dot- ted here and there by little clumps of trees, or- chards and vineyards sur- rounding the splendid homes of the prosperous farmers and relieving a landscape which, but for these, would appear as flat and uninteresting as the Pacific Ocean. In every field and paddock were sleek looking horses, cattle and sheep, while along on the edges of the alfalfa fields or beneath the shadows of the fruit trees were scores of well fed Berkshires and Po- land-China hogs feeding. For fruits, wines, nuts, grain and stock raising this section is rapidly forging to the front, and Dixon, one of the neatest, best kept and busiest towns on the rai
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