The central record. (Lancaster, Ky.) 18??-current, 1899-12-07

can DE comfortably accommodated on
penny postage stamp.
England has about $50 packs of fox
hounds, and about $1,000 horses are
kept specially for fox hunting.
Texes will have no timber in fifteen
years if the present rate of cutting
1,OOO, 600. 900 feet year continues.
Since July l, there have been 81, 226,-
1888 bushels of corn exported against
&C, 1922, 1852 bushels during the same pc
riOd one year ago
a missionary paper says that $4,000
Bibles distributed among the Chinese
were used by them for the manufact-
ure of fire crackers.
There is much complaint from farm
ers of WOOdfOrd and adjoining of seri-
GUS injury to the growing wheat from
small white worm. The worm at
lacks the root and causes the plant to
wither and die.
A strong independent tobacco man.
ufactnring company has been incOrpo-
rated, with headquarters in Louisville.
1t will be known as the Manufacture
ers' Tobacco Company, capitalized at
$3.50, 900 with E. w. Russell, President.
Too much warmth is infinitely more
mischievOuS to flock in the winter
than too much cold. Instinct teacE-
es sheep to protect themselves against
cold in the winter by budding tOgeth-
er, but there is no way of escape
against Overheating or Overcrowding
A Mercer county man has a Poland
China hog, three years old, that
weighs over thousand pounds. w.
H. Means, of Maysville, bought 1900
acres Of land in Fleming county fOl
S., 900. $500 geese in one drove were
taken from Washington county t.
Bloomfield to be slaughtered.
A man had flock of 10000 sheep
on the border of Mexico and resolved
to drive the sheep across the desert
into the pastures of New Mexico. The
journey across the desert required
seven days. Not drop of water was
to be found i'm the entire distance. Or
reaching river of coal water the
sheep plunged in and drank their FILL
AS result, 1000 sheep died in few
hours.
The annual meeting of Kentucky
Swine Breeders Association will b,
held at Louisville, Tuesday, Dec. II
1899. The meeting will be called t,
order by President III. u. Churchill al
IL O'Clock a. M, at the Willard Hotel
At this meeting officers of the assOc;G'
tiOn tor the ensuing year will be cleo
ted. The annual meetings have al
ways been the most interesting ant
profitable, and it is hoped that thi.
meeting will be largely attended.
The Lexington Gazette says some o
our hemp farmers who did not tax
their hemp up after cutting tell u
they have commenced breaking it out
This plan of early rOtting is at tn,
cost of qnality in color and strength
and also loss of weight. The cost o
stocking and respreading is much les
than the loss sustained in the Othe
manner and few adopt the former way
Buyers are offering freely 4sc a pount
for the little of last year crop unsOl(
and also for the new crop we learn
At 44c a pound the price per cwt. i
$5.O4.
According to Bradstreet's circula
wheat, including flour, shipments 70
the week aggregated 1910, OO7 bushels
against 1850, S42 last week, 5,679, III il
the corresponding week of 1898, 1868,
1872 in 1897, $685., 233 in 1896 and 2, 9l5,
600 in 1895. Since July l this season
the exports of wheat aggregate 1,779,
500 bushels, against SO, 299, 357 last yea
and 90, 973, 526 in 1897, SO. Corn is BET
ter. Corn exports for the week aggre
gate 4,6O3, 718 bushels, against 1851.
AT last week, 1851, 724, i'm this week
year ago 3, 2O9, $40 in 1897, 1916, 72l in
1896 and 1,743, 1877 in 1895. Since Jul.
1 this season corn exports aggregated
8S,O76,965 bushels. against 56,S28, 81
during the same period year ago ant
81, $40, 440 in 1897-98.
{ MERCER ITEMs:-BOnta Bros. sOlt
fifty head Of 1000 ID. cattle to Gle
r Coleman, at 5 cents pound. :. .GeOrg
, Powell, of Mackville, sold his crop o
tobacco for TIC a pound. The season
) for tobacco stripping has been bette
! this year than for long time, we ar
informed by tobacco men. Most o
the weed has been stripped alread
l -. Hardin LangfOrd, sold bunch o
95O-lb. cattle to ]. H. Vanarsdall, a
$3.50 per hundred pounds. He ais
5 bought number of yearlings at &c
5 pound. He says cattle are getting al
5 most as scarce as hogs. Mr.. JOh
, Buster bought 900 pounds of tObat
. co, of Mercer county farmers, at frOr
1 $500 to $3.50 per hundred, and MI
!. BOwlnanTerhune bought 80, 900 pound
at from s. to $3.50 per hundred.-Den
a Ocrat.
LINCOLN Notes.. T. Crutchfiel
bought in the Highland section
bunch Of fat cows at &c. :. Beazle
+ Bros. sold to Jordan, Of Atlanta, thre
i, geldings for $3.50, s135 and $40 and
t mare for $50. B. Chancellor sold t
J. same a mare for $40. Henry Heste
4 has taken q cattle for Allen & Wi
S kinsOn to feed. He is to receive 81