The Bourbon news., 1909-06-22
STOCK. CROP AND FARM NOTES.

The manure heap is not the farm
er's bank unless he gets it out on the
land. Then it returns good interest.
The farmer who is always finding
fault with the weather has most IN
comfortable time of it, and it doesn't
help him in the least in overcoming
the conditions.
If the little chicks appear mopy,
look for head lice. If you find them
infested apply coal oil to the head not
too much-and you will find that your
chicks Will brighten up and prove
more thrifty.
Mr.. Jo. F. Ware sold his farm (the
old Spears place. on the, Shakertuwn
pike about two miles from Danville, to
Messrs. John B. Nichols and Samuel
Crawford. The place contains 2l6
acres and the purchase price was Sl25
per acre.
The Burley Tobacco Society,
through the Fleming Beard Of Con-
troll, will distribute July ! about $685.
900 to Fleming county holders of GER
tificates on the 1907 crop. There
are about so hogsheads of the Fleming
county crop for which shipping orders
liceNN 4AOI = OCCL 4COCANCNAs
Dogs have killed so many sheep
around Lexington recently that some
Of the sheep-raisers say they will quit
trying to raise sheep. Others will or
ganize war Of determination against
dogs. One man recently killed nearly
fifty dogs on his farm in one night
with poison.
1t is claimed that the largest grow
er of gooseberries in the United
States, and possibly the largest in the
world is in Hardin county KY. The
gooseberry farm is owned by Mr.. w.
H. Rahm and is located near SJithon.
The present year ne has eight tnous-
and and five hundred bushels. which
are set four feet apart with six feet be-
tween the rows. occupying aimost four
acres Of ground.
New wheat in the great Kansas
wheat belt is being contracted for at
$l.02. This Is q cents more than the /
same parties offered for new wheat last
year at this time. This price would
indicate that the contractors had in
formation of short crop somewhere, !
if not general, and the farmers who
have wheat will do we'll to hold it for
while, as the price is high With
% per cent shortage the farmers will
make as much on their wheat as ordi- 4.
narily at SO cents.
The hog market has been bullish"
for some time. Optimists have pre- !
dicted that live hogs would sell for
So 90 per hunrded this season. But
the prediction met many skeptics. /
However the question was settled Mon /
day of last week, June IA, when car /
load lots of hogs sold on the Chicago
market at So. 05 per hunrded. This is
the highest price reached since 1902. Z
and barring that period the highest
since 1893. 1t is the highest price for
June hogs since 1882, prices reached /.
S9.35. Of course there are various eX-
plantations of the present high price of
hogs. The one most generally given
and accepted is short supply and in
creasing consumption. Possibly the
most logical explanation is that the
high price OF corn has caused the early
marketing of immature and light hogs
and real scarcity of heavy fat hogs.
This has caused the supply of lard to
run short and the market is looking for
hogs that will yield the most lard.
1t is significant that the S8.05 hog last
week averaged over 300 pounds. What
ever the cause the interesting fact is
that a good porker is now worth gold
dollars and many of them.