The Bourbon news., 1912-12-31
STOCK. CROP AND FARM NOTES

Lection Bros. sold a good mule 70,
Jerry Piummer, of Riddles Mills. for
S185. -'i
R. b. Hutchcraft,. of Paris, bought
ten head of feeders in Clark county
last week at prices ranging from.
S.. rs to $500 per hundred.
d Mr.. U. r. Rankin. Of Millersburo
sold during the last week 78 head of
cattle to Mcintyre & Moffett for ~
cents per pound. The cattle averaged
about 1850 pounds each.
w. ID. Mcintyre, of Millersburo
purchased of Dr. G. w. Mathers. of
Nicholas county, eighteen head of 400
pound cattle at q cents per pound or
total of $1,000.
The vote stands 367 to log in favor
of selling the tobacco pooled with the
Green River Tobacco Growers Asso-
citation at Owensboro, at prices rang
ing from So to SIS for leaf and lugs
and So for trash.
-Caywood & McClintock. of th,s
city. have shipped seven carloads of
stock hogs to Indiana within the past
two months, the last shipment being a
carload which aUeraged 145 pounds.
for which they received from S6.25 to
Sc. 40 per hundred pounds.
james M. Terry. of Cynthiana.
bought last week from Matlack &
Shropshire. of Winchester. for export
to Cuba the grand little saddle show
horse, The Little Millionaire, which,
it is needless to say, brought a top
floor price.
MIR. George Jones. of near Paris.
purchased of Martin Doyle, of this
city, one hundred acres of land in the
rear of his home place on the Clinton
vile pike. The price paid was S1OO per
acre. Mr.. Jones now owns about 400
acres in his home place besides nice
farm near Clintonville.
The poultry men of Kentucky are
invited to meet at the State Univer-
sity at Lexington on Wednesday, Janu-
ary 8, during Farmers Week, to
organize Kentucky State Poultry and
Pigeon Breeders Association, and to
discuss the advisability of holding. the
State Poultry show.
e. ]. O'Brien, a member of the
| firm of E. j. O'BrIen & Co., leaf to-
baccC brokers Of Louisville, has just
returned from France, where he Sc
cured part of the annual French to-
bacco contracts. The contracts this
year aggregate about 25, 900, 900
pounds, and Mr.. O'Brien was success
full in securing contracts,,for. several of
the.coarse graudes of Kentucky to-
baccO, amounting to several million
pounds.
More than a quarter of million
cattle fewer than in 1911, were re-
ceived In Chicago this year, but more
than 1900. 900 was paid for them than
in 1911. The total paid out in 1912
was above $183, 10000 Three reasons
are given for the increased price of
beef. the falling off in production of
the Western state. the gain in popula
tIon in the United States, while the
increase in cattle has not kept pace,
and the falling off in beef exports this
year owing to the big home demand.
The largest cattle sale made in
Boyle county in many years was closed
last week when Mr.. j. G. CALDWELL
sold.323 head of extra high class ex-
porteis to Monte Fox. of Louisville,
and James Brown. of Chicago. The
entire bunch averaged LAPS pounds
and the price was S7.85 per hundred.
1t took eighteen freight cars to trans
port the exporters to New York. They
were bought for the New York Butch
ers' Dressed Meat Company. The
total purchase price Was $4,000.
Mr.. English, mule buyer from
Tennessee. has been in this vicinity
during the past week and purchased
from Caywood & McClintock, of Paris,
six head of work mules for total of
81, 200, and from w. A. Thomason he
bought eleven head of mules at S205
per head. Caywood & McClintock also
sold to.Asa Jewell. of Lexington. ten
head of work mules at S210 per head.
The same firm bought last Monday.
one mule from Thomas:Lisle. of Clark
county, for $l95.