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FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

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stuff from various parties a: Sc.
T. c. Galley sold Al.c Walker 0
choice heifers at SCI % per head,
T. C. Gulley sold to Gr:gr Bios. of
Madison, Is heifers at Sl4 50 per
head.
Every horse sale il the East shows
an improvement over the prices of last
year.
W. S. Eeazley bought of Sam EN-
ey a nice bunch o; shoats averaging
11o lbs at 3 Ii,
Ell. Walker bought OF Swim broad
30 head of forward yearling cattle at
SEA. 90 per head.
Col. b. +. Robinson bought at Dam
Vile court Monday, 10 head OF calves
for f. Stone at 50 per head.
b. F. Robinson shipped to Cincin-
natl market load of hogs that he
| bou hit near Prcachersville.
J. n Denny bought of Woods &
Lynn at Stanford court % head year,
ling calves at $3.50 per head.
| The IIarrodsb ing Democrat notes
sales as follows: head cattle at from
So to So. Is per hundred; 90 acres OF Ian
near Vanors Toll Station for sjOHi foul
head horses at an average of S65.
Wheat prospects are not fiatter ne
in most sections and yet favorable
weather during the remainder of this
month and March may bring.t out and
make an average crop.
At the sale o. j. i. Chumleys We'd
nesday, everything brought good pr:
ces. Cows from 20 to SD, horses from
35 to $50, pigs S1.35 each and some
brood sovs from IS % to $500.
1t is often bett, to sill hogs in
small lots to butcher or shippers tn II
to keep the entire lot until all ar
:ully fattened: and in some cases this
is true of cattle. Fully fattened an.
imals ere kept at loss.
The Danviile Advocate says Scott
Hudson who had such splendii sue.
cess last year with his campaigning
string of trotters, will go down the line
this season with a strong string Of cam
pllgners. lie will have three of hi:
good ones of 1S97-King Eg bert 200
3d. Eagle Flanagan 2:.2 1-2, Me lium'
wood 2:l3 IA, and number OF other
good ones.
The price of lumbe has taken "A jump
and is the highest since 1899. An eX
change says the sec rcity of walnut ant
yellow pine, and the big export bust
ness, combine to cause the advance
The price on walnut timber especially
is very high. AS an indication of thu
state of the market, Col. Middleton, o
Shelbyville, sol walnut tree to th'
representative of a German firm fo
S427.
The "high-stepping" horsemen hav,
discovered a new wrinkle in teaching
their horses extravagant knee action
Spectacles for horses have been patent
ed by an inventor, and are being uset
with considerable success Their ob
jects is not so much to magnify objec
as to make the ground in front of thu
horse appear to be nearer to his head
than it really IS. The result is contin
ued high stepping which, after while
becomes natural.
The Lebanon Enterprise say: Will
mules in good demand, horses increas
ing in price every day, all kinds o
cattle selling unusually hi sh, whea
at 96 cents, corn at - cents, shellet
oats, 80 cents, sheaf oats 50 per hun
dred, hay, timothy, Is cents per hun
dred, clover, SIS cents, an open white
and good prospects for wheat, wit
the farmer we'll advanced with hi
work, there is certainly little to com
plain OF at this time
Danville Acknowledgements Stool
farm containing 3)7 acres, and belong
ing to j. w. Guest. was sold at auction
to-day and bought by c. r. Mcdowell
for $23, POI 81. Mr.. Mcdowell repre-
scented Thomas McRober:s and b. G
Boyle. Anderson & Spillman this MOI
, ming bought of George F. Anderso
seventyfive acres of growing wheat a
seventyfive cents per bushel, and o
Len. Hudson fifty acres at the sam
price. They also offered Allen Ker
ney IS cents for his share in the Hal
mon & Kenney crop, but it was refus
ed. This firm has over 90 acres in
Later Anderson & Spillman bough
, IT'S acres from John Huguely and 1O'
from Dave Logan, also at seventyfv
cents.
: The American (Kentucky) stocl
Farm, in sizing up the rece mt Lexin
ton horse sale says: 81 he recent sal
footed up to Sos, 200, and was COZ
sidered the best held in Kentuck.
. since 1S9a Buyers seemed eager
get anything frstrslass, and the spir
tied bidding on the brood mares @
j. B. McFerran, Jr., seemed like oil
times The rise in values could nc
l have been anticipated, although every
: thing pointed to an ultimate shortage
e which would in itself force prices uI
ward. The remarkable part of tn
: whole sale was that a purchaser wa