The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1905-06-06
STOCK AND CROP.

Mckinney 2:1114 is the only trot-
ting stallion in the world whose SER
vice fee is $500.
DIR. M. H. Daley sold his bay
buggy mare Saturday to John J.
Hunter, of Millersburg for $155.
South Carolina has shipped to
Eastern markets this season fully 200
cars of caulifower, making the years
crop run close to 100000.
Mr.. J. H. Roe says he is milking
rs cows on his Illinois farm and they
are paying him $500 per month. He
has also 80 brood sows and $50 pigs.
"A Farmers Club was organized in
Garrard county last week with mem
bership of fifty of the best farmers in
the county as nucleus.
AT the horse sale held in Boston
last week James R. Mcgowan, of
Montgomery county, sold four for an
aggregate of Sc, 4O5, as follows: Side
view Belle, $4,000; Robin, 81 900; Snap,
$3.50; Duchess, 1855.
AT Mt. Sterling, w. w. Gay &
Co., sold to G. @. Mcdonald, agent
for Swift & Co., of Chicago, 497 head
of slop-fedS cattle for AZ cents per
pound. The cattle will average 1, 13O
pounds and the sale will approximate
$4,000 1t is the biggest individual
deal of slop-fed cattle made in Mont
gomery in years. The cattle will be
shipped East in a solid train of twenty
five cars.
Death from the effects of eating
live rat came to the famous trotting
horse Corinto, by Oratorio, 2:13, at
Lexington, and before VETERINARIANS
could extract the rat from the wind
pipe of the horse he died in great
agony. The small animal was con-
cealed in the feed, and after lodging
in the throat of the horse made efforts
to gnaw out, and as a result the wind
pipe of the horse was lacerated. The
horse was owned by Desha Breckin-
ridge, editor the Lexington Herald
One of the biggest sales of dairy
cattle ever held in this country was
that of Edward Trotter Prices Guern-
seys at Spottswood Farm, Broad Axe,
Pa, last week by Peter G. Kellogg.
Buyers were present from many States
and cattle were sold to most all of the
New England States, Wisconsin, West
Virginia and intermediate section.
The 4S head sold made a straight
average of $308.13. The top of the
sale was Golden Chance, a heifer in
milk, sold to E. G. Converse, of Green
wich, Conn.,, for 81, 1875. Sixteen COWS
averaged $4S6.S7; Is heifers, $29O.3
five yearling bulls, 1892; six bull calves,
1888, and five heifer calves, $144.
The purchase of the 1904 tobacco
crop has just closed in Montgomery
county and about 1900, 900 pounds has
been secured. The Continental Com
pany Friday completed their purchase
of 8, 1858, 900 pounds, more than they
have ever secured in any previous
year. The tobacco cost an average of
ten cents per pound and has been de-
livered. The crop was above the
average and brought good prices, the
highest price paid by this company
being fourteen cents. Independent
dealers purchased 100000 pounds at
an average of nine cents. The year
was a money maker for the majority
of raisers and increased acreage will
be put in this year. The entire crop
of 1904 will place over $3.50, 900 in the
hands of Montgomery county planters.
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