The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-01-11


sold a yearling mare mule to Col.
Josh Wilson, of Crab Orchard, for
S125. He bought young mare mule
from John Wilson, for $50.
For the first time in months "Un-
Gle jimmy Roberts, of Pulaski was
on the Stanford market Monday
without a hoof for sale. He said that
he simply came down to see how the
market ran and did not bring any
thing with him as the January mar
ket is usually very slow and the run
of cattle very light.
J. C. Caldwell, of Danville sold this
week to Swartzchild & Sulzberger,
the big Chicago packing firm 328
head of fat cattle which he has been
feeding his farm on the Harrodsburg
pike near Danville. The price Mr..
Caldwell received for the beeves was
$7.S5 hundred pounds with three
per cent off. The steers averaged
1,475 pounds on the scales.
Rube E. Horton, of Waynesburg,
sold a couple of cows to Henry
Fields here Monday, one at two and
half and the other at four and a
half cents a pound. They were can
ners. To T. w. Jones he sold two
more at $33 each; and six calves to
John G. Lynn near Shelby City, at
$12 head. Henry Fields also gave
Mr.. Horton five and half cents a
pound for half a dozen shots.
Fifty-nine fine Duroc Jersey sows
and gifts were sold last week, by
John H. Williams, of Pembroke.
The sale attracted many buyers,
several coming from other States
and being among the largest
purchasers. Total receipts were
$3,5S7.5O, with an average ofS6O.S0.
The highest price was $3.50, paid by
j. w. Sweeney, of Bowling Green,
for Imperator's o. K. 67887.
J. A. Young, of Adair county, who
had bunch of stuff mere Monday to-
gether with his brother, the popular
R. K. Young, sold a bunch of IA
steers to Harris Bros, of Hubble, at
SAL a head. The beeves averaged
about 600 pounds. To R. C. Muir
ply, of the West End, they sold two
calves for $40 and to John Allen, Of
Hustonville a black Aberdeen-Angus
bull for $45.
Monte Fox, of Danville, was the
principal mule buyer here Monday.
He purchased about IA head in all
during the day. His early deals
were as follows one from ]. H. Bus
tie for $162.5O; one from w. A.
Leach for SITS; he paid L. P. Palmer
1920 for a particularly choice mare
mule; gave B. W. Gaines $155. for
one; bought pair from George c..
Givens, Jr., for $500 and bought one
from ]. R. Powell for $127.50.
Pope & Robinson, of Garrard,
shipped car of hogs and cattle to
Green & Enbry, at Cincinnati. The
consignment of about 125 head of
swine and a small bunch of bo-
vines; the hogs ran in weight from
125-pound shoats to fat porkers tip
ping the beam at the 300-pound
notch, while the cattle weighed from
600 to 700 pounds per animal; the
beeves cost them from 5 to 6 cents
per pound.
Paul Finch, who recently bought
the Drake Creek Stock Farm, in the
East End from w. A. Todd, held the
first auction sale of Duroc-Jersey
hogs ever put on in Montgomery,
Ala, just before he came up here a
few days ago to take charge of his
fine Lincoln county farm. Mr.. Finch
sold 40 head at an average price of
$3.50 a head. He is going to make
a speciality of handling this breed at
his farm here and at the same time
will represent the owners of num-
Der of black-land alfalfa farms in
Mississippi, who have placed their
farms on the market.
w. B. Burton, of Lancaster, was
in Stanford Monday morning, taking
the train for Atlanta, with a load of
25 cotton mules which he will put on
the market there. He bought them
from Joe E. Robinson at $17O a
head All were mares, and they were
four and five-year-olds and a nice
bunch. Mr.. Burton shipped another
load of hybrids to Wilson, North Ca
rolina last week, that cost him an av-
erage of $3.50 head, and to South
carolina party he shipped Friday a
load of more aged animals that were
from five to. eight years old which he
bought an average of about $3.50 a
head. Mr.. Burton says that the mule
market in the south is getting better
all the time.