The Climax-Madisonian. (Richmond, Madison County, Ky.) 1914-1917, 1915-07-14
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Shorthorn bull calf 10 Moore Bros. of
Alabama, for 500.
VIM. w. Holl, of near Paris, sold
yearling Shorthorn bull 10 Col John T.
Hughes, of near Muir Station. for $3.50 !
w. H. Whaley, Jr., of near Paris, has
bought and shipped more than 1000
lambs from Bourbon this season.
Bert McClntock. OF millersburg,
bought number of army mules in
Montgomery county Monday at prices
ranging from s13O to $50 per head.
Clark, Young & Robinson, of Bourbon,
shipped Saturday evening TO the Gin
cinnati' market carload of fat heifers
that were bought at prices ranging from
6 IL cents TO Z cents per pound.
Twenty carloads of horses passed
through Lexington Sunday en- route to
Newport News, Va. from which point
they will be shipped to Germany Nine
teen cars of horses also passed through
here Monday.
The cattle market in Garrard county
was considerably enlivened this week
by one deal alone that involves nearly
$4,000. Tom and David Rankin, one
of the largest and most extensive cattle
feeders in that county, sold to Monte
Fox Ito head of cattle that will weigh
l 300 pounds each, for SIS % the hundred.
The delivery to be made the first ten
days in July.
The bush bean crop is above the aver
age this year. most gardens being well
supplied with this product.
Vegetables of all kinds are plentiful
and reasonable in price Chickens, both
broilers and fryers, are in the market,
cut continue high.
Glover meadows are the finest ever
known in all sections of this country,
and many of the fields have ripened,
while the balance of the crop is ripening
fast.
More than the usual number of young
colts are seen over the country and they
are growing nicely. While lambs ars
not overly large, they are fat and nice
All stock is in excellent condition.
Dairymen and farmers are getting plen-
ty of milk, and the ones who make but
te- specially are bringing in fine pro-
duct.
The farmers who held tEeir bluegrass
seed are busy curing them. About half
a crop was gathered this year. Not for
many years have the pastures been as
luxuriant at this time.
The tobacco crop will be short, as
many have set only part of the crop
planted. The ones who have finished
have much smaller crops than last year.
Fruit is plentiful, although people who
have been watching the blackberry crop
say that the yield will not be anything
like as good as was indicated short
time ago, and that instead of their being
an abundance, there will be a scarcity
of the poor mans crop"
There is quite a contrast in the
amount of garden stuff in, the county
this year and last. Last year vegetables
could hardly be secured, but everybody
who has a garden this year has some
fresh vegetables ready for use. The
early potatoes are fine and more than
he usual amount of ground went TO this
crop.
On the whole the crop outlook in this
county is fairly good. Corn is making
rapid growth, but on account of
the wet weather the weeds have grown
fast and the farmers are putting in all
| time possible III cultivating this crop and
cutting the weeds. The prospects for a
corn crop is much better than at this
time last year.
Bluegrass pastures are excellent anG
there seems to be an abundance of grass
| now in all sections of the county, fields
showing very heavy sod, and stock of
al kinds are running in pastures knee
high in grass, Many of the larger cattle
men, however, are this season grazing
clover instead of bluegrass and claim
that they are getting better results from
cattle, which were weighed when turned
out, and then again put on the scales
after certain period of grazing, having
showed a gain of three pounds day.
w G. P. Ledford, of Nicholas county,
recently sold G5 shoats at IS hundred.
At the dispersion sale of Aberdeen An
gus cattle held by George Grant in Scot
land, So head averaged $3.50.
Press dispatches state that goose,
after having been entomoed for sixty
two days, was extricated alive from the
ruins caused by the earthquake al Avez-
zano. Italy.
W. T. Waggoner. of Zelda, Texas, has
purchased from the King Ranch at King
vile, Texas, 1000 yearling and year old
stock calves al an average of s37. total
of sl11, 900.
Caywood & McClintock. of Paris, have
shipped more than 1000 lambs To the
New York market this season. that were
purchased of Bourbon farmers at prices
ranging from to cents per pound.
The Turkish tobacco crop of Smyrna
is estimated at just little more than
half OF last year. The shortage is due to
lack of skilled tobacco growers. and is
result of the expulsion Of the Greeks.
At Kansas City. Mo-, James r. Con
nelly bought two mules from AIonzo
Parish, who Represented them to be sound.
Later it was found that each. mule had
crook in his tail. Connolly sued. The
| Court of Appeals made an examination,
and verified the fact that they did have
crooked tails. This proved conclusively