The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1889-10-30
CONCERNING FARMERS

Dayid Chenault, ten mule colts at s65.
-EslilI Eagle.
: The total acreage sOwn in wheat in
Dakota in 1889 was 4,669,7 the
yield was A, OO9, O02 bushels.
r. L. Salter has bought of different
parties thirteen good cotton mules, I5I
hands high, at S1l2.-Lancaster News.
Complaints have been made against
certain cotton planters in Texas for i'm
porting Mexican labor to harvest their
crops.
The small boy now yearneth for the
time to gather walnuts-nOt that he
wants the nuts, but he loves to gee his
hands full of stsins.-Paris News.
The semi-annuaI sales Of shOrthorns
by the Association in Lexington,
realized small prices. The first
day Is head sold for S4,S5O, an average
of $l73
In Boyle county, sucking mules, $50
to SIS; hogs, So 80; 1900 ID. cattle, Sis;
9OO-lb. yearlings, S25 per head; mules,
$3.50 to $50; 1900 10. steers 3 cents
1900 10. cattle 81 cents.
The Government Of Chill has enact
ed law, abOlishing import duties on
machines and tools for the use of agri-
culture, mining, trades and industries,
and on rails and railway cars.
The Farmers Alliance Of Georgia
and Alabama claims that the jute CON-
biue has been renewed Oh a larger scale
than ever and has called meeting to
take steps against the success of the
trust.
The HeraIdo, City of Mexico,
in its editorial columns, advocat-
ed the exclusion of cattle imported
from the United States. 1t says that
it will be impossible for Mexican cattle
raisers to compete with Americans in
This market.
AIarge crowd was in attendance at
the sale OF John S. GilI's personal prop
trty, on Wednesday, and everything
sold well. Auclioueer, w. NJ. Kerby,
reports that the sale amounted to about
$500. We give a few Of the principal
items 50 shipping cattle, S4S so; 81 2
year-olds, S8S. pair mules, 1868; 4
bay mares, 500; bay horse, SI35
COWS for SIS to S26; calves and yearl-
iDgs $40 to S25.-Lancaster News.
A peculiar feature in the mule colt
trade is the difference made between a
horse and mare mule. Several years
ago a mare mule brought about s.
more than horse mule of the same
quality. The difference has gotten
gradually larger till now, we are told
by an old dealer in stock, that at least
S35 or $40 difference is made on ac-
count of sex in the same grade of
mules. That is a horse mule will bare
! ly sell at $50 to sos, when had it been a
mare buyers would beg for it at SIS to
| SlO0,-AndeTsOn News.
John E. Madden and Leonard Bros,
of the Elsmeade stock farm, purchased
Jointly of JudsOn H. Clark, of the
Genesee stock farm Elmira, n. Y, the
highlybred stallion Macy, 2.294,
dam Belle Clay, by Kentucky Clay,
dam of that good race mare Amy
King, 2:223; second dam Bet tie Brown,
by MambrinO Chief. Macy, is the
sire of Lucy Macy, 2:26f. He is a
handsome bay, sixteen hands high and
nine years old. He will stand at Els
meade farm, near this city. The price
paid was $4,000.
The Commissioner of Agriculture
says of the corn crop: Taking the
Assessors returns as a basis, the total
acreage of this crop, for 1883, was 2, 2g2,-
sl9 +; and the total yield was 81 sos, SAC
bushels. In 1889, according to our re-
gular correspondents, the acreage has
increased II per cent. over 1855, and
the increase in condition, as expressed
in bushels, is 81 per cent. These data
would make the total acreage in 1889,
2,545, l09-an increase of 252, 29O acres
over lSS8-and the total yield in BUSH
els would be 1926, 1862, or a total in-
crease in the State, over 'sS, of 7.76l,-
7l6 bushels.'
Some 5000 acres of land have
been planted in sorghum cane in Kan
sas, aud the entire chemical corps of
the Agricultural Department, twenty
six expert chemists, are there to make
tests on the product. A few days
ago Secretary Rusk received advices
from them that the cane had yielded
splendid results, some of it showing
Is per cent. Of saccharine matter,
whereas II per cent. is sufficient to
enable the profitable production Of
sugar. The Secretary was highly eIat-
ed over this report, and believes that
the Agricultural Departments exper-
iments will revolutionize the sugar
trade Of the country ifthe results keep
up as they have begun.
For some years the price of Short
horn cattle has steadily declined and
finally reached a point where they
hardly paid for the trouble and expense
of raising them. Ia view Of the ex-
ceediDgly low prices this class of stock
was bringing Messrs. J. W. Prewitt
and s. D. Golf last Christmas determ-
ined to send & draft from their fine
herds to the Pacific slope as an expert
ment. The sale of these cattle was
held last week, and the prices realized
do not justify the repetition of the ex-
pertinent. One hundred and ten were
sold at an avreage price of Sos. Col.
Bob Edmonson was the auetioneer.-
Winchester Democrat.
'Fairlawn." the elegant home of the
late Gen. w. T. Withers, near Licking
\ ton was sOId DrivataIv Friday n NJ