Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-07-11
LAND. ST0cK AND cR0P.

LAND. ST0ck AND CROP.
-R.H. Bronaugh, Crab Orchard, has GO
No. breeding ewes for sale lat August.
A separator threshed 1852 bushels Of
wheat in one day last week in Christian
county.
Two thousand five hundred acres Of
wheat in Jessamine county, have been
sold at 81 per bushel.
AT the late Kentucky short-horn sales
44O head we're sold, aggregating Sl36,GOO,
averaging $500 per head.
&C. II. Rice sold Ga fat sheep, averaging
1866 lbs. at SC, and Gates Rice sold 80 mix
ed fat sheep at 495c in Bourbon county.
-ItIs settled that the wheat crop will
be the greatest ever harvested in this coun.
try, or any where in any age Of the world.
j. II. McAlister has sold his fine farm
Of 375 acres, lying on the Danville pike, to
George w. James, for $500, equal to
S55 per acre.
N. b. Hughes has purchased for Nc
Allsttf N Naiieet " hihtoiu 4hhis1 'tNNN
bushels Of wheat at 80 cents-and $1,000
at 90 and the rise.
-Jno. w. Duncan Of Wayne County
will be here next Saturday with over 100
head Of good grazing cattle for sale. Far
mers will make a note Of this.
John Land sold to J. G. Gentry 10
stopping cattle averaging $50 lbs. at cents.
lie also sold lot of heifers of the same
stock for September delivery at 81 cents.
Six hundred and fifty reports from
various sections Of Virginia represent that
not more than half a tobacco crop is plant
ed. The indications are the crop will be
late.
The wheat is being threshed and is
yielding from % 10 30 bushels to the acre.
The price is 9Oc for July delivery and 20
cents Tor August Hsrrodsburg Enter
prize.
The shelbyville Sentinel says that the
mills Of that town which usually buy l4O,-
600, have already engaged 100000 bushels
ofwheat this year. The crop is unparalleled
in yield.
The Richmond Register says; Gen.
James S. Ruuyon has lamb less than five
months old that weighs one hundred and
forty seven pounds, or one pound per day
for every day the lamb has lived. This is
no Joe Mulhatton story.
Below are the ruling prices for pro-
visions, &c, in Stanford: Bacon shoulders,
l2lo.; hams, l6ic.; sides, l65c. Flour, $3.50
to s4.OO; corn, $3.50; meal, SIPS per busheli
oats, Soc; coffee, l2l to zoe, molasses, Coo.
to zoe; dried apples, slc.; peaches, s5o,;
new Irish potatoes, SOC. to 100 per busheli
butter, zoe; cheese, 20c.; eggs, lOc.; salt by
/ 7 bushel Dbl. 81.
The second quarterly report OF the
Kansas State Board Of Agriculture begins
with "Kansas ia now harvesting the larg-
est wheat crop in its history" The aver
age per acre is 2069 bushels, The acreage
is l,462, 1885, and the yield is SO,2737ll
bushels. The spring wheat crop when
harvested will swell this aggregate by
about two millions. The report Of corr
prospects for the State is good crop O
100000 bushels being predicted.
Eiiior HieriOr Journal
bought of Mr.. - Elkin on the 2ls
of March, one SOW and eleven pigs. Al
that time the pigs were ten days old, anc
the weight of SOW and pigs $50 pounds
Mr.. Elkin agreed to deliver the next day
at Wallace's blacksmith shop, as felt 1
little ashamed TO drive them through
town, Circuit Court being in session. Wal
lace and other Of my friends made consid
cradle sport Of me on account of the pur
chase. When | reached home my wife re-
fused to let me keep them even for few
days in the back yard until could recruit
them little, claiming that she did no
wish any body TO see them on the prem
ises. All Of this made me the more de
termined to make hogs Of them il it coul'
; be done. l weighed the same SOW AM
. pigs to-day the sth July, and the weigh
was 1900 pounds; the average Of the ]
E pigs being 7ll lbs. Some Of my friend
! would doubtless like to know the stock
am reminded Of what old John Bright sale
who kept an inn where John Bright lives
E There were some weary travellers stoppe'
. in one evening, who seeing some nice ia
o hogs running round, asked Mr.. Brgh
!. what stock they were, saying they woul