The Breckenridge news. (Cloverport, Ky.) 1876-1955, 1896-11-04
A Few Facts and Figures on Thor
Oughbred Stock By Farmer Who
Believes in Moving Forward.

CLIFTON Mills, Ky Nh. EDITOR,
We beg little space in the News to
suggo st few ideas and figures on good
up.to date stock, for the consideration of
your readers, thinking perhaps that it
may prove inter, sting and profitable to
all who will give the matter little
thought
The time has been when extensive
farming was profitable, but now nothing
but intensive or diversified farming will
remove the debt and FIJI the storage
houses for winter Once muscle and
strength were the important factors on
the farm Now the intellect is strained
and most needed to bridge over the
ditch into which the farmer has fallen.
knowledge is needed now, not only Of
books but the nature of land, the crops
best suited to it, the eye must be on his
grounds, the markets, his farm, into the
future little and last but not least his
live stock. Are they OF the type to grow
rapidly on little feed and reach the top
prices which are so much needed by all
at this time. Good stock will sell on the
market any time at top quotations and
prices too, that will amply repay the
shipper for feed, time aud trouble.
We noticed recently that Warren,
Woodford and Hart counties are selling
sucking calves for $40 per head. Does
that pay? Yes. Our county generally
speaking gets So to 50 per head. Does
that pay? No. Whose fault is it that
you have not got $40 calves? Mason
county recently sold a bunch of eighty
ewes at So % per head. Yes, but you
say they were good ones. Why haven't
you few good ones, instead of those
81 rs scallawags?
At recent public sale OF hogs in Iowa
forty head were sold to the highest
bidder and made an average Of $32 per
head.
At Odessa, Mo-, Sept. 80, seventy head
were offered to the highest and best
bidder, and in the sale were number
of small pigs yet the average per head
was $24 The highest price paid for a
single hog was 500
At Springfield, Ill Aug 3, proves very
plainly that there are men yet, notwith-
standing the hard times, have confidence
in the American hog. The highest price
paid was for two-year-old SOW that
went to Indiana on the record bt ating
bid of 81 $40, the most ever paid for a
hog at public auction; another to Gen.
trail Illinois at $3.50 another to Indiana
at 5000. OF course these hogs | speak OF
were sold for breeding purposes, and OF
good individuality, good in pedigree and
considered Of special excellence Now
don't understand me that every one
could get such prices, but by getting into
good stock you have something that is
always ready for the best market price,
and the keeping of good stock costs less
than mongrel or scrub stock and reaches a
marketable weight much younger.
Our Argument is to tend fewer acre 3
of land and cultivate better, diversity
your planting and you are safe for liv-
ing, own fewer head of stock and have
them OF the best breed obtainable, and
you lave an attractive feature on your
farms, something that will reach the
debt and remove the mortgage.
The hog is the rich mans delight, the
poor mans wealth, and every hog is not
a hog, but some hogs are all snout, hide
and bristles. Progressive FARMER.