The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1892-02-23
LIST. Mr.. May rented his farm near
Kiddville to a Mr.. Coliver for $500.

LIST. Mr.. May rented his farm near
Kiddville to a Mr.. Coliver for $500.
Tobacco sales made from this coun-
ty on Louisville market last week:
2 hhds. leaf at $14 and $40; 2 hhds.
Tugs at $3.50 and Sc; 2 hhds. common
leaf $3.50 and SO; 50 hhds. leaf Jugs
and trash at $22.5O to $500; 10 hhds.
leaf, Tugs and trash $3.50 to So; 20
hhds. leaf, Tugs and trash 500 to 81.
Bijou Moore has sold a pair of
4-yair-old mules, 16 hands, to Mack
Cecil for 1925. Mr.. Moore states that
the same mules would have brought
$3.50 four years ago. Mr.. Moore be-
lieves that the value of aged mules
has fallen off $40 on head each year
for five years past.-Harrodsburg
Democrat.
Dwight Rue returned last Thursday
from New Orleans where he had gone
to sell car load of mules. He reports
prices low and found it an extremely
slow matter to sell. 1t took him six
weeks to dispose of his car load, mixed
sugar and cotton mules, from IA to l6
hands high, at from 800 to $40. He
reports the horse market in New Or
leans good.-Harrodsburg Democrat.
Capt. 7. w. Bottom reports thatyat
the sale of George Powell, decd, Sat-
urday, miles northwest of Perry
vile, bidding was lively. Several good
horses sold from $72 to 1925; sheep
1855; corn in crib, $40 to $3.50
wheat 80 to 92c; oats in bundle So.
A Lexington man has steam hemp
break set on Joe Houston's place in
the Centerville precinct. 1t is claimed
that the machine can break and clean
10000 pounds per day, with ten hands
to keep it running. This amount
broken by hand would require seventy
hands.-Danville Advocate.
Georgetown Court, as given by the
Times: Capt. Nat. S. Offutt, auction
eer, reports about $50 cattle on the
market, best feeders bringing 81 to
$4.25; good yearlings sold at $3.O5 to
1915; short yearlings, $3.05 to 1926,
and fat heifers at 1926. But few mules
on sale. Broke stock brought $75 to
$40; one pair sold at 5000. Bennett
Branham reports feeding cattle at
$2.224 to 1925. He sold one lot of
calves at the tirst-named price. He
sold several horses at from $50 to $67.
Three horses sold privately at the
stable of Offutt Brothers at $85, $l1O
to $40.
Mr.. Bijou Moore, has, up to date, 81
lambs from 80 ewes. He bought 156
sheep last year at $3.50, and calculates
that if the balance of his herd turns
out as we'll as the first fifty he will
have 1856 lambs. These are worth,
June 18th, the time of spring delivery,
usually about $4.00 each, equals STA,
and the wool from each sheep is usually
worth $1.00 per head, making a gross
income from the flock of $3.50. Mr..
Moore makes a comparison between
the relative cost and profit of raising
mules and sheep and concludes that
the latter is the most profitable use to
which farmer can place his time and
money, while the former yields only
about $25 profit on every 1926 mare
bred to a jack.--Harrodsburg Dem.
Mr.. w. H. Prewitt, of this county,
has bought in Boyle and Lincoln
counties 7 thousand lambs for de-
livery from June Goth to July. Prices
paid range from cents for late de-
livery to 6 cents for May delivery, and
81 up to the tenth of June. Mr.. Prev
lit bought of Ike Shelby last week two
hundred and Fifty lambs for six cents
for 25th Of May delivery and S cents
for June delivery -. Auctioneer A