The Richmond climax. (Richmond, Ky.) 1897-1914, 1913-01-08
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eial Interest :

j. ID. Baughman, Of Stanford. sod ia
Atlanta, carload Of mules at s225
7. NJ Morton. Of Shelby, killed a id
weighing $50 pounds. Il produced Ii
pounds Of lard.
AZ MI Sterling R. P. Hopkins.
near Little Rock, bought a pair Of % /
mules for 1925.
W. o. Anderson. Of Paint Lick. q
Monday to N. W. Rogers a pair 81 a
year-old mare mules for $50.
A school fair and corn show win /
held in Flemingsburg January Is. A
interesting programme IS being arrang-
ed.
More than 10000 turkeys. geese. ducks
and chickens included in the Christmas
STOCK Of hve commission houses. we're
destroyed in a fire at Minneapolis. MINI.
o. R. Rankin. Of near Millersburg.
sold the past week TO Mcintyre & Mof-
fett, Of Millersburg. $ head Of cattle.
averaging l,35O pounds. az Z - cents.
Walker COzatJ sold II shoats. averag-
ing lO6 pounds. to John W. Webb at Z
cents. F. T. Logan has purchased p
hogs averaging 60 pounds from George
d. Potts at g jO.-Advocats.
J. F. Cook, Of Lexington. bought Of
NJ. A Phelps, Of this county, one two
year-old and one thrse-year-old lack.
Both are well-brsd animals and they
brought a gOod-sizsd sum.
Schoberth & Willis shipped last week
to Cincinnati 80 hogs. weighing from
100 TO go lbs, bought at 8 - to &c a 10,
also twelve cattle, 700 to 1900 lbs. each
at &c to 6c.-WOOdfOrd Sun.
/ 7. D. Chenault, Jr., sold Monday to
Bright & Fox, Of Danvine, 20 mules.
three TO six years old, for si,l5O. being
an average Of s2JL5O. Ak. MCGOWAN
sold TO same parties four mules for
sS75.
Lady Dare, great brood mare owned
by W. o. Walker and R. 5. Scudder. Of
Lincoln county, died last week. The
gentlemen paid $500 for her last fall,
and she was heavy with foal to Bohem-
ian King, which foal had been sold to
Allen Edelin,, Of Mercer, owner Of Bohe-
mian King, for $500.
W. H. Shanks and Matt Myers ship
ped 10 Columbus, Ca, a bunch Of p
mules which they placed on the market
there. These mules we're bought some
90 days ago and have been fed. They
range in age from three to i've years and
cost their owners an average Of sl75,
and will bring them good money as the
stock market is looking up all over the
South, owing to the advance in cotton.
Charles Lutes ran up from GOldsboro,
n. c., last week and bought handsome
pair Of show mules from Col s. T. Har
ris for $780, He IS doing a big business
in the South and is finding an active de
mand for high-grade Kentucky hybrid4
stanford Interior Journal.
The completed statistics Of Boys
Corn Club reports are going to show,
said Commissioner Of Agriculture J. W
Newman last week, that about 500 o
I! them have succeeded in producing an
average Of seventy-ivs bushels Of corr
to the acre on all sorts Of land in al
parts Of the State. The average yielC
an acre for Kentucky farmers is twenty
five bushels. II the farmers inquirl
how the boys accomplished this the
will discover among other things tina
the boys plOwed their ground eight .,
ten inches deep. Ny observation is tina
the average farmer plOws two or tire
inches deep. It takes stronger horse:
to plow deep. but the returns justify III
investment in better horses, as the Boys
Corn Club figures will show. The,
have shown what can be done on Ken
lucky land. II farmer viii smulatl
their example and raise twice as nue.
corn on ten acres as he has been raiSinI
on twenty, at approximately half tn
investment, and certainly not as muol
labor, it will help pay the States debt
and multiply the material wealth Of th
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