The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1909-09-29
Land, Stock, G.sl


]. Elder Boardman. of Little Rock.
bought of j. NJ. Brennan, of near
Paris 81 head of LIPS pound cattle at
$500.
Mrs Richard Lowndes, of Danville,
is the proud owner of Edna May the
wonder horse who has something like
800 blue ribbons to her credit.
The famous 1000 acre Hazeltine
orchard in Missouri will produce 3d.
900 barrels Of apples this year, worth
SIS 600 on the tress. Most Of the
output OF this orchard is shipped to
Europe.
The richest turf price of the season
at Sheepshead Bay, N. Y, the Futuri-
ty, was won August 80. by Sweep,
owned by J. R. Keene. The purse
was $4,000. Sweeps share was
$27, 200.
The loss reported by farmers in
Flemig county on sheep killed by dogs
will be far in excess of the receipts
from dog tax. They will not receive
over forty cents on the dollar this
year.
No wonder the poultry business is
growing each year. There are more
than 5000 poultry shows held an
nually in the United States and
Canada. 1t is not only fascinating
business but one of enormous profit.
At the administrators sale of Berry
land, in Fayette county, last week,
Mr. Ed Weathers, of Bourbon county,
purchased $50 acres, for $1l5 per acre
and Mr.. JAS. Evans, also Of this coui :
ty, bought the 256 acre track at $96
per acre.
The South Australian Government
recently purchased one thousand six
hundred acres of land for the pur-
pose of encouraging and demonstrate
ing the best methods of dairy farm
ing. A Government expert is to have
charge Of the farm.
Plenty of corn widens the profits
of the farm, for so per cent. is coll
sumed at home; it means to the far
mer a large feeding business. the
fattening of more pork, the rearing
for the market of more cattle The
value of the corr is not measured on
the farm by the market quotations,
but by the value Of hogs and cattle.
A farmer in Ohio has started a
skunk farm. The plans are to sell
the fur and the oil. But the strangest
kind of a farm is one in Mexico. The
man believed he was purchasing a
paradise of roses but found when he
got there that it was the reverse. All
he could raise was game-it rattle
snakes, horned toads and lizards can
be called game. He sells all these
things TO tourists and is making good
money with such things.
Even when corn is high the relative
price for pork frequently makes it the
cheapest feed for finishing: fifty cent
corn is not expensive feed for six cent
hogs. Up to last six weeks of feed.
ing, wheat, rye or other cheaper SUIT
stitutes may be used with grass, but
in the ordinary course corn will be
the best dependence for the fattening
period. a pig whiclAis being fatten-
ed should gain from one to two
pounds a day, and weigh, alive. $50
to $50 pounds when nine to u months
old.
The Federal Good Roads Depart
ment states that the direct saving to
the farmers of this country from
properly constructed roads would be
$3.50, 100000 annually; that there
would be saving of over 500, 900, 600
in marketing the wheat crop alone;
of over So. coo in marketing the
corn crop and of $4,000. 900 in mar
keting the cotton crop. However
great the money value of good roads
May appear to be, it is not so i'm
| pOrtant as educational and social
advantages 20 be derived there-from
by thh residents of rural commune
ties. AS a rule, the farmers are
more wide awake 10 the necessity of
good roads tnan the residents in the
cities, as proper highways affect
directly their comfort and prosperity
This is not a problem for a single