The climax. [volume] (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1887-1897, 1890-07-02
CONCERNING FARMERS.

R. B. Hutchcraft bought 40 900 pounds
of wool this season, at an average of 233
cents per pound.-Paris Ne,cs,
The wheat harvest in Fayette and adj
joining counties is nearly over and the
crop seems a good one.-Journal.
Thos. Hedger bought of James Mat
thews, of Harrison county, a two-year-
old Jack for s6OO.-Georgetoqcn Times.
Us. Hawkins & Co, of Wilmore, sold
ten carloads of No. wheat to ]. B. EN-
bry, of Jessamine, at 70 cents per bushel.
The Kentucky Commissioner of Agri-
culture reports wheat 70 as to condition,
and 100 as to acreage as compared with
last year.
The sales of shorthorns in Illinois re-
Gently were made at allow range of prices
The averages of the different offerings
were $50 to 500.
The oat crop is almost failure. The
wheat harvest is in progress. In some
localities the crop is a good one, in 9TH
ers it is different. Georgetown Times.
A sale of Holstein cattle was made at
Cresco, Iowa, recently by w. G. Nichols
& Son and the Breeders Gazette reports
result as follows: 80 COWS averaged
$3.50; 4 bulls, IO7.5O; general aveage SO
head s94.
Bluegrass seed, which has been for
years one of the principal products of
this county, viii be very short this sea-
son, there being only about one-fourth
of crop. 1t is selling at forty cents per
bushel-Paris Ne1cs.
James Mathews, of Rutland, KY, made
the following sales of jacks last week:
One 2-year-Old to Jas. NJ. Terry for Thos.
Hedger, of Scott county, for $500. One
yearling to Thos Mathews, of Hinton.
KY, for $500, and one twenty-months-old
to A. D, Collins, of Jessamine, county,
KY, for S600.-Fdrmers Home Journal.
For some years party in Virginia has
been endeavoring to sell as valuable ac-
QUESTION, an apple claimed to be bloom
less, seedless and coreless. The Depart
ment of Agriculture secured specimens
and pronounces it an apple of poor quail
ty. 1t blooms but the flowers have no
petals; it has both seeds and well de-
fined core. 1t is not a valuable fruit
Home Journal.
The wheat harvest is upon us, and the
reports in regard to the crop in the
county are conflicting. Upon the whole,
we think it will be lighter than many
people think. The "midge" and other
bugs are reported in many places, but we
are not informed as to the damage done.
Dealers say that the market will open at
about seventy cents, but several farmers
have refused seventy-fve cents.-TVin-
chester Democrat
The Animal Parasites of Sheep by DR..
Cooper Curtice is a special report of the
Bureau Of Animal Industry about to be
issued by the United States Department
OF Agriculture. 1t is a volume of pa
pages containing So plates and gives an
interesting description of all the various
species of animal parasites known to af-
feet sheep in this country, with the symp-
toms of the diseases which they cause
and the methods of treatment which
have been proposed.
A great number of Fayette county far
mers claim that they have been swindled
by their purchases Of Russian hemp seed,
which were guaranteed by the sellers to
be the finest on earth. These seeds have
been given faithful trial, and are found
to be of no earthly good, many farmers
being compelled to plough them up after
being sOwn. 1t is claimed that the stalk
from this seed springs up only a short
distance, then blooms and dies away.
They are handled principally by the
grain merchants of Cincinnati, and are
claimed to have been introduced into this
county by a Frankfort man. A number
Of our leading grain men were asked by
The Leader if they had handled any of
these seed, and not one of them an
swered in the affirmative, but all of them
said they had heard complaints about the
! seed in question. 1t is said that grain
merchant in Paris purchased two car
loads Of Russian hemp seed, and those
who have sOwn them in this county made
| their purchase of him. This merchant
bought them in Cincinnati. The seed
were sold at $3.50 per bushel, and are
claimed not be worth their carrying
home. One Of our prominent merchants
informed The Leader that he knew when
the seed were first introduced here they
were no earthly account and would not
handle them.-LerinQton Leader.