The Bourbon news., 1913-10-07
STOCK AND FARM NOTES

-McCray Bros, of North Middle
town, have disposed of their saddle
mare, IndianOla, at good figure.
The late tobacco in Scott county
has been cut green, the growers in
these parts fearing a damaging frost.
In consequence, the weed is curing up
reddish. The early cut, that is that
which ripened early, is curing UP fine.
-Cynthiana Democrat: "W. M.
Goodwin has sold his Bourbon coun-
ty farm of 1872 acres, near Colville,
to L. c. McLoney and Arthur Talbot.
Price, $4,000. The sale was made
by Eals & Peterson, real estate
agents."
The Kentucky Red Berkshire
Association" was organized at Lancas-
ter on county court day. Mr.. j. G.
Burnside, of Upper Garrard, was
chosen president. Mr.. Samuel H.
Harris, of Lincoln county, was made
vice-president, and Mr.. w. o. Walker,
of Stanford. secretary-treasurer.
Georgetown News: "Mr. John w.
Hall weighed up to Mr.. ]. A. Hamon
Thursday "a head of baby beef year
ling steers, averaging 1000 pounds,
at cents per pound. Mr.. Hall
bought these calves last fall on the
Chicago market, costing him about
$35 per head. He fed them shelled
corn every day up until the day he
weighed them up. Mr.. Hamon ship
ped them to the Chicago market"
Arthur Hancock, of Paris, Sun
day night, shipped five mares, which
for some time have been quartered in
the Blue Grass, to his Ellerslie Stud
at Charlottesville, Va, and where
they will be bred next season to his
recently purchased $4,000 stallion,
Celt. The mares are Folly Levy,
Please, Sumptuous, Little Elm and
Meddling Mary. The first three have
been bred to Celt; Little En- to Bal
lot, and Meddling Mary to Water
| Boy.
The shortage in the Irish pototo
crop because of the long continued
! drouth becomes more and more evil
dent as the time for digging arrives,
says dispatch from Lancaster. One
Lancaster man who has been garden
| ing on large scale reports along
with minimum yield of other pro-
, ducts only a seventy-five bushel crop
of Irish tuberS when he calculated at
planting time on at least a noutput
of 200 bushels, while as it is the poor
yield of seventy-five bushels will not
pay for his seed potatoes.
| Practically all Of the tobacco
| crop Of Bourbon county has been cut
and is in the barn, with the result the
| farmers are greatly relieved for fear
Of the frosts doing further damage
than that which has already been
wrought by the drOuth. The crop of
! Bourbon county this season, while full
acreage was planted in the spring,
will not yield more than siXty-five to
seventy per cent of the average pro-
duction of the county. Growers have
another serious problem to contend
with, that being the danger Of house
burning of the tobacco. The crop,
owing to the existing cool weather
| conditions, is not curing as it should
and there is grave danger of damage
from this source.
The tobacco crop of Harrison
county is almost all in the barn and
early harvesters of the weed claim
! it is curing brighter than in several
years. The dry weather of the past
summer has caused the crop to be
very thin, and as result fine quail
ity is to be expected. The principal
damage was due to firing during
the hot weather, but as this damage
was to the lowest grades the loss will
not be heavy. The crop of the pres
ent year is the shortest this county
has had since the cut-out crop of 1908
and for this reason and the fact that
the reports from the neighbOring
counties show that the same state of
affairs, Harrison county farmers are
expecting a good market. Many Of,
fers from spectators of from 15 to
20 cents straight for the entire crop
comes from all parts of the county.