The Bourbon news., 1912-09-20
STOCK. CROP AND FARM NOTE S.

Texas fever ticks, pest which causes
an annual loss of from forty million
to one hundred million dollars.
The work of eradicating the dis
ease of scabies from among the sheer
of Kentucky has progressed so favora
bly, that the disease is now almost en-.
tirely wiped out.
According to reports made by the
Department Of Agriculture. betwe er
Is, 600 and 20, 900 acres of cotton has
been damaged in Arkansas by the cot.
ton caterpillar.
The Kentucky State Fair ended lis
1917 show Saturday night, the attend
ance for the week being considerably
ir excess of last year. it is declared.
Officials of the Fair say they are
greatly pleased with the success of the
FAIR this year.
The Kentucky State University at
| Lexington has announced that chick
en- breeding will be added to its curri.
culum. A farm near Lexington has
| been purchased where the science OF
the hen will be studied by the students
of the school,
The tobacco growers of Madison
| county are securing every available
hand in an effort to get their crops cut
and housed before much needed gen
eral rain sets in and spoiIs the crop.
1t is the best in quantity in many
years. Help is said to be scarce and
much needed. by the farmers.
Nicholas county farmers in the
| Licking neighborhood. who have been
growing tomatoes in the place Of to-
| bacco. have bumper crop. The to-
matoes are now being gathered ard
canned. Two large canneries have
been installedsand are now running at
full capacity.
Mr.. Renick Smith, of Dallas, Tex
as, who has been visiting his grand
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. Fl. Renick,
for several weeks will leave to-day TOR
Front Roxal, Virginia. TO enter Ran
dolph Macon Academy. His mother,
Mrs. Curtis P. Smith, will be with her
parents for a week longer before
returning to Texas.
--Ormand Summeville, the eight
year-old son of Judge SummervilIe, of
| Montgomery, Ala, was operated on
for appendicitis at the Good Samari-
tan HOSPITAL Saturday night. The
boy was visiting DR.. and Mrs. ]. T.
| Vansant when he was stricken i'll Sun
| day afternoon. and was rushed in an
auomtobile to the hospital.
The sixteen head of thoroughbred
yearllngs owned by Frank E. Brown
and sold Saturday morning for the
Kentucky Sales Company, brought a
total of S57 $50, or an average of
slightly over S3,603 a head. The
youngsters were bred by James R.
Keene at Castleton and represented
| Keene at the historic establishment.
"A fire which originated in a hay
field On the farm of Mr. Dunn, ad-
| jo ming, swept over the bluegrass pas
ture of Kingston Stock Farm in Fay
cite and for time threatened to de-
stroy the residence and numerous barns
and imperIl the valuable thoroughbred
horses kept upon the place by Maj.
F. A. Daingerfield, member of the
State Racing Commission, who leases
the farm and makes his home there.
Hart Wallace, of Shelby county,
has sold his herd of sixty Ayrshires
to j. H. Wright and T. r. Webber.
who will sell them at auction in the
near future. The price was private
| Included in the sale are Old Hall Sa-
rah ii, imported, which won the grand
championship for females and.frst pre-
MUM in the ring for aged cows at the
! State Fair. Seventeen cows in the
! herd have average tests of 1865
pounds of milk and asa pounds of but
ter year.
"A big dairy barn and two large 81
los on the farm of DR.. B. McClarkey,
near Scott's Station, in Shelby county,
were destroyed by fire with all the con-
tents. The fire originated in the loft
from some unknown cause. None of
the cattle were in the barn at the
time. The barn was built two years
ago by Hart Wallace at q cost OF
$4,000 The loss is abont $4,000 with
insurance in the Home Company fol
$4,000 on the building and 81, 900 or
the contents.
AT meeting of the board of di
rectors of the Burley Tobacco Compa
ny at the Strater Brothers branch fac
tory in Louisville Tuesday, it was de
cided to erect modern. fireproof Ioos'
leaf warehouse of suitable capacit!
at BrooksviIle, Bracken county, in &C
cordance with plans submitted and &C
companying petition signed by NOR
than 100 tobacco poolers of tina
county. The petition received the en-
dorsement of the subcommittee ap
pointed to look into conditions a
Brooksville. which committee visite,
the proposed site for the warehouse z
short time ago.
Commissioned ]. W. Newman o
the Agricultural Department has is
sued the following report for tn
month of September:
The report on.corn as of Septem
ber first. shows an Improvement, an
indicates yield Of 92.8 per cent a
against 84.5 per cent for the month o
August, an increase of 8.3 per cent
Dark tobacco shows condition of 81.