The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-10-15
CONCERNING FARMERS.
In Fayette county lat eattle A cents

IN fayeJJe county Iat ciJtie ~ C0hSs'
Wheat in Garrard county 5000 cents.
In Mercer county 45 mule colts sold at
S57.
In Anderson county 112 slOp cattle sold
at 24@S cents.
All mistake about Kahn, the cattle
man, being dead.
In Lincoln county 80 mule colts were
bought from various parties at an average
of $3.50
ACLndAx subscriber in Madison county |
purposes writing an article on how to
raise tobacco without worming, succoring
or topping.
There is on exhibition at the store of
7. S. Ellis, at Silver Greek, II ears Of corn !
that weigh % pounds. AZ ears make
bushel. 1t was raised by Willis Merritt.
Ate. C. Chrisman's sale last Wednes-
day, pair work mules S9O5; u yearling
mules, $3.50; 80 $50 ID. yearling steers,
$3.50; 40 fat butcher cattle, 1000 lbs,
S2S.
J.H. Graves, of Chilesburgh, sold to
Goldsmith 245 head of fat cattle at Al cts.
A low sale, but he cleaned up the farm
says one Of his neighbors.-Lerington Ga
zette.
The Danville Advocate commenting on
the killing of Mr.. H. A Colyer's sheep by
dogs remarks that " tax on such worth
less ours might put a few of them out of
the way"
w. L. Caldwell, Jr., is at Memphis,
Tenn, this week with s head of jack stock
and up to Saturday had taken the blue
tie in every ring entered. Boyle county's
jack stock is hard to beat-Adrocate
Auctioneer Bush reports sale of Mrs.
Sue Doty Thursday houshold goods sold
well; 16-year-old mare, SIG; bay horse,
Sis; bay mare, S1S6; 2-year-old horse,
So; mich COWS, 81 to $50; old corn,
S2.65; new corn, s..
In the Georgia State election Wednes-
day, the Farmers Alliance swept every
thing before it. OF the Us members of
the lower house of the Legislature, the
Alliance-has $50; of forty-four Senators,
the Alliance claims twenty-eight.
E. w. Lee has bought of Granville
Cecil, Of this county, II head of fancy
beeves for the Christmas market. The
price paid was S4.75 per hundred. This
was pc ligreed Shorthorn stock of fully
1000 pounds average DanUiHe AdUocate.
A statement comes from Montgomery
Ala, that the Farmers Alliance Ex-
change manager has the money to adj
vance $50 per bale on 100000 bales of cot
ton. Everybody outside of the Alliance
is wondering where the money is coming
from.
Good cooking apples are offered in the
Lancaster market this week at fifty cents
per bushel. We are told every day that
the crop is an absolute failure and that
there are no apples in the country, but
somehow they manage to come in.-Lan-
caster Record.
Our farmers Of this county are through
cutting and housing their tobacco. The
past week has been favorable for the work,
and this enabled them to gather the crop
in very fair condition. In amount the
crop is probably about 70 per eent.-Ih.
Sterling Democrat.
Auctioneer Bush reports sale of R.H.
Elkin, College Hill, Saturday: Good
crowd. I horse, SIG; horse, S1OI; l
horse, SO; weanling colts, S35; yearling
colts, 50; mule, 500; 10 yearling heif-
ers, $40; 4yearling steers, $40; stock
hogs, 81 cents; 10 sheep, S6.45 apiece.
The promise of winter fruit in New
Jersey and Pennsylvania is said to be the
worst ever known. There is hardly any
crop in the great apple belt of Western
New York that in good seasons sends to
market more than 10000 barrels. The
weather has produced rot and mildew in
cases where insects and disease did not
blight the fruit buds.
4 Missouri farmer purchased piece of
land thirteen years ago and devoted the
larger part to fruit culture This year he
sold his apple crop Of eighteen acres on
the trees for SI2,O 900 cash, and has refused
$500 for eight acres Of pears. The price
he received for his apple crop was more
than the original cost of the land. Fruit
OF all kinds was a paying crop this year.
The city editor of the Advocate was
presented with a well matured fig, grown
in this city by Mrs. iona B. Nichols.
There were fourteen on the tree this year.
In size, flavor or color we could notice
little or no difference between it and the
California or Louisiana fig. OF course
the tree is tender and in the cold wealth
er must be carefully housed.-DanUiUe
AdrOcate
Mr.. J. W. Latham, of Saline county,
No, won the prize of S25 offered by the
Audrain County Fair Association for the
best bushel of wheat grown in Missouri
this year. There were so contestants.
The premium wheat was of the Fulcastea
variety, and was grown on corn land near
Marshal. 1t averaged 26 bushels to the
acre and IS pounds to the bushel. Mr.
Latham was formerly of this county,
Paris Kentuckian- Citizen.
Bore hole l inch in diameter, IS
inches deep, into the center of stump,
and put in l ounce Of saltpeter, filling up
with water and plugging up the hole.
This should be done in the fail. In the
spring the plug is to be taken out, half
a gill Of kerosene poured into the hole
and set on fire. It will burn out the
stump to the fartherest root. Or, if pre-
ferred, fill the hole with vitriOl and plug
it up; next Spring 1t will be 50 rotten
that it can be easily removed.
The harbor at Oswego, New York, is
full of barley-laden vessels from Canada,
about 100000 bushels being afoat. The
total importation of barley at Oswego for
the past 80 days has been 100000 BUSH
els. Sunday night S27, 600 in duties was
collected at the custom-house. Every
available craft was pressed into service
to get the grain there on time. The last
vessels TO leave Canada were instructed
20 return with their cargoes if they couId