The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1912-02-27
STOCK, CROP AND FARM NOTE S

this year. 1t takes about SIS to pu'
chase bushel of the former while the
latter is priced at from So to Sc. so
The short crop last year is the cause.
In Clark county fowls are said to
be dy ing by the hundred Of a disease
which is battling the most learned CT
poultry raisers. All varieties of medi-
cine have been used with no results
and one lady lost about fifty last
week within few days.
The report of County Assessor E.
]. Secrest shows that there were
grown in Nicholas county during the
year 1911 only q, 92S bushels of wheat,
but the tobacco crop, which was
short one, amounted to zoos, 800
pounds. The number of voters in the
county is 1887 with 1888 children of
school age.
Golden Glow, the famous comhin-
ed harness and five-gaited saddle mare
sold at the auction of the Kentucky
Sales Company in Lexington for the
largest price ever paid for saddle
mare at auction, was shipped to the
home of her owner and it developed at
this time that her purchaser was Mr..
e. w. Chaplin of New York.
What promises to be great edu-
cational event will be the corn show
and rural school fair of Nicholas coun-
ty tob held in Carlisle on March z.
Corn raised by the boys and samples
of the work Of the rural schools will
be shown in competition. Clubs for
raising corn. fruit, flowers and poultry
for the year 1912 will be organized.
An official statement made by the
government Depar tment Of Agriculture
relates that the depar tment has spent
in the past ten years nearly seven mil
lion dollars for the Improvement of
agricultural conditions in the South.
This vast sum of government money
does not include the money spent by
the different states in cooperative
work with the Federal department.
The total receipts of live stock on
the Chicago market for week ending
February II were in round numbers
Sd, 800 cattle, 1879, 400 hogs and 102, 200
sheep. The weeks receipts, compared
with the previous week, in round num-
bers increased 100 cattle, 10. 300 hogs
and decreased II, 100 sheep. Compared
with the corresponding week a year
ago cattle decreased 2,400. hogs IN
creased AZ, 800 and sheep Is, 100.
There is heavy demand among
growers and tenants for tobacco land
in this and surrounding Blue Grass
counties. Since the improved condi-
tions of the tobacco situation, as evil
depced by the splendid prices received
for the weed in Central Kentucky
towns where there is tobacco market
and the indications are that this year s
crop of hurley will be a banner one
The assured success of the ten-year
pooling plan has also stimulated the
tobacco growing industry which will
tend TO increase the acreage.
During windstorm near Van
Buren,. KY, the barn of Sam McGin-
mis-, a farmer, was blown down and it's
parts scattered over ten acre lot. By
some strange chance everything in the
barn except five horses and four cows
suffered harm. The cows were kept
in their places by stanchions which
withstood the storms fury, while the
horses managed to break loose and
were found grazing in the field. Two
! buSSlSo anu q lam WGSOH "CLC uS-
stroyed.
Dogs have caused heavy losses tc
farmres of Montgomery county recent.
ly, making raids on sheep almost night
ly and cutting them to pieces and tear
ing the threats badly, injuring them SC
that what are not killed outright sOor
die. The ours made a raid on the hocE
of IN. COOns and llled three old ewes
and eight lambs and then went to The
pasture of Roy Byrd, short distan CT
away and killed ten head of ewes an(
lambs. The losses will be very heavy
; in Montgomery and it is not believed
that the dog tax will any ways nea
pay the losses sustained.
With about eighty per cent of thu
tobacco crop in the Bowling Green on,
sucker district marketed, it is estimat
? ed by President Hays, of the associa
ton, that the total yield in the entir,
district will reach 14,000, 600 pounds
, These figures show enormous increas
over any previous year. So far thi:
, season the Equity people have receives
in round numbers to exceed 10000, 00
pounds of the weed, and it is safel
computed by those intimately ,dentifi
GU Will luS tUUcCCO SIlunIlUIl lila
eighty per cent of the crop, or there
about, has been brought to the market
There has been quite an advanc
in the price of mules in some section
I of the State and from Mt. Sterlin
comes the report that some good sale
have been made. Since the advance i
the price of cotton mules have advanC
ed from Sis to $50 on the head and tn
! county is full Of buyers at high fig
ures. Small as we'll as large mule
; have advanced rapidly. During tn
first three days of last week over 10
head have been sold in that county q
n prices ranging from SI25 to S27O pe
head. A number of sales are reporte
D.. by the pair at from $3.50 to S45. Flet
y cher Mann, Of Lexington, Thomas an
e Bert McClintock and s. c. Carpentel
}. of Bourbon. and other buyers al
searching the market and it is repor
= ed that practically all mules of goc
,, size and individuality in Fleming coul
ty have been sold for shipment South