The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1888-04-04
CONCERNING FARMERS.

j. 8. Burnam q Co., OF Silver Greek,
had their stallion, YszOO, at Lancaster
court day.
Four hogsheads OF Clark county leaf
and Tugs sold at the Farmers House,
Louisville, at slS, Sl2, SlO.25 and s. so.
Court Day at Lancaster.-2OO cattle
on market, % sold at 8 cents also one
COW aud calf, $40; COW, sS5 l horse,
SS5; mules, 500; mares, $3.50.
A Hickman county hog when killed
weighed 6s5 pounds; when dressed its
sides weighed ia pounds, hams los
pounds and the lard taken from it
weighed $50 pounds.
At Ferguson & Georges combina-
ton horse sale at Cyuthiana, Wednes-
day, the horses averaged S185, the
highest price $50. 1t was dreadful
rainy day aud the attendance WAS not
IS large a. it should have been.
1t is a common occurrence in Lon
don, between the months Of OctOber
and January inclusive, for 50, 900 bar
reIs of American and Canadian apples
to be sold in q single week. England
now pays yearly s4O,OOO,O 900 for for
eign fruit, for which less than IS, O0O, 600
was paid in 1s45.
Not only will coal ashes furnish
fine place for hens 10 roll iU, but if
allowed free access to them they will
eat the small partly burned bits OF
coal that come through the sieve. 1t is
one way that the hens have Of getting
solid material in their gizzards with
which to grind their food.
Ten tons Of Texan cotton reed were
recently shipped from Texas to Zanzi-
bar, Africa. An experienced planter
accompanied the seed for the purpose
Of instrueiing the natives of Zanzibar
in the cultivation Of the cotton plant
This event marks the Introduction of
the cotton plant on the eastern coast OF
Africa.
At the sale Of G. W. Myers, near
Sharpsburg last week, bright Chief
was knocked off to A. B. Barnes at
1925, which was regarded as cheap
other stock, however, brought fair prices
milk cows selling at from $40 to $50
Oats brought 55c. bushel, and wheat
Gle. bushel, while bacon sold at Ice
a pound.
COUKT-DAY AT Mt. STERLING.
"A smaller crowd than usual and
the market dull. J. w. Wilson report:
$50 cattle OH the market, mostly
mountain stock. Two and three-year-
old steers brought from $50 to $50
heifers, SIS to $50; calves from s. e
SIS; about 20 yoke oxen sold from So
to SIS a yoke about $50 mules brought
from $85 to SIPS; bOrses brought from
$50 to SlOO.-Mt. Sterling Gazette.
In 1886, VIM. DOmegan, Of Mont
gnmery county, purchased Of Douglas
Thompson, of Bourbon county, ID. c
s., trOtting horse, paying for hin
$1,000. He has won several races anC
now has r record Of 2:22I but tn,
horse is now suffering with chroni'
diarrhes, and DOmegan has sueC
Thomas for the purchase money
claiming that the horse WIS unsOund
when sold.
Capt. J. c. GlRzebOOk, auetiOBee
reports the sale Of personality OF Bel
Isaac, deceased, by his administrator
Cleland Pnrdom, last Saturday, n
follows Horses, $50 to SII9 per head
cows, $I6 to $23. so; heifers to 81 50 SIS
calf, SIS; 81 shOats at about 81 pc
cwt.; cOrn, SS.5s per barrel; oats, s. II
per hundred bundles; reaper ant
mower, SIS; wheat, so cents per bush
el.-IsebanOn STANDARD aud Times.
J. A. Ramsey, auctiOneer, report
400 cattle on the market 80 heat
$50 lbs. weight, brought $500 q
head plain feeders, of 1850 weight
$500; 10 head medium feeders, / ,OOl
lbs. weight, $500 81 yearIlngs. $500
20 common ysarIing, $2O.25; II plaiI
twO-yeRr-olds, SO 90. About 100 brOk,
mules offered, some Of which sold
prices ranging from SID to SITS
Work oxen scarce. and in demand q
good prices.-Winchester Democrat.
Eugene Lynn SpOtts. of New York
left for Australia last week, takiul
with him thirty-six rabbits, inOcculat
ed with an unerringly fatal and con
tagious rabbit disease. He goes on
commission from the Premier Of New
South Wales, in the hope Of being abb
to exterminate the rabbits there, VIII icl
have become such II pest that tn
Government has offered q reward o
S25O, 700 for their determination. Til
millions Of them which are now devas
tsIiug the fields have ali come iron
four ancestors taken TO that countr,
from England in ls47.
Mr.. Robert Bonner, owner Of tl
stallion NutbOurne, found, when IA
began using that horse in the stud
that he impaired his own color, gray
to nearly all his foals. AS gray is no
now q fashionable color an experim en-
was tried with view OF remedying, i
possible, the evil. Accordingly durinl
the stud season Of 1884 bay hors
was led in front Of the mare a
soon as she had been served, ant
the result was that > majority OF th
fosis Of 1885 were bays or chestnuts.-
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