Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-03-23
LAND. STOCK AND CROP

f, sold to Hodgkin of Winchester, for
June delivery, 100 lambs at 8 cents
and 50 fleeces of wool, at 80 cts per
pound. Mt. Sterling Sentinel
Democrat.
J. D. Duvall bought of J. Rife
Isle two short year-old cattle at
$50 each.-Johu ID. Duvall sold to
VIM. Robb sixty '2-lb hogs ITO go
the last of the month at So.
Winchester Democrat.
1t is claimed that if two or thye e
flax seed are planted in each hill of
potatoes potato bugs will not both
er the vine at all The above may
not be true, but It will cost very
little to test it.
NJ. B Hifner is feeding nice
bt of year-old steers and has
them engaged to A. Schoerth at
Acts for June 3oth deliverv.-
Mrs. John H. Bell, of near Midway
sold 81 turkeys at IS and 20 cents
pound which neted her $oI.43.
Woodford Sun.
Jeff Davis. brother of John B.
Smith, sold his fat cattle FOR S cts,
summer delivery, to a Tennessee
party Charley McKenney bought
seventy-6ve hogs from Will Robb
and IS from one of his neighbors
and IS from other parties weighing
40 lbs, and upwards at prices
ranging from Sc IS to Sc IS. He
bought ten fair heifers from Mr..
Robb for S4.35.-W. Moore & Son
bought rs fat heifers for 4 Cts
Lexington Gazette.
Watt Brown sold II cattle TO
Lincoln county parties for "a to
&c; also so hogs at &c. Coffey &
HUM. of Columbia, passed
through town with six horses
in Lincoln county from SIPS to
$I6o. d. A Thomas, cashier
Bank of Middleburg, sold his fine
horse to Southern parties for s25o.
News.
The Agricultural department has
received from Abyes;nia a fue
specimen Of Crews zebra, destin-
ed to become the ancestors ola new
race of domestic animals, if the ex-
pertinent proposed by the Bureau
of Animal Industry proves success
full. This is no less than the pro-
pogation of a draft animal that will
withstand diseases common to the
horse and mule The cross strain
of the horse and the zebra is said to
be exceptionally hardy and surefoot-
ed. Such "Zebrules," bred in
Scotland by Prof. Ewart, are being
used as pack animals by the British
Army in India.
A farmer says that he rids his
farm of rats in the following man
ner: "On a number of pieces of
shingles put about half tea> pooh
full of molases and on that 1 put
small quantity of concentrated I've
and then put the old shingle around
under cribs. The next morning |
found some 40 dead rats and tie
rest left for parts unknown L
have cleared several farms OF the
pests in the same way and never
knew it to fail" We hope some of
our readers will try it and report.
There is general demand for
we'll bred seed corn. Every geo
graphic section of the United State.
where soil or climatic conditions
are distinctive reeds one or more
careful corn breeders. - Un,il the
merits of a strain OF corn and the
honesty of tue one who sells it are
known farmers should purchase
sparingly and insist on receiving
the seed as ear corn.-The mos:
important character coin can Dos
sess is the ability to produce large
Yields. This character can be in
creased by persistent selection of
ears that have proved most pro-
ductive. Vitality is preserved by
thoroughly and quite rapidly dry,
ing the seek ears storing them
where they will not be exposed to
damp atmosphere or sudden chang
es Of temperature.-C. P. Hartley.