The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-04-20
STOCK, CROP AND FARM NOTES.

The Equity farmers of Bracken
have completed arrangements for their
big rally May lst, at Brooksville.
Mr.. w. E. StiIwelI, of Avon, Fay
cite county. KY, sold last week to Mr..
B. S. Coyle shorthorn bull calf for
SIS.
The Democratic Senators Friday
agreed to stand by Senator PAINTER
in his fight against the 6 cent tax on
leaf tobacco.
Cattle in PendIeton county are dy-
ing from alfalfa bloat. Farmers are
taking precautions t. prevent their
stock eating excessively of this food.
Sir Ashton (2) Cesarian-Queen
Labella, the property of R. IT. Thorn
as, won $500 purse, the Junior Handi-
cap, four and half furlongs, at San
ia Anita Park, on April 10.
"A tobacco barn on the farm of
Mrs. Tucker, near Kirksey, in Gallo
way countywas burned last night and
incendiaries are believed to be re-
sponsible. The barn was filled with
tobacco which Belonged Wiley Hat
field.
1t is said that there will be a short
crop or Strawberries due to the drOuth
having killed the plants, and many
people were unable to get new ones to
set out because the supply did not near
equal the demand.
3 Howard Hampton and S. A. LIPS
comb of Clark county sold their four
year-old jack, John Marshall, to j. R.
Durham, of Washington county, for
81, $50. He is unbeaten in the show
ring and took premiums both in his
own ring and in sweepstakes at the
State Fair.
1t is reported that gIander has
broken out among the horses in the
neighbOrhood Of Lebanon, KY, and at
the request of DR.. Eisenman, the State
Veterinarian, Dir. j. S. Buckley, the
government expert on the disease, has
gone to Lebanon to take charge of the
situation.
AT meeting of stockholders at
Mt. Sterling last week James r. Ma
gowan, prominent horseman, was
elected president of the Montgomery
Fair Association, Chas. G. Thompson,
treasurer w. e. Hamilton, secretary.
A fair will be held in the fall. Work
on the amphitheatre and track will
shorty be begun.
With the delivery of one hundred
hOgsheads, ten of which were shipped
Saturday, all of the Fayette county
tobacco of the 1867 crops that was in
the poool will have been delivered and
the money for all of it will be in the
poets of the growers. The tobacco
is being shipped out as fast as the
orders are received for it.
The farmers in Bourbon county
and in thesBlue Grass section got busy
j last week and were engaged in plant
; ing corn III a number of neighborhoods.
The warmer weather conditions of the
last few days has made the earth
warm and conditions favorable to
planting corn and garden seeds
The National Wool Growers Asso-
citation was organized at Elizabethtown
last week and the following officers
we're elected: Ben Watson, of Dixon,
president, E. L. Mann, of Kenton
county, vice president and il. Stew
ems. of Beaver Dam, secretary. the last
named position is the only Office with
any pay attached, The secretary S
salary being Sl.5c0.
E-The Danville Advocate says:
'Stockmen are having bad luck this
Spring. Dozens of young colts have
died this spring from diseases similar
in symptoms to pneumonia. C. M.
Tucker has lost five; Pleasant Tucker
several as well, S Joe Harrington.
Mr.. 7. F. Durham, of this city, has al
so lost several. 1t is understood that
the disease is quite general III scope. +"
The hen as a means of Matching
chickens is superior to the Incubator.
This is the opinion of the Department
of Agriculture after a painstaking in
vestigation. The incubatorS, the de,
partment finds Matched go 6 per cent,
while the hens Matched 1873 per c9At.
Eggs incubated artificially teStGH "
per cent. as infertie, while those incu-
bated by hens tested II per cent. The
incubators showed 16 per cent. of
chicks died in the shell. the hens less
than 3 per cent.
There is much speculation now as
to whether the tobacco pool this year
will be as great success as it was
last and as to what per cent. of the
crop grow this year in the white bur
ley district the pool wilt control. it is
the opinion of many who are we'll in
formed on the subject that if as large
crop is raised this year as is now IN
dictated the society will control more
than ninety per cent of the crop.