The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1903-03-13
LIVE STOCK, CROP, ETC.

ABOUT 100 mead OF cattle at Har- |
rodsburg court sold at from Al to
424c.
Jos. A. Howerton sold to Jonas
We'll, 80 head of 9O0-pound cattle at
81 so.
Nominations to Kentucky's $22, 900
futurity for foals of 1908 will close Mon
day, March Is.
The stallion show will be held at
Lexington, March %, opening day of
the Tranter- Kenney sale.
In Woodford county, D. E. Watts
sold to H. M. Woodbridge 1000 bushels
of wheat at 80 cents per bushel.
jay McGregor, grandson of Jay
Bird, will probably be the favorite for
the 81, 900 M. & N. stake at Detroit.
The tobacco growers of the Riddles
Mills precinct will hold a meeting to.
morrow at p. M, at that place.
It. P. Wadell, of Millersburg, agent
for Ford Brent, shipped Thursday. 1900
head of live poultry and $500 dozen
eggs. East.
Nominations to the Horse Review,
$40, 900 guaranteed futurity purse No. 9
for foals of 1908, closed March 2. with
1908 nominations.
ID. P. and w. B. Henry, of Aron's
Kun. sold their tobacco here, the for
mer at "a cents and the latter at 81
and S. premium.
Jack Dow 2:2S14, by Jay Bird, has
been sold for 81, 900 to Geo. F. Pritch-
ard, of Topeka, Kas. Jack Dow is the
sire of the great 4-year-old Maxine
2:08.
Farming operations have been de-
layed by the unusually wet weather
The ground is full of water, and the
roads generally were never in worse
condition.
In Clark. j. L. Prov and en-.
Proctor, Of Old Pine Grove, sold $50
lambs at So Is for those to be delivered
June 9Th, and for the goth of July de-
livery, SIC.
w. T. Offutt sold last week to his
brother. Stephen Offutt. four hens that
weighed SO pounds, at 9 cents per pound,
making So 40. One of the hens weighed
1917 pounds and brought 96A cents.
They were Brahmas chickens.-George-
town News.
Mr.. J. B. Adams, member of the
nursery firm of P. F. Adams & Son, of
Waco, says that the report that all the
fruit is killed is mistake. Hesays that
the apples, cherries and small fruit of
all kinds are yet safe, and that some
varieties of early peaches are safe too, /
at present, and that there will probably |
be good crop from common seedlings. I
The prospects were never better for
Strawberries and berries of all kinds. =
Richmond Paragraph +;
The Annual Stallion Show at Lexing- +
iDgGon will be held this year on the
afternoon Of Monday, March 23d, at the
barns of the Tattersalls Company. Up
ward of four scores of the giants of the
trotting turf will be on free exhibition
and this years show promises to be the
largest ever held. This yearly gather
ing of all the famous stations in tie
Blue Grass country is one of the main
traditions of Kentucky horse Ii dating
back nearly seventy-fve years, when it
was held at the time when the April
muster brought to Lexington the whole
countryside, and while the muster has
given way to the court day. the annual
stallion show is just as much a feature
of Kentucky life as the Mardi Gras is to
the citizens of gay New Orleans. To
those who have never attended the an
nual stallion show at Lexington, the
mere mention Of such an event does not
carry with it much of an impression,
but the spectacle of nearly hundred of
the worlds greatest trotting stations
assembled in one building is we'll worth
a hundred miles journey.
Sewing Machines of all kinds repaired
rec of charge, at the Singer office.