The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-05-10
STOCK. CROP AND FARM NOTES.


Nine carloads of fine cattle wer'
shipped from Midway Thursday morn
ing to the Baltimore market. m.
cattle were the property Of Mr.. Theo
dore solomon, of Lexington, an(
who has had them for severa
months in order TO be fed from the
slop from the Greenbaum distiliery,
near Midway.
= Total receipts of live stock on the
Chicago market last week were 81, 800
cattle, $500 hogs and $4,000 sheep.
The weeks receipts compared with
the previous week in round numbers
decreased 1890 cattle, 26, 700 hogs
and 1920 sheep. Compared with the
corresponding week last year cattle
increased Zoo hogs decreased 68, 300
and sheep l4.400.
= One hundi ed and eight fine i'm
ported Jersey milk cows arrived at
Elemendorf Farm Friday morning
from New York in charge of number
of attendants, and will be considera-
BILE addition to the already large nerd
of several hundred dairy cows at FL
mendorf. The cows are of the best
that could be found in the Jersey Is
land and England and are ell high
class animals having been selected
and imported specially for ElemeL-
dorf.
Because the report of the crop
condition in this state for the month
of March showed decided falling off
in the acreage of wheat Commissioner
of agriculture Rankin has decided to
begin campaign to induce the farm
ers of Kentucky to grow more wheat
and less tobacco. He has double
purpose in this campaign, which will
be one of education. He will try to
get the farmers to go back to the old
system of taking their wheat to the
mill and having it ground for their
own use, take their shorts and mill
feed home and feed it to their stock
mad sell what is left, and not until
they have first supplied their own
wants. During the next year Com
missioner Rankin is going to try to get
every farmer in Kentucky to raise
some wheat on his farm.
The Kentucky Beef Cattle Breed
ers Association will hold its third an
hual meeting al the State University
of Kentucky on May "a. The speakers
will include Professor ]. H. Skinner.
Professor of Animal Husbandry and
Dean of the College of Agriculture at
Purdue University, Mr.. Jonas We'll,
an extensive beef cattle feeder and
and commission merchants of Central
Kentucky, Mr.. Sim Lockridge. an ex-
tensive shorthorn breeder of Indiana.
and a number of Kentucky beef cat
tie feeders and breeders will also
speak on their specialties.
The program will begin at 80 in
the afternoon of May oath, which is
Tuesday, and Will extend through the
afternoon. A banquet will be held at
the Phoenix Hotel that night begin
ming at D. m. The most important
lectures will be given in the afternoon
and toasts will be responded to at the
BANQUET, which will be presided over
by Toastmaster G. E. Marven.
The next morning the visitors will
make a trip to the famous Snorthorn
farm, owned by Mr.. j. B. Haggin.
which is located near Lexington.
where an extensive shortnorn sale wilt
be held.
The beet cattle interests of Ken
lucky are booming. and judging from
this, it is thought that one of the larg
est meetings of beef cattle breeders
and feeders ever held South of the
Ohio River will occur at the State
of Kentucky on May "a,
1910.