Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1881-10-15
Stock Notes.

Live stock market, Kansas City, yesterday -
C~attle-Extra native shipping steers, S. 25@5 30;
good, we'll fatted steers, 81 90@5 90; medium
steers in fair flesh. "a 1904 IS; choice to extra
fat butchers cows, So eO93 so; common to fat
COWS, $2 25@2 IS; good fat stock cattle and
feeders. % 25@3 s.; light stockers. 81 OO@2 Is;
bulls, common to choice, 80 OO@3 90; Colorado
ste ers, So 0O@3 SO; Texan steers, 50 6O@3 IS:
half-breeds, 80 1903 80.
st. Louis live stock market Thursday Cattle
Receipts 900; shipments, 400; no shipping
steers here, but wanted at firm prices; the bulk
Of the receipts were southwest and Colorado
steers which sold quick at strong prices-Col-
orados bringing 81 25@5 80; native butcher
steers firm At SO 1904 so; good to choice cows
and heifers, % 1904; common, So 5O@3; good
to choice Texans, 81 2504; common, So 5O@a;
stockers slow. $S9s 80; feeders slow, So 5O@4.
sheep-Receipts. 500. shipments. l, 200; scarce
and hrm; urgent demand for good graders fair
to good, p 5O@4 25; prime to fancy, 81 50@5
Hogs-Quality poor but prices better; Workers.
- 2s@6 80; packing, sG@s so; butchers to
fancy. 90 6O@6 90; pigs $5@5 IS. Receipts
Z 200. shipments, 4.4sO.
Mr. Virgil Keene's splendid young Membrino
colt, Buford, raised by his father, X. W.
keene, Esq, won q golden wreath of laurels at
the st. Louis fair. Buford is royalty bred. He
Is by Todhunter's Membrino, out of Paddy
Buford, by Red Eagle. by Red Eye, by Boston:
second dam Dixie, by Little Arthur; running
back six CROSSES each of which is thoroughly
lInbued with the blood of Sir Archie. Paddy
Buford ID Ii years old, and has had s colts, 7 by
Membrlne. and l by Oriental, her first one.
wnlon was drowned, and Mr.. Keene says it is a
pity that lib sire had not been drowned when
ne was the same age. Paddy still looks like a
hres-year-old and is in toal by Membr1no.
one Of her colts is Ella Woedson, who has
Iotted In 2:ls, another is Anna johnson; another
Alllne Sicily, sold to Denver, where she trotted
ats years Old In 2:4O. On Tuesday of last week
Ut tne 81. LOUIS lair Buford, who ia q 2-ycar-
old, took the second premium in the roadster
ring ZOE o-year-olds, there being no 2-year-old
ring to show him IN, over a number of 3-year-
otus from Ililnois, kentucky and Canada, being
aken by the judges for u S-year-old, passing nil
IN speed and equaling any in beauty. On Frida
he took the first premium in the S-year-old all
purpose ring, over nine entries of 3-year-olds.
premium horses from Iowa. Illinois, Kentucky
and Canada. ALI of them were fine on.s anJ
In this ring Buford beat the horse that had
beaten him us a roadster, Fleetwood. n Hamblc-
tonian, belonging to j. II. Lamb, OF Jerseyyille.
Ills. Many judges saying that he should have
had both 0rst ribbons. The horse won these
wonderful victories under the skillful manages
ment Of Dir. Philip Knoble, who has shown him
eleven times this season. taking first and ? Sec
ond premiums. Lie promises to be worth an or.
dinary gold mine to his owner. Mr.. Keene.
sr.' Is one OF our most sagacious breeders. He
believes in blood, but he wants u horse to fill
out all requirements beside. and he is doing
much 70 lay a foundation In our county Tor n
reputation for fine horses such as has made the
fortunes OF the people Of the blue grass region Of
Kentucky.