The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-10-17
Farm and Stock News

5000.
At the sale of Jersey cattle of
Senator Johnson Camden, of Midway
cows sold up to 500 and calves up to
S33.
In Boyle last week Grover Stigall
sold to VIM. T. Robinson a five-year-
old horse mule for $3.50 and bought
four-year-old Percheron mare of
Robert Cox for S185.
G. M. Edwards, of Vanarsdall,
Mercer county, who recently sold
and delivered to Mckee Bros, of
Versailles, three Duroc gifts for
which he received $3.50.
McCray Bros, of North Middleton,
won the $500 stake for five-gai6ed
horses at the East Tennessee Fair at
| Knoxville, Tenn, last week with their
great black gelding Dare Devil.
w. S. Gibbs, of Shelbyville, and C.
Giltner, of Eminence, were recently
at Springfield, looking for jacks to
fill out an order to parties in Honolu-
la, Hawaii. They bought threesin
| Washington county.
Charles Martin, of Millersburg, re-
Gently shipped two loads of mules to
J. N. Jones, of Newport, Tenn. Ten
of the thirty were aged mules which
went for an average of S1S5 and the
remainder were colts for an average
of $85 per head.
At a public sale of Poll Angus
heifers and bulls at Cynthiana last
week, l. R. Brown sold 800 heifers
at from $4,000 to ST. head, an
/ 6
and $50 each.
One of the best sales of pure bred
beef cattle ever held in Tennessee,
was held recently by F. l. Derby, at
Union City. Three Shorthorn bulls
averaged 1,010 while the cows aver
aged S27250, the whole bringing an
average price of S359.90. The top
price was 1890 for a bull.
The Farmers Home Journal last
week said: John o Reid, of Stanford,
KY, breeder of 81 leading breeds of
poultry, writes their stock both old
and young never looked better. His
old birds are about through mott and
settling down to business. Early pull
lets are paying their board in she'll
ing out the eggs.
Mche6 DTOlUeIS. VI w OOUIOIU
county, have sold to the Bagdad Land
& Lumber Company, of Munson,
Fla, % head of Duroc Jersey year
ling sows for total of $1,000. The
stock will be shipped to Florida this
week This sale is one of the results
of the recent visit to Kentucky of
delegation of West Florida farmers
and business men to study stock
raising methods in this State.
Mode Nicoll, the extensive Lex
ington horse dealer bought from I.
E. Baldwin, Jr., of Richmond, his
two year old chestnut colt, Mr.. Pea
vine. This colt is a son of Mr.. Bald
wins good Rex Peavine sire, Pea
vines Best, and out of Titantic. He
was shown in the two-year-old har-
ness and saddle stallion class at the
Kentucky State Fair by Hugh McEl-
waine, and was twice SECOND to the
sensational colt, High End Choice.
L. L. Tilley who has "a 5000 acre
plantation at Parott, Ca, has been in
Lexington last week and bought of
J. F. Cook, formerly Of this county,
Is head of yearling and two-year-old
registered Shorthorn heifers and
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They will be shipped out to Mr.. Til
ley's plantation where he is going
in extensively for the breeding of
Shorthorn cattle and Percheron
horses.
]. A. Wealth & Co., of Mercer coun-
ty, sold last week to Giltner Bros, of
Eminence, a jack colt Is months old
for 5000. He was by Blue Grass
King and out of Lady Richmond.
They received last week % mule
colts, all mares except two, that
averaged $3.50. They sold to Thos.
Phillips, of Talmage, pair of mare
mule colts Sc inches high, with lots
of weight, bone, finish and style; one
grey and one bay, for 1925, and one
pair of bay horse mule colts to Jord
Lowery, Of Wilmore for S165.
Of course this horse is a good one.
The Farmers Home Journal said last
week: The Rev. w. B. Raglan, of the
Little Hickman neighborhood, Jessa-
mine county, is the owner of horse
35 years old. In the years gone by,
when Brother Raglan was "circuit
rider" he would drive old "Top"
from one appointment to another.
The horse was foaled in Lincoln
county, where Brother Raglan former
ly lived. The horse makes the trip to
Nicholasville frequently, and looks as
if he was good for many more years.
At master commissioners sale in
Woodford county, the farm of the
| late Mrs. Edith S. Hunter, a mile
from Versailles, was bought by two
of the heirs at 1925 an acre. The
MI 30,
is the highest per acre ever paid in
Woodford county for as large tract
of land. 'Dufont" is one of the best
farms in that section, which Joe
Blackburn, called the asparagus
bed of the Blue Grass" 1t has been in
the possession of the Hunter family
for more than 120 years, being part
of a revolutionary grant of over T.
| 600 acres acquired by William Stuart
Hunter, the grandfather of the new
owners.
Mr.. T. F. Sparrow, of the West
End, had a nice bunch of shoats and
prospective purchaser came along
and offered him ten cents a pound
for them. He declined the offer, stat
ing that he believed II a weeks time
the price would be much hie her Tie
man then made the proposition that
if the price welt down week from
that day Mr.. Sparrow was to give
him the shnats and if the Price adj
vanced he would Day the owner twice
the amount of tire raiae. At the ex-
piration of the week the price was
eleven cents a pound and Mr.. Spar
row broke all records by getting %
cents pound for his shoais.-l liar
rodsburg Herald.
Jonas We'll, who has returned to