The Bourbon news., 1904-03-18
Printed Every Tuesday and Friday.
PARIS BOURBON COUNTY KENTUCKY FRIDAY MARCH 49, 1904
LIVE STOCK, CROP, ETC.

The oldest horse in this. country is in
Penobscott county, Me. He is AZ years
old.
Joe Coons, of North Middletown, has
a tobacco bed 700 feet long and 80 feet
wide.
Sit is thought there will be third
more tobacco planted this season than
there was last year
The annual stallion show to be held
at Lexington next Monday will be of inter
est to all Kentucky horsemen.
after tomato plants have reached
fair size their tops may be pinched off.
This forces out the side shoots, which
are Che ones that produce the flowers and
fruit.
y. w. Lancaster sold for Mrs. N. B.
Mussellman, of Fayette, her Harrison
county farm of 164 acres, to John Mitchell,
OF Paris. Price $10,332, equivalent to
cash.
4Sheep in the vicinity of Lawrence
burg are dying from mysterious disease,
WHICH closely resembles blinl -staggers in
a horse. The victims live but few hours
after being attacked.
-Dr. Dickerson sold A. A. Brancr.
indianapolis, Indiana, 3-year-
oIdlra Julian by Jay Bird, dam Hearts
delight; price $3.50. He will be raced by
Dick Wilson. Ira Jnlian was bred by
Bacon & Brennan.
James R. Gay, of Woodford county,
sold a If
tobacco grown on FIVE acres of measured
land for 81 1856, an income of 1851 20 an
acre. The yield, 2,512 pounds per acre,
is one of the biggeat ever reported in
Woodford county.
AT Lexington court, Monday, the de-
mand was dull for mules, although few
were sold at prices ranging from $50 to
$3.50. One extra good pair of mules
brought $3.50. Prices ranging from $50
to $125 were obtained at Smiley's stable
for % horses.
The resignation of Thos. B. Crom-
well as sporting editor of the Cincinnati
Enquirer is announced. 1t is understood
Cromwell is TO assume the editorship of a
turf publication. Mr.. Cromwell is Lex
1ngton boy and has held positions on the
Lexington papers.
The Woodard farm of 164 acres, on
the Walnut Hills pike, in Fayette, was
bought by L. P. Young, of Lexington, for
$l00 per acre. The farm is one of the
best improved and most desirable places
in the county, and contains three-story
brick house of the colonial style.
1t is reported at Owingsville that Mr..
Wilson, representing New. York and New
Jersey capitalists, has purchased 10000
acres of coal and timber land in Floyd
county, KY, for $225,000. This is the
biggest deal of the kind ever made in
Kentucky. 1t is said the territory will be
Immediately developed mines opened and
sawmills established.
Secretary Horace w. Wilson, of the
Kentucky Trotting Horse Breeders Asso-
citation, stated that over 500 entries had
been secured thus far for the Kentucky
Futurities of 1906 and 1907, the entries of
which closed Tuesday, the names of mares
being due to foal this year being sent in.
This is one of the largest entry lists ever
received for this event by the association.
= Richard Phillips, nephew of Harri-
son Phillips, of Jessamine county, has
sold his farm on the Military road, seven
miles from Lexington, on the Fayette line
to Mr.. William Stone. The farm con-
tains 200 acres and brought $110 an acre,
which was paid in cash. The farm will
be the residence of his son-in-law, a for
mer resident of Shelby county. The farm
is known as the Lafon farm.