The Bourbon news., 1912-07-16
STOCK. CROP AND.FARM NOTES,

Nicholas county hens are on a
strike, and eggs are reported scarcer
than at any time since the scarcity
last winter.
Harrison county is to have an
other loose leaf tobacco market, max
ing three that will be in operation
when the tobacco market opens next
fall.
Hon. Cassius M. Clay. of near
Paris, sold this week to Joseph trakes
two hundred lambs at Z cents Inc
lambs were shipped to Jersey City,
Thursday evening.
Farmers of near Licking, Nichulas
county, are this year raising over IUU
acres of tomatoes. One caDnery is al
ready established and another. is being
installed. Plans are made for the can
ming of thousands of cans OF tomatoes.
In the face of the efforts Of Col.
G. K. Keller to eXterminate the pests
rats are said to be slaying chickens IN
Carlisle. ard other sections of Nicholas
county. Hundreds of chickens have
been reported killed in one night. A
special rat killing day will probably be
celebrated there soon.
SURPRISING all previous efforts in
egg raising in the East, G. W. Sand
ers, of Newton, N. j., holds as the
record an egg measuring 9.5 by 10
inches, which was laid by one of his
white Leghorns this weak. 1t had a
soft shell and was put in alcohol for
exhibition.
w. P. Givens, one of the pioneer
alfalfa growers of Lincoln county, Will
put in 20 additional acres this season
on his farm near Shelby City. Mr..
Givens estimates that his three-acre
crop of alfalfa paid him $3.50 an acre
last year. he having cut his little
patch five times during the season.
An unusually large tobacco crop
will be raised in Boyle county this
year. The acreage is somewhat larger
than last year, and it is estimated that
about 1,200 acres will be raised. In
addition to the two warehouses now IN
operation another will be erected this
summer.
"A number of Boyle county farmers
are threshing their wheat crops this
week. They were delayed some time
by the Wet weather, but atmospheric
conditions have materially improved in
the past few days. The yield is about
normal and the quality of the grain is
very good. A number of sales at a
dollar a bushel have been made.
-Eanville Advocate: "Mr. Monte
Fox shipped his big bunch of export
cattle TO New York on Saturday.
There were $50 in the drove. and it
required a special train Of twenty cars
to haul them. Mr.. Fox has been max
ing up the shipment for some time.
He paid from seven to eight cents for
the stock.
Throughout Central Kentucky bus
iness men and bankers are enjoying a
season of activity with better condi-
tions to follow as the result of prOpi-
tious crop conditions and high values
for fatted live stock. The farmer Els
master of the situation and is adding
! daily to his bank account as proceeds
! from the sale Of crops. country pro-
duce and live shockssare received.
"A. K. Robertson, a tobacco man OF
/ Mt. Sterling is rehandling and prIz-
| ing tobacco he bought last winter. To-
bacco men in Montgomery take q
! bright view of the situation regarding
the merger OF the Lexington houses,
and,belleve that thessale to the Louis
Vile people will work an excellent ad
vantage. They look at it that the
move was made 70 hurt the grow ers.
The Farmers Union Mercantile
( Company. a corporation recently organ
lied in Carlisle by the Nicholas County
Famers' Union, will open store il
that city August l. The bushes!
will be located IN the McNew building
+. H. Briefly, of East Union, is presi
dent. and Geo. NJ. Wilson, Of Carlisle
secretary and treasurer of the com
pany. The county union has about l .20(
members. go.
The tomato growing industry i!
becoming more extensive in Nicholas
county. Farmers of the northern por
ton OF the county are growing a large
acreage of this crop this year. Th'
cannery of j. +. Standiford & Co.
near Abner's Mill, is preparing for al
Output of 81, eco cans this season, AM
the Standiford farm is growing thirt,
acres of tomatoes.
The plentiful harvests of impOr
tant crops of the country, indicated b.
the July crop report of the Depart
ment of Agriculture, will extend ais
to the minor crops tn great extent.
Conditions of all crops were materi
ally better on July l than on the sam
date last year. The crop reporting
board estimates they are So per cent
better. Comparing their conditio
with the average of recent years, it
somewhat lower, about IL per cent.
The area planted to the impoItan
CROPS corn, wheat, oats, barley, pc
tatocs, tobacco, fax, rice and cotton
is estimated at fully 24l, 105, 900 acres
While this aggregate area is Is les
than the area OF the sane C! ops las
year, it is 1.9 per cent. greater than
1910, and 60 per cent. greater tha
in 1909.
Taken as whole, the report Of tn
crop conditions in Kentucky, made b
Commissioner Of Agriculture Newman
shows that the conditions for July al
muCn brighter than were t1e ind