The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-04-18
STOCK AND CROP.
Oats are coming up nicely.


week.
Tom Mahar sold for P. J. Millett
to Fletcher Mann 10 head of mules
for $3.50 per head.
Farmers say that the late cold
spell did not hurt the young clover
or tobacco plants.
Peaches will only yield fair crop.
The late frost nipped about 40 per
cent. of the bloom.
Lightning killed a fine milk COW
last week for J. B. Burnett, who lives
on the Moran place.
Mr.. G. Lem Offutt sold to Mr.. VIII
lard Huffman 10 acres of land near
Newtown at $50 per acre.
"A Woodford county buyer paid
Ga cents for three double-deck loads
of lambs for July delivery.
The last cold spell we had in the
spring of 1904 was on the goth of April,
when it was degrees below freezing.
Mr.. K. Stone, of Georgetown, on
his recent trip to Cuba, purchased
several thousand acres of sugar and
grazing land on the island.
-Thos. G. McClintock & Son, of
Millersburg, sold car load of horses
at Cincinnati yesterday. w. G. Nc
Clintock conducted the sale.
Bids were opened at the Navy
Department Wednesday for $780, 1000
pounds of tobacco, the annual supply
purchased by the government for the
sailors.
p. J. Millett's Amarant, by Sir
Dixon, foaled colt by Imp. Ruskin.
Mr.. Millett won races at Memphis
Saturday with Hyperian II and The
Saracen.
AT the public sale of Hereford cat
tie by M. Kirtley, Savannah, Mo-, 70
females brought 7,74O, an average Of
500. Thirteen bulls brought 1926,
an average of $95. Ninety-two head
brought $8,975, an average of S97. 66.
j. H. Dawson, of Frankfort, Ind,
has sold Bourbon Jay 2:211S, for
$4,000 cash. Bourbon Jay was bred
by j. S. Wilson, in this city. w. A.
Bacon sold him to Mr.. Dawson for
1900 last fall.
The following foals are reported
from Maplehurst Stock Farm: Jen-
ME lkcGeath, by Jay Bird, foaled
colt by Onward Silver 2:O5A. She
will be bred to Moko.
Eastmorn, by Baron Wilkes 2:18,
foaled brown colt by Jay Bird.
Etha King foaled colt by Monbells
2:2334.
Eastmorn and Etha King will be
bred to Jay Bird.
Is. @. Carpenter, of Millersburg,
will ship fifty head of saddle, carriage
and road horses to Atlanta, Ca,
April 25 to be sold at public auction
May 4. Mr.. Carpenter considers this
the best shipment he ever made
South. 1t includes several road horses
that can go better than 2:3O. He
was offered 5000 for two of the horses
ten days ago. Mr.. Carpenter recent
ly sold five fancy saddle and harness
horses to Eastern parties for $4,000.
From notices in numerous ex-
changes we note that growers all
over the Burley tobacco belt are pre-
pairing to put out a largely increased
acreage this season, in some counties
the increase being reported as fully
one-half more than last year. This is
to be deplored, for as certain as fate,
if the season is favorable and the crop
prove large one, it will mean five
and six cent tobacco for the coming
crop, THE NEWS feels assured that if
growers will put in less acreage and
pay special attention to producing
fine crop, that the financial result will
be far greater.
Besides throwing out of employ
ment about 5000 persons in Ken
lucky and Tennessee, the new duty
imposed by the British Parliament on
stripped tobacco will have the effect
of reducing the efficiency of several
other branches of the tOhaooO trada