The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1898-03-04
FARM AND STOCK NOTES.

w. T. Burton bought % cattle at S24
per head.
T. c. Galley bought % cattle at SIS
per head.
Gulley & Burton bought lot of
hogs at to 3 ii.
j. l. hamilton bought af Green Siler
eight cows at SIS each
c, w. Anderson sold to Thos. Stone,
a bunch Of 80 Id. shoats at 3 Ia C.
Chas. Adams sold to w. b. Bui ton
II IS lb, shoats at IA C.
Woods & Lynn sold Joe Burnside a5
yeariing cattle at S22 %.
w. G. and w. Anderson, sold to NJ.
J. Farris 10 cattle at S2j.
W. &. and c. w. Anderson sold to
Ben Kelley p yeariing heifers at
$lS.25 per head.
w. Il. Burton bought Of S. Morgan
II young cattle at $24 per head.
j. C. Hays sold to Moore & Cotton, 90
Madison, Is heifers at Sl4.
Lyon & Allen, of Lincoln, sold j. M
Higgin botham 4 light yearlings at SOB
rs per head.
j. NJ. Higgin botham bought of diff
ferent parties 81 cattle at from $50 so
to S24 per head.
M. J. Farris, of Boyle, borght from
various parties about 200 cattle at from
$25 to SAG per head,
Il. G. Fox, of Dlnville, bought sew
eral good mules at from SOD to SIS. No
dema nd much for horses.
w. B. Burton shipped load of light
hogs to the Cincinnati market this
week, for which he paid and 3 IA
cents.
John Graham, of West Union, Oaio,
owns horse that is % hands high
and weighs 2. SEQ pounds Its head IS
"A inches long.
Squire Royalty bought go hogs this
week, from different parties at 2 3-s
and cents. Also l5O barrels Of corn
at 81 g.
During the last week in January
74S horses were shipped to Europe
from Chicago One consignme of
~ coach horses averaged 500.
A horse trained to walk fast, wheth-
er he be for saddle, single harness or
fa,u, ,l,v,vc oon,,,,pdS :. haitian ,r;o
than one equally good in other re-
spects, but slow walker.
Men who are handling good cattle
have not been complaining of the
business. There is always profit in
them. Whenever the cattle market is
depressed it is the poor stuff which
suffers; the profits are SO slight that
they are easily annihilated.
The Richmond Register says j. T.
Curtis has just returned from two
weeks stay at Bloomington, Illinois,
where he sold two cars Of mules a.
not very salts factory prices. 1t is Mr..
Curtis opinion that no Kentuckian
need expect to succeed in Illinois un-
less he is hustler.
7 he eastern market and demand
continues to improve Our hemp
buyers here are giving the producers
share of the benefit. One farmer
who has large crop informs us he
has an offer OF s.. SIS while another, we
are credibly informed, sold his at 81 -
Lexington Gazette.
The Harrodsburg Democrat reports
the following sales: Frank McGarvey
has sold 50 roa and saddle horses
within the past ten days at an average
o. $50. Gel Coleman bought of Bre elk
Bonita 100 hogs at So. 10 per hundred.
NJ j. Farr.s sod to j. c. johnson a
car load OF hogs for $500 delivered.
A good authority says that notwi tn
standing the demand for good h orses
and the fact that such horses are SO
scarce that hardly IS per cent. of those
in the hands of the farmers are mar
IL
any movement on the part of farm ers
to change or improve their method of
breeding. In the meantime the ex-
port demand is rapidly exhausting the
present small suppiy.-Ex.
There were between $40 and GOD cat
tie on the market Monday, about 500
changing hands at good prices. Steers
weighing from 600 to 500 pounds bring.
ing to 1-2 cents per To-, and hei -ers
from 8 to cents Mr.. Farris, OF
Boyle, took most of the steers at above
prices, hei'ers being taken by differ
ent ones, the bidding on the latter not
being quite as active as it was a week
be ore. Mules :ound a ready sale, but
horse stock was slow, Fox Of Danvil, e