Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-02
LAND. STOCK AND CROP


bought S good yearling mules in
Pulaski county at $40. 90 each
Cattle. hogs. sheep and good
mules are very scarce and high as
cats back, says the stock dealers
J. B. Livesay sold to J JThomp-
son at Crab Oechard Thursday a
I6H hand 5 year old mule for $50.
Strictly fresh eggs were retail
ing last week in the Louisville
market at ten cents and in the Gin
cinnati marker at twelve to four
teen cents.
Clell Coleman, of Mercer. bought
is 70 head of beef cattle Saturday
from parties at indianapolis, st.
Louis aud Chicago, paying 2H and
81 cents for them.
J. A. Ramsey reports only abou,
200 cattle on the market Nearly
all sales were by the head. Best
prices was 4 ~ cents for some extra
good 65o-lb. yearliugs, FL Soo-lb.
steers brought 4 cents; IS 55o-lb
heifers, 81 cents; good fat cows,
| 81 to 81 cents; 75o-lb. heifers 81
cents, Quite number of mules
were offered, but buyers and sell
ers were too far apart and but few
sales were effected Richmond
Climax.
At the sale of J. Hood Smith in
Montgomery county "Wednesday,
Feb. 2Ist the following prices wei
realized: Combinedlhorse SIP;
brood mare $50; colt two years old
ST.. SO; mule q years old $I56; pair
mare mules:4 years old $500; pair
horse mules S years old S325; pair
aged mules SIoo; horse mule $40;
fat cow 1885 lbs. S. IS; fat COW
1850 lbs. S. IS; heifer 500 lbs
S. 90; 2 brood sows ST. each; I2c
barrels corn in crib S2.5I; farming
At Millersburg Peale, Collier &
Co. sold 6 900 bushels of wheat tC
Louisville parties at S. cents pei
bushel.
Fl R. Watts, auctiOneer, reports
the sale of Houston Waite Wednes
day, February 2Ist, fairly we'll at
tended. Among the prices were
the following: Brood made, ST.
work horse. $40; heifer calf, So. SO
shoats, Is los. weight: 81 IS each;
corn in crib, s. per barrel; com
mon chickens, 80 to 40 cents each
H. X. Watts, aucsioueer. reports
the sale Thursday Of CIV. Beighle
as we'll attended and the following
were among the sales made: Aged
work horse. Sol; brood mare, 500
lot Of Shotes 40 lbs, 81 each; Jer-
COW, 500; good drv cow, SIS; plain
yearling heifers, $I2 to $22, short
steer ,$22; brood SOW. $2I.5o; corn
in crib, 81 IS to S2.22; household
goods sold well.
| Last Monday is SAID to have
been the best court day at Mt.
Sterling i'll several months. The
crowd was estimated at 5000.
Business was brisk and the cattle
market was large. There were
2, 500 cattle on the market, and the
prices were good. 1000 ID. steers
sold at SIS to 400, light weight
3.25 to 3 so, yearlings 3 So to 400
heifers 3 90 to 3 so, cows $50 tC
3.25, Gamers I.25 to $50. The
mule market was also brisk. more
than ever seen before, possibly 400
head I6-hand mules brought $40
to $2Io each; IS hand mules $I2:
$40; I5H hand mules $I5oto ST.!
smaller mules from 500 to no
Heavy pairs sold from $3.50 to $500
kentucky Advocate.
| Several hundred cattle were OF
the market Yesterday and the great
er part of them changed hands
though nearly all were sold by tn
head. Trade was fairly brisk a
about the same range of prices a
last court day. The best sale o
the day was 4 4 cents for some ex
ira good yearlings. Heifer
brought 81 to 81 q cts. Most {
the cattle were common or inferio
and some were left unsold.
large number Of mules on the maj
ket but holders asked such hig
prices that no sales were made
Among the sales of cattle were th
following: Hub Stevens bougf
6 yearling steers, 600 lbs. for 81 s.
Hugh Hignite sold ID steers