The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1872-1881, 1879-01-24
Lawn. STOCK AND cRoP.

/ ~ boNlei AiN mules ~ 15V per heau'
J. NJ Brown, Of Mckinney Station, sold
to -----, this week, 20 head mules
SIS.
The Nelson Record reports sales of 800
10. steers, at $3.50 per hundred; l,2OO.lb. al
s3l2i and i,O5O-lb. Pt s2.75.
Thomas Bowman sold to J. NJ. Wilson
$50 barrels Of corn, to he delivered At Bur.
gin, for Sl.7j per bauel-l Iarrodsburp
Observer.
Dudley Tribble -old to William Bennett
fifiy shares Of Second National Bank stock
for $500, or at 6 per cent above par
Richmond Register.
FrKD.-I have 600 shocks Of fodder,
which I will feed to stock at reasonable
figures. Apply to Moreland q Ssndidge
at Judge Iytle's farm.
Sales Of six steers, averaging ,475 lbs,
at sS.sj; I,ss5lb. heifers, al $780, %
feeding cattle at $50 per head, and s broke
mules at from $50 to $50 per head, are re-
ported in the Midway CiPp>r.
| find about l 900 head Of stock on the
market. But few horses-no call for them.
Mule are very low; good lots, fifteen
hands high, fat and smooth, selling at 81
with a slight advance from these figures on
some.-[GIasgow Times Atlanta letter.
TIN IIIoGfSs' SALE.-Very bad day, but
tolerably good crowd in attendance and
bidding good. Capt. J. VI. Higgins was
auctioneer, and sold 90 long yearling- al
$3.50; 90 2-year-olds at $50; hogs, &c per
pound; horses from So to $40; mule colts,
from S25 to SIS; milk COWS, from $40 to
$50; corn, $3.50 per barrel; 10 stacks Of
hay. at from Si2 to SIS; fodder, II cents
per shock.
DASvILLE CoUET.-Capt. IL. L. Bush,
auctioneer, reports about $50 TO 500 cattle
on the market, quality generally iair,
and prices advanced, the best selling readi-
ly at &c. per pound; common, from 8 to Ssc.
scrubs from to 2lc per ID. More mules
on the market than usual. No demand for
frst-class stock; but few buyers for sec
ond-class or medium size mules, at low
prices. Sale for plug horses played out.
LouIsvILLE.--Pri for cattle unchanged
good to extra shippers bringing from 32C
to 4lc; best butchers, SIC to &c; medium q
good, &c to SIC; thin to medium, lie to
PC. Hogs have advanced from 10 TO p
per cent. over last weeks quotations; choice
10 butchers, S3,lj to 1925; fair to good, $
10 sSl5; common to good light, $3.50 Il
$3.50. Good sheep are in demand at Sc
TO &c; common are duh at &c to 2ac.
I'D. Swope writes as follows from Chill
dersbrrg, Ala: Leaving Stanford on tina
bitter, cold Saturday, Jan. 4th., reache'
my destination, (Calera, Ala.,) the follow
ing Wednesday at p O'Clock, A. NJ, for tn
iirst time in my life, on time. My stool
were in good condition, except they ha'
all contracted severe colds, which the PEG
pic here mistake for dis,emper. | LEI
&. soon after | unloaded, and went to Cc
lumbiana, where sold two mules and
horse. From thence came TO this plac
where | have sold four mules. | leav
here this evening for Fayetteville iroI
there | will 20 IL Talladega, my old tradiu
point. The stock that have sold, | n
gard as very low. The extreme prices b'
ing $50 and 500. The heavy run Of stoe
to Alabama this year is unprecedented iC
years. Taking in connection with this fac
the exceeding low price Of cotton since tn
war, traders must necessarily expect to sc
at low figures. The farmers that are alb
= to hold their cotton, are holding Il for be
q ter prices, and from the present outlook,
I believe they will obtain il, as the best co
ton in the last few days has advance
B. from &c to &c per ID. The little expei
ence have in mule trading, South, SUI
= gests a oonundrum TO my mind, IL is thl
= Before the war the planters here paid for
Z good mule, $3.50 to $500. Their lab
then, they will tell you, cost them mo-
4 than now. Their meat cost them mo
! then than now, and so did their breadstui
c and II they got for cotton s@9c they We
: a happy and prosperous people, and mo
of them accumulating fortunes. No'
= with the reduction in the prices Of mu.'
c labor, meat and breadslufl, with eott'
= from &c to Toe they complain OF hai
;. times-and say il will break them TO p'
i more than 500 for mule. | can't u
= derstand IL. Since begun to write y
Is letter, have sold nine head of stock.
e expect to close out in few days more,
n ] am now selling to men that had spok
= 10 me for mules.