The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-05-21
STOCK, CROP AND FARM NOTE

Hawthorne, the unbeaten two-year-
old geIding, has :been sold by c. b..
Coyle to C. F. Bushmeyer. Of Louis
vile, for SIP. 500.
Frank P.FKiser, of!Paris. buught
last week from j. M. Caldwell, who
lives at Oakland Farm" an extra
good driving mare, for 5000.
W. D. Mcintyre, of MiIlersburg,
bought four head of heifers. at S35
per head, and a COW and calf from Dan
Grow, in Nicholas county, last week.
j. Miller Ward, of near Paris.
closed a deal last week with Bour-
bon county buyer, for the sale of the
blue grass seed from six hundred
acres of land, comprising the seed
from three different farms. The price
paid was 81, 500.
ALBERT Moffett. of Millersburg.
bought last week from S. S. Clay. of
Nicholas county, bunch of yearllne
cattle, to be delivered October /. at
cents per pound. William b.
Woodfurd has sold the gass seed from
700 acres of land to G. S. Brent &
Bro, of Paris. at 3d. 500.
Common wealth's Attorney j. G..
Dedman has filed suits in Harrison.
Robertson, Pendleton and Nicholas
counties, comprising the Eighteenth
Judicial District, asking judgment
against the international Harvester
Company for $4,000 and costs, that be-
/, ing the penalty for entering into a
trust. pool. ETC.. to control prices.
This spring has been a bad one on
little pigs. but the ones that have pull
ed through ought to look about as good
as gold to the farmer for the hog
market is not going to be glutted for
some time yet. There should be some
consolation in the fact that every pig
that has succumbed to the elements
will make his more fortunate brother
and sister worth little bit more.
The price of hemp, since the per-
| lection of the O'Neill hemp-breaking
machine. has advanced. and farmers
who are growing crop WILL make good
money. In Fayette county. R. II. Will
son, who has fifty acres in hemp. has
refusedsS7lper one hundred pounds for
his e:tire crop. Elmendorf is growing
! 300 acres of hemp, which manager
Bergman sold in advance to an Eastern
syndicate, at the market price. With
| the troublesome question of getting
/ laborers to break out the hemp elimi-
mated, there will probably be great
increase next year in the acreage.
Reports from various sections in
dictate that the Blue grass seed outlook
is somewhat better than last year.
though in some sections it is yet quite
backward and it is hard to tell just
what the outcome will be at this time.
In Shelby county emost pastures have
been grazed over. therefore. there will
be very little seed stripped. This is
also true in Woodford and some other
Southern counties. In Montgomery
Bourbon and Nicholas counties. the cror
at the present time is very flouriShing,
yte there is a good deal,o fundergrowth
and weeds in some pastures. In Fay
cite county great deal of the bluegrass
land will be grazed, but quite a lare
portion was plowed up few years age
for tobacco and other crops.
The State Department of Agricul-
ture has issued the following crop bul.
letin:
1.-The crop report for May. rendered
as the conditions existing May /,
shows a decreased acreage of wheat
originally sown in Kentucky last fail,
Ola Der cent of average crop. This
spring there has been abandoned 7.e
per cent of this original acreage. leav-
ing SO. 8..per cent of average crop in
acreage. condition of which lis rs pc,
cent. Condition of rye, S5.2 per cent
oats 1876 per cent.
"There has been but little corn
planted, and only SILL per cent of the
blowing, great deal of which was
done last fall. lis reported. The unu-
sual amount of rainfall has inter
ferred materially the sowing OF
oats and with the blowing of corn.
The indicated acreage of corn shows
an unusually large crop was planned,
but whether weather conditions will
permit this is'yet to be deter mined.
''The Indicated acreage of dark to.
baccO is 1872 per cent, and the Burley
acreage is SO per cent. Condition OF
tobacco beds In dark district is giver
as 1916 per cent and of beds for Burnley
tobacco 92.7 per cent.
practically al fruit is killed ii
some sections of Kentucky, while ir
other portions an average condition is
reported. Apples 800 per cent
peaches. 55.1 per cent; plums, 1875 pei
cent (; cherries, 81 per cent; grapes
80 per cent. The condition of the
strawberry crop is 90.3 per cent. Con
dition of live stock is reported as. hard
ly being up to the average. Grass con-
ditions are unusually good. The loss
from hog cholera for the last twelve
months is 7.3 per cent.
1.-The flooded district in Kentuck,
has brought down the general average
of all crops more or less, as many field:
of wheat and oats were reported az
being entirely ruined as the result OF
flood conditions. In many sections rar
mas interfered with the planting OF
gardens, and some reports show no pc
tato acreagE.
1.-The June crop will show the tota
acreage of corn, oats and potatoes
and no effort has been made to OF tair
the total acreage of these crops, owinl
to the lateness of the season."