The Alexander Stock Farm

Nine miles from Frankfort, on the road to Lexington, stands one of the finestand richest farms in Kentucky - that owned by Mr. Alexander. On tais superb stock farm we saw 300 blooded horses, ranging in rank from old " Lexington," the monarch of the turf, to the kittenish and frisky yearling. Here also, Mr. Alexander has collected $100,000 worth of cattle comprising some of tho flnest stook in tha world, and peeping into the inclosure where the costly cattle were kept, we sw one diminutivo heifer worth $27,000, and a variety of foreign creatures whose value 8eemed almost fabulous. On this farm are bred the great tuajority of fine trotting and running horses which appear in our parks during the racing season. Mr. Alexauder's estáte, whioh is admirably stocked with fine farm-houscs, barns, and stables, and which is more like a duoal manor than the ordinary American farm, extends over 3,200 acres. Naar by is old John Harper's modest farm of 2,000 acres. The roads, the stone wall, and the fine lawns covered with massive bhade trees, make a series of delighttul pictures. The annual sale of horses on the Alexander faim occurs in June. Only yearling colts are sold. Hundreds of people from all the country around, and trom every State in the Union, flock to tbis sale. An immense barbacue is held, and high wassail marks the conclusión of the occasion. We paid & respectful visit to old "Lexington," the mighty sire of a ruightier equine family. He is now quite blind, a veteran of 22, afflicted with goitre, and stood gazing in the direction from which our voices carne, a melancboly wreek of bis former greatness. The priucess of the race-course of the present, galloped by, neighing and pawing the ground, as ïf annoyed at our presence. Oue of them, named " Asteroid," so far forgot his princely dignity as to charge incontinenty upon the fence where we were seated. The Negro men who manage these erratic brutes undergo all sorts of perilous adventures, but they seem to possess as many lives as a cat, and, like that animal, always land on their feet, no matter how Far the plunging and rearing horses may throw them.