The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1909-03-30
STOCK. CROP AND FARM NOTES.

The members of the Kentucky
Racing Commission will hold a meeting
in Lexington next Thursday, April l, to
d etermine the date OF the race meet
lngs this year in the State.
"A mare belonging to ]. A. Wagon
er, of nearsParis, who lives on tine Gym
thlana pike, on Thursday foaled a mule
colt with seven feet. The hind feet
we're normal but one front leg had two
distinct feet and the other had three
feet. The colt died.
Ida M. Tarbell says the tariff on
hides makes it necessary for the
American people to pay $4,000, 900 a
year more for their shoes than they
would have to expend if the raw ma
terial for leather were admitted free.
The man who has to buy shoes for
three or four active boys will regard
Miss Tarbel's statement as very
strong argument in favor of having
hides taken up for immediate consider
alton when Congress begins revising
the tariff.
The high prices received for Jack
stock at the recent public sales held in
Missouri and elsewhere would indicate
that the demand for high-class jacks in
this country is greater than ever be-
fore. We cannot recall time in his
tory when mules demanded such large
prices as they do today. Neither the
Importation of the draft and foreign
coach horses, the invention of new and
improved farm machinery, the electric
car or automobile have detracte d from
the usefulness of the mule.
Once more an effort is being made
in Congress to abolish the tax on to-
bacco allowing the sale of leaf TOBACCO
in any quantity without payment of
the six cents perspound tax. The bill.
or one similar, has three times been
passed by the House, and it has often
died in the finance committee of the
Senate. Of which committee Senator
Aldrich, closely connected with the to-
baccO trust, is chairman.
There is a great deal of complaint
from the Southern part of Barren
county of havoc to poultry by foxes.
About a year ago mad dog scare in
that section almost depopulated the
canine family. Since the dogs are all
dead, the foxes have appeared in great
numbers. They do not wait for night
fall, but walk into the yards at any
time during the day. catch hen and
make off to the woods.
To show the farmers of Kentucky
that they can increase their wealth by
raising alfalfa and using the seed corn
recommended by the Agricultural De-
partment, General P. Z. Johnson, Ad-
jutant General of Kentucky, has put as
many acres as necessary of his fine
farm near Lexington at the disposal of
the Department to make the tests. He
will buy the seed. employ the labor and
furnish the land and have the crops
cultivated under the direction of the
Department.
Prof. Els. Goude, OF the State Elk
pertinent Station, in lecture deliver
ed before the class in Agriculture of
State University skaters the old ira
dltion so firmly established in the
South that the turkey buzZard is An in
nocent and useful scavenger and should
be protected from all harm. Prof
GOOde, whose lecture was on the sub
ject of hog cholera, declared that the
buzzards are among the most active
agents in spreading this destructive
disease, and that instead of the State
having law to protect them the Leg
islature should pass an act requiring
the destruction OF every buZzard in the
Commonwealth. Why not bury the
dead hogs?