The Bourbon news., 1907-11-22
LIVE STOCK AND CROP NOTES

Ulllidils Oidy oz mead OF 90 pound
stock hogs at $4.25 per one hundred
pounds.
Since the expiration of the law.
rabbits have afforded welcome change
IN the meat program. Butchers are
complaining.
-Farnk P. Bedford, who has MANY
acres of fruit OH his large farm on the
Hume q Bedford pike, says this is the
first year in twenty-five that ne failed
to market any apples, peaches or pears.
The prudent farmer. as he is wind
ing up the years work, is now looking
after the spreading OF ali avaiIahje
manure to enrich his fields and invigo-
rate the soil for another fruitful sea-
son.
- Farmers who are careful concern
ing small things about the farm will
see to 1T that all kinds of farm
machlEer wagons, plows, binders.
mowers and tools of every description
are safely housed from the weather.
The weather so far has been favor
able to fall plowing and many stubble
fields have been turned. With the
usual amount of freezing weather the
soil will emerge from the winter mel
low and In prime condition for hemp
and planting of corn.
With the approach of winter. dairy
men are compelled to stable their COWS.
though grazing for several weeks will
remain good. Fall grass is not up TO
conditions of last year and with mill
feed worth $25 per ton milk prices are
sure to advance.
-Persimmons are on the market in
small quantities compared 20 former
years, while a total absence is noted
of paw-paws. This lucious fruit seems
to have perished by the visitations of
Jack frost when the apple, peach and
cherry crops went down before the
icicles of last April.
"A special express train carving
eight cars of dressed turkeys, left
Paris yesterday for Boston. The trai1
was made up from shipments from
Millersburg, Carlisle, Flemingsburg,
Mt. Sterling, Winchester and other
points, and carried IT'S. 900 of the tooth
some birds.
Notwithstanding the big decline in
hog values many punches are finding
their way to market. Farmers are re-
alizing that to feed high priced corn to
low priced hogs is losing proposition
and are selling. Local buyers are paw
ing from AZ to AZ cents per pound and
carloads are being shipped to the mar
kets of the larger cities.
Corn husking is in full blast and
many bins are being replenished. The
greater part of The corn crop in Bour-
bon will be fed to live stock, especial
ly cattle, as farmers are Increasing
along this line with the result that
next year the number of export cattle
produced in Bourbon will show con-
siderable increase.
Hog killing time is here, and
though many farmers, remembering
their experience of last year when
much meat spoiled on account of con-
tlnued warm weather, are still feeding
swine, though scores of farmers
thrOugout the county killed hogs last
week. The local market is well sup
piled with spare ribs, backbones and
country favored sausage.
AT the price of IS cents per busbeI
prevailing for potatoes farmers who
grew literally of this staple are reap
ing profitable returns. Ordinarily the
crop is good, for at least one hundred
bushels per acre and with seasonable
weather, and soil of productiveness
that usually characterizes that planted
to tobacco, a yield of from two to
three hundred bushels is obtained.
The determination of farmers to
cut out the production of tobacco for
the season of 1908 will encourage the
cultivation of hemp which is selling in
the local market.for S7.25 per one hun
dred and twelve pounds, the highest
price in twenty years. The growing
of TO tobacco next year may prove a
hardship to some agricultural communl-
ties, but not so with Bourbon and ad-
joining counties composing the fertile
bluegrass region.
The movement of live stock of ali
kinds is more active than for several
weeks as we'll with an increased ac-
tivlty prevailing III all kinds of retail
business. Thomas. McClintock & Sons
shipped yesterday one hundred and
twenty-five head of export cattle, of
which ninety head averaging 1.4O0
pounds, were purchased of d. C. Scott,
of Avon, KY, at s.. 50, and 81 head of
1.300 pound cattle of Sidney G.. Clay,
costing $4.35 per one hundred pounds.
Wheat will enter the winter in bet
ter condition than last year, being
shorn of unusual growth that charac-
terized the condition of the crop at
that time. A heavy fall growth means
surplus Of.straw at threshing time.
while with present conditions the
young stalks are strongly rooted and
upon the opening of spring weather
stooling will begin with the result that
the crop will mature more stalks and
larger heads, insuring a bigger yield.
-Grocerymen are paying 10 cents
per pound for dressed turkeys, 218
cents per pound for chickens, and 25
cents per dozen for fresh eggs. The
market is literally supplied with but
ter, which is selling slowly at a de-
cline, fancy rolls bringing 20 to 225
cents per pound. Itis estimated that
farmers are receiving 500 per day for
produce sold to Paris merchants, much
of which finds its way back to the