The professional world. (Columbia, Mo.) 1901-192?, 1902-06-13
FACTS FROM THE FARM.

What has become of the Boone
county Poultry Association?
w. l.. Boyce, of Hinton, sold to
j. NJ. Batterton last week, l5 year.
ling steers.
The "kattle king" of Boone coun-
ty, Turner McBain, sold load of
good cattle in st. Louis last week
at cts.
The egg and poultry kings of
Boone county are Powell & Beasley
of Columbia, whose shipments aver
age about $500 week. This means
much to the people of Boone county.
Centralia Courier.-The Daniel
Real estate firm had II land buyers
here from Illinois and Iowa this
week and sold $4,000 worth of real
estate.
John c.. Quarles has sold his
young horse, Westmore, to w. A.
Bright, and his well known Stallion,
Ashmore, to r. b. Minnis, of Car
rolltOn.
The poultry fanciers of Audrain,
Montgomery and Galloway counties
have organized the Tri-County
Poultry Association. Those present
decided to hold 3-days show i'm
Mexico in December.
j. F. Sanker brought in Monday
a sample of his wheat crop which is
very fine. He will soon cut 20
acres near Dripping Springs. The
crop is both better in quality and
larger than last year.
From the Paris Appeal.-C. c.
Parrish near Holiday, sheared 3ll
lbs of wool from 30 sheep. From 81
ewes he raised 45 lambs. In his
flock is sheep that in 2 years has
brought him 30 pounds of wool and
lambs. He sold B of her lambs for
$3.50 and has 3 left. Quite a pro-
fitable animal.
On his fine farm east of Columbia
N. p. Starke has 30 acres of cowpeas
and 8 acres of sugar cane. He finds
these splendid feed for mules and
cattle. His neighbor, DIR. Dysart is
growing cowpeas, also. Katfir corn
is not much grown in Boone county,
although few farmers are expert
menting with it, among these is
Prof. ID. w. b. Kurtz.
Secretary Hatton tells us that the
Columbia Fair Association has
spent $500 this spring improving the
track at the fair grounds, and eX-
poets to make still further improve
ments. Enough good races and
show rings have been programmed
to insure plenty of entertainment of
this kind. Something new this year
will be the Angora goat show.
A certain young man whom we
know took his disk harrow and went
with it the length of his farm on the
public highway just after the mud
had dried up this spring and smooth
ed down the hubs and filled up the
deep ruts. 1t did not take him very
long, only one mile of travel, and
every traveller had a good word to
say of him for long after.-Centralia
Courier.
81 didn't know there was that
much wool in Boone county" re-
marked citizen last week, while
Mr.. Klass was weighing up 10000
lbs. for shipment. This shows that
the people are not well-informed
about this important and growing
industry in Boone county. Two
years ago $4,000 pounds of wool were
exported. Now one dealer makes a
single shipment of half this amount
Later we expect to give some addi-
tional facts as to this industry.
A finer lot of cattle never left
Boone county than the bunch of 81
sold this week by Newman p. Starke
to Ben Tate of Hallsville. 22 OF
them brought IA cents pound and
good judges of stock say the sale
was recordbreaker. They were
2-year olds, averaged 1864 lbs. net
and were Mr.. Starke's own feeding
He has fed then since last July or
high priced corn and cotton seeG
meal which is a combination hare
to beat when it comes to putting
flesh on livestock.
Wheat prospects are good at thil
writing. If farmers can be sure O.
81 bushel for the next crop Il