The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1910-04-05
STOCK. CROP AND FARM NOTES

Not much attention is being given
to the question of pooling by Madison
county tobacco growers They are
going ahead putting in big crops aud
seem to lose little sleep over the
pool.
Total receipts OF live stock at the
Chicago market last week were 46, 700
cattle, 70. 900 hogs and 4,700 sheep.
The week S receipts, compared with
t le previous week, in round numbers
increased 1900 cattle, decreased Is, 600
hogs and 100 sheep. Compared with
corresponding week last year cattle
increased 5000. hogs decreased So, 100
and sheep 1900.
The hog scarcity is effecting the
entire world. So difficult is it to Sc
ire surplus of hog products that
one English provision house reports
that in the last week of February it
handled hams and bacon from ten diff
erent countries, including. the United
States, Canada. England, Ireland,
Denmark, Holland, France, Russia,
Siberia and Roumania. 1t is also
known that cargo Of frozen hog car
casses from China was landed in Liv-
erpool that week. No country has
more than small stock of log pro-
ducts to offer. Lard Is reported TO be
especially scarce in Europe, and oleC
oil, cocanut fat, cotton seed oil and
various compound vegetable oils are
being used as partial or complete SUBJ
stitutes for nOg fat.
Farmers whose tobacco has no.
been Gelivered, would do well to ex-
anime it. A press dispatch from Car
Isle says: Tobacco growers of Mich
elias and adjoining counties in many
places are busy moving their 1905
tobacco owing to the report that it is
beginning to funk and spoil, where il
is bulked in the barns of the growers.
Considerable damage mas already beer
reported from some sections and there
is general rush being made either tC
deliver to the equity re-drylng houses
orIprepare to re-dry in local barns. II
is said unless immediate action is ia
! ken to remove it flom the bulks great
damage will result.
During 1909 the United States De-
part nent of Agriculture made quite an
extensive examination of grass anC
clover seeds 20 determine the extent
to which they were being adulterated
In doing this work Kentucky bluegrass
seed received considerable attention
! 4i6 samples of what was being offered
for sale as Kentucky bluegrass were
obtained in the pen market. Fourteen
of these samples were found to De
wholly or in part Canada bluegrass.
| While this is bad enough, it is a big
improvement over conditions the pre-
vious year. These tests illustrate how
Kentucky bluegrass seed growers have
/ been and still are being swindled by
branding any old stuff as Kentucky
product and selling it to the public.
From Massachusetts comes the re-
port that the presidents of one of the
| big railroads has purchased a dozeT
Angora goats to run with his flock o.
SouthGOwn sheep as a protection
against dogs. 1t was about twenty
years ago when a like proposition
gained, currency through this country
and there was BELIEF that BILLY
would make it too not for the ours i
they came about a flock over which
they had beeh placed. We note. bow
ever, that the plan was not followed
up, and have not heard of it until see
ing the notice above referred to. l.
anyone could guarantee protection t.
sheep in this way there would be ;
rise in the price Of billy goats.