The interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1912-1984, 1916-05-16
Stanford Lincoln County, Kentucky, Tuesday, May TO- 1916
Farm and Stock News

henCucky VIII lay 9I0:UOU,UOU worth
of eggs this year.
Dallas Powell, of Paris, bought II
cattle from Rome Martin, at Win
chester, at S71.8O per head.
In Boyle county, John famine
sold load of hogs to Whitehouse &
Johnson at eight cents per pound.
At Versailles, R. H. Gay, sold 5
long yearling cattle at Henry Chill
ders, Jr., at S52.25 a head.
Hardin Field & Sons, of Woodford
county, have Fl sows with 1870 living
pigs. One sow had a litter of 16 pigs.
Lee Herbst, of Cincinnati, pur-
chased 10 head of army horses, at
Falmouth at $50 to S160 head.
At Georgetown, Simpson & Wat
son sold a bunch of 131 feeding cat
tie to different parties for a total of
$4,429.
Jones Baughman, of Moreland,
sold to Vowel & Eads, of Huston
vile, 10 hogs that averaged $50
pounds, at 1-2 cents a pound
There are more registered Jersey
| cattle in Shelby county, Kentucky,
than in any county in any State in
America.
John NJ Hamilton, of Nicholas
county, has % ewes that have AT liv-
ing lambs, five of the ewes having
triplets.
Kentucky leads all States in the
Union in the production of tobacco,
hemp, sorghum cane, and in thorough
brad horses.
William Bonita, mule buyer, of
Mercer county, has so far engaged
only four mule colts for which he
paid an average of $50.
The value of farm property in
Kentucky totaling 100000 farms, is
over 100000, 1000, being larger than
that of any other State south of the
Ohio river.
Robert Wells, of Maysville, recent
| ly shipped to Louisville $4,000
! pounds of three-year-old tobacco that
was bought at five cents a pound. 1t
was priced in IT'S hogsheads.
ID. NJ. Anderson, of the Preachers
vile section, sold his wool to Victor
A. Lear, of Lancaster at "a cents.
He had 100 sheep and sold 515
pounds of wool.
]. H. Baughman, of Danville,
bought from his uncle, J. K. Baugh-
man, near Hustonville, 20 head of
| SlScIS WHICH III WelSHlS lIOIu
$50 to 1880 pounds at from to s
! IA cents a pound.
Caywood & McClintock, of Paris
/ shipped last week to the Cincinnati
market, five car loads of hogs, aver
aging about 225 pounds, for which
they paid the farmers of Bourbon
county prices ranging fro 1927 TO
50 per hundred pounds.
! j. w. Bales of Richmond,s pur-
chased from c. w. Cobb, of the
same place, his fine six-year-old Rex
Peavine mare for 1925. Mr.. Bales
bought this mare for a Southern par
ty.
C. R. Harmon, of Lebanon, pur-
chased a splendid Angus cow at the
Wilson Bros. SADIE at Muncie. Ind.
paying $500 for her and another at
$500. Itwas at this sale that Col R..
H. Grove, near Shelby City, bought
Violet Beauty 9Th for S400.
George Logan, in the Walnut
Flat section, sold 40 ewes to Logan
Thompson, of the Preachersville sec
ton, at Sc. Mr.. Logan sold his wool
to Victor Lear, of Lancaster at 40
cents a pound. He raised 81 lambs
and sold them to Lawson & Brown,
of Lancaster, to go the last five days
in June at eight cents pound.
Robert B. Woods, who is one of
the best judges of mules in this sec
ton of the state, bought a toppy
mare mule colt from Isaac Hubbard,
on the Milledgcville pike, late last
week for S110. The young hybrid /
a splendid show prospect and under
Mr.. Woods handling VIII undoubted-
ly wear many blues at the fairs this
season.
| The Woodford Sun, published at
Versailles, Thursday, says: al. d.
Carpenter, of near Mortonsville, says
his brother-in-law, L. C. Fry, of
Shelby county, gives his cows one
and one-half pounds of salt dissolved
in half gallon of water before turn
ing them on clover and that it pre-
vents bloat. Mr.. Fry has 25 cows that
have been eating clover and not a
case has been affected with bloat.'
! One of the largest deals in tobacco
ever made in Central Kentucky was
consumated Saturday, when Abne1
& Mussinon, of Paris, sold to the
Louisville Tobacco Company $780,
900 pounds at IL cents straight. the
amount realized being $4,000
Forty hogsheads of the tobacco are
in storage in a Cincinnati warehouse
and the remainder in warehouses in
Paris. Messrs. Abner & M"ssinon viii
clear about $4,000 on the deal.
Abel, Simms & Brown, of Nelson
county bought of Joseph Wolf, OF
Cox's Greek 35 head of cattle, q
} hogs, 80 sheep and 80 lambs. The
cattle brought seven and three
: quarter cents pound and averaged
: 1,075 pounds, amounting to $2,876.
90, the hogs brought $430.95, the
sheep and lambs $416, making the
handsome sum of $3,723.85. Mr.
: Wolf was a citizen of Hardin county
until about ten years ago when HI
7 purchased a farm in Nelson count!
and turned his attention to stool
: raising.
Three hundred of the cattle solt
last week by H. E. O'Daniel & Co.
of Nelson county to an eastern con
Germ brought eight and half cent
pound This is said to have beer
the highest price ever paid for ;
large bunch of cattle in Marion coun
: ty. The Lebanon firm fed at tn
t Mueller Wathen &Kobert distiller,
f 1926 head, which, had the distiller,
j been operated at its capacity the pas
: season. is scarcely more than hal