The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1912-03-29
the FARMERS

lie had about 100 bales.
4. l.. King, of Crab Orchard,
bought the old Hugh Edwards tract
on the Crab Orchard and Mt. YER
non road last week. 1t contained
ITO acres of nnimprcved, but good
land. The price was not made pub
lie. Mr.. King is feeding a nice
bunch of sheep which he will have
ready for the market about May or
June.
A scarcity of mules all over Gen.
trail Kentucky has been reported by
farmers and traders, who declare
the prices now being paid are high
er than has been known in many
years. Mules on the Lexington mar
ket this week brought from S4O0 to
$3.50 a pair, and one well matched
team brought $40. No cause for
the shortage has been given, except
that farmers have been devoting
considerable attention in the last
few years to the raising of fine cat
tie, saddle horses and tobacco and
neglecting the breeding of mules.
S. c. Carpenter, of Millersburg,
has just sold the crack stall
lion, King of Kentucky, to DIR. J.
N. Hill Sharp, of brakes Creek.
Ark, at $500. This horse is a
handsome chestnut, is four years
old, stands 1913 weight LILO
pounds. He is by the noted BOur-
bon King, LIST dam, Peach by King
of Kentucky goes five distinct gaits
and is very fast in the rack and
trot.
j. c. Johnson purchased in STAN
ford this week the following: 20
head of l25O-pound cattle from
Dock Weaver at Sc per hundred; 30
head averaging about 1000 pounds
from Alexander Brothers at same
price. He also bought 25 from John
Christman and 80 from T. C. Ran
kin. Mr.. NJ. j. Farris is the cham
pion tobacco raiser of Boyle county.
Mr.. Farris had in % acres on his
jackson farm, which made $4,000
pounds, that sold for an average of
1925 on the entire $4,000 pounds.
Some of the tobacco sold as high as
$43 per hundred. Mr.. Farris will
raise 80 acres this coming season.
Danville Advocate.
General Jose MIGUEL Gomez, Pres
ident of Cuba, was so well pleased
with the saddle horses purchased
from Cook Farms at Lexington own
ed by Jesse F. Cook formerly of
Stanford, by the Cuban Government
agents last fall that he decided to
buy a stallion and few good mares
lie decided upon Alican 1886 a walk
trot type and six mares. The com
mission that made the purchase last
fall We're very much impressed with
the young horse, and recommended
to General Gomez that he order him.
Alican was foaled in 1909. is Is 3
hands high and weighs 1,040. He is
by Collins and Redmon's good stall
lion, Roosevelt 2295 dam, Alma 1901
by Chester Lad, fson of Chester
Dare, Alma was blue ribbon win
ner at New York and Philadelphia
horse shows in her day.
In renewing for his /. J. for an
other year, James A. Burge. of
Moreland, writes: "Feed is a thing
of the past except corn which is 81
n barrel and the owner wants So
and fodder at so a shock. Every
thing looks favorable for a good
crop now in the west end. I reside
on the farm of Mr.. j. X. Baughman,
one of incoln's best farmers. will
work for him the remainder of this
season, as he pays the highest prices
for farm hands and is, gentleman
also his family is one Of the kindest
of this ncighborhood."
DIR. John Cook the celebrated col
ored veterinarian of Stanford, has
the following to say of "corns.alk
from which many cattle
have been suffering in this section
lately:
Causes.-lt is the result of eating
stalks which have minute germs un-
derneath the leaves. These germs
are so small that You cannot see
them without the aid Of a microscope
The cornstalks that are affected
with these germs do not grow so well
and ripen long before the older corn.
Symptoms.-There are at first
symptoms Of infection of the third
part of the stomach or many piles,
after which the brain becomes af-
fected and the animal becomes de-
irious. This is followed by a sort
Of stupidity, the animal showing its
head forward against the stall and
paying no attention to anything. 1t
san only be cured in first stages.